15 SaaS Startups in the Video Industry

January 24, 2023

SaaS startups have become the darling of Venture Capital investors, especially in the Video industry. Over the past decade, software has proverbially “eaten the world” and SaaS companies have scaled to become unicorn corporations in staggering amounts of time.

In this article, we are examining 15 VC funded SaaS startups in the Video industry.

Adventr

Users of Adventr have access to a platform for creating, sharing, and analyzing interactive, viewer-driven video content. Its own SaaS network with drag and drop functionality serves as the company's main offering and makes it easier to produce and distribute interactive video. With the capacity to alter the activities of the video or interact with characters in real time, Adventr's viewers are more engaged across all metrics. Ad networks, publishers, and other distribution channels are available for its video content.

Company details:
Founders:
DeVon Harris, Ryan Aviles
Founded:
2015
Based in:
New York, New York, United States
Website:
Adventr
Industries:
Ad Network, Advertising, Analytics, Content, Digital Media, Internet, Publishing, SaaS, TV, Video Streaming
Latest funding:
$5,000,000
Seed
20 December 2021
Total funding:
$6,014,288
Investors
Alumni Ventures, Quake Capital Partners, Paladin Capital Group, Reinventure Capital, John Legend

Bevy

Bevy is a SaaS platform for virtual conferences and community events that is designed for businesses. It uses a range of tools to organize, publicize, and carry out online conferences and neighborhood events. The platform is an adaptable piece of software that can be used to organize and host countless varieties of virtual events. The Bevy platform is utilized by a variety of commercial, consumer, and educational organizations that want to create virtual events and transform them into flourishing worldwide communities since it was built with enterprise-level analytics, connectors, and data protection. Community and field marketing teams may enable local brand evangelists all around the world to create tiny local communities that collectively give reach and scalability thanks to a robust permissions system and webcasting capabilities. The business was established in 2017 and has its corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

Company details:
Founders:
Alex Bendig, Derek Andersen, Joel Fernandes
Founded:
2017
Based in:
Palo Alto, California, United States
Website:
Bevy
Industries:
Communities, Enterprise Software, Event Management, Events, SaaS, Video Conferencing
Latest funding:
$40,000,000
Series C
24 March 2021
Total funding:
$61,400,000
Investors
LinkedIn, Accel, Upfront Ventures, Baron Davis, Vlad Magdalin

CometChat

CometChat gives developers the ability to easily integrate text chat, phone and video calling, and conferencing into their websites and applications across a variety of sectors, including telemedicine, virtual events, social networks, online learning, markets, and more. Our committed staff is fixated on creating the most robust, user-friendly, and dependable in-app messaging solution available. Additionally, our cross-platform SDKs and chat API are exceptionally safe and scalable. Because of this, more than 50,000 developers throughout the world rely on us. Our headquarters are in Denver, Colorado, and our skilled staff is dispersed across the world. We are brought together by a common goal: to facilitate meaningful connections between real people in a world that is becoming more and more digital.

Company details:
Founders:
Anant Garg, Anuj Garg
Founded:
2019
Based in:
Denver, Colorado, United States
Website:
CometChat
Industries:
Apps, Communications Infrastructure, Developer APIs, Developer Platform, Enterprise Software, Messaging, Mobile Apps, SaaS, Video Chat, Video Conferencing
Latest funding:
$10,000,000
Series A
7 December 2021
Total funding:
$12,580,000
Investors
Techstars, Matchstick Ventures, Niels Gron, iSeed, Signal Peak Ventures

inSTREAMLY

Brands and streamers may connect through the automated streamer management tool called inSTREAMLY. Micro-sponsorships enable streamers to subtly monetize their programming while providing businesses with a novel method to engage Generation Z. Streamcoi is an esports organization, MCN, agency, and tournament organizer-focused SaaS branch.

Company details:
Founders:
Damian Konopka, Maciej Sawicki, Szymon Kubiak, Wiktoria Wójcik
Founded:
2018
Based in:
Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
Website:
inSTREAMLY
Industries:
Advertising, eSports, Gaming, SaaS, Software, Video Streaming
Latest funding:
$1,318,312
Seed
14 April 2021
Total funding:
$1,553,852
Investors
Colopl Next, PKO BP, Supernode Global, PKO VC, SMOK Ventures

Livescale

With the help of a completely unique and brand-owned experience, Livescale's Live Shopping solution enables companies to increase sales, engagement, and brand awareness. Livescale, a Montreal, Canada-based company founded by Virgile Ollivier and Laurent Boutet, is revolutionizing the way brands build communities through its innovative Live Shopping technology, enabling immersive, interesting, and seamless shopping experiences to take place in-house for brands across industries. Livescale was chosen by LVMH as one of the most cutting-edge technology firms for 2020 because to its integrated checkout, immersive client resources, and exceptional customer support, making it unique in the worldwide market.

