Slack Fund

Invests in companies building productivity-enhancing tools for remote work teams and collaborative environments.

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Updated: Jan 22, 2026 ·

About

The Slack Fund is an investment fund to support slack teams building products that enable more productive workplaces.

Financial History

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Investments Made

Date	Company	Round	Lead Investor(s)	Co-Investor(s)
Aug 1, 2025	Bluefish Labs	$20.0M Series A	—	Ann Bordetsky, New Enterprise Associates, Trajectory Ventures
May 1, 2025	Pangolin	$500K Seed	—	Alt Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Forum Ventures, Sangeen Zeb, Matrix, S28 Capital, SaaS Venture Capital, Y Combinator, Allen Gannett, Edith Harbaugh, Ott Kaukver
Sep 1, 2024	Oyster	$59.0M Series D	—	Acadian Ventures, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Bedrock Capital, Bling Capital, BoxGroup, Cambrian Ventures, Connect Ventures, Conversion Capital, Emergence Capital, Highland Capital Partners, Indeed.com, Kearny Jackson, monashees, Salesforce Ventures, SNR, SV Latam Fund, TY, Ulu Ventures, Eric Nadalin, Garrett Koehn, Gokul Rajaram, Sam Altman
Sep 1, 2024	Color Robotics	$150K Seed	—	Alt Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Forum Ventures, Sangeen Zeb, Matrix, S28 Capital, SaaS Venture Capital, Y Combinator, Allen Gannett, Edith Harbaugh, Ott Kaukver
Sep 1, 2024	Ensemble AI	$3.0M Seed	—	Alt Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Forum Ventures, Sangeen Zeb, Matrix, S28 Capital, SaaS Venture Capital, Y Combinator, Allen Gannett, Edith Harbaugh, Ott Kaukver
Jul 1, 2024	Groq	$640.0M Series D	—	Alumni Ventures, Axiom Partners, C2 Investment, E1 Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures, Race Capital, Social Capital, SparkLabs Group, TDK Ventures, Trajectory Ventures, Transpose platform, Uncork Capital, George Godula, Sahin Boydas, 11, Adeel Hussain, Adjacent, Ann Bordetsky, Bradley Horowitz, Charles Zedlewski, DJ Patil, Flourish Ventures, F-Prime Capital Partners, FPV Fund, Jacob Kerzner, James Park, Jeff Hammerbacher, K2 Global, Mattia Astori, Maven Ventures, Mike Lee, Mo El-Bibany, NextView Ventures, Night Capital, Nir Eyal, OODA Ventures, Ron Pragides, Scribble Ventures, Siddharth Singhal, Stewart Butterfield, Trevor Wright, Tribe Capital
Jun 1, 2024	Smashing	$3.0M Seed	—	Array Ventures, Coatue, Coelius Capital, Company Capital, Flex Capital, Founder Collective, Gecad Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Insignia Ventures Partners, NFX, Indranil Guha, Saints Capital, SignalFire, Susa Ventures, Andy Cohen, Abe Burns, Adam Jackson, Balaji Srinivasan, Clark Landry, Ed Baker, Gil Elbaz, Gokul Rajaram, Javier Olivan, Mark Goines, Scott Belsky
Jun 1, 2024	Synthpop	$6.0M Seed	—	500 Global, Acrew Capital, Curie.Bio, Flexcap, Footwork, Founder Collective, Freestyle Capital, Index Ventures, K2 Global, Kearny Jackson, Kickstart Fund, Logos Labs, Long Journey Ventures, Offline Ventures, Peterson Ventures, Plug & Play Ventures, Prototype Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SignalFire, TQ Ventures, Unusual Ventures, Bradley Horowitz, Fareed Mosavat, Gabriel Jarrosson, Sahil Lavingia, Scott Belsky
Jun 1, 2024	SaleSqueze	$2.0M Seed	—	Founder Collective, Gecad Ventures, NFX, Ed Baker, Gokul Rajaram, Javier Olivan, Scott Belsky
Dec 1, 2023	Dynamic Labs	$14.0M Series A	—	1/1 Capital, Alchemy Ventures, Cedar Capital Group, Firework Ventures, Flexsteel Industries Inc., Gradient Ventures, GSV Acceleration, Heretic Ventures, Index Ventures, Insight Partners, Luno Expeditions, Mantis VC, Pareto Holdings, Pear VC, Precursor Ventures, Redstone Road LLC, Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures), Chris Fanini, Daniel Kan, Henry Davis, James Beshara, Jeff Seibert, Odell Beckham Jr., Wayne Chang
Nov 1, 2023	Amini	$4.0M Seed	—	Acadian Ventures, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Bedrock Capital, Bling Capital, BoxGroup, Cambrian Ventures, Climate Capital, Connect Ventures, Conversion Capital, Emergence Capital, Female Founders Fund, Forum Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Indeed.com, Kearny Jackson, M34 Capital, monashees, Pale Blue Dot, Salesforce Ventures, SNR, Solana Ventures, SV Latam Fund, TY, Ulu Ventures, Abhay Kumar, Eric Nadalin, Garrett Koehn, Gokul Rajaram, Sam Altman
