Stripe made payments a single API call. Hiyve does the same for video. One SDK - video, AI, chat, recording, collaboration - all production-ready. Proven across 250,000+ live sessions.
Every company needs video - but building it in-house takes 12–18 months and a team of video infrastructure specialists. Today's options force a painful choice: buy a rigid app, or burn runway building from scratch.
Building video from scratch means hiring specialists, standing up infrastructure, and spending over a year before a single user connects. Competitors ship features while you're still trying to get a stable call.
Video, chat, recording, AI, file sharing - all from different vendors. Five contracts, five billing cycles, and one breaking change away from everything falling apart.
Every platform claims "AI powered" but it's just a transcript dumped after the call ends. No real-time coaching, no live objection handling, no in-call intelligence. By the time you see the summary, the deal is already lost.
Build it yourself and burn 18 months, or use a prebuilt platform and look like everyone else. Current solutions force this tradeoff — and it hasn't changed in a decade. That's the gap Hiyve fills.
Most solutions look great in a demo. Then real users join on spotty connections from across the world. Audio cuts out, video freezes, calls drop — and customers churn.
HIPAA, SOC 2, end-to-end encryption. When you stitch together multiple vendors, every integration point is a compliance gap you have to close yourself.
We started by building Muzie.Live, a music education platform where audio and video quality is everything. We tried every SDK on the market. None of them were good enough.
We built a music education platform that needed studio-quality audio and reliable video. Music is one of the hardest real-time audio problems. Latency, compression, and quality all matter more than in a typical video call.
We used Amazon Chime, Twilio, and several other SDKs. The audio quality was poor, the integration took months, and none of them gave us the control we needed. Every SDK forced us to compromise on the experience.
So we built the entire video and audio stack ourselves. Custom media servers, adaptive quality, low-latency audio optimized for live music. The result: Muzie.Live became known for having the best call quality in music education.
Other music education platforms noticed our quality and started reaching out, asking if they could use our video infrastructure. That's when we realized: the SDK we built for ourselves is the product. Now we're packaging it for every developer who needs video.
Two products, one platform. The SDK serves companies that want to embed video into their own product. Hiyve.io serves teams that want a branded AI video platform they can deploy immediately. Both drive revenue from day one.
The SDK is the core product. But not every company wants to build. Some just want an AI video tool that works out of the box. Hiyve serves both.
The primary revenue driver. Usage-based pricing means every minute of every call generates revenue — and it compounds as customers grow.
Predictable MRR layer. Ready-to-deploy AI video that teams can brand as their own — no engineering required on their end.
Music education platform that proves the SDK works at scale. This is our revenue engine today.
Most developer tools raise before they have a single customer. Our SDK already powers a live platform with paying users, real revenue, and hundreds of thousands of sessions.
Why this matters: Muzie.Live isn't the target of this raise - it's the proof. Every component of the Hiyve SDK has been validated under real load with real users. The SDK works. Now we're packaging it for every developer who needs video.
The video infrastructure and communications platform market is exploding - driven by the same AI shift that created Hiyve. Every software product will need embedded intelligent video.
Four things are happening at once that create a rare window for a new entrant to win the video SDK market.
Twilio announced they were sunsetting Programmable Video in December 2023 - forcing thousands of developers to scramble for alternatives. They reversed the decision six months later, but the damage is done. Developers don't build critical infrastructure on platforms they can't trust.
Cloudflare bought Dyte in April 2025 for its video SDK team and technology, then put the SDKs into maintenance mode. Dyte's customers now face an uncertain future - and another platform shift. The pattern is clear: standalone video SDKs are consolidation targets.
Jitsi proved demand for self-hosted video, but its parent company 8x8 is under financial pressure with layoffs. Zero AI, fragile recording, no compliance certifications, and scaling requires dedicated headcount. The "free" option has hidden costs that exceed commercial alternatives at scale.
Every legacy platform treats AI as a bolt-on — a transcript after the call ends. Hiyve's AI reads facial expressions, tone of voice, and body language in real time, then coaches users through objections and questions as they happen. Not post-call analysis. In-call intelligence.
