HealthLeaders Media June 20, 2019
Jack O'Brien

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.

In Slack’s amended S-1...

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