TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

On the heels of Personio raising a big round yesterday , one of its competitors and another big startup in the area of HR has also picked up some funding. Hibob last raised money about 10 months ago, a $70 million round in December 2020 (a round led by SEEK and Israel Growth Partners). The funding values the company at around $1.65

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Fire up a web browser and it’s hard to deny it’s the best of times for knowledge work. “The typical user is a knowledge worker — product managers, engineers, marketers, a fair number of students. Yet working across multiple browser tabs and windows can feel like the friction-filled, frustrating worst.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After years of being overlooked in favor of so-called knowledge workers — those who sit at screens day in, day out and are more likely to be using software all the time — frontline workers are experiencing a kind of renaissance in the world of enterprise IT. The global opportunity is a big one, with an estimated 2.7

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The investment values Mem at $110 million post-money and brings the startup’s total raised to $29 million. There’s no doubt knowledge-seeking tasks are time-consuming. We combine knowledge sources across the individual, team and organizational levels, leading to significantly better performance across the board.”

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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

Jobber raises $60M as its platform for home services professionals hits 100K users. SightCall has raised $67 million to date. BigChange raises $102M for a platform to help manage service fleets. The funding is being led by InfraVia, a European private equity firm, with Bpifrance also participating.

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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.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

In a Gartner poll , 59% of women knowledge workers — who, the poll found, are more likely than men to express a preference for remote work — think in-office employees will be seen as higher performers while 78% believe in-office workers are more likely to be promoted.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The Stuttgart-based company said that the Series C values it at over $600 million. General Atlantic is leading the round, with existing investors Insight Partners, EQT Ventures and Possible Ventures also participating.

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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 While we have more knowledge at our fingertips than ever before, we use the same rudimentary methods to organize and make sense of it.

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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 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

The company has now raised around $9 million, and from what we understand, this Series A values the company at around $60 million. Teamraderie, a B2B MasterClass-style platform for team building, raises $7M by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Closed today, the round, which brings Magical’s total raised to $41 million (following a previously-undisclosed $6 million seed round), also saw participation from Greylock, Bain, Lightspeed Capital, SV Angels, and Blank Ventures. Image Credits: Magical. But the goal is to introduce paid plans with premium features in the future.

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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. Prior to the raise, Miro was already profitable and growing three times year over year before the global pandemic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams,” says Sophie Alcorn , a Silicon Valley immigration attorney. to raise funds for my startup. years before I moved back to India (where I’m a citizen) and founded a startup. as a founder?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

” Toptal claims that for Andela to pull off a “perfect clone of its business,” it poached key Toptal employees to exploit their knowledge, and that the ex-employees knowingly breached their confidentiality and non-solicitation obligations to Toptal. In 2012, Toptal raised a $1.4 How did it pull this off?

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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

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

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

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 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. We’re not in the lead generation market.

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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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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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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

We just used Slack Connect to raise a little over $800 million in a convertible bond.” Slack has even built a Slack Connect instance for doctors to share their experiences with each other in the fight against COVID-19 in recent months. We’ve been piloting this capability for months,” explains Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield. “We

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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

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

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.

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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

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

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 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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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

“We’re building a general system that helps people get things done in front of their computer: a universal AI collaborator for every knowledge worker … We’re training a neural network to use every software tool in the world, building on the vast amount of existing capabilities that people have already created,” Luan said.

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