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The Chat App That Had to Stop Connecting Everyone
PageBites built imo to gather the internet’s scattered conversations in one place. When the networks it depended on began closing their doors, it made a harder bet: build the conversation itself.
The App That Won Quarantine and Lost the Future
Houseparty made video calling feel less like an appointment and more like wandering into a kitchen. Then the pandemic handed it the perfect world - just before its owner decided the better prize was the room, not the app.
Uri Raz Bet on the Call Before the World Picked Up
A fourth-time founder built Tango for the moment when video calling felt faintly futuristic. The more revealing story is what he did after messaging moved on without him.
The Startup That Turned Grandma's TV Into a Caregiver
A failed universal-remote company rebuilt itself around one uncomfortable truth: the hardest part of caring for aging parents is the 300-mile drive to fix their TV. JubileeTV turns that TV into the caregiving hub instead.
Agora
Agora is a real-time engagement platform that gives developers simple APIs and SDKs to embed live voice, video, interactive streaming, chat, and conversational AI into apps and devices. Trusted by more than 1,700 organizations across social, live shopping, education, telehealth, and gaming, Agora's network reaches devices worldwide with sub-second latency. The company trades on Nasdaq under the ticker API.