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Oana Manolache Wants the Webinar to Live on Your Website
The Sequel.io founder turned a founder’s travel problem into a wager on owned audiences - and kept pushing as live video shifted from event utility to marketing infrastructure.
Restream
Restream is a browser-based live streaming platform that lets creators, businesses, and organizations broadcast a single video feed simultaneously to more than 30 destinations - including YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, LinkedIn, X, and Instagram. Its flagship Restream Studio adds guests, overlays, scenes, and a unified multi-platform chat, while AI Clips automatically turns live recordings into short vertical videos for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. Founded in Ukraine in 2015 and now headquartered in Austin, Texas, Restream serves over 5 million users and raised a $50M Series A in 2020.
SightCall
SightCall is a San Francisco- and Paris-based enterprise software company that turns a customer's or technician's smartphone camera into a live support channel. Its cloud platform blends real-time WebRTC video, augmented-reality annotations, and multimodal generative AI so that a remote expert - or increasingly an AI agent - can see what someone in the field sees, guide them through a fix, and automatically document the session. Used by brands like Ford, Allianz, GE HealthCare, Deutsche Telekom and Lavazza, SightCall targets field service, insurance claims, customer service and healthcare, aiming to resolve problems on the first contact and cut unnecessary truck rolls.
Justin Kan
Justin Kan is a serial entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder of Twitch, the live streaming platform acquired by Amazon for $970 million in 2014. A Yale graduate who studied physics and philosophy, Kan pioneered lifecasting by wearing a camera 24/7 for Justin.tv in 2007, which evolved into Twitch and revolutionized gaming culture. He's launched multiple ventures including Socialcam (sold to Autodesk for $60M), served as a Y Combinator partner, and now invests through Goat Capital while building new companies in Web3, commerce, and music. Despite selling Twitch for nearly $1 billion, Kan has been candid about struggles with happiness, anxiety, and finding fulfillment beyond exits, making him a rare voice of authenticity in Silicon Valley's success-obsessed culture.