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 41 through 50 here, but now let’s take a look at 31–40 below.
31. Verdocs
Total funding: $3,400,000
Verdocs is an investor backed, early stage technology startup that offers a unique and highly scalable platform for digital document management and eSignature solutions. Verdocs enables companies to use digital documents to accelerate their internal processes and transactions with clients and customers. A favorite in the real estate industry they work with large clients like Spire, Highline Residential, and Corcoran.
32. Insense
Total funding: $1,390,000
By leveraging the time and cost efficiencies that Insense facilitates, Insense’s clients are able to accelerate the pace of content creation campaign deployment and asset delivery. In 2018, Insense has helped clients create 8700+ mobile-first vertical videos, stories, and static images, and to deploy these seamlessly through Facebook and Snap Ads Managers. Through a network comprised of hundreds of creators (searchable by a range of criteria), AI-powered tech and by managing all content usage rights and creator payments, Insense allows advertisers to focus more on fast content delivery with high ROI in paid, and less on administrative tasks.
33. Canopy
Total funding: $4,500,000
Canopy uses on-device machine learning to discover sights, sounds, and stories to inspire your life. The company is taking a new approach to personalized discovery that doesn’t require knowing every action you take or every preference you have. Your personal data stays on your phone, in your hands. Canopy’s app looks at things you like — songs you’ve played, places you’ve explored, articles you’ve read and loved — and makes a summary of your tastes which can’t be reverse-engineered to identify you or your personal preferences. Nothing but this unidentifiable summary leaves your phone.
Canopy uses this anonymized summary, along with other anonymized summaries, as a roadmap to find content you’ll enjoy. We then share these picks back to you in your app each day.
34. Betaworks Studios
Total funding: $7,850,000
Betaworks Studios is a new membership club for individuals looking to make a dent in the universe. Studios is your space to meet, scheme, get advice, collaborate, do a little bit of work, attend events, and host events. For 10 years betaworks has been working and networking — building companies, running accelerators, investing in talent — and now they’ve opened their doors to the public.
35. Splice
Total funding: $104,749,998
Splice designs and develops a technology platform for music creators streamlines the fragmented process of creating and sharing music. It also provides artists with means to connect with fans and other artists to solicit feedback throughout every step of the process. Over a million musicians use Splice to find sounds, get gear, and connect with one another.
36. Dovetale
Total funding: $500,000
Dovetale provides productivity tools to brands and agencies to manage, measure, and pay influencers primarily for branded content. These products are built on the backbone of machine learning and image recognition to save brands time and money without sacrificing quality.
37. Croissant
Total funding: $125,000
Croissant is the clever new way to be productive on the go. They’ve partnered with over 500 workspaces in NYC, SF, London, and beyond, and bundled them into one membership. Members love the flexibility and versatility of Croissant because they can explore their city while staying productive.
38. Time Study
Total funding: $1,450,000
A large portion of the roughly $300B in hospital administrative expenses can be attributed to complex requirements for Medicare reimbursement and grant regulators to track medical practitioners’ time. The current solution for administrators is to manually gather data from over 100 different hospital stakeholders and to painstakingly calculate reports. The Time Study platform leverages machine learning, predictive analytics, and business rule engines to simplify the end-2-end process including time collection, validation, reporting, and insights with a few clicks. Time Study is implemented in over thirty hospitals within the largest health systems including NY-Presbyterian and Stanford saving time for over twenty thousand end users and avoiding millions in potential fines for non-compliance.
39. Source3 (exited)
Total funding: $4,000,000
Source3 is the world’s first platform for end-to-end management of intellectual property in user-generated content (UGC). They provide IP recognition, licensing and rights administration services to connect creators, marketplaces and brands and enable monetization of user content across physical and digital products. Their team has built successful licensing platforms powering digital music, user-generated videos and 3D printing. Source3 offers scalable, turn-key solutions for today’s global licensing challenges.
40. Field Engineer
Total funding: $2,500,000
FieldEngineer is a global on-demand workforce for the telecom & system support industry. The platform enables businesses to hire engineers beyond their reach on-demand, on-budget. FE is a powerful platform designed to eliminate the hurdles of finding qualified talent on-demand worldwide. FE is proving to be an indispensable global marketplace.
With the rising demand of engineers into telecom sector for remote & freelance projects, FieldEngineer is paving the path towards technology that enables businesses to connect with the specific engineers. FieldEngineer, an acclaimed freelance marketplace platform is built to minimize the gap between third parties & engineers globally with rapid matching and real-time engineer tracking.
So that does it for 31–40. 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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