StreamAlive, an audience engagement application for livestreams, virtual meetings, and in-person events, has secured $1.58 million in pre-seed funding, the company announced. The platform integrates into popular video conferencing and livestream platforms and offers various interactive features to enhance audience participation and engagement. Users can easily incorporate StreamAlive into their presentations by inserting a link or scanning a QR code for in-person events.
The application currently works with platforms such as Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, YouTube Live, LinkedIn Live, and Twitch, with plans to expand support for more platforms in the future. The 10 available features include AI-powered Q&As, polls, giveaways, and more. Audience members can participate in interactive games where their answers appear on the main screen. Presenters also have access to an engagement level meter and can receive a list of active participants at the end of each session.
StreamAlive offers both free accounts and paid subscriptions with additional features. The paid plans unlock unlimited chat-powered interactions, live training sessions with the StreamAlive team, and AI-based tools like ChatGPT for brainstorming ideas on interacting with audiences. The company is also working on introducing fully AI-generated presentations, clustering similar questions together, and automatically visualizing data.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the way people work, with remote and hybrid work arrangements becoming more common. StreamAlive aims to address the challenge of keeping remote workers engaged and connected during meetings and presentations. The platform ensures everyone can be heard and acknowledged, regardless of their location. Additionally, livestreamers and educators can use StreamAlive to increase audience participation, boost fanbases, and make learning experiences more engaging.
StreamAlive was inspired by co-founder Lux Narayan’s experience taking online courses, where he noticed a lack of engagement with audience responses in the chat. The platform became available in December 2022 and currently has over 2,000 users, including teams at Nike, Symphony AI, and Persistent Systems.
The pre-seed funding will support the development of new features and further expansion of StreamAlive’s user base. Narayan and his co-founders were previously part of the founding team at Unmetric, a social media intelligence platform acquired by Cision in 2019. With its innovative approach to audience engagement, StreamAlive aims to revolutionize the way livestreams, virtual meetings, and in-person events connect with their audiences.
