In 1995 Jeremy D. Allaire co-founded Allaire Corporation

Allaire Corporation

Allaire Corporation was a computer software company founded by Jeremy and JJ Allaire in Minnesota, later headquartered in Cambridge, then Newton, Massachusetts...

 with his brother JJ Allaire

JJ Allaire

In 1995 Joseph J. Allaire co-founded Allaire Corporation with his brother Jeremy Allaire, creating the web development tool ColdFusion. In March 2001, Allaire was sold to Macromedia where ColdFusion was integrated into the Macromedia MX product line...

, creating the web

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...

 development

Web development

Web development is a broad term for the work involved in developing a web site for the Internet or an intranet . This can include web design, web content development, client liaison, client-side/server-side scripting, web server and network security configuration, and e-commerce development...

 tool ColdFusion

ColdFusion

In computing, ColdFusion is the name of a commercial rapid application development platform invented by Jeremy and JJ Allaire in 1995. ColdFusion was originally designed to make it easier to connect simple HTML pages to a database, by version 2 it had...

. When Macromedia

Macromedia

Macromedia was an American graphics and web development software company headquartered in San Francisco, California that produced such products as Flash and Dreamweaver. Its rival, Adobe Systems, acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005 and controls the line of Macromedia...

 acquired Allaire in March 2001, Mr. Allaire became Chief Technology Officer. At Macromedia, Allaire helped create the Macromedia MX (Flash) platform. He left Macromedia in February 2003 to join venture capital

Venture capital

Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...

 firm General Catalyst.

Allaire founded Brightcove

Brightcove

Brightcove is a Cambridge, MA based company that produces an Online Video Platform .- History :Brightcove was founded in 2004 by Jeremy Allaire, who now serves as CEO. In March 2006, Brightcove acquired Seattle-based Metastories, makers of StoryMaker, a publishing tool for video, audio, images, and...

, a Cambridge, MA based company that produces Online Video Platform applications, in early 2004 to create a video distribution platform for the Internet and is now their CEO.

External links

• Jeremy Allaire's Radio Web log (no longer active).
• Fireside Chat MITX Interview with JJ and Jeremy Allaire (recorded by Dan Bricklin, October 26, 2005.
• MITX OnDemand video podcast interview with Jeremy Allaire by Dean Whitney, June 13, 2006.