Realtimeboard, Inc. d/b/a Miro

Realtimeboard, Inc. d/b/a Miro — commonly known as Miro — is a private, venture-backed software company founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin (originally in Perm, Russia). It is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, with roughly 1,600 employees across 13 global hubs. Miro raised about $476 million in total funding, including a $400 million Series C in January 2022 at a $17.5 billion post-money valuation (investors included ICONIQ Growth, Accel, Atlassian, Dragoneer, GIC, Salesforce Ventures and TCV). On September 10, 2026, Italy's Bending Spoons agreed to acquire Miro for an enterprise value of $1.355 billion (equity value ~$1.79 billion), subject to regulatory approval.

Miro operates an AI-powered visual collaboration platform — an online "whiteboard" workspace used for brainstorming, diagramming, agile planning, research and design sprints, plus templates, third-party integrations, enterprise administration/permissions and AI features. The company reports roughly $600 million in annual recurring revenue (nearly 90% from business and enterprise customers), more than 250,000 customer organizations, ~4 million paying users and over 100 million registered users. It is an operating company, not a patent-holding entity.

Patent-litigation posture: Miro appears only as a defendant (1 case, 0 as plaintiff), consistent with an operating company targeted by an NPE rather than an active two-way litigant. It was sued by Web 2.0 Technologies, LLC and Pennar Software Corporation in Web 2.0 Technologies, LLC et al. v. Realtimeboard, Inc. d/b/a Miro, No. 1:23-cv-00004 (D. Del., Judge Maryellen Noreika). That court is a common NPE venue, though not the Eastern District of Texas.

Web 2.0 Technologies is characterized as a non-practicing entity in Stanford's NPE Litigation Database and in Seyfarth Shaw's "NPE Showcase," which describes it as inventor-controlled and filing cost-of-defense suits. It asserted two long-lived patents — US 6,845,448 and US 8,117,644, covering server-side storage of personal information and access-restriction/permission controls — against numerous SaaS collaboration and workflow companies (including Google, Zendesk and Freshworks). The Miro action was dismissed with prejudice by joint stipulation filed February 5, 2024, each side bearing its own costs.