HealthLeaders Media June 20, 2019
Slack is positioning its cloud-based messaging tool as a future feature of communication among healthcare professionals.
After a spring where Lyft and Uber led the Silicon Valley migration to Wall Street, Slack officially went public Thursday afternoon with a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
The San Francisco-based business messaging application company, which has indicated in public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that it has a future healthcare strategy, set a reference price at $26 per share. The company’s stock opened at $38.50 per share.
Slack’s debut comes four months after confidentially filing to go public and securing a HIPAA certification for file uploads on its Enterprise Grid service.