Slack

Company

Investment-firm

Last deal

Amount

Secondary Market

Stage

28.01.2019

Date

3

all rounds

$1.39B

Total amount

Financing round

General

About Company
Slack is a global collaboration hub that simplifies and enhances people's working lives.

Industry

Sector :

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Also Known As

Tiny Speck

founded date

01.01.2009

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Secondary Market

IPO status

Private

Description

Slack is a productivity platform that enables customer companies to improve performance through features such as no-code automation, seamless search and knowledge sharing, and enhanced team connectivity. As part of Salesforce, Slack is integrated into the Salesforce Customer 360, benefiting sales, service, and marketing teams. With a focus on diversity and inclusivity, Slack welcomes individuals from different backgrounds and perspectives. Headquartered in San Francisco, Slack has nine offices worldwide and is used by businesses of all sizes to bring people together and facilitate efficient communication and information sharing.
Contacts
Legal Names

Legal name

Slack Technologies, Inc.
Sub-Organizations
1
Slack Fund

Slack Fund

The Slack Fund invests in products for productive workplaces built by Slack teams.

Sector

Finance and Credit Services

Subsector

Financial Data Providers

Location

Daly City, CA, USA

count Of Investments

88

count Of Exists

10
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Nudge

Nudge

Nudge is a communications platform that boosts employee engagement and productivity for deskless teams.

Sector

Media

Subsector

Media Agencies

Location

Toronto, ON, Canada

total rounds

5

total raised

$15.88M
Honey

Honey

Honey is a modern intranet that provides a simple and beautiful communication platform for companies.

Sector

Media

Subsector

Media Agencies

Keywords

Food and Beverage, Software

Location

New York, NY, USA

total rounds

2

total raised

$2.25M
Bunchcut

Bunchcut

Bunchcut is a SaaS collaboration platform that helps teams work with rich media more quickly and intelligently.

Sector

Media

Subsector

Media Agencies

Keywords

Software, SaaS, Photography

Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

total rounds

1
Guaana

Guaana

Guaana is a community-based platform that streamlines research funding and innovation challenges.

Sector

Media

Subsector

Media Agencies

Keywords

Software, Information Technology

Location

Tallinn, Estonia

total rounds

2
M&A Details
1

Transaction name

Acquired by

Salesforce

announced date

01.12.2020

price

$27.7B

Financials

Funding Rounds
14
3

Number of Funding Rounds

$1.39B

Money Raised

Their latest funding was raised on 28.01.2019. Their latest investor SV Angel. Their latest round Secondary Market

Date 
Funding Round 
Investors 
Money Raised 
Lead 
Dragoneer Investment Group

Dragoneer Investment Group

Dragoneer is a San Francisco-based investment firm that invests in disruptive businesses at the intersection of public and private markets.

Sector

Investment Banking and Brokerage Services

Subsector

Asset Managers and Custodians

Keywords

Financial Services, Venture Capital, Internet

Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

count Of Investments

142

count Of Exists

14
General Atlantic

General Atlantic

General Atlantic is a global growth equity firm that provides capital and strategic support for growth companies.

Sector

Investment Banking and Brokerage Services

Subsector

Asset Managers and Custodians

Keywords

Financial Services, Finance, Venture Capital

Location

New York, NY, USA

count Of Investments

437

count Of Exists

81
Investments
24
Date 
name 
Lead 
type 
Raised 
27.04.2023
No
$7.25M
Local Amount - EUR 8M
21.07.2020
No
$6.5M
Ctrl

Ctrl

Ctrl is a platform that provides a workspace to view and monitor workflows.

Sector

Software and Computer Services

Subsector

Software

Keywords

Software, CRM, Information Technology

Location

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

total rounds

4

total raised

$12.75M
Pipe

Pipe

Pipe is a global trading platform for recurring revenue streams.

Sector

Investment Banking and Brokerage Services

Subsector

Investment Services

Location

Miami, FL, USA

total rounds

13

total raised

$423.12M

count Of Investments

1
Crosschq

Crosschq

Crosschq is a human intelligence-based hiring platform.

