Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere

Real-time polls and audience engagement platform

Overview

Poll Everywhere is an interactive audience engagement platform that turns meetings, classes, and events into participatory experiences by embedding real-time polls, quizzes, and competitions into presentations. Hosts create polls via web or app, and participants respond on their mobile devices; results update live in slides and dashboards to enable instant feedback and discussion. The service targets corporate, educational, and event management markets, counting over 75% of Fortune 500 companies and about 300,000 educators among its users, and it operates on a subscription model with tiered pricing that includes premium features and support. Compared with competitors, it emphasizes seamless live integration with presentations, scalable use across large organizations and classrooms, and a wide range of resources to help users maximize impact. The company’s goal is to improve communication, measure understanding in real time, and boost participation during live or virtual sessions.

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About Poll Everywhere

Simplify's Rating
Why Poll Everywhere is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Enterprise Software

Education

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$130K

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2008

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What believers are saying

  • Attendance Management launched for educators, expanding sticky classroom workflows and reporting.
  • The free tier and 30-day Teams trial funnel users into paid plans.
  • Business pricing now spans $10 to $249 monthly, widening monetization options.

What critics are saying

  • Workforce shrank to about 70 employees in 2026 from 78 in 2023.
  • ClassPoint, Wooclap, and Mentimeter attack its price-sensitive education and meeting segments.
  • If 2.0 migration or AI features disappoint, enterprise renewals stall within 2026.

What makes Poll Everywhere unique

  • Web-browser participation and no app install keep friction lower than classroom rivals.
  • Poll Everywhere 2.0 rebuilt the product for speed, AI creation, and reporting.
  • Deep education penetration persists: 78% of U.S. R1 universities use Poll Everywhere.

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Funding

Total Funding

$130k

Below

Industry Average

Funded Over

1 Rounds

Notable Investors:
Seed funding is usually the first official round after pre-seed, when a startup has a prototype or concept. It’s typically used to develop the product, test the market, and start building the team. Investors here are often angel investors or early-stage venture capitalists.
Seed Funding Comparison
Below Average

Industry standards

$3.3M
$130k
Poll Everywhere
$1.5M
Slack
$2M
Netflix
$2.3M
Instacart
$3M
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Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-3%

1 year growth

-1%

2 year growth

2%
Business Wire
Jan 24th, 2024
Poll Everywhere Launches Attendance Management Feature To Automate Attendance Tracking And Boost Student Performance.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Poll Everywhere, the world's first real-time audience response technology accessible on any device, announces the launch of Attendance Management – a new feature that automates attendance tracking and reporting to arm educators with the tools needed to engage students and improve learning outcomes. This launch enables Poll Everywhere users to capture in-person audience attendance via geolocation services and incentivizes participants to attend and engage with the learning material once there. For a limited time, Attendance Management will be available at no additional cost to Engage, Teams, Enterprise, and Individual Instructor plan users as of today. “We're thrilled to announce the launch of Poll Everywhere’s highly anticipated Attendance Management feature. Today’s educators are seeking software that can accommodate ever-changing hybrid learning models. An all-in-one tool that can engage students, seamlessly integrate with tools, and automate attendance is the new standard for education technology,'' said Rachel Cassidy, Vice President of Product at Poll Everywhere

Business Wire
Jan 24th, 2024
Poll Everywhere Launches Attendance Management Feature to Automate Attendance Tracking and Boost Student Performance.

Poll Everywhere launches Attendance Management feature to automate attendance tracking and boost student performance.

Poll Everywhere
Oct 26th, 2021
Poll Everywhere, Inc. partnered with Cisco WebEx LLC on Oct 26th 21'.

Poll Everywhere, the world’s first real-time audience response technology accessible on any device, today announced its partnership with Webex™ by Cisco to integrate its technology into the Webex platform.

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