Voxant was a news-media syndication company based in Herndon, Virginia, in the

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. Voxant was a privately held company which was founded in 2004 by investors from Longworth Venture Partners of

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. Longworth acquired the assets of the news transcription company Morningside Partners of Lanham, Maryland, in order to form a news video search engine using Morningside's 10 years library of transcribed news and licensed news video. In 2005, Voxant hired former

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and IBM executive, Jeff Crigler as Chief Executive Officer, to recruit a management team and develop the new service offering. Founding executives also included former Oracle sales and marketing executive Susan Kearney, top IBM technologist Ben Steinberg, and content industry veteran Art Bushnell. In April 2006, Voxant launched its new media network, syndicating fully licensed news and information content to Web publishers and bloggers. By 2007 over 35,000 Web publishers and bloggers were members of the network. Content distributed by Voxant included news clips, stories, and images from about 250 sources including

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, CBS News, MTV News,

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and New York Financial Press. In 2008, Voxant was acquired by Anystream. The companies merged to become Grab Networks. Marcien Jenckes, formerly CEO of Voxant, became CEO of Grab Networks.

Leadership

In July 2005, Internet industry veteran Jeff Crigler was appointed as founding Chief Executive Officer. In January 2008, Former AOL executive, Marcien Jenckes was appointed to the position of Chief Executive Officer. Former CEO, Jeff Crigler assumed the role of President.

Investors

Voxant's investors include Court Square Ventures, Longworth Venture Partners, and

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References

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External links

Voxant: Giving Riches to the Niches
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