VSee Lab, LLC was founded by Drs. Milton Chen and Erika Chuang. The original VSee prototype came out of Dr. Chen's doctoral studies at Stanford University where he focused his work on video communication and the psychology of teamwork. His thesis "Conveying Conversational Cues Through Video". addresses both the psychological and technical aspects of video communications. VSee became a
C corporation in 2008. • In 2008, VSee Lab, Inc. was incorporated. • In 2008, VSee also received investment funding from In-Q-Tel and an award grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. • In 2010, Salesforce invested in VSee. • In 2011, VSee pushed out its Mac client. • In 2012, VSee released secure instant messaging. It was also approved by US Congress for use behind their firewall. VSee Board of Directors include former Defense Secretary
William Perry, former Stanford University Dean of Engineering
James Gibbons, and
Jingle Video for RTP co-author Milton Chen. Its Board of Advisors include
Terry Winograd,
Pat Hanrahan,
David Kelley, and James Davis. According to the company, its customers include
IBM,
Shell,
Kaiser Permanente,
NASA, the
Navy SEALs, and US Congress,
Mandy Moore, and
Linkin Park. Investors include
In-Q-Tel and
Salesforce.com. ==Features and design==