Inscrição YC de Afrostream

Summer 2015Inactive

Afrostream passou pela Y Combinator no batch Summer 2015 como uma empresa Consumer. Abaixo: o que a empresa faz, quem a fundou e sua inscrição para a YC, reconstruída pergunta por pergunta no formulário real da YC.

Batch YC: Summer 2015
Indústria: ConsumerContent
Tamanho da equipe: 11
Status: Inactive
Lançada: 2015

Fundadores

Tonjé Bakang TonjeFounder/CEO
Ludovic BostralFounder

O que Afrostream faz

Afrostream brings you the best black shows, films, web series and more, streaming online anytime, anywhere. The site boasts an international library of 1,000+ hours of premium content, subtitled or dubbed according to the local market. Afrostream has licensing deals in place with Warner Brothers, Sony, Viacom, Lionsgate, and Sky Vision among others. The company has signed distribution deals with TF1, Orange and Bouygues telecom and debuted in the summer of 2016 on set-top boxes in over 12 million households in Europe. Afrostream was previously incubated by Silicon Valley’s prestigious Y Combinator and has secured investments from Orange, Cross Culture Ventures, and ACE & Company. Afrostream is accessible on Smart TVs, on the web, iPad, iPhone, and Android devices in 28 countries in Europe and Africa. Afrostream targets the 15M people of African descent in Europe and 936M Africans in sub-Saharan Africa.

Inscrição YC de Afrostream, reconstruída

Inscrição Y Combinator

Afrostream, lote Summer 2015. As verdadeiras perguntas do formulário, respondidas com dados públicos.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Afrostream

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Netflix for African-American and African content

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built an on-demand streaming service offering 1,000+ hours of Black films, shows, and web series, available anytime and anywhere with subtitles or dubbing tailored by market. Our library includes licensed content from major studios like Warner Brothers and Sony. It's accessible on Smart TVs, mobile devices, and web browsers across Europe and Africa.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live and work in Paris, Île-de-France, France, and plan to keep Afrostream based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Paris gives us access to European distribution partners and telecom operators like TF1 and Orange who have signed with us. It's also a hub for reaching the 15 million people of African descent in Europe and easily connects us to Africa.

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Perguntas Frequentes

Esta é a inscrição real da YC de Afrostream?

Não. A Y Combinator mantém as inscrições submetidas em privado. Esta é uma reconstrução: as perguntas reais do formulário da YC, respondidas a partir dos dados públicos de Afrostream (notas de lançamento, históricos de fundadores, descrição do produto). Mostra como uma empresa como Afrostream se apresentaria à YC, não o texto que eles submeteram.

Em qual batch da YC Afrostream esteve?

Afrostream fez parte do batch Summer 2015 da Y Combinator.

Quem fundou o Afrostream?

O Afrostream foi fundado por Tonjé Bakang Tonje, Ludovic Bostral.

O que o Afrostream faz?

AFROSTREAM is Netflix for African-American and African content…

Como eu leio o application completo reconstruído?

Crie uma conta gratuita no Round Funded. A versão completa de 26 respostas do application do Afrostream, e de todos os outros lotes do YC, está no YC Insights.