Wowza Media Systems, LLC

I'll verify Wowza Media Systems' profile before writing.

Let me verify ownership and the Realtime Adaptive Streaming litigation context.

Wowza Media Systems, LLC ("Wowza") is a privately held streaming-software company headquartered in the Denver metro area — its litigation filings list 523 Park Point Drive, Golden, Colorado, while recent press releases dateline Lakewood, Colo. The company was founded in 2007 by David Stubenvoll and Charlie Good (some third-party databases cite 2005). It is not publicly traded: Boston-based software private-equity firm Clearhaven Partners has backed it since May 2021, succeeding earlier investor Summit Partners. Third-party trackers place headcount in the roughly 175–190 range; revenue is not publicly disclosed, so no reliable figure can be cited.

Wowza sells video streaming infrastructure software rather than operating a consumer service. Its two flagship lines are Wowza Streaming Engine, a self-hosted Java media server (installed on customer Linux/Windows hardware, VMs, containers, or air-gapped networks) with live transcoding, transmuxing, DRM, and REST/Java APIs, and Wowza Video, a cloud SaaS platform bundling CDN delivery, player, VOD, analytics, and monetization. Wowza acquired Sweden-based player vendor Flowplayer (2022) and AI-communications platform AVA Intellect (2025). Target verticals include media and entertainment, live events and sports, security/surveillance, public safety and emergency response, healthcare, education, and government.

Litigation posture: Wowza appears in the case data solely as a defendant (4 tracked entries, 0 as plaintiff). All four records trace to a single action, Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC v. Wowza Media Systems, LLC, filed April 20, 2018 in the District of Colorado (No. 1:18-cv-00927) — Wowza's home district, not the Eastern District of Texas. This is the classic profile of an operating company defending against a patent assertion entity.

Case context: Realtime Adaptive Streaming LLC, a non-practicing entity asserting acquired data-compression patents (U.S. Patents 7,386,046; 8,934,535; 9,769,477; 8,634,462; 9,578,298), accused Wowza Streaming Engine, Wowza Streaming Cloud, Wowza GoCoder, and the ClearCaster appliance. The suit was part of a broader Realtime campaign (about a dozen actions across five districts; the JPML denied MDL centralization in MDL No. 2845). The Colorado action was jointly dismissed in September 2018.

Sources: Wowza press releases and product documentation; Clearhaven Partners; Summit Partners; Crunchbase; RPX/Unified Patents litigation records; JPML MDL 2845 order.