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Founded
2021
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Yext CEO Howard Lerman speaks onstage at the ONWARD17 Conference- Day 2 on November 2, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for ONWARD17) gettyT he idea for Howard Lerman’s next startup came when he forgot to include someone in a Zoom call. It was during the pandemic, when the serial entrepreneur was running Yext, the publicly traded online marketing platform he cofounded. Large videoconference calls were common at the time, with squares of camera-off and camera-on coworkers spilling off the screen. In remote work, “if you forget to add someone to a Zoom calendar invite, it’s like they don't exist,” says Lerman, who also cofounded Confide. “They have no way of knowing that the meeting was going to happen.”Yet that moment sparked the idea of a “Marauder’s Map” for the office, Lerman says, borrowing the Harry Potter concept of a magical diagram that represents both the wizarding school’s interior and people’s locations within it
Roam, the all-in-one Cloud HQ that brings distributed companies together in one headquarters - from anywhere, today announced the appointment of Brent Saunders, Chair and CEO of Bausch + Lomb (NYSE: BLCO), as its Chair of the Board of Directors, effective immediately.
One such virtual office platform provider is Roam, which recently secured $40 million in funding.
Former Yext CEO Howard Lerman has spent over a year creating Roam, a new kind of virtual office.
Roam, which bills itself as a “cloud HQ” for distributed, remote companies, today emerged from stealth with $30 million in Series A funding led by IVP with participation from undisclosed angel investors. The tranche, which comes after a previously unannounced $10.6 million seed round and values the company at $95 million post-money, will be put toward go-to-market efforts in the U.S. and abroad, CEO Howard Lerman said. Lerman previously co-founded and led Yext, the publicly traded brand management company that uses a cloud-based network of apps and search engines to keep company information up to date across the web. When Yext’s workforce transitioned to remote work during the pandemic, Lerman perceived that employees lost “spontaneity and serendipity,” spent more time in meetings and began to lose visibility into what other meetings were going on and what their colleagues were doing
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Industries
Data & Analytics
Automotive & Transportation
Consumer Software
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$40.6M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2021
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