Microsoft Corporation acquired Spectrum, a transaction announced in November 2018.
Spectrum operates in GitHub (GitHub sub-acquisition). Spectrum is a platform for building large-scale online communities that combined real-time chat with threaded, searchable public conversations. GitHub acquired the team and technology to bring community-building tools in-house; the original spectrum.chat announcement page is no longer reachable.
Strengthen GitHub's community and discussion capabilities by bringing Spectrum's team and community-platform technology in-house.
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.