Mobile-first word processing and collaboration app maker Quip raised $30 million, as it looks to “build a new class of productivity tool that every person at every company enjoys using every single day”.

“While Microsoft Office helped on-board over a billion people to productivity apps in the 1980s and 1990s, we believe Quip can have the same impact in the post-PC era,” the company said in a blog post.

Quip, which competes with products like Google Docs, says it is different because it enables users to create and communicate in one place.

“Rather than writing in one product and sending an email attachment to talk about it, teams communicate directly inside Quip documents and spreadsheets,” the post said.

It says it also has the IT and security features large enterprises need to deploy it at scale and over 30,000 businesses already use the service.

The current funding comes from Greylock Partners and Benchmark Capital. John Lilly from Greylock will join Quip’s board.

He told TechCrunch that products like Slack, a messaging app for teams, and file sharing service Dropbox, don’t “really address how you create lasting documents and information with people. What we’ve found with Quip is that it’s kind of magic.”

“You start working on something new, realise someone else could improve it, tag them on the document, their phone buzzes them in real time and suddenly they’re there, in the document, collaborating and helping you get better,” he said.