Slack Invests in 7 New Companies via Its $80 Million Slack VC Fund
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Editors Note: Slack has major offices in the Yaletown area of Vancouver, BC Today they announced seven new Slack Fund companies with a whole range of products that fit squarely in the B2B category, from tools for customer support to products that engineers use to speed up the development process. For instance, from Slack, employees can ask Neva about their PTO balance, submit requests to reset passwords, or order mobile phones. • Drafted, the referral hiring platform, matches people in your teams network to open roles at your company, and makes intelligent suggestions about whom to refer. Butterfield, who was born in BC, was also a Co-Founder of Flickr, a photo sharing platform that also began in Vancouver (and later sold to Yahoo). Guru has grown to over 260 paying customers, including Shopify, square, Optimizely and Dell, and Donut has facilitated over 100,000 introductions with their meeting bot.
