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We’re thrilled to share that Donut has acquired Gatheround! We’ve long admired what they’ve built: an engaging, powerful product that delivers a delightful user experience, a world class team, and a large, devoted community of customers. We also have long shared values and customers, plus complementary product offerings. We couldn’t be more excited to build on their success and bring our products together to offer an even more complete suite of tools for anyone building employee experience programs. Huge shoutout and thank you to Lisa Conn and the whole Gatheround team for everything they’ve accomplished! More in our post below:
📣 Big news from Team Donut 🍩 🎉 We’re excited to announce that Donut has acquired Gatheround, an interactive live video platform that makes it easy to host dynamic, engaging live sessions and boost participation. This is a big next step in our vision for what employee programs can and should be. We pride ourselves on delivering exceptional outcomes to the 20,000+ teams that use Donut today to automate key workflows throughout the employee lifecycle. Together, we’ve: ✅ Made over 16 million connections 🎢 Enrolled more than 400,000 employees in onboarding, mentorship, and learning Journeys at companies like Okta, Slack, and Axios ⏰ Saved teams countless hours by automating over 4 million employee communications and tasks Along the way, we’ve learned that most Donut customers run live sessions as a key part of their programs. Acquiring Gatheround — a structured tool for creating engaging live sessions — gives us the opportunity to do even more to support your success. Gatheround combines a state-of-the-art agenda builder with an interactive video interface to provide an industry-leading live session experience, with a verbal participation rate of over 80% — nearly 2.5x higher than other video platforms. Billy McMillan, Director of Learning and Development at Huntress, says he looks forward to building on the success of his team’s partnership with Donut by adding live sessions hosted through Gatheround. “Donut Journeys already play a vital part in Huntress' L&LD programs like manager training and new hire onboarding by allowing us to prep learners, reinforce takeaways, and collect feedback. We’re excited about leveraging Gatheround to host more engaging live sessions for our fully remote team. The flexibility of the agenda builder and interactive activities we can include will make for more impactful experiences and will help us continue to achieve excellent eNPS scores.” Here’s what you can expect as Gatheround becomes part of Donut: ✨ Even more value for you: We’ll continue building on the Donut features you already know and love, with Gatheround as part of our product offering. ⚖️ Continuity and commitment to our customers: Continue using Donut as usual. As always, we welcome your feedback, ideas, and insights. 🔮 Much more to come. Stay tuned for further updates as Donut welcomes Gatheround and we embark on this exciting next chapter. Learn more about the acquisition on our blog, linked in the comments.