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Riff
Voice & video workspace for distributed teams
- 1-20 employees
- B2B
- Internal tools
- Communication
- SaaS
- Video
- London, UK
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Company mission
To take the friction out of remote collaboration.
25% female employees
Our take
Current workspace collaboration platforms (like Slack and Zoom) focus on messaging or scheduled video meetings. Riff, on the other hand, want to enable effortless and spontaneous collaboration throughout the working day, even when a team can't be in the same room.
The company differs from existing communication platforms as it focuses on streamlined audio messaging, which better mimics an in-person office environment and enables more effective collaboration. The founders took inspiration from the gaming sphere, where it is commonplace to keep an audio channel open during hours of game play, allowing for fluid communication without the intensity of sitting on video for extended periods.
After a successful seed funding round, Riff has recently become a public beta and is looking to further expand its team. With remote working booming and many unlikely to return to a traditional office, innovation in the sector is a hot topic. Companies are keen to maximise productivity from home but with the market dominated by giants (Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google) it is a challenging space to break into.
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Benefits
- The team is based across the UK. We are a fully remote team, so you will have the chance to work from a location of your choice, whether it's from home, a co-working space, occasionally from outside of the UK, etc.
- We use Riff daily, of course :-)
- We will fit you out with a computer of your choice and £400 worth of work-from-home equipment.
- We believe that everyone should benefit from Riff's success, which is why we offer all employees equity in the business.
- We get together every 3 months to celebrate our wins!
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2021
$2.2m
SEED
Aug 2020
$1.5m
SEED
Total funding: $3.7m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Isabel Bescos
(CEO)Formerly Head of Corporate Strategy at BlaBlaCar and part of Balderton Capital's investment team.
Matt Scheybeler
(CTO)Formerly Chief Technology and Product Officer at Lantum, a healthcare staffing SaaS company. Previously founded blinkx (pioneering video search tool), which he IPO'd to reach a $1bn market cap.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Riff
Isabel Bescos (CEO)
- We believe that the best products are built by teams of smart, motivated people from diverse backgrounds.
- We care deeply about building a diverse team, and are excited to learn more about your background / view points / experience.
- We've worked with people who've been gamers, artists, writers, musicians, astrophysicists, chemists, doctors, psychologists and mathematicians. Some who've come through traditional higher education and others who have traveled a different path.
- We want highly skilled team players but we don't care how you got there. Join us if you believe in the power of technology to change society for the better.
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Family friendly (1)
Our users tell us Riff is removing barriers between them and the conversations they need to have with their team. We believe reducing frictions multiple times a day makes a big impact on our users' well-being over time.
Design
Meaningful work
Apr 2022
Leadership encourages discussion on the product's direction and is always happy to discuss concerns or ideas. We have weekly team updates to talk about the road map and the next step.
Design
My opinions are valued
Apr 2022
A few team members have children, and we all understand that children don't always allow us to stick to our schedule. So there is no issue when our day gets disrupted because kids need to be picked up early, are unwell or whatever else may arise.
Design
Family friendly
Apr 2022
If you're sick of writing CRUD apps over and over again working at RIff will be a breath of fresh air, at all points in our stack we aim for real-time response rates and use whatever tech we need to get the job done. From our websocket-based backend to our canvas based animations and native audio processing, nothing is dull about our work!
Software Engineering
Challenging work
Apr 2022
Riff is trying to change the way we work for the better. Remote and hybrid teams feel too isolated from their colleagues and most attempts to address this have largely been gimmicky or impractical. Riff aims to reduce the friction of online communication while protecting your concentration - in a way that hasn't been possible before.
Software Engineering
Meaningful work
Apr 2022
At Riff we all believe we're on to something, and what we're building is something all of us need. Every problem we solve is a quality of life improvement for every subsequent day. So when it's time to knuckle down it's almost easy to see why everyone here is ready and willing - it just makes sense!
Software Engineering
Hard working team
Apr 2022