Future of Work Startups

Startmate is an early-stage startup accelerator and investor for founders in Australia and New Zealand, providing capital, mentorship, and community programs. It also runs memberships and programs for aspiring operators and angel investors seeking to build careers or invest in the region's startups.

1 investor

Volly Solutions provides drone-based farm mapping, aerial imagery, and digital solutions for the agriculture and horticulture industry in New Zealand. The company aims to offer sleeker, more efficient, and economical services compared to existing market offerings.

1 investor

Startup Grind is a platform that connects early-stage investors with pre-seed to Series A founders across 300+ cities and 125+ countries. The service provides curated deal flow, networking events, and community access for investors seeking early-stage investment opportunities.

1 investor

Startup Lynch runs pitch events where entrepreneurs and startups present their projects to potential investors, experts, and the business community to seek funding, partners, and feedback. At these events founders give short pitches, the audience can question them, and winners are chosen by audience reaction measured with a sound meter rather than by a judging panel.

1 investor

FoundersBoost runs a free, equity-free six-week pre-accelerator program that provides mentorship and connections to early-traction, pre-seed tech startups preparing for accelerators, investment, and revenue. It also offers FoundersBoostX, an on-demand library of workshops for early-stage founders, with a stated focus on underrepresented entrepreneurs.

1 investor

Startup Science publishes educational content and guides comparing startup funding rounds (seed through Series D), drawing on data from Carta and its own founder research. It offers tools for founders to model dilution and cap tables, plus solutions for entrepreneur support organizations to track founder funding progress across a portfolio.

1 investor

Station is a browser extension that serves as a unified workspace for teams, aggregating content from multiple applications, documents, and messaging platforms while automatically linking related information across them.

1 investor

STATION F is a startup campus in Paris housing over 1,000 startups per year along with innovation partners, offering support services to help them grow. Located in the former Halle Freyssinet building, it serves as a tech hub for the French and European startup ecosystem.

1 investor

StatusNow provides a communications and availability tool that gives organizations a real-time, global view of staff availability based on profiles such as skills, location, and expertise. It is aimed at executives and managers who need to manage staffing demands, resourcing, and responsiveness while helping people balance work and personal priorities.

1 investor

Steerpath provides office mapping and space management software that creates 3D maps for desk and room booking, generates AI insights to reduce unutilized space, and includes team coordination tools to facilitate in-person collaboration.

1 investor

StepsConnect provides a hiring management platform that centralizes staffing requests from store and department managers into a single dashboard for HR leadership to review, prioritize, and route. The platform integrates with over 120 job boards to publish and optimize job postings across multiple channels simultaneously, while handling candidate screening and selection without replacing existing HRIS or ATS systems.

1 investor

Stock is a team information management tool that lets organizations store business records (meeting notes, client discussion logs, task assignments, and inquiries), manage tasks, and message, optimized for teams of up to about 100 people. It targets non-IT companies and reports adoption by more than 250,000 organizations.

1 investor

Stormboard is a digital whiteboard and collaboration platform that helps distributed teams conduct productive meetings, capture ideas, and maintain momentum across remote, hybrid, and in-office work environments. The platform serves organizations of all sizes globally seeking to improve team collaboration and turn ideas into action.

1 investor

Strive Labs helps fast-growing companies build remote engineering teams by recruiting, vetting, and onboarding senior engineers with 10+ years of experience, and handling back-office functions such as contracts, HR, accounting, and IT setup. It operates across 15 countries and focuses on placing teams in a single remote office.

1 investor

StructureFlow is a software platform that helps legal, accounting, and finance teams model, visualize, and analyze complex ownership and organizational structures. The platform combines data import, AI-powered visualization, and branded export capabilities designed specifically for law firms, private equity, alternative finance, and corporate teams managing multi-jurisdiction and nested ownership chains.

1 investor

Strut is an AI-powered workspace and notebook for creating, organizing, and expanding long-form writing from rough notes, combining notes, research, and drafts in one place with scoped AI assistance. It targets students, essayists, journalists, newsletter authors, and researchers writing essays, dissertations, theses, and book-length manuscripts.

1 investor

Stuck is an AI-assisted content platform that processes and delivers content services such as writing, subtitling, and localization, matching clients with human experts for review. It focuses on Arabic content tailored to Saudi dialects, including Hijazi and Najdi, offering clients instant responses and transparent pricing.

1 investor

Student Pop is a mobile application that connects students and young people with flexible job opportunities that adapt to their schedules rather than requiring them to adjust their lives to rigid work arrangements. The platform enables users to find missions quickly, work on their own schedule, and receive prompt payment.

1 investor

Stypi provides a collaborative code editor enabling multiple users to write code simultaneously in real time, with adoption by major technology companies for remote technical interviews.

1 investor

Suggestion Ox is an anonymous feedback and reporting platform designed for HR teams and organizational leaders to collect employee suggestions, conduct whistleblowing investigations, and manage cases without storing identifying data. The platform integrates with Slack and Microsoft Teams and supports regional data hosting for compliance.

1 investor

Suits.ai offers AI agency training, including sessions on using visual and data AI agents to automate recurring reports, dashboards, and administrative tasks. The content targets marketing agencies and teams seeking to reduce busywork and speed up report creation.

1 investor

Sunrise.am is a web tool that provides accurate sunrise, sunset, and daylight timing information for locations worldwide. The service targets travelers, photographers, outdoor enthusiasts, and everyday users who want quick access to sun timing data for planning and navigation.

1 investor

SuperAngel.Fund is an early-stage venture fund led by Ben Zises that invests in consumer, proptech, and future-of-work startups. It emphasizes broad sector diversification, early investment, and following on when portfolio companies show breakout growth.

1 investor

Superflow offers a guided template and workflow platform for teams to implement OKR (Objectives and Key Results) management frameworks. The platform helps startups, scaleups, and agile teams align on goals, drive progress, and develop skills in strategic thinking and team collaboration.

1 investor