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Stream

API-first chat and activity feed platform

Overview

Stream provides API-first solutions for building chat messaging and activity feeds inside applications. Its products are designed for developers and businesses of all sizes who want to add real-time, engaging communication features to their apps without building them from scratch. How it works: Stream offers APIs for chat, messaging, and activity feeds that developers integrate into their software; pricing is subscription-based and depends on API usage and monthly active users, with tiers from a free plan to custom enterprise plans. How it differs: Stream focuses on a clear API-first model and ready-made, scalable chat and feed features, targeting developers and teams who want to avoid building these capabilities in-house, alongside other API providers and self-built solutions. Its goal: help apps deliver fast, reliable in-app communication and feeds at scale by providing easy-to-integrate APIs and predictable pricing.

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About Stream

Simplify's Rating
Why Stream is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Consumer SoftwareEnterprise Software

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$58.1M

Headquarters

Boulder, CO

Founded

2015

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What believers are saying

  • October 26, 2026 SDK updates added AI conversation and voice-agent components.
  • Campaigns API and analytics features deepen monetization across chat and feed customers.
  • Rosterfy’s 42,000-volunteer launch and 2026 product cadence show expanding enterprise adoption.

What critics are saying

  • Meta, Twilio, and Sendbird can compress Stream’s pricing within twelve months.
  • Open-source Vision Agents invites commoditization, especially if developers fork core features.
  • A platform outage or security breach would damage enterprise trust and stall migrations.

What makes Stream unique

  • Stream’s 2026 roadmap spans chat, feeds, moderation, and video under one SDK stack.
  • October 2025 Vision Agents made Stream the video-first open-platform for multimodal agents.
  • Stream benchmarks 5 million concurrent chat connections, a rare enterprise-scale moat.

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Funding

Total Funding

$58.1M

Meets

Industry Average

Funded Over

5 Rounds

Series B funding is typically for startups that have proven their business model and need more funding to expand rapidly—often by entering new markets or adding more products. Investors are usually venture capital firms that specialize in later-stage investments.
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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Holidays
  • Hybrid Work Options
  • Remote Work Options
  • Company Equity
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Performance Bonus
  • Parental Leave

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

4%
Business Day
May 20th, 2026
STOCK HIGHLIGHT | Naspers and Prosus get a boost.

STOCK HIGHLIGHT | Naspers and Prosus get a boost. Tencent's partnership with AI company Stream lifts the shares. May 20, 2026 at 5:00 am Shares in Naspers rallied 3.8% on Tuesday after key investment Tencent announced a strategic collaboration with Stream, the company behind the open-source AI agent framework Vision Agents. The market value of Prosus went up 3.46%.

Inworld AI
May 14th, 2026
Realtime voice agents can now see, listen, and engage.

Realtime voice agents can now see, listen, and engage. Summarize with: Realtime interactions are becoming the primary way people interact with agents. To showcase what's possible with Inworld's latest voice model, Realtime TTS-2, Inworld partnered with Stream to build a flagship reference implementation using their open-source Vision Agents framework. The 'Crashout Buddy' watches your face, hears your words, and shapes its delivery in real time based on how the end user actually feels in the moment. This reference example can be adapted to many more use cases: from professional coaching with realtime guidance, companion apps that notice context and environment, patient intake with verbal and non-verbal cues, 1:1 personalized customer experiences, and beyond. What this means for realtime voice agents. Realtime TTS-2 + Vision Agents only requires a few lines of code to unlock the ability for AI to make users feel heard and stay engaged: Emotional context and conversational awareness become first-class inputs. Whatever your agent knows about the user from sentiment in transcript, signals from a vision model, sensor data, etc. can be turned into a steering directive that shapes how the voice delivers the response. Multilingual deployment prevents a fragmented voice identity. One voice across 100+ languages means a single agent persona for a global user base. No need for model swaps mid-conversation when a user switches languages. Non-verbal sounds become part of the script. Laughs, sighs, breaths, and pauses live inline alongside the words. The agent sounds like it's actually listening before responding. Long conversations build on themselves. Because Realtime TTS-2 carries conversational context forward, sustained interactions stop feeling like a series of disconnected scripts. Sub-200ms latency unlocks interruption and barge-in patterns suitable for realtime agent loops. "We've had early access to Inworld's Realtime TTS-2 for a few days and we're all blown away. The expressiveness, language steering and multi-lingual support are genuinely impressive. The subtle details like natural pausing make it hard to differentiate between AI and human." Neevash Ramdial · Vision Agents Lead, Stream Voice steering, live. The same steering capability powering Crashout Buddy. Pick a delivery tag and hear how the voice changes with the same line. Try a delivery tag [speak tired but warm, like she just got home from a long day]I missed you. How was today? End-of-day affection. Lower energy, gentle smile. Start building. Any use case can follow a simple pattern: take the user's video feed, run a lightweight perception model on it, use the results as context, and let an expressive voice model render the response with appropriate delivery. Vision Agents makes the orchestration simple. Inworld Realtime TTS-2 makes the voice interaction believable. * Vision Agents - the framework * Inworld Realtime TTS-2 - expressive voice * GitHub repo - the code The next generation of agents doesn't read scripts. It understands the full context of the user and makes them feel truly understood.

PR Newswire
Oct 17th, 2025
Stream Launches Vision Agents First Open-Platform, Video-First SDK for Real-Time Vision AI

Stream launches Vision Agents first open-platform, video-first SDK for real-time Vision AI. News provided by. Stream Stream has launched Vision Agents, the first open-source, video-first SDK that lets developers build AI agents capable of seeing, hearing, and understanding in real time. By combining low-latency video intelligence with flexible integrations for leading AI models, Vision Agents unlock a new era of interactive, multimodal applications. BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ - Stream, the leading provider of scalable chat, video, and feeds APIs, today announced Vision Agents, the first open-source, open-platform SDK bringing real-time video and audio intelligence into developer applications. Unlike existing frameworks that bolt video onto voice-first systems, Vision Agents were designed video-first from day one. "Most frameworks started with voice and later added video," said Thierry Schellenbach, CEO and Co-Founder of Stream. "We built the opposite: a video-first foundation that's open, extensible, and developer-friendly." Developers can now create AI-powered agents that see, hear, and remember in real time, enabling a new generation of interactive, multimodal applications. Vision Agents works with Stream Video by default but also integrates with other video SDKs and supports AI providers, including OpenAI Realtime, Google Gemini, and custom models. This flexibility lets companies adopt Vision Agents without disrupting existing infrastructure, while Stream Video and Chat users gain deep integrations for memory, messaging, and performance. Real-Time, Video-First Intelligence Vision Agents process live video with low latency, enabling real-time perception, scene detection, and natural audio or text responses. Core features include: * Video-first intelligence for scene understanding. * Real-time audio with transcription, speech, and voice activity detection. * Memory and context to recall details naturally. * Action-ready design to connect with external APIs and services. Use cases span manufacturing (defect detection), collaboration (AI note-taking, transcription), gaming (coaching, avatars), accessibility (captions, descriptions), and customer support (multimodal assistants). Fully open-source, Vision Agents invites community contributions to extend providers and tools. "Vision AI today feels like ChatGPT in 2022, it's just beginning to show what's possible," said Thierry Schellenbach, CEO and Co-Founder of Stream. Developers and partners can contribute new processors, adapters, and integrations directly on GitHub. Media Contact Emily Roberts, Stream, 1 (303) 835-2196, [email protected], GetStream.io SOURCE Stream

Stream
Aug 6th, 2025
Aviv Group Scales Safe, Real-Time Chat with Stream

Aviv Group scales safe, real-time chat with Stream.

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