Group Messaging Startup RedKix Raises $17M

July 13, 2016 | Israeli startup RedKix, provider of an email/chat team collaboration platform which just launched its private beta, announced it has raised $17 million in seed funding from a group of  investors including Salesforce Ventures, SG VC, Wicklow Capital, Oren Zeev, Ori Sasson, Amnon Landan, Yuval Neeman, Oren Dobronsky, and Kevin Mahaffey. The company is using the funds to continue to develop its solution. Co-founded in 2014 by CEO Oudi Antebi and CTO Roy Antebi, RedKix is advancing a messaging and collaboration solution for the workplace featuring email, messaging, groups and channels to allow people to organize messages into group channels, from favorite people and per topic. The company currently employs around 25 people.