Innovation has been a continuing at Wowza since we based the corporate in 2007. It’s on this spirit that I’m excited to announce our partnership with Clearhaven Companions, a personal fairness funding agency centered solely on expertise firms, to additional drive worth for our clients.

Over the previous 14 years, Wowza has formed the dwell streaming {industry}. We’ve powered streaming for greater than 35,000 organizations worldwide, and we’re a trusted options supplier to greater than 60% of the organizations on Gartner’s Enterprise Video Content material Administration Magic Quadrant.*

By advantage of working in such a dynamic area, our workers and clients are conversant in Wowza’s ongoing evolution. And but, at this time’s announcement marks a brand new chapter and development trajectory completely.

We’re delighted to companion with the proficient staff at Clearhaven to spearhead this subsequent part of innovation. To kick all of it off, our joint management groups are already collaborating on firm priorities to gasoline the continued explosion of on-line video within the years forward.  We sit up for speaking our initiatives and main milestones with you alongside the best way.

Becoming a member of Forces for Enterprise Innovation

Clearhaven Companions is a Boston-based personal fairness agency centered on accelerating worth creation and serving to software program firms notice their full potential. Their vital funding in Wowza paves the best way for enterprise development and technological innovation throughout our portfolio of video streaming options. Collectively, we’re higher outfitted to ship essentially the most dependable media streaming options for our clients’ important streaming wants.

Tradition is a key to Wowza’s success and discovering the correct companion to construct upon that energy was necessary. We had the privilege to satisfy with numerous personal fairness companies. From the second we spoke with Clearhaven, we knew they have been totally different, and we had the potential for a fantastic relationship. After attending to know their staff throughout quite a few COVID-era dinners, we rapidly established a rapport that permits us to maneuver ahead with conviction.

My new colleague Michelle C. Midday, the co-founder and managing companion of Clearhaven, explains it greatest:

“Clearhaven has lengthy invested behind a thesis in video expertise as we search to companion with main firms that clear up mission-critical challenges and handle alternatives arising from video proliferation. Wowza is an unimaginable founder-built group that does precisely that. We’re thrilled to companion with CEO Dave Stubenvoll, COO Brendan Daly, and the Wowza administration staff to gasoline continued innovation and accelerated development.”

Sustaining a Deal with Buyer Success

Wowza and Clearhaven share a dedication to a customer-driven method to delivering worth. Over the previous few years, Wowza has refocused the corporate past core video elements to develop into a full-service resolution that companions with clients to develop their companies with video. This funding allows us to capitalize on and speed up that transition.

Our collaboration with Clearhaven offers the sources wanted to boost Wowza’s options and clear up advanced media streaming challenges for our clients. As I mentioned, we search to be the companion our clients scale with, for which motive we’re prioritizing a concerted concentrate on the growth and enhancement of our cloud-based options.

Investing within the Future

With Clearhaven’s backing, I stay the CEO and a member of the board of administrators, in addition to a big shareholder in Wowza. I’m additionally desperate to convey Clearhaven’s experience into the fold. Our technique stays centered on offering the {industry}’s highest high quality, most dependable video streaming resolution in the marketplace — however our capability for doing so has elevated exponentially.  

It’s the identical Wowza you’ve come to depend on, now poised for subsequent stage success with Clearhaven’s funding and steering.

Keep tuned. We’ll have extra to share within the coming months!

*Based mostly on distributors listed in Gartner’s Market Information for CDN Companies

Be taught Extra

Learn the Press Launch

About Dave Stubenvoll

David Stubenvoll is a streaming-industry veteran, launching Wowza Media Programs with Charlie Good to fill a stark void within the {industry}: the dearth of versatile, strong media server software program on which to construct dependable streaming. Wowza is Dave’s fifth new… View extra