Poll Everywhere is an American audience response company headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company, founded in April 2007 [1] is an online service for classroom response and audience response systems. Poll Everywhere's product allows audiences and classrooms in over 100 countries[2] to use mobile phones, thereby "plotting the obsolescence"[3] of proprietary hardware response devices otherwise known as clickers.
The company raised $20,000 in venture funding from Y Combinator in 2008.[4]
Origins
Jeff Vyduna, Brad Gessler, and Sean Eby were coworkers at Deloitte Consulting charged with giving internal presentations. One day, to keep the audience awake, they decided to pull a text message "out of a hat".[5]