From COVID to 911 calls: How LiveKit raised $7M and deployed nationwide
“servers, almost like one big distributed WebRTC server, We would happily, like, pay you for that as a commercial product.”
servers, almost like one big distributed WebRTC server, We would happily, like, pay you for that as a commercial product. So that's when we raised around our first seed round from Redpoint. And, How much did you raise in that round? We raised 7,000,000,
for that round. And this was still a lot of COVID era use cases?
Yeah. COVID era use cases, like, you know, another example here. Like, within the first three weeks, there was a company that started to go and deploy us in all of the dispatch centers around The US for 911 Okay. So that company was called PREPARED. They actually sold to Axon, and now we we operate the same thing but via Axon now where, LiveKit is run-in these dispatch centers. And so when you call 911 for about 35
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LiveKit's co-founder shares how they raised their first $7M seed round from Redpoint during COVID, driven by demand for their distributed WebRTC technology. He reveals a surprising early use case where their platform was deployed in 911 dispatch centers across the US within just three weeks of launch.
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Shows the rapid market validation and unexpected use cases that can emerge when timing meets real infrastructure needs during a crisis.
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