Hyper is a curated video discovery platform launching to deliver a daily selection of the best short-form Internet videos. The startup employs a team of journalists and filmmakers who hand-select roughly six to a dozen videos each day, ranging from one to twenty minutes and spanning artsy to documentary topics. Selections rely on personal taste and recentness—Hyper does not post content older than a couple of days—rather than view counts or social metrics. The small editorial team drives much of the product’s value, which the founders acknowledge could pose scaling and voice-retention challenges. Hyper is currently available only for iPad and plans to roll out an iPhone version in the coming months. The company was built earlier this year by film producer Markus Gilles and cinematographer Jonas Brandau after they left Berlin’s independent film scene. Hyper has been funded with $1.1 million in seed financing.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Aug 2015