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Kitemaker (YC W21) — A faster and more collaborative alternative to jira for remote teams

Kitemaker is a faster and more collaborative alternative to Jira optimized for remote teams. It's helping teams spend less time and effort on collaboration by providing a place for discussing and documenting initiatives, it collects activities and discussions across tools, and it's fast and simple to use.

Kitemaker is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2021 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: A faster and more collaborative alternative to Jira for remote teams. The founders listed are Sigurd Seteklev (Founder), Kevin Simons (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, March 1, 2021).

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Kitemaker

New accelerator entry · 2021-03-01 · the record

Winter 2021
batch
5
people
Early
stage
Norway
region
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BatchWinter 2021
Announced2021-03-01
StageEarly
StatusAcquired
Team size5
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
SectorsDeveloper Tools, Productivity, Team Collaboration, Remote Work
RegionsNorway, Europe, Remote, Fully Remote
BasedOslo, Oslo, Norway; Remote
HiringNo
Sitehttps://kitemaker.co

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Kitemaker is a faster and more collaborative alternative to Jira optimized for remote teams. It's helping teams spend less time and effort on collaboration by providing a place for discussing and documenting initiatives, it collects activities and discussions across tools, and it's fast and simple to use. Unlike tools like Jira and Notion, our primary focus is helping software development teams spend less time coordinating across tools and roles so they have more time figuring out and building the things their users want.

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