- November 16, 2015
- Posted by: Lantre Barr
- Category: Articles
2015 is not over yet and we have already seen over $1 billion in funding given to companies using Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) in their products and services. Some of these companies use WebRTC as their main source of business and other use it to enhance their current products or services. While we are sure we are missing a few companies in our list, it is clear that WebRTC powered applications are receiving BIG funding. We are excited to see what companies receive funding in 2016.
January 2015
Nurep Receives $1.52M in Seed Funding
Nurep is Global on-demand medical device support with a vision of ensuring each patient receives the best operative outcome.
NotaryCam
NotaryCam brings notarization into the internet age. They have developed a remote electronic conferencing platform that allows for multiple parties to meet to review, sign, notarize, record and store transactions online–anytime and from anywhere in the World.
February 2015
TutorMe Receives $720K in Seed Funding
TutorMe is an online education platform that connects students with knowledge experts.
March 2015
Highfive Receives $32M in Series B Funding
Highfive is a B2B technology company reimagining the way people communicate at work.
Altocloud Receives $2M in Seed Funding
Altocloud’s customer care platform leverages social media and big data analytics to enable customers support, service & sales.
CafeX Communications Receives $21M in Series B Funding
CafeX is a WebRTC company enabling business applications with real time communication capabilities across mobile and desktop endpoints.
Luvo Receives $7.32M in Series B Funding
Luvo is the leading learning resource marketplace for college students.
April 2015
FreshDesk Receives $50M in Series E Funding
Freshdesk enables companies to provide multichannel support via phone, email, chat, website, social networks and mobile apps.
ChatWork Receives $2.5M in Series A Funding
ChatWork is a communication platform that brings together text and video chat with task management and file sharing, all in one place.
Travefy Receives $1.8M in Funding
Travefy an easy online and mobile group travel planner. Through Travefy groups can plan together and pay together with the ability to collaborate on trip details, build a rich shared itinerary, and collect shared expenses so no one is stuck with the bill.
Paperspace Receives $1.7M in a Convertible Note
Paperspace started with the idea that buying and managing computers is an unnecessarily painful and expensive process.
Coachademy Receives $84.73K in Seed Funding
Coachademy is a mobile app for on-demand Corporate Coaching, specifically targeting stress and wellness at work.
XOEye Technologies Receives $1.9M in Series A Funding
XOEye Technologies’ vision is to be a leader in creating and leveraging wearable technologies that drive communication and efficiency solutions for businesses.
AgriSync Receives $300K in a Convertible Note
AgriSync utilizes mobile video in remote field support for agriculture, unlocking the promise of ag tech innovations.
May 2015
SnapChat Receives $537.6M in Series E Funding
Snapchat is a photo messaging app that allows users to take photos, record videos, add text and drawings, and send them to recipients.
Switch Communications Receives $35M in Series C Funding
Switch is a cloud-based business phone system. With apps for iOS, Android, and Chrome on your desktop, your Switch.co phone number works across all of your devices so you can take your business number with you wherever you go.
CoreDial Receives $27.5M in Private Equity
CoreDial is a software platform and web portal that provides cloud communication products and services.
TalkSpace Receives $9.5M in Series A Funding
Talkspace is an affordable, anonymous platform that provides professional and licensed therapists.
Vedantu Receives $5M in Series A Funding
Vedantu provides personalized LIVE Online Tutoring. Vedantu aims to democratize teaching by creating a marketplace of Teachers.
Streamup Receives Undisclosed Seed Funding
Streamup is a live video community. Watch thousands of awesome channels and chat with other viewers or create your own channel and start broadcasting today.
Savvy Receives $1.7M in Seed Funding
Savvy is a global platform where learners and teachers connect for live, one on one video learning sessions.
Customer360 Receives Undisclosed Venture Funding
Customer360’s exemplary Software as a Service (SaaS) application helps businesses in enhancing customer relations.
June 2015
Duolingo Receives $45M in Series D Funding
Duolingo is a popular free language education platform.
Soundtrap Receives $1M in Seed Funding
Soundtrap is a user friendly, web-based collaboration and recording studio, for musicians, singers, music producers or music educators – and podcast producers.
Tellybean Receives $463K in Seed Funding
Tellybean is a video call solution that enables users to convert their televisions into videophones.
Proonto Receives Undisclosed Seed Funding
Proonto helps eCommerce businesses increase revenue from their existing traffic by manning their sites with shop assistants and live video.
