Future of Work Startups

RevStar is a one-day summit held in Toronto that brings together revenue operations leaders, founders, and investors to discuss go-to-market and commercialization of Canadian tech and SaaS companies. The event features keynote speakers, networking, and sessions focused on Canada's revenue innovation and commercialization gap.

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Rex Academy provides a plug-and-play AI and technology education program for institutions such as workforce organizations, nonprofits, staffing agencies, and degree-granting schools, including virtual instructors, curriculum, a secure LMS, and support. Students earn industry certifications from CompTIA, Microsoft, AWS, Google, and Rex across AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and programming pathways.

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CICERO is an AI-based practice and feedback tool that lets educators and team trainers build custom modules and rubrics aligned to their curriculum, with analytics tracking skill development over time. It serves universities and professional teams, focusing on reinforcing authentic learning and academic integrity rather than automating student work.

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rhome is a modular software platform for managing global mobility processes such as workations, business travel, and employee assignments, handling legal compliance, risk management, and tasks like generating A1 certificates. It targets companies of all sizes and integrates with HRIS tools, with data hosted on German servers.

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Richardson is a sales training organization that provides consultative selling, negotiation, and sales presentation programs, delivered through AI-enabled learning with data and analytics. It serves corporate sales teams and industry leaders looking to develop selling skills and improve deal outcomes.

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Riff is a voice communication tool that lets team members talk to each other on demand, with controls over individual availability. It targets distributed and remote teams looking to collaborate more quickly through speech.

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Righthand is an AI employee that handles administrative and coordination tasks—making calls, sending texts and emails, and working in Slack—each with its own phone number, email address, and Slack presence. It connects to tools like Gmail, Outlook, calendars, and 1500+ apps to draft, schedule, and follow up on multi-day tasks for teams in fields such as film & TV production, cybersecurity, real estate, and professional services.

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RingRadar provides an online listing and calendar of equestrian competitions, showing hunter/jumper, dressage, and ranch horse shows with dates and locations across the United States.

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RingLogix provides a white-label VoIP and unified communications platform that enables MSPs and resellers to sell, manage, and support their own branded hosted VoIP services. The platform includes hosted PBX, call center, conferencing, and SIP solutions with built-in billing, quoting, and customer management tools.

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Rise Data Labs provides production-grade annotation interfaces and data labeling services for AI model training, supporting text, vision, audio, and video modalities. The platform serves machine learning teams needing high-quality training data at scale with managed annotator networks.

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RiseGame provides a software platform with integrated tools for youth sports leagues to manage tryout scheduling, player evaluation, team drafting, and athlete development tracking throughout the season.

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River is developing an AI-powered desktop environment aimed at increasing the productivity of knowledge workers, applying to general office and information tasks the kind of AI assistance already used in software development.

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Robby provides software tools for home service companies to help technicians educate homeowners and close sales during service visits. The platform addresses communication barriers that prevent homeowners from understanding repair needs and replacement opportunities.

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Roboyo is an automation and AI consultancy that designs and deploys agentic AI, generative AI, robotic process automation (RPA), and intelligent document processing solutions for enterprise clients. It serves large organizations across sectors such as finance, automotive, real estate, aviation, and consumer goods to automate processes like forecasting, document extraction, and case classification.

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Rocketship is a software platform for coaches and program operators to build and run accelerator-style education programs, including delivering curriculum, assigning tasks, managing events, and tracking participant progress. It also supports community features such as chat rooms, alumni networks, and matchmaking between startups, mentors, and investors.

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Roles Con Futuro helps companies reskill and redirect operational workers toward in-demand roles in the AI era, offering a diagnostic assessment, a data-based strategy, and a training marketplace. It targets organizations, with a focus on the Latin American market, aiming to reduce layoffs and staff turnover.

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ROOMZ builds wireless digital displays and presence, desk, and huddle sensors, plus the myROOMZ web and mobile app, to help companies manage meeting rooms and shared desks for hybrid working. It also offers analytics on workspace usage and serves customers across sectors such as healthcare, banking, education, and municipalities, primarily in Switzerland and wider Europe.

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Rostec Academy is a corporate training organization founded by the Russian state corporation Rostec that provides educational and professional development programs.

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Rosterspace is a workforce management platform that automates roster scheduling, award interpretation, and labour cost tracking for employers. The platform helps organisations manage staff scheduling in compliance with complex award rules while controlling labour budgets and reducing manual administrative work.

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Robin is a low-code/no-code RPA platform for building and orchestrating software robots that automate business processes, offering 600+ prebuilt actions, a no-code process and form builder, and Linux-based robot execution. It also provides document recognition and data extraction, local GPT models for analysis and generation, and task distribution between employees and robots under corporate role models.

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rready is a Swiss company building a sovereign, AI-native work platform for enterprises and public organizations, positioned as a European-governed alternative to tools like Jira and Confluence. It also has over a decade of experience helping large companies run innovation programs, launch spin-offs, and file patents.

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LiveWebinar is a browser-based platform for hosting webinars, online meetings, and virtual events with features for engagement, lead generation, and monetization. The platform serves businesses, educators, and event organizers seeking to conduct interactive online sessions with audience participation tools, recording capabilities, and integration with social media.

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Runrun.it is a work management platform that combines teams and AI agents in a single workflow to organize, execute, and automate operational tasks. It offers no-code forms, custom fields, Kanban and task lists, SLAs and deadline management, dashboards, and approval workflows for business teams.

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RunYourself is a peer-to-peer coaching platform that matches individuals for structured coaching sessions using frameworks focused on active listening, reflective questioning, and accountability. The platform serves professionals, leaders, and managers seeking personal development and improved communication skills.

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