# Mux

> Mux is the video API for developers. The San Francisco company gives engineers a simple set of endpoints for live streaming, on-demand video, encoding, playback, and quality-of-experience analytics, so they can ship video features without rebuilding the streaming stack from scratch.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Jon Dahl (Co-founder & CEO), Steve Heffernan (Co-founder & Head of Product (creator of Video.js)), Matt McClure (Co-founder & Head of Developer Experience), Adam Brown (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~130
- **Products:** Mux Video, Mux Data, Mux Player, Mux AI
- **Notable:** Reached unicorn status with $105M Series D in 2021., Powers video for some of the most-trafficked SaaS and media apps on the web., Co-founders previously created Video.js, the most widely used open-source HTML5 video player.

## Products & services

- **Mux Video** — API-driven live streaming and on-demand video: ingest, encode, store, deliver, and play back HLS/DASH globally.
- **Mux Data** — Real-time quality-of-experience analytics that show why viewers rebuffer, stall, or leave.
- **Mux Player** — Open-source, drop-in web video player tuned for Mux but compatible with any HLS source.
- **Mux AI** — Multimodal AI features for video: transcription, captions, chapters, and semantic search across libraries.

## Achievements

- Reached unicorn status with $105M Series D in 2021.
- Powers video for some of the most-trafficked SaaS and media apps on the web.
- Co-founders previously created Video.js, the most widely used open-source HTML5 video player.
- Y Combinator W16 batch graduate.
- Maintains Media Chrome, an open-source web component library for media UIs.

## Latest updates

- **2024-06** — Reported approximately $46.1M annual revenue and 4,900+ customers.
- **2024-03** — Expanded Mux AI features for transcripts, captions, and semantic search.
- **2023-09** — Refreshed brand and shipped open-source Mux Player as a standalone web component.
- **2021-04** — Closed $105M Series D led by Coatue at a $1B+ valuation.

## Links

- Website: https://mux.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mux
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/muxhq
- GitHub: https://github.com/muxinc
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@muxhq
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/muxhq

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Last updated: 2026-05-28