Founder name: Johnny Warström
Venture name: Mentimeter
Description of Venture: Menitmeter is an online presentation platform that allows presenters to garner and visualize data and engagement from their audience. The platform hopes to circumvent the inefficient and sometimes boring process of large meetings. In 2021, Mentimeter was included in the Deloitte FAST 50, named the Gartner Cool Vendor 2021 and announced as a winner of the Best-Enterprise-Level Product by CLOUD & SaaS Awards.
Biography:
Johnny Warström studied Electrical Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. He also co-founded two other companies: one at a consultant firm and another for a telecommunication group.
In 2014, Warström co-founded Mentimeter. Since then, the company has achieved a number of accolades (as indicated above) as well as winning CEO of the Year by Motivation.se!.
The team with Mentimeter seems balanced and organized well. The descriptions of each individual has some great personality flairs to help people connect with the team. Their Branch Manager, Head of Customer Satisfaction and Lead Brand Enforcement “individuals” also look exceptionally competent.
Extras: Attached is a link to an interview that was interesting to consider from the perspective of an entrepreneur.
Having sat through my fair share of brutally dull meetings my curiosity is definitely peaked on how Mentimeter could improve engagement. It would be nice to actually interact with the speaker in a meeting (and vice versa, as a speaker know what your audience is thinking). The interview was interesting- he seems like a laid-back kind of guy. It was interesting that they asked him several questions about how he or his company might be giving back to society, and he wasn’t really clear on the responses…
I think Mentimeter has the right direction in terms of presentation engagement. At times I do wish live polling, surveys and the visualization of data are included in the existing tools/LMS’ we use, it’s a great way to keep your audience’s attention and paves the way for better participation for both educational and professional environments. I can see this being quite handy for larger scale lectures (100+ students) as it’s extremely difficult to interact with everyone under those circumstances