Mentimeter

Mentimeter
Type of businessPrivate
Founded2014; 10 years ago (2014)
HeadquartersStockholm,
Country of originSweden
CEOJohnny Warström (CEO)[1]
IndustryPresentation Software
URLmentimeter.com
RegistrationVoters: Not required Presentation Builder: Required
Users270 million

Mentimeter (or Menti for short) is a Swedish company based in Stockholm that develops and maintains an eponymous app used to create presentations with real-time feedback.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Foundation and background

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Based in Stockholm, Sweden, the Mentimeter app was started by Swedish entrepreneur Johnny Warström[9] and Niklas Ingvar[9] as a response to unproductive meetings.[10] 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.[11][12]

The app also focuses on online collaboration for the education sector allowing students or public members to answer questions anonymously.[13][14][15]

The app enables users to share knowledge and real-time feedback on mobile[6] with presentations, polls or brainstorming sessions in classes, meetings, gatherings, conferences and other group activities.[13][16]

Achievements

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By 2021, Mentimeter had over 270 million users and was one of Sweden's fastest growing startups.[17][2][18] The company also ranked #10 on 20 Fastest Growing 500 Startups Batch 16 Companies.[19][20][21][22] It was ranked Stockholm's fastest growing company of the 2018 edition of the DI Gasell Award.[23][24]

Mentimeter has a freemium business model.[25] [26][27][28]

References

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  12. ^ "5 insights into the Nordic SaaS and software landscape". Thenordicweb.com. Archived from the original on 2018-07-14. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
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  15. ^ "Mentimeter and PollEverywhere – Audience Response Systems Introduction – Learning Technology - Cardiff University". blogs.cardiff.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-07-03. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  16. ^ "Ask the audience with Mentimeter - E-Learning Unit". elearning.qmul.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2018-07-14. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  17. ^ Laive, Patrick de (4 May 2016). "Podcasting company Acast wins TECH5 Sweden". Thenextweb.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
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  22. ^ "Mentimeter till 500 Startups i San Francisco". Digital.di.se. 5 October 2015. Archived from the original on 2018-07-14. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  23. ^ "Mentimeter blev årets Gasellvinnare i Stockholms län". Di TV. 2018-12-05. Archived from the original on 2018-12-06. Retrieved 2018-12-06.
  24. ^ "Intervju med Mentimeter, årets Gasellvinnare i Stockholms län". Di TV. 2018-12-05. Archived from the original on 2018-12-06. Retrieved 2018-12-06. 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.
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