Livestorm is a software company that provides a browser based online

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software for webinars and virtual meetings.

History

Livestorm 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. Then called Rumble, the project was later renamed as Livestorm. In 2019, Livestorm raised a 4.6 million euros series A from public investment bank

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, Aglaé Ventures and Raise Ventures. In February 2020, the

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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. In November 2020, Livestorm raised a $30 million series B. In 2021, Livestorm was named among the fastest growing European companies by the Financial Times.

Technology

Livestorm's core is focused on leveraging

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and

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for real time, low-latency interactions. The video stream quality and format automatically adapts to each viewers'

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. The stream serves a

stream for compatible browsers including

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and

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, with a fall back on HLS on

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and

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. The frontend runs on the

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framework.

Products

Livestorm 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.

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External links

Livestorm website
Communication software Web conferencing

History

Technology

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