Look out Pied Piper– iSIZE decreases power for video streaming, raises $6.3 M in round led by Octopus

by RJ Shara | May 6, 2021 | Startups

It’s extensively understood that video streaming expanded during the pandemic, as countless individuals were dealt with by dullness during lockdowns. An unintended repercussion of this was the growing environmental effect of millions of video streams, which indicated server farms needing to draw increasing amounts of power from the grid. Certainly, there were even calls [ …] , U.K. start-up that applies deep learning to enhance video streaming and delivery, has $6.3 million in a funding round led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from existing investors including TD Veen and Patrick Pichette, chairman of Twitter and ex-CFO of Google. This is trained to”see with the human eye “in order to make the video still look high quality, however decrease the bitrate required. It incorporates with all video encoding standards (consisting of AVC, HEVC, and AV1) without needing modifications to the streaming process. Sergio Grce, founder and CEO of iSIZE, commented: “Today there are more people streaming more video than ever before. …