Slido

Slido is service for use of interactive tools at webinars and online conferences. With its help polls are added, organizers of an Internet action can receive a feedback from the audience. So. users can answer open questions, vote or give a mark.

History

2020: Cisco purchased Slido

In December, 2020 Cisco announced purchase of Slido at the price which the companies did not begin to disclose. At the time of the declaration of sale of a startup it attracted $40 thousand investments, data of the PitchBook portal demonstrate.

Despite the small volume of the received financing, Slido is known in the business world, TechCrunch notes. Event managers, state bodies, etc. use service. The product has 7 million users, service is profitable, is told in the publication of the edition.

Now Cisco, having purchased this company, will be able to integrate the Slido platform directly into WebEx that will simplify interaction of users of the video platform. The feature of Slido is that service allows to start an interactive at large audience of participants of online conferences and webinars. Moderators can configure polls and just read responses in real time.

Cisco purchased software developer for interactive online conferences and webinars of Slido

Cisco understands the value of that Slido continued to develop as an independent product and built integration into other virtual platforms for meetings and the presentations, such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet— the head of department of the products Slido of Dzhuradzh of the PAL (Juraj Pal) noted.

Within Slido acquisition the Cisco company also receives tools for the analysis of audience which help business to measure interest in the online actions and to look for opportunities for their improvement. Besides, Cisco will have an access to extensive user base Slido. It is going to close the transaction by May, 2021.^[1]

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