What Room does

Room (operating as room.sh) is a collaborative video room API platform that enables software companies to embed real-time collaboration capabilities — video rooms, whiteboards, multi-page canvases, chat, and file sharing — into their own products via a single unified REST API called the Holodeck Workspace API (v1.0.0). The platform presents a dual-interface architecture connecting a "holodeck" frontend to any controlling application, with JWT (HS256) authentication, webhook support for session/user/chat events, role-based access control (read-only, master, guest), per-pairing end-to-end-encrypted private chat, and configurable AV recording with locality routing. The company is a product/brand under Lessonspace Inc. (USA), which serves as the parent entity and primary commercial vehicle; room.sh is currently in private beta or available through Lessonspace.

Room.sh serves B2B customers — SaaS companies and software platforms — that need to add collaborative capabilities without building the underlying infrastructure themselves. Its known live deployments are Lessonspace (a white-labeled online classroom product for tutoring companies and education platforms) and Coroom (a consumer-facing team collaboration application for recurring weekly meetings). The business model centers on API/platform licensing and white-label / OEM embedding, though specific pricing is not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is exclusively API-first, with onboarding mediated through Lessonspace or via private-beta invitation rather than open self-service signup. The company is privately held, founded in 2019, has 1–10 employees, and has no disclosed funding rounds; the founder is identified as Matthew Henshall.

Name

Room

Legal name

Lessonspace Inc.

Website

https://room.sh

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Room (room.sh) provides an embeddable collaborative video room REST API (the Holodeck Workspace API) that lets SaaS platforms integrate real-time video, whiteboard, chat, and file-sharing rooms into their own products. It operates as a product under Lessonspace Inc. and is in private beta.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. API / Platform Licensing (implied): As a B2B API platform offering a unified UI and API to create and manage online collaborative rooms, room.sh monetizes by licensing its technology to companies that embed collaborative rooms into their own products. The private beta status and exclusive API-first access model suggest a subscription or usage-based commercial arrangement, though specific terms are not publicly disclosed.
2. White-Label / OEM Embedding: Room.sh is designed specifically for embedding and integration into third-party products, as evidenced by its white-label use in Lessonspace and Coroom. Revenue likely derives from OEM/white-label licensing agreements where partners embed the collaborative room capability into their own branded products.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Room (room.sh) provides a single embeddable API that lets software developers add a full multi-party collaborative room — video conferencing, interactive whiteboard, and document markup — directly inside their own applications. The API exposes JWT-authenticated room creation, server-side recording, webhooks, and end-to-end encryption, and can be embedded via iframe, React Native, or Capacitor so that customers do not need to build the underlying real-time media stack themselves.

Product overview

Room.sh offers a collaborative room technology platform consisting of the core Room.sh API product and related applications. The core product is a Collaborative Video Room API that provides a unified UI and infrastructure for creating and managing online collaborative rooms. The ecosystem includes Lessonspace (the parent company providing white-labeled online classrooms for education platforms with student/teacher management and analytics) and Coroom (a consumer application for recurring team meetings). Room.sh's API can be embedded and integrated into third-party products, while Lessonspace provides a ready-made implementation, and Coroom serves as the consumer-facing product.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Coroom: An application for keeping teams, partners, and clients in sync using recurring meeting rooms to keep work moving forward week after week

Products and services

• Room (Holodeck Workspace API) Embeddable real-time collaboration API that lets software developers add multi-party video conferencing, interactive whiteboard, and document markup rooms inside their own applications via iframe, React Native, or Capacitor, with JWT auth, webhooks, server-side recording, and end-to-end encryption.
• Lessonspace White-labeled online classroom platform built on the same Room engine, used by educators and tutoring organizations to deliver live, interactive lessons with video and whiteboard.
• Coroom Consumer iOS app that lets individuals spin up collaborative rooms with video and whiteboard, serving as a consumer-facing surface and reference implementation of the Room API.

Named customers2 records

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Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Lessonspace Inc.coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLessonspace Inc. is the parent company and primary commercial vehicle for room.sh. Room.sh's API is currently available through Lessonspace or via private beta invitation. Lessonspace uses room.sh's Holodeck Workspace API as the infrastructure layer for its own white-labeled online classroom product, and its platform serves as the commercial channel through which room.sh's technology reaches end customers in the education vertical.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• 100ms: 100ms provides a video and audio SDK with prebuilt UI components for embedding real-time collaboration (including whiteboards and recording) into apps. It is closely comparable to room.sh's combined video-room-plus-canvas-plus-chat offering.
• Vonage Video API: Vonage Video API (formerly TokBox/OpenTok) provides an embeddable WebRTC video platform with archiving, session management, and SDKs. It competes for the same embedded video-collaboration workload that room.sh targets via its Holodeck API.
• Agora: Agora is a real-time engagement platform offering SDKs for voice, video, and interactive live streaming across web and mobile. It targets the same 'communication infrastructure for application developers' category as room.sh, though at significantly greater scale.
• LiveKit: LiveKit is an open-source WebRTC platform offering SDKs and cloud infrastructure for embedding real-time video, audio, and data into applications. It targets the same developer persona and embeddable-collaboration workload as room.sh's Holodeck Workspace API.
• Daily.co: Daily.co provides a drop-in video and audio calling API (Daily Prebuilt) and WebRTC SDKs that developers embed directly into web and mobile products. It competes head-to-head with room.sh on the same 'embeddable collaboration infrastructure' use case for SaaS companies and software platforms.
• Whereby: Whereby offers embeddable video meeting rooms via an SDK and prebuilt components, historically focused on telehealth, coaching, and education use cases. It is a direct analog to room.sh's recurring-room, white-label model, especially via the Lessonspace education beachhead.
• Dyte: Dyte offers a video SDK and prebuilt UI components for embedding real-time communication into products, with explicit focus on developer ergonomics and plug-and-play collaboration rooms. Overlaps directly with room.sh's API-first embeddable positioning.

Emerging players

• Dolby.io: Dolby.io provides communications APIs (real-time voice/video, messaging, media processing) for developers building collaborative products. It overlaps with room.sh's developer-facing communications API category while bringing a wider media-processing portfolio.
• Stream: Stream provides developer APIs for chat, video, activity feeds, and moderation, and competes for the same 'embedded real-time collaboration' workloads as room.sh, particularly around chat-with-rooms and in-app video.

Broad incumbents

• Zoom Video SDK: Zoom's Video SDK lets developers embed Zoom-powered video and audio experiences into their own applications, leveraging Zoom's global media infrastructure. It is a broader incumbent offering overlapping with room.sh's core embeddable-room use case, but as part of a much wider communications portfolio.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/room-sh

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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