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

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

MARCH 19, 2021

There’s also remote configuration tools for device security; a baked-in password manager for collaborative convenience to support teams needing to share passwords; and an embedded video chat platform so you can do team chats right from the exact same browser-based workspace you’re all using. via better page load times).

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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. But over the past four years, Slack has quietly been building a major platform change for its communications app that might help replace your work email in the future. Slack Connect.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 8, 2024

Mastering AI by Jeremy Kahn is absolutely a must-read for every business leader who wants to better understand the history and evolution of AI (Artificial Intelligence), and more important, the promise and perils of AI for businesses and society. We must apply our own natural intelligence, creativity, and wisdom.

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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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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

AI agents are poised to transform productivity for the worlds billion knowledge workers with knowledge robots that can accomplish a variety of tasks. Central to the orchestration of the microservices is NeMo Guardrails, part of the NVIDIA NeMo platform for curating, customizing and guardrailing AI.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

How Automation Can Help You Retain Fundraisers Automating business processes saves time and resources so your team can focus on support for your cause and the more challenging elements of the job, instead of the repetitive, monotonous tasks that sap energy and so much of a fundraiser’s time. Ready to Get Started?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

When you hear the word “intranet,” chances are your mind is conjuring up images of badly designed internal communications platforms from the early aughts: a place for your internal communications team to post announcements you’re not going to read. ” Cleary raises $4.5M

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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

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. million users. ” But the pandemic has had an impact, nevertheless.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

“We had 30-40 hourly employees, and I helped with everything on the business side including HR,” he recalled. “Every Friday the workers were paid, so I spent every Thursday collecting time cards in the field.” When he initally moved to the U.S., One of those involved handling payroll, he told me.

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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. Pennylane raises $18.4

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Mem users can capture quick notes, send links and save images from anywhere using SMS, messaging apps and the platform’s mobile client. One source estimates that document disorganization costs businesses $3,900 per employee each year in productivity losses, making Mem an attractive proposition if the tech works as advertised.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

While Sambhi positions Magical as an RPA platform, it’s more akin to a text expander. When asked about data retention, Sambhi said that Magical stores metadata but not any of the underlying data that the platform moves. We see so many knowledge workers still relying on these manual, outdated ways of working,” Sambhi said.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2022

If the pandemic has made us completely rethink the way we work, that we — the swath of workers at home in pajamas popping into meetings on Zoom — leaves out a massive chunk of the workforce that continues to show up for work in-person, every time. with global contracts in the pipeline slated for 2023.

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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.

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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. “There are 5.9

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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. But what happened was that businesses realized that frontline employees were critical to the success of their operations.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

The war for talent in the tech world can be brutal — and so, it turns out, can the war between platforms that help companies source it. Founded in 2014 in Lagos, Andela’s original business model was based on building physical hubs to source, vet, train and house talent across the continent.

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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. This is not unlike the career development tools that LinkedIn has built to bolster job hunting on its platform.). I’m not fully convinced that may always be the case.

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 7, 2023

They promise to help companies analyze data at scale, summarize and synthesize information, generate content, and otherwise transform their businesses. And tech giants like OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have been flooding the market with features driven by large language models (LLMs) and image-generating diffusion models.

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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. He is joining the board with this round. “We

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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. “Something that resonates with every leader is that our platform removes barriers from coming into the office and creates a workplace centered on choice. Image Credits: Robin.

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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. Yeah, so probably the most important part of the background is: Vimeo is a 16-year-old video platform, but we’re really three, four years into a very different strategy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

We believe the company’s partnerships with large employers like Chipotle and Liveops is a stamp of credibility of their innovative platform and ability to execute.”. Fountain, a platform for recruiting gig and hourly workers, raises $23M. Fountain is the latest company receiving investment for hourly worker tools.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Shiftsmart touts a customer list that includes Circle K, Humana, Deloitte, Airbnb and the Small Business Administration. Much of the technology built for staffing centered around knowledge workers, but a number of companies like Shiftsmart, focused on hourly workers, have also received investor attention lately.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Whether you’re working on something new according to your Twitter bio, or self-employed, according to your LinkedIn bio, founder Ben Huffman thinks his platform, Contra, will be the best way for independent workers to explain and monetize what they are working on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

In the book, we also talk about technology wellness in the nonprofit workplace, but I have been looking forward to an opportunity to go deeper on how teams of people in nonprofits can avoid technology overload caused by collaboration platforms and process. Clearly define workflow for online collaboration platforms and training.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2016 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, several of the original developers behind what became Siri unveiled Viv , an AI platform that promised to connect various third-party applications to perform just about any task. ” Whatever form its product — and business model — ultimately takes, can Adept succeed where others failed?

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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. The emergence in recent years of AI algorithms that can parse natural language has fueled the rise of platforms that can shrink that chunk.

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Neon CRM

MAY 30, 2023

The best membership management software platforms for nonprofits deliver all these features and more. It’s not uncommon for someone to use human-driven workflows, Excel spreadsheets, payment processors, and email platforms to process new or renewed memberships. Let’s take a look at the pros and cons of each option.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Hourly workers make up abut 55% of the working world , yet when it comes to tech built for the world of work, their so-called knowledge worker counterparts dominate the space. Founded in Minneapolis in 2010, When I Work says its app is already used by some some 10 million hourly workers in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

It works with tech companies and others to open up opportunities for people who have not had any higher education or any training, where fresh high school graduates can come in, learn the ropes of a job while getting paid and then continue on working their way up the ladder with that knowledge base in place.

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