Along with its legacy industries, New York is at the forefront of new business models and technologies for the workplace and how we work in general. At Snipply, we’re wanted to take look at the top future of work companies that are actually headquartered in NYC. Note this means we aren’t looking at companies that have offices in New York but are HQ’d somewhere else — but that will be coming in a future edition.
We used Crunchbase Pro’s search feature for this list, defining the categories for “future of work” as collaboration, collaborative consumption, document management, document preparation, productivity tools, real-time, product management, database, file sharing, content, freelance, peer to peer, outsourcing, content creators, and virtual workforce.
We then excluded all companies marked as closed, made the headquarters location NYC, and searched for founded after 1/1/2013. The way the list is sorted is by “CB Rank”.
We removed the startups that clearly aren’t related to future of work, and here we are — the top 50 future of work startups headquartered in NYC. Let’s take a look through the top 10 below, and if you want to see the full list you can check it out here.
1. Clubhouse Software
Total Funding: $41,000,000
Clubhouse Software is a project management platform that provides the balance of simplicity and structure so software teams can be happier, less stressed, and can easily collaborate with anyone in their organization to focus on working together to build products that customers love. Clubhouse Software’s mission is to ensure software development teams can do their best work. So they created Clubhouse to provide the most intuitive and enjoyable project management platform teams actually want to use, from project planning to product creation.
2. Thrive Global
Total funding: $50,000,000
Founded and led by Arianna Huffington, Thrive Global is a corporate and consumer well-being and productivity platform aimed at changing the way we work and live. Thrive Global’s mission is to end the epidemic of stress and burnout by offering companies and individuals sustainable, science-based solutions to enhance both well-being and performance. Thrive Global’s three interconnected core components are: corporate trainings and workshops that bring the latest strategies and tools around health and well-being to organizations; a media platform that serves as the global hub for the conversation about well-being and performance, with an emphasis on action; and an e-commerce platform that offers a curated selection of the best technology and products for well-being.
3. The Wing
Total funding: $117,500,000
The Wing is a network of work and community spaces designed for women with locations in New York, California, and Washington, D.C. The Wing’s mission is the professional, civic, social, and economic advancement of women through the community.
4. Common Living
Total funding: $63,350,000
Common Living is a community-driven residential company that brings community, convenience, and flexibility to housing. The company’s homes give people all parts of coliving, affordable rent, beautiful spaces, friendly people, reducing the hassle. The company operates collaboratively and value self-startership to ensure the work is done well.
5. Hive
Total funding: $16,000,000
Hive is a productivity platform that drives companies to work forward. Their productivity platform powers the fast pace at companies like Starbucks, Uber, IBM, and Netflix, and they are passionate about changing how people work and communicate. Hive aims to improve workplace productivity for companies of all types and sizes.
6. AirHelp
Total funding: $12,221,000
AirHelp is an online legal service that helps air passengers get compensation from airlines when their flight gets canceled, delayed, or overbooked. Passengers can access the service via its official Facebook page or its mobile app available for iOS and Android devices.
AirHelp takes care of all the paperwork and legal communications with the airline on behalf of the passengers and claims 25% of the compensation obtained as its service fee. The compensation amount varies between $170 to $650 based on the distance flown by the flight and the duration of the delay experienced by the passenger at the final destination.
7. Onna
Total funding: $16,000,000
Onna is a central point for enterprises’ most common information platforms (like Confluence, Gmail, Zendesk, Slack, Drive or Dropbox). The company helps organizations collect and preserve data in a defensible manner for Preservation, Knowledge Management, eDiscovery, GDPR, Enterprise Search, and Information Governance. Their advanced search queries together with their recommendation system make the job of finding an easy task.
8. Amenity Analytics
Total funding: $25,600,000
Amenity Analytics has built a leading-edge text analytics platform that allows customers to identify actionable signals from unstructured data. Using their offering business professionals can extract insights from today’s information overload.
9. Flip
Total funding: $7,300,000
Sublet, get out of your lease or find a flexible place to live. Flip is the easiest way to sublet or get out of your lease, and it’s 100% free for listers. While more of a future of living startup, the future of work is all about working where and when you want, and Flip certainly helps with that.
10. Taskade
Total funding: $5,150,000
Taskade is the unified workspace for distributed teams. Chat, write, and get work done. Taskade helps teams stay competitive in the modern work environment by cutting down the friction in planning, decision making, so teams can focus on doing.
So that does it for 1–10. If you loved the countdown make sure to check out the full list on the Snipply blog here. Also make sure to follow our blog, as we’ll be adding tons of resources and commentary over the next few weeks on everything from the future of work to growth hacks and automation.
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