Jigsee is a streaming video platform designed to work well over low-bandwidth and with popular feature phones. Of over 5 billion mobile subscribers on the planet, almost 4 billion currently use feature phones, and many are subject to slow 2G networks. Jigsee delivers rich entertaining, educational, and informative content, free of charge to many who lack alternative means of obtaining video.
Jigsee is funded by the following investment partners:
Areef Reza,
Moving to Ottawa from Bangladesh as a young adult, Areef was intimately familiar with the technology constraints of developing countries, as well as the desire among consumers for all things video. After a decade of hard-core engineering with top wireless companies, Areef decided he wanted to apply some of his know-how to the challenge of delivering video to basic cell phones, in low bandwidth environments
Ray Newal,
After more than a decade of business development within big internet companies, Ray decided to take some time off and trek through India to see a world he had heard of but never experienced. While there he got a glimpse of a population that embraced the cell phone to do more than he had ever imagined possible. If only they could receive video on their cell phones...