Sector

Industrial Support Services

Subsector

Business Training and Employment Agencies

Location

Danville, CA, USA

total rounds

4

total raised

$40.6M
Co-Investors
Investors
20
4

Number of lead investors

20

Number of investors

Investor 
Lead 
Round 
Partners 
Yes
Seed
No
Series A, Series C, Series D, Series E
Yes
Series A, Series E, Series F, Series G, Series H
SV Angel

SV Angel

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based seed fund that provides seed investment and advice to early stage internet software companies.

Sector

Investment Banking and Brokerage Services

Subsector

Asset Managers and Custodians

Keywords

Financial Services, Venture Capital, Finance

Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

total rounds

1

count Of Investments

1034

count Of Exists

316
Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm that invests in technology companies at various stages of development.

Sector

Investment Banking and Brokerage Services

Subsector

Asset Managers and Custodians

Keywords

Software, Venture Capital

Location

Menlo Park, CA, USA

count Of Investments

1188

count Of Exists

153
John O'Farrell

John O'Farrell

John O'Farrell is a general partner at the Andreessen Horowitz. John was responsible for partnerships, mergers and acquisitions and strategic transactions for Silver Spring Networks. He has more than 25 years of the US and international experience in corporate/business development and operational roles in the Internet, enterprise software and telecommunications industries. Prior to joining Silver Spring Networks in January 2008, John was Executive Vice President, Business Development, for Opsware Inc. During his tenure at Opsware, John was responsible for four successful acquisitions, major strategic partnerships with EDS and Cisco, and other strategic transactions culminating in the sale of Opsware to HP for $1.65 Billion in September 2007. Prior to Opsware, John was Executive Vice President, International, for Excite@Home, where he founded the international division and grew it to $70M in annual revenues. Earlier in his career, John held positions in the United States and Europe with organizations including MediaOne Group/US West, Booz Allen and Hamilton, Telecom Ireland, the European Commission, Digital Equipment and Siemens. John has an MBA degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering from University College Dublin, where he graduated with First Class Honors. John speaks English, German, French and Portuguese.

current job

Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz

count Of Investments

1
Accel

Accel

Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm with over three decades of experience in building and supporting companies.

Sector

Investment Banking and Brokerage Services

Subsector

Asset Managers and Custodians

Keywords

Venture Capital

Location

Palo Alto, CA, USA

count Of Investments

1613

count Of Exists

323
Andrew Braccia

Andrew Braccia

Andrew Braccia joined Accel in 2007 and focuses on consumer-oriented mobile and web services companies. He was an early investor and on the boards of Slack (public), lynda.com (acquired by LinkedIn), Squarespace, Vox Media, Cornershop (acquired by Uber), MyFitnessPal (acquired by Under Armour), Hotel Tonight (acquired by Airbnb), Cloudera (public), Anchor.fm (acquired by Spotify), Gametime, and UserTesting. He also works closely with the teams at Braintree (acquired by PayPal), Etsy (public), Xero (public), and PagerDuty (public). Prior to joining Accel, Andrew spent close to a decade in a variety of executive positions at Yahoo!. Andrew is from Santa Rosa, California and graduated from the University of Arizona.

current job

Accel
Accel
Acquisitions
8
Acquiree Name 
Date 
Price 
Acquisition Name 
Woven acquired by Slack

Woven acquired by Slack

acquirer

Slack
Slack

date

01.05.2021

type

Acquisition
Woven

Woven

Woven is an intelligent calendar that optimizes scheduling and enhances meeting management.

Sector

Software and Computer Services

Subsector

Software

Location

Mountain View, CA, USA

total rounds

2

total raised

$4.8M
Rimeto acquired by Slack

Rimeto acquired by Slack

acquirer

Slack
Slack

date

08.07.2020

type

Acquisition

price

$40.15M
Rimeto

Rimeto

Rimeto is an enterprise directory that provides customers with detailed employee profiles and information.

Sector

Industrial Support Services

Subsector

Professional Business Support Services

Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

total rounds

1

total raised

$10M
Astro Technology acquired by Slack

Astro Technology acquired by Slack

acquirer

Slack
Slack

date

24.09.2018

type

Acquisition
Astro Technology

Astro Technology

Astro has been acquired by Slack, and now they're working together to make email and channels work better..

