Fresco vs Rent-A-Ref

An intuitive online whiteboard for real-time collaboration

Fresco makes collaboration more straightforward than ever. Our intuitive whiteboard lets you work with your team in real-time, collaborating on a series of pre-made and custom templates.

Besides offering a real-time collaboration experience, Fresco boasts an internal task manager and an integrated spreadsheet to help connect your workspace. Tasks can be assigned to prioritize your next steps, and the data you create in Fresco can be exported to other platforms, so nothing gets stuck in your board. These features help optimize the collaboration process and everything that comes after.

Fresco is especially helpful for managing projects, brainstorming, facilitating meetings, virtual workshops, and journey mapping, just to name a few use cases.

Created through the heart of the covid-19 pandemic, we built Fresco with an understanding of how important collaboration is for everyone. Fresco's mission is to be the most intuitive, easy-to-use online whiteboard available. We want to make it simple for users to collaborate but also to integrate Fresco into their existing workflow. Tools in isolation can only go so far, and Fresco allows you to import and export data to provide a seamless experience.

Many people’s first question about our product is, “how is it different?” The market has multiple different tools that all do a similar thing, so how are we special? For starters, our task manager and spreadsheet are 100% unique, offering value you can’t find anywhere else. We also place a high emphasis on simplicity. We want to make collaborating online and conducting virtual meetings as simple as possible, and our interface prioritizes this value. Visual collaboration should be intuitive and accessible for everyone, and Fresco makes that possible.

Location: San Francisco, United States

Rent-A-Ref connects leagues, coaches and sports enthusiasts w/ referees for their sports event.

Rent-A-Ref is a service that connects leagues, coaches and sports enthusiasts with referees for their sports league or event.

Rent-A-Ref will be releasing an On-Demand platform where the Requester (someone who needs a referee) can provide information and Request Referees for their sports league, event or a pickup game + Pre-Pay for the referee services. This helps the customer (Requester in this scenario) worry less about finding a qualified Referee(s) and concentrate more on planning out the logistics for the event.

On the other end, the Referee (someone who is looking for games) can receive games whenever they are available, based on their location and experience. This allows the Referee to work whenever they want to and make spending cash.

It's a solution that fits both worlds (The Requester and The Referee) because they complement one another. There is a shortage of Referees due to not knowing what games are available, & Requester is always looking for Referees but never know where to find them.