MeetingRoom co-founder and CEO Jonny Cosgrove. Image: MeetingRoom
Our Start-up of the Week is Dublin-based MeetingRoom, which is on a mission to revamp remote video or conference calls and make them work for businesses.
“Conference calls suck, so we decided to build something to improve remote meeting experiences with MeetingRoom,” explained MeetingRoom CEO and co-founder Jonny Cosgrove.
As Cosgrove explains it, the company has devised digital meeting spaces for teams to meet online, using body language and spatial audio for crystal-clear sound.
“The end result is remote meetings that actually work.
“The platform runs 90pc faster than Skype for Business, which means less dropped calls than anything else on the market, available on smartphones, tablets, desktops and virtual reality [VR] headsets, all working together seamlessly.”
The market
“It’s a $3trn problem with active investment and growth,” Cosgrove surmised.
“You have existing digital solutions, which we feel underperform in terms of group collaboration – from video calls to hopping on a plane – when that just doesn’t cut it in terms of value realised.
“We’re not trying to replace all meetings. We’re laser-focused on the problem with remote meetings: bringing everyone to the same table from anywhere on an equal footing and reducing ‘out of sight, out of mind’ – a common complaint with remote working, which is surging in 2018.
“With the release of wireless VR headsets, we see 2018 as the year of friction-free VR that allows us to make our one-click meetings a reality.”
The founders
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MeetingRoom co-founder and CEO Jonny Cosgrove. Image: MeetingRoom
Cosgrove is a technology-focused entrepreneur who reckons he has put more than 1m people through the doors of venues in Dublin and Boston since his first start-up as a nightclub promoter when he was 19.
“I hold an MBA from Trinity, certified in data protection and have been working in technology for the past few years.”
Dr Abraham (Abey) Campbell is a world-renowned immersive researcher and assistant professor in University College Dublin (UCD), and heads up the UCD VR Lab.
He has spent the past number of years teaching between Beijing and Dublin, creating one of the first modern caves in Ireland in UCD, and has experienced firsthand the benefits of working with students throughout the product’s creation.
Dr Tadhg O’Sullivan is a psychologist-turned-computer-scientist who has worked on a number of different fields in computer science, ranging from the implementation of machine-learning techniques to aid industry partners, to working in cancer research visualisation.
He brings his digital wizardry to heading up the development as CTO for MeetingRoom, leading the remote team spread between Carlow, Clondalkin, Dalkey and beyond.
The technology
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Source: siliconrepublic