TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It has raised very little in funding (around $2 million) before this, at one point trying to raise an angel round but cancelling the process before it completed, according to filings tracked by PitchBook. Jobber raises $60M as its platform for home services professionals hits 100K users.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This news is coming two years after Stears raised $650,000 in pre-seed funding. So less text-heavy way of publishing and more of forecast and prediction around sectors that matter to knowledge workers and their organizations.”.

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

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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. Considering that management is often evaluated not just on their own performance but on how well their teams do, it can be a risk to lose someone good.

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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

MAY 24, 2022

Seattle-based Zeitworks , which is launching its private beta today after raising a $4.5 The overall idea here is to give businesses better insights into how teams work and where there are opportunities for improving business processes beyond simply using automation. T hey’re just not understood.”

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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. We see so many knowledge workers still relying on these manual, outdated ways of working,” Sambhi said. There’s evidence to support this.

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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. from the industry average of 36 days, Behr said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

The last time we checked in with Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, was in 2020 when the company raised a $50 million Series B round led by Iconiq Capital. We believe Miro sits at a powerful intersection between asynchronous and synchronous work that captures and ignites creative processes everywhere.

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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 As for B2B, we are currently in the process of proof-of-concept for one of the largest conglomerates in South Korea. We opened up access earlier this month for the waitlists in over 50 countries.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Augury , which works with large enterprises like Colgate and Heineken to maintain machines in their production and distribution lines, has raised $55 million in funding. Up-and-coming enterprise startups in NYC.

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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

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

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. The evidence is mixed on this, but in the software industry particularly, remote work exacerbated many of the challenges that employees already faced.

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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 ”

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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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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

Our goal is to continue to simplify, simplify, simplify the user experience and the process to creating content and distributing that content, and keep reducing the costs. I think we have to continually look at our processes and how we work, but our goal is to make it super, super simple on the technology side.

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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. In December, C3.ai,

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

Ironically, this means that the more you get paid for doing what you dobecause specialized skills and in-demand jobs tend to involve operating in abstract, intellectual, and symbolic processes rather than visible, tangible, observable workthe harder it is to know if you are any good at it.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

Rather than displacing highly skilled professionals, AI is setting the stage for knowledge workers to transition from individual contributors into high-leverage managers, directing teams of AI agents that can execute tasks with breathtaking efficiency. The current wave of AI pessimism ignores previous historical trends.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

A fraction of workers with form-filler jobs raise the eyebrows of their bosses as they fly through work nearly twice as quickly. This process is repeated over and over, and once the flywheel gets started, it begins to spin almost on its own. Nova is a proper drop-in replacement for nearly all knowledge workers.

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The Verge

APRIL 19, 2022

As the world shut down in March 2020, anxious knowledge workers barricaded themselves at home, scrubbing produce with soap. But the crisis also prompted cynics to root around for new loopholes to exploit, for ways to raise prices, feign hardship, get a rent reduction, slack off. By the beginning of 2022, Rob was dead.

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