Slack
500 Howard St, San Francisco, CA, 94105, United States
Overview
Slack is a cloud-based communication and collaboration platform for teams. It allows users to exchange messages, share files, and integrate with various business tools and services. Slack is commonly used across various industries, from tech startups to large enterprises.
- Total investments
- 10
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 8
Sector focus
- Collaboration
- Enterprise Software
- Messaging
- Productivity Tools
Investment portfolio
- Privacy Dynamics
Participated · Seed · Dec 2021
Privacy Dynamics offers a SaaS de-identification app that lets developers rapidly anonymize data with a single click and can process thousands of records per second. The tool analyzes re-identification risk at the cell level rather than column-wise, which the company says reduces data distortion by 90% versus industry standards. Its precision and speed are intended to enable use cases such as on-demand machine learning training data, business intelligence dashboards, and safe sharing with external partners. The product is plug-and-play and supports Snowflake, BigQuery, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Redshift, and the company says its treatments satisfy HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA requirements. Founded in mid-2019 by Graham Thompson, a former Microsoft engineer, the Seattle-based startup built the product for engineers frustrated by privacy-policy friction. Privacy Dynamics announced a $4 million seed raise to further develop the product and expand its team from 13 employees, and it has now raised $5.7 million in total.
- Electric
Participated · Series D · Oct 2021
Electric provides IT infrastructure to SMBs, handling hardware deployment, license compliance, permission management, troubleshooting and other routine IT tasks so companies can operate with a smaller internal IT headcount or via outsourcing. The company saw rapid growth during the pandemic, doubling users and revenue in 2021 and expanding ARR from $17 million in 2020 to $38 million last year. Electric said it was on track to roughly double ARR again in 2022, targeting $70 million or more. Product initiatives in the works include a lightweight self-signup product, a self-service marketplace for add-ons (for example, antivirus), and proactive IT insights to recommend security and technology decisions. The company also plans to use new capital to pursue larger M&A deals and has previously acquired Sinu and TechVera. Management says the raise leaves Electric well-capitalized and able to pursue aggressive goals without immediately impacting runway. Electric provides software to handle the bulk of SMB IT work—distribution, maintenance, security, device provisioning and permission revocation—reducing the need for in-house IT departments or local providers. The product is often compared to Justworks for HR, positioning Electric as an outsourced IT operations layer for admins. Demand increased during the COVID era as remote work expanded, helping accelerate customer adoption and revenue. The company reported more than 100% revenue growth in 2020, and at the time of its Series C had just shy of $20 million ARR and 400 customers. Growth continued into 2021 with customer count rising to 700, 40,000 total end users, and 111% ARR growth year over year; the company was tracking just under $40 million ARR for 2021. Leadership views the business as potentially pre-IPO ready within two to three years and is focused on using capital to scale the team and product while managing operational complexity and focus. Electric offers a software-driven service that centralizes IT administration—managing devices, software subscriptions, permissions and routine maintenance—so small businesses can avoid hiring full in-house IT teams. The company charges a flat per-seat monthly price and recently introduced a lighter-weight offering without chat to broaden adoption. Electric more than doubled its customer base over the prior year and now supports around 25,000 users across more than 400 customer organizations. The company reports just shy of $20 million in ARR and has just under 250 full-time employees. To expand into new verticals and accelerate national growth, Electric acquired Sinu, an IT service provider with clients in legal, accounting and nonprofit sectors. Electric is also investing in diversity programs and philanthropic efforts as part of its growth strategy. Electric provides a cloud-based platform that installs management software on corporate machines to give IT a bird’s-eye view of an organization’s software estate. From the Electric dashboard IT pros can grant and revoke permissions, assign roles, ensure software is up to date, and handle day-to-day tasks through integrations with Dropbox, G Suite and Slack. The company added a self-service product that lives in the dock so employees can see corporate applications from a remote office. Electric positions itself to help stretched IT departments and companies that relied on in-person outsourced providers as remote work increases. Demand has jumped dramatically—Electric reports a 180% increase in interest from potential clients in the pipeline—and the company is continuing to spend on marketing. The product roadmap emphasizes scaling to meet demand and deeper Slack integration for issue reporting and support workflows. Electric provides a platform that lets businesses with small or no IT teams automate or manage administrative IT tasks with one click. The product focuses on administration, distribution, and maintenance of software—installing software on corporate machines, granting and revoking permissions, assigning roles, and keeping software up to date. The goal is to free IT specialists to concentrate on higher-skill work like troubleshooting and hardware installation. Founder and CEO Ryan Denehy said the company has tripled top-line growth over the past two years. Electric has been deliberate about fundraising and recently reopened its Series B to add strategic operators rather than chase cash. The company’s total funding stands at just over $50 million following the new tranche.
- Sonar
Participated · Series A · Mar 2021
Sonar offers a Change Intelligence platform that automatically maps and documents how data is used across an organization, giving operations, systems and revenue teams real-time visibility into the impact of any change. By delivering a searchable living data dictionary and alerting users when data shifts or automations break, the software reduces risk and accelerates process iteration. Over the past year the company expanded its customer base by 1,000 percent, boosted revenue by nearly 3,000 percent and achieved 110 percent net retention, winning customers such as Carta, OneLogin, Pendo, Drift and Outreach. With the fresh capital, Sonar plans to accelerate customer acquisition and extend product functionality beyond Salesforce, adding marketing-automation integrations later this year. The platform targets the 16 million GTM professionals in the U.S. who lack purpose-built tools for change management. Headquartered in Atlanta, the company positions itself as a critical part of the SaaS toolkit for high-growth organizations. To date, Sonar has raised a total of $15.7 million within the last 12 months.
- Pipe
Participated · Equity · Mar 2021
Pipe offers partner-embedded capital products that let small businesses access custom financing options inside the software they already use. Since launching Pipe Capital, the company has originated more than 15,000 advances totaling over $300 million. Pipe has expanded through partnerships with companies including Boulevard, GoCardless, Housecall Pro, Live Payments, Uber and recently Epos Now to reach brick-and-mortar SMBs. Twenty percent of its capital originations now come from outside the United States, and the company says it is growing its global footprint. Financially, Pipe reported strong growth—tripling revenue in 2025 and nearly doubling year-over-year revenue in Q1 2026—and has extended a $225 million warehouse facility with Victory Park Capital. The company plans to use new capital to add partners, continue scaling originations, and move toward profitability.
- Index
Participated · Seed · Oct 2020
Index provides a no-code BI dashboard product that enables non-technical users to connect data sources and build business metrics without help from engineers or data analysts. The product supports connectors including Salesforce, HubSpot, Stripe and databases such as Postgres and MongoDB, with Index handling query building and data display. The company was begun in January by co-founders Xavier Pladevall and Eduardo Portet and already has early customers while remaining a very small team. They plan to stay lean (the two founders and hiring roughly two full-time engineers) and use the seed funding to further build the product and distribution. With the new capital they have a stated goal of reaching $1 million in ARR within the next year as a step toward a Series A. The founders draw on prior experience interning at Facebook (Pladevall) and Medidata (Portet) and emphasize building a diverse, inclusive company as Latino immigrant founders.