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 11, 2021

The tech, meanwhile, is unique to SightCall, built over years and designed to be used by way of a basic smartphone, and over even a basic mobile network — essential in cases where reception is bad or the locations are remote. Jobber raises $60M as its platform for home services professionals hits 100K users.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

“The tech community likes us because of those things.” But even if it’s a bit of a renegade, the plan will be to incorporate VPN functionality for those who want it, and there may be plans down the line also to work within more established virtualization tech. “Manufacturing pipelines cannot move to cloud.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Sidekick comes with its own ad blocker and anti-fingerprinting tech too — for a stated privacy purpose but also for an extra speed bump (i.e. “The typical user is a knowledge worker — product managers, engineers, marketers, a fair number of students. via better page load times). Slack acquisition. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The company has now raised around $9 million, and from what we understand, this Series A values the company at around $60 million. ” Alongside the media and content aspect of its platform, Teamraderie also provides tech to measure the effectiveness of the sessions.

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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. One source estimates that document disorganization costs businesses $3,900 per employee each year in productivity losses, making Mem an attractive proposition if the tech works as advertised.

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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

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. The company matches skilled tech personnel like engineers, software developers, designers, finance experts and product managers to clients across the globe. In 2012, Toptal raised a $1.4

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

And a number of smaller players including Signavio , Intellibot , and Servicetrace were snatched up by incumbent tech firms. “Before Magical, I founded a company called Careerify , an HR tech startup that was acquired by LinkedIn in 2015. Image Credits: Magical.

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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

JUNE 1, 2022

We’ve seen a boom in the last several years around tech built for front-line, service, manual, and other workforces typically paid on an hourly wage. ” 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The holiday shopping season kicked off last week with some lackluster results , but employers are still in dire need of workers. The tight labor market, driven in part by “ The Great Resignation ,” is highlighting the need for more tech-enabled tools for connecting employers with available workers.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This time around, itll be knowledge workers in tech hubs and financial centers who will face the greatest exposure to AI-driven change. In San Jose’s Santa Clara County, Brookings found that nearly 43% of workers could see half or more of their tasks transformed by AI tools including OpenAIs ChatGPT and Anthropics Claude.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Samsung later acquired Viv, folding a pared-down version of the tech into its Bixby voice assistant. ” At Google, Luan was the overall tech lead for what he describes as the “large models effort” at Google Brain, one of tech giant’s preeminent research divisions. million demonstrations of computer tasks.

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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. Luckily, the startup has raised a $14.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Currently, Oyster does not cover candidate sourcing or any of the interviewing and evaluation process: those could be areas where it might build its own tech or partner to provide them as part of its one-stop shop. The startup has raised about $24 million to date. “There are 1.5 Oyster’s valuation is not being disclosed.

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The Verge

APRIL 20, 2021

Literally, there’s a billion knowledge workers in the world, and every single one of them has now become a creator and the talent, in a way that we never thought would happen. Do you feel that big tech competition, they’re just going to copy you, and it’s 80 percent of the product, but that’s good enough for people not to switch?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Miami is quickly becoming a symbol for the tech exodus from Silicon Valley. The area is home to a number of investors, successful tech founders and an eager local government. 8 Miami-area investors assess America’s southernmost tech ecosystem. How do you see these factors impacting the city’s tech evolution?

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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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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. This isn't enormously surprising.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

If knowledge workers are merely promptly AI and instructing the AI agents to work for them, are humans still working? When work became hard to see One of the great historical transitions in the knowledge economy is that as work became more “intellectual,” it also became less visible.

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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. In a year or two, some say, AI agents might be able to automate 10% of remote workers. If this were true, tech stocks would be soaring. Tech startups that efficiently use U2.5

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