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 31 through 40 here, but now let’s take a look at 21–30 below.
21. Alpha
Total funding: $14,639,204
Alpha’s on-demand insights platform empowers clients to rapidly accelerate experimentation, inform business decisions with customer wants and needs, deliver and scale agile research capabilities, and develop better products faster. By integrating traditionally manual tasks like audience sourcing, concept designing, test scripting, and data reporting, the platform accelerates time-to-insight from months to hours. One of their taglines is that they’re the fastest way for companies to learn more about their future customers.
22. Quadrant
Total funding: $818,000
Quadrant provides an online platform that helps users to find charts and share economic data in a faster and more convenient way. The platform helps financial professionals to find desired data within a short span of time from a huge database of indicators. It also makes it simple to visualize, compare, export and share this data according to their need.
23. Roam International
Total funding: $3,400,000
Roam is a coliving and coworking community testing the boundaries between work, travel, and life adventure. It also provides communal living spaces around the world. The company provides everything from redundant fiber lines to multiple providers, Cisco Meraki gear, universal power outlets, and Eames aluminum office chairs. They provide sheets, towels, and all the other little things you need to feel at home like a media center, pool, shared kitchen, and event space.
24. Keeeb
Total funding: $7,788,919
Enterprise Intelligence — the ability to acquire and apply aggregate knowledge and skills within and across organizations — informs better decisions, drives exploration, and illuminates new possibilities. Keeeb exists to accelerate commercial, social, and personal progress by unleashing enterprise intelligence. The Enterprise Intelligence Platform (IP) raises productivity and scales the impact and commercial potential of intelligence by engaging employees and customers with relevant knowledge and skills when and where they need it. Keeeb’s vision is to create a ubiquitous augmented intelligence network connecting knowledge to need everywhere people work.
25. frame.ai
Total funding: $4,900,000
Frame automatically tracks trending themes, relationship health, high-impact moments, and level of effort anywhere you talk to customers. Analyze patterns and create alerts that help your teammates prioritize their time. Fram.ai helps clients understand and act on customer conversations everywhere they happen with integrated cleanup, analysis, reporting, and alerting based on what customers are actually saying in chats and email
26. Bellhop
Total funding: $450,000
Bellhop combines the major ride-sharing apps into one, giving you the freedom to find the best ride at the best price. Bellhop is the world’s leading rideshare aggregator.
27. AND CO
Total funding: $2,500,000
AND CO is a smart back office for freelancers. Their smartphone-based application enables its users to create invoices, file expenses, and manage projects. The application creates its users' invoices for them, tracks their payments, and keeps track of their billing schedules. It also connects with its clients’ business bank accounts to automatically track, reconcile, and categorize their expenses. AND CO facilitates a portfolio of services such as serving as a personal chief operator, simplifying tax time and invoicing, and the provision of automated expense tracking and day-to-day advice on deductions.
28. Industrious
Total funding: $222,000,000
Industrious is a premium workplace platform, blending five-star service, and stunning design to provide an unparalleled workplace experience for established professionals.
Founded in 2013 by Jamie Hodari and Justin Stewart, the company provides members with stunning offices, inviting hospitality, and inspiring communities. By transforming real estate into a personal, elegant and high-quality experience, Industrious built the concept of co-working into a scalable platform for businesses of all sizes. Industrious has more than 20 locations across the country.
29. Altru
Total funding: $1,400,000
Altru’s mobile-first platform allows your company to create authentic content at scale, from your most powerful asset: your employees. Today’s candidates need a personalized digital experience. Attract, convert, and retain through Altru. Altru transforms the way you create content, market your company’s employer brand and personalize the candidate experience: all through your employees.
30. Mosaic
Total funding: $2,500,000
Mosaic was created for busy teams with lots of projects. All your essential project management features, powered by an automation engine. Mosaic transforms how you manage work and the team. Built to be so intuitive that teams can dive right in.
So that does it for 21–30. If you loved the start of the list 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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