The why behind StreamAlive

Our Story

It all started by being ignored.

Not intentionally ignored or unkindly ignored.

But ignored in virtual classes and live streams.
‍
The idea for StreamAlive first came when one of the founders, Lux Narayan, had a medical emergency in the family and took an extended break. This was around the time the world went into lockdown due to COVID-19. It was a surreal time.

Lux used his newfound “free time” to write a book called "Name, Place, Animal, Thing" - it had been in his head and in many scattered digital notes for many years. However, not knowing the first thing about publishing a book, he attended six courses on writing, editing, and marketing a book, all of which were delivered over a total of 56 livestreams on Zoom, YouTube Live, Google Meet, Hopin, and Facebook Live.

StreamAlive was born from the chats in those streams flying by faster than the eye could see, from 95% of the audience’s responses being ignored when they answered questions, from using clunky off-platform engagement tools and experiencing their limitations, and from presenters struggling to track, increase, and convert engagement.

Out of that frustration, StreamAlive was born.

Designed to turn monologues into dialogues, attendees into participants, and help presenters go from talk, talk, talk, to listen, listen, listen.
‍
StreamAlive just got alive. Join the journey

Our advisors

StreamAlive wouldn't be where it is today without our diverse and multi-faceted advisory board. From comedians to behavioral scientists, industry insiders to creators, we get the experience and expertise to help get the product used in every live session online and offline.

Benjamin Grubbs

Devaiah Bopanna

Dr. Neela Saldhana

Lux Narayan

Our Team

StreamAlive is also an intersection of many individual journeys…

The co-founders go back a long away— some are classmates from decades ago at Engineering and Business school. They were previously part of the founding team at Unmetric (acquired by Cision / Platinum Equity). Some team members from Unmetric are also part of the StreamAlive team.

Our advisors

Benjamin Grubbs

Devaiah Bopanna

Dr. Neela Saldhana

Lux Narayan

CEO & Co-Founder
Author, TED Speaker, Comedian, Serial Entrepreneur

Tina Lyngdoh

COO & Co-Founder
Prev. Founder, ShareMyCake

Joe Varghese

CTO & Co-Founder
Prev. Co-Founder, Unmetric

Ram Gupta

Chairman
Board member, Postman, Sanas. Advisor, Altos Ventures

Our investors

StreamAlive has raised over $3M in oversubscribed pre-seed rounds in January 2022 and January 2024. Investors in these rounds include category-creator-friendly early stage firms like Speciale Invest, three world-renowned computer science professors at MIT, two CEOs at public companies, four CXOs at private tech unicorns, and experienced professionals and angel investors.