TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

But too many meetings can become unproductive, as shared information and action items get buried underneath all the other stuff workers have to do. Productivity platform Loopin wants to help by integrating with work apps and gathering information from across multiple meetings, making it easy to find and share.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2020

“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,” explains Butterfield. “If

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2014

Last year, a McKinsey Global Institute report noted that knowledge workers spend about 28 percent of their workday managing email. Including a company name is especially important if you already have a positive relationship with the reader.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

AI agents are poised to transform productivity for the worlds billion knowledge workers with knowledge robots that can accomplish a variety of tasks. NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails Keeps AI Agents on Track AI is rapidly boosting productivity for a broad range of business processes.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The company now works with 80 large businesses, he said, helping them fill knowledge worker roles. Not only are more people wanting to work further afield, but at “home”, many companies — especially those who need to fill knowledge worker roles — are facing talent shortages.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Okay’s suite of tools are meant to largely replace tools built in-house and provide a look at the interruptions and inadequate tooling keeping engineers from feeling productive and engaged. The product can be integrated with a company’s existing tools, including software like Google Calendar, GitHub, PagerDuty and CircleCI.

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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

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. “The customers love the product and culture is really good. We’ve got something great and it’s time to go for it.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

The cash injection brings Adept’s total raised to $415 million, which co-founder and CEO David Luan says is being put toward productization, model training and headcount growth. That hasn’t disrupted product development, apparently. Forbes reports that the valuation was “at least” $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Its flagship subscription insights product, Stears Premium, contains content ranging from news and opinion pieces to investigative pieces and deep dives, educating the general public on issues around business and finance, economy, government and policy in Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Pouyan Salehi says that he wasn’t really looking to add capital, but the investors understood his vision and the money will help accelerate the product roadmap. Sacks says that he liked the viral way the product has been spreading. The company has now raised a total of $16.6 million including the $3.6

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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. Image Credits: DeepSee.ai. “Executives are telling me they need business outcomes and not science projects,” writes DeepSee.ai

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

“We view our main competitors as soul-crushing tasks that every knowledge worker finds themselves doing every day — like typing the same message over and over or copy-and-pasting data across tabs. We see so many knowledge workers still relying on these manual, outdated ways of working,” Sambhi said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Since our initial investment, Miro has scaled with tremendous momentum, strong market leadership, and incredible product velocity,” said Matthew Jacobson, general partner at Iconiq Growth and Miro board member, in a written statement. “We We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Andrey and the entire Miro team.”.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

New technology incorporating ChatGPT and other generative language tools can help you develop quality first drafts and will increasingly integrate with common productivity tools like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Power Automate, and the G-suite. So much of a fundraiser’s day is tracking, reporting, researching, and analyzing.

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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. I never considered any of them, and I’m a terminally organized control freak obsessed with productivity. But not my tabs.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

“The vision for Slack has always been to build Slack Connect so that the benefits you get for channel-based communication within your own organization you’ll get when communicating with everyone,” says Tamar Yehoshua, Slack’s chief product officer, in an interview with The Verge. Email has been around for decades. Slack Connect.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

“There was a point when Ryan and I were just looking for inspiration for improving the products that we were building and engaging with [at Twitter],” Kunjappu said. “With COVID, what’s happening is that the same challenges around communications, culture, productivity are coming down market to a much smaller company.

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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.

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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. The Covid-19 crisis has revealed critical failures in the global supply chain,” said Sivan Shamri Dahan, managing partner at Qumra Capital, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2021

Bad meetings are the fast food of the knowledge worker; it’s so deliciously quick and easy to throw a 60-minute default meeting on everyone’s schedule, but the long-term costs are extremely unhealthy. Unfortunately, most meetings are lazily planned and poorly run , imprisoning attendees and halting productivity.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

If the pandemic has made us completely rethink the way we work, that we — the swath of workers at home in pajamas popping into meetings on Zoom — leaves out a massive chunk of the workforce that continues to show up for work in-person, every time. with global contracts in the pipeline slated for 2023.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

The product itself is very new. Although it’s a paid product offered at $10 per month, Superpowered already has hundreds of users who are interacting with the app, on average, 10 times per day. It competes with a range of products, like MeetingBar , Meeter , Next Meeting and others. Image Credits: Superpowered.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

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

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Here, it’s one of the many companies that have dived into the area of building apps and larger pieces of software aimed not at “knowledge workers” but those who do not sit at desks, are on the move and tend to work with their hands.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Hibob, which sells its platform as “Bob”, says that the last year has seen triple-digit growth in revenues, and its opportunity has been to present its product — which also offers collaboration and other tools — as a modern take on what HR can mean to a company.

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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. ’ That’s been interesting,” van der Voort said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? When does technology boost personal productivity for nonprofit professionals and when does it get in the way? Sound familiar?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

The company matches skilled tech personnel like engineers, software developers, designers, finance experts and product managers to clients across the globe. Toptal was co-founded by CEO Taso Du Val in 2010, and since then it has grown to become one of the world’s most popular on-demand talent networks.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

“Ageras has established a market leading and best-in-class product offering that is optimally positioned for international expansion and the rising demand for automated business tools,” said Rico Andersen, Ageras’ CEO who co-founded the company with Martin Hegelund, himself a serial investor who has backed the likes of Slack.

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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 8, 2022

But even when all the other productivity boxes have been checked, Teamraderie speaks to another challenge that exists in the workplace, specifically the knowledge worker workplace, that of improving our relationships with each other as a route to working better together. “We’re not just a content company.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s been built for what Huffman thinks is the future: digital knowledge workers, a term he uses to describe independent tech workers who freelance for different companies or gigs. The early adopters are independent workers who want to work or advise for a product team. “So

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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. “This growing problem was not only destroying productivity, but also sapping energy and detracting from the employee experience.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

At a product lab called Adept that emerged from stealth today with $65 million in funding, they are — in the founders’ words — “build[ing] general intelligence that enables humans and computers to work together creatively to solve problems.” ” It’s lofty stuff. billion in 2020 to $19.6

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Brookings: The AI revolutions winners and losers wont be who or where youd think A new Brookings Institution analysis of AIs effects on jobs and job losses suggests highly educated urban workers will be most at risk of losing their jobs. Brookings, a D.C.-based

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