Future of Work Startups

WUUZY operates "EC no Pro," a matching service that connects e-commerce businesses with specialized freelance/side-job professionals to help increase sales, covering everything from own-brand EC stores to platform support. The company focuses on the e-commerce industry in Japan, aiming to make individual expertise visible and shareable through technology.

1 investor

WUZZUF is an online job board that lets job seekers search and apply for vacancies and helps companies post openings and recruit talent. It focuses primarily on the Egyptian market, with listings also covering Saudi Arabia and other regional locations.

1 investor

Wyrd offers tools to help organizations maintain vision and culture in daily operations, focusing on supporting employee initiative and innovation implementation beyond workshops and consultancy.

1 investor

ChatCEO is an AI-powered operating system designed for chief executives that applies proven CEO methodology to drive strategic decision-making and operational execution. The platform synthesizes data, generates board-ready materials, and provides daily action recommendations specifically tailored to the CEO role.

1 investor

XTIUM is a managed service provider offering security-first IT management, cloud infrastructure, compliance, and support services to mid-size and enterprise organizations across North America, EMEA, and Asia. The company serves as an extension of client IT teams, combining AI-driven threat detection with expert technical support and proactive problem-solving.

1 investor

Xtract AI provides an operating system for founders and executives that integrates strategy, execution, and accountability into a single connected system. The platform uses AI to help business leaders make decisions, prioritize work, and run operations with clarity rather than relying on disconnected tools.

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Xwork runs an Indonesian marketplace for booking workspace on demand. Users can search and reserve meeting rooms, event venues, coworking desks, private offices, and virtual office addresses through the platform. It serves individuals and businesses that need space without committing to a long-term lease.

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Y&S offers a mobile app for booking beauty and personal-care appointments. The app lists salons, spas and parlors along with the services they offer and their prices, and lets users reserve an available time slot. It is aimed at consumers looking for beauty services and at the establishments that provide them.

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屋台DELi（Yatai DELi）は、和・洋・中華・エスニックなどのお弁当をワンコインからの価格でオフィスワーカー向けに提供する、法人向けランチ・食の福利厚生サービスを運営する。ランチ難民やテレワーク下の食堂の課題に対応し、企業のオフィスワーカーの食環境改善を目的としている。

1 investor

Year13 offers free online short courses, interactive experiences, and content on life skills and careers, created in collaboration with industry employers. It targets young people (school leavers) planning their futures, letting them learn skills, explore career options, and earn points redeemable for cash and prizes.

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Youth Enrichment Brands operates a portfolio of youth activity and enrichment brands designed to help children build confidence, resilience, and joy through real-world development and hands-on experiences. The company serves families and children seeking structured enrichment programs and skill-building activities.

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Yenza provides a digital platform for students to assess their strengths through psychometric testing, explore career options, choose school subjects strategically, and build applications to tertiary institutions. The platform combines self-discovery tools, real-time admission score calculations, program matching across institutions, and application coaching for students navigating school-to-study transitions.

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YOOBIC builds a mobile digital workplace for frontline employees, combining team communication, mobile learning, and digitized task management in one app. It serves companies with frontline teams across industries to keep those workers productive, engaged, and informed.

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Yotewo provides pre-vetted IT talent and hiring solutions for startups, helping companies quickly access specialized tech expertise. The platform aims to make recruitment transparent and efficient for businesses seeking to build technical teams.

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Hintsa is a performance coaching company that provides individuals, executives, and organizations with curated teams of specialists in medicine, wellbeing, and focus, applying a method developed in Formula 1 and rooted in Nordic wellbeing. It serves athletes, business leaders, C-suite executives, and companies through executive coaching programmes and a Performance Coaching Course.

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The company offers a virtual event platform where attendees join a recreated venue or conference environment using avatars to interact with others, engage with exhibitors, and watch live-streamed keynote presentations. It positions itself as an alternative to video conferencing tools with an emphasis on measuring attendee engagement.

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WorkTango (formerly YouEarnedIt) provides an employee experience platform combining employee surveys and insights with recognition and rewards, along with reporting, analytics, and HRIS integrations. It is aimed at organizations seeking to measure employee engagement and run recognition programs.

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YoungLeaders.World is a youth development organization that trains high school and university students in communication, marketing, web design, and media production through mentorship and workshops. The organization aims to build leadership and personal growth skills in young people globally through in-person and online programs.

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Youpret has built an AI-powered platform for brokering interpretation and translation assignments, automatically matching jobs to qualified interpreters and handling orders, bookings, and work queues. The platform, which brokers over 1,000 interpretation assignments daily, also serves other industries needing transparent job-dispatch management and offers open APIs for integration with finance and HR systems.

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Yourator is an online job platform focused on connecting job seekers with startups and digital companies, offering listings for full-time roles and internships. It also provides resume-building tools, career articles, and executive/headhunting recruitment services.

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Youreka converts inspections, checklists, and procedures into structured Salesforce records using AI to generate mobile forms in minutes. The platform enables field teams to complete offline-capable workflows that sync data in real time to Salesforce for downstream automation and insights.

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Yourney is a leadership development platform that pairs employees—such as high potentials, new leaders, and managers—with coaches offering unlimited sessions and practical tools, alongside a dashboard to track usage, progress, and impact. It serves organizations seeking to develop their talent and leadership in alignment with company values and strategy.

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YouScience helps education leaders across the United States connect students to career pathways by assessing their natural aptitudes and linking them to educational and career opportunities. The company provides aptitude discovery, analytics, certifications, and work-based experience platforms used in over 7,000 schools across all 50 states.

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YouTeam.io is now part of Toptal, a remote talent marketplace that connects clients with vetted professionals across tech, design, finance, marketing, and other fields. The platform offers on-demand hiring of individual developers and designers, as well as full teams and managed services.

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