Infiniscene Receives $118K in Seeding Funding
INFINISCENE is an easy, intuitive, and powerful tool for live streaming production.
July 2015
Twilio Receives $150M in Series E Funding
Twilio is a cloud communication company that enables users to use standard web languages to build voice, VoIP and SMS apps via a web API.
Doctor on Demand Receives $62.75M in Series B Funding
Doctor on Demand is a virtual medical practice, allowing patients to connect via video visit to board-certified MDs via mobile or web.
Ameyo Receives $5M in Series A Funding
Ameyo is an all-in-one software based communication solution that manages end-to-end customer journeys.
1DocWay Receives $1.7M in Seed Funding
1DocWay is an online platform enabling patients to schedule appointments and see their doctors through video chat.
SaleMove Receives $5.1M in Series A Funding
SaleMove offers technology that enables online retailers to interact with their customers through voice, video, and collaborative browsing.
AltspaceVR Receives $10.3M in Series A Funding
AltspaceVR is a virtual reality software company. AltspaceVR is bringing two-dimensional web content into shared virtual spaces, and extending the web to create fully holographic experiences.
August 2015
Yoogaia Receives $3M in Seed Funding
Yoogaia is the first live, interactive online yoga studio in the world. With Yoogaia, the studio is where you are.
Codementor Receives $1.2M in Seed Funding
Codementor is an online marketplace connecting developers with experts for on-demand 1:1 help via screen sharing, video and text chat.
September 2015
PubNub Receives $25M in Series C Funding
The PubNub Data Stream Network enables mobile and web developers to build and scale realtime apps.
Agora Receives $20M in Series B Funding
Agora provides the building blocks developers need to add high definition voice calls to any mobile app through a simple yet powerful SDK.
Greta Recieves $238K in Venture Funding
Greta is a peer-to-peer distribution script, turning visitors on your website & app into distributing points of presence (POPs).
RURALTY International Receives $2M in Venture Funding
RURALTY™ International is leading the way to a more effective global market for non-metro real estate investing.
N-Dream AG Receives $1.29M in Series A Funding
N-Dream AG has built a next-gen online game console called AirConsole. Web browsers are the console and smartphones are the gamepad.
October 2015
SightCall Receives $8.4M in Series B Funding
SightCall is the leading global Cloud software transforming industries with live visual interactions.
Talkdesk Receives $21M in Series A Funding
Talkdesk is an easy-to-use, cloud-based call center software solution that helps improve customer interactions while reducing costs.
Congo Receives $250K in Seed Funding
Congo is an innovative platform focused on minimizing the inefficiencies currently present in the consultation industry.
TeleStax Receives $809K Venture Funding
Telestax, the open source cloud communications company, is enabling mainstream “copy and paste” developers to build telephony apps for targeted markets around the world.
Nucleus Receives $3.37M Seed Funding
Nucleus is a wireless home intercom system that can be activated with voice.
Aznog Technologies Limited Receives Undisclosed Seed Funding
Aznog Technologies Limited is a next gen VoIP-Telecom company with their Headquarters in London.
November 2015
Streamroot Receives $2.1M in Seed Funding
Streamroot offers video content providers a streaming solution that improve the user experience while dramatically decreasing their bandwidth costs. By leveraging their peer-to-peer technology powered by WebRTC, they provide a highly scalable, very efficient and cost effective Content Delivery Networks.
Medifi Receives Undisclosed Funding
Revolutionizing healthcare with cloud based health profile management, video consultations, and medical imaging support.
Hyperconnect Receives $8.6M in Series A Funding
Hyperconnect is a Korean-based IT company that develops software and mobile applications based on the WebRTC technology.
Soundtrap Receives an additional $1.5M in Seed Funding
Soundtrap is a user friendly, web-based collaboration and recording studio, for musicians, singers, music producers or music
educators – and podcast producers. Second round of funding they have received this year.
December 2015
Streamroot Receives an additional $2.5M in Seed Funding
Streamroot offers video content providers a streaming solution that improve the user experience while dramatically decreasing their bandwidth costs. By leveraging their peer-to-peer technology powered by WebRTC, they provide a highly scalable, very efficient and cost effective Content Delivery Networks.
Chiron Health Receives $2.3M in Venture Funding
Chiron Health is a unique telemedicine platform for outpatient follow-up care—with full regulatory and reimbursement support for physician practices.