TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This news is coming two years after Stears raised $650,000 in pre-seed funding. 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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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Seattle-based Zeitworks , which is launching its private beta today after raising a $4.5 million seed round in 2020, wants to give enterprises data-driven tools for improving the productivity of their teams and streamlining their business operations.

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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

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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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

We understand that the funding is coming in at a $475 million valuation, six times the company’s valuation when it last raised money — a $20 million round just four months ago. The company now works with 80 large businesses, he said, helping them fill knowledge worker roles. Oyster is not — yet?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

The business model is SaaS and B2C for now, but Sidekick has designs on B2B — touting a pipeline of business-friendly features coming down the line. “The typical user is a knowledge worker — product managers, engineers, marketers, a fair number of students.

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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. SightCall has raised $67 million to date.

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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

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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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

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

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The company has now raised around $9 million, and from what we understand, this Series A values the company at around $60 million. At its heart, Teamraderie is a little like MasterClass-meets-LinkedIn Learning, but focused just on business users and potentially used with physical props used as part of the session. .”

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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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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. We just used Slack Connect to raise a little over $800 million in a convertible bond.”

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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

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. Wefarm has raised $32 million since being founded in 2015. million users. million members.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The investment values Mem at $110 million post-money and brings the startup’s total raised to $29 million. 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 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

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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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.” Hourly workers, however, have come into focus more recently for a number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Closed today, the round, which brings Magical’s total raised to $41 million (following a previously-undisclosed $6 million seed round), also saw participation from Greylock, Bain, Lightspeed Capital, SV Angels, and Blank Ventures. Image Credits: Magical. But the goal is to introduce paid plans with premium features in the future.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Dubbed “The Great Resignation,” the mass exodus of hourly workers over the past 18 months has now resulted in a competition for talent. So much so that companies like Costco are raising their minimum wage to $17 per hour, while Starbucks said it is going up to $23 per hour.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Shiftsmart touts a customer list that includes Circle K, Humana, Deloitte, Airbnb and the Small Business Administration. When I Work, a messaging app that lets shift-based teams schedule work and more, raises $200M. million for its tool for restaurant workers. million for its tool for restaurant workers.

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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.

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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. Luckily, the startup has raised a $14.5

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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

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

“We’re building a general system that helps people get things done in front of their computer: a universal AI collaborator for every knowledge worker … We’re training a neural network to use every software tool in the world, building on the vast amount of existing capabilities that people have already created,” Luan said.

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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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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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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

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 are some of the local challenges you’ve encountered or seen founders struggle with?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

But today, a startup that is exploring a different route for those interested in technology and knowledge worker positions — specifically by way of apprenticeships to bring in and train younger people on the job — is announcing a significant round of growth funding to see if it can provide a credible, scalable alternative to that model.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

If knowledge workers are merely promptly AI and instructing the AI agents to work for them, are humans still working? When work became hard to see One of the great historical transitions in the knowledge economy is that as work became more “intellectual,” it also became less visible.

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