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**LiveKit Hits $1 Billion Valuation with $100M Funding Round**
Wow, just 10 months after their last funding round, LiveKit is back in the news with a whopping $100 million in funding at a $1 billion valuation! I’m not even kidding, folks. This Seattle-based company is on fire.
So, who’s behind this hot streak? Index Ventures is leading the charge, along with some familiar faces from previous rounds, including Altimeter Capital, Hanabi Capital, and Redpoint Ventures. They must see something special in LiveKit’s tech, right?
For those who may not be familiar, LiveKit powers real-time AI voice and video functionality for some big names like OpenAI’s ChatGPT (yeah, that super-smart AI sidekick that chats like a pro). They’re also working with the likes of xAI, Salesforce, Tesla, and even emergency services and mental health providers. Talk about a diverse and impressive list of clients!
The story of LiveKit’s founding is pretty cool, too. Co-founders Russ d’Sa and David Zhao started the company in 2021 as an open-source project for building apps that could transmit real-time audio and video without interruptions. And let’s be real, this was EXACTLY what people needed during the pandemic – Zoom meetings galore! LiveKit was right there, helping power those video calls.
But here’s the thing: even though the founders loved being part of that free developer community, they soon realized big companies were clamoring for a managed cloud version of the software. And that’s exactly what they started offering. Voila! The rest, as they say, is history.
Want to learn more about this impressive funding round? Check out the details over at TechCrunch.
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