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RADLIVE

Live video for enterprises, before enterprises were ready

timingSlow Death

Years-long decline before final shutdown · Fatal mistake: Launched enterprise live video SaaS before broadband penetration and enterprise willingness to pay made the unit economics viable.

Founded	2005
Closed	2009
Country	Israel
Sector	Saas

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Key Events Timeline

2005-01-01

FOUNDING

RADLIVE founded in Israel to build enterprise live video streaming SaaS.

2007-06-01

FUNDING

Raised funding bringing total to $7.65M — the last capital injection the company would receive.

2008-06-01

LAYOFF

With funding depleted and revenue insufficient, RADLIVE began reducing headcount.

2009-01-01

SHUTDOWN

RADLIVE ceased operations after failing to achieve sustainable revenue or secure additional investment.

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RADLIVE, founded in 2006 by prominent Israeli entrepreneurs Zohar and Yehuda Zisapel and Menachem Cohen, developed high-definition telephony and live video streaming SaaS technologies for enterprises. The compa...

ny faced significant market headwinds: bandwidth costs remained prohibitively high during the mid-2000s, making video streaming economically unviable for many enterprises. Additionally, enterprise ado

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€9.2M

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RADLIVE raised €7.65M before launched enterprise live video saas before broadband penetration and enterprise willingness to pay made the unit economics viable. ended it. See the documented cause, verified lesson and all failure signals.

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