A couple years ago, Suranga Chandratillake started Blinkx. The goal was to make it easier to search for online videos. Interestingly enough, he got a lot of pushback.
Of course, things are a lot different now -- especially with Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) purchase of YouTube.
Well, this week, Blinkx took another important step: The company went public on the London-based AIM exchange and raised about $50 million.
On the first day of trading, the stock price surged 40% to 65 pence, and the company has a market cap of roughly $355 million.
So far, Blinkx has deals with 130 media partners and has indexed more than 12 million hours of videos.
Because of the "quiet period," I can't talk to Suranga. But when it expires, it will definitely be interesting to get his observations on the process.
Check out the recent BloggingStocks interview with Suranga.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-24-2007 @ 2:51AM
Archon810 said...
Your link to the previous article is bad.
Watching BLNX closely here...