Slack Technologies
Slack Technologies, Inc. (originally Tiny Speck) is a computer software startup founded in 2009, with personnel located in Vancouver, San Francisco and Dublin. The core team is largely drawn from the founders of Ludicorp, the company that created Flickr. Slack is the fastest company to receive a billion dollar valuation.
History
Initial funding and Glitch
Tiny Speck received angel funding of $1.5 million in 2009, followed by Series A funding of $5 million in 2010 from Accel Partners and Andreessen Horowitz. A Series B round of $10.7 million was raised in 2011.
Tiny Speck's first product was a computer game called Glitch – a social MMORPG with highly stylized 2D graphics, in which "players must learn how to find and grow resources, identify and build community and, at the higher levels of the game, proselytize to those around them". Originally scheduled for release in Spring 2011,Glitch launched on September 27, 2011, but subsequently "unlaunched" to improve gameplay. In November, 2012, it was announced that Glitch would be closed, effective December 9, 2012.