Telepresence pioneer Vidyo has added another $20 million to its wallet to help fuel its vision of a video-enabled Internet of Things (IoT).
The company announced the funding on Friday, bringing its total to $139 million raised since its launch in 2005. Its latest round comes from existing investors, including Menlo Ventures , Rho Ventures , Sevin Rosen Funds , QuestMark Partners , Saints Capital, Four Rivers Group, ORR Ventures, Triangle Peak Partners, and Juniper Networks Inc. (NYSE: JNPR) via its Junos Innovation Fund. (See Vidyo Raises $17.1M, Vidyo D Round Nets $22.5M, Vidyo Raises $25M, and Vidyo Bags $15M, Spews News.)
Vidyo Inc. started life building scalable telepresence platforms. You may know it as the technology behind Google+ Hangouts or the video chat enabler for Nintendo’s Wii. Now, however, it is planning to bring HD-quality video to non-person-to-person interactions through IoT — i.e. letting people interact with devices, whether they be appliances, wearables, or in-vehicle applications. (See Vidyo Provides Chat Function for Wii.)
