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. The global opportunity is a big one, with an estimated 2.7

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2014

Dmitri Leonov is the VP of Growth at Sanebox , where he leads business development, sales and marketing efforts. When readers are scanning new messages in their inbox, they’re generally in a hurry to respond to urgent messages or tackle the next task in their busy day. Be specific. Make it searchable.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

million, which the company will use to grow the engineering team and launch on Product Hunt next month. Despite the fact that spreadsheets are crucial to normal business operations, there are multiple use cases for sales teams, finances teams, etc., The raise brings Causal’s total funding to $5.5 all of which are very different.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

DeepSee.ai , a startup that helps enterprises use AI to automate line-of-business problems, today announced that it has raised a $22.6 The company also stresses that it doesn’t aim to replace knowledge workers but help them leverage AI to turn the plethora of data that businesses now collect into actionable insights.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The company itself has seen business grow “exponentially” since then, said Tony Jamous, London-based Oyster’s CEO who co-founded the company with Jack Mardack. The company now works with 80 large businesses, he said, helping them fill knowledge worker roles. Oyster is not — yet?

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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

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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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. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Email has been around for decades. Slack Connect.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Its flagship subscription insights product, Stears Premium, contains content ranging from news and opinion pieces to investigative pieces and deep dives, educating the general public on issues around business and finance, economy, government and policy in Nigeria.

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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. NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails Keeps AI Agents on Track AI is rapidly boosting productivity for a broad range of business processes.

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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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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.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

“There was a point when Ryan and I were just looking for inspiration for improving the products that we were building and engaging with [at Twitter],” Kunjappu said. “With COVID, what’s happening is that the same challenges around communications, culture, productivity are coming down market to a much smaller company.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

It will be using the funding both to continue enhancing its product to target more verticals, and to expand to more markets: the plan is to be live also in Texas, Arizona and Nevada by 2023. “We had 30-40 hourly employees, and I helped with everything on the business side including HR,” he recalled.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Moody and Xu say the platform is designed to augment knowledge workers in their typical responsibilities, like reading through pages of information, extracting the pieces relevant to a particular question and transforming the information into an answer or a report.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Okay’s suite of tools are meant to largely replace tools built in-house and provide a look at the interruptions and inadequate tooling keeping engineers from feeling productive and engaged. The product can be integrated with a company’s existing tools, including software like Google Calendar, GitHub, PagerDuty and CircleCI.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Hibob, which sells its platform as “Bob”, says that the last year has seen triple-digit growth in revenues, and its opportunity has been to present its product — which also offers collaboration and other tools — as a modern take on what HR can mean to a company. When it announced its funding yesterday at a $6.3

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Sambhi claims that over 300,000 users and more than 10,000 businesses use Magical, including teams within Disney, Facebook, Salesforce, and Uber. We see so many knowledge workers still relying on these manual, outdated ways of working,” Sambhi said. At the moment, Magical doesn’t charge for its services. ”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

In the latest developement, Toptal — a marketplace for filling engineering and other tech roles with freelance, remote workers — has filed a lawsuit against direct competitor Andela and several of its employees, alleging the theft of trade secrets in pursuit of “a perfect clone of its business”, according to the complaint.

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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.

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Across industries, executives are pushing their data leaders to build AI-powered products that will save time, drive revenue, or give them a competitive advantage. They promise to help companies analyze data at scale, summarize and synthesize information, generate content, and otherwise transform their businesses.

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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

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

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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. “Every manager can open a part-time project or internal job with their product,” he said. I’m not fully convinced that may always be the case.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Remote , which provides tools to manage onboarding, payroll, benefits and other services for tech and other knowledge workers located in remote countries — be they contractors or full-time employees — has raised $150 million. First and foremost, it will go toward expanding its business to more markets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? When does technology boost personal productivity for nonprofit professionals and when does it get in the way? Sound familiar?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

But even when all the other productivity boxes have been checked, Teamraderie speaks to another challenge that exists in the workplace, specifically the knowledge worker workplace, that of improving our relationships with each other as a route to working better together. “We’re not just a content company.”

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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.” ” It’s lofty stuff. billion in 2020 to $19.6

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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. We’ve always been a subscription product.

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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. “So

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Most expressed concerns about remote employees’ perceived lack of focus, negative impact on company culture, and productivity issues. That’s not shocking — his startup, Allwhere , sells businesses tools for facilitating remote work. Oscar Mattsson is of a different opinion. Emerging from stealth today with $9.5

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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

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. “This growing problem was not only destroying productivity, but also sapping energy and detracting from the employee experience.”

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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

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

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. It has dabbled in virtual job fairs, as a pointer to one potential product that it might explore. Connect Ventures outs $80M third fund to back ‘product-led’ seed-stage founders.

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