aid: balloon
name: Balloon
description: >-
  Balloon is a research-backed team collaboration and decision-making platform
  built to eliminate groupthink and give quieter voices a psychologically safe
  way to contribute. Its core workflow, called a "flight," is a two-stage,
  partly anonymous process in which a leader poses a question, team members
  submit ideas ("balloons") and discuss them, and the group then evaluates and
  "pumps" the strongest ideas on merit, surfacing a Balloon Score that shows
  consensus and buy-in. Balloon ships 150+ expert-authored flight templates
  across 25 business areas and supports asynchronous, time-zone-independent
  participation, positioning itself as a replacement for status and ideation
  meetings (the company cites a 70% reduction in meeting time and that ~80% of
  information shared is new to the organization). Founded by Amanda Greenberg
  and Noah Bornstein, Balloon is backed by 500 Global and other investors, with
  an advisory board including Adam Grant, Amy Edmondson, and Daniel Pink. It is
  a SaaS web application (app at balloon.app) with no public developer API,
  OpenAPI, or developer portal at this time.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/balloon/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead-enriched
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://getballoon.com/images/og-logo.png
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Collaboration
- Team Collaboration
- Decision Making
- Employee Engagement
- Meetings
- Productivity
- Anonymous Feedback
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://getballoon.com
- type: Pricing
  url: https://getballoon.com/pricing/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://getballoon.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://getballoon.com/privacy/
- type: Login
  url: https://balloon.app/login
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://help.balloon.app/
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.getballoon.com/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://blog.getballoon.com/rss.xml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/balloon-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/balloon-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence