# Hyperbeam

> Hyperbeam is a developer API for embedding cloud-hosted virtual computers and multiplayer web browsers directly inside any web, mobile, VR, or desktop app. Built on streamed Chromium instances delivered over WebRTC, it lets many people view and control the same live browser session at once - powering watch parties, co-browsing, remote learning, virtual offices, and increasingly the browser layer for AI agents. Founded by three University of Waterloo engineers, it went through Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- **Founders:** Philip Scott (Co-founder & CEO), Ambareesh Balaji (Co-founder & CTO), Declan Goncalves (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~2-3 (small team)
- **Products:** Hyperbeam API, Multiplayer virtual browser, hyperbeam.com (consumer app, legacy)
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch and presented at Demo Day., Grew original consumer watch-party product to roughly 150,000 monthly active users before pivoting., Closed three customer deals within the first two weeks of pivoting to the API model.

## Products & services

- **Hyperbeam API** — A REST API and NPM SDK for spinning up cloud-hosted virtual computers (streamed Chromium) that can be embedded in web, mobile, VR, and desktop apps, with multi-user control, synchronized audio/video, programmatic navigation, custom authentication, and session persistence.
- **Multiplayer virtual browser** — A shared browser session that multiple participants can view and control in real time over WebRTC, supporting large numbers of concurrent viewers per session.
- **hyperbeam.com (consumer app, legacy)** — The original consumer watch-party product that let friends browse and watch content together, which grew to ~150k monthly active users before the team pivoted to selling the underlying technology as an API.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch and presented at Demo Day.
- Grew original consumer watch-party product to roughly 150,000 monthly active users before pivoting.
- Closed three customer deals within the first two weeks of pivoting to the API model.
- Streams over 1.25 million hours of virtual browser video per month across all continents.
- Founded by three University of Waterloo engineers with prior experience at Facebook, Yahoo, and Lyft.

## Latest updates

- **2022-02** — Launched publicly on Hacker News as 'Hyperbeam API (YC W22) - Multiplayer embeds of any website.'
- **2022-08** — Presented at Y Combinator W22 Demo Day.
- **2025-01** — Positioned as cloud browser infrastructure usable by AI agents and computer-use models, alongside its original collaboration use cases.

## Links

- Website: https://hyperbeam.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hyperbeam-api
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/HyperbeamAPI
- GitHub: https://github.com/hyperbeam
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/hyperbeamapp/

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