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Mattermost (YC S12) — Secure collaboration for technical teams

Mattermost provides secure collaboration for technical and operational teams that work in environments with complex nation-state level security and trust requirements. We serve technology, public sector, national defense and financial services industries with customers ranging from tech giants, to the world’s largest banks, to the U.S.

Mattermost is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2012 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Secure Collaboration for Technical Teams. The founder listed is Ian Tien (Founder/CEO) (Y Combinator directory entry, September 19, 2023).

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Mattermost

New accelerator entry · 2023-09-19 · the record

Summer 2012
batch
120
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
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BatchSummer 2012
Announced2023-09-19
StageGrowth
StatusActive
Team size120
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Productivity
SectorsDevSecOps, Collaboration, Security, Open Source
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Fully Remote
BasedSan Francisco
HiringNo
Sitehttp://mattermost.com
Founded2016
Previously known asSpinPunch

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Mattermost provides secure collaboration for technical and operational teams that work in environments with complex nation-state level security and trust requirements. We serve technology, public sector, national defense and financial services industries with customers ranging from tech giants, to the world’s largest banks, to the U.S. Department of Defense and governmental agencies around the world. Our self-hosted and cloud offerings provide team messaging, file sharing, integrations, audio and screen share, workflow automation and project management on an open source platform deployed by the world’s most secure and mission critical organizations. We co-build the future of collaboration with over 4,000 open source project contributors who’ve provided over 30,000 code improvements towards our shared product vision, which is translated into 20 languages.

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