Why We Invested · Sapphire Ventures
Investment thesis
Restream is positioned to become the leading platform for streamers due to its multi-platform focus, analytics, and browser-based studio features.
Along with Restream Studio and its analytics features, we believe that the company is well-positioned to become the de facto platform for streamers.
Product
Restream is a SaaS platform allowing creators to live stream to over 30 social media platforms simultaneously directly from a web browser.
Restream is a SaaS platform that allows video creators to easily live stream to multiple social media platforms such as Twitch, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and more than 30 other platforms simultaneously.
Traction
Restream has delivered over 95 million broadcasts to more than one billion viewers since launching.
This ease of use has led to more than 95 million broadcasts delivered to over one billion viewers since the company launched.
Restream supports more than two million creators broadcasting eight million monthly live streams to 750 million monthly viewers globally.
And by using its own infrastructure rather than relying on a cloud provider, Restream is able to support a community of more than two million creators that broadcast eight million monthly live streams to 750 million monthly viewers around the world.
Restream has acquired 40,000 subscribers and 12 million users globally.
And the company has amassed 40,000 subscribers and 12 million users worldwide.
Team
Restream founders Alex Khuda and Andrew Surzhynskyi are experienced, product-centric, mission-driven developers and entrepreneurs.
As experienced developers and entrepreneurs, Alex and Andrew are product-centric and mission-driven.
Business model
Restream uses its own proprietary infrastructure instead of third-party cloud providers to support its high broadcast volumes.
And by using its own infrastructure rather than relying on a cloud provider, Restream is able to support a community of more than two million creators that broadcast eight million monthly live streams to 750 million monthly viewers around the world.
Competition
Restream is the first company Sapphire has seen that focuses on multi-platform live streaming as its core use case.
Restream is the first company we’ve seen that targets multi-platform live streaming as a core use-case.
Investment context
Sapphire Ventures co-led a $50 million Series A financing round for Restream.
We’re excited to announce today that we’re co-leading the $50 million Series A financing for Restream.
What founders can learn
- The traction evidence that carried weight: Sapphire Ventures wrote that Restream has delivered over 95 million broadcasts to more than one billion viewers since launching.
- How the team was judged: Sapphire Ventures wrote that Restream founders Alex Khuda and Andrew Surzhynskyi are experienced, product-centric, mission-driven developers and entrepreneurs.
- How the model was assessed: Sapphire Ventures wrote that Restream uses its own proprietary infrastructure instead of third-party cloud providers to support its high broadcast volumes.
Source and provenance
Why We Invested published by Sapphire Ventures on sapphireventures.com (first-party source). Read the original
