Mentimeter

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Mentimeter
Type of businessPrivate
Founded2014;9 years ago (2014)
Headquarters Stockholm,
Sweden
Country of origin Sweden
CEOJohnny Warström (CEO) [1]
Industry Presentation Software
URL mentimeter.com
RegistrationVoters: Not required Presentation Builder: Required
Users 270 million

Mentimeter (or Menti for short) is a Swedish company based in Stockholm that develops and maintains an eponymous app used to create presentations with real-time feedback. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

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Foundation and background

Based in Stockholm, Sweden, the Mentimeter app was started by Swedish entrepreneur Johnny Warström [9] and Niklas Ingvar [9] as a response to unproductive meetings. [10] The initial start up budget was $500,000 raised by a group of prominent investors, including Per Appelgren in 2014, following the market's tendency to invest in Scandinavia. [11] [12]

The app also focuses on online collaboration for the education sector allowing students or public members to answer questions anonymously. [13] [14] [15]

The app enables users to share knowledge and real-time feedback on mobile [6] with presentations, polls or brainstorming sessions in classes, meetings, gatherings, conferences and other group activities. [13] [16]

Present day

It has a freemium business model. [17] [18] [19] [20]

Mentimeter has over 270 million users and is one of Sweden's fastest growing startups. [21] [2] [22] The company also ranked #10 on 20 Fastest Growing 500 Startups Batch 16 Companies. [23] [24] [25] [26] It was ranked Stockholm's fastest growing company of the 2018 edition of the DI Gasell Award. [27] [28]

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