Collaboration & Community

Atlassian develops collaboration and productivity software including Jira, Confluence, and Trello with a Team Anywhere remote-first policy.

Bevy is a community events platform helping companies build and scale their community programs.

Bind is a rich community management platform for Discord.

COMEHOME (founded 2017, Italy) is social events platform using Airbnb-type model. Hosts create events in public/private locations, community participates for small fee. 2,500+ events organized, 20K+ active users. Italian Angels for Growth portfolio company. Event-based social networking.

Discourse (founded Aug 2014 by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, Sam Saffron) is 100% open-source forum platform. Completely remote: 19 countries, 12 timezones. Ruby on Rails backend, EmberJS frontend, PostgreSQL, Redis. Modern discussion with community engagement/moderation focus.

Kaggle is an online data science & machine learning community developed by the internal Google team.

Kittl is remote-friendly browser-based collaborative design platform with 5M+ users. 160 employees, 20+ nationalities across Germany/US/UK hubs. Node.js/Redux/Figma stack. Real-time collaboration, Kittl Flows generative AI feature launched 2025. Cloud-based for distributed teams.

Miro is a visual collaboration platform with 90M+ users across 250k+ organizations. Distributed HQ across 4 time zones and 5 hubs. 100+ integrations including Slack, Jira, Zoom, Teams.

Qatalog (founded 2019, London) is work hub for distributed teams unifying SaaS tools. $26M funding from Atomico, Salesforce Ventures. 18 cities, 28 languages, $5.9M revenue 2024. 'Work Graph' connects Slack, Microsoft, Google, Zoom, Confluence, Jira, Notion, Asana.

Rows is a Portuguese startup building an intelligent spreadsheet platform where cells call APIs and automate jobs. Enables creating interactive web apps with spreadsheet skills. Remote-first with team gatherings.

StackOverflow is an online community for programming knowledge exchange using questions & answers.