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  • Inside the Stream Podcast: Interview with Backlight’s CEO Ben Kaplan

    Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 10:11 AM ET
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    Posted by Will Richmond

    In this week’s Inside the Stream podcast nScreenMedia’s Colin Dixon and I interview Ben Kaplan, president and CEO of Backlight, a media technology company that has launched. Backlight has 5 business units comprising companies it has invested in that span the video creation and distribution lifecycle. Backlight has been funded with a $200 million investment from PSG, a growth equity firm.

    The companies include ftrack, iconik, Celtx, Wildmoka and Zype.

    Listen to the interview (31 minutes, 52 seconds)




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