Mentimeter (or Menti for short) is a Swedish company based in
Stockholm that develops and maintains an
eponym
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ous app used to create presentations with real-time feedback.
Foundation and background
Based in Stockholm, Sweden, the Mentimeter app was started by Swedish entrepreneur Johnny Warström
and Niklas Ingvar
as a response to unproductive meetings. The initial start up budget was $500,000 raised by a group of prominent investors, including Per Appelgren in 2014, following the market's tendency to invest in Scandinavia.
The app also focuses on
online collaboration
Computer-supported collaboration research focuses on technology that affects groups, organizations, communities and societies, e.g., voice mail and text chat. It grew from cooperative work study of supporting people's work activities and working re ...
for the education sector allowing students or public members to answer questions anonymously.
The app enables users to share knowledge and real-time feedback on mobile
with presentations, polls or brainstorming sessions in classes, meetings, gatherings, conferences and other group activities.
Present day
It has a
freemium
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business model.
Mentimeter has over 270 million users and is one of Sweden's fastest growing startups.
The company also ranked #10 on 20 Fastest Growing 500 Startups Batch 16 Companies.
Was ranked
Stockholm's fastest growing company of the 2018 edition of the
DI Gasell Award.
[ Menti.com, the online educational collaborative platform; the voting page can be changed to suit the language of the audience. Currently there exist the following languages: Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romania, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. Frequently more languages are added and volunteers are encouraged to contact [email protected] especially, to provide ideas regarding the translation of the website or platform.]
References
External links
Official websiteCommunity reviews on AlternativeTo.net{{Presentation software
Companies based in Stockholm
Presentation software
Mobile applications
Web applications