Voodle
Facts
- HQ
- Seattle
- Sectors
- Asynchronous video, Workplace communication, Software
- Founded
- 2020
- Stage
- Seed
- Total raised
- $19.9M SEC Form D filings Total of this company's SEC Form D filings
- Last round
- $5.8M · Nov 2020 SEC Form D
Ex-Evite CEO Victor Cho's Emovid Startup Aims to Replace Billions of Workplace Emails with Asynchronous Video Messages
Victor Cho, former Evite CEO, is leading Seattle startup Emovid to replace billions of workplace emails with asynchronous video messages for more authentic and efficient business communication. Emovid's browser-based platform requires no app download and aims to shift 20% of email volume to video.
Read, founded by ex-Placed team members David Shim, Elliott Waldron and Rob Williams, raises $10M seed to analyze faces and voices on video calls
Seattle startup Read — founded by David Shim, Elliott Waldron, and Rob Williams — raised $10 million in seed funding for software that uses AI to analyze participants' facial expressions and voice during video calls to measure engagement and sentiment in real time.
GeekWire names winners at 2021 Awards; SeekOut wins Startup of the Year after $65M raise
The 2021 GeekWire Awards returned as a virtual event honoring over 60 finalists across 14 categories from the Pacific Northwest tech community, featuring celebrity cameos and performances. Winners included SeekOut as Startup of the Year, and among 16 winners eight were women and five were people of color and/or immigrant entrepreneurs.
Voodle raises $6M from Madrona and Vulcan to sell TikTok-style workplace video for remote teams
Seattle startup Voodle raised $6 million in a round led by Madrona Venture Group and Vulcan Capital to offer a TikTok-like, bite-sized video communication app for workplaces aimed at reducing Zoom fatigue and Slack overload. The app — launched earlier in 2020 by former Pixvana execs and available on iOS, Android and web — includes searchable clips with transcriptions and integrations with workplace tools.
Outreach co-founders Wes Hather and Gordon Hempton launch Seattle stealth startup Spot to recreate office culture digitally
Outreach co-founders Wes Hather and Gordon Hempton have launched Spot, a stealthy Seattle startup building a remote-work “home base” UI to complement tools like Teams, Zoom, and Slack and recreate office culture digitally.
Voodle launches short-form workplace video app after Pixvana shutdown; Pixvana had raised $20M
Seattle startup Voodle launched a short-form, selfie-style workplace video app—spun out of Pixvana after that company closed—to replace lengthy calls and text updates with searchable, transcribed clips that integrate with apps like Salesforce and HubSpot. Pixvana had raised $20 million before shuttering in late 2019 when CEO Forest Key concluded AR/VR wasn’t yet ready for mainstream business scale.
People
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Forest Key Executive, CEO, Executive Officer, Director
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Mike Galgon Director
