August 9th, 2011

Armed With $7M In New Funding, Movieclips Lands Deal With YouTube To Be The Vevo Of Film Clips

We’re big fans of online movie clips site Movieclips.com, which launched in 2009 as a search engine with over 20,000 different clips from thousands of titles from the libraries of 20th Century Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures. Today, the company is announcing that it has raised $7 million in funding led by MK Capital (a founding investor in… → Read More

June 9th, 2011

MovieClips Raises $7M To Curate And Mashup Scenes From Movies

Online movie clips site Movieclips.com has raised $6 million out of a $7 million round, according to a recent SEC filing. The startup has previously raised $3 million. We’ve confirmed the new funding with the company. UPDATE: MovieClips has submitted a new SEC filing indicating the company has raised a total of $6.9 million in the round.

Movieclips.com, which launched in 2009, offers a clip… → Read More

November 9th, 2010

Movieclips Nabs $3 Million To Catalogue And Mashup Scenes From Movies

Online movie clips site Movieclips.com has raised $3 million in Series A funding from Shasta Ventures and First Round Capital as well as a number of angel investors, including Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut, Naval Ravikant, Babak Nivi, Jeff Kearl, Tom McInerney, and prior investor Richmond Park Partners.

Launched in beta last December, Movieclips.com offers a clip engine with over 14,000 different… → Read More

May 26th, 2010

The TechCrunch Disrupt Final Five: Betterment, MOVIECLIPS, Publish2, Soluto And UJAM

Eighty thousand people have tuned in to TechCrunch Disrupt to watch the launch of twenty new startups and products in the Startup Battlefield – nearly 2,000 in live attendance and another staggering 78,000 on the live video stream.

Of those twenty just ten made it to the second round, where the focus was on the business model. After long deliberations, and after calculating the total score of… → Read More

May 25th, 2010

Movieclips Wants To Drink Other Movie Clips Sites' Milkshake With Mashups

Everyone loves movie clips. But, unfortunately, they’re often hard to find online in one centralized place. There’s a simple reason for this: licensing. If someone could just solve that, they’d have a pretty killer website, right? That’s what Movieclips has. And now they’re trying to extend it with Movieclips Mashups.

The key to this (beyond a killer domain name, movieclips.com) is that they have… → Read More

March 16th, 2010

TC50 Movie Search Startup AnyClip Launches, Without Many Clips

When movie clip search startup AnyClip demoed at last year’s TechCrunch50, it was one of the crowd pleasers. The concept was to be able to search for any line or scene in a movie, and the site would take you to that exact moment and play the clip. The demo looked great, but could the startup actually get the movie studios to license their films? Sean Parker, one of the judges on the panel… → Read More

March 1st, 2010

If You Build It, He Will Come: Movieclips Now Available Internationally, Releases API

Online movie clips site Movieclips has opened up its service to users all over the world and released an API. The site, which launched in beta last December, is a movie clip destination that offers licensed, high quality movie scenes on the web.

Movieclips was previously only available to U.S. users but is now available to users all over the world, thanks to approval from the studios who own the… → Read More

December 3rd, 2009

Here's Looking At You, Kid – MovieClips.com Beta Goes Live

Movie buffs and fans, rejoice, take a seat and break out the popcorn. MovieClips.com has announced that it has launched its online, well, movie clip destination site in public beta after reaching licensing agreements with six major Hollywood studios.

And it went ahead and made my day. → Read More