Miro remote team work platform owned by Andrei Khusid and Oleg Shadrin has raised $50 mio from ICONIQ Capital, a US investment firm that manages the assets of Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and other top executives of major IT companies. ICONIQ Capital has invested in dozens of ‘unicorns’ such as GitLab, Houzz, Robinhood, Epic Games, SurveyMonkey and Netskope. The funding will be spent on scaling international sales and marketing teams, expanding tools for corporations and API interface developers so that the platform could be integrated with more business solutions.
Miro (Realtime Board until 2019) is an online service for team work. It can be used for holding virtual meetings, workshops, brainstorms, sharing photos, videos and text documents. The platform is commonly used for communications when starting new projects and developing interface. The service is also easily integrated with popular team work tools such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Jira, Trello, Google Docs and Concept.
Miro is already used by employees of 80% companies in Fortune 100, including Dell, Cisco, Salesforce, PwC and ЕA. Some 20K users are signed up to a paid version. Miro has 290 members of staff in five offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam, Austin (Texas), Los Angeles and Perm. The startup was founded in 2011 by Andrei Khusid and Oleg Shadrin from Perm. Before that, they owned Vitamin, a company specializing in social media advertising. In November 2015, the company reached the Top 5 products of the day and the Top 30 products of the month on the Product Hunt US platform for startups. In November 2018, the company attracted $25 mio from Accel, a US venture firm, and AltaiR Capital, a foundation with Russian roots. Previously, Realtime Board had already received $1.3 mio from AltaIR and several business angels.