Miro was founded in 2011 as RealtimeBoard by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin in Perm, Russia. The company rebranded to Miro in 2019 and is now headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam. Miro has raised over $400 million in funding and was valued at $17.5 billion at its peak in 2022.
The platform is an infinite collaborative whiteboard — think of a giant digital canvas where teams can brainstorm with sticky notes, draw diagrams, create flowcharts, build wireframes, run workshops, and plan projects visually. Multiple people can work on the same board simultaneously in real time, with cursors visible and changes instant.
Miro has over 70 million users across more than 200,000 organizations, including 99% of the Fortune 100. The product became especially important during the shift to remote work, replacing the physical whiteboards and sticky notes that teams used in office workshops and planning sessions.
The platform offers hundreds of templates for different use cases — from user story mapping and sprint retrospectives to customer journey maps and org charts. Miro integrates with tools like Jira, Asana, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. The company has also added features like Talktrack (async video presentations over boards), voting, timer tools, and AI-powered capabilities for diagramming and summarization. For distributed teams that need to think visually and collaborate in real time, Miro has become the de facto standard.
