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Cord

Collaborate experience

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1-20 employees
  • B2B
  • Productivity
  • Communication
  • SaaS
London, UK

Company mission

To make the internet multiplayer.

Top investors

46% female employees

Our take

Tech solutions for team collaboration have never been in higher demand. The recent global events have fundamentally changed the way many people work, transforming business communications for every employee around the globe. This trend is likely here to stay, with many businesses switching to remote-first policies as a result.

Following this trend, Cord was founded to build a product that allows users to chat, leave voice messages, and start a video call with team members on any page, whilst also offering smart and real-time feedback, enabling teams to increase productivity and establish network effects. However, instead of trying to replace existing communication and teamwork tools, Cord is aiming to empower them all and transform communication in existing SaaS apps.

Top investors behind Notion, Slack, Figma, Canva, and Stripe have invested in the company, and leaders at Google, Twitter, and Tinder have worked closely with Cord to make their vision a reality. The real challenge will be in building its market as competitors, such as Sedna, Fuze, Element, and Blink, also aim to muscle into the space.

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Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Benefits

  • 26 holiday days per year, but no one keeps track of this and we don’t care how many days people take as long as they get good work done

Funding (2 rounds)

Oct 2021

$15m

SERIES A

Dec 2020

$16.4m

SERIES A

Total funding: $31.4m

This company has top investors

Leadership

Before founding Cord, they advised Head of Product at $1B+ startups. They were the Product Manager at Facebook after being acquired in 2013. Their data science and engineering experience span 20 years.

They founded the London Facebook office back in 2009 where they built an engineering team of 450 people.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Cord

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Daniel Walker (Head of Talent (Previously Senior D&I Manager @ Amazon))

  • Building a strong, diverse team is hard, but it's something we're taking really seriously. At the moment, we're a team of 15 who speak 6 different languages and hail from 7 different countries. In a former life our Head of Talent was a Senior D&I Program Manager for Amazon leading diversity initiatives across EMEA.
  • We deeply value people who can bring more diversity to our team. At the root of our company culture are things: pragmatism, technical excellence, and emotional intelligence. We value them equally
  • Our gender diversity is way better than the industry average at the moment (50/50 in our engineering team!), and we’re always aiming for an even more diverse team

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