Miro (collaboration platform)

Short description: Visual collaboration website

RealtimeBoard, Inc.

Trade name

| Miro
Formerly| RealtimeBoard
Type| Private
Industry| Software as a service
Founded| 2011
Founder|

* Andrey Khusid
* Oleg Shardin

Website| miro.com

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

As an online workspace for innovation, it is developed by RealtimeBoard, Inc.[1] The company was founded in Russia by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin in 2011 and is now co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam.[2][3][4]

## Contents

* 1 Evolution
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Evolution

Being established in 2011, later on in 2018, RealtimeBoard, as Miro was called then, raised $25 million in a Series A venture round.[5] 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.[6] In 2022, it reported 40 million users.[7]

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.[8][9] In February 2023, Miro laid off 119 employees, around 7% of its full-time workforce.[10]

## See also

* Whiteboarding

## References

1. ↑ "MIRO RECOGNIZES 50 MILLION MINDS ON THEIR WAY TO THE NEXT BIG THING" (in en). www.prnewswire.com. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/miro-recognizes-50-million-minds-on-their-way-to-the-next-big-thing-301771048.html.
2. ↑ "Andrey Khusid - Insider" (in en-US). https://www.businessinsider.com/author/andrey-khusid.
3. ↑ "Online whiteboarding platform Miro unveils new tools to strengthen hybrid work" (in en-US). 2022-05-19. https://venturebeat.com/business/online-whiteboarding-platform-miro-unveils-new-tools-to-strengthen-hybrid-work/.
4. ↑ "Founded in Russia 11 years ago, the Miro visual collaboration software startup is now valued at $17.5bn" (in en-US). 2022-01-14. https://intellinews.com/founded-in-russia-11-years-ago-the-miro-visual-collaboration-software-startup-is-now-valued-at-17-5bn-231861/.
5. ↑ O'Hear, Steve (2018-11-08). "RealtimeBoard, a visual collaboration platform for companies, raises $25M led by Accel" (in en-US). https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/08/realtimeboard/.
6. ↑ Miller, Ron (2020-04-23). "Miro lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges" (in en-US). https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/23/miro-lands-50m-series-b-for-digital-whiteboard-as-demand-surges/.
7. ↑ 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" (in en-US). https://www.businessinsider.com/canva-miro-figma-whats-next-virtual-whiteboard-tools-pandemic-boom-2022-11.
8. ↑ "Miro | Company Overview & News" (in en). https://www.forbes.com/companies/miro/.
9. ↑ "Software Maker Miro Becomes Eighth-Most Valuable U.S. Startup" (in en). Bloomberg.com. 2022-01-05. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-05/software-maker-miro-becomes-eighth-most-valuable-u-s-startup.
10. ↑ DiFeliciantonio, Chase (2023-02-02). "Layoffs hit two multibillion-dollar S.F. tech companies" (in en-US). https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/layoffs-hit-two-multi-billion-dollar-s-f-tech-17760131.php.

## External links

* Official website

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