Future of Work Startups
2,720 companies tagged Future of Work, with their investors and founders.
DirectShifts operates a platform connecting shift workers with employment opportunities. The company serves job seekers and employers in the gig and flexible work sector.
3 investors
Donut offers a Slack-based tool aimed at improving employee engagement, collaboration, and productivity within teams. It is a workplace software product for internal team connection and engagement.
3 investors
doola provides a platform for entrepreneurs globally to form and operate U.S. businesses, offering an all-in-one back-office solution including LLC formation, business banking, tax filings, and compliance services. The company serves international founders and entrepreneurs who want to establish or manage a U.S. business from anywhere in the world.
3 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.
3 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.
3 investors
Eden provides an all-in-one workplace experience platform that helps companies manage hybrid and office operations through integrated HR, people operations, and workplace software. The platform enables visitor management, employee ticketing, room booking, desk reservation, and mail management for mid-to-large enterprises.
3 investors
Edlyft provides support and mentorship to help students succeed in computer science and secure top software engineering roles. The company serves students pursuing careers in tech.
3 investors
Emeritus provides online education and lifelong learning programs, working with universities to offer courses and degree programs to consumers and professionals. It operates across regions including India, APAC, and the Middle East.
3 investors
Equiem provides a workplace experience app for office buildings, giving tenants access to building entry, amenities, events, and food options. The platform serves landlords and office workers navigating hybrid and flexible-space work environments.
3 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.
3 investors
Every is a media and subscription publication offering essays and columnsβsuch as Katie Parrott's "Working Overtime"βabout how AI is changing work and careers. It provides daily insights and early access to AI tools for a subscriber audience of leaders, builders, and innovators.
3 investors
ExecOnline offers online leadership development certificate courses co-created with top business schools, aimed at mid-to-senior leaders. It serves enterprises building leadership pipelines as well as individuals and small teams, applying structured action plans to real business challenges.
3 investors
Expert360 operates a talent marketplace and managed services platform that connects businesses with fractional executives, consultants, and independent experts for strategy, modelling, and interim work across company stages from startups to pre-IPO firms. It serves companies in Australia and New Zealand and offers a workforce management platform (TalentOS) plus professional services delivery.
3 investors
Fabric is a personal AI workspace that stores files, notes, ideas, and meetings and layers AI over them to search by meaning, summarize, transcribe meetings, and run agents that act on a user's behalf. It connects to 50+ apps (e.g. Google Drive, Notion, Figma, Slack) and is aimed at creatives, researchers, students, and other knowledge workers.
3 investors
Feed Coyote is an all-in-one project management platform designed for freelancers and professionals to collaborate, communicate, and manage work across 130+ countries. The platform includes built-in tools for payments tracking, deadline management, and team communication.
3 investors
Fellow is an AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Slack, and generates action items, documents, and follow-ups. It targets regulated financial institutions such as private equity firms, hedge funds, investment banks, RIAs, and broker-dealers, with compliance features like MNPI redaction, zero-day retention, and audit trails.
3 investors
Founder Institute is a startup accelerator program that helps early-stage founders go from an idea to a launched company. Operating since 2009, it focuses on developing top talent into founders capable of building high-growth companies.
3 investors
Fieldproxy provides a no-code platform that lets organizations create mobile applications to coordinate and oversee field workforces at any scale.
3 investors
FieldPulse is an all-in-one field service management platform designed for residential and commercial service professionals. It provides features for scheduling, customer communication, invoicing, fleet tracking, and customizable workflows.
3 investors
Firstwork provides hiring, onboarding, and workforce management infrastructure for frontline workers across healthcare, logistics, retail, and other industries. The platform automates manual workflows and compliance processes to enable companies to activate labor at scale.
3 investors
Flare develops AI-driven systems to manage essential workersβsuch as drivers, cleaners, security guards, and domestic workersβin emerging markets, vertically integrating its technology platform, worker staffing (via subsidiary Drive-Z), and customer implementation. It targets employers in Southeast Asian and other emerging markets that rely on labor intermediaries, aiming to make workforce operations more trustworthy and controllable.
3 investors
Flare provides a free employee benefits platform, available via mobile app, that offers discounts at Australian retailers, savings tools for healthcare, energy and transport, and digital employee onboarding. It serves employers looking to attract, retain and reward staff, with a focus on the Australian market.
3 investors
Flip builds a digital operating system for deskless workers, delivered through a mobile app to help companies engage field and frontline employees in digital transformation. The platform targets enterprises seeking to improve workforce communication and operations.
3 investors
Foodles provides corporate catering for companies through connected fridges available 24/7 and modular in-office food counters staffed by its own team, offering seasonal meals prepared in its internal kitchen. Founded in 2014 and focused on France, it positions itself as a responsible alternative to traditional workplace catering, holding B Corp certification and mission-driven company status.
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