Stream provides scalable APIs and SDKs for developers to rapidly build in-app chat messaging, video and audio functionality, and activity feeds. The platform offers enterprise-grade infrastructure with high availability and low latency to support rich user engagement features. Additionally, Stream offers AI moderation services for real-time content screening across text, image, video, and audio.
Funding
$58.1M 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
Building in-app chat, video, audio, and activity feeds requires significant development resources, leading to longer development cycles and increased costs for product teams. Maintaining scalability, reliability, and performance for these features can also be challenging and time-consuming.
Solution
Stream provides a suite of APIs and SDKs that enable developers to quickly integrate scalable chat messaging, video and audio calling, and activity feeds into their applications. The platform offers pre-built UI components and flexible SDKs, reducing development time and allowing teams to focus on core functionalities. Stream's global edge network ensures low latency and high reliability, supporting applications with millions of users. The platform also includes features such as AI moderation, HIPAA compliance, and multi-tenancy, catering to a wide range of use cases and industries.
Target Audience
Stream's primary customers are product teams and developers across various industries, including social, gaming, e-commerce, education, healthcare, and finance, who need to build engaging in-app experiences with real-time communication features.
Features
- Chat Messaging: Real-time chat with features like message reactions, threaded replies, URL enrichment, user presence, and flexible permissions.
- Video & Audio: In-app video calling, voice calling, audio rooms, and livestreaming with adaptive resolution, noise reduction, and recording capabilities.
- Activity Feeds: Customizable activity feeds with likes, comments, reactions, aggregation, URL enrichment, hashtags, @mentions, and custom ranking.
- AI Moderation: Automated moderation to find, monitor, and resolve harmful content.
- Global Edge Network: Low-latency, reliable performance with e2e encryption via TLS, BGP + DNS routing, and a 99.999% uptime SLA.
- SDKs and UI Kits: Pre-built UI components and SDKs for React, Swift, Android, Flutter, React Native, Angular, JavaScript, Unreal, and Unity.
- Enterprise-Grade Security: SOC2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, CCPA, and GDPR compliance with options for SAML/SSO, 2FA, and dedicated servers.