Future of Work Startups

Spacebands provides a people-focused product or service for businesses; the company operates a referral program offering recurring commissions to affiliates who introduce new customers.

1 investor

SpaceDraft develops visual communication tools that help people capture and share knowledge and insights through pictures rather than text, serving users in work, education, and professional settings. The company applies behavioral science and visual design principles to enhance collaboration and decision-making across various industries including agriculture, mining, and energy.

1 investor

The Innovation & Collaboration Centre (ICC) is the University of South Australia's startup incubator, offering community events, workshops, and programs. It draws on UniSA and partner expertise to support the creation of new startups and the growth of existing companies.

1 investor

spaceOS is a workplace experience platform for real estate portfolios that uses digital tools to enhance employee wellbeing, safety, and community engagement. The platform helps companies create digitized workplace environments centered on human experience and organizational success.

1 investor

Spaciously provides team-building guides and resources for people leaders to help organize workplace events that foster team connections. The platform offers event ideas across different budgets and addresses common concerns about inclusive team building.

1 investor

Sparrow provides a leave management and FMLA compliance solution that combines software and human expertise to handle leave policies, payroll, and regulatory requirements for employers. The platform serves HR teams and employees by automating leave tracking, filing, compliance notifications, and financial planning.

1 investor

Sparrow Connected provides an employee communication platform that aggregates internal communications content and delivers it through a mobile-friendly interface, serving enterprise organizations seeking to enhance workplace connectivity and measure communication impact.

1 investor

Spartacoding Club (스파르타클럽) is a South Korean online education provider offering AI-focused IT courses, bootcamps, and career support such as portfolios, mentoring, and job placement coaching. It serves individual learners entering or advancing in IT careers as well as companies seeking employee AI upskilling.

1 investor

Speakeasy provides executive communication coaching and training services to organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. The company works with teams and leaders to develop communication skills and impact.

1 investor

Speck aggregates data from CRM systems, email, data warehouses, and web sources to provide sales professionals with comprehensive research and context before meetings. The platform integrates directly into browser-based meeting applications to enable real-time information retrieval during calls.

1 investor

Spiich is a lead prospecting platform that identifies and enriches qualified prospects matching a company's ideal customer profile, then syncs them directly to CRM systems like HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio, and Pipedrive. It aggregates data from LinkedIn, company websites, news sources, and existing CRM records to automate lead discovery and qualification.

1 investor

Spinach is an AI-powered meeting assistant that automatically records, transcribes, and organizes meetings while extracting action items and insights. It serves teams across product, engineering, sales, HR, finance, legal, and other departments to improve meeting documentation and decision-making.

1 investor

Spinnable offers autonomous AI workers that users can set up to handle routine business tasks such as email, scheduling, outreach, reporting, and workflow automation. The workers communicate through WhatsApp, email, and Slack and integrate with tools like Google Workspace, Notion, Slack, Salesforce, and HubSpot, serving founders, solo operators, and growing teams.

1 investor

Splab develops scheduling software for coordinating meetings across teams. Its interface displays multiple participants' availability on a single screen in real time, aimed at sales and recruiting teams that arrange frequent client meetings and candidate interviews.

1 investor

Sportozen operates a web platform that helps people in India find and book sports facilities and play sports. The company aims to make sport a regular part of everyday life for Indians.

1 investor

Springpod is a free careers and education platform offering virtual work experience, career exploration, and university course content for students aged 13+. It connects young people with employers and universities while supporting classroom learning through interactive projects and industry-aligned content.

1 investor

SPROUND is a startup-focused office and community hub located near Shinagawa Station in Tokyo, offering flexibly reconfigurable workspace designed to accommodate rapidly growing startups. It also serves as a knowledge-sharing space for the startup ecosystem, operated jointly by a real estate developer and a venture capital firm.

1 investor

Sprout.place is a browser-based virtual space where up to 8 people can meet, collaborate, and hang out using resizable video "Facedock" frames, and can add images, documents, search blocks, and custom CSS to arrange a shared canvas. Spaces require no installation or sign-up and can be exported as HTML.

1 investor

SproutGigs is an online marketplace that connects business owners with freelancers worldwide to crowdsource micro jobs, gigs, surveys, and influencer marketing tasks. It offers a freelancer expertise/level system and a JSON-based API for programmatically posting jobs.

1 investor

AskNeo provides a shared inbox and communication platform for teams that routes incoming calls and manages text messages in a unified workspace. The product enables call forwarding to single or multiple team members simultaneously while maintaining a single customer-facing phone number.

1 investor

Squares is a marketplace for booking short-term spaces such as lofts, photo studios, rooftops and villas, with each listing personally vetted by local scouts. It targets creatives, founders and remote workers across 13+ cities including Almaty, Da Nang and Austin, and lets users unlock host contact details directly without platform booking fees.

1 investor

StackFuel provides online continuing-education programs that train individuals and company employees in data and AI skills, including roles such as data analyst, data scientist, Python programmer, and AI specialist. Its practice-oriented courses can be funded through Germany's Agentur für Arbeit education vouchers and the Qualifizierungschancengesetz, and include career coaching for job entry in the German data job market.

1 investor

Stacks+Joules is a nonprofit organization that trains individuals for careers in building automation and related technologies through a 14-week intensive pipeline program paired with employer partnerships. The organization focuses on placing graduates into jobs with companies in the building automation and facilities management sector.

1 investor

Stamp is an AI email assistant that learns user preferences to automatically draft, prioritize, categorize, and schedule emails. It serves professionals seeking to automate email management and inbox organization through personalized AI.

1 investor