Future of Work Startups

Guava is a private membership network for Black and Brown founders, offering invite-only dinners, social events, and a digital community to connect members with potential hires, partners, and investors. It operates in select cities with free and paid membership tiers.

2 investors

Gyver is a career platform for electrical, electronic, automation, and electromechanical technicians in Italy. It connects specialized technicians with electrical contractors and companies through WhatsApp-based job matching and offers training courses in electrical design, high-voltage systems, and PLC programming.

2 investors

hackajob is an AI-native hiring platform that matches tech professionals with employers based on skills, behaviours, and hiring criteria rather than keywords. It serves enterprises and scale-ups, using smart sourcing and AI agents to source candidates and improve hiring fit.

2 investors

HackMD is a collaborative Markdown workspace that enables developers and teams to document, share knowledge, and build community through real-time documentation tools. It serves developers and technical communities across 170 countries.

2 investors

Hacktiv8 is a coding bootcamp and digital training provider in Indonesia offering intensive programs such as full-time and night bootcamps, short courses, and certifications in fields like full-stack JavaScript, data science, QA automation, and cybersecurity. It also serves corporations through corporate training, hiring partner programs, and educational CSR initiatives to develop and recruit digital talent.

2 investors

Happied provides offsite planning and team-building services for remote and hybrid teams, offering pre-packaged retreat options at global locations with dedicated planners, and year-round virtual team activities like games and wellness events.

2 investors

Hatch is a job marketplace that matches job seekers with opportunities based on personal values and skills rather than traditional resume matching. The platform connects candidates directly with hiring managers and provides insights into company cultures and teams.

2 investors

Pebl is an HR platform with an AI assistant called Alfie that answers country-specific benefits questions, surfaces role-based workflow prompts, and stores structured pay and role data to support EU pay transparency requirements. It serves HR teams managing employees across multiple countries, with support for EU and (upcoming) US markets.

2 investors

Hera is a calendar application that handles the full lifecycle of virtual meetings—scheduling, preparation with attendee context, one-click joining, and follow-up reminders—designed for users to manage meetings without leaving their keyboard.

2 investors

Hero is a consumer mobile app marketed as an all-in-one "Daily Assistant" that brings a user's tasks, priorities, and daily responsibilities into one place. It is aimed at individuals looking to organize and simplify their personal lives, with the app used by over 300,000 people.

2 investors

High Fidelity develops audio technologies and applications that enable distributed teams and online communities to connect across physical distances. The company is building an application for companies with distributed workforces to foster team connections and improve organizational performance and job satisfaction.

2 investors

Hintsa provides performance coaching and wellbeing programmes for athletes, business executives, and organisations, using an evidence-based method developed in Formula 1 by Dr. Aki Hintsa. It offers curated teams of specialists in medicine, performance, and focus, along with a Performance Coaching Course teaching the Hintsa Method.

2 investors

Hipporello is a service desk platform that integrates with task management tools like Trello, Notion, Asana, and Jira to let teams manage support requests, tickets, and tasks in one place. It offers customizable portals, forms, knowledge bases, email integrations, and automations for use cases such as customer support, IT support, HR tasks, and lead generation.

2 investors

HireArt provides a platform for sourcing, employing, and managing contract workers on a W-2 basis for companies. The platform handles the full employment journey from recruitment through ongoing management of contract workforce.

2 investors

Hiveclass provides remote physical education and youth sports training instruction for kids. The platform was launched during the pandemic to make quality PE instruction accessible to students everywhere.

2 investors

Holos develops immersive experience creation software for the Apple Vision Pro and extended reality platforms. The company serves consumers, enterprises, and government entities with tools for building AR/VR applications.

2 investors

Home From College is an AI-powered platform that matches college students and Gen Z creators with brands for paid tasks and partnerships, such as posting content, giving feedback, or trying products. It lets students earn money and gain work experience by turning campus influence into brand collaborations.

2 investors

Hopted offers an automated data movement platform for Google Sheets, syncing live data between work apps and spreadsheets through import automations and writebacks. It serves spreadsheet users who need to keep data in sync for reporting, dashboards, and tracking.

2 investors

Howspace is a collaborative learning and enablement platform that helps organizations move from content delivery to active participation, turning strategy into ongoing action through dialogue and shared problem-solving. It serves organizations managing change and learning initiatives, keeping engagement going beyond individual workshops or training sessions.

2 investors

Humanity provides AI-powered employee scheduling and shift-planning software for frontline and enterprise workforces, automating schedule building, demand forecasting, and labor-cost control. It offers self-service scheduling, real-time shift notifications, compliance tools, and integrations with payroll, ERP, and HCM systems such as ADP, Oracle, Workday, and BambooHR.

2 investors

Humanyze offers an AI-powered platform providing workforce analytics and market intelligence for business leaders, with two products: Insights for internal workforce behavior and collaboration analytics, and Pulse for tracking market trends, hiring patterns, and talent signals. It serves enterprises and managers, offering 220+ HR and collaboration integrations to inform people and business strategy decisions.

2 investors

Huntr develops AI agents for the labor migration industry, enabling workers to build verified, portable identities and reputation records that remain accessible across jobs and borders. The platform aims to increase transparency and safety in labor migration through document verification and interoperable data APIs.

2 investors

Huper Labs builds AI tools that help senior leaders and mid-level managers reduce administrative overhead such as status chasing and update aggregation, and orchestrate hybrid teams of human workers and AI agents. Its approach emphasizes granular data governance and security controls over organizational context.

2 investors

An AI meeting assistant that records and transcribes meetings, organizes meeting data, and generates action items, ticket creation, recap emails, and CRM updates. Marketed to teams across functions including product, engineering, sales, HR, recruiting, and VCs.

2 investors