NAKADI LIVE LIMITED

What NAKADI LIVE LIMITED does

Nakadi (NAKADI LIVE LIMITED) is a privately-held streaming infrastructure provider headquartered in Tbilisi, Georgia, offering a fully managed, white-label OTT (over-the-top) video service for media operators and broadcasters. The company's core innovation is Fusion Technology, a proprietary pre-standard Media over QUIC (MoQ)-based streaming protocol that fuses protocol, platform, and managed operations into a single stack. Nakadi positions Fusion as a solution to the persistent cost, quality, and scale trade-offs of legacy streaming standards—WebRTC, HLS, DASH, and CMAF—claiming up to 10x lower infrastructure costs, ultra-low latency, 4K/8K/XR playback, 99.99% uptime at peak, and scaling to millions of concurrent viewers. Deployment models span cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, addressing operators with diverse infrastructure constraints.

The company serves four primary verticals: OTT operators, DTH/cable/telco/streamer operators, broadcasters and media companies, and content owners (studios, rights holders, production companies). Its commercial model is managed services on a per-subscriber basis, delivered via enterprise direct sales led by a Chief Business Officer and Chief Strategy Officer, supplemented by a white-label OEM channel and presence at industry events such as IBC 2025. The company markets through LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, newsletter, and thought-leadership content on its website. The team is 1–10 employees globally, led by founder Chairman & CEO George Mikeladze, with a C-suite that expanded in 2025 to include Abe Zerbib (CBO, ex-CEO TAG Video Systems), Thierry Fautier (CSO, ex-Harmonic/Philips), Tamara Ninua (Deputy CEO & CMO), Erekle Taralashvili (CFOO), Vakhtang Paresishvili (CLO, LL.M. Northwestern, ex-DLA Piper), Pridon Beroshvili (CPA), Nikoloz Berelidze (CIO), Sergi Gabunia (CTO), and Patrick Zucchetta (Strategic Advisor & Fundraiser, co-founder Doremi EMEA).

Founded by a team with over 20 years of media and streaming experience that previously built scalable pay-TV operations in the challenging Georgian market, Nakadi formally launched its commercial service at IBC 2025 in Amsterdam in September 2025. Its initial go-to-market prioritizes emerging regions where infrastructure cost sensitivity is highest, with stated expansion into mature markets. Revenue, funding, and named customers are not publicly disclosed, and the company remains in early commercialization with a dedicated fundraiser in place, signaling an imminent institutional capital raise.

Name

NAKADI LIVE LIMITED

Legal name

Nakadi

Website

https://nakadi.stream

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Nakadi provides a fully managed, white-label OTT streaming service built on its proprietary Fusion Technology—a pre-standard Media over QUIC protocol—for OTT operators, broadcasters, telecom operators, and content owners globally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Tbilisi

HQ country

Georgia

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. White-Label Managed OTT Service: Fully managed, white-label OTT streaming service delivered on a per-subscriber pricing model. The company provides end-to-end streaming infrastructure including protocol, platform, and managed operations, allowing clients to focus on content and audiences without building or maintaining systems.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Nakadi provides a fully managed, white-label OTT streaming service that combines a proprietary streaming protocol, platform, and managed operations into a single end-to-end solution. Built on its Fusion Technology (a pre-standard Media over QUIC protocol), the service delivers ultra-low latency 4K/8K/XR video streaming to millions of concurrent viewers with up to 10x lower infrastructure costs than legacy streaming protocols, deployable in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments.

Product overview

Nakadi offers a single unified product: a fully managed, white-label OTT streaming service built on its proprietary Fusion Technology (a Media over QUIC/MoQ-based protocol). The service combines protocol innovation with an end-to-end managed service model, enabling broadcasters, operators, and media companies to deliver low-latency, high-quality video streaming across cloud, on-premises, or hybrid deployments without building their own infrastructure.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Nakadi Streaming Service
• Fusion Technology

Quantifiable outcome

• 10x lower infrastructure costs compared to legacy streaming protocols
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Akamai (Media Delivery): Akamai is the largest traditional CDN with deep media delivery offerings for live, VOD, and low-latency streaming. It is comparable to Nakadi as a global video streaming infrastructure provider to broadcasters and OTT operators, though Akamai operates at much broader scale across many content categories.
• AWS Elemental Media Services: AWS Elemental (MediaLive, MediaPackage, MediaConvert, MediaTailor) is the dominant hyperscaler OTT video stack. It is comparable to Nakadi as an OTT streaming delivery offering for broadcasters and operators, though it operates as part of a much broader cloud portfolio rather than a specialist low-latency provider.
• Cloudflare Stream: Cloudflare Stream combines encoding, storage, and delivery for video using Cloudflare's global edge network. It is comparable to Nakadi as an OTT video delivery service targeting developers and enterprises, with edge-network economics that overlap with Nakadi's claimed cost and scalability advantages.
• Fastly (Compute@Edge / Streaming): Fastly provides an edge cloud platform with streaming, compute, and security services used by media companies. It is comparable to Nakadi as an edge-based video delivery and compute provider, though Fastly's portfolio extends well beyond media-specific streaming.

Direct peers

• Mux: Mux offers video API infrastructure (encoding, streaming, player, data) as a developer-friendly managed service. It competes with Nakadi for OTT and media-company customers who want low-latency, scalable streaming without managing infrastructure themselves.
• Bitmovin: Bitmovin provides OTT video infrastructure including player, encoding, and analytics, with a strong focus on low-latency CMAF and adaptive streaming. It is comparable to Nakadi as a streaming technology vendor selling protocol/player/encoding technology to broadcasters and OTT operators globally.
• Wowza Streaming Engine: Wowza offers streaming infrastructure software and a managed streaming service used by broadcasters, operators, and enterprises. It is comparable to Nakadi as a managed OTT/video delivery platform with both software and fully-managed deployment models targeting similar customer segments.
• Phenix Real Time Solutions: Phenix provides ultra-low-latency real-time video streaming infrastructure for sports, gaming, and live events. It is a direct peer to Nakadi, competing head-to-head on the same sub-second latency wedge for OTT and broadcaster customers with similar managed-service delivery models.
• Millicast (Dolby.io Real-Time Streaming): Millicast, now part of Dolby, provides real-time interactive streaming at scale via WebRTC-based infrastructure. It is a direct peer to Nakadi in the sub-second, large-scale live streaming space for broadcasters, sports, and interactive media customers.
• Red5 Pro: Red5 Pro delivers sub-500ms low-latency live streaming built on WebRTC. It targets broadcasters and operators with the same ultra-low-latency, real-time interactivity value proposition as Nakadi, serving overlapping use cases in sports, auctions, and interactive live experiences.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/nakadi.stream
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/nakadi-stream
• Instagraminstagram.com/nakadi.stream

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

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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