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Norwegian Startup Neat Aims To Take Zoom, Microsoft Teams Meetings ‘To The Next Level’
Joseph F. Kovar
‘We really started this company to take this industry to the next level and really deliver the best experience with Zoom. So we really worked very closely with Zoom on the engineering side, the product development side, as well as the market side, to deliver on that,’ says Neat CEO Simen Teigre.
Tell us a little about Neat.
Neat was started in February 2019 and launched in October 2019 to build Neat devices, as we call our video devices, to provide the best meeting experience for Zoom. [When] the pandemic hit in March, we were wondering it would impact video room equipment [sales] when everybody was at home. Well, we’ve had tremendous growth through 2020. We beat our original business plan by four-times, and going into 2021, we’ve had tremendous, tremendous momentum. We just recently announced that we will expand our partnerships beyond Zoom, and added Microsoft to our portfolio partners on the platform side, which means that customers can now get Neat devices for either Zoom or Microsoft Teams. We’re a global company. We started in Norway. That’s where our engineering headquarters is. But the U.S. is really our biggest market. Since we started this company together with Zoom, we really have been following their success.
