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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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2009–2013

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Evolution of Slack’s daily active users (DAU) and paid seats.

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2009 July 9 Stewart Butterfield sends a tweet announcing that his new company, Tiny Speck is hiring. [2][3] Tiny Speck is founded as a Canadian software company in Vancouver, British Columbia. The core team is largely drawn from the founders of Ludicorp, the company that created Flickr, an image- and video-hosting website and web services suite.[4] Slack begins as an internal tool used by Tiny Speck, in the development of Glitch, a game in development at the time.[5][6]
2010 February 9 Funding Tiny Speck raises US$1,500,000 in seed funding from the A-list VC shop Accel Partners.[7]
2010 April 1 Funding Tiny Speck raises $5 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.[8]
2011 April 11 Funding Tiny Speck raises US$10.7 million Series B round from Andreessen Horowitz and Accel Partners to spur the full-on push. It is also announced that Glitch would open up to beta testing.[9]
2011 September 27 Tiny Speck opens Glitch to the public as a storied massively multi-player online game, after it being chronicled for 23 months.[10]
2013 August 14 In a preview release, Slack is launched as a tool for office collaboration and communication. It’s meant to reduce or eliminate workplace email, and to compete with services like Yammer and Campfire.[11][12][13][14]
2013 August 15 Slack signs up 8,000 companies in 24 hours.[15]
2014 February 12 Slack exits Beta and goes Freemium.[16][17][18][19][20][21]
2014 April 25 Funding Slack raises US$42.75 million. At the time it reports 60,000 daily users and 15,000 paid seats.[22][23][24][25][26]
2014 September 26 Purchase Slacks makes its first acquisition by purchasing bootstrapped startup Spaces, a tool that lets people work in the same document simultaneously and remotely.[27][28][29][30][31]
2014 October 31 Funding Slack raises $120 million in venture capital with a $1.2 billion valuation led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Google Ventures. At this point, Slack is considered now the fastest-growing workplace software ever.[32][33][34][35][36][37][38]
2014 November 21 In an interview with the MIT Technology Review, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield comments about Slack: "Certainly I feel that what we have right now is just a giant piece of shit. Like, it’s just terrible and we should be humiliated that we offer this to the public".[39][40][41]
2015 January 28 Acquisition Slack announces the acquisition of Screenhero, a collaborative screen sharing app that lets users speak to each other and access each other’s screens for editing and more.[42][43][44][45][46][47][48]
2015 February 12 Slacks announces 10,000 new daily active users signing up each week, with more than 60,000 teams and 135,000 paid accounts. The company claims having 500,000 daily active users, having doubled twice in the last two quarters.[49]
2015 March 26 Slack signs a deal with investors to raise up to $160 million in a funding round that valued the company at $2.76 billion. New investors include Institutional Venture Partners, Horizons Ventures, Index Ventures and DST Global.[50]
2015 March 27 Hack Slack confirms its central user database was hacked over the course of four days, compromising some number of users' data. In response to the hack, the company fires up two new security features: two factor authentication, and a team-wide password kill switch.[51][52][53][54][55][56]
2015 April 16 Slack Raises US$160 million, at a post-money valuation of US$2.8 billion. Slack reports being used daily by 750,000 workers.[57]
2015 June 24 Slack announces having surpassed 1 million active users each day, including 300,000 “paid seats,” which refers to the number of people using Slack as paying customers. So far, the company reports $25 million in annual recurring revenue.[58]
2016 April 1 Slack announces having raised US$200 million at a US$3.8 billion post-money valuation.[59]
2016 November 15 Product integration Business analytics software company Sisense announces bots for Slack, Skype, Facebook Messenger and Telegram.[60]
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.[61]
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.[62]
2017 February 1 Slack has announces new enterprise version, aimed at helping companies administer and connect multiple chat instances.[63]
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.[64]
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.[65]
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.[66]
2017 April 18 Facebook plans on offering a free version of its Slack competitor Workplace, a collaborative platform run by the company.[67]
2017 May 16 Slack adds screen sharing for video calls.[68][69][70][71]
2017 June 13 Integration Astro Technology integrates its AI powered email bot (used for cleaning up the user's inbox) with Slack and Alexa. Slack users would be able to configure Astrobot, the startup’s bot, to notify them about important messages.[72][73][74][75][76]
2017 June 15 Funding Slack pursues a US$500 million fundraising round that would value the company at US$5 billion. Tools made by the company are now used daily by five million people, up from four million in October 2016.[77][78][79][80][81]
2017 September 17–18 Funding Slack closes a $250 million funding round led by SoftBank,[82] which values the company at US$5.1 billion.[83][84]

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  4. ↑ Kara Swisher. "Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield Talks About His New Game startup, Glitch". AllThingsD. Retrieved 3 October 2017. 
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