WeMesh

What WeMesh does

Rave (legally Rave Inc., formerly WeMesh) is a consumer social application founded in 2015 and headquartered in Waterloo, Canada, with 11–50 employees. The company's single product, Rave, is a synchronized multimedia messenger and watch-party app that enables geographically separated friends and family to watch streaming content together in real time while chatting via text and VoIP. Supported streaming sources include Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, and HBO Max, and the app is distributed natively across Mac, Windows, Android (Google Play), and historically iOS (Apple App Store). The product is delivered through a product-led growth model: users download the client directly from rave.io or app stores without a sales motion, and no pricing, subscription, or revenue model is publicly disclosed.

The core technology is real-time playback synchronization across heterogeneous end-user devices paired with embedded text/voice chat, requiring coordination of playback state, network latency compensation, and integration with third-party streaming services' web players. No API, SDK, or developer platform is offered, and the product is positioned strictly as a consumer end-user application. Distribution has been significantly disrupted by Apple's removal of Rave from the iOS App Store, prompting an active public-advocacy campaign (saverave.com) to seek reinstatement; the company continues to serve users via direct desktop downloads (dl.rave.io) and Google Play.

The business model is opaque: no pricing tiers, no enterprise contracts, no named customers, no disclosed funding, and no revenue figure are present in the source data. Co-founder and president Saeed Darvish-Kazem is the only named executive. The company appears to be privately held and bootstrapped, given the absence of any funding-round disclosures or institutional investor mentions. Internationalization is evidenced by product localization into Spanish, Indonesian, Portuguese, Russian, and Turkish, suggesting opportunistic global consumer reach rather than targeted geographic expansion.

Name

WeMesh

Legal name

Rave Inc.

Website

https://weme.sh

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

WeMesh, operating as Rave Inc., is a consumer social watch-party application that lets friends and family remotely watch streaming content from Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and HBO Max together in synchronized playback with built-in text and voice chat. The product is distributed via Mac, Windows, and Android.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Entertainment Software

NAICS

Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (516210)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYMPACAAAM

Interactive/Watch-Party & Social Video Streaming Platforms

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Digital Media & Content Platforms (Online Video, Podcasts, Creators)/Video Streaming Platforms (SVOD/AVOD/FAST)

SECONDARYBPAMACAH

Community/Group Chat Platforms

Business & Public Services/Web, Mobile & Digital Platforms/Messaging, Voice/Video & Communication Apps

SECONDARYMPACAJAE

Messaging-Led Community Platforms (Chat/Group Communities)

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Digital Media & Content Platforms (Online Video, Podcasts, Creators)/Social Networking & Community Platforms

Keywords

• Social watch party
• Synchronized video viewing
• Group streaming app
• Virtual watch party
• Social entertainment

Headquarters

HQ city

Waterloo

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

WeMesh operates Rave, a synchronous multimedia messenger application that lets users watch streaming content together in real time while chatting over text and VoIP. The platform integrates with major streaming services including Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and HBO Max, and is delivered as native applications across Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android devices. The product addresses social isolation in streaming consumption by enabling remote shared viewing experiences among friends and family.

Product overview

WeMesh offers Rave as a unified social watch-party platform that enables synchronized group viewing of streaming content. The product portfolio consists of the Rave core application, which is available as native apps across multiple platforms including Mac, iPhone/iOS, Android, and Windows, allowing users to watch together and share the viewing experience with friends remotely.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Rave A social watch-party application for individual consumers that synchronizes streaming playback from Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and HBO Max across remote users in real time, with integrated text and VoIP chat for shared viewing sessions.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• NetflixcoreTechnology or IntegrationNetflix is one of the primary streaming platforms supported by Rave, allowing users to watch Netflix content together with friends in synchronized viewing sessions.
• YouTubecoreTechnology or IntegrationYouTube content can be watched together with friends through Rave's synchronized viewing feature, integrating with YouTube's streaming platform.
• Amazon Prime VideocoreTechnology or IntegrationAmazon Prime Video is one of the supported streaming platforms on Rave, enabling synchronized group viewing of Amazon Prime content.
• Disney+coreTechnology or IntegrationDisney+ streaming content is supported on Rave for synchronized group viewing with friends and family.
• HBO MaxcoreTechnology or IntegrationHBO Max content can be watched together in synchronized sessions through Rave's platform.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Kast: Kast is a watch-party and group video platform that lets users stream, watch, and play together across web and mobile. It directly competes with Rave on synchronized streaming, group chat, and cross-platform co-viewing experiences for consumer audiences.
• Scener: Scener provides co-watching of streaming services with synchronized playback, video chat, and chat rooms. It is a direct peer to Rave in the watch-party category, targeting the same social-while-streaming use case across multiple streaming platforms.
• Bunch: Bunch is a mobile-first group video chat and watch-party app that lets friends play games and watch videos together. It overlaps with Rave on synchronized social video viewing and group chat, particularly for younger mobile-first consumers.
• Teleparty: Teleparty (formerly Netflix Party) is the most direct competitor to Rave, offering synchronized streaming co-viewing with chat across major platforms including Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. It targets the same consumer use case of remote social viewing and competes head-to-head with Rave's core Watch Together feature.

Broad incumbents

• Discord: Discord is a large-scale voice, video, and text communication platform with built-in streaming and watch-party activities including YouTube Watch Together and screen share. While much broader than Rave, it competes for the same social-co-viewing moments and offers comparable sync-and-chat capabilities natively.
• Amazon Prime Video Watch Party: Amazon Prime Video's native Watch Party feature lets Prime subscribers co-stream Prime content with up to 100 viewers with chat. As a platform-native offering from one of Rave's supported streaming partners, it directly threatens Rave's value proposition on Amazon Prime content.
• Netflix (Teleparty-era co-viewing features): Netflix has historically leaned on third parties like Teleparty for co-viewing and has explored native social viewing. As Netflix is Rave's flagship integrated platform, any move by Netflix into first-party watch-party features would materially threaten Rave's Netflix viewing use case.
• Zoom: Zoom's screen-sharing and breakout-room capabilities are commonly used by consumers and small groups to co-view content together. While not purpose-built for streaming sync, it serves a comparable remote-shared-viewing use case and is a much larger incumbent.
• Disney+ GroupWatch: Disney+ GroupWatch is a built-in co-viewing feature on the Disney+ streaming service that allows up to six people to watch together with emoji reactions. As a platform-native alternative for Disney+ content, it competes directly with Rave for Disney+ watch-party share.

Others

• Teleparty / Netflix Party legacy extension ecosystem: Beyond Teleparty itself, a broader ecosystem of browser extensions and apps (e.g., Metastream, Hyperbeam, TwoSeven) offers co-watching of streaming content with synchronized playback. They collectively define the competitive surface against which Rave must differentiate.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/WeMesh
• Facebookfacebook.com/WeMeshInc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/WeMesh

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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