Forge raises $4.5M to make editing and sharing gameplay clips easy

Twitch and YouTube rule livestreaming and gameplay video. But one company sees a market for people who want to share smaller clips, and it’s raised a good-sized seed round to take advantage of the opportunity it sees.

Forge, Inc., has drummed up $4.5 million, it announced today. The sharing of gameplay has become huge on social media — and that’s thanks in part to Twitch, which has 100 million community members and 1.7 million broadcasters. But this is different than Twitch or YouTube — you can make a short clip of a full video (be it a Twitch livestream or a YouTube show) and share it easily on social media. It’s in a public beta test on PC now (sorry, Mac folks).