A streaming-video startup for financial news that has been shooting on location around the country —or else in hotel rooms or rented apartments here—for the past four years has found a permanent home in New York. Real Vision, whose offerings include interviews with business stars such as Mark Cuban and Jim Rogers, has opened its first major studio across two floors and 6,000 square feet on West 27th Street.
The company, which already has offices in the United Kingdom and Grand Cayman, has built up a local staff of 40 full-time employees led by veterans of Bloomberg, Time Inc., CNBC and Yahoo Finance.
"We were doing so much filming in New York and so many of the people we wanted to talk to were in New York, we decided we had to get an office," said Damian Horner, who founded the company with Raoul Pal, a Grand Cayman–based investment strategist. "We now have more people here than in our other two offices."
Real Vision got off the ground with an initial "friends and family" investment of $5 million and earlier this year raised $10 million from accredited investors among its 17,000 subscribers, who pay $180 a year.
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