Troops is a developer of a revenue communications platform that enhances sales velocity, forecast accuracy, visibility, and collaboration for sales teams. The platform integrates with Salesforce to provide real-time transparency around sales data and operates as a Slackbot, enabling users to configure reports, communicate deal wins, and access information on both standard and custom Salesforce objects. By employing artificial intelligence, Troops allows users to create customizable notifications, view, and update data across various applications. This functionality helps sales teams receive actionable pipeline alerts and increases their overall sales activity.
Trunk is an Australian company dedicated to enhancing the management of design files for professional design teams. By developing tools that facilitate version control, Trunk addresses significant challenges related to lost files and outdated versions. Its solutions enable designers to collaborate in real time on a single design file, thereby improving efficiency and reducing the risks associated with file management. Through its focus on open-source design, Trunk aims to streamline the collaborative process for design professionals, ensuring that teams can work together effectively and maintain the integrity of their design assets.
Wake is a web-based application designed for product designers. It facilitates the sharing of animations, videos, and captured designs from notebooks or whiteboards among teams. The platform enables designers to communicate effectively with their team members and receive feedback on their work.
Brand.AI
Acquisition in 2017
Brand.AI is a brand operating system and digital asset management platform that helps brand builders, agencies, and corporates streamline brand work. The platform synthesizes strategies, business plans, and brand touchpoints to guide concepts and content across channels, acting as a strategic co-pilot for internal and external partners. It enables asset management, sharing design assets with teams, and maintaining front-end code and visual consistency across applications by exporting style data to Sass and supporting integration with design tools such as Sketch and Adobe Illustrator, while automating updates into iOS and Android apps. Connecting the brand operating system to real-world projects reduces communication overhead and version conflicts and supports smarter decision-making.
Dossier Labs (Acquired by InVision)
Acquisition in 2017
Dossier Labs, acquired by InVision, has developed an innovative document management tool aimed at enhancing team collaboration. The platform organizes information into channels that reflect existing communication styles, ensuring seamless integration with tools teams already utilize. Dossier provides real-time notifications about document updates, clearly indicating what changes were made and by whom, thereby keeping all team members informed and engaged. Additionally, it allows users to create and locate documents directly within platforms like Slack, facilitating quick and efficient collaboration. This approach ensures that teams remain synchronized and that document content is always current.
TrackDuck
Acquisition in 2017
TrackDuck is a visual feedback and issue tracking solution tailored for small to mid-sized web agencies and freelancers. The platform allows clients to provide feedback directly on websites or image files, simplifying the communication process. By enabling users to leave feedback with just a few clicks, TrackDuck eliminates the need for installation or extensive training, significantly reducing the time spent on communication by 30-80%. This efficiency encourages clearer collaboration between clients and developers, facilitating more effective issue reporting and resolution.
Muzli is a design-focused platform that provides inspiration, news, and trends for designers. It curates cutting-edge design projects and insights from across the web, covering web design, logos, mobile applications, minimalist and brutalist aesthetics, illustrations, photography, and visual art.
Easee is a company that specializes in providing a web-based animation tool aimed at designers. This tool allows users to create animations by easily incorporating layers from sketches or Photoshop files, streamlining the design process. By offering a user-friendly platform, Easee enables designers to enhance their creative projects with dynamic animations, making it a valuable resource in the field of digital design.
Silver Flows
Acquisition in 2016
Silver Flows is a company that focuses on streamlining the design process for mobile prototypes. Currently in private beta, Silver Flows offers a tool that integrates directly with Sketch, allowing designers to build prototypes within the same interface they use for graphic design. This innovation eliminates the need for designers to export graphics from Sketch and transfer them to a separate prototyping application, thereby simplifying the workflow. Users can define the necessary logic and transitions for their prototypes directly within Sketch, enhancing efficiency and productivity in the design process.
Waybury
Acquisition in 2016
Waybury is a design and technology company focusing on product strategy, prototyping and humanizing technology.
Founded in 2013, Macaw is a software company based in Bethesda, Maryland. It develops and offers a desktop WYSIWYG design tool that enables users to write semantic HTML and succinct CSS code.