Imagen Ltd

Imagen Ltd
Type	Privately held
Industry	Internet Video Web Development
Founded	1996
Founder	Anthony John Blake, Paul McConkey
Headquarters	Willingham, Cambridgeshire, UK
Area served	London; Cambridge; New York City
Key people	Charlie Horrell, CEO;
Services	Management, Monetization, Distribution and Archiving of Digital A/V Content
Number of employees	50
Subsidiaries	Screenocean
Website	Official website

Short description: Software companies of the United Kingdom

Imagen Ltd, formerly Cambridge Imaging Systems, is a specialist video management company with offices in London and Cambridge (United Kingdom ), as well as New York City (United States ).

In January 2019, Imagen received £6.5million in Series B funding from an investor pool led by Downing Ventures.^[1] The round also included capital from Guinness Asset Management Ltd and participation from existing investor, Cambridge Innovation Capital.^[2]

Imagen's customers include the Premier League, ATP Media, WTA Media, IMG Media, Endemol Shine UK, Reuters , BP, Cimpress and the BBC.^{[citation needed]}

Products

The Imagen platform is used by businesses, sports and media organisations. It consists of a suite of modules designed to organise and automate the ingestion, transcoding and distribution of video, images and audio material without the need for hardware expenditure and hosting expertise.

The online video platform features include direct user payments and analysis of content consumption via a fully branded interface, as well as a range of features for searching, streaming, clipping, collecting and downloading media.

References

Broadcastnow.co.uk Broadcast "Former Diligent MD joins Imagen", 15 May 2017
IABM Industry news "Imagen debuts new Global Distribution Network feature at IBC 2016", 24 August 2016
SVG Sports Video Group Europe "Imagen introduces latest version of enterprise video platform", 20 Feb 2017
SportsPro " Imagen deliver video distribution platform for Auburn", 24 Jan 2018
SVG Europe " Sit-Down: Imagen’s Kerry Freeman with future-proofing and data security insights", 7 Nov 2017

Specific

↑ "Press Release: Imagen Secures £6.5M In Series B Funding Round" (in en-GB). 2019-01-22. https://www.sportbusiness.com/2019/01/press-release-imagen-secures-6-5m-in-series-b-funding-round/.
↑ FinSMEs (2019-02-21). "Imagen Raises £6.5M in Series B Funding" (in en-US). https://www.finsmes.com/2019/02/imagen-raises-6-5m-in-series-b-funding.html.

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[1] "Press Release: Imagen Secures £6.5M In Series B Funding Round" (in en-GB). 2019-01-22. https://www.sportbusiness.com/2019/01/press-release-imagen-secures-6-5m-in-series-b-funding-round/.

[2] FinSMEs (2019-02-21). "Imagen Raises £6.5M in Series B Funding" (in en-US). https://www.finsmes.com/2019/02/imagen-raises-6-5m-in-series-b-funding.html.