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Compira Labs and the EIC Accelerator: Faster Video Streaming

September 29, 2026680 words4 min

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.

€2.49MEIC grant, 70% of a €3.57M project
4Network partners in field trials
-30%Rebuffering reported in trials
OfflineCompany website, September 2026

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%".

"Tested in the field with many thousands of live customers."

FAST-STREAM results, CORDIS

What the EIC Project Promised, and What CORDIS Shows

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.

  1. A working productDeliveredQualified in partner networks.
  2. Measured improvementDelivered30% less rebuffering.
  3. Commercial contractsNot shownNone reported.
  4. A company that continuesUnknownWebsite offline.

What Has Happened Since the Award

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 where the business should have begun.

Compira Labs could not be contacted for this article through its website. It is based entirely on EU project data, linked throughout.

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