Future of Work Startups

Vitalief is a research operations partner that embeds experienced staff inside clinical research programs to run work across study start-up, financial and revenue cycle operations, workforce capacity, and portfolio delivery. It serves clinical research organizations and sponsors across the United States.

1 investor

Vive is a licensed asset manager offering a modern pension and wealth-building product delivered through a single app, aimed at employers arranging pensions for employees as well as entrepreneurs, self-employed people, and financial service providers. It creates personalized, globally diversified passive investment strategies that adjust with the user's age and goals, operating in the Netherlands under supervision of De Nederlandsche Bank and the AFM.

1 investor

Viveka is a workforce development platform that connects coaching, mentoring, and leadership development programs into one system and measures their impact on engagement, retention, and productivity. It targets large organizations and L&D, People Operations, and HR teams, offering coach matching, program scaling, reporting, and enterprise security controls.

1 investor

Vividir is an AI-powered SaaS for corporate new-business development teams, guiding idea generation, hypothesis validation, and approval workflows through built-in stage gates. It captures team decisions as reusable policies and auto-updates KPI trees and financial statements, building on the company's earlier business-planning software and consulting expertise.

1 investor

Vivtera is a business process management (BPM) platform that acquires or partners with companies providing outsourcing services to high-end financial services and fast-growth technology industries. It targets markets in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia.

1 investor

Vivvi operates early childhood care and learning centers that provide flexible child care and education services to families and their employer sponsors. The company combines research-based curriculum with extended hours and flexible enrollment to serve working parents.

1 investor

Vizetto is a Canadian software company that provides a platform for enhancing remote and hybrid meeting experiences through presentation tools, document sharing, and audience engagement features.

1 investor

Vizzy is a profile platform where individuals showcase their work, ideas, and personality through video, images, and Q&A prompts as an alternative to traditional CVs. Job seekers build a shareable profile to apply to roles via the jobs board or be discovered by employers, while businesses pay for hiring tools.

1 investor

Vocating is an AI-based "Human Agency OS" that guides people through a sequence of defining their identity, running experiments, capturing signals, and converting them into market-validated income and career positioning. It targets students, professionals whose roles are being reshaped by AI, independent builders, and institutions such as universities.

1 investor

VoiceOS is a voice-controlled productivity platform that lets users control applications and complete tasks using voice commands instead of typing. It integrates with apps like Google Calendar and email to reduce context switching and manual steps for professionals and teams.

1 investor

Volta is an AI-focused community hub and accelerator based in Halifax that supports founders and builders across Atlantic Canada through networking events, mentorship, and residency programs. It provides hands-on coaching and resources for AI startups and helps small and medium businesses apply AI to real-world business challenges.

1 investor

vWork provides mobile workforce management software with iOS and Android apps that enable field workers to view jobs, record completion data, communicate with dispatchers and customers, and optimize delivery routes. The platform serves mobile job operations including delivery, service, and contract fulfillment businesses.

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Vyntelligence provides a platform that uses conversational AI and video/mobile technology to simplify work processes and improve communication for field teams in utilities, telecoms, and field service industries.

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Waiheke develops AI readiness and workforce development solutions for enterprises, providing platforms for career intelligence, AI literacy diagnostics, and human-agent integration across multiple organizational functions.

1 investor

Wakrak operates an on-demand staffing marketplace that matches businesses with short-term/day workers in industries such as food service, delivery, and office work. It provides employer tools for job posting, worker matching by conditions, and payroll/labor administration (including legally required records), covering all 47 prefectures of Japan.

1 investor

Walkabout Collaborative LLC operates a networked community connecting on-demand, outcome-based consultants with mid-size business clients seeking cost-effective business transformation services. It uses a collaborative, outcome-based contract framework to match experienced independent consultants with client engagements.

1 investor

Wantedly operates a recruitment platform that connects companies with candidates based on shared values and company culture rather than salary or job conditions, using job postings, company stories, and direct scouting. It targets Japanese employers hiring new graduates, mid-career, and intern talent, and charges a flat monthly fee with no success-based fees.

1 investor

Warmspace builds technology that facilitates meaningful human connections through guided frameworks rooted in mindfulness, non-violent communication, and psychological practices. The platform enables individuals to engage in deeper, empathetic dialogues across personal, professional, and community contexts.

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Warpdrive generates automated desktop workflows and procedural documentation from video recordings by parsing the visual activity and producing executable code.

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Waterstone Human Capital is a professional services firm that provides leadership training, recruitment, and culture and engagement assessment services to organizations in Canada and the U.S.

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Watto AI generates business reports and documents using large language models, producing outputs comparable to professional consulting-quality materials for marketing, research, and product documentation.

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WayPave is a job-finding app that matches frontline workers with local frontline jobs. It initially serves job seekers and employers in Northwest Arkansas (Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, Bentonville) with plans to expand.

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We Are Founders is an editorial media site publishing reviews, guides, and founder stories, along with a hand-reviewed directory of tools founders use, categorized by stage and pricing. It covers topics such as AI and developer tools, productivity, finance, and building startups, aimed at founders and bootstrappers.

1 investor

Change 100 Teams is a corporate engagement platform that pairs company teams with impact startups for virtual mentoring sessions designed to develop employee skills while supporting social innovation.

1 investor