Kandra Labs, Inc.

Guiding the Zulip community in developing a world-class organized team chat product with apps for every major desktop and mobile platform requires leadership from a talented, dedicated team. We believe that the only sustainable model is for our core team to be compensated fairly for their time. We have thus founded a company (Kandra Labs) to steward and financially support Zulip’s development. We are growing our business sustainably, without venture capital funding. VCs are incentivized to push companies to gamble for explosive growth. Often, the result is that a company with a useful product burns rapidly through its resources and goes out of business. We have built Zulip as a sustainable business (also supported by SBIR grants from the US National Science Foundation), and are being thoughtful about our pace of spending. Funding our company without venture capital also allows us to live by our values, without investor pressure to compromise them when doing so might be “good business” or “what everyone does”.