aid: caffeine
name: Caffeine
description: >-
  Caffeine was a social broadcasting and live-streaming platform founded in 2016
  by former Apple designers Ben Keighran and Sam Roberts, and backed by
  Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Greylock Partners. Built on a proprietary
  WebRTC-based real-time video distribution network, Caffeine positioned itself
  as a low-latency, social-first alternative to Twitch for gaming, entertainment,
  and — in its later years — live sports, partnering with roughly 200 sports
  organizations and reaching tens of millions of monthly users. The company
  published open-source broadcasting tooling under its caffeinetv GitHub
  organization (libcaffeine, caffeine-rtc, an OBS plugin, and the CaffQL GraphQL
  code generator) but never shipped a public, documented developer API program.
  Caffeine announced it was ceasing operations, and its web presence is now a
  shutdown notice; this profile is retained as an a16z portfolio lead and is
  archival rather than an active, integrable API provider.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/caffeine/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- Greylock
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: shutdown
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Live Streaming
- Social Broadcasting
- Video
- WebRTC
- Sports
- Gaming
- Entertainment
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/18742433?s=200&v=4
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/caffeine-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.caffeine.tv/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/caffeinetv
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence