StreamYard Founders Put $10 Million Behind Livid, the Startup Helping Vimeo Users Escape Before the Next Round of Price Increases

New ad-free video platform debuts L.O.V.E., the one-click bulk exporter for Vimeo libraries, and dares to do something radical: care about customers

DOVER, Del.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Livid, a new ad-free video hosting platform for creators and small businesses, today announced $10 million in committed funding from Geige Vandentop and Dan Briggs, co-founders of StreamYard, the live-streaming platform they built from scratch before they sold it to Hopin for $250 million, and Bending Spoons eventually swallowed it.

Alongside the funding, Livid launched L.O.V.E. (Livid One-click Video Exporter), a free migration tool that bulk-exports entire Vimeo video libraries, including folders, metadata and more.

“We're all about building products that people genuinely love – that's what we built at StreamYard,” said Vandentop. “It was brutal to watch Bending Spoons acquire our parent company, fire virtually all the employees, raise prices and upset a lot of users. When they acquired Vimeo, it was clear this was going to happen again.”

“We’re committing $10 million because we have a ton of experience building video products and knew we could quickly get a world-class team together,” said Briggs. “That team, composed largely of former StreamYard employees, built Livid as the great escape for Vimeo users who will soon face the Bending Spoons playbook.”

Livid is all about building a product users will love with uncompromising user-centric design and obsessive customer service.

The Bending Spoons Playbook

When a platform gets acquired, the same playbook is used. Prices rise, and the users who built their business on that platform discover that their content is the leverage. Livid believes that data portability isn't a feature, but a fundamental right that legacy platforms have stripped away.

Bending Spoons specializes in buying platforms, then aggressively hiking prices and attempting to justify them with minor product tweaks marketed as game changers. In November 2025, the Italian technology conglomerate acquired Vimeo for $1.38 billion, and “almost everyone at Vimeo was laid off,” including the entire video team.

Before Vimeo, Bending Spoons did much the same at StreamYard, and watched the captive audience pay up because they couldn't leave without losing everything. Just ask the founders of Livid, who are revenge-funded because Bending Spoons left more than a bad taste in their mouths at StreamYard.

Care Over Captivity

L.O.V.E. connects directly to a Vimeo account and downloads or exports every video in the library. No manual downloading. No re-uploading file by file. No requirement to move to Livid. If the user chooses to move directly to Livid, L.O.V.E. will even preserve their Vimeo folder structure and sharing permissions. By design, the migration tool works regardless of where users take their content afterward because Livid believes that data portability is a right, not a paywall.

Livid brought the L.O.V.E. because right now, if you Google “how to bulk download Vimeo videos,” the honest answer is that the button doesn't exist. Vendor lock-in is not a bug, but the business model.

"We built L.O.V.E. to free the data hostages," said Matthew D'Cruz, a founding member and the head of engineering of Livid. "Your videos. Your library. Your call. Even if your call isn't for us."

The Antidote

The Livid Pro plan costs $10 per month. That includes up to 2TB of storage, custom player branding, ad-free playback, versioning, bulk customization and analytics. All of it. Every tier. For context, Vimeo charges $25 per month for comparable features, or $41 if you're billed monthly, because apparently even the billing structure is designed to punish you for not committing fast enough.

No per-video caps. No enterprise tier trap. No bandwidth overage shakedown. No "contact sales" wall hiding a price that would make you spit out your coffee.

“Creators and businesses have been locked in, let down and taken for granted so long that they’re convinced it’s normal, it’s like Stockholm-Syndrome-as-a-Service,” said Nic Taylor, founding member of Livid. “Our mission is to be the friendliest video hosting company in the world, with genuine support and moral clarity about pricing, bandwidth and migration, brought to the market by people who've seen how the magic show ends.”

About Livid

The name says it all. Livid was founded by industry veterans who watched the consolidation machine eat platforms from the inside and decided to build the exit door instead. Livid is an ad-free video hosting platform for individuals and small businesses. Professional-grade hosting. Transparent, flat-rate pricing. The industry's only free one-click Vimeo migration tool. No smoke. No spoon-bending. Just video hosting that doesn't treat your library like a hostage. Visit livid.com.