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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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It’s time to abandon business intelligence tools

TechCrunch

Logi Analytics’ 2021 State of Analytics: Why Users Demand Better survey showed that knowledge workers spend more than five hours a day in analytics, and more than 99% consider analytics very to extremely valuable when making critical decisions. Yet, adoption rates are still below 30%. Why is this the case?

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HR platform Hibob raises $150M at a $1.65B valuation

TechCrunch

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. We are a people-management platform for how people work today. We believe that the HR platforms of the future will not be clunky systems, annoying, giant platforms.

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DeepSee.ai raises $22.6M Series A for its AI-centric process automation platform

TechCrunch

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. ” To help businesses get started with the platform, DeepSee.ai Image Credits: DeepSee.ai. CEO Steve Shillingford.

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

TechCrunch

Into this scenario arrives Flown , an online platform that will match knowledge workers with inspiring properties already set up for productive and ergonomic remote work, as well as providing an array of online tools and resources to help them. Flown is essentially wrapping up into one package the knowledge workers’ wish-list.

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BigChange raises $102M for a platform to help manage service fleets

TechCrunch

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. “I

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Now Salesforce officially owns Slack

The Verge

In a different universe where Slack is incredibly successful over the next two years and 98 percent of knowledge workers use Slack, it does matter to Microsoft because the relative importance of email is hugely diminished,” Butterfield said. What does this mean?