Miro is an online collaborative whiteboard platform founded in 2011 in San Francisco, combining an infinite canvas with 300+ templates and serving 60M+ users, a standard tool for remote brainstorming and distributed collaboration.
Taskade, founded in 2018 by John Li and Max Mansour and headquartered in the United States, is an AI-powered, remote-first productivity workspace combining task management, mind maps, and real-time collaboration.
Loom is the leader in asynchronous video messaging, helping teams communicate efficiently by recording screen and camera videos.
Whereby, founded in Oslo, Norway in 2015, is a browser-native video conferencing platform with no downloads, serving more than 10 million users and offering an embedded video API and permanent room links.
StarLeaf is a UK cloud video conferencing and unified communications platform founded in 2008, supporting up to 300 participants per meeting with a 99.999% uptime guarantee. The platform ceased operations in 2022; this page documents its capabilities and selection lessons.
Skype is a VoIP pioneer founded in Luxembourg in 2003 and acquired by Microsoft for USD 8.5 billion in 2011, offering free audio/video calls and low-cost international calling, now being replaced by Microsoft Teams.
Lifesize is a professional video conferencing provider founded in Austin, Texas, in 2003. Its Icon series 4K room systems and Lifesize Cloud cover hybrid work, interoperating with Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Webex, and Google Meet, and serving 10,000+ businesses worldwide.
GoTo Meeting is a veteran online meeting platform launched by Citrix in 2004 and now part of the GoTo group, headquartered in Boston, USA. It supports up to 250 participants per meeting and 3,000 in GoTo Webinar, with AI transcription and summaries for enterprise remote collaboration.
Webex, created in 1995 and owned by Cisco, is an enterprise video conferencing and collaboration platform serving 90%+ of the Fortune 500, with meetings for up to 1,000 participants and built-in AI transcription, translation and summaries.
Twist is an async team communication tool launched by Doist in 2017, organizing messages around topic threads to reduce real-time distractions. Completely free and deeply integrated with Todoist, it helps remote and cross-time-zone teams focus on deep work.
BlueJeans was founded in 2009 in San Jose, California, acquired by Verizon in 2020 for approximately US$400 million, and known for interoperability and Dolby Voice. Verizon announced its shutdown in August 2023, and the platform ceased service on March 29, 2024.