Sunsama

Sunsama is built for highly collaborative teams and organizations. If your craft benefits from input and discussions with your team, Sunsama is made for you.

Sunsama will give knowledge workers a space where they can quickly assemble meetings/calls around conversation topics. You’ll have visibility into what conversations are happening offline within your team, so you can join in, follow up, or share your input via comments. Teams will be able to share their availability and easily schedule group meetings both within the team and across enterprises.

Sunsama will be fully synchronized with whatever calendar you use, and integrate into your most important tools that help you communicate with your team (e.g. Slack), and manage your time (e.g. Tripit).

Team’s will have a feed that’s the pulse of their organization. Meetings will be presented as opportunities and not obligations.

Similar to Slack, you’ll be able to organize your team’s activities into channels, so that coordinating multiple projects and mixing in more social/playful activities is clean and simple. You’ll be able to comment, @ mention teammates, and shares files and notes on a meeting by meeting basis.

When we’re ready to serve larger enterprises, we’ll provide analytics about meetings and interactions within the organization, so companies can figure out how to encourage more productive conversations.

Travis left to work on an innovative data-science based approach to counterterrorism at Deloitte in D.C. Travis and I didn\’t see each other again till I got a text from him that he was in Palo Alto for a few days. We ended up grabbing dinner at Da Sichuan and I started asking him about his project at Deloitte. Travis looked wildly uncomfortable as soon as I asked him. I thought it might just have been the blood red chili broth he just guzzled down but it turned out the counterrorism project just didn\’t go anywhere.
It had the same setup as our VW project and so Travis had similarly high expectations. It was an innovative project with a star-studded team of engineers and data-scientists and plenty of funding. He said his team had done some great technical work but couldn\’t turn it into a meaningful, high-level strategy because it was next to impossible to coordinate facetime with clients, subject-area experts and other stakeholders. Literally, the lack of human interaction was crippling the project. It was in that moment that we realized we had to build Sunsama.

Founders:
Ashutosh Priyadarshy. University of Virginia, B.S. Electrical Engineering.
Travis Meyer. University of Virginia, B.S. Information Engineering & B.A. Economics.

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