Aroundsound, by Gritstone Studios Information

Aroundsound is founded on the belief that audio recording can help to simplify your life and enrich it at the same time. Context matters: Be it with friends and family, or in your professional environment, audio recording is an effective and non-intrusive way of capturing moments that matter. It’s even better when you can enrich your sound with pins and notes, and share easily with other people. Rachel Evatt, co-founder and CEO of Aroundsound began recording audio when her children were small, seeking to capture life’s moments screen-free using audio. But she was disappointed by the low sound quality and lack of capability in other recording apps to organise, edit and share audio easily. Having developed Zoombu acquired by Skyscanner in 2011, she again set out to develop her own product. She established the start-up company Gritstone Studios, recruited a team of tech veterans including co-developer of Cocktail Flow and began developing Aroundsound. By now, nine former Skyscanner colleagues took the initial idea and together set out to build a better audio recorder that lets users capture meetings, lectures and bedtime stories. Passionate about first class technology that improves people’s lives, they operate semi-remotely from across the UK and Budapest. This not only allows them to apply Agile methodologies to continuously improve the product; but some of them to also be engaged parents.