Compira Labs and the EIC Accelerator: Faster Video Streaming
Video streams stall and drop in quality on what Compira calls the "last-mile delivery challenge", the final stretch of network to the viewer. Compira Labs, a company in Ness Ziona, Israel, built FAST-STREAM, software for content delivery and telecoms networks meant to cut stalls and low-quality playback.
The European Innovation Council granted €2,489,148 towards a €3.57 million project that tested the software "in the field with many thousands of live customers" of Telefonica, Lumen, Conversant Solutions and Medianova, and reported 30% less rebuffering. The project ended in September 2024. In September 2026 Compira's website, compiralabs.com, showed only a notice that the domain "isn't connected to a site", and we found no other public sign of the company.
Company file
- Legal entity
- Compira Labs Ltd., Ness Ziona, Israel
- Product
- FAST-STREAM last-mile video delivery software
- Trial partners
- Telefonica (Spain, Chile, Peru), Lumen (US, Mexico), Conversant (Vietnam, Malaysia), Medianova
- Website
- compiralabs.com, not connected in September 2026
- Register data
- Not accessible for this article
- EIC project
- FAST-STREAM, 1 May 2022 to 30 Sep 2024
- EIC funding
- Grant first
What We Could Find
Compira's domain now shows a website builder's placeholder page. We found no press release, product page or customer announcement from the company after the project, and could not access Israeli company records or archived copies of its site. We therefore cannot say whether Compira still operates, was sold or has closed.
The Technology: Smarter Delivery Over the Last Mile
According to the CORDIS report, FAST-STREAM targets "the last-mile delivery challenge" for over-the-top streaming services and was qualified in the networks of four content delivery and telecoms partners. It reports that the software could "reduce rebuffering metrics by 30%" and "reduce the number of low-quality video sessions by more than 30%".
The claims
Streaming improvements reported in field trials
Company-reported reductions from trials with live customers of partner networks. Lower bounds of the ranges stated.
CORDIS project 190125980 results.
"Tested in the field with many thousands of live customers."
FAST-STREAM results, CORDISWhat the EIC Project Promised, and What CORDIS Shows
The EIC project
The EU paid 70% of a €3.57M project
FAST-STREAM ran from May 2022 to September 2024. The award was grant first.
CORDIS project 190125980. Values in € millions.
The project promised to solve the "last-mile delivery challenge" for quality streaming. CORDIS reports technical qualification and field validation with named partners, but no customer contracts, stream volumes or revenue.
- A working productDeliveredQualified in partner networks.
- Measured improvementDelivered30% less rebuffering.
- Commercial contractsNot shownNone reported.
- A company that continuesUnknownWebsite offline.
What Has Happened Since the Award
The record
Field trials with big networks, then a dead domain
Compira's EIC project reported trials with Telefonica, Lumen and others; by September 2026 its website domain was no longer connected.
- Oct 2021EIC Accelerator cut-offFAST-STREAM: the last mile of video streaming
- May 2022EIC project startsStreaming delivery software, field trials€2.49M grant
- 2022-2024PilotsTelefonica, Lumen, Conversant Solutions, Medianova
- Sep 2024EIC project ends30% less rebuffering reported in field trials
- Sep 2026Website offlinecompiralabs.com not connected to a site
CORDIS and compiralabs.com.
The Money
The award was "grant first"; we found no EIC Fund investment or any funding round.
What cannot be checked
Whether any trial partner became a paying customer, whether Compira still exists, and what happened to its technology are not public in any source we could access.
Why Europe Should Care
Better streaming delivery serves both viewers and network operators, including Europe's Telefonica, which took part in the trials. The EIC funded validation with serious partners. If the company has since disappeared, that result has not reached the market.
What the project promised
A solution to the last-mile delivery problem for quality streaming.
What the record shows
Field trials with four network partners and 30% less rebuffering; then an offline website and no news.
The Verdict
Validated, then vanished from view
FAST-STREAM reported named partners and measured results. But two years later the company has no working website and no public trace of customers. The EU's record ends there, and we could not establish whether the business went on.
Compira Labs could not be contacted for this article through its website. It is based entirely on EU project data, linked throughout.
Sources
Industry
Digital and computingTelecommunications
- Focus
- Network software
- Technologies
- Network protocols
- Keywords
- Video streaming
- Over-the-top services
- Rebuffering
- Content delivery networks
- Data networking