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VK built a social network. Then it put a shopping mall inside.
VKontakte turned friends, feeds and fandoms into a market for video, subscriptions and shopping. Its next test is making all that attention pay.
LiveKit
LiveKit is an open-source platform and global edge network for building real-time voice, video, and physical AI applications. Born as a WebRTC media server for livestreaming and conferencing, it has grown into the infrastructure layer that lets AI agents see, hear, and speak with sub-100ms latency. Its technology powers ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode and is used by developers at OpenAI, xAI, Salesforce, Tesla, and Spotify, collectively facilitating billions of real-time calls each year.
Qwilt
Qwilt builds the Open Edge Cloud - a federated CDN embedded inside service provider networks (Verizon, BT, Vodafone, Comcast, Telecom Italia and dozens more) that pushes video, software, and real-time applications closer to the end user than any traditional cloud. Founded in 2010 by ex-Cisco and ex-Juniper engineers, it operates 2,196 edge nodes across 38 countries on 6 continents with 150+ Tbps of edge capacity, and is the leading commercial champion of the Open Caching standard inside the Streaming Video Technology Alliance.
Wirestock
Wirestock is a two-sided marketplace that connects 700,000+ photographers, videographers, illustrators, and 3D artists with AI labs that need ethically-sourced, high-quality multimodal training data. After pivoting from stock-content distribution in 2023, the company now supplies six of the largest foundation-model makers and is running at a $40M revenue run rate.
Rembrand
Rembrand is an AI advertising platform that drops real products into video content after the camera stops rolling. Its computer-vision models reconstruct scenes, then render brand-safe placements - virtual signage, billboards, even physical products - that look like they were filmed on set. Founded in 2022 by serial entrepreneur Omar Tawakol, the Los Altos startup is building what it calls 'in-content advertising' for the streaming, creator and CTV era.