Bloomberg Beta and Slack Fund were among the investors that provided $12m for the workplace messaging tool developer.

Donut, the US-based developer of an enterprise messaging platform, disclosed $12m in funding yesterday from investors including Bloomberg Beta and Slack Fund, investment vehicles for media group Bloomberg and communication software provider Slack.

Venture capital firms Accel and FirstMark are also among the company’s backers, as are the founders of startups Envoy, InVision and Codecademy. It had raised just over $1m from investors including Slack Fund in 2017, according to a regulatory filing.

Founded in 2016, Donut has built a…

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.