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Slack Acquires Astro to Help Email and Channels Work Together
Thursday, October 18, 2018Company Profile | Follow Company
The team behind the popular email client and Slack app will make it simpler for customers to transition important conversations from email into Slack
San Francisco (& Vancouver, BC), CA, October 18, 2018--(T-Net)--Slack announced that it has acquired Astro, a company with deep expertise in email infrastructure and maker of the popular Astrobot for Slack.
In Astro, they are bringing on a team that collectively have built some of the industry's best mail and messaging tools like Zimbra, Acompli (acquired by Microsoft, and the foundation for Outlook Mobile), and Mumbo (acquired by LinkedIn).
Slack says it sees this as a natural next step as channel-based collaboration becomes the default way of working.
About Slack
Slack is a messaging platform for teams that brings all communication together, creating a single unified archive accessible through powerful search. It integrates with dozens of popular services such as Twitter, Dropbox, Trello, Asana, Google Docs, JIRA, MailChimp, Stripe, Zendesk, and others to help consolidate and make sense of the ever-growing flows of data that confront modern teams. Based in San Francisco, and with offices in Vancouver, Slack has raised $340 million from some of the world's best recognized investors including Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Social+Capital, KPCB, Google Ventures, Horizons Ventures, IVP, Spark, DST, and Index.
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