Fundraising Fox

Cal Henderson

Unicorn founder

Co-founder & CTO at Slack · Founder at Slack

San Francisco, CA

FoundedSlack$7.1BSlack

About

Cal Henderson co-founded Slack in 2013 and has been its CTO throughout, having previously been an early engineer and architect at Flickr with Stewart Butterfield. He built the real-time messaging infrastructure that carried Slack from launch through a 2019 direct listing and the $27.7B Salesforce acquisition in 2021, and wrote Building Scalable Web Sites.

Co-founder & CTO at Slack

Intro paths

In turn, Cal can intro founders to Slack's investors below.

Slack's investors · 39

1991 VenturesLondon · $504K checksAccelPalo Alto · $1.6M – $70M checksACME CapitalSan FranciscoAglae VenturesParis · $108K – $5.4M checksAltos VenturesBurlingame · $1M – $3M checksAndreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checksAtlassian Ventures$1M – $5M checksBloomberg BetaSan Francisco · $25K – $1M checksCoatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checksComcast VenturesNew York · $2M – $15M checksCraft VenturesSan Francisco · $50K – $50M checksEQUIAMSan Francisco · $1M – $10M checksFelicis VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $15M checksFundersClubSan Francisco · $250K – $5M checksGlobal Founders CapitalBerlin · $637K – $32M checksGlynn Capital ManagementMenlo ParkGP BullhoundLondonGV (Google Ventures)Mountain View · $250K – $50M checksHigh AlphaIndianapolisIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)San Francisco · $15M – $75M checksKhosla VenturesMenlo Park · $5K – $50M checksKleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checksLight Street CapitalPalo AltoLowercase CapitalJacksonMicroVenturesAustin · $150K – $1M checksMoonshots CapitalAustin · $5K – $2.5M checksMudita VentureDetroit · $500K – $1M checksNext Play VenturesMenlo Park · $100K – $5M checksNight CapitalCapitolaNotable CapitalSilicon Valley · $5M – $50M checksS32Palo AltoSection 32Palo AltoSlow VenturesSan Francisco · $50K – $1M checksSoftBank Vision FundLondonSpark CapitalSan Francisco · $500K – $25M checksSV AngelSan FranciscoUnanimous CapitalMenlo ParkWEtech AllianceWindsorWireframe VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $2M checks

Co-founders at Slack

SBStewart Butterfield
Stewart ButterfieldCo-founder & CEO

Founder at Slack

Intro paths

In turn, Cal can intro founders to Slack's investors below.

Experience

  1. Slack Technologies, IncCo-founder & CTO2009 — 2024San Francisco, CA
  2. FlickrHead of Engineering2003 — 2009San Francisco Bay Area
  3. EMAPDirector of Technology2001 — 2004Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Education

  1. Birmingham City UniversityBSc, Software Engineering
  2. Sharnbook Upper School

Skills & more

CMS3JavaScript27Flash3APIs1Mobile Applications7jQueryPHP21MySQL4Web Applications13HTML 5Web Development37Scalability16
+12 moreSubversionUser ExperienceProgrammingSoftware DevelopmentCSSHTMLWeb ServicesRubyScrumFront-endOOPActionScript

From Cal's professional profile.

Frequently asked questions

Where does Cal Henderson work?
Cal Henderson is Co-founder & CTO at Slack and Founder at Slack.
What companies did Cal Henderson found?
Cal Henderson founded Slack, Slack.

Paths to reach Cal

People who overlapped with Cal at the same organization — a shared school or employer with one of them is a warm way in.

Founder mafias

Same school

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