


It brings the Palo Alto, California-based company’s total raised to over $41 million.With SignalWire you can create video rooms to host video conferences in just aįew clicks. Samsung Next, Storm Ventures, and other investors participated in SignalWire’s latest round, a series B. It currently has more than 100 customers with roughly 15,000 users.

Reflecting this interest, the videoconferencing market had an estimated value of $4.8 billion in 2019 and is expected to reach $9.2 billion by 2027, Facts & Figures reports.įor its part, SignalWire reported annual recurring revenue of over $10 million in 2020. A survey by Commercial Integrator found that 83% of businesses with over 250 employees are likely to purchase video calling tools in the near future. In what’s been a boon for 65-employee SignalWire, the pandemic has supercharged video chat usage. It allows attendees to walk a hall, pop into sessions, interact with other attendees, and meet in private areas. SignalWire Work complements SignalWire Events, a virtual venue consisting of one or more rooms or video resources. From a workflow perspective, it divides things up into virtual offices with individual rooms that persist in the cloud. SignalWire Work, a newer service, supports 4K video and over 100 participants as well as AI-based noise cancellation and transcripts. The communications platform offers gateways to popular voice, text, and video chat protocols and features text-to-speech, automatic speech recognition, call recording, voice mail, conferencing, fax, video layouts, video superimposing, screen sharing, and more. SignalWire sells access to products like SignalWire Stack, the commercial version of the company’s open source FreeSwitch technology that’s in use by Netflix, Amazon, Ring, Comcast, and over 5,000 enterprises.

“Built into our network is a messaging bus that enables nodes to ‘come and go’ - to authenticate securely, announce their presence and metrics, and subscribe to event channels.” Video and events products “Because our architecture can be run in private data centers on any commodity hardware, it is possible collaborate to extend our real-time telecom network to network edge for use in industrial, surveillance, or collaborative applications in remote locations not well-served by traditional telecom networks,” SignalWire explains on its website.