Company details:
Founders:
Laurent BOUTET, Virgile OLLIVIER
Founded:
2016
Based in:
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Website:
Livescale
Industries:
Cloud Infrastructure, E-Commerce, SaaS, Social Media, Video Chat, Video Streaming
Latest funding:
$2,009,121
Seed
16 March 2021
Total funding:
$2,958,553
Investors
FrenchFounders, Inovia Capital, Panache Ventures, Luge Capital, Real Ventures

Maestro Interactive Inc

Maestro offers enterprise live broadcasters a white-label platform to own, interact with, and profit from their audiences. We concentrate on engagement solutions that encourage activities at crucial times and collect user information for use in analytics and marketing efforts. Microsoft, PlayStation, E3, ESL, Capcom, WB Games, ELEAGUE, and other companies are among the clients.

Company details:
Founders:
Ari Evans
Founded:
2011
Based in:
Reno, Nevada, United States
Industries:
eSports, SaaS, Video, Video on Demand, Video Streaming
Latest funding:
$15,000,000
Series B
2 March 2021
Total funding:
$20,800,000
Investors
500 Global, NetEase, StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund), Kevin Lin, Scrum Ventures

Niio

The largest digital art distribution network in the world is called Niio: (Mall Powered by SAAS) A purpose-built network or platform that connects everyone involved in preserving, promoting, and profiting from digital art The largest community of eminent worldwide artists, curators, and galleries - The largest inventory of premium video and media art available on demand - A high-end, lifestyle and art company that pioneered the genre a comprehensive technological framework supporting the entire lifecycle of a digitally created work, from storage and self-publishing to rights-managed distribution and, finally, the playback of multi-format art on any type of display, is supported by a blockchain-enabled commerce engine and a stack of specialized software tools. In our opinion, the loud digital world of today is giving way to a new visual culture that may inspire and unite people. We built Niio to become the go-to platform for this media and the benchmark for interacting with people worldwide.

Company details:
Founders:
Oren Moshe, Rob Anders
Founded:
2014
Based in:
Tel Aviv-yafo, Tel Aviv, Israel
Website:
Niio
Industries:
Art, Content Delivery Network, Digital Entertainment, Digital Media, Digital Signage, Marketplace, Publishing, SaaS, Video, Virtual Reality
Latest funding:
$15,000,000
Series A
21 September 2021
Total funding:
$20,500,000
Investors
L Catterton, Entrée Capital, Ron Zuckerman, Taya Ventures, PICO Venture Partners

Open8

Open8 is a provider of SaaS, API, and MLaaS solutions in the field of content technology.

Company details:
Founders:
Sugawara Kei
Founded:
2015
Based in:
Shibuya, Kanagawa, Japan
Website:
Open8
Industries:
Android, SaaS, Video
Latest funding:
$28,654,664
Series C
29 January 2021
Total funding:
$62,113,150
Investors
Excite Japan, JAFCO, Incubate Fund, SPARX Group, World Innovation Lab (WiL)

Peech

Peech is revolutionizing the content creation industry with the introduction of the first and only smart automatic video editing and management platform. Using AI and NLP technology, Peech gives content creators the independence to generate unlimited high-quality and engaging video content, while saving time and money. By calibrating Peech’s automatic machine to each company’s brand book, marketing goals, video content, and visual assets, content and marketing teams can seamlessly collaborate and create professional videos in seconds.

Company details:
Founders:
Danielle Dafni, Johnathan Amit-Kanarek
Founded:
2020
Based in:
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Website:
Peech
Industries:
SaaS, Video
Latest funding:
$6,000,000
Seed
1 August 2022
Total funding:
$6,000,000
Investors
Cardumen Capital, Ariel Maislos, fresh.fund, Nuseir Yassin, Ibex Investors

SightCall

SightCall is a live video SaaS enabling visual support for enterprises enriched by Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence insights.Their solution is a suite of mobile and web applications enabling business users to see what their customer sees and guide them remotely. The video assistance session is powered by Augmented Reality enriching the interaction.Manufacturers improve their field force efficiency, Telecom carriers increase customer satisfaction by solving problems faster, Insurance companies transform the claim process, and many other industries are transforming their business process by leveraging the SightCall platform. They ties in to the application workflow by offering a contextual experience that is application, client, device, network and directory agnostic. The SightCall Video Cloud, a global real-time communication cloud infrastructure, powers the highly available, secure and scalable service, fitting large enterprise requirements.

