Facebook Acquired Email Startup Redkix for Workplace by Facebook

Its app will shutter and its CEO and CTO will join the social network

Facebook’s latest acquisition was completed with an eye toward its Workplace by Facebook enterprise offering, as email startup Redkix was scooped up by the social network.

Redkix combined email, messaging and calendar features in a single application, but that app will be shuttered following its acquisition by Facebook.

Facebook said Redkix employees including co-founders and brothers CEO Oudi Antebi and chief technology officer Roy Antebi will join the Workplace by Facebook team.

The Antebi brothers said in a statement on the Redkix website, “When we launched our enterprise app, our vision was to build a centralized, inclusive and modern platform for work.

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