Oct 1, 2023	Gatheround	$8.0M Series A	—	Atlassian Ventures, Awesome People Ventures, Golden Section Ventures, Stellar Capital, Wing Venture Capital, Michael Stoppelman
Oct 1, 2023	Objective	$13.0M Seed	—	9Yards Capital, Kevin Hartz, Accel, Afore Capital, Alt Capital, Basecamp Fund, Base Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cedar Capital Group, Convective Capital, Curie.Bio, Day One Ventures, Designer Fund, FirstHand Alliance, Forum Ventures, Founder Collective, Gradient Ventures, Sangeen Zeb, Index Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, Matrix, MZ, Operator Partners, Partech Ventures, Prototype Capital, S28 Capital, SaaS Venture Capital, Scale Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Investment Advisers, Soma Capital, Stellar Capital, Stripes Group, Tribe Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, Uncork Capital, WorkLife Ventures, Y Combinator, Aaron Levie, Allen Gannett, Ben Porterfield, Edith Harbaugh, Julia Hartz, Larry Gadea, Michael Ma, Ott Kaukver, Sahin Boydas
Sep 1, 2023	Kindo	$7.0M Seed	—	1435 Capital Management, Blockchain Capital, C2 Investment, Crosscut Ventures, Crystal Huang, Shawn Modarresi, Marcy Venture Partners, Marlinspike, Rebel Fund, Root Ventures, Suli, Sunset Ventures, Sweater Ventures, TQ Ventures, Y Combinator, Ben Porterfield, Furqan Rydhan, Gabriel Jarrosson, Hubert Thieblot, Jay Z, Kulveer Taggar
Jun 1, 2023	Patented.ai	$5.0M Seed	—	10100, 186 Ventures, Accomplice VC, Amino Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Arrive, Bain Capital Ventures, Baseline Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Boston Seed Capital, BoxOne Ventures, Browder Capital, Cloud Apps Capital Partners, Company Capital, Cota Capital, Craft Ventures, DCM, Dig Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Founder Collective, Gecad Ventures, General Catalyst, Global Founders Capital, HDC Ventures, Impellent Ventures, Jackson Square Ventures, January Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, MBX Capital, New North Ventures, Next47, NextGen Venture Partners, NextView Ventures, NFX, One Way Ventures, Operator Collective, Pear VC, Plug & Play Ventures, Predictive VC, Redpoint Ventures, S28 Capital, Saga, SignalFire, SNR, The Hit Forge, Third Point Ventures, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Tribe Capital, Village Global, VitalStage Ventures, Y Combinator, Aaron Rosenson, Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures), Anne Wojcicki, David Chang, Ed Baker, Gokul Rajaram, Javier Olivan, Jeff Seibert, Jennifer Lum, Joshua Webster, Madhu Chamarty, Mattia Astori, Matt Mazzeo, Paul Graham, Peter Kazanjy, Sathvik Bilakanti, Scott Belsky, Sue Xu, Vinay Hiremath, Wayne Chang
Jun 1, 2023	Brilliant Labs	$3.0M Seed	—	Alt Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Forum Ventures, Goat Capital, Sangeen Zeb, Matrix, Play Ventures, S28 Capital, SaaS Venture Capital, Y Combinator, Allen Gannett, Edith Harbaugh, Ott Kaukver
Jun 1, 2023	Slang	$12.0M Series A	—	Emergence Capital, Founder Collective, Gecad Ventures, Homebrew, NFX, Pareto Holdings, Ed Baker, Gokul Rajaram, Javier Olivan
May 1, 2023	Charlie	$8.0M Seed	—	Better Tomorrow Ventures, DCVC (Data Collective), Dynamo Ventures, Founder Collective, Gecad Ventures, NFX, Ed Baker, Javier Olivan, Laszlo Bock, Scott Belsky
Mar 1, 2023	Videowise	$3.0M Seed	—	Acadian Ventures, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Anthemis Group, Arkitekt Ventures, Bedrock Capital, Bling Capital, BoxGroup, Cambrian Ventures, Connect Ventures, Conversion Capital, Emergence Capital, Encomenda Smart Capital, Founder Collective, Founders Future, Gecad Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Human Augmentation Syndicate, Indeed.com, iNovia Capital, Jude Gomila Rolling Fund, Kearny Jackson, Kindred Ventures, LifeX Ventures, monashees, NFX, Northside Ventures, Republic Capital, Salesforce Ventures, SNR, SV Latam Fund, TheVentureCity, Tusk Venture Partners, TY, Ulu Ventures, Weekend Fund, Ed Baker, Elliott Cohen, Eric Nadalin, Garrett Koehn, Gokul Rajaram, Greg Kidd, Javier Olivan, Sam Altman, Scott Belsky, Sean Glass
Mar 1, 2023	dope.security	$16.0M Series A	—	Alt Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Forum Ventures, GV, Matrix, S28 Capital, SaaS Venture Capital, Y Combinator, Allen Gannett, Edith Harbaugh, Ott Kaukver
