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Rume

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Video chat that doesn't feel like work

Summer 2020Founded 20193 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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About

Video chat today is built for meetings but you wouldn't have your birthday party around a conference table. Rume re-creates the social dynamic of an in person event where you are easily able to have smaller conversations and fluidly move between groups when you see someone you know.

Founders ยท 3

Ben Scharfstein
Ben ScharfsteinFounder
GoogleHarvard

Ben founded Rume to help people foster and develop relationships with the people they care about. Ben studied applied math at Harvard with a research focus on the structure of social networks. He started his career as an (a)PM at Google building products across Android and Search.

Vincenzo Vitiello
Vincenzo VitielloFounder

Cenzo is working on tools to help people build and nurture meaningful relationships. He has a passion for solving complex problems, designing intuitive user interfaces, and working collaboratively with others. In his spare time, he enjoys catching up with friends, tinkering with side projects, and playing Ultimate frisbee.

Bryant Wolf
Bryant WolfFounder
Dropbox

Founder at Rume, Bryant is helping people build deep and lasting relationships though genuine and deep interaction. He has worked in technology in legal tech, pharma, crypto-finance, security/authentication on demand services economy. Most recently at DropBox by way of HelloSign.

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