Inside Loom
You Can Now Stitch Looms Together: Launching our No. 1 requested feature
Introducing video stitching in Loom—the latest editing tool designed to help people collaborate with their teams and create more powerful videos at work.
New Survey Data: Why communication overload derails productivity (and how to fix it)
Loom’s 2023 survey of 1,500 U.S. office workers uncovered new and surprising insights into how people communicate, miscommunicate, and connect at work. The resulting report, “Mind the Communication Gap,” shows growing communication redundancies among office workers, underscoring a massive opportunity for business leaders to increase productivity, morale, and resource efficiency with effective communication tools.
Best Practices for Providing Feedback via Loom
Async video can be such a powerful medium for delivering feedback at work. Using tools like Loom, you can preserve the nuanced details—like facial expressions, tone of voice, and body language—that all have a major impact on the way your message is received and interpreted.
The Top 10 Ways Loom Uses Async Video at Work
Loom’s team—now numbering over 175—is all-remote and based in 11 countries. We’re continually optimizing and experimenting with how to use both sync and async tools. What have we learned so far? While sync time will always play a role in our work, the use cases for async continue to grow. After talking to coworkers across functions and roles, here are the top 10 ways Loom uses Loom.
Three Ways to Use Async to Get to $10B
A growing number of teams are using async to build billion dollar companies. Here’s a closer look at how three fast-growth companies — Figma, Gitlab, and Upwork — are using async communication at work to create improved employee experiences, ship better products, and scale collaboration.
Loom Raises $130m Series C to Unlock the Potential of Video for Hybrid Work
Loom announced the close of a $130 million Series C financing led by Andreessen Horowitz to power hybrid work with video messaging. We’re excited to add a16z, as well as ICONIQ Growth, to our list of investors – which includes Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Coatue, and General Catalyst.
Better Together: Loom + Pitch
Loom works wherever you do. In this series, we’re showcasing different ways you can use Loom video messaging alongside your favorite tools to bring your work to life. Here’s how you can use Loom and Pitch together to take your presentations to the next level. Creating a slide deck looks something like this: You pop […]
Announcing SOC 2 Compliance at Loom
We know how important data security is to our customers and for the video messages they create with Loom, which is why we are happy to announce that Loom is now SOC 2 Type I compliant. Meeting SOC 2 compliance is a key part of Loom’s ongoing commitment to our existing and future customers who […]
Quick Tips From Loommates: How I Use Video to Collaborate on Web Animations
From adding dynamism to an onboarding flow to providing delightful interactions, animations are a powerful tool that can be functional, entertaining, and core to brand identity. Motion can help a brand be more memorable and expressive in the same way as art direction in photography or bold typography. As a Front-End Engineer at Loom, I’m always looking for new […]
Faster Code Feedback Cycles with Loom in GitHub
With the Loom Chrome Extension in GitHub, adding context to your pull request or giving rich feedback is a single-click away. You can record, preview, and insert Loom videos directly into pull requests, issues, and wikis without switching between GitHub and Loom. If you’ve tried to add visual context in GitHub before you may have grappled with […]
Get more out of Loom with the iOS app
Every day, millions of people use their mobile devices to send videos as a fast and fun way to communicate. With Loom for iOS, we’re bringing that same powerful experience to the workplace. Now you can now record your screen, camera, and voice on your iPhone or iPad to quickly get your message across. Whether […]
Why we raised a $30M Series B
Update: Since this fundraise in October 2019, we have since upsized our Series B with $28.75 million, bringing our total funding to $73 million. Co-led by Sequoia and Coatue, the Series B Plus round included investments from Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, Slack Fund, Jay Simons of Atlassian, and Dylan Fields of Figma. For more […]
Loom Raises $11MM Series A Led by Kleiner Perkins
Today’s news: I’m thrilled to announce we’ve raised a $11 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins’ partner, Ilya Fushman. We’re looking forward to working with Ilya & the KP team as Loom scales from one million global knowledge workers and beyond. Ilya is known for making early bets on SaaS companies like Intercom and Slack, […]
Quick videos. Now in Intercom.
Deliver an exceptional experience to your customers with Loom videos in Intercom Intercom enables real-time interaction with customers through live chat, chatbots, and targeted messaging. With Intercom, you can deliver customer service more quickly and convert more leads through personal engagement. That’s why we’re excited to announce that Loom has partnered with Intercom to provide a seamless integration […]
Loom for Gmail
Create & send quick videos via Gmail ✉️ Email is so deeply integrated into our lives that we hardly notice it. It hasn’t changed in recent decades yet our work is heavily dependent on this channel for communication. A lot of you have mentioned the ease of recording quick videos and the fact that it’s […]