DoubleTwist Ventures
June 11th, 2006 by 
Multimedia Mike
DVD Jon reports that he is joining up with a curious Bay Area outfit (or, for all we know, perhaps he IS the outfit) named DoubleTwist Ventures, an organization that explains its charter as focusing on:
the development of interoperability solutions for digital media and the reverse engineering of proprietary systems for which licensing options are non-existent or impractical.
Sounds suspiciously similar to what we multimedia hackers do purely for our leisure-time programming. Live the dream, Jon. Get paid for what you love to do!
All I know about the company is what the front page of the website reports, which is a text blurb pasted on a picture — very 1996. Seems out of place in this day and age. The mailto: link has a bad email address, too (though it may be a counter-spam measure and the text in the picture looks valid).
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2 Comments »
October 25th, 2006 at 11:43 am
DoubleTwist Ventures is started by Monique Farantzos, who is working with DVD Jon. Monique was (perhaps still is) in Bioinformatics marketing, and DoubleTwist Ventures is an amusing play on a now-defunct venture-funded Bioinformatics company called DoubleTwist.com (originally Pangea Systems.)
Full disclosure: I worked at DoubleTwist right after they raised their first round of VC funding from Kleiner-Perkins but left when they repositioned the company as a dot-com and hired a bunch of BCG consultants who quickly put the company out of business…
February 10th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Hey Sunil,
Sounds interesting.. can u tell me how i can contact this DVD jon?