SkySong, The ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center, will welcome a prominent new tenant to its newest office building.

Brightcove, a pioneering force in the world of online video, signed a lease to occupy 13,000 square feet of the first floor of SkySong 4.

The company, relocating from Tempe, has nearly 5,000 customers in 70 countries is a leading provider of cloud services for video. The company offers a full suite of products and services that reduce the cost and complexity associated with publishing, distributing, measuring and monetizing video across devices.

“We are very fortunate to have Brightcove become part of the SkySong community,” said Sharon Harper, president and CEO of Plaza Companies. “They are truly pioneers in publishing video and they will fit right in with the other innovative technology companies that are already on the campus.”

Brightcove’s presence at SkySong 4 helps accelerate the leasing momentum for the newest building at SkySong, which is scheduled to open later this fall. The 145,000 square foot building is the fourth office building to open at SkySong, with the other three near 100 percent occupancy.

Sethuraman Panchanathan, executive vice president of Knowledge Enterprise Development and chief research and innovation officer at Arizona State University, said Brightcove is an ideal fit for the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship at the heart of SkySong.

“Brightcove is just the kind of company that can thrive from being in the SkySong environment, and we are very pleased that they have chosen to locate here,” Panchanathan said. “It’s yet another sign that SkySong has emerged as the go-to destination for technology companies in the Valley of the Sun.”

Plaza Companies is the master developer of the project in partnership with the Arizona State University Foundation, the City of Scottsdale and Holualoa Companies.

Skysong’s collective ownership was represented by Craig Coppola, Andrew Cheney and Gregg Kafka of Lee & Associates. Brightcove was represented by John Pierson, Trevor Pratt and Christopher Lawrence of JLL.

SkySong, the ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center is home to a global business community that links technology, entrepreneurship, innovation and education to position ASU and Greater Phoenix as global leaders of the knowledge economy.

SkySong is a 42-acre mixed use development designed to:

  • Create an ecology of collaboration and innovation among high-profile technology enterprises and related researchers;
  • Advance global business objectives of on-site enterprises;
  • Raise Arizona’s profile as a global center of innovation through co-location of ASU’s strategic global partners; and
  • Create a unique regional economic and social asset.

Companies located at SkySong enjoy a special relationship with Arizona State University, which has more than 90,000 students studying across four metropolitan Phoenix campuses, in Lake Havasu and online. ASU is one of the largest public universities in the nation, with the majority of its students attending its campus in Tempe, Arizona, less than three miles from SkySong.

In addition to locating its own innovative research units at the center, through ASU’s on-site operations, tenant companies have a single point of contact for introductions to researchers, faculty and programs to address their specific needs.