A startup hatched in a Harvard dorm room has just raised $6.3 million from backers, including HBO, to bring live TV to universities nationwide via the Web.
"Most students don't have TVs on campus any more," Tivli CEO Christopher Thorpe said. "We make the TV experience work on all devices so college students can watch it on their terms."
Co-founders Tuan Ho and Nicholas Krasney created the company's first streaming service in their dorm room because they wanted a more convenient way to watch television on campus.
The two engineering students graduated from Harvard University in 2009 and founded the company the next year. By the fall of 2011, Tivli began offering the service to Harvard students.
Today, it has a staff of 10 who work out of the Harvard Innovation Lab in Allston, and also serves Yale, Wesleyan University, the University of Washington and Texas A&M University.
Right now, it can only be accessed on computers and laptops, Thorpe said, but it soon will also be available on smartphones and tablets.
The $6.3 million will help extend Tivli's reach to other universities and roll out digital video recording, social media and interactive features.
"They solved a real problem that kids have in college," said Patrick Chung, a partner at New Enterprise Associates, which led the funding round. "The point is to bring a lot of content to campuses that students had trouble accessing before Tivli ... Television as a medium has been static from the start. Tivli for the first time will make TV social."
Eventually, Thorpe said, Tivli also may extend its service to hotels, hospitals and military bases.
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