Company details:
Founders:
Antoine Vervoort, Thomas Cottereau
Founded:
2008
Based in:
San Francisco, California, United States
Website:
SightCall
Industries:
Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Cloud Computing, Developer APIs, Enterprise Software, Mobile, SaaS, Video, Video Chat
Latest funding:
$42,000,000
Series B
11 May 2021
Total funding:
$54,400,000
Investors
Bpifrance, Idinvest Partners, InfraVia Capital Partners

StreamSale

StreamSale is a SaaS, live-stream shopping platform, and a marketplace for selling merchandise, stream and buy from people.

Company details:
Founders:
Ilya Kirik, Pavel Arkhipenkov
Founded:
2020
Based in:
Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
Website:
StreamSale
Industries:
E-Commerce, Marketing, Marketplace, SaaS, Software Engineering, Video Streaming
Latest funding:
$1,000,000
Series A
20 January 2021
Total funding:
$1,620,000
Investors
TealTech Capital, Timur Yunusov

Synchronized

Synchronized transforms linear video into ‘Smart-Video’ making video as flexible and powerful as hypertext. Synchronized’s Smart-Video platform – a machine learning turnkey solution for media intelligence allow broadcasters and OTT Platforms to benefit from a central hub for all in-video auto-generated time-coded metadata, objects and assets. This allows clients to automate workflow from linear-tv to digital offers, deliver rich & personalised end user-experiences and fast-track promotional content creation as well as benefiting from an unprecedented level of granular data around their video content. Synchronized is one of the first AWS Partners to achieve AWS Machine Learning Competency status in Applied AI. AWS Partners are vetted and validated against a high bar to achieve the AWS Competency designation, giving customers’ confidence in choosing validated AWS Partners to team up with. Synchronized is an AWS Media Intelligence Solutions launch partner.

Company details:
Founders:
Emmanuel Amara, Guillaume Doret, Nick Gatfield
Founded:
2014
Based in:
Sucy-en-brie, Ile-de-France, France
Website:
Synchronized
Industries:
Artificial Intelligence, Broadcasting, Internet, Machine Learning, Media and Entertainment, SaaS, TV, Video
Latest funding:
$678,869
Seed
3 December 2021
Total funding:
$3,206,909
Investors
Nick Gatfield, Catherine Barba Chiaramonti, Christophe Crémer, TF1 One Innovation, Great Expectation Capital

Trustmary

Trustmary helps companies gather feedback, measure NPS, get reviews and use social proof to improve conversion rates.

Company details:
Founders:
Johannes Karjula, Valtteri Ylimäki
Founded:
2015
Based in:
Jyväskylä, Western Finland, Finland
Website:
Trustmary
Industries:
SaaS, Video
Latest funding:
$1,340,000
Seed
14 September 2021
Total funding:
$2,228,000
Investors
Business Finland, Vendep Capital

Watchity

The audiovisual platform for business is called Watchity. With features like invites, registrations, email reminders, audience engagement, and video analytics, brands and businesses of all sizes use Watchity to produce and broadcast expert live content for webinars, hybrid events, social media, and more. The engaging content, audience involvement through the most effective channel, and conversion of audience engagement into business outcomes make Watchity-powered events stand out.

Company details:
Founders:
Albert Rodes
Founded:
2015
Based in:
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Website:
Watchity
Industries:
Content Marketing, Customer Service, Digital Marketing, Digital Media, Event Management, SaaS, Video Streaming
Latest funding:
$605,447
Seed
11 June 2021
Total funding:
$1,812,399
Investors
Wayra, ENISA, EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Sputnik Capital, The Investors Club

Wurkr

Teams may interact remotely in an immersive virtual workspace using the video platform Wurkr. It is a SaaS platform that helps businesses to foster corporate culture more effectively as well as promote creativity and impromptu cooperation in distant and scattered settings. The headquarters of the 2018-launched Wurkr are in London, England.

Company details:
Founders:
Annil Chandel, Tim Lloyd
Founded:
2018
Based in:
London, England, United Kingdom
Website:
Wurkr
Industries:
Collaboration, Information Technology, Internet, Meeting Software, SaaS, Software, Video, Video Conferencing, Virtual Workforce
Latest funding:
$1,400,373
Seed
25 February 2021
Total funding:
$1,400,374
Investors
Seedrs, Hindustan Media Venture, Yan Van de Velde

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