# Captain.tv

> Captain.tv (formerly Stream Captain) is a San Francisco game studio building a new category it calls streamer-led games - free-to-play titles designed for a live streamer to host and play alongside thousands of their viewers on Twitch and YouTube. Its flagship, Stream Raiders, lets a broadcaster act as captain while the audience drops units onto a shared battlefield. Viewers buy and gift cosmetic items, and a revenue-sharing model pays creators directly. Backed by a $10M Series A, Captain.tv grew to more than 25,000 streamers and over 1.5M viewers and has paid out more than $1M to streamer partners.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Bradley Ross (CEO & Founder)
- **Team size:** ~9 employees
- **Products:** Stream Raiders, Chat Plays Chess, Stream Pirates, Captain Hub
- **Notable:** Raised a $10M Series A in October 2021 led by Makers Fund, Galaxy Digital and Betaworks., Grew to more than 25,000 streamers and 1.5M+ viewers playing its games., Paid over $1M to streamer partners through its revenue-sharing program.

## Products & services

- **Stream Raiders** — Flagship streamer-led strategy game where the broadcaster is the captain and viewers deploy units onto a shared battlefield; scales from roughly 10 to 10,000 concurrent participants.
- **Chat Plays Chess** — A game where the streamer's chat collectively votes on chess moves, turning a classic game into a crowd-driven spectacle.
- **Stream Pirates** — An ocean-exploration and treasure-hunt streamer-led game announced as in development.
- **Captain Hub** — A downloadable PC application that lets streamers launch Captain.tv games and access streaming tools in one place.

## Achievements

- Raised a $10M Series A in October 2021 led by Makers Fund, Galaxy Digital and Betaworks.
- Grew to more than 25,000 streamers and 1.5M+ viewers playing its games.
- Paid over $1M to streamer partners through its revenue-sharing program.
- Defined and popularized the streamer-led game category with Stream Raiders.
- Attracted angel backing from Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, Zynga founder Mark Pincus and EA's Bing Gordon.

## Latest updates

- **2021-10** — Announced $10M Series A to expand its slate of streamer-led games.
- **2021-10** — Reported 25,000+ streamers, 1.25M+ players and $1M+ paid to partners.
- **2021-10** — Revealed Stream Pirates, Chat Plays Chess and the Captain Hub PC app.

## Links

- Website: https://captain.tv
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/captaintv
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/StreamCaptainTV
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CaptainTVGamesStudio
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/streamcaptain/

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