One of these companies is the Orlando, Fla.-based startup, Yac, which just raised $1.5 million in financing from a clutch of investors to reinvent voicemail for teams raised on Slack and Zoom calls.

Yac addresses the issue of providing verbal feedback and communication asynchronously instead of needing to respond in real time.

Email and voicemail also perform these asynchronous communication functions, but Mitchell says that they’re just not tools that respond to the needs of the modern workforce.

The key, Mitchell says, is the asynchronous aspect of communication that Yac enables.

As a distributed team itself, Yac and SoFriendly knew the perils and annoyances that come from the always-on, real-time communication platforms like Slack or the in-person conference call or video call via Zoom. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579123808.207298/Yac-is-reinventing-voicemail-for-the-Slack-generation-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience