Singapore startup launches online platform for sharing short films

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Viddsee is a targeted content platform where discovery of award winning and quality short films are made accessible.

Viddsee’s vision is to create a wide and accessible market for short films. Co-founder Ho Jia Jian says,"We are bridging the online content gap between user generated content (UGC) and premium theatrical films. We are offering an avenue for professionally made content to be accessible and discoverable rather than sitting in a sea of noise of content."

According to Ho, the company started with launching a social web platform around short films from Southeast Asia through support from Spring ACE.

"We started this company when we were deciding on pushing our own short films up online and were finding a targeted platform to do so. Having our background in the Pay TV business also did help kickstart the company. We approached our alma mater and obtained our funds through their incubator. We are currently also looking for our next round of investment."

Moving forward, Ho said that the team is launching a mobile version of Viddsee soon and constantly looking at tools to empower content creators. "With the increasing growth of content creators in the market, we see having a targeted and sizeable audience key for the content creators' distribution. We want to empower content creators to reach their audience directly. Having being content creators ourselves, we see a big market potential within this space."

“We believe that short films are the new movies for the internet,” added Ho.

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Name of the company: Viddsee
Founder/Founders: Ho Jia Jian, Derek Tan
Website: www.viddsee.com
Major Investors: None
Total funding at hand: $50k
Target fund: $500k
Source of funding: Spring ACE grant recipient
Start of operation: September 2012