“Zach has the magic touch and we are very excited to have him on the team,” stated Boxee CEO Avner Ronen said on the Boxee blog. Klein was on the founding team of Connected Ventures, the parent company of CollegeHumor.com, Busted Tees, and Vimeo. Boxee raised $6 million last month and they employ about 19 people. Boxee designs software that makes watching video from the web a more pleasant experience when connected to the TV.

Boxee is an open source software company that developed a platform that integrates your own personal media with social media.  This means that the service broadcasts what you are listening to or watching with other friends on social networks.

New York based Boxee raised $6 million in Series B funding, led by General Catalyst Partners.  Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures also participated in this round.  The company now has a total of $10 million in funding.

Avner Ronen said that he plans to use the capital to add more content and make the software more friendly for indie developers.  The company also takes Internet video from the web and makes it more presentable for watching on TV.  Boxee already works with Netflix, YouTube, and MLB.com but they had struggled to add Hulu.com to their service.

Ronen believes that content creators would have an easier time doing a deal with Boxee over other vidoe websites because of its unique applications and social features.  Boxee accumulates hundreds of video services in one.  Boxee claims to have about 600,000 users.

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Boxee is a startup whose flagship service is the ability to deliver online content to TVs and to Apple TV.  Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures have invested $4 million in the social media center platform company.  Bijan Sabet and Fred Wilson will be joining Boxee’s Board through the rounds of funding as well.

Boxee has about 100,000 alpha testers using the service and funding was needed to expand their services.  By the end of 2009, Boxee plans on launching a “kick-ass beta,” building more functionality and content, improving the product based on user feedback, work with team-xbmc and additional developers for resources, and finish the year with over 1 million users.

Currently Boxee delivers content from Hulu, CBS, Comedy Central, Last.fm, and Flickr.