TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Boulanger’s aim is to support bigger companies — its focus is in a market with companies that have hundreds of engineers, but eventually to be able to support companies with thousands of engineers. “We The idea is to double down on our engineering team, go-to-market efforts and design. million in new funding in its pocket.

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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

JUNE 6, 2022

It’s the belief of some analysts that the market for robotic process automation, which leverages AI to automate certain software tasks, is headed toward consolidation. UiPath , one of the largest RPA vendors, saw its market cap drop from $35 billion to $15 million within the span of a year. There’s evidence to support this.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

We’ve seen the market evolving over the last 10 years, and what started as an idea to bring a whiteboard into a browser has enabled us to understand the kind of value we can bring to organizations of all sizes,” he added. Miro lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges. Andrey Khusid, co-founder and CEO of Miro.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

If you’re a “knowledge worker,” you invariably end your day with a slew of tabs that collectively become your to-do list, your reading list, your shopping list, your assorted communications channels. That’s to say nothing about my job. It’s chaos, and it seems most of us are just … dealing with it?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Hibob , a London-based company that targets the mid-market with an all-in-one platform that handles various human resources functions, closed a Series C of $150 million. This was also the figure that appeared in leaked rumors in the market earlier this week, ahead of the company confirming the news today. and other European markets.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

In doing so, the founders realized that while companies like Twitter were able to build these bespoke tools for their employees, there were no comparable services on the market for all of the smaller companies that weren’t able to dedicate entire development teams to internal tools. “We looked at what else was available.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In terms of the wider industrial market, the funding and Augury’s growth are coming at a key moment. For starters, services like these are, perhaps, one of the first real anchors of a viable business model around the world of IoT — a long-anticipated market that has failed to come good on returns up to now.

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JUNE 4, 2023

They work with marketing, executive leadership, volunteers, accounting, donors, prospects, community leaders, and the board. Think of automation as a tool to help your team focus on the uniquely human skills of creativity, relationship building, and critical thinking that only they can bring to their fundraising roles.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

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. Currently, the company’s focus is on providing these tools for insurance companies, the public sector and capital markets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The bottoms up approach is certainly something we have seen with developer tools and with software for knowledge workers, but companies often take aim at sales through the sales manager, rather than trying directly to get salespeople to use a particular tool. Scratchpad announces $3.6M seed to put workspace on top of Salesforce.

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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

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. European founders look to new markets, aim for profitability.

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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. We’re not in the lead generation market. BigChange raises $102M for a platform to help manage service fleets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

It says that the plan will be to use the funding to expand into what it generally describes as “growth markets” — new countries, new customer segments and also adding more services to its software stack — both through organic growth and acquisitions. Pennylane raises $18.4 million for its accounting service.

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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. That does not seem to be the motivation for Zamir, though.

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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. Hourly workers, however, have come into focus more recently for a number of reasons. When he initally moved to the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

So less text-heavy way of publishing and more of forecast and prediction around sectors that matter to knowledge workers and their organizations.”. So the difference in output is such that in the past, we put out reports, but in the future, we’re probably going to put out data feeds.

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

Nonprofit leaders need no convincing that this is an exciting topic, but what about frontline fundraisers and marketing teams? billion knowledge workers, equaling a trillion hours per year. Let’s talk about productivity. Before we get too ahead of ourselves, let’s make sure we’re all on the same page by defining productivity.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Business Canvas, founded in 2020 by CEO Woojin Kim, Brian Shin, Seungmin Lee, Dongjoon Shin and Clint Yoo, is hoping to solve the challenge that every knowledge worker and writer faces: spending more time on research and file organization than the actual content output they need to create. “In

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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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Behr intends to deploy the new funds into hiring — the company currently has seven salespeople globally and would like to also grow in engineering and marketing. Fountain also has plans for a big investment in the international market. Fountain is the latest company receiving investment for hourly worker tools.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

That’s a market that’s seeing quite a bit of growth right now, especially given how the pandemic has made remote work a standard business practice and how the overall talent crunch is forcing many businesses to do more with fewer employees. Seattle-based Zeitworks , which is launching its private beta today after raising a $4.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Still, there is a lot left on the table when it comes to offering workers solutions that just work regardless of how organizations have built out, manage or invest in their IT architecture, or how well connectivity happens to be. That is the big gap in the market where AnyDesk plays and has seen a lot of traction.

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 7, 2023

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. Employees can use the tool to ask questions about markets, internal processes, and recommendations. Generative AI plays a role in employee training.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The holiday shopping season kicked off last week with some lackluster results , but employers are still in dire need of workers. 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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

“While the current market is temporary, the new ethos that’s emerged regarding flexibility and employee wellness is permanent. “[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. Emerging from stealth today with $9.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

In a global economy with an estimated 1 billion so-called knowledge workers, and with freelancers accounting for some 35% of the world’s workforce , it’s a pretty gigantic market, which you could alternately look at as a major opportunity, but also a ripe field for many players with multiple permutations of the marketplace concept.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Jobandtalent takes $120M from Softbank to enter the US market. There has been an interesting wave of startups emerging in recent years building out the tech stack used by people working in the front lines and in the field, a shift after years of knowledge workers getting most of the attention from startups building a new generation of apps.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Meanwhile, the marketing team of an e-commerce company uses Loopin to do asynchronous updates, which meant they could eliminate their status update meetings. Varma said Loopin’s target customer are founders, senior executives and managers in cross-functional roles who spend a lot of time in meetings, plus knowledge workers in general.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The company is already working in 100 countries, and CEO and Tony Jamous (who co-founded the company with Jack Mardack) said in an interview that the plan is to expand that list of markets, and also bring in new services, particularly to address the opportunity in emerging markets to hire more people. “There are 1.5

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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. But there’s a healthy market for enterprise search solutions regardless. According to McKinsey, employees spend 1.8

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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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JULY 8, 2024

For example, Kahn foresees that AI will restructure the workforce, making AI “copilots” necessary for every knowledge worker. Kahn explains that if not carefully designed and vigilantly regulated AI will deepen income inequality, depressing wages while imposing winner-take-all markets across much of the economy.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

And that market is booming: at the end of 2020, Vimeo had over 1.5 That’s a remarkable success story — all because Anjali decided to stop competing with YouTube, Netflix, and other consumer video companies and find a better market to play in. I joined the company about six years ago as a director of marketing.

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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.” That’s a major risk in a market where 67% of consumers state they’re frustrated by companies that don’t deliver personalized interactions. Even fewer include dedicated membership management tools.

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