Beekeeper, a US-based mobile-first communications platform for employees without a corporate email address, has raised $8m in its expanded series A round from a consortium including Swisscom Ventures, the corporate venturing subsidiary of telecommunications firm Swisscom.

Other investors in the A round, which was led by Keen Venture Partners, included Fyrfly Venture Partners, Polytech Ecosystem Ventures, b-to-v Partners and Investiere.ch and angel investors, such as Niklas Zennström, Skype co-founder and founding partner at Atomico, Ariel Lüdi, former CEO of Hybris…