TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

On the heels of Personio raising a big round yesterday , one of its competitors and another big startup in the area of HR has also picked up some funding. The funding values the company at around $1.65 The funding will be used in part in an effort to tap more growth internationally to complement that existing base.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On the heels of Amazon about to launch a new enterprise service to detect whether a machine is working well or not based on external physical changes in sound, vibration and temperature, a startup that has already built a big business in the space is announcing a big growth round of funding.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund , a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage AI companies tackling major problems. Mum’s been the word since on which companies have received infusions from the Fund.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Serena Ventures, Omidyar Group’s Luminate Fund, Melo 7 Tech Partners and Cascador (Empowering Economic Growth Foundation) participated. This news is coming two years after Stears raised $650,000 in pre-seed funding. An essential part of our business model is pushing out high-value subscription data products.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The vast majority of startups remain focused on consumers, knowledge workers and the opportunities to provide services to those that are already operating completely, or at least partially, in digital environments. The funding, an extension to the company’s 2019 Series A , is being led by Octopus Ventures. million users.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

In one of the latest developments, Hourly.io — which has built an app that tracks working hours, generates payroll, and then calculates and assigns workers compensation insurance to individuals based on that — has closed in on $27 million in funding. is based out of the U.S. S Capital also led Hourly’s $7.2

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

When you think of Slack, you probably think of a chat app that’s growing in popularity for businesses large and small. Slack Connect is enabling businesses to use Slack in new ways that go beyond just traditional human-to-human communications. Slack obviously has a big incentive to gradually move businesses away from email.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In line with that trend, today a startup out of Denmark called Ageras Group , which has built a dual-purpose platform, providing both accountancy software and a marketplace for small and medium businesses to find accountants, is announcing a round of growth funding to expand its business. Sweden, Norway, Holland and Germany.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

million seed funding round led by Moonshots Capital. Liberty City Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Seachange Fund and Quiet Capital also participated in this round, which follows the company’s initial $3 million pre-seed round. As businesses try to bring their SaaS spending under control, that may turn out to be a smart approach.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The company has built a business by tapping into the advances of technology to build apps for field service engineers and those back at the mothership who run operations and help manage their jobs, workers who in the past might have used phone calls, paperwork and lots of extra round trips between offices and sites in order to run things.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Slack set the standard in many ways for what knowledge workers want and expect out of a workplace collaboration app these days, but a lot has been left on the table when it comes to frontline workers. The funding comes at a time of strong growth for the company. “The first two months we were in panic mode. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

That translated into revenue growth of 220% year over year in 2021 — and attention from some new investors, including SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2, which led Fountain’s new $85 million Series C round. The latest funding round gives Fountain total investments to date of $119 million, including a $23 million Series B raised in 2019.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Knowledge workers — those whose professions tend to be anchored to desks or computers — have long been the most obvious and primary focus for a lot of B2B apps and services. Today, one of the startups targeting smaller businesses in the area of field service is announcing a round of funding that underscores that trend.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

But Magical’s cloud- and browser-centered approach has attracted the attention of investors like Coatue Management, which led the startup’s $35 million Series A funding round. Sambhi claims that over 300,000 users and more than 10,000 businesses use Magical, including teams within Disney, Facebook, Salesforce, and Uber.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

million in new funding in its pocket. The new funding will go toward increasing the number of integrations, new features and hiring. Two years ago , we profiled Okay, an engineering visibility tool helping engineering managers lead effective and engaged teams, which was fresh out of Y Combinator with $2.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

to raise funds for my startup. Depending on which non-immigrant visa you pursue, you may be able to avoid having to go through an in-person consular interview through the end of this year since you went through the interview process for your L-1B intracompany transferee specialized knowledge worker visa. as a founder?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A lot of the focus in online education — and, let’s face it, education overall — has been about professional development for knowledge workers, education for K-12 and how best to deliver cost-effective, engaging higher learning to those in college and beyond. Nana has now raised $10.7 “There are 5.9

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

Highlights from that report: Most workers toggle between apps 10 times an hour , costing organizations 32 days per worker, per year of workplace productivity Staff spends 25% of their time looking for information they need to do their jobs Knowledge workers spend 40% of their time on work about work. What are the details?”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Apps catering to frontline workers are seeing a surge of interest in the market these days, as businesses finally start to wake up to using tech to better connect with these employees, and investors eye up an interesting and new growth opportunity in enterprise IT. Blink has confirmed that the funding values it at $100 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The tight labor market, driven in part by “ The Great Resignation ,” is highlighting the need for more tech-enabled tools for connecting employers with available workers. The latest funding round gives Shiftsmart $117 million in total investments. million for its tool for restaurant workers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

