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Intro
Making Data Storage Problems Smaller
Founded 2015 Palo Alto United States
API, Cloud Technology, SaaS, Storage
Solution
Pied Piper is a Middle-Out Compression Solution that solves Data Storage Problems for companies with Large and Super Large Data Files by Using our revolutionary “middle-out” algorithm, we find long-range structure in files to create the most efficient encoding of data
In its original incarnation, Pied Piper was a songwriter-oriented music app that made it easier for songwriters to determine if their work infringed on other’s copyright. And frankly, we still think that wasn’t a terrible idea, and we were kind of looking forward to doing it, because who doesn’t like music, right? However, based on user feedback that was suboptimal and on occasion downright mean, we are now currently pivoting to a SaaS model to create a new “compression cloud” solution that covers a far wider user base. This new strategy brings us a clearer path to monetization and helps us even avoid the crappy licensing models for Lempel-Ziv-Welch in .gif files (among others). Because Lord knows, there aren’t enough compressed .gif files in the world that have cats making faces with rap lyrics underneath them. But it is safe to say, we intend to deploy an integrated, multi-platform functionality of all conceivable applications of the algorithm, that we hope will make the world a better place through compression services across diversified market segments.
Secret Sauce
Using our revolutionary “middle-out” algorithm, we find long-range structure in your files to create the most efficient encoding of your data. It’s just as exciting as it sounds.
Pied Piper isn’t some bloated corporation with a pretentious mission statement about “making the world a better place.” We are a small, focused, business-facing compression company intent on providing the absolute best in data-management solutions. As such, we are in the process of deploying an integrated, multi-platform functionality of all applications of our algorithm intended to provide a suite of compression services across diversified market segments. In this way, we hope to positively impact our planet.
Pains we solve
Compressing Large Files Takes Too Long
Team
RICHARD HENDRICKS
CEO, President
Richard hails from Tulsa. He studied at Stanford (go Cardinals!) but did not graduate, which is not a problem for anyone but his parents, who maybe should focus on him being the CEO of a company? Before starting Pied Piper, he briefly worked for Hooli. You know, the corporate behemoth whose butt he just kicked at TechCrunch? While his work focuses on applied information theory, mostly optimizing lossless compression schema of both the length-limited and adaptive variants, his non-work interests range from quantum computing to chaos theory. He could tell you about it, but THAT would NOT be a “length-limited” conversation!
Erlich Bachman
Board Member
Noted Silicon Valley entrepreneur and bon vivant Erlich Bachmann has founded both Aviato and Palo Alto’s Hacker Hostel incubator, where he has nurtured talents such as Richard Hendricks and the soon-to-be famous Jian-Yang (last name unclear). He hopes to one day hybridize Cannabis Sativa with genetic material from Psylocybe Cubensis (to produce customizable hallucinations) but has already created a number of hemp-based hair enhancement products for thick, luxuriant hair (patents pending). He has attended, for various lengths of time, Berkeley, Reed and Hampshire College (B.A. in Ultimate Frisbee).
Bertram Gilfoyle
Co-CTO, Systems Architect
In 2011 Gilfoyle replaced the homepage of the Federal Reserve with the cover of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere (paperback edition). It took them a week to get it down. You’re welcome. He has played drums in various Toronto-area first-wave-DC-influenced hardcore, thrashcore, hatecore, corecore and corehard outfits under the name Strychnine McTwat. In fact, he has been asked to leave some of the most influential bands in the Toronto scene, including Piss Nazis, the Scumtones and Das Abortions.
Dinesh Chugtai
Co-CTO, Programmer
Born in Islamabad, Dinesh became a naturalized citizen in 2010, unlike Gilfoyle, who was an illegal Canadian alien until quite recently and is a piece of garbage. He has received degrees in information theory and computer science from Yale, Caltech and Oxford and published several books on advanced Java tools. His hobbies include both watching rugby and the wearing of its signature shirts (which combine form and function in a way not popularly appreciated) as well as libertarian politics.
Jarrod (Donald) Dunn
Head of Business Development
Jared’s early life is best passed over, and parts of it he cannot legally discuss because of non-disclosure clauses in settlements, but he managed to rise above it thanks a series of largely well-meaning foster parents and went on to receive a B.A. from Vassar College in Economics. During those happiest of years, he sang second alto with the Joyce Carol Notes A Capella Confrontation and was both coxswain for Women’s Heavyweight Crew and co-founder of Take Back Take Back the Night. After college, he worked for Google, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and Hooli, but now he is a Pied Piper man all the way.
Carla Walton
Platform Engineer
Carla Walton has degrees from Rice and Carnegie Mellon, if that’s okay with you. She joined Pied Piper as a platform engineer in 2015. Before that, she did the whole Oracle thing for a while, then was head of engineering at Earcast, where she built the whole system on her own, despite budgetary constraints and general, all-around lameness and suckage. In her spare time, she created Hellacast, a live-streaming site that uses next-gen codecs like VP9 and p2p sharing technology and broadcasts her ex-roommate’s web series, a soap opera about animal liberation starring puppets.
Video
Our TC Disrupt Winning Pitch!
Screenshots
Validated Score for Compression
Our benefits
Makes Small Files Even Smaller
Now you see it, now…you have a hard time seeing it, because it’s so much smaller! Smaller files take up less space on your computer. Less space = more stuff. More stuff = better life!
Works on all File Types
It’s built on a universal compression engine that stacks on any file, data, video or image no matter what size.
Saves Time
Faster downloads means the time you save can be used for families, friends or hobbies, such as sports! Smoother video streaming means goodbye spinning circles, hello uninterrupted viewing!
Cloud Based
Your data is hosted on the cloud, available when you need it, through any browser or media player…instantly. “PP Power” gives you an “all-access pass” to the “convenience rock concert"
Traction
1 Paying Customers
We are able to livestream this miracle of nature to you in 4K because of our ground-breaking middle-out compression software—the market standard.
Real time data: unavailable
Market
Our Initial Target Market is Households in the US. There are 40 % per year with market value of $8B per Year
The Global Market is 36B $ per year per year
Source: link
Business Models
Licensing
Funding
We are seeking $46M for our round B
To date we have raised 5,200,000
Crush Hooli and release our much anticipated product to market
round B
$46M
$3MR & D
$4MMarketing Activities
$8MSales Activities
$12MLegal
$1MPatent Filing (IP)
$15MSalaries
$500KOffice
$2MServers
$500KQA
Press
Pied Piper Blog
We Won Techcrunch Disrupt!
SFGate
In a case of life imitating art imitating life, electronic billboards — two recently spotted near Whipple Avenue in Redwood City and another near Brittan Ave
SlashGear
“The algorithm detects the face and then from there it can compress everything else but the face so that you keep the quality of the face while technically lowering the quality in a way that
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Mail us[email protected]Call us+1-6506666666Visit usHacker Hostel Incubator Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA

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