Viddsee is more than Vimeo for short films. It’s an online home for Asia’s filmmakers.1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOnline video is the new frontier of the digital content world. Major players such as Netflix and Amazon have carved a pretty big slice of the market for themselves. But there is still plenty left for others looking to get their own piece. Singapore-based Viddsee has chosen to stake its claim on a very particular piece of ground; the startup is an online video distributor for original short films from Asia, or featuring an Asian angle.
Viddsee was founded two years ago in Singapore by two engineers-cum-filmmakers. Derek Tan and Ho Jia Jian are National University of Singapore (NUS) graduates, in electrical and mechanical engineering respectively. But what brought them together was their love of film. “I had been making films since high school, so it’s been a long while,” Tan tells Tech in Asia.
Tan’s background in engineering and film first landed him at Singaporean telco Starhub, where he developed the company’s internet TV platform. After his stint there, Tan spent a short time at Silicon Valley image app startup Cooliris, before returning to Singapore to start Viddsee. “As filmmakers, the films we made were being distributed physically, at film festivals,” Tan says. “But we said, we’re digital guys, we’re building digital methods of distributing content. So we experimented with putting our content online.”
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