Future of Work Startups

Parabol is a platform for agile teams that provides retrospective meeting tools and team health measurement features, including mood checks, psychological safety assessments, and burnout monitoring integrated into sprint ceremonies.

4 investors

Parabola is a platform that enables teams to automate manual and repetitive business processes without requiring engineering resources. The software targets operational teams across enterprises seeking to reduce errors, improve efficiency, and eliminate reliance on spreadsheets and disconnected tools.

4 investors

HiBob (Bob) is a people platform that connects HR, payroll, and finance, offering core HR records, workflows, talent management, compensation planning, payroll, and people analytics. It serves mid-market and growth companies, with AI features and integrations for HR, IT, finance, payroll, and business leaders.

4 investors

PeopleForce is an HR management platform that automates tasks such as onboarding, offboarding, time tracking, applicant tracking, performance reviews, and employee engagement surveys. It serves organizations from startups to enterprises as an all-in-one HR system.

4 investors

Perceptyx offers an employee experience and survey platform that connects with HR systems, and its integration ecosystem links to a wide range of HRIS, payroll, applicant tracking, and identity management tools. The listed integrations serve HR and people teams managing employee data across various software systems.

4 investors

PlusPlus is a corporate learning platform that lets teams turn documentation into training by uploading PDFs or creating long-form articles, which are enhanced with AI-generated summaries, flashcards, and quizzes. It supports blended learning programs, automated assignments by role or team, and engagement tracking for internal upskilling.

4 investors

Pokee AI builds an AI agent platform that automates workflows across apps like Gmail, Slack, Notion, and Shopify, including a WhatsApp integration that lets users trigger its skills via a chat bot. It targets teams looking to automate administrative and sales pipeline tasks.

4 investors

A browser extension or command bar interface for the Arc browser that enables users to search and navigate browser history, manage open tabs, and access productivity tools like ChatGPT integration and system utilities.

4 investors

Reclaim offers an AI scheduling assistant that automatically optimizes a user's calendar around priorities, meetings, tasks, and focus time. The tool analyzes availability, resolves conflicts, and rebalances schedules as priorities shift, with conversational controls and preview/approval before changes are applied.

4 investors

Recordbook is a table-first, no-code workspace for structuring operational data such as sales logs, collections, inventory, customer records, and field reporting. It offers 30+ column types, role-based permissions, and multiple views (table, kanban, list) for individuals and teams managing internal workflows.

4 investors

Reflex is an on-demand staffing platform that connects retailers with vetted, background-checked retail associates for shifts such as sales, cashier, inventory, and event roles. Acting as the W-2 employer of record, it handles payroll, compliance, brand-specific training, and two-sided reviews, serving retail brands across major US markets.

4 investors

Roadmunk (now Strategic Roadmaps by Tempo) is a product roadmapping tool that lets teams capture customer feedback, prioritize ideas, and build shareable timeline, swimlane, and table roadmaps to align stakeholders across an organization. It integrates with tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, and Trello and serves product management teams, including enterprise clients.

4 investors

Rows builds a spreadsheet-based platform that lets business users create tools and work with data without coding. The product targets non-technical business people who want to build and share tools using spreadsheet skills.

4 investors

ROXX is a Japanese company that aims to raise the incomes of people without academic or career credentials by connecting individuals to opportunities and helping companies grow, using technology to address social challenges in Japan's shrinking labor market. It operates as a technology-driven business focused on employment and human resources in Japan.

4 investors

Runn provides capacity planning and resource forecasting software that helps teams visualize workforce availability, project demand, and workload distribution in real-time. The platform serves managers and leaders making staffing and project allocation decisions.

4 investors

SafetyCulture develops a workplace operations platform used by frontline teams to conduct inspections, report issues, and manage safety and quality processes.

4 investors

Sana is an AI lab that develops agentic AI systems to help teams access knowledge, automate repetitive work, and learn. The company augments human intelligence through AI agents designed for organizational productivity.

4 investors

Scope Zero offers the Climate Savings Account (CSA), an employer-provided benefit that helps employees lower the upfront cost of home and transportation upgrades to reduce utility bills, fuel costs, and carbon emissions. The platform provides personalized purchase guidance, a marketplace of eligible products, access to rebates and incentives, and savings tracking.

4 investors

Scoro is a professional services automation platform that helps consultancies, agencies, IT, architecture, and engineering firms manage their entire project lifecycle—from estimation and planning to delivery and invoicing. The platform combines project management, resource planning, and financial tracking to provide real-time visibility into project profitability and team performance.

4 investors

Scribe automatically captures and documents work processes, converting institutional knowledge into accessible workflows that teams and AI agents can reference. The platform enables organizations to identify inefficiencies, scale best practices, and integrate workflow data with AI tools for training and automation.

4 investors

Sharpist provides a digital coaching platform that pairs employees with certified coaches and an AI coach, plus group and peer coaching, micro-tasks, and an L&D analytics dashboard. It serves HR and L&D teams looking to develop staff at all career stages, from first-time managers to C-level executives.

4 investors

Simpplr provides an employee experience platform that consolidates internal communications, information sharing, and collaboration tools into a single workspace, helping organizations improve employee engagement and productivity across distributed teams.

4 investors

Skedulo provides scheduling and workforce management software for deskless and mobile field teams, letting businesses build optimized shift schedules and rosters by resource, location, client, or skillset. Its mobile app supports clock-in/out, offline field data capture, shift swaps, and integrations with HR and payroll systems.

4 investors

Skello is an HR management and staff scheduling software that handles complex work schedules, centralized planning, and workforce analytics. It serves businesses of all sizes across sectors such as hospitality and restaurants, retail, healthcare, construction, industry, services, and leisure.

4 investors