100ms provides a live video API that enables developers to create customizable video applications for various use cases, including video conferencing, live streaming, and virtual events, with low latency and high scalability. The platform addresses connectivity issues by ensuring reliable performance even in challenging network conditions, allowing seamless experiences for up to one million participants.
Funding
$24.5M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Developing real-time video applications with features like interactive live streaming, video conferencing, and audio rooms requires significant engineering effort and infrastructure investment. Ensuring reliable performance across varying network conditions and devices adds further complexity.
Solution
100ms provides a live video API and SDK that enables developers to rapidly build and deploy customizable video applications. The platform offers pre-built templates and a suite of interactive APIs for adding features like persistent participant states, video/audio plugins, and custom event systems. 100ms's infrastructure is optimized to handle challenging network conditions, including VPNs, network switches, and interruptions, ensuring high reliability and low latency for up to one million participants. Developers can leverage the platform to create a range of applications, from 1:1 video calls to massive live streams, with a focus on customization and extensibility.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes developers and product teams building video conferencing, live streaming, virtual classroom, telehealth, and social applications.
Features
- Prebuilt templates for common use cases like live streaming, audio rooms, video conferencing, and virtual events
- Interactive APIs for building custom features such as raise hand, quizzes, persistent chat, and attendance tracking
- Support for video and audio plugins, enabling AR face masks, virtual backgrounds, noise reduction, and pose detection
- Custom event system for creating and broadcasting custom events to other participants
- Infrastructure optimized for VPN handling, device capture retries, network-switch handling, and interruption handling
- Subscribe degradation to prevent call disconnections in low bandwidth conditions
- Uniform error codes and connection stability indicators for simplified debugging
- TypeScript SDK and React chatbox plugin for rapid, low-code integration