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JW Player: Funding, Investors & Team (Sep 2026)

JW Player offers an advanced and flexible media player for publishing videos, running video ads, and streaming web content. It offers consistent viewing experience in HTML5 and Flash, across mobile, tablet, and desktop platforms. The player also enables its users to customize their experience, creating their own video-page interactions, adjust video quality between high definition and standard definition, access and add multi-language support, and more. Further, JW Player supports video playback and advertising on Chromecast connected devices, multi-screen VAST-compliant advertising, and lean back video viewing experience.

www.jwplayer.com LinkedIn New York, United States 101-250 employees
Advertising Publishing Software Video Video Streaming
Total raised
$100M
Rounds
1
Latest
Undisclosed round
Jun 2021

JW Player has raised $100M across 1 funding round on record, the most recent an undisclosed round of $100M announced in Jun 2021.

That round is above the $5.0M median round size for Advertising companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

JW Player Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$100M
across 1 round on record
Funding rounds on record
1
Latest funding round
Undisclosed round
$100M in Jun 2021
Employees
101-250
reported band
Headquarters
New York, United States

Latest funding round on record: Jun 2021.

JW Player Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Undisclosed round
$100M

JW Player Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Dave Otten
CEO

No contact details are on record for this team yet.

JW Player Funding Compared to Other Advertising Startups

Segment
Companies
Median round
810
$5.0M
29,722
$7.5M

JW Player's latest round of $100M is above the median round in Advertising. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

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JW Player Funding FAQs

What does JW Player do?

JW Player offers an advanced and flexible media player for publishing videos, running video ads, and streaming web content. It offers consistent viewing experience in HTML5 and Flash, across mobile, tablet, and desktop platforms. The player also enables its users to customize their experience, creating their own video-page interactions, adjust video quality between high definition and standard definition, access and add multi-language support, and more. Further, JW Player supports video playback and advertising on Chromecast connected devices, multi-screen VAST-compliant advertising, and lean back video viewing experience.

How much funding has JW Player raised?

JW Player has raised $100M across 1 round on record. The most recent is an undisclosed round of $100M announced in Jun 2021.

When did JW Player last raise funding?

JW Player's most recent funding round on record is an undisclosed round of $100M, announced in Jun 2021.

Who is the CEO of JW Player?

Dave Otten is listed as CEO at JW Player.

Where is JW Player headquartered?

JW Player is based in New York, United States.

How many employees does JW Player have?

JW Player is in the 101-250 employee band.

How does JW Player's funding compare to other Advertising startups?

JW Player's latest round of $100M is above the $5.0M median round size for Advertising companies on FundedIQ across 810 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's JW Player Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for JW Player is left off this page rather than filled in.

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