PingPong
2 known investors
Pingpong is a team communication and collaboration app that separates urgent messages ("pings") from non-urgent ones ("lobs") and organizes conversations into threads to reduce notification overload. It supports both async and real-time communication, with features like voice messages, search, and email digests, aimed at improving team productivity and focus.
Also known as pingpong · usepingpong
Investors · 2
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Pingpong is a messaging and collaboration application aimed at remote teams and communities. Its central design choice is a two-tier urgency model: messages sent as "pings" signal that immediate attention is required, while "lobs" carry information that recipients should see but need not act on right away. The company frames this as an alternative to conventional messaging tools in which every message carries the same urgency, leading users either to be overwhelmed by notifications or to disable them and miss important items.
All conversations in the product are threaded and grouped into workspaces the company calls "courts," with threads split between those a user follows and new ones started by teammates so that parallel discussions in a group do not overlap. The product is built primarily for asynchronous communication but can switch to real-time; rather than an availability indicator, it uses a "here" state showing who is currently focused on a conversation. Feature set includes quick find search across conversations, files and courts, a dark theme, voice messages and a real-time walkie-talkie mode, an emailed recap digest, read receipts on thread-opening messages, keyboard shortcuts, quote replies and a recent files view. The company states the app launches up to five times faster than Slack. Web, mobile and desktop applications are offered, with team accounts administered by a customer organization whose authorized users access a shared team instance.
Business model
Software-as-a-service sold on a subscription basis to teams. Access is organized around customer-controlled team accounts, with an organization entering a customer agreement and administering authorized users, team settings and third-party integrations.
Paid subscription plans starting at $29 per month, preceded by a free 30-day trial. Paid customers supply billing details such as credit card or banking information to pingpong or its payment processors.
Traction
The website publishes a customer testimonial from a small business owner who reports switching from Slack; no user or revenue figures are disclosed.
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Market position
Positions itself as an alternative to existing team messaging tools, explicitly comparing itself to Slack on speed and on notification overload.
Explicit separation of urgent from non-urgent messages (pings versus lobs), fully threaded conversations with follow/unfollow control, absence of a conventional availability dot in favor of a per-conversation "here" indicator, async-first design that can shift to real-time, and a stated launch speed up to 5x faster than Slack.
Technology
Messaging platform delivered as a website plus mobile and desktop applications, with threaded conversation data models, follow/unfollow thread states, a presence concept called "here," voice message capture and real-time walkie-talkie audio, full-text quick find, automated email digests, read tracking, and third-party service integrations such as cloud storage that can be enabled per team.
Go-to-market
Self-serve signup from the company website with a free 30-day trial converting to paid monthly plans; earlier stage go-to-market used an early-access waitlist and a Twitter following, plus recruiting inquiries by email.
Remote teams, communities, and organizations that prioritize deep work and want to reduce notification-driven interruptions; the site cites a small business owner who switched from Slack.
Geography
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with an emphasis on serving distributed and remote teams.
History
The company published a privacy policy effective January 31, 2020 covering its workplace productivity platform, associated mobile and desktop apps and usepingpong.com. Its about page describes an early-access launch with a waitlist; the main site offers a free 30-day trial and paid plans from $29 per month.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- PingPongusepingpong.com · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does PingPong do?
- Pingpong is a messaging app for remote teams that separates urgent "pings" from non-urgent "lobs" and threads conversations.
- Who are PingPong's investors?
- PingPong's investors include Open Opportunity Fund, TSVC.