Miro (collaboration platform)

Miro, formerly known as RealtimeBoard, is a digital collaboration platform designed to facilitate remote and distributed team communication and project management.

RealtimeBoard, Inc.
Miro
FormerlyRealtimeBoard
TypePrivate
IndustrySoftware as a service
Founded2011
Founder
  • Andrey Khusid
  • Oleg Shardin
Websitemiro.com

As an online workspace for innovation, it is developed by "RealtimeBoard, Inc.".[1] The company was founded by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin in 2011 and is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam.[2][3]

Evolution

Being established in 2011, later on in 2018, RealtimeBoard, as Miro was called then, raised $25 million in a Series A venture round.[4] In 2019, the company rebranded to Miro.

In 2020, Miro raised $50 million in a Series B venture round. At that time, it had around 300 employees.[5] In 2022, it reported 40 million users.[6]

In January 2022, in a Series C funding round, Miro raised $400 million at a $17.5 billion valuation, making it the 8th most valuable US startup at that time.[7][8] In February 2023, Miro laid off 119 employees, around 7% of the total workforce.[9]

See also

References
  1. "MIRO RECOGNIZES 50 MILLION MINDS ON THEIR WAY TO THE NEXT BIG THING". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  2. "Andrey Khusid - Insider". Business Insider. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
  3. "Online whiteboarding platform Miro unveils new tools to strengthen hybrid work". VentureBeat. 2022-05-19. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
  4. O'Hear, Steve (2018-11-08). "RealtimeBoard, a visual collaboration platform for companies, raises $25M led by Accel". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
  5. Miller, Ron (2020-04-23). "Miro lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
  6. Zaveri, Paayal. "Hot startups like Miro and Canva are racing to dominate virtual whiteboards, an emerging category of workplace tools that sparked Adobe's $20 billion bid for Figma". Business Insider. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
  7. "Miro | Company Overview & News". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
  8. "Software Maker Miro Becomes Eighth-Most Valuable U.S. Startup". Bloomberg.com. 2022-01-05. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
  9. DiFeliciantonio, Chase (2023-02-02). "Layoffs hit two multibillion-dollar S.F. tech companies". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2023-04-06.


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