Chat for several years now and have been very impressed by their open-source platform, which allows any organization to securely manage its own chat tool with customized look-and-feel," said Antoine Colaço, Partner at Valor Capital Group, in a statement. The Porto Alegre, Brazil-based startup (which is incorporated in Delaware) has now raised $27 million to date. The Series A round of funding was led by Valor Capital Group, with Greycroft, Monashees and NEA giving strong backing and e.ventures, Graphene Ventures, ONEVC and DGF also participating. The company plans to use the funding both to continue adding more customers, but also expanding the platform's functionality, including more security features, a way to use the service over federated blockchain architecture, apps for marketplaces, options for bots, and more social media and omnichannel customer service integrations, and potentially facilities for virtual events.Īs more business interactions have gone virtual, it has essentially opened the door for companies like Rocket.Chat building virtual communications platforms to build in an increasing number of features into what it does. Navy, NGOs and other organizations big and small to set up and run any variety of secure virtual communications services from one place - they can include not just team chat, but also customer service, collaboration platforms covering your staff and outside partners, school classrooms, conferences and more - has raised $19 million. Rocket.Chat, a startup and open-source-based platform of the same name used by banks, the U.S. ![]() Today, a company that's aiming to move the goalpost again with an integrated, open-source alternative is announcing some funding to fuel its growth. And we are committed to achieving that by following our passion for security, innovation, data ownership, and transparency.Chat platforms like Slack have been game-changers when it comes to what business users want and expect out of their work communications. We we want to empower companies to make communications their own. Beyond efficient workflows, seamless integrations, and unified communication. This achievement will drive our platform forward to to keep exceeding customers' expectations. It has never been: there are cycles where closed systems dominated the way businesses and society communicated, but invariably, the open systems win in the long run because of their universal spread. The future of communication is not on closed systems. Get Ready: It’s time for Conversations 2.0 ? ![]() Create documentation (and training) for deploying Rocket.Chat at-scale on clusters with Kubernetes. Update, maintain and expand the support for 30+ deployment methods + cloud-marketplaces. Make it easier for our community to deploy Rocket.Chat on their hardware or cloud platforms. Help community members with learning the skills that they need to maximize their use of Rocket.Chat as a communications platform. Establish Training and Certification Program Increased participation in our open source partner’s events. Rocket.Chat presence in major industry and developer events. Plan and host regular global community meetups, hackathons, contests, podcasts and webinars. Work with open source partners to enhance our code and capabilities in these areas. Sing LiChief Opportunities Officer Here is how we're going to empower our community in 2021: Grow community in new verticalsīuild and grow our community around omnichannel, plus new verticals such as virtual conferences, AI/ML bots, education, digital sovereignty and telehealth. Also, new integrations for Instagram, Twitter, and other social media channels to come.Īs a world-scale open source company, we are leveraging the product-led-growth momentum of our team collaboration community and amplifying it across new investment areas in omnichannel and beyond.Ĭontinuing our work with leading open source organizations and building the best growth team in the industry with proven veterans as well as home-grown talents in 2021, we aim to make Rocket.Chat the most important collaboration platform for our global community. Omnichannel Integrations: New Email Channel allows agents to connect their email boxes and support clients entirely from Rocket.Chat. ![]() Smart Bots: Improved conversation components with a broader range of rich media options, e.g audio & video.Marketplace Enterprise Apps: Increased and diversified Marketplace offer, allowing users to build their own apps.Blockchain Federation: Resources to facilitate the interconnection among Rocket.Chat native servers.Security Bundle: New features to increase messaging security, such as Data Loss Prevention and Antivirus apps.Here is a sneak peek of Rocket.Chat’s roadmap for 2021: ![]() Rodrigo NascimentoChief Technology Officer at Rocket.Chat
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