Former Workplace from Facebook engineers launch AI start-up Slashwork to banish teamwork slop

Workplace communication platform Slashwork has launched out of stealth today with $3.5 million funding and an advantage that most startups can only dream of — an extensive rolodex of prospective customers eager to try out its as-yet unreleased product. That's because the team building Slashwork includes some of the key players previously involved in Facebook's much-loved enterprise teamwork platform, Workplace, which its owner Meta shut down last year after unexpectedly deciding to pull out of the enterprise teamwork market. The comment above comes from Julien Codorniou, General Partner at London-based specialist media and tech investor 20VC, which led the investment, and who was previously VP of Workplace. He elaborates:

A lot of ex-Workplace customers — you know, we had more than 11 million paying subscribers — they still miss Workplace. And the reason why we started this business with [CEO] Jackson [Gabbard] and the team is that they were still ...