Slack

Overview

Acquisitions: 2 Acquisitions
Total Equity Funding: $539.95M in 9 Rounds from 26 Investors
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Description: Slack is a team communication application providing services such as real-time messaging, archiving, and search for modern teams.
Founders: Serguei Mourachov, Cal Henderson, Eric Costello, Stewart Butterfield
Categories: Real Time, Collaboration, Messaging, Enterprise Software
Website: http://slack.com

Company Details

Founded: January 1, 2009
Employees: 251 – 500 | 41 in Crunchbase

Slack is a team communication application providing services such as real-time messaging, archiving, and to search for modern teams. It offers one-on-one messaging, private groups, persistent chat rooms, and direct messaging as well as group chats organized by topic. All content inside Slack is searchable from one search box and it integrates with a number of third-party services, including Google Docs, Dropbox, Heroku, Crashlytics, GitHub, and Zendesk.

Slack was launched in 2013 by Serguei Mourachov, Eric Costello, Cal Henderson, and Stewart Butterfield. It is based in San Francisco, C.A. The application is available for Mac, PC, iOS, and Android.