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Klaxoon Teamwork Tour Arrives in New York Delivering Fun Twist on Meeting Productivity and Team Collaboration

NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Klaxoon Teamwork Across America Tour is arriving in New York city this week in a hot pink semi truck, delivering a new approach to meetings and collaboration. The traveling exhibit showcases apps and tools that enable people to work together more effectively, efficiently and creatively. To demonstrate this new way of working, the company is bringing its apps on a tour around the U.S. stopping in New York from Feb 13 - 19 at Pier 97 and Flatiron Public Plaza - access to the truck is free and open to the public.

Who: Klaxoon Inc. is a tech start-up focused on making teamwork smarter through more efficient meetings. The company raised $50 million in funding in 2018. Its tools and apps are used by thousands of teams in companies such as McDonald's, Johnson & Johnson, Disney, General Electric, Verizon, L’Oreal and more.
   
Why: 55 million meetings happen at US workplaces every day and 89% of them are poorly organized, costing an estimated $399 billion a year in wasted time and resources. Klaxoon is delivering a breakthrough approach to reducing the time, costs and inefficiencies of corporate confabs.
   
What: The 60-foot, hot-pink mobile exhibition provides an interactive experience where visitors will discover secrets to effective teamwork and ways to improve meeting efficiency. Klaxoon will unveil platform enhancements that ignite creativity and organize results with engaging activities such as brainstorms, quizzes, surveys, word clouds, learning games and more.
   
When/: Pier 97 on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Feb 13, 14 & 15
Where: Flatiron Public Plaza on Monday and Tuesday, Feb 18 & 19
   
How: Participation is free and open to the public.  Register here.

“We designed Klaxoon to be as simple, fun and engaging as possible to improve meetings and teamwork,” said Matthieu Beucher, founder and CEO of Klaxoon. “The Klaxoon Teamwork Tour is an immersive experience where people can explore, learn and be inspired by the platform and capabilities it enables. In less than 30 minutes, people from any type of company, team size or job type can see how to drastically improve meeting efficiency. We invite everyone to Hop on Board and see what the future of meetings looks like.”

About the Teamwork Tour
Inspired by Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, The Teamwork Across America Tour will visit various universities, company campuses and financial districts onboarding new users and customers over an 11-week period in 16 different cities including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Portland, Denver, Chicago, Boston, New York, Washington, Atlanta, New Orleans, Lafayette, Houston and Austin. 

About Klaxoon
Based in New York, Klaxoon employs more than 200 people. In addition, it operates a showcase Klaxoon Store in the center of Paris. Founded by Matthieu Beucher, Klaxoon was launched in March 2015, and today is used in 120 countries by thousands of teams. Klaxoon is one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe. It has been adopted by users in all kinds of organizations, small and middle-sized businesses, universities, NGO and institutions as well as 90% of global actors listed on the CAC 40 stock-exchange index (Schneider, Disneyland, L'Oréal, Accenture, Nestlé, Sealed Air, Verizon, Marriott, etc.). 

Klaxoon tools use advanced visual management techniques and agile methods and have received numerous international awards. Klaxoon R&D teams work on an ongoing basis to build an efficient and comprehensive ecosystem, which fosters interaction and collective intelligence.  More information: www.klaxoon.com.

Press contacts:

Klaxoon: Anne-Lyse Garcon: annelyse.garcon@klaxoon.com / +33 762 236 217

Wired Island International: Toni Sottak:  toni@wiredislandpr.com / +1 408 876 4418

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