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Believe Built the Missing Middle Between Uploading a Song and Building a Career
The Paris company turned digital distribution into a ladder: self-serve tools at the bottom, local expertise in the middle, and full artist development at the top. Now it is adding publishing, deeper marketing, and a responsible-AI position to the same system.
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.
Conviva
Conviva is a Silicon Valley analytics company that measures digital experiences from the consumer's point of view. Founded in 2006 by Carnegie Mellon and UC Berkeley computer scientists, it began by helping streaming brands cut buffering and improve video quality of experience (QoE), then expanded into a real-time Operational Data Platform (ODP) that processes trillions of client-side events daily. Its technology powers experience monitoring for many of the world's largest streaming services and, more recently, has extended into agentic AI performance and consumer-perspective analytics across apps, websites, and AI agents.
VANTIQ
VANTIQ is a Walnut Creek, California software company that builds a low-code platform for real-time, distributed, event-driven applications. The platform acts as a master orchestrator for agentic AI, generative AI, edge computing and IoT - letting enterprises sense events as they happen, reason over them with AI and multi-agent systems, and act in the moment for mission-critical outcomes across healthcare, defense, disaster response, manufacturing, energy and the public sector.
Imply
Imply is a San Francisco-based data analytics company that built its platform on Apache Druid - the open-source real-time analytics database that its co-founders helped create. The company offers Imply Polaris, a fully managed cloud database-as-a-service for real-time analytics, and Imply Lumi, billed as the industry's first Observability Warehouse. With $215M in total funding and unicorn status at a $1.1B valuation, Imply serves 100+ enterprise customers including Atlassian, Reddit, and Cisco ThousandEyes, enabling sub-second query performance across terabytes to petabytes of streaming and historical data.
Fangjin Yang
Fangjin Yang is the co-founder and CEO of Imply, the commercial company behind Apache Druid - the real-time analytics database he helped create at Metamarkets in 2011. He turned a side project born from the millisecond demands of programmatic advertising into a $1.1B unicorn, raising $215M along the way. An original Druid committer and University of Waterloo-trained engineer, Yang now leads Imply's mission to power interactive, high-concurrency analytics applications at scale - with customers including Netflix, Atlassian, Salesforce, and Confluent.
Gian Merlino
Gian Merlino is the co-founder and CTO of Imply, the company commercializing Apache Druid - the open-source real-time analytics database he co-created while at Metamarkets. A Caltech computer science graduate with roots at Yahoo, Merlino has over 1,000 commits to Apache Druid and served as the project's inaugural PMC chair. Imply reached unicorn status in May 2022 with a $100M Series D, bringing total funding to $215M. Based in San Francisco, Merlino is a recognized expert in operational analytics, real-time data infrastructure, and the convergence of batch and streaming architectures.
Keith Zubchevich
Keith Zubchevich is the President and CEO of Conviva, the streaming intelligence and digital experience platform that monitors over 5 billion sensors and processes 3 trillion real-time events daily. A serial entrepreneur who has founded six companies and raised over $500 million across his career, Zubchevich joined Conviva in 2008, served as Chief Strategy Officer, and stepped into the CEO role in 2021. Under his leadership, Conviva has evolved from streaming quality-of-experience monitoring into a full agentic AI analytics platform. He is widely recognized as a clear-eyed voice on the limits and measurement requirements of AI agents in consumer-facing applications.