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Streamroot is a peer-to-peer video streaming solution for VOD and live broadcasters. It creates connections between users watching a same video at a same time so that they exchange segments of videos. Hence, it helps video broadcasters reducing their bandwidth usage, improving their QoS, avoiding outages of their servers and managing spikes of traffic.
Streamroot is based on a javascript library added on the video player. It is totally transparent for the end-user since no-plugin installation is required. It uses HTML5, JavaScript, Media Source Extensions and WebRTC. It is compatible with Live and VOD streams and on desktop and mobile environment.
The company behind it was launched in France and is today based in New York. Streamroot took part in the Fall 2014 TechStars Boston startup accelerator program. It raised $2.6M in a Seed Round in December 2015. It is used by major broadcasters such as Eurosport.