Who Owns Restream?

Alex Khuda and Andrew Surzhynskyi founded Restream in 2015, initially operating from Ukraine. The original idea addressed a specific frustration in the live streaming market: creators who wanted to reach audiences on Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, and other platforms simultaneously had to choose one or run complex parallel setups. Restream built a relay layer that took a single stream input and distributed it to dozens of platforms at once.

The product found an early niche among gamers and semi-professional broadcasters. A 2018 seed round, backed by investors including Silverton Partners and Liquid 2 Ventures, funded the first real team and product expansion. By 2020 the platform had added Restream Studio, a browser-based production tool that removed the need for desktop broadcasting software, plus chat aggregation and analytics.

The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the business. Live streaming surged as events, worship services, and corporate communications moved online, and Restream reported roughly 300 percent growth in the first eight months of 2020. In August 2020 the company announced a $50 million Series A co-led by Sapphire Ventures and Insight Partners, one of the larger early-stage rounds in the creator tooling space that year.

Post-2020, Restream expanded from a pure multistreaming relay into a broader live video platform. The product line grew to include browser-based studio production, stream scheduling, multi-channel chat, analytics across destinations, clipping and repurposing tools, and an API aimed at businesses embedding live video. The customer base widened from individual gamers to creators, marketers, media companies, government agencies, and faith organizations.

The company remains independent and private as of October 2026, headquartered at 515 Congress Avenue in Austin, with a distributed team and continued product expansion in the browser-based production segment.