Klaxoon gets $50M to try to make boring meetings more interactive and productive

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White Star Capital Fund also participating
The company offers a suite of tools designed to make those meetings more engaging and generally just cut down on useless meetings with a
The company has raised about $55.6 million in total.The whole point of Klaxoon is to make meetings more engaging, and there are a couple
ways to do that
The obvious point is to translate what some classrooms are doing in the form of making the whole session more engaging with the use of
connected devices
You might actually remember those annoying clickers in classrooms used to answer multiple choice questions throughout a session, but it is
a whole more productive.Klaxoon also offers other tools like an interactive whiteboard (remember Smartboards, also in classrooms) as well as
a closed networks for meeting participants that aims to be air-gapped from a broader network so those employees can conduct a meeting in
in general
The goal is not to monitor teams closely, but just find ways to encourage them to spend their time more wisely
Creating a better set of productivity tools inside those meetings is one approach, and one Klaxoon seems to hope plays out.