Media companies looking for a way to ride the wave of customer demand for online video content may have found their vessel with the new $11 million financing for New York-based Wochit. The company, founded by two serial Israeli entrepreneurs, has raised fresh capital to roll out its text-to-video technology to any publisher that’s looking for more... Read more »

Heads up, professional video makers: Robots may be coming for your jobs. We’ve already seen that software can replace human beings who used to write and edit news stories. Now, Wochit, an Israeli-born startup, is trying to do the same thing with video news. And it’s quite possible that you’ve seen some of its work... Read more »

News moves fast, and video is an important medium for staying on top of stories as they break. Video production platform Wochit has raised $4.75 million and hired media veteran Keith McAllister to make creating and publishing high-quality videos as efficient as possible. Wochit produces videos as news breaks or topics start to trend. The technology... Read more »

Video is becoming an increasingly important part of news coverage online. But it’s also expensive and time-consuming to produce, and many publishers don’t have the resources to create them on their own. A startup called Wochit is changing the economics around video production for breaking news, and has raised $4.75 million to make their technology available... Read more »

Question: what do you get when you combine a tremendous market need in a rapidly transforming industry with exceptional technologists who are determined to change the world? Answer: you get a very unique venture investment opportunity. Today, we are announcing our lead investment in Wochit—a company that will be at the forefront of modernizing global... Read more »

No matter where you go these days, it seems like everyone is focused on their mobile phones, so it should come as no surprise that mobile video is growing — and fast. As of March 2015, 41% of all digital video views worldwide were done on mobile and Cisco predicts that 79% of all mobile... Read more »