Deekit

Deekit was a real-time collaborative online whiteboard built for remote teams, based in Tallinn, Estonia. It was founded by Kaili Kleemeier alongside Asko Tamm, Erki Esken, and Kristo Mägi — four former Skype employees who left the company in 2012 to research ideas in remote collaboration before spending roughly a year in development. Deekit exited private beta and publicly launched in May 2015, covered by TechCrunch as an 'ex-Skypers' virtual whiteboard startup. The product offered an unlimited canvas where teams could draw, write, add sticky notes, and edit content together in real time from any browser or device, with integrations into tools like Slack, Google Drive, and Dropbox. It positioned itself as a simpler, more focused alternative to enterprise collaboration tools such as Confluence, SharePoint, Mural, and RealtimeBoard, deliberately stripping down feature complexity to keep the canvas approachable. In January 2017, Deekit closed a €400,000 seed round from a group of European angel investors led by Estonia's Spring Capital. Despite early traction and coverage from outlets like TechCrunch and ArcticStartup, Deekit ultimately wound down operations; the company is no longer active and its former domain (deekit.com) has since been repurposed by an unrelated digital-nomad community site, with no connection to the original whiteboard product. Deekit's original LinkedIn company page remains as a historical record of the venture.