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Mux

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Founded 2016Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Mux is an API-first video platform designed by experts to make world-class video streaming and analytics possible for every development team. Self-optimizing videos take the guesswork out of encodings, delivery, and renditions. Mux makes your video look beautiful on every device, every time.

We offer two products, Mux Video and Mux Data.

Mux Video is a simple API to advanced video streaming. Powered by data and designed by video experts, Mux Video makes beautiful video possible for every development team. Post a video or live stream with a single API call, and watch it within seconds. Mux Video handles the encoding, storage, and delivery. QoE and performance analytics provided by Mux Data is included by default for every Mux video stream.This real-time data is used to create the right renditions for every device and title, resulting in greater reliability and better viewer experiences.

Mux Data is a Quality of Experience analytics platform that measures the performance metrics that actually matter to viewers: rebuffering, startup time, video quality, and errors. Our intuitive dashboard quickly gives users the insight to find issues and make improvements through features like A/B testing, industry-wide scores, alerts, and detailed information about every single video view. The product works out of the box on HTML5, iOS, Android, and major OTT platforms. All data is available via exports and APIs, making it easy to integrate Mux Data into other systems.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Jon Dahl

Founder/CEO

Jon is a former engineer and current startup founder at Mux (video for developers). He built software early in the life of Mux, but accidentally dropped the production database and was made CEO. Before Mux, Jon was co-founder at Zencoder until the company was acquired. He’s proud to say he never dropped the production database at Zencoder.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Adam Brown

Founder

Co-founder and CTO. Previously worked at multiple companies building large scale video streaming, transcoding, and 3D rendering cloud systems. Liked doing that so much, he decided to do it all again from scratch at Mux.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Steve Heffernan

Founder/Head of Product

Founder of Zencoder (YC W'10, acquired) and Mux (YC W'16). Creator of the popular web video player Video.js. Father of 2 kids, 3 months apart in age, same biological mother (figure that one out).

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Matthew McClure

Founder

Co-founder and Head of Technology & Community. I'm also a core-contributor to Video.js, the biggest HTML5 video framework, and the organizer of Demuxed, the largest video-focused dev conference/community in the world.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
95team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2016 · Source

News & product activity

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Andreessen Horowitz · Accel · Y Combinator

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Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Launched · 4 of 6 areas documented

Source-based assessment · automated evidence rules

The company website offers product access through a trial, free start, app download, purchase, or onboarding with existing-account login. Customer adoption is not established by this evidence.

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