Case Study: Startup accelerator Distrito achieves a secure, scalable white‑label community hub for 250 startups with Rocket.Chat

Why Distrito moved to Rocket.Chat, the best Slack alternative

Distrito, Brazil’s third‑largest online portal for innovation and a startup accelerator supporting 250 startups annually, moved away from Slack because it lacked open‑source flexibility, white‑labeling and deeper customization. Distrito chose Rocket.Chat as a secure, customizable communication hub to provide team collaboration, omnichannel automation, an engagement dashboard and full branding control.

Rocket.Chat was deployed (including the Enterprise High Scalability Cluster) and customized with minimal developer effort, allowing Distrito to scale to thousands of members, choose self‑managed or cloud hosting, and gain end‑to‑end encryption and granular permissions. In six months Distrito turned Rocket.Chat into a single ecosystem—adding a news aggregator, coworking reservation system, downloadable content database and mentorship portal—significantly boosting engagement for the 250 startups they support and earning strong stakeholder approval.

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Diego Marrara Ranciaro

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