Zoom today announced that it has acquired Workvivo, a six-year-old Irish startup focused on improving companies’ internal communications and culture. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
While many enterprise communication tools — such as Zoom — are all about the real-time, Workvivo is very much about the asynchronous. Indeed, it’s less about project-specific collaboration and updates than it is about fostering employee engagement at a broad level, including an activity feed, people directory, surveys, and critical company communications — a bit like a modern day intranet.
Founded out of Cork in 2017, Workvivo was perfectly positioned for the remote-work revolution spurred by the global pandemic, with the company reporting a 200% growth in ARR (an...