Roam

What Roam does

Roam HQ Inc. (d/b/a Roam) is a Brooklyn-based, venture-backed software company that operates an AI-Powered Virtual Headquarters platform targeting distributed teams and remote-first organizations. The platform is sold as a single Virtual Office Super Bundle priced at $19.50 per active member per month, bundling nine integrated products — Virtual Office map, Drop-In Meetings, Theater all-hands, AInbox messaging, Lobby scheduler, Magic Minutes AI transcription, Magicast screen recorder, On-It AI assistant, On-Air events, plus iOS/Android/mobile clients — that together replace up to nine separate SaaS subscriptions. Customers span AI startups, crypto/Web3 teams, design and ecommerce agencies, insurance and mortgage teams, and remote teams more broadly; the company reports 2,000+ customers across roughly 40 enterprise accounts and 40+ countries.

The platform's technical foundation is a real-time map-driven Virtual Office that visualizes live employee presence, ongoing meetings, chat, and music listening, layered with audio-first Drop-In Meetings (averaging ~8 minutes vs. a ~50-minute industry norm per Source:), an auditorium-style Theater for all-hands, and AI capabilities for meeting transcription/summarization, screen recording with searchable transcripts, and an office-aware AI assistant. AI features are powered through OpenAI as the named third-party generative AI provider, with a public Developer API at developer.ro.am enabling third-party extensions and a Coworker apps platform for enterprise-customizable AI tools. Roam is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR-compliant with appointed EU/UK Article 27 representatives.

Roam pursues a hybrid go-to-market motion: product-led self-serve via a 14-day free trial with no credit card, enterprise sales through a Book Demo CTA, an Influencer/Roamaniac referral program with recurring revenue share, and a Certified Partner channel. Founded in 2022 by Howard Lerman (former Yext CEO), Tom Dixon (former Yext CTO), Sean MacIsaac, Jon Brod, Grace Sutherland, and Peter Lerman, Roam has raised approximately $40.6 million in disclosed funding anchored by a $30 million Series A led by IVP plus $10.6 million from Lerman personally. Brent Saunders serves as Chairman; Jules Maltz (IVP) sits on the board.

Name

Roam

Legal name

Roam HQ Inc.

Website

https://ro.am

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Roam HQ Inc. operates an AI-Powered Virtual Headquarters platform that bundles nine collaboration products (virtual office map, meetings, messaging, scheduling, screen recording, AI transcription, AI assistant, events) into a single $19.50/active member/month subscription for distributed and remote-first teams.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Brooklyn

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Virtual Office Super Bundle subscription: Recurring monthly subscription bundled across nine products at a flat $19.50 per active member per month (2026 rate; rising to $20.88 in 2027). Charges apply only to active members; guests are free; 14-day free trial per team member; monthly billing, no annual contracts.
2. Usage-based active-member billing: Billing is usage-based at the seat level: customers pay only for members who actually use Roam each month, with inactive seats not counting toward the bill.
3. Influencer / Roamaniac referral revenue share: Recurring revenue payouts to Roam Influencers based on multitouch attribution of qualifying guest touchpoints (Lobby bookings, calendar joins, On-Air attendance, guest badges, Magic Minutes/Magicast shares, referral links).
4. Future enterprise SaaS fees: Terms of Use reserve the right to charge fees for Registered User-level access in the future and to require a valid payment method (credit card, PayPal, or purchase order) for paid Services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels7 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Roam is an AI-powered Virtual HQ platform that consolidates chat, meetings, scheduling, screen recording, AI meeting summaries, and an office-aware AI assistant into a single map-based workspace. Distributed teams are visualized on a live HQ map with presence, drop-in audio meetings, and integrated AI tooling that replaces multiple SaaS subscriptions (Slack, Zoom, Calendly, Otter, Loom, etc.) with one bundled product at $19.50 per active member per month.

