![]() Slack declined to comment beyond its statement about the confidential filing. Other tech companies expected to go public this year include the online scrapbooking firm Pinterest. Their efforts stalled temporarily last month when a government shutdown hampered the S.E.C.’s ability to review the companies’ registration documents. In December, the ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft filed confidential paperwork for their own public offerings. ![]() Public share sales by the companies are expected to create a bonanza of riches in Silicon Valley for entrepreneurs and venture capital investors. Many of these start-ups, which have been highly valued by private investors, are part of a generation of technology companies known as unicorns. Slack’s confidential filing comes amid a rush by privately held companies to go public this year. Slack recently hired Goldman Sachs to lead the offering. The move was expected given that Slack’s chief executive, Stewart Butterfield, had long indicated that he planned to take the company public. Slack, which is based in San Francisco, gave no details about the offering’s timing and said it was awaiting a standard review of its paperwork by the Securities and Exchange Commission. ![]() SAN FRANCISCO - Slack, a workplace messaging company, said Monday that it had confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering, joining the growing number of technology start-ups heading to the stock market.
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