Future of Work Startups

Ready Education provides a campus experience platform for higher education institutions that integrates academic and co-curricular learning experiences to enhance student community and retention.

5 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.

5 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.

5 investors

Roam is a company building an online workplace product, presented through its team and leadership page. The site names its founders and board members but gives limited detail about the product itself.

5 investors

Routine builds an AI-powered work platform that integrates and centralizes data from third-party services like GitHub, Salesforce, Slack, and Dropbox into a unified workspace for project tracking and team collaboration. The platform uses a graph-based approach to connect fragmented information across tools, serving teams and individuals who want a consolidated view of their work without constant app-switching.

5 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.

5 investors

Runn provides software for managing time and talent allocation across modern workforces, helping organizations plan projects and optimize resource utilization around their people. The platform is designed for businesses that need to track capacity, improve project delivery, and replace inefficient spreadsheet-based planning processes.

5 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.

5 investors

Scoro is a professional services automation platform that combines CRM, project management, billing, and reporting for services firms. It enables sales teams to manage pipelines, track deals, forecast revenue, and maintain visibility across client relationships, quotes, and invoicing.

5 investors

Sharpist provides a digital coaching platform that combines 1:1 and group coaching sessions with certified coaches, micro tasks, and progress analytics for employees at all career stages. It serves HR and L&D teams with tools to customize learning journeys and track coaching outcomes across the organization.

5 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.

5 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.

5 investors

Skillprint turns gameplay into behavioral and cognitive intelligence, mapping in-session signals like planning, adaptation, attention and emotion to a Human × Game ontology. It serves individuals and organizations building capability, game studios monetizing gameplay data, and AI labs training and benchmarking models against real human performance.

5 investors

Smart Access provides an AI platform that helps operations leaders digitize and enforce SOPs, turn floor-level observations into coaching and next-best actions, and close the gap between workforce behavior and best practices. It targets multi-site operators in retail, food distribution, and third-party logistics (3PL), integrating with existing HRIS, time and attendance, labor management, and warehouse management systems.

5 investors

SuperMe is a network where founders and executives create AI profiles trained on their real work (writing, talks, meeting notes) so others can ask questions and receive advice grounded in those experts' actual words. It offers features such as an agent that finds relevant people, group chats between AI profiles, and integrations with tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor via MCP.

5 investors

Swit is a work operating system that combines collaboration tools such as messaging and project management into a single platform. It integrates with Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 and offers features including an open API, automation, and an enterprise plan.

5 investors

Takenos is a digital wallet that lets users receive money from any country and spend it via global and local (Argentina) cards, with no maintenance fees. The app also offers simple investment packages aimed at people without prior investing experience.

5 investors

Tara AI provides analytics software for engineering teams that analyzes source control and project data to measure and improve development cycle times, deployment velocity, and resource allocation.

5 investors

Teambridge provides time-tracking and workforce-management software that captures mobile clock-ins, connects them to scheduled shifts, workers, and sites, and surfaces exceptions for review before payroll. It targets teams running hourly work, such as healthcare staffing operations, and offers scheduling, invoicing, and AI agents for attendance oversight.

5 investors

TeamOhana is a headcount management platform that unites Finance, HR, and Talent teams to plan, approve, and track hiring, compensation, and organizational design in one place. It includes an AI workforce analyst that answers questions on headcount, hiring, org structure, and cost, serving companies managing workforce planning and budgets.

5 investors

Eptura (formerly Teem) provides workplace experience software that helps organizations manage hybrid work environments, enabling employees to book workspaces, locate colleagues, and access analytics on space utilization. The platform serves enterprise customers including over 40% of Fortune 500 companies.

5 investors

Tempo is a personal assistant platform that combines an AI assistant with human support, operated through WhatsApp, to handle everyday personal tasks such as scheduling appointments, booking travel and restaurants, buying gifts, renewing documents, and paying bills. It serves busy individuals and their families, offering delegation of routine chores and connections to specialists like travel consultants or accountants when needed.

5 investors

The Cut builds business software and tools for barbers to manage their operations and client relationships, serving independent barbers and barbershops.

5 investors

Time Study offers an enterprise platform for conducting time studies, centralizing time data management, validation, and reporting so finance teams can produce audit-ready, defensible reports without adding administrative burden. It serves complex organizations such as health systems in the United States.

5 investors