Startup founded by two SEERC PhD Students receives €300,000 fund

Goodvidio, a startup specializing in discovery and curation of social video for ecommerce sites, founded by SEERC PhD students, Mr. Konstantinos Bratanis and Mr. Dimitrios Kourtesis, both computer scientists and software engineers received a €300,000 seed investment by JEREMIE Openfund II (www.theopenfund.com). The investment is to aid the company expand its private beta programme and solidify its position as the one-stop solution provider for social video in ecommerce.

Goodvidio co-founders - Konstantinos Bratanis (left) and Dimitrios Kourtesis (right)

Mr. Bratanis and Mr. Kourtesis met while working together as PhD researchers at our research centre, SEERC, on cloud computing and intelligent information management, and started working on the development of an ecommerce video discovery platform in late 2013. In less than a year from incorporating the company, the startup’s team released a first version of its platform and launched a private beta programme that already includes major retailers and brands from across the world. Plans for 2015 include launching the service in public beta and focusing on sales growth.

It should be noted that among other awards, Goodvidio got the 2^nd place at the Startup Weekend in Sheffield, in November of 2013.

We wish to warmly congratulate our student on this exemplary achievement and wish them success in their future endeavour.

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