At Snipply, we write a ton on the future of work. According to Deloitte, the future of work is being shaped by two powerful forces: “The growing adoption of artificial intelligence in the workplace, and the expansion of the workforce to include both on- and off-balance-sheet talent.”
With that being said, there are number related areas defining the future of work. Let’s take a look at some of the top startups around the globe, shaping the future of how, where, and when we get work done. But first…
How Did We Make The List?
We used Crunchbase Pro’s search feature for this list. First, we defined the categories for “future of work” which include — 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 and searched for founded after 1/1/2013. The way the list is sorted is by “CB Rank”. Crunchbase defines CB Rank as follows:
The Crunchbase Rank algorithm takes many signals into account including the number of connections a profile has, the level of community engagement, funding events, news articles, and acquisitions.
A company’s Rank is fluid and subject to rising and decaying over time with time-sensitive events. Events such as product launches, funding events, leadership changes, and news affect a company’s Crunchbase Rank.
We removed the startups that clearly aren’t related to the future of work, and here we are — the top 50 future of work startups headquartered globally. Let’s take a look at 21 through 30.
30. Flock
Flock is a faster, more organized way for teams to communicate. Flock provides one-on-one chat and public and private channels and offers multi-party video and audio calling and screen sharing. It also integrates with over forty third party apps including Google Drive, Github, Trello, Asana and many others and provides a set of business apps including Shared To-dos, Reminders, Polls, Note Sharing, Code Snippet Sharing and so on. Flock powers over 25,000 companies and Flock users around the world have reported increased productivity by 30%, 50% fewer emails, and a 50% reduction in in-person meetings
Website — www.flock.com
Total Funds Raised — $45,000,000
29. Industrious
Industrious is a premium workplace platform, blending five-star service, and stunning design to provide 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.
Website — www.industriousoffice.com/
Total Funds Raised — $222,000,000
28. Honeycomb
Honeycomb provides full-stack observability — designed for high cardinality data and collaborative problem solving, enabling engineers to deeply understand and debug production software together. Founded on the experience of debugging problems at the scale of millions of apps serving tens of millions of users, they empower every engineer to instrument and query the behavior of their system.
Website — www.honeycomb.io/
Total Funds Raised — $26,900,000
27. CData Software
CData Software offers data integration solutions for real-time access to on-line or on-premise applications, databases, and Web APIs. It specializes in providing access to data through established data standards and application platforms such as ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, OData, SSIS, BizTalk, and Excel. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in North Carolina, United States.
Website — www.cdata.com/
Total Funds Raised — $20,000,000
26. Heap
Heap automates away the annoying parts of analytics so that companies can focus on making smarter business decisions. The company’s mission is to power business decisions with truth and encourages companies to focus on discovering insights and taking action. With Heap, organizations can remove technical jams and obtain a single comprehensive view of the customers. The software automatically gathers, organizes, analyzes, and connects customer data, so businesses can create more valuable products and experiences. Heap serves over 6,000 companies in ecommerce, SaaS, fintech, retail, media, and beyond including Twilio, LendingClub, App Annie, Optimizely, Morningstar, Monotype, and Casper.
Website — heap.io/
Total Funding — $95,120,000
25. ContentCal
ContentCal is a social media company with the mission to help anyone and every one succeed in social media marketing. ContentCal originally started as a social media marketing agency in London in 2014. After spotting an opportunity to bring robust strategies, workflows, and social media marketing practices to companies of all sizes they successfully rebranded and launched ContentCal to market. They are focussed on continually innovating in the social media space and putting their user’s needs first with every decision they make, producing some of the best social media marketing products in the world.
Website — www.contentcal.io
Total Funds Raised — $6,426,303
24. Evisort
Evisort is an AI-powered contract management company founded in 2016 by Harvard Law and MIT researches to develop AI algorithms to help companies mine contracts for data. Evisort’s AI understands meaning and context in legal language, virtually eliminating the need to read contracts and helps companies organize, understand, and extract data from their contracts. With Evisort, information locked away in documents becomes searchable, and key terms can be surfaced to the right people at the right time. It can be used across all documents across an organization and helps companies reduce costs and improve their compliance and business operations.
Website — evisort.com
Total Funds Raised — $20,600,000
23. Shift
Shift is a productivity platform that helps customers streamline and optimize their workflow, in one beautiful place. Their mission is to bring focus and convenience to the workday and make managing multiple apps and accounts — without logging in and out or opening up a browser — simple and intuitive. By re-thinking the way work gets done, Shift is solving an acute pain point felt by millions, and growing at an unprecedented rate.
Website — tryshift.com/
Total Funds Raised — CA$1,000,000
22. Oxygen
Oxygen is a neo (challenger) bank, focused on freelancers and the gig-economy at large offering banking and credit. At its core, Oxygen is a digital bank. They have banking and lending services for the massive gig-economy and are focused on making banking easy for contractors/freelancers while making returns to employers and private capital investors.
Website — www.oxygenbank.com
Total Funds Raised — $5,500,000
21. Workato
Workato is an intelligent automation platform designed to automate work in businesses. It enables business and IT to integrate their apps and automate complex business workflows with security and governance. It helps businesses create powerful, business critical integrations between cloud apps in minutes. Founded on 2013, Workato is trusted by top brands as well as its growing innovators. It is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Website — www.workato.com
Total Funds Raised — $105,000,000
So that does it for this portion of the list! If you loved the countdown make sure to follow our blog, as we’ll be adding the next sets of 10 daily, as well as providing 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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