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Afrostream

AFROSTREAM is Netflix for African-American and African content…

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.
Former Founders
Tonjé Bakang Tonje
Tonjé Bakang Tonje
Founder/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 Bostral
Ludovic Bostral
Founder
Streaming tech advisor, fractional CTO. 25 years building video platforms: R&D Manager on M6 Replay (50M+ monthly users), co-founded Afrostream (YCS15), CTO at Majelan, ran platform at Trace. Now I help founders and investors with technical due diligence, architecture audits, and stack decisions for streaming/OTT/video. I also publish Streaming Radar, a weekly newsletter and data intelligence platform covering streaming tech, vertical drama ($14B market), and Africa streaming. Open to: fractiona
Afrostream
Founded:2015
Batch:Summer 2015
Team Size:11
Status:
Inactive
Location:Paris, France