Miro
A digital workspace platform.
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Miro is a collaborative online whiteboard platform that Bending Spoons, a company focused on acquiring and improving existing products, explores for enterprise opportunities. Bending Spoons, headquartered in Milan, Italy, has achieved significant valuation through a unique M&A strategy, focusing on acquiring companies with product-market fit rather than building from scratch. They utilize a proprietary operating system of over 50 technologies, including AI models and A/B testing platforms, to enhance acquired businesses. This approach, which involves significant cost-cutting and a focus on talent density, has allowed Bending Spoons to grow by reinvesting free cash flow and later using debt as an accelerant, largely bypassing traditional venture capital. The company's operational and financial rigor enables them to compete effectively with private equity firms and other tech companies in Europe.
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- Miro
Miro is the AI Innovation Workspace that brings teams and AI together to plan, co-create, and build the next big thing, faster.
- Miro: your visual workspace - Free download and install on Windows | Microsoft Store
August 4, 2026 - Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to dream, design, and build the future together. With the magic of Miro's Intelligent Canvas™, visualizing concepts, ideas, and solutions as a team can happen
- Sign up | Miro | The Visual Workspace for Innovation
Miro is a visual workspace for innovation where teams manage projects, design products, and build the future together. Join 60M+ users from around the
- Miro (collaboration platform) - Wikipedia
Visual collaboration website RealtimeBoard, Inc. | Trade name | Miro | | Formerly | RealtimeBoard | | Type | Private | | Industry | Software as a service | | Founded | 2011 | | Founder | Andrey Khusid Oleg Shardin | | Headquarters | ‹See TfM›Amsterdam, Netherlands San Francisco, California, United States | | Number of employees | 1,864 | | Website | miro.com | Miro is a collaborative online platform designed to support teams in planning and execution across different locations and time zones. It is used for a variety of purposes, including brainstorming, agile planning, customer journey mapping, product design, and remote workshops. As of 2025, the platform is utilized by over 90 million users and more than 250,000 organizations worldwide. ## History [...] ## History [edit&action=edit§ion=1 "Edit section: History")] ### Founding and early years (2011–2020) [edit&action=edit§ion=2 "Edit section: Founding and early years (2011–2020)")] Miro was founded in 2011 under the name RealtimeBoard by Russian entrepreneurs Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. Originally designed as a simple visual whiteboarding tool, the product attracted global remote teams because its real-time collaboration features differentiated it from traditional diagramming software. In 2018, the company raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Accel "Accel (company)"), with participation from Altair Capital and Scale Venture Partners. By then, it had grown to over 2 million users. [...] In 2019, the company rebranded to Miro, inspired by the Catalan artist Joan Miró, to reflect its vision beyond whiteboarding into end-to-end visual collaboration. ### Global expansion and investment (2021–2023) [edit&action=edit§ion=3 "Edit section: Global expansion and investment (2021–2023)")] In January 2022, Miro raised $400 million in Series C funding, co-led by ICONIQ Growth, Accel, Atlassian, Dragoneer, GIC, and Scale Venture Partners, reaching a valuation of $17.5 billion. The company has expanded its global workforce and is jointly headquartered in Amsterdam and San Francisco. It has also established offices in Austin and Sydney.
- What Is Miro? How to Use Miro Boards for Collaboration
With more work being done remotely, teams must be able to successfully communicate and collaborate together. Thankfully, there are many amazing collaboration, task management, communication, and more software tools out there that can make this easy to accomplish. One such tool is Miro, who we feature on our design thinking software guide. Miro (pronounced like “Hero”) is a digital “whiteboard” (and now innovation workspace) that makes it easy to brainstorm and collaborate with members of your team or innovation program. In this post, we’ll provide a brief introduction to this tool and provide some tutorials you can use to successfully implement the tool in your own workflow processes. Miro is a popular whiteboard tool that you may have heard of similar to Lucidspark or Figjam. [...] ### What is Miro? Miro (previously known as RealtimeBoard) brands itself as a digital whiteboard that makes it easy to collaborate with others. The software allows you to create notes and designs, move things around, and communicate through embedded video calls or online chats. The tool also comes with a series of pre-built templates that can inspire or serve as a starting place for your own project work. We like to use the online whiteboarding tool and applying Miro when leading real-time remote design thinking training workshops. Some common uses of Miro include: [...] Miro is one of the fastest growing software tools and can really make your meetings or workshops more visual, collaborative, and engaging. Try a Miro board out for yourself in your next Zoom workshop. We recommend this article to learn more about doing design thinking virtually with remote teams. For more innovation and design thinking resources, continue to our blog. Do you need help creating or designing your own innovation project or program with top virtual whiteboards? Reach out to us today for customized help. We can even design and facilitate a workshop or retreat with Miro or help you to become a realtime collaborative whiteboard facilitator. We’ve been Miro customers for many years now and are always impressed with how they keep innovating and improving the tool.
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