The developer behind VLC’s 6 billion downloads now wants to connect hundreds of millions of robots
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VLC developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf raised $5M led by Lightspeed for Kyber, an open-source SDK that controls remote machines with ultra-low latency.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the lead developer of VLC Media Player, has raised $5 million for his startup Kyber, an infrastructure layer for controlling remote devices in real time. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, which also led Mistral AI’s record-breaking seed round and has since invested in Anthropic. OVNI Capital and Kima Ventures also participated.
Kyber’s core product is an SDK that synchronises video, audio, sensor data, and control inputs with what the company claims is the lowest achievable latency. In a February 2025 demonstration at the Mile High Video conference, Kempf showed Kyber achieving 8 milliseconds of glass-to-glass latency, the time it takes for a video frame to be captured, encoded, transmitted, decoded, and displayed. The platform is built on top of FFmpeg and VLC,...
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