YC DATA · 6,287 COMPANIES · OCTOBER 2, 2026
FORMATION · FIRST SURFACED SUMMER 2021

Video Chat

Return to Signal
ACCELERATED · SUMMER 202182% confidenceObserved October 2, 2026Source: Description cluster · corroborated
The count
2.46×

2/633 → 9/1157; +0.46 percentage points of formation share.

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The companies behind the signal — 9
Summer 2021
Mixr

Team building through online game tournaments.. Mixr is a social platform for remote and hybrid teams; we host virtual game tournaments and an ongoing office competition. Mixr tournaments have built-in audio/video chat, a library of fun games, ice breakers, and automatic breakout rooms - all built with the goal of being easy for managers and employees to use. By participating in tournaments, players earn high scores and trophies which places them on the company-wide leaderboards. Our goal is to bring companies together, boost employee engagement and help companies bolster a collaborative corporate culture.

Summer 2021
StudyStream

24/7 video platform & online community for students to study together. StudyStream is a video platform & online community that allows students to study with others from around the world 24/7 and in real time. It brings accountability & motivation to the students from over 180 countries who study with us daily. We have helped over 3 million students be more productive & motivated, while also feeling less isolated. Our mission is to create a global community of students who can motivate each other to succeed.

Winter 2021
PingPong

Video messaging app for remote teams.. A video messaging app for remote teams in multiple time zones—it's like Slack for video. With PingPong, teams collaborate by exchanging short video, voice, and screen recording clips.

Winter 2021
Dyte

Real-time audio & video SDKs, ready to launch 🚀. Integrate live video calls with Dyte Video SDK with less than 10 lines of code.

Summer 2020
Duckly

Video chat with real-time collaboration.. Duckly enables teams to talk and collaborate in real-time. Teams can use a simple URL that is easy to join and remember. You can share a website and allow your colleagues to click, type, and browse with you. You can share your code directly from your IDE or even share a terminal session that your team can interact with. All with high-quality audio and video chat. We are building tools for real-time remote collaboration that makes it easy for teams to work as if they were side by side and share what they know.

Summer 2020
Rume

Video chat that doesn't feel like work. Video chat today is built for meetings but you wouldn't have your birthday party around a conference table. Rume re-creates the social dynamic of an in person event where you are easily able to have smaller conversations and fluidly move between groups when you see someone you know.

Summer 2020
Tella

The all-in-one screen recorder.. Send your team quick video messages, post eye-catching product demos to social, publish long-form content to YouTube and more. All with one app and one subscription.

Summer 2020
RTCanary

We are a monitoring and analytics plugin for all video chat platforms.. WebRTC is the reason we’ve stayed connected and productive during the COVID era, powering most of the browser-based video communications platforms you use every day (Google Meet, Facebook Messenger, etc.). But when a call gets dropped or the audio cuts out, it’s hard for the video developers to understand why it happened. This is a major problem for new players in the video chat industry that lose customers because of call quality issues; customers should be able to use video platforms with the features they want without having to sacrifice call quality.

Winter 2020
Glimpse

A social video chat.. Deeply engage groups of 4 to 400,000 through 1-on-1 video chats. Match back to back for round-robin chats or use typed rooms for enhanced pairings. Play games, take pictures, and more!

Inside Video Chat

Other / unclassified

Measured-window members of Video Chat that could not be assigned to a narrower shared YC tag or industry without forcing a classification.

Video

A primary internal company segment within Video Chat, derived deterministically from the shared yc tag “Video”. This is a classification of current window members, not a causal layer or a separate time trend.

Outside corroboration — does anyone else see this?

No comparable outside activity is connected yet.

Similarly named categories — not necessarily the same thing

These share a word with “Video Chat” but are tracked as separate categories. The real overlap below is the actual share of Video Chat’s companies also found in that category — not a guess.

Citation

Cambrian Signal, “Video Chat,” publication yc-2026-10-02-semantic-v8, snapshot October 2, 2026.
cambrian.jafar.com/formation/video-chat