Second, the round and valuation emphasize Slack’s position as a leader in this area. With consumer messaging apps like WhatsApp topping 1.5 billion users, there’s plenty of room for enterprise messaging to grow. Consumerisation has taken hold, and apps that let users easily start and carry on a mix of serious and diverting conversations, infused with GIFs or whatever data they might need from other applications, are vying to replace other ways that people communicate in the workplace, such as email, phone conferences and in-person chats, even when people are in the same vicinity as each other. That size underscores a few different things.įirst, it points to the existing opportunity in enterprise messaging. (You might even say Several People Are Funding…) We also don’t know whether this round has closed.Īt $400 million, this would make it Slack’s biggest round to date. It’s not clear which other investors might be involved the company counts no less than 41 other backers on its cap table already, according to PitchBook. We’ve heard from multiple sources that a new investor, General Atlantic, is leading this round, with possibly another new backer, Dragoneer, also in the mix. TechCrunch has learned that Slack is raising another round, this time in the region of $400 million or possibly more, with a post-money valuation of at least $7 billion - adding a whopping $2 billion on top of the company’s last valuation in September 2017, when SoftBank led a $250 million round at a $5.1 billion valuation. Now, the company is planning to capitalise on that with some more funding. Slack - the app that lets coworkers and others in professional circles chat with each other and call in data from hundreds of integrated apps in the name of getting more work done (or at least procrastinating in an entertaining way) - has been on a growth tear in the last few years, most recently passing 8 million daily active users, 3 million of them paying.

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