Future of Work Startups

Rezi builds AI-assisted resume software that helps job seekers create resumes optimized for Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS). The company also provides educational resources to teach applicants how ATS software evaluates online job applications.

3 investors

Ribbon builds voice AI technology for recruiting that interviews every job candidate on demand, then turns those conversations into structured data and ranks applicants against a company's criteria. It serves recruiters and hiring teams, offering scoring, outreach, fraud detection, and integrations to handle hiring at scale.

3 investors

Riipen operates a project-based (experiential) learning platform that connects educators, students, and employers to complete real-world industry projects. It serves colleges and universities, learners, and businesses, bridging classroom learning and workplace experience through a marketplace of work-based learning opportunities.

3 investors

RiseKit provides a platform that helps employers, nonprofits, training providers, and government agencies manage local workforce development through centralized candidate tracking, referral management, and outcome measurement. The solution facilitates equitable hiring pipelines and strengthens community partnerships across the employment ecosystem.

3 investors

Rocket Academy is an online coding bootcamp that provides comprehensive programming courses to help individuals transition into software engineering careers. The platform serves aspiring developers through structured curricula covering coding concepts, frameworks, and cloud infrastructure, with career support and job placement assistance.

3 investors

Rotageek provides workforce management and scheduling software for rota planning, including demand forecasting, labour modelling, auto-scheduling, time and attendance tracking, and leave management. It serves sectors such as retail, hospitality, entertainment and leisure, healthcare, and care homes.

3 investors

Runbear ships shared AI agents into Slack and Microsoft Teams, providing team-wide access to Claude with per-user permissions, audit logs, and enterprise security features like SSO/SCIM integration. The platform targets mid-market SaaS and enterprise teams seeking collaborative AI assistance embedded in their existing communication channels.

3 investors

Steady is a coordination platform that keeps teams aligned across people and AI agents by tracking shared intent, progress, and outcomes in a system of record. It enables distributed teams and autonomous agents to coordinate asynchronously without meeting overhead.

3 investors

Salary Hero is a Thailand-based financial wellness platform that provides earned wage access and banking products to employers and their workers. The company helps employees access wages they have already earned before payday and offers financial wellness tools to reduce financial anxiety and employee turnover.

3 investors

Scoutible offers Hero Mode, an app that provides AI-based coaching modeled on real-world professional leaders, a 15-minute game-based strengths assessment, and gamified productivity tools such as time blocking and timers. It targets ambitious professionals seeking to set goals, build habits, and improve productivity.

3 investors

Screenpipe is a local-first context layer that captures screen activity for enterprise AI agents, enabling them to act on real user behavior. The platform serves enterprise organizations building or deploying AI agents.

3 investors

Seatti provides hybrid workplace software that lets teams coordinate office days and book desks, with team bookings that reserve seats and notify everyone at once. It runs natively inside Microsoft Teams and integrates with Outlook and Microsoft Entra ID, serving team leads, HR, and management.

3 investors

Sentra provides an organization-wide memory layer that connects fragmented systems (CRM, tickets, repos, docs, meetings, mail) into a single governed context graph that both people and AI agents read from as one source of truth. It resolves facts at write time, tracks when facts become and stop being true via a bi-temporal knowledge graph, and exposes the graph through REST and MCP so applications and agents share the same current context.

3 investors

Shapes builds general-purpose social AI agents ("shapes") that users can steer for any use case and embed into existing social settings for natural, everyday interactions. It positions its technology around social interactions with AGI within the AI/consumer space.

3 investors

ShareWillow is a software platform for designing, launching, and managing employee incentive and profit-sharing plans, aimed primarily at small businesses. It offers goal-based payout thresholds, customizable plan templates, reporting dashboards, an employee-facing dashboard, integrations with tools like QuickBooks, and access to incentive specialists.

3 investors

Sheetgo enables spreadsheet users to automate workflows and data operations like consolidation, filtering, and distribution without requiring coding skills. The platform targets office workers and businesses relying on spreadsheets as their primary data management tool.

3 investors

Shine provides banking, accounting, payroll, and tax management tools for small business owners to reduce administrative friction. The company operates across four European markets and aims to help entrepreneurs focus on business growth rather than financial administration.

3 investors

ShyftOff provides an agentic workforce delivery platform that automates contact center operations through a blend of people, AI, and automation. The platform serves businesses seeking to improve efficiency, quality, and flexibility in customer service operations.

3 investors

Side is a digital staffing platform offering four services for temporary (interim), fixed-term, and permanent hiring, including full-service recruitment, contract and payroll administration, and seasonal workforce staffing. It serves French employers, drawing on a local talent pool through Randstad's network of 850 agencies across France.

3 investors

Sightful builds Spacetop, a private multi-screen workspace software that lets people work from anywhere with a mobile, portable setup. The company runs a UX research lab and targets remote and mobile workers who need flexibility and privacy.

3 investors

AMN Healthcare is a publicly traded healthcare staffing and workforce solutions company that supplies clinical and nonclinical professionals — including nursing, allied, international, leadership, and locum staff — on travel, temp-to-hire, per diem, and permanent bases. It serves healthcare client organizations and integrates with HRIS, IT, and EHR systems to source talent.

3 investors

SimpliField (now part of YOOBIC) offers a mobile platform for retail operations that connects headquarters with in-store frontline teams through employee communication, task management, store visit workflows, onboarding/microlearning, and reporting analytics. It serves retail brands and franchises seeking to coordinate field teams and improve store execution.

3 investors

Simplify is a job search platform that helps candidates discover relevant positions, auto-fill applications, and access transparent salary and company culture data. It serves job seekers across all backgrounds and experience levels, positioning itself as a candidate-first alternative to traditional job boards.

3 investors

Simundia offers professional coaching for companies through its Coaching Situationnel method, delivering remote one-hour sessions (3 or 6) in which a coach helps employees observe, reflect, and act to change behaviors and build skills. It provides an HR dashboard that aggregates coaching impact via self-assessment and 360 interviews to measure organizational transformation.

3 investors