Iobeya’s virtual meeting rooms take advantage of telecommuting

«Obeya, it means meeting room in Japanese. We added an i in front, because with us, they are digital», Explains Cyril Daloz, who summarizes in these few words the philosophy of his start-up. Iobeya’s services come in addition to videoconferencing, they integrate in particular with Teams, the Microsoft service.

«During classic meetings, managers use whiteboards, post-it notes … with Iobeya, they can continue to do so, but remotely», Specifies Cyril Daloz, CEO and co-founder of Iobeya. The objective is to facilitate collaboration in teams but also between the different teams of a company. industrial, succession of meetings.

For example, Iobeya is used more and more in industrial sites, for the management of factories. “Our solution offers better monitoring of the performance of production tools. When there are six managerial layers, it sometimes takes a month for information to reach top management. With Iobeya, the deadline is reduced to less than a week“, Illustrates Cyril Daloz, who cites the example of Sanofi. Airbus and Thales are also “very large clients»De la start-up.

Iobeya now has just over 350,000 users, almost daily. ” We don’t have a churn, welcomes Cyril Daloz. When people start using our solution, they continue and deploy it across different departments and teams“. The company hopes to have a little more than 400 clients before the end of the year, a portfolio made up only of large international groups, split equally between France and abroad.

No more teleworking

After completing a fundraising of 15 million euros during confinement, Iobeya wants to accelerate its development in the United States. Today it has around 90 employees, including around 30 in Tunisia, and around 60 in France ”and two in the United States!», Since she has just hired a general manager for the US.

«We took advantage of Covid-19, although I don’t like the term to take advantage, relate Cyril Daloz. Our global activity has jumped by 400%, there has been real awareness in organizations and decisions to implement digital tools are faster ”.

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