For many of us, going to work these days no longer means going into a specific office like it used to; and today one of the startups that’s built a platform to help cater to that new, bigger world of employment — wherever talent might be — is announcing a major round of funding on the back of strong demand for its tools.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

Today, a startup that is building tools to improve that experience is announcing a big round of funding to expand its business. The Tel Aviv-based startup has raised $92 million to date and counts big companies like Unilever, Pepsi, MetLife, HSBC and ADP among its customers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Originally founded in Paris, France before relocating to San Francisco, SightCall has already built up a sizable business across a pretty wide range of verticals, including insurance, telecoms, transportation, telehealth, manufacturing, utilities and life sciences/medical devices. More on how it works below.).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

And that has proven to be a big business for AnyDesk. Part of AnyDesk’s attraction is the speed at which it works, but part of it is also how it is priced: individuals can use it for free, while business users can buy services in a variety of tiers starting at around $10/month.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Now, a startup that’s built a platform to run events to help work teams feel more connected to each other is announcing some funding on the back of strong demand for itself services. ” Alongside the media and content aspect of its platform, Teamraderie also provides tech to measure the effectiveness of the sessions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Today, one of the HR startups that’s been seeing a surge of growth is announcing a round of funding to double down on its business. billion knowledge workers coming into the workforce in the next 10 years, mostly from emerging economies, while in developed economies there are some 90 million jobs unfilled,” Jamous said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

At a product lab called Adept that emerged from stealth today with $65 million in funding, they are — in the founders’ words — “build[ing] general intelligence that enables humans and computers to work together creatively to solve problems.” ” Greylock and Addition co-led Adept’s funding round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

That’s not shocking — his startup, Allwhere , sells businesses tools for facilitating remote work. “[But] after two years of remote and hybrid work, nearly half of knowledge workers still do not have the tools they need to do their job. Oscar Mattsson is of a different opinion.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Brookings: The AI revolutions winners and losers wont be who or where youd think A new Brookings Institution analysis of AIs effects on jobs and job losses suggests highly educated urban workers will be most at risk of losing their jobs. Brookings, a D.C.-based Sign up for Fast Company Premium.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

But in a separate poll by McKinsey , 87% of workers said that they would embrace the opportunity to work remotely when given the choice. As a piece in Computerworld points out , hybrid work can become a “minefield of unfairness,” rewarding people who are more able and willing to work in the office.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

But it’s reasonable to say that knowledge workers in particular devote a sizeable chunk of their workdays to sifting through data, whether to find basic contact info or domain-specific files. According to McKinsey, employees spend 1.8 hours every day — 9.3 ” No enterprise search tool is without limitations.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

Business and commutes were at a standstill in the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday after an extreme fire in West Oakland put the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) commuter train system completely out of service between San Francisco and cities in the East Bay. Carpocalypse. The future of work requires this shift in managerial mindset.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s been built for what Huffman thinks is the future: digital knowledge workers, a term he uses to describe independent tech workers who freelance for different companies or gigs. The early adopters are independent workers who want to work or advise for a product team.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

Anjali Sud on building a profitable video business by moving from streaming to software Today on Decoder I’m talking to Anjali Sud, the CEO of Vimeo. The same way every business had a website, it seemed like a lot of businesses now wanted to use video to communicate. Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge.

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Neon CRM

MAY 30, 2023

Wasted Time The average knowledge worker reports spending about 60% of their time on “work about work.” When it comes to nonprofit databases and technical ecosystems, there are basically three approaches to take, absent custom-built CRMs which are typically used by massive organizations with extensive funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

However, I predict more non-Latin American founders, investors, engineers and operators from cities like New York, LA and San Francisco, will also choose to build their businesses in Miami due to higher quality of life and more attractive tax rates. What is happening in Miami now that you’re most excited to fund?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

Most creatives and knowledge workers who are not developers. it is particularly sad because its still virtually impossible to spend grant money on GNU/Linux support, people like to fund shiny hologram boxes. Where is Linux not a good idea? Because most people will only use what they are familiar with.

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