Cosmos Video

Cosmos Video operates a browser-based virtual office platform for distributed teams. Users appear as avatars in a persistent digital space and can move around it; audio and video are proximity based, so participants hear and see only those near their avatar, which the company positions as a way to reproduce the spontaneous, unscheduled interactions of a physical office. Presence and status indicators show whether colleagues are available, listening or otherwise engaged.

The product includes several room types: personal rooms that act as a user's desk where teammates can drop in or use a shared link, meeting rooms supporting up to 200 participants with HD video, breakout rooms and embedded apps, focus rooms for silent co-working with cameras on and microphones muted, game rooms with twelve built-in multiplayer games for team building, and spatial areas for proximity-based networking. Messaging capabilities cover in-meeting chat with persistent history and file sharing, public and private channels, direct messages, and threaded conversations with notification controls. Platform features include Cosmos Replay for call recording with AI transcription and summaries, embedded collaboration tools such as Miro, Figma and Google Docs, integrations with Google Calendar, Outlook, Slack and Spotify, mobile access, space insights and analytics, and access controls with SOC 2 certification. A third-party profile notes 256-bit TLS encryption for the service and AES-128 encryption for call video, audio and media, plus standard, gallery and pop-out video display modes.

At launch in 2020, the product was described as a virtual venues platform combining game mechanics with video chat, used both for work and for social occasions such as parties, meetups and family gatherings, and was characterised in press coverage as a "Club Penguin for adults."

Founding story

Founders Rahul Goyal and Karan Baweja met at engineering school and later studied together at London Business School. They previously built Spyn, an on-demand dry-cleaning company, which they exited, after which Goyal led the Ride and Pass teams at Citymapper and Baweja led the Borderless Account team at TransferWise. They founded Cosmos in 2020, motivated by observing that while productivity rose in their teams during the pandemic, colleagues missed in-office culture and existing video conferencing lacked spontaneity.

Business model

Cosmos sells software-as-a-service access to a virtual office platform used by teams and organisations. The website offers a free plan that includes all features with no card required, alongside paid pricing for a "virtual HQ" tier, and a demo request path for prospective customers, indicating a self-serve freemium funnel combined with sales-assisted onboarding.

Subscription pricing for its virtual HQ product, with a free tier that includes all features and paid plans referenced on the website; specific price points are not stated in the sources.

Traction

The company website states it is trusted by 10,000 users globally who host over 1 million hours of HD calls monthly, and reports a 4.9-star average across 36+ reviews plus a "#1 Product of the day" ranking. A third-party profile lists 41-60 employees and total funding of $2.6 million. In December 2020 the product was in private beta with a select group of companies.

Latest developments

The current company website advertises new pricing for a virtual HQ, cites 10,000 users globally hosting more than 1 million hours of HD calls monthly, a 4.9-star rating from 36+ reviews, and a "#1 Product of the day" placement. The feature set now includes Cosmos Replay AI recording, transcription and summaries, meeting rooms for up to 200 participants, focus rooms for body doubling, twelve built-in multiplayer games, team chat with channels and threads, mobile access, space analytics, and SOC 2 certification.