The curious case of Slack’s missing $162 million

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Slack has filed its S-1 registration statement with the SEC in preparation for its direct listing
One interesting data set that usually comes out of these S-1s is the company actual fundraising history
Slack has raised eight main rounds (series A-H), and 15 rounds total when including individual tranches, since it incorporated on February
25, 2009, according to Delaware records. Now that we have data, we can ask: How did the tech press do in covering the company Arman and I
investigated by looking at coverage of Slack individual rounds of capital on startup news sites and comparing those reported numbers to the
data now offered in the S-1
For the most part, the tech press did decently well, except for one curious, $162 million gap. The missing Form D First, though, a note
about Form Ds.