Mar 1, 2023	Opkit	$1.0M Seed	—	Acadian Ventures, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Bedrock Capital, Bling Capital, BoxGroup, Cambrian Ventures, Connect Ventures, Conversion Capital, Emergence Capital, Highland Capital Partners, Indeed.com, Kearny Jackson, monashees, Salesforce Ventures, SNR, SV Latam Fund, TY, Ulu Ventures, Y Combinator, Eric Nadalin, Garrett Koehn, Gokul Rajaram, Sam Altman
Feb 1, 2023	Cycle App	$6.0M Seed	—	20VC, AAF Management Ltd., Acadian Ventures, Accel, Alt Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Bedrock Capital, Bling Capital, Boldstart Ventures, BoxGroup, Cambrian Ventures, Chalfen Ventures, Connect Ventures, Conversion Capital, Daffy, eFounders, Emergence Capital, Felix Capital, Highland Capital Partners, IA Seed Ventures, Indeed.com, Insight Partners, Kearny Jackson, Kima Ventures, L Catterton Growth, Mantis VC, Mischief Venture Capital, monashees, Pareto Holdings, Passion Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Sarona Ventures, #SecretFund, Seedcamp, SNR, Stride VC, Stripe, SV Latam Fund, TQ Ventures, Tribe Capital, TrueSight Ventures, TY, Ulu Ventures, Y Combinator, Adrien Miniatti, Amirhossein Malekzadeh, Anthony Pompliano, Antoine Martin, Balaji Srinivasan, Chris Murphy, Eric Nadalin, Garrett Koehn, Gokul Rajaram, Guillaume Luccisano, Guy Podjarny, Ilya Kondrashov, Jean-David Blanc, Jeffrey Wilke, Jérôme Le Feuvre, Jonathan Widawski, Kevin Weil, Lior Shiff, Liu Jiang, Mario Götze, Maximilian Tayenthal, Niklas Jansen, Othman Laraki, Peter Kazanjy, Riccardo Zacconi, Ron Pragides, Sam Altman, Scott Belsky, Thibaud Elziere, Youcef Es-skouri
Feb 1, 2023	Svix	$8.0M Venture Round	—	10100, 20VC, Acadian Ventures, Accel, Alumni Ventures, Alven, Andreessen Horowitz, Arrive, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, Bedrock Capital, Bling Capital, BoxGroup, Broadhaven Capital Partners, Cambrian Ventures, CFV Ventures, Chemistry VC, Coatue, Connect Ventures, Contrary Capital, Conversion Capital, Cubit Investments Ltd, Emergence Capital, Aniq Kassam, HDC Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Indeed.com, Kearny Jackson, KRM Interests LLC, Lionheart Ventures, Mercato Partners, MKT1 Capital, monashees, Next Play Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Pioneer Fund, Redpoint Ventures, RTP Global, S28 Capital, Salesforce Ventures, SeaX Ventures, #SecretFund, sequel, Sequoia Capital, SNR, Spark Capital, Stellar Capital, Streamlined Ventures, SV Latam Fund, Sweater Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Tribe Capital, TY, Ulu Ventures, Uncork Capital, Union Square Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Y Combinator, Aaron Rankin (Sprout Social), Aaron Rosenson, Antoine Martin, Calvin Chu, Charlie Songhurst, Christian Reber, Emily Kramer, Eric Nadalin, Garrett Koehn, Gokul Rajaram, Grant Miller, Guy Podjarny, Martin Li, Nicolas Steegmann, Paul Forster, Ravi Grover, Ron Pragides, Sahin Boydas, Sam Altman, Simon Dawlat
Jan 1, 2023	Coverdash	$3.0M Seed	—	Acadian Ventures, Accel, AME Cloud Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Bedrock Capital, Bling Capital, BoxGroup, Cambrian Ventures, Connect Ventures, Conversion Capital, Emergence Capital, Hardware Club, Highland Capital Partners, Indeed.com, Kearny Jackson, monashees, Scott Sandell, Newlin, Pfizer Venture Investments, Redpoint Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, SNR, SV Latam Fund, TY, Ulu Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Zintinus, Eric Nadalin, George Still, Gokul Rajaram, Grant Newlin, Harris Barton, Sam Altman, Sam Palmisano, Thomas Noonan
Jan 1, 2023	T2	$1.0M Seed	—	Afore Capital, Alchemy Ventures, Amasia, Andreessen Horowitz, AngelList, Atomico, Backed VC, BoxOne Ventures, BP Ventures, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Cedar Capital Group, Cherry Ventures, FPV Fund, Gradient Ventures, Greycroft, Hoxton Ventures, Insight Partners, Luno Expeditions, Mayfield, mExpand Family Office, Mosaic Ventures, Olima Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Preston-Werner Ventures, Redstone Road LLC, Section 32, Social Capital, Touchdown Ventures, Work-Bench, Adam Wiggins, Allison Pickens (Allison Pickens Ventures), Biz Stone, Charlie Songhurst, Deborah Liu, Ian Hogarth, Liu Jiang, Michael Stoppelman, Nader Al-Naji, Paul Forster, Phillip Chambers, Tania Boler, Wayne Chang, William Miller

