LogMeIn Inc., developer of the join.me meeting and collaboration app, has acquired San Francisco-based startup Zamurai Corporation, creator of a mobile collaboration and whiteboard app for the iPad. Zamurai’s mobile whiteboard has been integrated into join.me as part of†a new mobile push and refresh of join.me’s iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch apps. It will now be offered exclusively through join.me.
The entire Zamurai team is staying on as a part of the transaction, with the co-founders taking leadership roles on join.me’s marketing and product organizations.
Founded in 2013, Zamurai builds mobile-first real-time visual collaboration solutions to help professionals capture and share their ideas and conversations. The Zamurai Mobile Whiteboard re-approached the whiteboard experience for mobile devices, offering a library of images, lines, and shapes with an advanced art drawing tool all on an infinite canvas.
“Mobile innovation is a key focus for join.me. And we believe that a true mobile-first approach means embracing the unique benefits of mobile to boost collaboration, as opposed to trying to duplicate desktop or in-person experiences on a mobile device,”†says Bill Wagner, president and COO of LogMeIn. “With the acquisition of Zamurai team, we gain both a team and product that can help us rapidly accelerate join.me’s mobile-first innovation – innovation aimed squarely at addressing the new realities of today’s inherently mobile workforce.”
“Both join.me and Zamurai recognize that how people work has changed. We meet and collaborate in real time and more often than not, we interact online. And we were both passionate about the simplicity of the experience for our customers,” says Michael Parker, CEO and co-founder of Zamurai, now VP of marketing for join.me.†”The fact is Zamurai was actually a join.me customer. We used it every day, so it was obvious how complementary we were together.”
