Asynchronous chat apps like Slack have done their best to kill email, but maybe the key to chat replacing email is just making email look like chat?

That’s the idea of Spike, a productivity startup that has built an email app that organizes emails into chat bubbles with an interface that encourages users to keep it short and simple.

“Email is a collection of your tasks, so why should it be separated from where your other tasks are?” asks CEO Dvir Ben-Aroya.

The new functionality widens the ambitions of the software but also refocuses the app on a more complete business use case.

“Unlike many other available email clients, we’re never touching, manipulating, using, reusing or selling any part of the user data,” he says. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1591922709.832852/Spike-raises-$8-million-to-make-your-email-look-like-a-chat-app-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience