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Cireson’s service desk puts structure inside Microsoft Teams. Its customer stories reveal why the hard part of IT support is often getting the request into the system at all.
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The London technology group has spent three decades turning phones, networks, meeting rooms and security into one managed service. Its most persuasive product is not a box or an app - it is having one number to call when the whole stack misbehaves.
The conference-call company watched Teams swallow its old market, then rebuilt itself around the stubbornly local business of global phone service. The result is a useful lesson in choosing the complicated problem your platform partner cannot solve alone.
SkyLink did not rip out the corporate travel stack. It put a chat window on top of it, taught travelers to choose from three useful options, and turned a 15-minute chore into a 99-second exchange before Amadeus bought the company.
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The Boston startup turned the most annoying part of Slack - answering the same question twice - into a business, then sold it to a company that wanted the whole workplace.
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Smarten Spaces is a Singapore-founded proptech company that builds AI, IoT and big-data software for managing hybrid workplaces and commercial real estate. Its flagship platform - marketed as Jumpree and, more recently, SpaceOnAI - lets enterprises book desks and meeting rooms on 3D floor maps, forecast space demand, roster teams, and analyze how offices are actually used. Founded in 2017 by former Cisco India president Dinesh Malkani, the company serves Fortune 500 clients across 30+ countries and integrates deeply with Microsoft Teams.
Huddly is an Oslo-based company that builds AI-powered conference cameras for hybrid meeting rooms. By running computer-vision neural networks directly on the camera (edge AI), Huddly devices automatically frame speakers, switch angles like a TV director, and improve over time through software updates. Its products work with Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet, and range from the single wide-angle IQ to the L1 and S1 and the multi-camera Huddly Crew system marketed as the world's first AI director. Founded in 2013, Huddly listed on Euronext Growth Oslo in December 2023.
Recall.ai is a San Francisco developer-infrastructure company that sells a universal API for capturing meetings. Instead of building brittle bots for Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Slack Huddles and in-person calls, developers make a single API call and get back recordings, transcripts, and rich participant metadata. Founded by University of Waterloo dropouts David Gu and Amanda, the company pivoted from a consumer meeting app into the plumbing beneath a wave of AI notetakers and sales tools, and now powers thousands of companies. Recall.ai is Y Combinator-backed and raised a $38M Series B at a reported ~$250M valuation in September 2025.
Langfinity (formerly Byrdhouse) is a San Francisco AI company building a real-time voice and text translation platform for global teams. Founded by ex-interpreters Snow Huo and Jacob Greenway, it delivers industry-specific live interpretation across 100+ languages, plugging into video calls and Microsoft Teams so multilingual meetings, sales calls, safety briefings, and training sessions can happen without swapping tools or hiring a human interpreter.
Pinnacle is a New York-based HR-tech startup building scalable AI coaching that lives inside the tools employees already use. Its AI coach, Pascal, embeds in Slack, Microsoft Teams, and video meetings to give managers and employees personalized, real-time guidance drawn from their actual work context - performance reviews, 360 feedback, company competency frameworks, and day-to-day communication patterns. Founded by former accelerator CEO and executive coach Alexei Dunaway, Pinnacle raised a $2.5M seed round in March 2025 to bring executive-grade coaching to every employee, not just the C-suite.

Fireflies.ai is a San Francisco-based AI meeting assistant that joins video and phone calls across Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams to record, transcribe, summarize and analyze conversations. Its bot captures speaker-labeled notes and action items, its AskFred assistant answers questions about past meetings, and its Perplexity-powered Live Assist offers real-time web answers during calls. Founded in 2016 by Krish Ramineni and Sam Udotong, the company reached a $1 billion valuation in 2025 while staying profitable and is used by teams across more than a million organizations.
Mio is an Austin, Texas company that makes enterprise chat platforms talk to each other. Instead of forcing a whole organization onto a single tool, Mio sits in the middle and federates the public APIs of Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Chat, Zoom Team Chat and Cisco Webex so a message typed in one app lands natively in another. Founded in 2015 by Tom Hadfield and James Cundle and backed by Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, Zoom and Cisco, Mio turns the messy reality of multi-platform companies (and the partners they work with) into a single, interoperable conversation.
Pylon is the AI-native customer support platform built specifically for B2B companies. It unifies tickets across Slack Connect, Microsoft Teams, Discord, email, and in-app chat into a single inbox, automates routine work with AI agents, and surfaces account-level intelligence for post-sales teams. Backed by a16z, Bain Capital Ventures, General Catalyst, and Y Combinator.
PanTerra Networks is a San Jose-based UCaaS provider that bundles voice, video, messaging, file sharing and an AI contact center into one cloud platform called Streams.AI. Founded in 2001 by Silicon Valley engineer Arthur Chang, the company sells to mid-market businesses that want one vendor instead of five, and points to a 99.999% uptime record and HIPAA-compliant SmartBox file sharing as its main differentiators.