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Meetgeek.ai founders: We want to build the future of meetings After securing EUR 500,000 in fresh funding, Romanian startup Meetgeek.ai is looking to meet the growing demand from EU and US companies that want to streamline their meetings. BR spoke to the founding team—Iulian Gheorghe, Raluca Risnoveanu, and Dan Huru—about technology’s power to replace inefficient meetings and the skills Romanian startup founders need to expand abroad. By Ovidiu Posirca
Left to right: Iulian Gheorghe, Raluca Risnoveanu and Dan Huru
What is the founding story of Meetgeek. ai and what were some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced so far?
year. I got two years of meetings! That’s why
learn to say no and drastically prioritise what
we decided to team up and do something
to focus on.
about it.
A couple of years later, we are excited to
In our previous software engineering roles,
Finding the right customer personas and
see that we are making a daily impact, freeing
we were involved in many software projects
shaping the product accordingly is the biggest
up calendars, and making meetings more ef-
that had the purpose of automating task
challenge tech startups face, and this was
ficient with Meetgeek.
execution. Over time, we noticed that while
the case for us, too. We talked to over 1,000+
there was immense pressure on automating
potential customers and worked with many
tasks, meetings were still inefficient, free to
companies, in multiple iterations, to find the
book, and very time-consuming for the busi-
right mix. Another big challenge, due to our
What is the market potential for your platform and how is demand shaping up from a geographical perspective?
ness.
engineering background, was shifting from
We are now available on all 3 major platforms,
a product-first mindset to customer-focused
including Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft
thinking. Additionally, we had to quickly
Teams, and we’re excited to see that we are
I once exported my calendar and counted the hours of meetings I had to attend in one
