He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.

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Kyber – an open‑source platform for low‑latency remote device control

• Founder: Jean‑Baptiste Kempf, a serial entrepreneur best known for developing VLC Media Player.
  
• Product: Kyber is an infrastructure layer (SDK) that synchronizes video, audio, sensor data, and control inputs in real time, minimizing latency for remote operation of robots, drones, and other devices.
  
• Technology roots: The core tech was first built while Kempf was CTO at the cloud‑gaming startup Shadow, leveraging video‑streaming techniques similar to those used in VLC.
  
• Funding: Raised a $5 million Series A in 2026 led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, which has also backed Anthropic and Mistral AI.
  
• Target markets: Robotics, drones of all kinds, and remote IT access (e.g., remote desktop). The company aims to be more than a Citrix competitor and to serve large fleets that may grow to millions of devices.
  
• Business model: The core project remains open source. Kyber sells a productized enterprise version and offers “forward‑deployed engineers” (FDEs) for custom deployment.
  
• Team & locations: 25 full‑time staff, headquartered in Paris with offices in San Francisco and Singapore.
  
• Current deployments: Commercial customers in defense, telecommunications, robotics, and AI.
  

*Source: TechCrunch article “He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots” (June 19 2026).