Mural Visual Collaboration Platform

Mural is a digital workspace for visual collaboration, enabling distributed teams to think and work together visually. Founded in 2011 by Mariano Suarez Battan (CEO) and Ignacio Gaete in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mural is now headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company has raised over $200 million from investors including Insight Partners, Tiger Global, and londec, achieving a $2 billion valuation in 2021. Serves over 95 percent of Fortune 100 companies. Key features: digital whiteboard: an infinite canvas where teams can add sticky notes, shapes, text, images, icons, connectors, and freehand drawings. Templates: over 300 pre-built templates for brainstorming, design thinking, retrospectives, user journey mapping, strategy planning, OKR planning, and meeting facilitation. Templates from IDEO, Stanford d.school, and Agile experts. Facilitation tools: built-in facilitation features including timer, voting, private mode (hide content until ready to reveal), summon (guide everyone to the same area), and outline (table of contents for navigation). Real-time collaboration: multiple team members can edit simultaneously with live cursors and presence indicators. Comments and mentions. Areas: divide the canvas into named areas for organized facilitation. Sticky notes and shapes: extensive library of shapes, icons, and connectors for diagrams, flowcharts, and mind maps. Integrations: Microsoft Teams (embedded Mural canvas in Teams meetings), Zoom, Webex, Google Meet, Jira, Slack, Google Drive, Microsoft 365. Embed content from YouTube, Figma, Vimeo, and other services. Security: enterprise-grade security with SSO, SCIM, audit logs, data residency options, and encrypted content. Facilitation Superpowers: framework for running engaging virtual workshops and meetings. Mobile apps for iOS and Android. JavaScript/TypeScript. Proprietary.