Timeline of Slack
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This is a timeline of Slack, a cloud-based set of team collaboration tools and services, founded by Stewart Butterfield.[1]
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| 2009 | January 1 | Foundation | Slack is founded Flickr founder, Stewart Butterfield, with the initial goal of creating an online game called Glitch.[2] | |
| 2014 | April 25 | Slack raises US$42.75 million. At the time it reports 60,000 daily users and 15,000 paid seats.[3] | ||
| 2014 | November 3 | Slack raises $120 million in venture capital with a $1.2 billion valuation led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Google Ventures.[4] | ||
| 2015 | January 28 | Acquisition | Slack announces the acquisition of Screenhero.[5] | |
| 2016 | November 15 | Product integration | Business analytics software company Sisense announces bots for Slack, Skype, Facebook Messenger and {Telegram.[6] | |
| 2016 | December 7 | Partnership | Slack and Google announce partnership focused on better integrating their services, bringing a number of new features, including deeper integrations with Google services. Among the additions are new bots for notifications, as well as support for Google’s recently launched Team Drives, document previews and permissioning, etc.[7] | |
| 2017 | January 6 | Slack reveals 11 more companies backed through its US$80 million fund, which is dedicated to early-stage investments in companies building apps in Slack. The latest Slackbot companies to receive funding include Statsbot, SwayFinance, Guru, Bold, Demisto, DataFox, Troops, WorkRamp, Synervoz, Twine, and Donut.[8] | ||
| 2017 | February 1 | Slack has announces new enterprise version, aimed at helping companies administer and connect multiple chat instances.[9] | ||
| 2017 | February 8 | PayPal launches bot meant for Slack users to send P2P payments, all while staying within the Slack team messaging app. | ||
| 2017 | February 24 | Dropbox releases open-source Slack bot, with the purpose of tackling unauthorized access and other security incidents in the workplace. The so called Securitybot can automatically grab alerts from security monitoring tools and verify incidents with other employers.[10] | ||
| 2017 | April 11 | Slack launches in-message drop-down menus for apps, a feature to help its users better connect with apps they need at work.[11] | ||
| 2017 | April 12 | Slack introduces drop-down menus in the messages for Apps that integrate with it, under the purpose of expanding its developer platform to improve interactions with third-party apps.[12] | ||
| 2017 | April 18 | Facebook plans on offering a free version of its Slack competitor Workplace, a collaborative platform run by the company.[13] | ||
| 2017 | September 17–18 | Funding | Slack closes a $250 million funding round led by SoftBank,[14] which values the company at US$5.1 billion.[15][16] |
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References
- ↑ Kumparak, Greg (February 5, 2015). "Slack's Co-Founders Take Home The Crunchie For Founder Of The Year". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
- ↑ "Slack overview". crunchbase.com. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- ↑ "Slack, Stewart Butterfield's Collaboration Software Startup, Has Raised $42.75M". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- ↑ Alex Hern (3 November 2014). "Why Slack is worth $1bn: it's trying to change how we work". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ↑ "Screenhero joins Slack". screenhero.com. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- ↑ "Sisense announces bots for Slack, Skype, Facebook Messenger and Telegram". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- ↑ Perez, Sarah. "Slack and Google announce partnership focused on better integrating their services". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- ↑ "Slack reveals 11 more companies backed through its $106 million fund". betakit.com. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- ↑ "Slack finally launches its enterprise edition". computerworld.co.nz. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- ↑ "Dropbox releases open-source Slack bot". betanews.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- ↑ "Slack launches in-message drop-down menus for apps". venturebeat.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- ↑ "Slack apps can now use drop-down menus". cio.co.nz. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- ↑ "Facebook plans on offering a free version of its Slack competitor". theverge.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
- ↑ Huet, Ellen; Lanxon, Nate. "Slack Gets Slice of SoftBank's $100 Billion Tech Bounty". Bloomberg. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- ↑ "Slack overview". crunchbase.com. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- ↑ Lynley, Matthew. "Slack raises a huge financing round from SoftBank valuing the company at $5.1B". Retrieved 1 October 2017.
