Looks like the guys at Fora.tv got some nice seed monies.  Congrats to the Fora.tv team!  Below is a recent story published on Mashable.com:

May 7, 2008 — 09:10 AM PDT — by Paul Glazowski —

FORA.tv, a site described as a sort of “YouTube for thinkers,” has grown over many months of its relatively young life to comprise a collection of video content of political, cultural, technological, scientific, and business flavors, with heavy emphasis on intellectual depth ordinarily not found in the sound-byte-strewn medium of various other video networks on the Web. And in so doing, the company has, since its initial receipt of a $2 million seed investment, has attracted a good amount of press and attention, and even some fairly noteworthy sponsorships with companies like Pfizer and Chevron.

Now, according to Andy Plesser of Beet.TV, the startup has managed to secure another $4m in funding. The company’s Series A round, which just recently closed, was led by return investors William Randolph Hearst III, Adobe Ventures, and others.

While some may look askance as the financial connections FORA has established with demonized corporations for the purposes of sponsorship, the site seems to have been built largely with an unbiased mindset, playing host to content featuring faces ranging from Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post to Newsweek’s Howard Fineman to former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, to name just a few.

FORA, founded by Brian Gruber, who also acts as president and CEO of the company, naturally doesn’t purport itself to be a particularly popular venue for content. The YouTube-for-thinkers analogy is simply a mark of its firm focus on media delivery. But it has nonetheless shown to attract an audience of “highly-educated and influential” people, says Beet.TV, noting that its ability to procure sponsorships with multinational and multi-billion-dollar corporations of the pharmaceutical and energy sectors shows that intellectual demographic it sees is one that proves quite valuable to advertisers. Just as, say, aSmallWorld, a social network whose userbase is largely quite wealthy, offers to advertisers.

Link to story: http://mashable.com/2008/05/07/foratv-funding/

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SEOUL, South Korea, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ — A group of major consumer electronics, technology and broadcast companies today announced the formation of dotTV, an industry consortium whose mission is to build a next-generation interactive TV viewing experience leveraging social networking and online video to engage viewers. As viewers increasingly demand an anytime, anywhere, any-device viewing experience, dotTV seeks to bring the interactivity of online media and social networking to the TV and set-top box. Members of the consortium include broadcasters KBS (Korean Broadcasting System), EBS (Educational Broadcasting System), and SBS, technology providers Irdeto and VMark, Inc. and major consumer electronics makers Samsung and LG.

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