The bottom line: Developers are actively shopping for a new video SDK they can trust. Incumbents are losing credibility, open-source can't scale, and nobody has shipped an AI-native solution with managed infrastructure and pre-built UI. That's exactly what Hiyve is.
Video infrastructure is a crowded market with clear incumbents — but every major player is either losing revenue, cutting teams, or pivoting away. No one has combined managed infrastructure, ready-to-ship UI, and AI-native intelligence into a single platform. That's our gap.
| Capability | Hiyve SDK | Jitsi (OSS) | Agora | Twilio | Chime SDK | Daily |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Built UI Components | ✓ Full | ✗ None | ~ Basic | ✗ None | ~ Basic | ~ iframe |
| AI Built Into Core | ✓ Native | ✗ None | ✗ Bolt-on | ✗ Bolt-on | ~ AWS add-on | ~ Bots API |
| Managed Infrastructure | ✓ Full | ✗ Self-host only | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Collaboration (Chat, Whiteboard) | ✓ Built-in | ~ Basic chat | ~ Chat only | ✗ None | ~ Messaging | ✗ None |
| Cloud Recording | ✓ Built-in | ~ Jibri (fragile) | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Time to First Call | Minutes | Weeks–Months | Days | Days | Days–Weeks | Days |
| Pricing (per min) | $0.003 | "Free"* | $0.004+ | $0.004 | $0.0034 | $0.04+ |
| Vendor Risk | ✓ Low | ~ 8x8 layoffs | ~ Declining rev | ~ Trust issues | ~ AWS lock-in | ~ Pivoting |
*Jitsi is open-source but requires self-hosting, DevOps headcount, and has zero compliance certifications. The real cost at scale often exceeds commercial SDKs.
Competitors sell one piece of the stack. Hiyve bundles infrastructure + UI + AI + collaboration. Once a customer builds on Hiyve, the switching cost is enormous — driving retention and expansion revenue.
AI isn't a bolt-on — it's built into the core platform. Real-time coaching through facial expressions, tone, and body language is something incumbents can't retrofit. This is our deepest competitive advantage.
250K+ sessions on Muzie.Live prove this isn't a prototype. The platform handles real load, real users, and real edge cases — today. That's product-market validation before raising.
SDK pricing is usage-based - as customers grow, so does our revenue. SaaS subscriptions layer on predictable recurring income. Two revenue streams that compound together.
Developer-led growth is the proven playbook for infrastructure companies (Twilio, Stripe, Datadog). Developers discover us, integrate fast, and usage compounds as their product scales. No enterprise sales team needed to start — expansion revenue kicks in automatically.
Berklee College of Music graduate turned ed-tech founder. Spent years as a professional musician and teacher before building his first ed-tech product - then pivoted that experience into Muzie.Live. 10 years leading product, sales & design in online education. Bootstrapped Muzie.Live to profitability with zero outside capital.
Serial entrepreneur with 4 successful exits and 40+ years of engineering leadership. Former Chief Architect at Telstra (Australia's largest telco, $20B+ revenue) - designed systems serving millions of concurrent users. Director of Engineering at Athena Health (healthcare tech, IPO'd). Built the entire Hiyve SDK infrastructure - video engine, server network, AI pipeline - from the ground up. Father-son founding team with Sam.
Raising to hire: 1 Developer Advocate / Sales · 1 Senior SDK Engineer
The SDK is built. The infrastructure is proven. We're raising to capture the market, not figure out the product.
The product is built. The market is open. This is the fuel.
Clear milestones that de-risk the business and position us to raise Series A at a significantly higher valuation.
Hire DevRel + Sr Engineer. Launch public SDK documentation, developer community, and first 10 design partners.
50+ developers building on Hiyve. First enterprise contracts. Content marketing and developer community growth flywheel.
Hit $1M ARR from SDK + SaaS. 15-25% month-over-month growth. Launch Hiyve.io SaaS alongside SDK revenue.
Raise Series A with $1.5M+ combined ARR, proven unit economics, growing developer community, and clear path to $10M ARR.
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The AI-native video platform replacing a broken $12B market.