Future of Work Startups

BlueCrew is an industrial staffing platform that places workers into light industrial roles. It operates as the nation's largest light industrial staffing provider, combining digital technology with staffing services.

5 investors

Bluworks provides HR and workforce operations software designed for businesses with dynamic, shift-based work across multiple locations. The platform handles shift scheduling, attendance tracking, hourly payroll calculations, and compliance with local labor laws for operational businesses.

5 investors

Bond builds an AI chief of staff application for executives and CEOs to manage their workflows, communications, and priorities across fragmented tools and information sources.

5 investors

Zhipin (BOSS直聘) is an online recruitment platform that connects job seekers with employers, letting candidates and hiring managers communicate directly. It lists job postings across industries and roles, with a focus on the Chinese market.

5 investors

Circleback is an AI-powered meeting assistant that automatically generates notes, captures action items, and enables search across recorded conversations. It serves professionals and teams looking to organize and automate meeting workflows.

5 investors

ClickUp provides a customizable work management platform that adapts to different company teams and projects across various functions including marketing, sales, and project management.

5 investors

CloudFactory combines a managed global workforce with a software platform to collect, label, and validate training data and apply human-in-the-loop review across the AI development lifecycle. It serves machine learning teams and businesses building and deploying AI models, having worked with over 700 clients.

5 investors

Cogram builds AI-powered software tools for architects and engineers to automate documentation, reporting, and information retrieval from construction and architectural projects. The platform enables field teams to dictate observations and generate formatted reports, search across project documents, and manage emails without manual data entry.

5 investors

Confetti is an online platform for booking live-hosted virtual team building activities, including seasonal celebrations, wellness sessions, onboarding, learning and development, and DEI events. It serves companies and HR/people teams looking to plan and run corporate culture events end-to-end.

5 investors

Coworker.ai provides AI agents that automate product-management workflows such as synthesizing user feedback, monitoring competitors, tracking feature requests, and syncing roadmaps and documentation. The agents connect to a company's product stack via 50+ OAuth integrations (e.g. Jira, Intercom, Gong, Slack) to give product teams data-backed prioritization and reporting.

5 investors

Cron is a next-generation calendar application designed for professionals and teams to manage their schedules and time.

5 investors

Deputy is a workforce management software platform that helps businesses optimize shift scheduling, team coordination, and workplace operations. The company serves businesses of all sizes seeking to improve profitability, team engagement, and trust among employees.

5 investors

deskbird is a B2B workplace management platform for hybrid teams, combining desk booking, room management, workforce scheduling, and visitor management in one tool. Serving startups to global enterprises, it is one of Europe's leading workplace management platforms.

5 investors

DirectShifts operates a platform connecting shift workers with employment opportunities. The company serves job seekers and employers in the gig and flexible work sector.

5 investors

Dreambound operates an online platform that helps Americans find and enroll in career-training programs—such as trade, healthcare, and tech certifications—matched to their schedule, budget, and timeline. It partners with schools nationwide and provides enrollment support, job placement resources, and ongoing career guidance.

5 investors

Duckbill provides an execution layer that connects AI agents to human labor pools, triaging, routing, executing, and quality-checking real-world tasks such as phone calls, form submissions, and in-person errands that require a human in the loop. It offers direct app access and API, MCP, and CLI integrations so AI products can complete actions with businesses that lack digital interfaces, primarily in the US.

5 investors

Firstup provides an enterprise communication platform that delivers targeted, personalized messages to employees across mobile, desktop, and physical channels like break room screens. It serves large organizations with distributed frontline workforces in industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, hospitality, and retail, integrating with tools like Microsoft, Workday, and ServiceNow.

5 investors

Dynepic operates a skills-based platform offering on-demand learning, mentorship, and credentialing tools for individuals and creators in a knowledge-based economy. The company leverages enterprise and government-grade infrastructure originally built for military training systems to enable immersive learning experiences and help users build sustainable income from their expertise.

5 investors

EAT Club provides individual meal delivery for companies that lack onsite cafeterias, letting employees pick their own lunches from a daily menu that are then delivered together in a single consolidated drop-off. The company combines a technology platform with food service operations to handle menu management, restaurant selection, and ordering for office lunch programs.

5 investors

Ema builds "Universal AI Employees" — AI agents designed to perform business tasks and automate repetitive work across an organization. The company positions its product as agentic AI for enterprises.

5 investors

EMQ operates a global payments network with last-mile endpoints that banks can integrate to enable cross-border money transfers and automate payment processes. It targets banks and financial institutions seeking to add digital money transfer services to their networks and mobile apps.

5 investors

Entelo provides recruiting software, including a candidate communication product called ConveyIQ.

5 investors

Emeritus (Eruditus) offers executive education programs delivered in collaboration with top global universities, serving individual professionals and companies through group enrollments, private cohorts, and tailored content. It has reached over 350,000 learners across more than 80 countries.

5 investors

Espresa provides an employee engagement and benefits platform designed to help companies deliver personalized employee experience programs across languages, time zones, and currencies. The platform integrates total wellbeing, recognition, and community features to strengthen employee loyalty and engagement.

5 investors