Tango

Tango (also known as TangoMe) was founded in 2009 by Israeli entrepreneur Uri Raz and Eric Setton. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and maintains a significant R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. Originally launched as a cross-platform video calling application, Tango later pivoted to become a live-streaming social network. The company is privately held and has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, most notably a $215M investment from Alibaba Group in 2014.

The company's primary product is Tango Live, a live video broadcasting platform built around a creator economy. Content creators broadcast live to a global audience, and viewers can purchase and send virtual gifts during the streams. These virtual gifts can be cashed out for real money by the creators, driving the core microtransaction-based business model of the platform. The product is B2C-focused and distributed via mobile app stores under a self-serve model.

Tango's Israeli R&D center is located in Tel Aviv. The company's co-founder and CEO, Uri Raz, is a serial Israeli entrepreneur who previously founded startups such as Appstream. In Israel, the company typically hires for software engineering roles—including backend, mobile (iOS and Android), and web development—as well as data engineering and product management teams that support the real-time video infrastructure and monetization features.