mDialog has received $3 million in initial funding from Toronto’s Arthur and Sonia Labatt

What Company Is offering:
mDialog, a Toronto/New York City-based start-up, announced the launch of a new video delivery platform which will provide high resolution image and sound as well as advanced social networking capabilities, enabling users to share video or monetize proprietary content through modular pay-per-download and subscription revenue models.

How Much They Got From VCs:

mDialog has received $3 million in initial funding from Toronto’s Arthur and Sonia Labatt.

Who Is Behind This Site:
1.mDialog was founded by Philpott, a veteran entrepreneur and business process management expert who has consulted for such diverse companies as CB Richard Ellis, nurun inc., Alliance Atlantis, and TVOntario. He has extensive experience in the television industry, and advised a myriad of media and technology companies, helping them maximize their impact in the consumer marketplace.
2.mDialog’s Vice President for Content Development and Acquisition is Byron Speight, an acclaimed new media expert and filmmaker who has produced work for PBS, Comedy Central and the Bravo Channel. A pioneer in streaming video content over the Internet, Speight has served as a technical consultant to networks such as MTV and the Sundance Channel before joining Philpott at mDialog.

Why is It Different:
“In the crowded web video environment, mDialog is different,” said founder Greg Philpott. “First, believing video should be a first-class citizen on the Internet, we offer a state-of-the-art web video platform that enables both professional filmmakers and amateurs to upload and share high quality video online. Second, with advanced social networking functions and an innovative pay structure, we have created an online community that truly connects professional independent filmmakers with their audiences, as well as enables everyone in the user-generated world to post, play and upload video like a pro using mLoader, our groundbreaking, easy-to-use software.”

To guarantee the above, mDialog licensed video encoding technology from Apple, and has gone on to become one of the first in the web video field to adopt the more advanced h.264 standard.
More at:http://www.mdialogue.com/