Miro is a popular online collaborative whiteboard platform designed for remote and hybrid teams to brainstorm, plan, and visualize ideas together in real time. It started as a Russian startup called RealtimeBoard before rebranding to Miro and has grown into a widely used tool in tech and creative industries.
- Miro offers a digital whiteboard with infinite canvas, sticky notes, drawing tools, and templates for workflows like agile sprints, mind maps, and retrospectives.
- The company was founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shchelin, originally under the name RealtimeBoard.
- Miro is headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, with a distributed workforce across multiple countries.
- It integrates with many popular tools like Slack, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, and Google Workspace.
- As of 2024, Miro has raised over $476 million in funding, with a valuation of $17.5 billion after its Series C round in 2022.
Miro is a collaborative online whiteboard platform used by distributed teams for brainstorming, diagramming, workshops, and agile ceremonies. Originally founded as RealtimeBoard in 2011 and rebranded to Miro in 2019, the company has grown into one of the leading visual collaboration tools, competing with products like Mural and FigJam.
- Founded in 2011, originally under the name RealtimeBoard, and rebranded to Miro in 2019
- Co-founded by Andrey Khusid, who serves as CEO
- Offers an infinite canvas with sticky notes, templates, diagrams, and integrations with tools like Jira, Confluence, Slack, and Figma
- Reached unicorn status and raised a large Series C in 2022 at a reported ~$17.5 billion valuation
- Headquartered with offices in Amsterdam and San Francisco, with a globally distributed workforce