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Leadership Team

Key people at Slack Fund.

Leadership Team

Key people at Slack Fund.

Deep Dive

High-Level Overview

The Slack Fund is a corporate venture capital arm focused on investing in companies that build productivity-enhancing tools for remote work teams and collaborative environments. Its mission is to foster a more productive and collaborative work environment by strategically partnering with startups that develop applications and services integrating with the Slack platform. The fund targets early to late-stage companies primarily in the United States, investing between $500,000 and $10 million across diverse sectors such as enterprise software, marketing, telecom, education, fintech, legal, and event technology. By supporting startups that enhance workplace productivity, the Slack Fund plays a significant role in shaping the future of work and collaboration[1][2].

Origin Story

Founded in 2015, the Slack Fund was established as part of Slack’s broader mission to innovate the future of work through technology. Over time, it has evolved from a smaller $25 million fund to its current $100 million third fund, reflecting its growing commitment and expanded investment scope. The fund is managed by key partners who focus on mentoring and partnering with promising companies that address challenges in collaboration, mental health, coaching, and hardware related to work. Its portfolio includes notable companies like Loom, Hightouch, and WorkRamp, which have demonstrated significant growth and impact in their respective niches[2][1].

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: As a corporate VC, the Slack Fund leverages Slack’s platform and ecosystem to identify and support startups that can integrate and enhance Slack’s productivity tools.
Network Strength: The fund benefits from Slack’s extensive user base and partnerships, providing portfolio companies with access to a large collaborative environment and potential customers.
Track Record: With over 100 investments and portfolio companies raising approximately $5.5 billion in aggregate, the Slack Fund has a proven history of backing successful startups like Clara Labs, Troops, and Onna[1][2].
Operating Support: Beyond capital, the fund offers hands-on mentorship and strategic guidance, helping startups scale from seed to IPO stages, often in collaboration with Salesforce Ventures after Slack’s acquisition by Salesforce[2][6].

Role in the Broader Tech Landscape

The Slack Fund rides the wave of the ongoing digital transformation of work, especially the shift toward remote and hybrid work models. The timing is critical as organizations increasingly demand tools that enhance asynchronous communication, collaboration, and employee well-being. Market forces such as the rise of SaaS, cloud computing, and distributed teams favor the fund’s focus on enterprise software and productivity tools. By investing in startups that integrate with Slack’s platform, the fund influences the broader ecosystem by accelerating innovation in workplace technology and enabling seamless workflows across diverse industries[2][1][6].

Quick Take & Future Outlook

Looking ahead, the Slack Fund is poised to deepen its influence by leading and co-leading larger investment rounds, expanding into new categories like mental health and hardware, and continuing to support startups throughout their lifecycle. Trends such as AI-driven collaboration, hybrid work models, and employee experience platforms will likely shape its investment focus. As part of Salesforce Ventures, the Slack Fund’s reach and resources will grow, enabling it to back more transformative companies that redefine how work gets done globally[2][6]. This continued momentum ties back to its core mission of enhancing productivity and collaboration in the evolving world of work.

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High-Level Overview

Origin Story

Core Differentiators

Unique Investment Model: As a corporate VC, the Slack Fund leverages Slack’s platform and ecosystem to identify and support startups that can integrate and enhance Slack’s productivity tools.
Network Strength: The fund benefits from Slack’s extensive user base and partnerships, providing portfolio companies with access to a large collaborative environment and potential customers.
Track Record: With over 100 investments and portfolio companies raising approximately $5.5 billion in aggregate, the Slack Fund has a proven history of backing successful startups like Clara Labs, Troops, and Onna[1][2].
Operating Support: Beyond capital, the fund offers hands-on mentorship and strategic guidance, helping startups scale from seed to IPO stages, often in collaboration with Salesforce Ventures after Slack’s acquisition by Salesforce[2][6].