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. We’re taking a 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. You can see 21 through 30 here, but now let’s take a look at 11–20 below.
11. Slidebean
Total funding: $962,500
Slidebean is a free web-based presentation tool that lets users create powerful presentations with just a few clicks. By separating the content creation from the slide design, Slidebean allows users to focus on what matters most while taking care of everything else automatically. The presentation software was released on Q2 2014 and deemed by TheNextWeb as Instagram for presentations. With over 7,000 presentations delivered so far, Slidebean seeks to become the most efficient alternative to traditional software like PowerPoint, as well as a new standard in presentation design.
12. B12
Total funding: $12,400,000
B12 offers a human-assisted A.I. approach to build, manage, and optimize beautiful and professional websites. The company helps people work smarter, starting with helping businesses build, and manage professional websites. Its human-assisted AI platform organizes people and technology in a way that enables customers to benefit from a high-quality, optimized website at a fraction of the cost and time commitment.
13. Clause
Total funding: $6,293,179
Contracts sit at the heart of all organizations. When managed correctly they can be your business’s biggest asset, but that management is often time-consuming and resource-intensive. Clause takes that pain away by changing contracts from static documents to a dynamic, integrated, part of your business. Using Clause, you can connect contracts to your existing tools so that you can automate business processes and contract management — all from one powerful platform.
14. Workframe
Total funding: $17,149,998
Workframe is the only workflow optimization solution purpose-built for the commercial real estate (CRE) industry. Their intuitive, web-based software application helps large corporate tenants, landlords, brokers, and service providers gain unprecedented visibility into their workflow, and presents them with actionable data that can be leveraged to drive efficiency and cost savings.
15. CafeX Communications
Total funding: $49,540,450
CaféX is an award-winning provider of one-click collaboration solutions to help enterprises enhance team productivity and customer engagement within digital channels. Trusted by top global banks and other leading brands, CaféX empowers employees and guests to work together securely without friction from virtually anywhere using their preferred devices and tools.
16. Wethos
Total funding: $4,635,000
Wethos deploys responsive teams to help meaningful brands adapt and stay competitive in a fast-paced world. Through its proprietary tech platform, Wethos quickly curates flexible teams of vetted creative and marketing specialists to solve rapidly-evolving problems. With a workforce that’s increasingly remote, agile, diverse, and craving purpose, Wethos operates in a collaborative future — one where people can come together to accelerate social and economic progress at 100x the speed they do today.
17. Process Street
Total funding: $1,358,000
Process Street is a SaaS platform that lets non-technical teams create powerful, API driven workflows. The easiest way to document, track, automate and optimize customer-centric processes, they help sales and customer success teams drive revenue and reduce churn.
18. AllWork
Total funding: $3,300,000
AllWork helps companies more efficiently create and manage their temporary/flexible workforces. They are disrupting the $130 billion antiquated temporary staffing industry by delivering one easy to use data, software and payments platform that allows companies to source, budget, schedule, manage time and attendance, report, communicate, train and pay their talent with less friction and at a significantly lower cost.
19. Blink
Total funding: $1,025,000
Blink is a platform that connects the world’s best storytellers to companies that have a story to tell. Boasting an extensive network of photographers, photojournalists, documentary filmmakers, writers, editors and producers, Blink can connect you with storytellers with a range of skill sets available in 180 countries in real-time.
One service that Blink offers is Concierge which helps teams to create impactful visuals at scale. They handle all creative, production and commissions by leveraging their global network of contracted freelancers.
20. Ask Lorem
Total funding: $3,600,000
Lorem is an on-demand freelance marketplace that connects non-technical business owners with high-quality web developers and designers in less than 10 minutes. Their goal is to empower the modern-day business owner to succeed and enable freelance as the Future of Work with our global network of experts.
So that does it for 11–20. If you loved the list so far make sure to follow our blog, as we’ll be adding the next installments daily. We’ll also 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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