Peerflix, Inc.
Peerflix.com
- Conference
- DEMOfall 05
- Market Segment
- Enabling technology
- Funding Details
- Series A was co-led by 3i and BV Capital.
- Competitors
- No direct competitors. Competitors in the DVD online rental category include Netflix and Blockbuster.
- Product Description
- Peerflix is a peer-to-peer online trading platform for physical goods or services. In its first application, Peerflix allows users to trade DVDs across a large, decentralized network, where each U.S. household serves as a distribution center. Peerflix carries no inventory and does not participate in the transaction: we simply optimize matches across people and products. We transfer our low overhead directly to customers by charging 99 cents for each trade we facilitate.
- Market Opportunity
- DEG reports 2004 DVD sales at 1.5 billion units or $15.5 billion (35% annual growth and 3X revenues from DVD rentals). As 75% of U.S. households own DVD players, this translates into 19 discs bought per household. Consumers are quickly accumulating viewed DVDs that can be traded on using Peerflix.
- DEMO Says
- Peerflix is at DEMOfall for its technology and its innovative business model. The Peerflix trading application — which the company has proved with its DVD trading service —is supported on the back end by a unique arbitrage and commerce platform. By splitting the front end from the back and turning it over to the open source community, Peerflix will spur other interesting trading applications — applications that tie into the proprietary Peerflix engine, allowing the company to create a new line of services business without creating every trading site itself. The Peerflix model answers the “how does open source make money” question brilliantly.
- Contact
- Daniele Levy
- daniele@peerflix.com
- Company Address
-
815 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025 - Primary Phone
- 650-325-0184
- Primary Fax
- 650-325-0185
- URL
- www.peerflix.com
- Corporate Officers
- Billy McNair, Co-Founder; Danny Robinson, Co-Founder; Daniele Levy, Vice President, Marketing
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