VideoKen

VideoKen (earlier known as Yen4Ken Inc.) is a video-based social and collaborative learning platform headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey with a subsidiary in Bangalore, India. VideoKen's patented AI-based technology is used for corporate and academic learning where users search, personalize, curate and share video clips. Users can use the tool to search for freely available videos on internet, quickly discover interesting sections of a video by using the automatically generated Table of Contents (TOC) and Phrase Cloud (glossary), like a digital textbook, clip interesting parts of videos to curate personalized learning content (known as KenLists), insert notes within videos, highlight and share socially. VideoKen has raised $1 million from a consortium of angel investors including LG Chandrasekhar, chairman of Sutures India and SRI Capital, led by Sashi Reddi and others, including some former and current executives of Flipkart.

History

VideoKen was founded in January 2017 by Manish Gupta, former Vice President (VP) and Director, Xerox Research India and Ashish Vikram, a former VP at Flipkart. The company is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey and has a subsidiary in Bangalore, India. It has launched pilots in India, Australia, and the United States. VideoKen evolved out of the TutorSpace project at Xerox Research. The company purchased multiple patent applications and other IP from Xerox.

Funding

VideoKen raised seed funding of $1 million in April 2017 from a consortium of angel investors which include LG Chandrasekhar, chairman of Sutures India and SRI Capital, led by Sashi Reddi, and some former and current executives of Flipkart. Among the Flipkart executives, Ravi Garikipati, CTO, Surojeet Chatterjee former Senior Vice President (SVP) and product head, Hari Vasudevan SVP and Ashish Agarwal, SVP have contributed to the funding. Ajay Lavakare, Co-President Stanford Angels, and Entrepreneurs and other high net worth individuals from the US and Singapore have also participated in the round.

Awards and recognition

• Selected among top 100 most innovative startups in Karnataka.
• Microsoft Accelerator picks VideoKen for 11th Cohort.

See also

• Social learning network