Messaging startup Slack
said to draw interest from Amazon: Bloomberg
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[June 15, 2017]
(Reuters) - Slack
Technologies Inc, a corporate messaging and
collaboration software startup, has received inquiries
about a potential takeover from technology companies
including Amazon.com Inc, Bloomberg reported on
Thursday. |
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Stewart Butterfield, CEO of Slack, talks during the
business messaging company's event in San Francisco,
California January 31, 2017. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach |
A
deal could value the company at at least $9 billion, Bloomberg
reported citing people with knowledge of the matter. https://bloom.bg/2s3CqrD
Slack is a platform where employees can send messages,
collaborate, organize and share files. The technology also
integrates with a wide variety of business software - such as
Salesforce.com Inc and Microsoft Corp's Skype - so employees can
do all their work within Slack.
San Francisco-based Slack has raised more than $500 million from
venture capitalists and was valued at $3.8 billion at its last
private financing round a year ago.
Both, Amazon and Slack were not immediately available to comment
outside of regular U.S. business hours.
(Reporting by Subrat Patnaik in Bengaluru; Editing by Amrutha
Gayathri)
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