Business meeting app Meetzoo exceeds £150K crowdfunding target

Meetzoo is a new business app that wants to make business meetings more productive.


meetzooMeetzoo is a new crowdfunded app that wants to make over-long, annoying and time-consuming business meetings more efficient.

After launching on crowdfunding site Crowdcube, Meetzoo has exceeded its £150,000 crowdfunding target and will be showcased at next year’s Mobile World Congress.

It’s a decent idea and one that many time-conscious people will welcome. Meetzoo describes itself as ‘the informed way to meet’.

It combines users’ calendar with social media and ‘collaborative note-taking’. Meetzoo’s action tracking features bring continuity of thought and action to every meeting by letting participants track their interactions and tasks and pick up exactly where they left off.

Meetzoo lets users work the way they want by integrating meeting lifecycles with cloud-based apps, such as CRM systems (Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics etc.) and collaboration tools (Slack, Evernote).

It aims to make business meetings more productive by telling users information about whom they want to meet, if and when they have met before, what they talked about and enabling them to quickly connect with new contacts on social media.

My first response to this is that this definition is another word for a human brain, but apparently nowadays we all have to have our thinking done for us by an app. My second response is that this will probably work, especially for those who let one side of their brain do certain thinking.

Founded in February 2016 by entrepreneur Paul Lewis-Borman, who previously co-founded the multi-million pound software and services firm Symbox, Meetzoo will use the money raised to add features for ad-hoc encounters such as ‘bump to meet’ – where users can bump or shake phones with a new person they meet and instantly exchange details.

Somewhat inevitably, Lewis-Borman was ‘thrilled’.

“I am thrilled to have exceeded our £150,000 investment goal. We now have the funding to deliver our exciting roadmap where we release versions for other platforms such as web and Android, and develop features that move beyond calendar-driven meetings to events and conferences,” he said.