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Rocket.chat is an open source team chat platform.

History
Rocket.chat was open sourced on 24th May 2015. Prior to that, it was developed as a closed source product part of Konecty. programming language and published to GitHub. It was founded by Gabriel Engel an open source project.

In October 2016 Rocket.Chat raised $5,000,000 Series A funding from Harry Weller and New Enterprise Associates (NEA).

Features
Rocket.Chat serves as an Internet of Things (IoT) application and it runs well on small IoT devices, including the Raspberry Pi Zero. It also works with multiple services including GitHub, GitLab, JIRA, Dolphin and Confluence. The platform allows chat, file sharing, video conferencing, helpdesk and voice messaging services.

Awards

 * 2016 : Black Duck Open Source Rookies of the Year


 * 2016 : InfoWorld's Bossie Awards 2016: The best open source applications


 * 2017 : OW2 Consortium Best Project 2017: Innovation Award