Slack

Summary

Slack appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 2009. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Machine Learning, Enterprise Applications. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Lattice, Halp, Plato. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

Opposing the other organizations, this Slack works on 17 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 20 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The important activity for fund was in 2016. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Slack, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, ff Venture Capital, Techstars. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are SV Angel, Flight Ventures, Accel. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Slack Fund, Y Combinator, Thrive Capital.

The fund was created by Cal Henderson, Eric Costello, Serguei Mourachov, Stewart Butterfield. Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.