Slack
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Slack is a cloud-based communication and collaboration platform for teams. It allows users to exchange messages, share files, and integrate with various business tools and services. Slack is commonly used across various industries, from tech startups to large enterprises.
- Total investments:
- 26
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
- Fund size:
- $80M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Slack invests in
Stages Slack invests in
Countries Slack invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 19 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$9M
- Series A
- $7M–$12M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $3.3M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (46%)
- Information Technology 8 (31%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (31%)
- Internet 4 (15%)
- Messaging 4 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 15 (58%)
- Series A 3 (12%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (8%)
- Series B 1 (4%)
- Series C 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 21 (81%)
- Canada 1 (4%)
- Israel 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Farzad Khosrowshahi
VP of Product Engineering
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VP of Product Engineering | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Jason Spinell
Manager
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Manager | Total investments: 22 | Find email | |
Matt Loop
Head of Asia Pacific
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Head of Asia Pacific | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Steve Wood
VP of Product and Developer Platform
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VP of Product and Developer Platform | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Cal Henderson
Co-Founder and CTO
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Co-Founder and CTO | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
| See all 19 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Ctrl
|
Ctrl empowers sales and customer success professionals to combine data from different platforms to create their own custom workspaces. With Ctrl, learning everything about a customer and updating each platform with future steps and follow ups is super fast and easy, saving time and headaches on manual updates while never leaving a single customdashboard.Our vision is to eliminate data silos, making customer-facing work a lot simpler and more fun, and keeping your attention where it should be - your customers.Ctrl was established in 2021 in Tel Aviv, Israel. | $9M / Seed / Apr 27, 2023 | |
Electric
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Electric is an information technology company that helps businesses manage their IT security, support, and devices. It provides real-time issue resolution, security at the device, app, and network levels, employee onboarding/offboarding, and IT management. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States. | $90M / Series D / Oct 19, 2021 | |
Pipe
|
Pipe operates a global trading platform for recurring revenue streams, connecting companies to institutional investors to trade in real time. It makes recurring revenue streams tradable for their annual value offering more cash flow for scaling companies | $50M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 09, 2021 | |
Crosschq
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Crosschq is a technology platform that utilizes human intelligence to help companies hire and retain the best talent. Through proprietary software and science, Crosschq gathers people-driven insights from job seekers and those who know them best and converts those insights into predictive data. Crosschq data can be used to ensure people andbusinesses are well-matched, creating long-term, successful employees, and winning workplace cultures. The company’s cloud-based SaaS solutions were built with a talent-first approach that prioritizes trust and transparency, minimizes bias, and protects privacy. Founded in 2017, Crosschq is backed by GGV Capital, Bessemer Ventures, and other well-known Silicon Valley Investors. | $6.5M / Seed / Jul 21, 2020 | |
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Electric
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Electric is an information technology company that helps businesses manage their IT security, support, and devices. It provides real-time issue resolution, security at the device, app, and network levels, employee onboarding/offboarding, and IT management. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States. | $7M / Series B / May 18, 2020 | |
Compt
|
Compt helps companies build, streamline, and scale perk stipends that delight teams and give companies a more productive and engaged workforce. Everyone has different needs, and we think that when perks take this into account the value to the employee goes beyond just beer or catered lunches and becomes so much more. | $1.5M / Seed / May 07, 2020 | |
Meru Health
|
Meru Health offers a digital program that helps improve the lives of people living with depression and saves on healthcare costs. It develops and delivers cost-effective, clinically proven, and engaging digital solutions to empower people living with depression.Founded by Kristian Ranta, Albert Nazander, and Riku Lindholm in 2015, Meru Health isheadquartered in San Mateo, California. | $8.1M / Series A / Mar 23, 2020 | |
Sentry
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Sentry is an open-source platform for workflow productivity, aggregating data from errors and crashes across the stack. The company's tool shows every crash in the stack as it happens, with the details needed to prioritize and identify it, as well as offers insight into deployments and information to reproduce and fix crashes, enabling usersto see which errors are doing the most harm to their business and helps them to understand how issues affect their bottom line. | $40M / Series C / Sep 24, 2019 | |
Astound
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Astound is an enterprise software company that develops an AI platform for employee service. The Astound AI platform uses machine learning and natural language processing to automate IT and HR service and support. Astound is the only company to automate the entire lifecycle of service requests, reducing resolution time and improving work life.Astound has partnered with leading workflow platform providers like ServiceNow and Atlassian plus managed service providers like Infosys to deliver deep integrations with IT service management, HR case management, knowledge management, Customer Service Management (CSM), and social collaboration solutions. | $11.5M / Series A / Jan 30, 2018 | |
Plato
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Plato is on a mission to help engineering + product leaders develop soft skills and build better teams. Plato does this through a powerful mentoring platform, where new leaders connect with seasoned professionals for 1-1 sessions, AMAs, and a comprehensive knowledge base. Plato Mentors have extensive experience in management, and come from top techcompanies like Google, Facebook, Lyft, Slack, Netflix, and Spotify - among others. | $3.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 03, 2017 | |
| See all 26 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Slack invest in?
Slack invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Slack's check size?
Slack typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$9M at Seed, $7M–$12M at Series A and $3.3M–$50M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Slack participates in.
How do I contact Slack?
Public channels for Slack include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at Slack?
The team at Slack includes Farzad Khosrowshahi (VP of Product Engineering), Jason Spinell (Manager) and Matt Loop (Head of Asia Pacific), among 19 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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