Name

Stoke - Live TV Chat

Website

https://stokeapp.live

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Stoke is a mobile app for live TV chat rooms, founded in 2020 in Atlanta, that enabled viewers to watch live television broadcasts and interact via synchronized chat; its primary domain is currently parked by GoDaddy.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Live TV Streaming

NAICS

Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (5162)

akta.pro primary industry

Social/Creator-Led Sports Live Streaming & Watch-Alongs (MPAKAOAI)

akta.pro secondary industry

Generalist Live Streaming Platforms (Multi-Category) (MPACACAA)

Keywords

• Live tv streaming
• Video chat rooms
• Mobile streaming app
• Live cricket streaming
• Social video chat

Headquarters

HQ city

Atlanta

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Core offering

Stoke is a mobile application that provides live TV streaming combined with real-time chat room functionality, allowing users to watch live broadcasts and interact via chat. Related search terms indicate coverage of live TV content with potential specialization in live cricket streaming among other live content categories.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Stoke - Live TV Chat Mobile App

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Others

• Reddit: Reddit's live thread and game-day community features enable real-time chat during live sporting events. While not a standalone app, it represents a community-driven alternative for social live-event viewing that competes for the same user attention.

Broad incumbents

• Instagram Live: Instagram Live offers live broadcasts with real-time commenting and chat. As part of Meta's platform, it represents a well-resourced incumbent in social live streaming that any small startup competes against for user attention.
• Disney+ Hotstar: Hotstar is the dominant cricket streaming platform globally (especially IPL and international cricket) with integrated chat and social features. It directly overlaps with Stoke's apparent cricket focus, but at vastly greater scale and with premium content rights.
• YouTube Live: YouTube Live offers live streaming with real-time chat as part of the broader YouTube platform. As a Google property with massive scale, it is the most significant incumbent competitive threat to any live-streaming startup.
• Apple SharePlay: SharePlay is Apple's native watch-together feature embedded in FaceTime and supported across major streaming apps. It commoditizes the core 'watch TV with chat' experience that Stoke targets.

Direct peers

• Caffeine: Caffeine is a social live streaming platform built around real-time chat alongside broadcasts. Its core thesis of 'broadcasts plus real-time social chat' is closely aligned with Stoke's positioning.
• Twitch: Twitch is the dominant live streaming platform with integrated real-time chat rooms — the closest direct analog to Stoke's live-plus-chat concept, though Twitch focuses on creator-led gaming and IRL content rather than co-viewing broadcast TV.
• Loco: Loco is an India-centric live streaming platform particularly strong in esports and sports content with integrated chat. Its sports-and-chat focus and adjacent audience overlap with Stoke's apparent cricket emphasis.
• Teleparty: Teleparty (formerly Netflix Party) is a synchronized watch-together app with chat functionality. It directly parallels Stoke's Live TV Chat Rooms concept, though it focuses on-demand streaming rather than live broadcasts.

Emerging players

• Mixlr: Mixlr is a live audio broadcasting platform with social chat, used heavily for sports commentary and creator-led audio content. While focused on audio, it shares the 'live broadcast plus social chat' model and overlapping sports-commentary use case.

Market position

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Stoke_Official

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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