Kato
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Kato.im was a team chat service led by CEO Andrei Soroker. In August 2014 it launched Kato Teams, a free chat platform for businesses with one-to-one and group messaging, screen sharing, video and voice messaging, and drag-and-drop file sharing, integrating with third-party services like ZenDesk and GitHub. Its differentiator was letting users view all their conversations side-by-side at the same time. The company had raised a $1.8 million Series A round.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Product or service closed
Oakland team-chat startup Kato (LeChat/kato.im; CEO Andrei Soroker) emailed users that Kato service would shut down on 31 Aug 2015 after failing to gain traction versus Slack and pivoting to Sameroom.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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