 Early customers included InnMedia (services targeted to Liberate set-top boxes) and MSNBC (services targeted to WebTV).In order to enable a better consumer experience and provide cross set-top and cross MSO capabilities, MetaTV shifted to developing a set-top box browser-like application to provide common functions across set-top boxes (abstracting middleware behaviors) and to exploit individual set-top box capabilities.With the help of Redpoint Ventures, MetaTV raised initial funding of $11M on May 8, 2000.