Future of Work Startups

Rhythms is a strategy and execution platform that provides operating system-level tools for businesses to manage objectives and goals. The company serves enterprises seeking integrated software for organizational planning and execution.

2 investors

Rise People operates an all-in-one HR platform for Canadian businesses, offering payroll, HR administration, scheduling and time tracking, employee wellness, and group benefits (Rise Health). It serves companies across Canada, covering the full employee lifecycle from onboarding onward.

2 investors

Randstad Enterprise provides global talent acquisition, development, and transition solutions for enterprise organizations, including recruitment process outsourcing, managed services, career coaching, and outplacement services. The company combines talent advisory, market intelligence, and technology platforms to help businesses build skilled and agile workforces.

2 investors

Robomotion is an AI-powered RPA platform that automates repetitive business tasks through agent-driven automation rather than manual configuration. Teams use it to delegate routine work while keeping staff focused on higher-value decisions.

2 investors

Rocket is a recruiting company that pairs recruiters with its own AI-powered platform for sourcing, screening, and workflow to fill roles, with a focus on engineering and operator talent. Founded in 2017, it emphasizes a lower-volume, high-context service model for its clients.

2 investors

Roleo is an AI-powered career agent that scans job listings for candidates, delivers matched roles by email, and provides intros to hiring managers while keeping users anonymous from their current employer. It also serves employers, who receive candidate applications directly and pay only upon a hire.

2 investors

Rollup provides software and workflows designed to accelerate the development and iteration of complex hardware systems across industries including aerospace, robotics, and nuclear technology.

2 investors

Rooster is a scheduling platform that integrates with existing enterprise HR and talent systems, particularly Workday, to streamline interview scheduling and candidate coordination across calendars, video conferencing, and messaging tools.

2 investors

Cornerstone Workforce AI is a workforce readiness platform that delivers learning, skills development, and AI-powered agents to help organizations map automation impacts and build employee readiness. It serves enterprise customers globally across 180+ countries and includes tools for reskilling planning, skills architecture, and employee development tracking.

2 investors

Sabbar is a Saudi Arabian online recruitment platform connecting job seekers with companies across sectors such as retail, hospitality, logistics, and IT. It offers employers matched candidates within 24 hours and lets job seekers create resumes and apply to verified job listings for free.

2 investors

Safeguard Global provides an Employer of Record (EOR) platform and workforce tools for hiring, paying, and managing international employees without a local legal entity. Its Intelligent Workforce tool uses AI and live employment data to compare hiring costs, salary benchmarks, and compliance complexity across 187 countries for finance, private equity, and HR leaders.

2 investors

Saile is a marketplace and credentialing platform for clinicians (physicians, CRNAs, NPs, and PAs) to find locums, telehealth, per diem, consulting, and clinical AI gigs directly from facilities without recruiter agencies. It lets clinicians build one verified credential profile with automated tracking and renewal, see transparent rates upfront, and message hiring managers directly.

2 investors

SaleSeed is a Japanese sales-support (営業支援) company offering services across sales design (AI adoption, CRM/SFA setup), sales execution (sales strategy, BPO), and sales enablement (staffing/recruitment). It serves companies looking to strengthen their sales organizations and productivity.

2 investors

Sama provides team coaching services that combine human coaches with intelligence systems to help leaders align strategy, people, and performance through structured coaching programs. The platform serves enterprise organizations seeking to improve leadership capability, support organizational change, and strengthen team alignment.

2 investors

Saywise is a professional profile platform for AI-native builders to showcase their AI projects, skills, and content, making their profiles searchable by recruiters and AI agents. It also lets startups build company profiles and offers features like job-matching agents, AI content creation tools, and mock interviews to connect talent with employers.

2 investors

Scaled Agile provides SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), a set of practices, certifications, and training for implementing Agile at scale in large, complex enterprises. It offers professional certification courses, transformation partner networks, and platform integrations to help organizations adopt Agile ways of working.

2 investors

Scheduler AI is an AI scheduling assistant that books meetings, proposes times, reschedules, reminds, records meetings, and generates follow-up notes through multiple channels including email, webchat, and text message. It serves professionals and teams across various sizes who want to automate their meeting scheduling workflow.

2 investors

Schoo is an online learning service offering live, interactive video lessons and recorded courses on practical work skills across 19 categories, with over 9,000 lessons and 1,000+ recorded classes available free. Aimed at working professionals in Japan, it uses a two-way format where viewers' comments shape the class in real time.

2 investors

Screenful is a reporting and analytics tool that turns Teamwork project data into automated dashboards, custom reports, and agile metrics such as lead time, cycle time, and cumulative flow. It targets agile delivery and project teams, offering ready-made templates and customizable charts to visualize productivity and share insights with stakeholders.

2 investors

Screenhero was a collaborative screen-sharing tool that gave each participant their own mouse cursor for real-time pair programming and remote collaboration, with built-in voice chat. Acquired by Slack in 2015, and its technology informed Slack's later calls and huddles features.

2 investors

Scrintal is a visual canvas tool that lets users organize and connect ideas block by block, combining thinking, writing, and sharing in one workspace. It targets knowledge workers and creative thinkers as a productivity and note-taking application.

2 investors

Sellai is a subscription-based platform that matches B2B companies with pre-vetted freelance sales experts, using an AI matchmaking tool to pair businesses with suitable salespeople. It offers flexible monthly plans, commission deals, and direct recruitment, focusing on freelance sales professionals with local experience across Europe.

2 investors

deskbird is a hybrid workplace management platform for booking desks, meeting rooms, parking, and managing visitors, along with real-time space usage analytics. It serves companies from 250 to over 10,000 employees, integrating with tools like Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Google Calendar, and Slack to help optimize office space and reduce real estate costs.

2 investors

Trumpet is a sales enablement platform that consolidates meeting notes, call recordings, and deal information in one place, helping revenue teams create and share client pitches, proposals, and pricing materials more effectively.

2 investors