The messaging platform has provided more than half the funding, with the rest coming from its investors, and aims to build up an ecosystem around its app.
US-based online messaging platform Slack Technologies launched an $80m corporate venturing fund on Tuesday that will invest in companies to build an ecosystem around its app.
Slack provided more than half the capital for the fund, according to the Wall Street Journal, with the rest coming from six of its existing investors: Accel Partners, Andreessen-Horowitz, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Spark Capital and Social+Capital Partnership.
Slack Fund will invest in developers of ‘Slack-first’ apps and companies building business-to-business…
