TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

When you hear the word “intranet,” chances are your mind is conjuring up images of badly designed internal communications platforms from the early aughts: a place for your internal communications team to post announcements you’re not going to read. The company today announced that it has raised a $4.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Now, a startup that’s built a platform to run events to help work teams feel more connected to each other is announcing some funding on the back of strong demand for itself services. The company has now raised around $9 million, and from what we understand, this Series A values the company at around $60 million.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

For many of us, going to work these days no longer means going into a specific office like it used to; and today one of the startups that’s built a platform to help cater to that new, bigger world of employment — wherever talent might be — is announcing a major round of funding on the back of strong demand for its tools.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

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. This is not unlike the career development tools that LinkedIn has built to bolster job hunting on its platform.). I’m not fully convinced that may always be the case.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

. “Something that resonates with every leader is that our platform removes barriers from coming into the office and creates a workplace centered on choice. But over the past 8 years, the platform has expanded to handle various aspects of desk booking, room reservation and guest management. Image Credits: Robin.

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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. There are a number of reasons why building for frontline workers is important.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

There’s also remote configuration tools for device security; a baked-in password manager for collaborative convenience to support teams needing to share passwords; and an embedded video chat platform so you can do team chats right from the exact same browser-based workspace you’re all using. via better page load times).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We were particularly impressed by the activity levels on a global scale based on a technology stack that is built for a connected multi-platform, hybrid working environment world,” said Christian Figge, Managing Director of General Atlantic. The Stuttgart-based company said that the Series C values it at over $600 million.

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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. Mem users can capture quick notes, send links and save images from anywhere using SMS, messaging apps and the platform’s mobile client. But today, the OpenAI Startup Fund revealed that it led a $23.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Oyster , a startup and platform that helps companies through the process of hiring, onboarding and then providing contractors and full-time employees in the area of “knowledge work” with HR services like payroll, benefits and salary management, has closed a Series A round of $20 million. “There are 1.5

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

While Sambhi positions Magical as an RPA platform, it’s more akin to a text expander. When asked about data retention, Sambhi said that Magical stores metadata but not any of the underlying data that the platform moves. We see so many knowledge workers still relying on these manual, outdated ways of working,” Sambhi said.

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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 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 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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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

But over the past four years, Slack has quietly been building a major platform change for its communications app that might help replace your work email in the future. We just used Slack Connect to raise a little over $800 million in a convertible bond.” Microsoft Teams is Slack’s biggest competitor. “In

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

.” That was the impetus for building a platform to automate the process, from tracking time worked through to calculating payment and workers comp based on that. is far from being the only startup tackling this general market, nor the specific task of fixing the very basic problems of organizing and paying these workers.

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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. and Canada, and it currently has some 100,000 service professionals using the platform. We’re not in the lead generation market.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The company previously raised venture capital about three years ago, but as revenue continued to double or triple each year, Kumar said it became time to look at another round, especially of lately as employers faced labor shortages. When I Work, a messaging app that lets shift-based teams schedule work and more, raises $200M.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

The war for talent in the tech world can be brutal — and so, it turns out, can the war between platforms that help companies source it. In 2012, Toptal raised a $1.4 But there was one condition: Toptal had to raise more money. Others include Fiverr, Malt, Freelancer.com, LinkedIn, Turing, Upwork and many more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Business Canvas , the South Korean document management SaaS company behind Typed, announced today it has raised a $2.5 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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

As knowledge workers including software engineers shifted to remote work during the pandemic, executives expressed a concern that productivity would suffer as a result. ” Sleuth isn’t the only platform that uses DORA metrics to quantify productivity.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Whether you’re working on something new according to your Twitter bio, or self-employed, according to your LinkedIn bio, founder Ben Huffman thinks his platform, Contra, will be the best way for independent workers to explain and monetize what they are working on. Luckily, the startup has raised a $14.5

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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. The emergence in recent years of AI algorithms that can parse natural language has fueled the rise of platforms that can shrink that chunk.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

Yeah, so probably the most important part of the background is: Vimeo is a 16-year-old video platform, but we’re really three, four years into a very different strategy. So YouTube wants to attract creators and content to their platform. Fundamentally, YouTube is still focused on entertainment, and their business model is advertising.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2016 at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, several of the original developers behind what became Siri unveiled Viv , an AI platform that promised to connect various third-party applications to perform just about any task. The pitch was tantalizing — but never fully realized. million demonstrations of computer tasks.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

For example, Procter & Gamble and women’s beauty D2C brand Billie also called off their planned merger last week after the Federal Trade Commission raised objections in December. A sign of the times: This week, enterprise orchestration SaaS platform Gtmhub announced that it raised a $30 million Series B.

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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. “We have hit a new phase,” he said, with growth currently “north of 35%” and generating a profit.

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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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