Waitroom is a host-led

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and video meeting platform that allows one-on-one engagement between hosts and their audiences. These engagements can range from 30 seconds to 30 minutes long. Waitroom was co-founded in the summer of 2020 by entrepreneurs

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, Margaret Grobler, and Michael Gaylord. The company has raised $3 million in

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and its lead investor is

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Craft Ventures Craft Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco which makes early stage venture investments. Craft was founded in 2017 by David O. Sacks and Bill Lee. Background Craft was founded in 2017 by David O. Sacks, formerly of Yammer an ...

. Waitroom is headquartered in

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, and has 15 full-time and 6 part-time employees.

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* {{Official site, https://waitroom.com/ 2022 software Web conferencing Internet properties established in 2020 Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on science and technology Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States Software associated with the COVID-19 pandemic Livestreaming software