PPLive (Shanghai 聚力传媒技术有限公司) provides a network television technology platform and consumer video products including the PPTV client, the pptv.com portal, video search, and PPVA video acceleration. The company develops and licenses its proprietary PPCloud streaming cloud technology and operates a global distributed video network that the article says delivers computing efficiency roughly 500× that of comparable networks. PPLive is described as a leader in fifth‑generation new media, cited by institutions such as Harvard, MIT and Microsoft Research for its China‑originated IP and patents. It focuses on online live streaming, video‑on‑demand, high‑definition content delivery, video search and acceleration technologies. Following the financing disclosed in the article, PPLive has received a large capital injection that materially affects its financial position as described below.

Total raised

$250M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Series D

Latest activity

Feb 2011