Slack files to go public, revealing $400 million in revenue and $139 million in losses.
Slack released its S-1 Friday, making it the latest in a highly-anticipated class of tech companies to file to go public. Slack will pursue a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol"SK."
div > div.group > p:first-child"> For the year ended Jan. 31, 2019, Slack reported $400.55 million in revenue. Slack reported a net loss of $138.9 million for the same period. The company reported about $841 million in cash equivalents as of Jan. 31, 2019. For the three months ended Jan. 31, 2019, the company reported daily active users over 10 million. As of Jan. 31 this year, Slack reported 88,000 paid customers, representing 49% year over year growth compared to the previous year, when the company reported 59,000 paid customers. Between Slack's fiscal years 2017 and 2018, the company saw 59% year over year growth in paid customers, up from 37,000.
Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Social Capital and SoftBank are among the company's top stockholders, with an ownership stake of at least 5%. Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield owns an 8.6% stake in the company. Slack follows several tech companies that have already debuted on the public market in 2019, including Lyft, PagerDuty, Pinterest and Zoom. Uber has also released its S-1 and is expected to go public in a few weeks.Disclosure: Comcast Ventures, the venture arm of Comcast, is an investor in Slack. Comcast owns CNBC parent company NBCUniversal.
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