CrunchFund, Angels Back Flowdock, A Group Chat Application For Teams
Summary
Flowdock, a group chat application for teams and businesses, has raises $650,000 in seed funding from Gil Penchina, CrunchFund, Marten Mickos, and IDG Ventures. Flowdock, which aims to disrupt the group chat space, is a collaboration web app for technical teams. As we wrote in our initial review of Flowdock, the startup brings activity from your project management tools (Pivotal Tracker, JIRA), version control systems (GitHub, BitBucket, Kiln), customer feedback channels (Zendesk, email lists) and many other sources to a single stream. The product, which is available via the web and a desktop app, includes real-time group chat, the ability to upload files, notifications, and more. The startup has already seen a pickup in customers, and counts Pivotal Labs, TED conferences, and Appcelerator as users.