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Afrostream

Summer 2015 · Inactive

AFROSTREAM is Netflix for African-American and African content…

Location: Paris, France, FR

Founded: 2015

Team size: 11

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About

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.

Founders

  • Tonjé Bakang TonjeFounder/CEO

    Founder & CEO at Moots AI. Improving human connections through innovation. Second time YC founder. Former CEO at Afrostream (Netflix for Africa) and scaled the business operations to 28 countries.

  • Ludovic BostralFounder

    Streaming video expert, podcaster (in French) about funny stuff and The West Wing Co-founded Afrostream (YCS15), Now help other start ups, business development, recruitement