Miro (collaboration platform)

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. The company was founded in Russia by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin in 2011 and is now co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam.

Evolution
RealtimeBoard was first established in 2011.

In 2018 the company raised $25 million in a Series A venture round.

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. In 2022, it reported 40 million users.

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. In February 2023, Miro laid off 119 employees, around 7% of its full-time workforce.