Annuaire du capital-investissement bordelais

API Video lève 12 M€

Communiqué API Vidéo - 14/12/2022

We raised $12M to let you join our video first world
I couldn't be more excited to share news of api.video $12m Series A, led by Mina Samaan at MMC, with participation from Open Ocean, Blossom Capital, and Financière St James!

We are living in a video-first world.
Yet, managing online video is complex, and building a mashup of services to let your users upload and share a video from your app is a nightmare for every developer.

We’re thrilled to have already empowered +30,000 developers and +500 products, while most of them haven’t a single clue of what’s a video codec or a CDN over the last 18 months.

Implementing video features into their apps and platforms in minutes drastically increases their end-users engagement, satisfaction, and retention. Moreover, unlocking videos everywhere lets great new use cases flourish every day on top of the API.

From a few new videos uploaded every hour in 2020, half a dozen are uploaded every minute today while viewers from +100 countries enjoy a buffer & latency-free streaming experience.

Building our own Infrastructure from Day1 has been seen as a crazy bet (and not a quiet ride, to be honest 🙂), but the difference is real. We cannot recount how many times customers were stunned by the speed of the service and asked us, « how are you doing that? » ...