Livestorm is a software company that provides a browser based online web conferencing software for webinars and virtual meetings.
Developer(s) | Livestorm, SAS |
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Initial release | February 2016 |
Written in | Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Vue.js, GraphQL, Go |
Operating system | Web-based |
Available in | 25 languages |
List of languages English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Russian, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Italian, Vietnamese, Arabic, Austrian German, Swiss, Finnish, Greek, Lithuanian, Japanese, Croatian, Slovenian, Czech | |
Type | Web conferencing, Video conferencing |
License | Proprietary |
Website | livestorm |
History
editLivestorm was founded in Paris, France in 2016 by Gilles Bertaux, Robin Lambert, Tom Forlini and Vincent Garreau. The company originated as a final-year project for HETIC business school.[1] Then called Rumble, the project was later renamed as Livestorm.[2]
In 2019, Livestorm raised a 4.6 million euros series A from public investment bank BPI France, Aglaé Ventures and Raise Ventures.[3]
In February 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in more companies working remotely, which positively impacted Livestorm's growth. The product usage grew by 30 and its revenue was multiplied by 7.[4]
In November 2020, Livestorm raised a $30 million series B.[5]
In 2021, Livestorm was named among the fastest growing European companies by the Financial Times.[6]
Technology
editLivestorm's core is focused on leveraging WebRTC and WebSocket for real time, low-latency interactions.[7] The video stream quality and format automatically adapts to each viewers' web browser. The stream serves a WebRTC stream for compatible browsers including Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera, with a fall back on HLS on Internet Explorer and Safari.
Products
editLivestorm provides a video conferencing software for webinars and virtual meetings, with tools for registration pages, email cadences and analytics. A public API service was launched in 2021.[9]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Livestorm: "Le télétravail dilue la pression sur le recrutement"". Le Figaro. 5 April 2022.
- ^ "Livestorm: 10 Best Webinar Software To Build Up Your Exposure". Foundr. 17 October 2016.
- ^ "Livestorm, logiciel de vidéoconférence BtoB, lève 4.6 millions d'euros". BFM Business.
- ^ ""I'd encourage founders to adopt a global mindset from the start": Interview with Livestorm's co-founder and CEO, Gilles Bertaux". EU Startups. 4 January 2021.
- ^ "Livestorm raises $30M for its browser-based meeting and webinar platform". Techcrunch. 12 November 2020.
- ^ Kelly, Maxine (2 March 2021). "FT 1000: the fifth annual list of Europe's fastest-growing companies". Financial Times.
- ^ "Real-time video streaming: Who Needs It and Why?". Tokbox.
- ^ Guillaume Chau (28 February 2018). Apollo, GraphQL and Vue the ultimate stack.
- ^ "Livestorm Launches Public API for its Video Communications Platform". Programmable Web.