Our story—We’re a passionate group of people working from all over the world to build the future of collaboration.

The Liveblocks crew, gathered in Ericeira for our 2024 offsite.

  • 2021 Founded
  • 100% Remote
  • $6.4M Raised

Liveblocks first launched in 2021, but our story started a couple of years earlier when Guillaume Salles and Steven Fabre met and started working closely together on realtime creative tools.

They first connected when they were both working on the design tools team at InVision: Guillaume as an engineer and Steven as a product designer. They bonded at an in-person team event in San Francisco over being the only two French people in the company, and also their shared passion for making creative tools.

They eventually decided to leave their jobs to focus their efforts full-time on building a Google Slides competitor. The first several months were difficult. Guillaume was working from Montreal and Steven was working from New York, and they struggled to find a solution that would enable them to build a tool with the multiplayer functionality that was so critical. The tools they did manage to find had myriad problems. They didn't integrate easily into their infrastructure, made it difficult to build a version history panel and multiplayer undo/redo, were optimized for text collaboration rather than layer-based creative tools and required them to cobble multiple services together in order to have something work end-to-end.

Eventually they decided to create their own. Along the way, they realized that if they were having this problem, other companies must be as well. And so they decided to drop the presentation tool, and focus on turning the powerful backend they'd built into a set of APIs that any team could use to build realtime collaborative products.

And that's how Liveblocks was born.

Celebrating a successful year in style.

The journey begins: first offsite in Mexico, 2021.

Aurélien, bridging minds in real time.

Code, surf, repeat.

Chris's real-life avatar stack.

Nimesh kicking off our icebreaker.

Stacy leading the way!

"What’s next on the roadmap?"

Steven trading screens for trails.

Vincent, the tajine whisperer.

Adrien proud of his "Empower community" award!

Surfing lesson before the storm hit!

Beach vibes with Vincent at Taghazout.

Jonathan in pastry mode!

Desert boarding vibes with Adri leading the way.

Pierre mid-laugh!

Our values - Our values are the catalyst for all of our endeavors

Empower community

We actively support community success through trust and collaboration.

Revel in your craft

We are passionate and take great satisfaction in doing work we're proud of.

Stay pragmatic

We choose the simple and efficient solutions to complex problems.

Take ownership

We take initiative and speak up to be the change we seek.

Our team - It’s all about the people

We don’t have any open positions right now, but we’re always excited to hear from passionate people who want to help build the future of collaboration.

Alicia Henríquez

Head of People

Aurélien Dupays Dexemple

Software Engineer

Chris Nicholas

Developer Relations Engineer

Jonathan Rowny

Software Engineer

Marc Bouchenoire

Design Engineer

Nimesh Nayaju

Software Engineer

Olivier Foucherot

Software Engineer

Pierre Le Vaillant

Design Engineer

Stacy Schmitz

Head of GTM

Steven Fabre

Co-founder & CEO

Vincent Driessen

Software Engineer