Sector

Software and Computer Services

Subsector

Software

Keywords

Software, Information Technology

Location

Palo Alto, CA, USA

total rounds

1

total raised

$10M
Exits
3
Wade & Wendy

Wade & Wendy

Wade & Wendy is an AI company based in New York that creates conversational chatbots for the hiring process.

Sector

Industrial Support Services

Subsector

Business Training and Employment Agencies

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Location

New York, NY, USA

total rounds

4

total raised

$11.53M
Abacus Labs

Abacus Labs

Abacus Labs, Inc. created Abacus, a mobile app for expense management.

Sector

Industrial Support Services

Subsector

Professional Business Support Services

Location

New York, NY, USA

total rounds

4

total raised

$3.5M
Awesome AI

Awesome AI

Awesome is an intergalactic Bot that offers Status, Sidebars, Do Not Disturb and more to make space for your team on Slack.

Sector

Software and Computer Services

Subsector

Software

Location

San Diego, CA, USA

total rounds

1

People

Founders
4
Stewart Butterfield
Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield serves as the CEO and Co-Founder at Slack Technologies, Inc. Stewart Butterfield serves as the President of LudiCorp Research and Development Ltd. Stewart Butterfield directed the 11-member design group (creative/visual/UI, production & QA) at Communicate.com, where he acted as design lead or managed teams on millions of dollars worth of projects for companies like HSBC and Sears Travel. He co-founded Flickr at Yahoo! Inc. Stewart Butterfield has served in the W3C's XForms working group and has been active in many other professional organizations. He has also a long consulting interaction design career, most recently with Telus, the CBC and The Economist. Stewart Butterfield founded the 5K competition, a lo-fi, high-profile design award, which has been featured everywhere from Playboy to Le Monde to USA Today. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Wantoo Networks Incorporated. Stewart Butterfield is a frequent speaker on design and technology topics at professional and academic events across Europe and North America. He was recently named to the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences and is a nominating judge in the Webby Awards (for Best Practice). In 2001, he was nominated for a Chrysler Design Award. In 2006, Time magazine’s put him on their list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Stewart Butterfield received a BA (Hons. with Distinction) in philosophy from the University of Victoria, and an MPhil in philosophy from Cambridge University, graduating with a First.

current job

Slack
Slack

count Of Investments

28

count Of Exists

6

Stewart Butterfield

Serguei Mourachov
Serguei Mourachov

Serguei Mourachov

Serguei Mourachov is Professional crazy Russian Specialties:Highly scalable distributed software systems, advanced data mining, machine learning

current job

Slack
Slack

organization founded

1

Serguei Mourachov

Eric Costello
Eric Costello

Eric Costello

Eric Costello is a co-founder and lead client dev at Slack. Before that, he lead client dev on the online MMOG Glitch. Before that, he lead client dev on Flickr.

current job

Slack
Slack

organization founded

1

Eric Costello

Cal Henderson
Cal Henderson

Cal Henderson

Cal Henderson is the co-founder and CTO of Slack. He is an experienced technology leader, having previously built and led the engineering team at Flickr, through its acquisition by Yahoo. As a popular speaker on engineering scalability, he authored the best-selling O’Reilly Media book “Building Scalable Websites”. He was a pioneer in the use of web APIs, and created the basis for oAuth and oEmbed, now used by YouTube, Twitter, and many others. Cal has a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Central England, and was involved in London’s early online community through his work with the early digital community B3ta and his personal blog iamcal.com, which he has ran for over 15 years. Cal now resides in San Francisco.

current job

Slack
Slack

organization founded

1

Cal Henderson

Employee Profiles
199
Victoria Gironda

Victoria Gironda

Senior Digital Success Programs Manager

Matt Beck

Matt Beck

Sales Strategy & Analytics Manager

Nilesh Borole

Nilesh Borole

Staff Software Engineer

Kristen Swanson

Kristen Swanson

VP of Customer Insights

Mike McGarr

Mike McGarr

Director of Engineering, Performance Infrastructure

Paul Tyng

Paul Tyng

Staff Software Engineer

Jenna Zeigen

Jenna Zeigen

Staff Software Engineer

Siddhant Mehta

Siddhant Mehta

Principal Product Designer

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