Poll Everywhere
Engage your audience.
- 21-100 employees
- B2C
- B2B
- Enterprise
- Education
- SaaS
- Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Company mission
Enable audience engagement through live, inclusive conversations.
Our take
In recent years, the popularity of online presentation tools has surged significantly. While the basic live-meeting software model is straightforward, these platforms have often grappled with a notable drawback: an inability to engage live audiences as effectively as in-person meetings. This results in a substantial gap in audience engagement and feedback, ultimately diminishing the effectiveness of presentations.
Poll Everywhere wants to fix this. Its product, a solution for live audience engagement and feedback, allows presenters to gather responses from every participant, presenting the results instantly and generating real-time data for presenters, trainers, and event managers.
With a strategic focus on large corporate clients, Poll Everywhere boasts adoption by over 75% of the Fortune 500 and has already assisted over 4M presenters. The company has solidified its position as a market leader, and amidst growing competition, its primary focus will be on preserving and strengthening its standards in this dynamic.
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Benefits
- Health, Dental and Vision plan
- 401K matching program
- $150/month internet & cell phone reimbursement
- 23 PTO days
- $500 Annual self-development budget
- $500 stipend to support a successful remote work setup
- Discounted pet insurance
- 9 Company Holidays
- And more!
Company values
- Embrace Autonomy: Recognize your choices and choose. Take responsibility. Seek your own work. Volunteer
- Lead with Inclusion: Recognize exclusive behaviors in self or others. Show a willingness to learn and understand views that contradict your own. Demonstrate empathy. Advocate for people who have less situational power.
- Commit to a growth mindset: Seek new knowledge and new experiences. Aggressively go after things you don’t know how to do. Never ever stop learning.
Funding (1 round)
May 2008
$0.1m
SEED
Total funding: $0.1m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Robert Graham
(CEO)Has served as Polly Everywhere's CEO since early 2022. Previously worked as a Software Engineer at Oracle and Trustwave.
Matt Diebolt
(CTO)Graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a Bacheror's degree in Mathematics. Joined Poll Everywhere as the Director of Engineering in 2012 and was promoted to Chief Technology Officer in 2022.
People progressing
Joined Poll Everywhere in 2019 as the Head of Talent Acquisition and has since been promoted to People Operations Manager and Director of People Operations.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Poll Everywhere
- Inclusion is a fundamental value that we believe should be reflected at Poll Everywhere. Our inclusion values are designed to offer support and a framework for all Pollevians to contribute to a culture and atmosphere that nurtures the inclusion of every teammate. We encourage everyone to rely on these values as a means of accountability. It's our aspiration that you perceive inclusion as a central element in your relationships with peers, managers, and our broader leadership team. Read more about our inclusion values below.
- Relationship building: Demonstrate clear interest in building trust by exercising care through personal emotional intelligence development and relationship building with those with whom you work and/or coach.
- Psychological safety: Intentionally build inclusive and collaborative spaces by proactively monitoring airtime, seeking opinions from others, and advocating for collective goals beyond the individual teams, and amplifying the voices of people who are not heard often.
- Providing transparency: Acknowledge all viewpoints that have been shared in regard to a decision and actively contextualize how feedback was held in the final decision-making process.
- Championing values: Actively name or disrupt characteristics that don’t align with our inclusion values. Share feedback with each other timely and disrupt behaviors that don’t align with our values.
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The people at Poll Everywhere make it an amazing place to work. I've had a conversation with almost every single person at the company, and each one has been truly supportive, kind, and genuine. I could tell from my first interview that I would become friends with my coworkers, and I was proven so right over the years.
Marketing
Nice people
Jun 2022
Working with PollEvians, I know that they'll be transparent and clear not only about what's on their plate, but also what they need to be successful. It makes collaboration so much easier and more productive.
Marketing
Open and honest communication
Jun 2022
Poll Everywhere has definitely shown a lot of care in supporting the team. I really appreciate the constant commitment to improving the employee experience. The way we've navigated the transition to fully remote work and added more initiatives around DEI and the 4-day work week have been inspiring.
Marketing
Focus on employee wellbeing
Jun 2022
