What Range does

Range Labs Inc., operating as Range, is a private SaaS company founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco that builds a team communication and collaboration platform designed for remote and hybrid teams. The platform unifies four core modules: Check-ins (asynchronous daily status updates that replace traditional standups), Meetings (multiplayer agenda planning with attendee spinners, note-taking, and action item assignment), Goals (OKR tracking that connects daily work to team objectives), and Team Directory (a centralized view of team members and their activity). The product is delivered as cloud-based SaaS on AWS and integrates with 75+ workplace tools including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Asana, Trello, Notion, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, PagerDuty, and Dropbox. Companion free tools — an Icebreaker Spinner, Standup Cost Calculator, Meeting Cost Calculator, and the Lead Time newsletter/podcast — extend the brand into content and community.

Range monetizes via per-user SaaS subscriptions structured around a product-led growth motion. The Free tier supports up to 12 users with no credit card required, the Standard tier is priced at $8 per user per month, and the Premium tier (enhanced security) is quote-based and sold with demo scheduling for larger buyers. Distribution is primarily self-serve via range.co with one-click signup through Google, Microsoft, or Slack authentication, supplemented by content marketing (blog, SEO comparison pages vs. competitors such as Geekbot, Hugo, Fellow, Standuply, and Status Hero), organic social, and the Lead Time newsletter/podcast targeting engineering leaders.

The company serves remote, hybrid, and engineering teams across multiple industries; named customers and reference logos include Adobe, HubSpot, CircleCI, SeatGeek, New Relic, Wellthy, ForUsAll, and Informed K12. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Dan Pupius and co-founder Jennifer Dennard, with Jean Hsu as VP of Engineering. Range has raised approximately $8.5 million in disclosed equity funding, including a $6 million Series A in February 2020 led by General Catalyst, with participation from Bloomberg Beta, First Round Capital, Precursor Ventures, and others; no subsequent priced equity round is disclosed.

Name

Range

Legal name

Range Labs Inc.

Website

https://range.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Range is a SaaS team collaboration platform that helps remote and hybrid teams run async check-ins, structured meetings, and OKR tracking, integrated with 75+ workplace tools and sold via a freemium, product-led growth model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Team Collaboration Software

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Software/SaaS Subscriptions (Consumer & Prosumer) (CRAFAIAB)

Keywords

• Team collaboration software
• Async standup tool
• Meeting management platform
• Remote work software
• OKR tracking software

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription: Subscription-based SaaS with per-user pricing across Standard and Premium tiers. Free tier available for up to 12 users as product-led growth entry point.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Range sells a SaaS team collaboration platform that helps remote and hybrid teams run async check-ins and stand-ups, run structured meetings with agendas and notes, track goals and OKRs, and maintain a shared team directory with culture prompts. The product is sold on a freemium subscription basis to organizations ranging from small teams to enterprises, with integrations into Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, Zoom, and dozens of developer and productivity tools.

Product overview

Range is a team communication and productivity platform designed for remote and hybrid teams, offering a unified suite of four core integrated modules: Check-ins (asynchronous daily standups), Meetings (agenda management with multiplayer collaboration), Goals (OKR and objective tracking), and Team Directory (organizational visibility). The platform integrates with 75+ workplace tools including Slack, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, GitHub, Asana, and Jira. Range also provides free companion tools including the Icebreaker Spinner, Standup Cost Calculator, Meeting Cost Calculator, and the Lead Time newsletter. The platform emphasizes reducing meeting time by 50% and replacing transactional status updates with culture-building interactions through mood sharing, icebreaker questions, and gratitude prompts.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Lead Time: A newsletter for building and leading effective teams, created by Range for managers and leaders in tech.

Products and services

• Range Platform Cloud-hosted SaaS subscription product for remote and hybrid teams that bundles async check-ins/stand-ups, structured meetings with agendas and notes, OKR and goal tracking, and a team directory with culture prompts, with native integrations into Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, Zoom, GitHub, Jira, Linear, and 75+ other tools. Sold to organizations ranging from small teams to enterprises.
• Check-ins Module of the Range platform that lets distributed team members post structured async status updates and stand-ups using templates, prompts, and tone-of-voice controls; intended for remote and hybrid engineering and product teams that need visibility across time zones.
• Meetings Module of the Range platform that runs structured meetings with shared agendas, collaborative notes, action items, and analytics on meeting time and participation; designed for engineering and product teams seeking to reduce meeting overload.
• Goals Module of the Range platform for setting, tracking, and measuring OKRs and team goals, integrated with Check-ins and Meetings so status updates and meetings connect back to objectives; used by teams to align execution across distributed members.
• Team Directory Module of the Range platform that maintains rich team-member profiles, fun facts, and culture prompts such as icebreakers, helping distributed teams build connection and shared context.

Quantifiable outcome

• Cuts time in standups by 50%
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration18 records

Feature6 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Fellow: Fellow is a meeting management and 1:1 platform that overlaps directly with Range's Meetings module, including agendas, collaborative notes, and action items. Fellow targets the same engineering manager and remote-team buyer personas and competes head-to-head on meeting productivity.
• Geekbot: Geekbot runs asynchronous standups and team check-ins inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, directly competing with Range's Check-ins module. Both tools target remote and hybrid engineering teams replacing daily standup meetings, and Range runs explicit comparison pages against Geekbot.
• Hugo: Hugo provides async meeting notes, decisions, and centralized team context, overlapping with Range's Meetings and Team Directory features. Hugo targets distributed teams seeking a single source of truth for decisions and discussions, the same core pain point Range addresses.
• Standuply: Standuply automates standups and async status reports inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, directly competing with Range's Check-ins. Range maintains comparison content specifically against Standuply, indicating head-to-head competition for similar buyers.
• Status Hero: Status Hero offers async check-ins, standups, and team productivity reporting for distributed teams. It targets engineering managers in the same persona Range pursues and competes on similar async-first, integration-rich positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Slack (Salesforce): Slack is the foundational communication platform for many of Range's customers and increasingly bundles meeting, check-in, and goal-tracking features of its own. As Range's deepest integration partner and a channel for distribution, Slack is simultaneously an enabler and a broad-incumbent threat.
• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams bundles chat, meetings, scheduling, and increasingly task and goal features within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. As a broad incumbent with deep enterprise distribution, it competes with Range's full feature set and is also a key integration channel.
• Asana: Asana is a broader work management platform that increasingly supports goals, status updates, and team coordination, overlapping with Range's Goals module. While Asana is project-management-first, its expansion into team health and status reporting puts it in partial competition with Range.
• Notion: Notion provides collaborative docs, wikis, and lightweight project tracking that overlaps with Range's Team Directory and meeting notes use cases. While Notion is more horizontal, its continued expansion into team workflow tooling creates adjacent competitive pressure on Range.

Emerging players

• Lattice: Lattice is a performance management and employee engagement platform that includes 1:1s, goals, and team feedback features, overlapping with Range's culture and goal modules. Both target engineering and people-ops leaders, though Lattice sits further up the HR stack.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/rangelabs
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCN0AmTk22UhLi-pTYO0ChhQ
• Facebookfacebook.com/rangedotco
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/range-labs

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors11 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 →

Frequently asked questions about Range