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Simplestream

TV and OTT streaming services

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21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Digital Media
  • SaaS
  • Video
London, UK

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Company mission

To rewrite the rules of how the world watches TV.

Our take

With the rise of digital streaming over the last five years, SimpleStream has jumped ahead of the curve, founding its app platform, media manager, and channel studio back in 2010. Even before that, the company’s founders had worked for and launched other TV Players, indicating that they’d been developing the ideas that coalesced into SimpleStream for quite some time.

SimpleStream acts as a one-stop shop for video streaming distribution, development, advertising, and much more, its flagship product - Media Manager - provides automated OTT content workflows. Though the company has spread its net wide regarding its products, the pitch is clearly working, attaining international clients in the news, sports, teleshopping, and education streaming sectors.

In 2023, SimpleStream tied its services to New Zealand’s TVSN and has benefitted from more than $10 million in funding so far. With video streaming bolstered by the rise in remote working and VOD here to stay, SimpleStream is in a strong position moving forwards.

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Benefits

  • 25 days’ annual holiday (plus Bank Holidays)
  • Flexible working options
  • Vitality health cover, including activity-based perks
  • Vitality dental cover
  • Vitality optical cover
  • Worldwide travel insurance
  • Direct pension contributions
  • Free lunch once a week (when in the office)
  • Fresh fruit, tea and coffee, and snacks (including beer!) in the office
  • Quarterly all-company team-building events (food, drinks and usually some kind of activity, such as bowling, table tennis, etc.)

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

May 2015

$2.6m

ANGEL

Feb 2015

$2.6m

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $7.7m

Leadership

Adam Smith

(Founder)

Previously Co-Founder at TVPlayer, VUTV Limited, Synapse TV Limited and OTTilus.

Lewis Arthur

(Co-Founder & CPO)

Previously Co-Founder at TVPlayer.

Dan Finch

(Co-Founder & CCO)

Previously Co-Founder and Director at TVPlayer, VuTV Ltd, OTTilus Ltd, Head of Advertising Sales & Business Development at A+E Networks and Senior Marketing Executive at Carlton TV.