Plizy is a cloud-based media center that allows users to search, organize, watch and share online video content. The company relaunched its website and iPad app with a redesigned experience and personalization features in November 2012, and initially launched an iPad app in May 2011. Plizy aggregates content from major services and partners, and the article cites Crunchbase figures of more than 550,000 movies, 200,000 shows and 100 million videos. The company says it will use new funding to expand its audience and aggregate additional content from providers such as Cinemax, Snagfilm and Starz. Plizy already integrates with partners including Amazon Prime, Amazon Instant Video, Crackle, Dailymotion, HBO Go, Hulu, Hulu+, iTunes, Netflix, Vimeo and YouTube. It plans to build out mobile offerings across Android and iOS (adding an iPhone app “eventually”) and to broaden platform availability such as TV viewing via AirPlay. Plizy offers an iPad app that brings personalized video content to users by leveraging their social graph, viewing history, and interests. The product is designed to help users discover, share and watch online videos in a curated, personalized stream. The startup is framed in the article as “Flipboard meets Pandora” for video and is compared to services like ShowYou and Pandora. Plizy’s app is available through the iTunes store. The company has announced a $1.2M angel funding round. The funding details list undisclosed investors and no operating metrics are provided in the article.

Total raised

$5M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Dec 2012