Communications software provider Slack has exited Butter.ai, a US-based enterprise search app developer, in an acquisition of undisclosed size by cloud storage software producer Box.
Butter has created a mobile platform that links various enterprise apps so they are searchable by all employees. The startup introduced integration with Box in October 2017, a month after launching the app.
The company received a reported $3m in funding from venture capital firm General Catalyst in 2016, the same month has Slack subsidiary Slack Fund revealed it was one of 14 companies in which it had invested a total of $2m. Turtle Studios and Launch were also backers.