Video Startup Livid Raises $10M From StreamYard Founders, Targets Vimeo Users With …

A new entrant is positioning itself as an alternative in the video hosting market following recent changes at Vimeo.  Livid, an ad-free video hosting platform for creators and small businesses, has raised up to $10 million from Geige Vandentop and Dan Briggs, the co-founders of StreamYard. The investment reflects the duo’s continued involvement in the video infrastructure space after StreamYard’s ownership changes. Vandentop and Briggs built StreamYard into a live-streaming platform with more than 100,000 paying customers and over $30 million in annual recurring revenue before selling it to Hopin for $250 million in 2021. In April 2024, Italian tech conglomerate Bending Spoons acquired StreamYard as part of its purchase of Hopin’s assets and, according to Vandentop and Briggs, laid off the company’s entire team. Since then, Bending Spoons has expanded its presence in the video and creator tools market. In the latter half of 2025, the company acquired Vimeo for $1.38 billion. Subsequent layoffs affected multiple teams, including the video division, according to social media posts from employees. A spokesperson for Bending Spoons confirmed the reductions to Business Insider but did not disclose their scope. The cuts followed an earlier workforce reduction of roughly 10% in September 2025. The Italian company
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