Venue builds a video conferencing platform focused on larger team meetings and all-hands, bringing consumer-style features—emoji bursts, background music, dynamic backgrounds, video bubbles, gifs and Twitch-like control panels—to workplace events. The product is pitched as complementary to Zoom, Meet or Teams rather than a direct replacement, targeting town halls, AMAs and other large-company gatherings. Venue spent two years in private beta after starting as a bootstrapped business and went through Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 cohort. Customers named in the article include Yelp, Shopify and PwC, and the platform has hosted more than 5 million minutes of meetings and 250,000 participants in aggregate. Engagement metrics cited include over 2 million emoji reactions and more than 30,000 one-on-one connections between users. The company plans to use new funding to accelerate product development and scale its infrastructure to support more customers.

Total raised

$4M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Aug 2022