Civico

What Civico does

Civico Ltd. is a UK-based, privately held software provider headquartered in Birmingham (iCentrum, Holt Street) that builds and operates a hybrid meeting management platform for UK local councils and regulated enterprises. The platform unifies meeting scheduling, live meeting conduct, audiovisual automation, remote public attendance, webcasting, and audience engagement (including digital voting and live interpretation) into a single secure solution positioned around approved Microsoft Teams integration. Its six discrete product modules — Meeting Manager, Live Meeting Conductor, Smart Media Control, Remote Attendance, Online Public Webcasts, and Audience Engagement Tools — collectively address the workflow of a council or board meeting from planning through public broadcast and audit.

The company monetises the platform through a SaaS subscription model, with pricing quoted rather than publicly disclosed, and goes to market via an enterprise field-sales motion supplemented by digital marketing (website, case studies, LinkedIn) and a "Book a Call" consultation entry point. Distribution leverages its Microsoft Partner status, including placement through the Microsoft Teams ecosystem, alongside an AV-reseller and integrator channel. Civico is GDPR/security oriented, holding Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials PLUS certifications, and explicitly markets compliance and audit-trail capabilities to buyers whose meetings are subject to public scrutiny.

Founded in 2010, with a single early funding event recorded (Advantage Creative Fund, September 2010), the company operates with an 11–50 headcount and serves a reference base that includes multiple UK local councils (Westminster, Croydon, Waltham Forest, Slough, Sandwell, Uttlesford) and FTSE 250 enterprises. Daniel Cremin is the founder and CEO. Civico operates exclusively within the United Kingdom and has not publicly disclosed any plans for international expansion.

Name

Civico

Legal name

Civico Ltd.

Website

https://civicolive.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Civico is a UK-based SaaS provider of a hybrid meeting management platform that unifies scheduling, audiovisual automation, webcasting, and approved Microsoft Teams integration for UK local councils and FTSE 250 enterprises requiring compliant, auditable public meetings.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hybrid Meeting Governance Software

NAICS

Civic and Social Organizations (813410)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Smart Cities & Urban Innovation Programs (Digital Planning, Civic Tech for Cities) (BPAIANAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Meeting & Conference Planning & Coordination (HSACADAA), City Clerk/Records, Elections & Civic Engagement (BPAIACAB)

Keywords

• Hybrid meeting software
• Council meeting platform
• Government webcasting services
• Microsoft teams integration
• Public sector meeting governance

Headquarters

HQ city

Birmingham

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription: Platform subscription for hybrid meeting management combining scheduling, audiovisual control, and Microsoft Teams integration into a secure, compliant solution

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Civico sells a hybrid meeting management software platform (delivered as SaaS) that unites scheduling, audiovisual systems, and Microsoft Teams into a single secure and compliant solution. The platform is sold as six integrated modules — Meeting Manager, Live Meeting Conductor, Smart Media Control, Remote Attendance, Online Public Webcasts, and Audience Engagement Tools — targeting UK local councils and FTSE 250 enterprises that require structured, transparent, and compliant council, committee, and board meetings.

Product overview

Civico is a hybrid meeting platform that unifies scheduling, audiovisual, and Microsoft Teams systems into one secure, compliant, and easy-to-use solution. The platform consists of six integrated modules: Meeting Manager (meeting planning and governance), Live Meeting Conductor (speaker control and voting), Smart Media Control (AV automation and camera tracking), Remote Attendance (secure guest access), Online Public Webcasts (streaming with subtitles and audit), and Audience Engagement Tools (digital voting and live interpretation). Together they provide a complete meeting ecosystem for government and public sector organizations requiring transparency, compliance, and structured participation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Meeting Manager A meeting planning, structuring, and publishing module with built-in governance, intended for councils and enterprises that need to organize and publish meetings with auditable workflows.
• Live Meeting Conductor A live meeting control module that lets operators manage speakers, run digital voting, and maintain order during council or board meetings.
• Smart Media Control An audiovisual automation module that controls AV equipment, camera tracking, and room displays to streamline meeting production without dedicated internal AV staff.
• Remote Attendance A secure remote access module that lets guests, stakeholders, or members of the public attend council or enterprise meetings online with appropriate authentication and security controls.
• Online Public Webcasts A public webcasting solution that streams meetings online with subtitles, indexing, and a full audit trail to support transparent public-facing broadcasts.
• Audience Engagement Tools A participation module that enables digital voting and live interpretation features for meeting attendees, supporting inclusive and interactive council or enterprise meetings.

Named customers7 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• MicrosoftcoreTechnology or IntegrationApproved Microsoft Teams integration partner. Civico's platform unites scheduling, audiovisual, and Microsoft Teams systems into one secure, compliant solution. This certified integration enables seamless hybrid meeting experiences for enterprise and government customers.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• Kinly: Kinly is a European AV integration and collaboration specialist that appears among Civico's trusted-by logos. It is comparable as a regional provider of hybrid-meeting infrastructure and managed services for public-sector and enterprise buyers, often overlapping on the same procurement deals as Civico.
• Onnec: Onnec is a UK-based AV integration and meeting-room technology partner that appears as a Civico partner/logo on its website. It is comparable as a regional player delivering hybrid-meeting infrastructure to UK enterprises and public-sector organisations, sometimes in combination with Civico's software.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft (Teams): Microsoft Teams is both Civico's integration partner and its largest competitive threat. Teams is the dominant collaboration platform across UK councils and FTSE 250 enterprises and could ship native meeting-governance features that overlap with Civico's modules (voting, structured agendas, public webcasting).
• Zoom Video Communications: Zoom is a broad incumbent in hybrid meetings and webinars, used by many UK councils and enterprises for live public meetings. While it lacks Civico's deep governance/public-sector workflow features, its scale and brand create pricing and procurement pressure on specialist platforms.
• Cisco Webex: Cisco Webex is a broad incumbent conferencing and webinar platform with enterprise and government adoption. It competes for the same hybrid-meeting budget as Civico and offers its own AV and room-control integrations that overlap with Smart Media Control-style functionality.

Direct peers

• Public-i: Public-i is a UK-based provider of webcasting and agenda-management solutions specifically for UK local councils and public-sector meetings. It competes head-to-head with Civico in the same customer segment with very similar product scope (live streaming, agendas, public webcasts).
• Granicus: Granicus is a leading US-headquartered government experience platform offering public-meeting webcasting, agenda management and civic engagement tools. It is the closest global analogue to Civico, targeting councils and public agencies with subscription SaaS for transparent, compliant meetings.
• Swagit Productions: Swagit is a US vendor of government meeting video streaming, agenda management and indexed archives for city councils and county commissions. Comparable to Civico's Online Public Webcasts and audience engagement modules, serving the same council-meeting use case in a different geography.

Emerging players

• Diligent (Galvanize/BoardEffect): Diligent's governance cloud (including former BoardEffect and Galvanize products) provides board and committee meeting management, agendas, voting and minutes for public-sector and nonprofit boards. It overlaps with Civico's governance-led meeting proposition, particularly in the FTSE 250 / corporate board use case.
• Notivize: Notivize is a meeting management and summarisation tool targeting structured team meetings with agendas, notes and action items. It represents the emerging wave of AI-enabled meeting-governance tooling that could compete with parts of Civico's Meeting Manager and Live Meeting Conductor modules in enterprise use cases.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/civico-ltd/posts/?feedView=all
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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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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