Mentimeter announces seed funding of $0.5M

Stockholm, Sweden: Today Mentimeter announced the release of #EQmeter, a way to quantify culture for startups who care about equality among its employees. We can also proudly announce a seed investment from prominent angel investors and YoY growth of over 300% reaching past 3 million interactions.

Mentimeter want to rid the world of boring meetings by driving the transition from a one-sided transmitting of information in meetings and conferences to a two-way interaction.

“Internet, mobile devices and services like Twitter have revolutionized the way we interact. Everybody has an opinion and wants to be part of the ongoing conversation but there is one area that has been left pretty much untouched; analogue interactions such as meetings and presentations, says Johnny Warström, CEO of Mentimeter.

Mentimeter’s core team now consists of a diverse group of people with backgrounds and expert knowledge in business, tech and user experience, three key areas to understand tech savvy professionals needs and behavior.

One of the prominent investors is Meg Charles-Horn –“I see huge potential in how Mentimeter is transforming the culture of meetings globally. It's a truly disruptive service. As a former lawyer and senior executive, I totally connected with their vision of supplanting boring meetings with engaging meetings that generate actionable data. Mentimeter's service transcends cultural boundaries, everyone everywhere wants to be engaged in a meeting.”

Meg together with Per Appelgren, former CEO of largest public Swedish consulting firm Connecta, has also joined the Mentimeter Board.

We are born global and already have customers in 28 countries around the world. In this I also want to stress how important a diverse team is to Mentimeter. Both when it comes to employees and advisors but also board members. We are serving customers in a multitude of cultures and the way to use Mentimeter differs greatly, says Johnny Warström.