Product overview

Roam is a single unified AI-Powered Virtual HQ platform rather than a portfolio of separate apps — the homepage, navigation, and pricing page present all of Roam's offerings as one "Virtual Office Super Bundle" of nine integrated products sold together at $19.50 per active member per month. At the center is the Virtual Office map that visualizes the whole company with live presence; Drop-In Meetings, Theater, and video Meeting Rooms layer communication on top of it; AInbox provides the group/chat layer; Lobby handles scheduling; Magicast handles screen recording; Magic Minutes handles AI transcription/summarization; On-It is the office-aware AI assistant; On-Air powers immersive events; and Mobile extends the experience to phones. The platform also exposes a Developer API and supports AI-built applications called Coworker, so the platform-plus-modules architecture is unified at the user-experience level but extensible via APIs and AI Tools.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Roam Virtual Office Platform (Virtual Office Super Bundle) AI-powered Virtual HQ sold as a single bundled subscription ($19.50 per active member per month) combining a map-based virtual office, drop-in audio meetings, all-hands theater, enterprise messaging, scheduling, AI screen recording, AI meeting summaries, an office-aware AI assistant, immersive events, and mobile. Sold to distributed and remote teams of all sizes.
• Roam Developer API Public developer API for building third-party integrations and automations against Roam services (Meetings, Magic Minutes, Lobby, etc.). Targeted at developers and system administrators at customer organizations.

Quantifiable outcome

• Average meeting time reduced to ~8 minutes vs. ~50-minute industry norm
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

AI capability6 records

Feature13 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• SlackcoreTechnology or IntegrationRoam supports importing Slack workspace data (public channels, messages, attachments) into Roam's AInbox via a ZIP upload tool, mapping users by email and creating new group chats per channel.
• Google CalendarcoreTechnology or IntegrationGoogle Calendar integration lets users pick Magic Minutes Templates directly from the Event page in Google Calendar and subscribe to additional calendars for Lobby conflict checking.
• Microsoft OutlookcoreTechnology or IntegrationOutlook integration lets users configure Magic Minutes Templates from the Outlook toolbar (Roam > Configure Meeting) and subscribe to additional calendars for Lobby conflict checking.
• OpenAIflagshipTechnology or IntegrationOpenAI provides the generative AI backbone for Magic Minutes (meeting transcripts and summaries), Magic Minutes Desktop Recording (off-platform recordings), On-It (office-aware assistant), and Coworker apps; meeting transcripts are sent to OpenAI for processing per Roam's Terms of Use.
• StripecoreTechnology or IntegrationStripe is Roam's payment processor for card payments; payment data is processed directly by Stripe per the Privacy Policy.
• European Data Protection Office (EDPO)coreOthersEDPO is Roam's appointed GDPR Article 27 representative in the EU (Avenue Huart Hamoir 71, 1030 Brussels, Belgium) and UK (EDPO UK Ltd, Unit 33 Waterside, Schooner Court, 44-48 Wharf Road, London, N1 7UX).

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Slack (Salesforce): Enterprise messaging incumbent with chat, huddles, and now Slack Lists/Canvas that overlap with Roam AInbox, Group Chats, and Drop-In Meetings. Roam explicitly positions itself as a Slack replacement, making Salesforce/Slack the most strategically comparable broad incumbent.
• Zoom: Video conferencing incumbent that Roam positions to replace via Drop-In Meetings, Theater, and Magicast; Zoom Workplace now bundles chat, scheduling, and AI Companion. Direct overlap in virtual meetings, all-hands, and AI meeting summarization.
• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft 365-bundled collaboration suite combining chat, meetings, scheduling, and now Copilot AI summarization. Teams represents the most significant enterprise-suite competitive threat to Roam's all-in-one virtual HQ value proposition.

Direct peers

• Gather: Virtual office platform with map-based spatial interface, presence, and drop-in conversations for distributed teams. Most direct competitor to Roam's Virtual Office map UX, with comparable PLG and freemium GTM motions.
• Kumospace: Map-driven virtual office for hybrid and remote teams with spatial audio drop-ins, similar in concept to Roam's Virtual Office and Drop-In Meetings. Closest spatial-UX competitor with overlapping target market.
• Sococo: Virtual office platform offering a digital floor plan with presence, chat, meetings, and huddles for distributed teams. Directly comparable to Roam's map-based virtual HQ for the hybrid-work enterprise use case.
• Around: Collaborative video and async-meeting platform with lightweight "Tako" rooms for small group collaboration. Comparable to Roam's Drop-In Meetings and Theater for async-first, small-meeting remote teams.

Emerging players

• Notion: All-in-one workspace for docs, wikis, and project management with native AI and increasingly collaboration features. Adjacent competitor for Roam's information-sharing and AI-assisted workflow use cases.
• Loom: Async video and screen recorder with AI summaries and transcripts. Directly competes with Roam's Magicast screen recorder and Magic Minutes summaries as standalone async tools.
• Calendly: Scheduling tool with personal booking links, conflict checking, and round-robin meetings. Directly competes with Roam's Lobby scheduling product within the Super Bundle.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/roam
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/roam-hq-inc
• Instagraminstagram.com/roam

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors6 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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