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Slack Makes 11 New Investments in Its $80 Million VC Fund (Slack Fund)
Thursday, January 5, 2017Company Profile | Follow Company
New Slack Fund companies to help with sales, meetings, and more
San Francisco (& Vancouver, BC), CA, January 5, 2017--(T-Net)--Slack announced on its blog today that it has made 11 new investments in its Slack Fund.
The company launched the $80 Million VC Fund in partnership with Accel, Index Ventures, KPCB, Social Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Spark Capital back in approximately December 2015, and backs new companies that bring more streamlined workflows to Slack—reducing the small, yet high-frequency tasks that consume chunks of users time.
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Editor's Note: Slack has major offices in the Yaletown area of Vancouver, BC
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"Today we're growing the Fund and introducing new tools you can use at work, with the addition of eleven companies. These teams are reimagining how a salesperson closes deals, reinventing the way we share and access information, and redesigning in-person meetings." stated the company in its blog release.
The 11 new companies invested in by the Slack Fund include the following:
Get the right information to the right people at the right time
Statsbot is an analytics bot that connects with Mixpanel, Salesforce, and Google Analytics so you can receive actionable alerts about data or query reports directly from Slack.
SwayFinance keeps you up to date with your company's financial health without leaving Slack or constantly pinging your finance team.
Guru creates a searchable knowledge base for your team based on conversations in Slack.
Bold is an internal blog for your team's knowledge and big ideas. Write rich content on Bold that automatically gets pushed to the appropriate Slack channel(s) to keep everyone in the loop.
Demisto helps give the Security Operations team peace of mind by automatically alerting users if a malicious URL or file is shared in Slack.
Give your sales team the tools they need to stay three steps ahead
DataFox automates prospecting by providing real-time alerts for the companies you care about. Customize notifications so you know the right time to reach out to find and win more business.
Troops helps sales teams work smarter by bringing Salesforce data into Slack so you can search records, schedule automatic reports, and celebrate company wins.
WorkRamp helps companies build the best sales teams with a next-generation training platform built on Slack. Create training and development paths to keep employees engaged and get visibility into how your team is progressing.
Move seamlessly from Slack to in-person meetings
Synervoz is an always-on voice chat platform that helps distributed teams communicate spontaneously.
Twine bridges the gap between your conference room and Slack. Plug Twine into your HDMI port then start a video call, share content, or move rooms all without leaving Slack.
Donut helps your team build strong relationships by pairing teammates for coffee (or donuts!) on a regular basis.
Stewart Butterfield, Slack CEO and co-founder. Butterfield, who was born in BC, was also a Co-Founder of Flickr, a photo sharing platform that also began in Vancouver (and later sold to Yahoo).
Excited about building the future of work? Apply to the Slack Fund. We'd love to hear from you.
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