ViKi is an online TV site that has movies and TV shows from all over the world and translated into more than 150 languages. With the Viki mobile app, you can watch your favorite movies subtitled and on the go with any internet connected device. You can also listen to music with Viki. Share your favorite music videos, shows or movies with friends on Facebook or Twitter. You can leave comments as you watch. With a constant growing community of fans, Viki is fun in any language.
Viki is based in Singapore. The video streaming website also offers on-demand streaming video of TV shows, music videos, and movies. Along with Singapore, the company has offices in San Francisco, Seoul, South Korea and Indonesia.
The name Viki is a combo of the words, video and Wiki, having similarities with those companies by using volunteers for their content management. In January 2011, Viki won the Crunchie award (awards given by technology bloggers) for best international start-up company.
Viki was founded in 2007 by Jiwon Moon, Changseong Ho and Razmig Hovaghimian. The company was funded originally by Neoteny Labs, Singapore venture capitalists headed by Joichi Ito, and Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn.
