Queensland start-up, Clipchamp, has recently become Australia’s first Microsoft acquisition in over a decade, which had raised a total of $15.3 million in previous financial funding.
Clipchamp is an in-browser video editor enabling content creators, educators, students, small business owners, and anyone interested to share their stories through video.
Since founded in 2013, the Aussie start-up now has over 17 million creative users spread across 200 countries. But creative individuals aren’t the only ones using the free online video editor. 390,000 notable businesses are sharing their stories through Clipchamps user-friendly interface, including reputable companies Microsoft, Google, Deloitte, Dell, and Zendesk Inc.
Clipchamp understands the power video holds. Whether it’s through virtually connecting friends and family via video chat, hours of entertaining YouTube video content, or upcoming sale promotions, video surrounds us and is not slowing down anytime soon.
Clipchamp is proud to announce video production is no longer a lengthy, complicated process that only trained editing professionals can successfully achieve. With the assistance of Clipchamp’s ready-to-use templates, companies of all sizes and individuals at any skill level can seamlessly create beautiful videos with no experience required.
Users have doubled in capacity since 2020, with some sharing that their video editing skills and confidence has been boosted by using the free online video editor. They can now produce more videos in less time, and enjoy creating them on desktop and mobile.
What started as an idea between four founders Alexander Dreiling, David Hewitt, Soeren Balko, and Tobias Raub, has now turned into a global editing sensation. According to Dreiling, Clipchamp has nearly tripled its team over the past year to keep up with customer demand and further advance its ever-growing product.
From advanced editing features like picture-in-picture for streaming videos to Clipchamp’s popular easy video meme generator, the in-browser video editor offers an element for any video editing need.
Video is rapidly becoming the most popular form of communication in today’s digital age. Viewers rely on TikTok videos to receive the latest global news and YouTube tutorials to learn how to cook. And now going viral on TikTok has proven to be successful with the assistance of Clipchamp’s auto-captioning feature. Exporting TikTok videos with Clipchamp in the 9:16 aspect ratio has increased by 140% in the past year.
Microsoft’s a tech giant taking on many different online and web-first functionalities, making Clipchamp a reflection of that. Video is extremely important, so Clipchamp’s user-friendly space is suitable for any creator, big or small. Whether creating a 10-second long social media ad or a 5-minute lecture recap, Clipchamp and Microsoft will provide all of the professional editing tools and experience you’ll ever need.
CVP of Microsoft’s office media group, Chris Pratley, defines Clipchamp to be the perfect fit to extend Microsoft for individuals, schools, and businesses. Boundless creativity can also be explored through Clipchamp’s Windows PC platform.
Microsoft and Clipchamp will help users express themselves and their businesses through the power of video. For users who are already signed up to Clipchamp, keep an eye out for more options, power, and an easier creation experience.
Clipchamp’s powerhouse team is dedicated to making sure all consumers have quality outcomes and create effortless videos for free.
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