YCS15· OtherAfrostream
AFROSTREAM is Netflix for African-American and African content…
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Overlapping tags, a different niche.
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About Afrostream
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.
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Afrostream: questions
Which YC batch was Afrostream in?
Afrostream was in Y Combinator's Summer 2015 batch (S15).
Is Afrostream still active?
Y Combinator lists Afrostream as inactive.
Where is Afrostream based?
Afrostream lists Paris, Île-de-France, France as its location on YC's directory.
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