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