The State of Collaboration: June 2015

Here’s a roundup of what happened in May as we kick off June and the end of Q2. In short, lots of calendar app acquisitions ;) Definitely seeing no slow down in the collaboration and productivity world, largely from Microsoft and young startups, but a glaring gap of major progress from the $1b-$10b companies like Dropbox and Evernote. Curious to see what they will be dropping in the near future to make headway there.

“Plan” launches to merge tasks and calendars http://www.getplan.co/login

Wrike (collaboration platform) raised $15M http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/06/task-management-app-wrike-takes-on-15m-as-enterprise-revenue-growth-continues/

Asana launched several new integrations with Slack, Trello, Mailchimp, and others https://asana.com/apps

Atlassian acquired team communications app Hall http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/06/atlassian-acquires-team-chat-service-hall-to-bring-more-non-technical-users-to-hipchat/

Dropbox bought Umano http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/12/dropbox-buys-and-shuts-down-voiceover-startup-umano/

Do launched 2.0 of its iPhone and iPad apps www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/do-contributes-to-the-apple-productivity-parade-029251.php

Sunrise launched ‘Meet’ (an easy way to schedule meetings via the iOS8 keyboard) http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/14/sunrise-launches-meet-a-sleek-feature-to-schedule-meetings-from-your-phone/#.sce9ru:yyPP

Google acquired Timeful (calendar app w/ behavioral science angle) http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/04/google-acquires-timeful-to-bring-smart-scheduling-to-google-apps/

Salesforce acquired Tempo (calendar app w/ AI angle) http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/29/salesforce-acquires-tempo

Microsoft Buys Wunderlist (to-do app) http://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-buys-german-to-do-list-startup-6wunderkinder-1433177558