Fellow Finds $24 Million Series A

SAN FRANCISCO &&num;8211&semi; Fellow, which operates a meeting productivity and team management platform, has raised &dollar;24 million in Series A funding led by Craft Ventures, with participation from iNovia, Felicis, Garage Ventures, Formentera and SVB&period; The funding will enable Fellow to empower managers and their teams to run productive meetings through collaborative agendas, assigned action items, and an expert-approved meeting template library&period; Over the last year, Fellow&&num;8217&semi;s customer count has more than tripled and so has the number of meetings hosted on the platform — with more than 2 million meeting agendas and notes hosted&period; The new funding brings the company&&num;8217&semi;s total funds raised to &dollar;30&period;5 million&period;&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Unproductive meetings don&&num;8217&semi;t just waste the precious resource of time—they ultimately cost businesses &dollar;37B a year in the U&period;S&period; alone,&&num;8221&semi; said Fellow Co-Founder and CEO, Aydin Mirzaee&period; &&num;8220&semi;Fellow helps solve this problem and also helps leaders manage their teams more effectively&period; As a purpose-built tool for meetings, Fellow supports every type of meeting out there—from one-on-ones to project kickoff meetings and stand-ups&period;&&num;8221&semi;&NewLine;Companies use Fellow to drive engagement and productivity before, during, and after every meeting with&colon;&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Collaborative meeting agendas that give meetings a clear purpose and encourage participants to actively contribute&period;</li>&NewLine;<li>Meeting action items that can be assigned to specific team members and carried forward for automated follow-up&period;</li>&NewLine;<li>Meeting templates of all kinds—from project kickoffs to 1-on-1s, all hands, and more—that empower Fellow users to run meetings like experts&period;</li>&NewLine;<li>Suggested questions for one-on-one meetings between managers and their direct reports&period;</li>&NewLine;<li>Feedback features that allow managers to implement complete assessments and ask for feedback about meetings, projects, and processes&period;</li>&NewLine;<li>Workspace Analytics to gain insight on meeting productivity and how often managers hold 1-on-1s with their direct reports&period;</li>&NewLine;<li>Zoom, Google Meet, and MS Teams integrations to facilitate note-taking and decision documentation in virtual meetings&period;</li>&NewLine;</ul>&NewLine;Customers using Fellow include Shopify, Hopin, GoCardless, and institutions such as Stanford University&period;&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Fellow is a lifesaver for teams and managers everywhere&period; With the increase of remote work, meeting management has become a critical component for teams to optimize productivity,&&num;8221&semi; said Lainy Painter, partner at Craft Ventures&period; &&num;8220&semi;Fellow is helping people have better, more productive meetings while also helping educate and equip leaders to manage more effectively&period;&&num;8221&semi;&NewLine;

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