Slack Launches App Directory And Joins Top VCs For $80M Fund Backing Developers
- 8 years ago
Slack just hatched a master plan to ensure it becomes the social and collaboration hub of the enterprise.
It's harnessing all its Silicon Valley hype to create rocket fuel for its growing app platform.
Slack wants to lock in the 2 million daily active users and 570,000 paid seats it now has.
That means getting developers to build Slack apps beyond the 150 like Dropbox and Twilio that it's now showing off in its new App Directory, which we reported on Monday was coming.
So tonight Slack announced it's teamed up with its investors, who happen to be the Bay Area A-list of VCs - Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, KPCB, Spark, and Social+Capital.
Together they've thrown in $80 million for a Slack-first fund.
It will back enterprise software developers making Slack integrations part of their core product.
It's harnessing all its Silicon Valley hype to create rocket fuel for its growing app platform.
Slack wants to lock in the 2 million daily active users and 570,000 paid seats it now has.
That means getting developers to build Slack apps beyond the 150 like Dropbox and Twilio that it's now showing off in its new App Directory, which we reported on Monday was coming.
So tonight Slack announced it's teamed up with its investors, who happen to be the Bay Area A-list of VCs - Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, KPCB, Spark, and Social+Capital.
Together they've thrown in $80 million for a Slack-first fund.
It will back enterprise software developers making Slack integrations part of their core product.