Investment Rationale · Sequoia Capital
Product
Switchboard is an online collaboration platform consisting of IRC-like channels with persistent infinite canvases for running applications.
Switchboard is a platform for teams to collaborate online. It is a series of IRC-like channels, each of which is an infinite canvas where anyone can open applications and share them with others.
Switchboard uses a custom-built, cloud-based browser allowing users to interact with web apps in single-player or real-time multiplayer modes.
At Switchboard’s core is a custom-built, cloud-based browser that allows you to run all of the apps you already know and love—Notion, Figma, Linear, Rippling and more.
Switchboard's workspace canvas is persistent, letting users resume work where they left off upon returning to a room.
The canvas is persistent so that when you rejoin the room, you can pick up right where you left off.
Traction
Switchboard has launched its product beta, making it free and open to all users.
The Switchboard beta is now open and free to all users.
Investment context
Sequoia co-led Switchboard's seed funding round along with XYZ and The General Partnership.
We are delighted to have co-led the seed along with Ross Fubini at XYZ and Dan Portillo and the team at the General Partnership.
What founders can learn
- The traction evidence that carried weight: Sequoia Capital wrote that Switchboard has launched its product beta, making it free and open to all users.
Source and provenance
Investment Rationale published by Sequoia Capital on sequoiacap.com (first-party source). Read the original
