![]() But they’re tracking and forecasting these deals in Salesforce. Increasingly, they’re also creating external Slack Connect channels to collaborate with customers post-sale. Today, many of our portfolio companies’ sales teams create internal Slack channels to collaborate on each deal. All the productivity and collaboration (both internal and external) features they need to accomplish a task live in the same place.Ĭombining the Salesforce product with Slack is a huge boon for folks tasked with selling something. In a Deep Collaboration future, a person doing a specific task doesn’t have to leave a single piece of software to get that job done. The term refers to software that combines productivity and collaboration functionality in one place to get a specific job done. My team calls this stack Deep Collaboration. Collaboration tooling can’t be a destination. In a world where deeper collaboration is being done remotely, we need a new stack. The old stack (mostly) worked for that approach. and reserve deeper, more substantive collaboration for in-person meetings. We used to rely on collaboration tools for lighter weight tasks - updates, check-ins, gif sharing, etc. The move to remote or hybrid work is the catalyst we’ve needed to fuse them. The solution: Deep CollaborationĬollaboration and productivity tooling evolved separately. It’s tough to stay in flow when you’re constantly forced out of it by your tools. As the number of apps in both categories has exploded, there’s been a huge uptick in data loss (and frustration) as workers pivot across apps to get their work done. However, an unfortunate truth has emerged as the cloud has matured: Collaboration software is increasingly at odds with productivity. Ever since, we’ve exclusively focused on enterprise software, partnering with productivity leaders like Box and Veeva as well as collaboration leaders like Yammer and Zoom. My team at Emergence Capital have been students of the cloud since we invested in Salesforce in 2002. But one thing is clear: combining the collaboration functionality of Slack with the sales productivity tooling of Salesforce represents a monumental step forward in the history of enterprise software. News this week that Salesforce is acquiring Slack has a lot of people opining on the pros and cons of such a merger. WorkRamp’s platform - The WorkRoom - enables customers to create real-time in-person and digital programs and track their efficacy with analytics and custom reports.Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. WorkRamp, which Blosser - previously a product manager at Box - founded with fellow Box veteran and head of engineering Arsh Mand in 2016, pivoted to the employee training segment after it acquired Prelude, a stealth Y Combinator-backed company working on an enterprise commerce marketplace. ![]() We built WorkRamp to provide leaders with the analytics they need to make more informed decisions about training and developing their teams.” ![]() “We have seen how companies struggle without enough information on the skills and performance of their people. ![]() “We are seeing the pace of innovation across companies increase and accelerate the demand for tools that allow your people development to keep up with your product development,” said Blosser. The influx of cash brings the company’s total raised to nearly $10 million, and CEO Ted Blosser said it’ll fuel the expansion of WorkRamp’s engineering team and the buildout of its product offerings. WorkRamp, a San Francisco-based startup developing a full-stack cloud employee onboarding and management platform, today announced that it’s raised $8 million in series A financing led by Bow Capital, with participation from existing investors Initialized Capital, Susa Ventures, and the Slack Fund. Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. ![]()
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