Slack is approaching its direct listing with strong revenue growth and a
near doubling of its enterprise value to $12 billion in the past year,
according to a new
report from SharesPost.
As a first mover in the workstream collaboration market, Slack has a
significant opportunity to win new business from enterprise-class
companies and to solidify its market leadership, the analysis found. The
company has 10 million daily active users and reported $400 million in
revenue in fiscal 2019. Slack’s revenue jumped nearly 100%
year-over-year from fiscal 2018.
At the same time, Slack has yet to generate a profit, and paying clients
represent only 14% of its entire installed based. Additionally, the San
Francisco-based firm, which is set to launch its direct listing on June
20, is proceeding in the wake of the underperforming IPOs of Uber and
Lyft.
“Slack clearly has momentum as it approaches its public market debut,”
said Alejandro Ortiz, Principal Analyst, SharesPost, Inc. “Lyft and Uber
may have had challenging starts with their IPOs, but the more relevant
IPOs are other enterprise software companies such as Zoom, PagerDuty,
Fastly, and Crowdstrike, which recently publicly filed its S1 to go
public.”
Slack has raised over $1.3 billion in primary funding from investors,
including SoftBank Group, Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, and
Kleiner Perkins. Slack is SoftBank’s Vision Fund’s first enterprise
software company exit.
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