TechCrunch

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This news is coming two years after Stears raised $650,000 in pre-seed funding. And because these institutions have more spending power, Stears subsequently tailored the product to businesses who wanted to subscribe on behalf of their teams. The company says its userbase has grown mainly organically at around 6.5%

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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

MARCH 19, 2021

Collaboration is another core focus with features intended to help knowledge working teams be more productive as a unit; offering stuff like team role provisioning and custom workspaces to support different Session, app Sidebar and tabs set-ups, such as for a project or client. via better page load times). Slack acquisition.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

Thanks to the pandemic, teams are more distributed than ever. According to a survey from GoodHire , 75% of managers want workers in the office, citing the potential lack of focus and loss of company culture. In any case, the startup hasn’t had trouble lining up customers.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

We understand that the funding is coming in at a $475 million valuation, six times the company’s valuation when it last raised money — a $20 million round just four months ago. The company now works with 80 large businesses, he said, helping them fill knowledge worker roles. Oyster is not — yet?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The company has now raised a total of $16.6 “To be honest, it actually wasn’t on our radar to raise again so soon after we raised what I consider a substantial seed. “To be honest, it actually wasn’t on our radar to raise again so soon after we raised what I consider a substantial seed.

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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

MAY 11, 2021

SightCall has some 200 big-name enterprise customers on its books, including the likes of Kraft-Heinz, Allianz, GE Healthcare and Lincoln Motor Company, providing services on a B2B basis as well as for teams that are out in the field working for consumer customers, too. SightCall has raised $67 million to date.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

“Visual collaboration is something that allows teams in companies to better be on the same page. 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. However, with statistics showing that 53% of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We believe in the company’s ability to create next-generation solutions that meet the needs of this new era of remote work and are thrilled to support Philipp Weiser and the AnyDesk team as they continue to set new standards for the industry,” said Achim Berg, operating partner at General Atlantic, in a statement.

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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. Collaboration features let teams share, edit and comment on notes and directly attach them to shared calendars for faster reference. But today, the OpenAI Startup Fund revealed that it led a $23.5

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

We just used Slack Connect to raise a little over $800 million in a convertible bond.” Butterfield spoke to The Verge recently about Slack’s competition with Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams is Slack’s biggest competitor. “In With Teams, Microsoft is behind on Slack’s vision of shared channels.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

The software — which only supports Chrome for now — detects and “remembers” elements on webpages, enabling the sharing of shortcuts (called “magic packs”) with other users and teams. We see so many knowledge workers still relying on these manual, outdated ways of working,” Sambhi said.

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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. Managers need an unobtrusive way to proactively learn about bottlenecks affecting their teams.

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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 Smaller teams like startups, boutique law, consulting firms, venture capitals and government institutions also have been adopting Typed as well.”.

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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

JUNE 1, 2022

For the longest time, a lot of the most interesting innovations have been focused on so-called “knowledge workers” — those who typically get salaries, use computers and desks, and might well be paid much higher overall. Hourly workers, however, have come into focus more recently for a number of reasons.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We’re also asking how much it has raised in the past. Pennylane raises $18.4 And the evolution of that to expand to more knowledge worker jobs is not especially new, either. Indian logistics startup Xpressbees raises $110 million. billion Danish krone, or around $244 million at today’s rates.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Seattle-based Zeitworks , which is launching its private beta today after raising a $4.5 million seed round in 2020, wants to give enterprises data-driven tools for improving the productivity of their teams and streamlining their business operations. Image Credits: Zeitworks.

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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. Display metrics for fundraising goal amounts, donations raised to date, and progress toward goals. Let’s talk about productivity.

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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

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 Luckily, the startup has raised a $14.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Six years later, a new team claims to have cracked the code to a universal AI assistant — or at least to have gotten a little bit closer. But the team insists that their technology is far more sophisticated than what RPA vendors like Automation Anywhere and UiPath offer today. ” It’s lofty stuff. .”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

billion knowledge workers coming into the workforce in the next 10 years, mostly from emerging economies, while in developed economies there are some 90 million jobs unfilled,” Jamous said. The startup has raised about $24 million to date. “There are 1.5 Oyster’s valuation is not being disclosed. ”

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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

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. We anticipate a seismic shift that will see huge resources, technology, and capital shifted toward frontline teams.”

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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. Jobber raises $60M as its platform for home services professionals hits 100K users.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Motion , a startup automating task planning with AI, today announced that it raised $13 million in a Series A round led by SignalFire, with participation from 468 Capital and notable angels, including OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman. Motion then adjusts each team member’s calendar and task priorities into a schedule.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In a positive sense, you’ll get founders moving here, building out remote/distributed/hybrid teams. Our fund targets two primary themes: B2B vertical SaaS and SaaS-enabled businesses/marketplaces, and broadly what we call knowledge worker tools — DevOps, cybersecurity and other typically product-led horizontal applications.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

But especially since the pandemic, every business, every team I’ve talked to, needs professional-quality video to be easier so that they can use it to communicate. And we’re basically providing that capability that was once a TV studio capability, we’re providing that now in the hands of comms teams and HR professionals. Absolutely.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

EduMe found early users among target verticals like ridesharing and delivery companies, which were scaling fast and needed ways to communicate with those disparate teams. Other startups that have raised big rounds to fuel their own corporate learning ambitions include 360Learning , LearnUpon , Go1 and Attensi.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

startup, Causal , hopes to tackle this issue and has now raised a $4.2 The raise brings Causal’s total funding to $5.5 million, which the company will use to grow the engineering team and launch on Product Hunt next month. The raise brings Causal’s total funding to $5.5 million seed round led by Accel.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Considering the growth in educational video — Canva says that 20 percent of knowledge workers either create or consume video for their job every single day — the company is also introducing screen and in-editor recording, so folks can record themselves or their screen to create a video for the rest of the team or organization.

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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. truly is a drop-in replacement for some (20%) of knowledge workers and a game-changing assistant for most others. Nova is a proper drop-in replacement for nearly all knowledge workers.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The research team surveyed 319 "knowledge workers" basically, folks who solve problems for work, though definitions vary about their experiences using generative AI products in the workplace.

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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. But even the best talent needs a manager.

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