Future of Work Startups

BEENOS HR Link operates a platform and consulting services for foreign worker recruitment and employment support in Japan. The company also runs an information media business focused on foreign employment matters.

1 investor

UIC is an organization that provides business coaching and advisory services to researchers and entrepreneurs in the life science sector, helping them navigate the journey from laboratory research to market commercialization.

1 investor

Fabro is an open-source (MIT-licensed) workflow orchestration engine for AI coding agents, letting expert engineers define coding processes as version-controlled graph files that coordinate LLM agents, shell commands, and human approval gates. Built as a single Rust binary, it provides deterministic workflow graphs, multi-model routing, cloud sandboxes, Git checkpointing, and a REST API with web UI for repeatable, long-horizon software development.

1 investor

LiveBoard is an online tutoring and teaching platform that enables tutors and teachers to create interactive virtual classrooms with real-time collaboration tools, video conferencing, and student progress tracking. The platform serves educators and students of all ages seeking accessible, device-agnostic online learning.

1 investor

Liz Bohannon is a speaker, author, and coach who delivers talks and develops frameworks to help leaders build purpose-driven organizations and communities. She offers speaking engagements, coaching, writing, and a podcast focused on leadership development and workplace culture.

1 investor

Local Stitch operates co-living and co-working spaces ("branches") across Seoul, South Korea, combining residences, shared workspaces, and community programming for creators and residents. Its locations also host curated local retail brands, cafés, restaurants, and wellness studios.

1 investor

Logical is a desktop application that serves as an AI assistant for knowledge workers, automatically offering help across multiple applications to complete writing and administrative tasks while keeping user data local to the device.

1 investor

Logiless, a Japanese software company, provides a platform that consolidates order and inventory management for online retailers. It automates the sequence from order intake through to shipping, reducing manual handling for merchants and warehouse teams.

1 investor

Loop is a shared inbox that combines team chat and productivity tools inside the email inbox, letting teams categorize messages, assign email owners, use shared tags, and chat in real time. It is aimed at teams that collaborate on client, partner, and internal email.

1 investor

Loopline Systems offers LoopNow, a cloud-based software for employee feedback, performance management, and goal (OKR) management. The platform supports formats such as 360-degree feedback, leadership feedback, team and project feedback, and pulse surveys to help organizations improve collaboration and employee engagement.

1 investor

Lrnkey is a marketplace platform connecting learners with online tutors and coaches across subjects ranging from academic tutoring to languages, coding, and professional development. The platform enables skill-based matching between students and instructors worldwide through integrated scheduling, messaging, and payment systems.

1 investor

Lucky Carrot App is a team collaboration and recognition platform that enables employees to appreciate colleagues, celebrate achievements, and provide peer-to-peer feedback. The platform helps organizations build positive workplace culture and gather employee insights through a shared appreciation workspace.

1 investor

Spreo is an online whiteboard and collaboration platform for agile teams to run ceremonies such as retrospectives, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and planning poker, along with brainstorming, workshops, and diagramming. It offers a shared canvas with templates and tools for remote and distributed product and engineering teams.

1 investor

Lume provides a platform that integrates coaching, health insights, and data systems to support founder performance and well-being. The platform serves founders building startups, combining professional coaching and health optimization to improve sustainable high performance.

1 investor

Lumi builds tools and programs for human-capital development, helping organisations and their people navigate AI and innovation. It focuses on innovation, entrepreneurship, education, and workforce development for businesses.

1 investor

LYL is a Japanese company that provides AI implementation, business process automation, and AI training services under its "Context Works" brand, embedding into clients' operations to design and run AI agent systems and document decision-making criteria. It previously operated the "fmfm" live-streamer management business (since divested) and owns the subsidiary KIT, which runs the "Spot Hoiku" childcare spot-work service.

1 investor

Lynes is a Swedish cloud phone system (telefonväxel) and collaboration tool that supports video meetings, calls, chat, and document sharing, with an integration that two-way syncs availability status with Microsoft Teams. It serves businesses and works across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, with data hosted in Sweden.

1 investor

M Accelerator (a MEDIARS subsidiary) is a venture studio and accelerator that builds go-to-market infrastructure, custom AI tools, and automation systems for post-product-market-fit founders and growing businesses, with a focus on helping international companies enter the US market. It runs an Elite Founders membership and M Studio equity partnerships, plus innovation programs for institutional partners such as universities, VCs, and government agencies.

1 investor

M33 Growth positions itself as a growth acceleration specialist that assists business builders in assembling and aligning teams aligned with founder values.

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MadCap Software develops technical authoring, documentation, and content management tools, and maintains a network of channel partners and resellers. This page covers its partner program and reseller portal.

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Magneto365 is an online job board where companies post job openings and candidates search and apply for positions across Colombian cities. The platform lists vacancies by location, industry, and experience level for the Colombian labor market.

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MailClark was a bot that helped teams manage external and internal communications from within Slack and Microsoft Teams. The service operated from 2016 until it was shut down on December 31st, 2022, after the company joined Brevo in 2020.

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MailTime reformats email threads into chat-style conversations and separates personal communications from marketing messages and newsletters.

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Mainteny provides a cloud-based ERP and maintenance-management software for lift/elevator maintenance companies, aimed at reducing administrative workload and paperwork so engineers spend more time on installations. It targets small and medium-sized maintenance businesses and serves customers across 9 countries.

1 investor