Venture-backed Slack buys Robots & Pencils’ Missions app

Slack, a cloud-based collaboration software provider, has acquired Missions, an app that automates processes and tasks in Slack. The seller was Robots & Pencils, a Calgary-based digital innovation agency. No financial terms were disclosed. Slack said it will build on Missions' technology to help enterprise teams streamline routine tasks, freeing them to do more creative and strategic work. Led CEO Stewart Butterfield, a Canadian entrepreneur, San Francisco-based Slack last year raised US$250 million from SoftBank Group, Accel Partners and other investors. Founded in 2009, Robots & Pencils is backed by U.S. investors Next Sparc and Zanite Ventures.