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Remote raises $150M on a $1B+ valuation to manage payroll and more for organizations’ global workforces

TechCrunch

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. Remote raises $35M to help orgs with global workforce payroll, benefits and more.

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Tapping into digital nomadism and ‘deep work’ trends, Skimlinks founder raises $1.5M for Flown

TechCrunch

So today’s deep-workers and global digital nomads would probably be interested in a solution. Flown is essentially wrapping up into one package the knowledge workers’ wish-list. There are now estimated to be more than one billion knowledge workers globally, and it’s the fastest-growing sector of the global economy.

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Oyster, an HR platform for distributed workforces, snaps up $50M on a $475M valuation

TechCrunch

The future of work is long on long-distance, and today a startup that’s built a platform to help organizations hire global talent and build out those remote workforces is announcing a round of funding on the heels of strong growth. The company now works with 80 large businesses, he said, helping them fill knowledge worker roles.

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How to craft the perfect email subject line

The Next Web

Last year, a McKinsey Global Institute report noted that knowledge workers spend about 28 percent of their workday managing email. Readers will be more likely to open an email if they know who it’s from and perceive value from the sending organization.

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NVIDIA Releases NIM Microservices to Safeguard Applications for Agentic AI

NVIDIA AI Blog

AI agents are poised to transform productivity for the worlds billion knowledge workers with knowledge robots that can accomplish a variety of tasks. To develop AI agents, enterprises need to address critical concerns like trust, safety, security and compliance.

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Visual collaboration company Miro valued at $17.5B following $400M in new funding

TechCrunch

In our view, Miro’s culture of customer centricity makes it well-positioned to address a myriad of use cases across hybrid work for more than a billion knowledge workers globally. Prior to the raise, Miro was already profitable and growing three times year over year before the global pandemic.

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Business Canvas, a Korea-based document management SaaS company, closes $2.5M seed round

TechCrunch

The seed round will be used for accelerating product development and the global launch of an open beta for its AI-powered document management platform. The company opened an office in Santa Clara, California this year to spur its global expansion. The global market size for social software and collaboration SaaS is estimated at $4.5