Slack Technologies
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| Type of business | Startup |
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Type of site
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Collaborative software |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Founded | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (2009) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Founder(s) |
Stewart Butterfield, CEO Eric Costello Cal Henderson Serguei Mourachov |
| Industry |
Internet (formerly video game) |
| Products | Slack |
| Revenue |
 ~$64 Million (2016) |
| Employees | 700 (Q4 2016) |
| Slogan(s) | We’re on a mission to make your working life simpler, more pleasant and more productive. |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
363 (June 2016[update]) |
| Registration | Required |
| Users | 2.7 million |
| Current status | Active |
Slack Technologies, Inc. (originally Tiny Speck) is a Canadian software company founded in 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The core team is largely drawn from the founders of Ludicorp, the company that created Flickr. Slack is the fastest company to receive a billion dollar valuation. Outside its headquarters in San Francisco, California, Slack operates offices in Dublin, Vancouver, New York City, and Toronto.
Tiny Speck received angel funding of $1.5 million in 2009, followed by Series A funding of $5 million in 2010 from Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz. A Series B round of $10.7 million was raised in 2011.
Tiny Speck's first product was a computer game called Glitch – a social MMORPG with highly stylized 2D graphics, in which "players must learn how to find and grow resources, identify and build community and, at the higher levels of the game, proselytize to those around them". Originally scheduled for release in Spring 2011,Glitch launched on September 27, 2011, but subsequently "unlaunched" to improve gameplay. In November, 2012, it was announced that Glitch would be closed, effective December 9, 2012.
After the closure of Glitch, the company launched the Slack real-time collaboration app and platform, raising $17 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Accel Partners and The Social+Capital Partnership. After the launch of Slack, the company renamed itself to Slack Technologies in August 2014.
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