Two years after Meta announced it was shuttering its Workplace enterprise business, a band of former engineers at the social media company is launching a new corporate communication platform.
Slashwork, as the startup is called, on Wednesday announced that it has raised $3.5 million in funding from a variety of investors including Slack co-founder Cal Henderson and Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, the venture capital firm of former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg.
The London startup was co-founded by Jackson Gabbard, David Miller and Josh Watzman. The former Facebook engineers said they are designing Slashwork to be an enterprise communication platform similar to Salesforce's Slack and Microsoft Teams but driven by artificial intelligence.
"We've started from there, and then we've said 'What about the 2026 AI era?'" Gabbard, the CEO, told CNBC. "What does it look like whenever you start rethinking all of that from the ground up, with AI built into every place that it makes sense?"
Gabbard told CNBC that every piece of content in Slashwork has a large-language model embedding, which allows for robust searches from users. Users can also command AI agents to help them find posts or images that aren't populating.