USA – Switchboard, a San Francisco, CA-based cloud coworking space, emerged out of stealth today and secured $13.8M in seed funding.
Backers included Sequoia, XYZ Ventures, and The General Partnership. Spark Capital, Cleo Capital, Dylan Field, Joe Thomas, John Lilly, and others also participated in the round.Recognizing the need for collaboration tools that better emulated the in-person experience, Switchboard’s world-class technology team developed a platform that moves beyond passive communication and screen-sharing and towards a remote work environment that allows for true side-by-side engagement and full team participation. “Switchboard exists because we deserve a work environment that helps us actually do the work together. Right now, we often spend more time figuring out how to work together than doing the work itself,” said Led by Amir Ashkenazi, CEO and Founder, Switchboard allows users to both video conference and collaborate on multiple web-based applications — from Google Docs and Figma, to Trello and Jira — in a single virtual room. Users are able to bring all of their materials to a shared space, create permanent shared and private rooms that keep all the apps and files for projects and recurring meetings open for the next time they’re ready to collaborate. Each room has a “meeting memory,” which includes a history of chat threads and the content shared. Switchboard currently holds five patents for their technology. 02/05/2022
