Slack raised $ 160 million in a round involving the Yuri Milner Foundation
Slack raised $ 160 million in the next round. Funds were invested in the company: Horizons Ventures , Index Ventures , Spark Capital , Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), as well as DST Global Yuri Milner. New company valuation was $ 2.8 billion.
The round was also attended by investors who have already invested in Slack earlier: Accel Partners , Andreessen Horowitz , The Social + Capital Partnership , Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers .
Slack - a tool for organizing corporate chat. In October last year, Slack raised $ 120 million with an estimate of $ 1.12 billion. The number of users then was about 250 thousand. In 2015, it doubled and exceeded 500 thousand. The volume of investments in Slack since the company was founded (2013) amounted to $ 340 million.
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Of the total number of users, paid accounts use 200 thousand. Free accounts have a number of restrictions, for example, the depth of the message archive and the number of applications connected to the messenger.
Funds received from investors will be deposited in a bank account, as reported by the company's founder, Stuart Butterfield. The same fate befell the funds raised in October. While the company lacks the funds that it earns itself.
According to Techcrunch, there are two main reasons for such investor interest in the project: an intensively growing audience and the active use of the application to perform various work tasks. 98% of newly registered users decide to renew their subscription. Clients include Adobe, New York Times, BuzzFeed, Expedia, HBO, PayPal and others.
The round was also attended by investors who have already invested in Slack earlier: Accel Partners , Andreessen Horowitz , The Social + Capital Partnership , Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers .
Slack - a tool for organizing corporate chat. In October last year, Slack raised $ 120 million with an estimate of $ 1.12 billion. The number of users then was about 250 thousand. In 2015, it doubled and exceeded 500 thousand. The volume of investments in Slack since the company was founded (2013) amounted to $ 340 million.
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Of the total number of users, paid accounts use 200 thousand. Free accounts have a number of restrictions, for example, the depth of the message archive and the number of applications connected to the messenger.
Funds received from investors will be deposited in a bank account, as reported by the company's founder, Stuart Butterfield. The same fate befell the funds raised in October. While the company lacks the funds that it earns itself.
According to Techcrunch, there are two main reasons for such investor interest in the project: an intensively growing audience and the active use of the application to perform various work tasks. 98% of newly registered users decide to renew their subscription. Clients include Adobe, New York Times, BuzzFeed, Expedia, HBO, PayPal and others.
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