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 around the globe. Let’s take a look at 41 through 50.
50. Music Traveler
Music Traveler is a rapidly growing aggregator and marketplace, bringing a highly fragmented B2B and B2BC environment to the sharing economy. Music Traveler centralizes practice/rehearsal/performing spaces, equipment, and instruction for the performing arts — its mission is to promote the creation, appreciation, and interest in music by reducing barriers, facilitating new interactions.
Website — www.musictraveler.com
Total Funds Raised — $843,095
Process Street is a SaaS platform that lets non-technical teams create powerful, API driven workflows. It provides an easy way to document, track, automate, and optimize customer-centric processes, helping sales and customer success teams drive revenue and reduce churn.
Website — process.st
Total Funds Raised — $13,358,000
48. Tulip Interfaces
Tulip, a spinout from MIT, brings the power of Industrial IoT and advanced analytics to the manufacturing workforce through its app platform. This revolutionary self-service technology fills the gap between rigid back-end manufacturing IT systems and the dynamic operations taking place on the shop floor. Tulip’s Manufacturing App Platform combines research in intelligent hardware sensors, computer vision, assistive user interfaces, and applied machine learning. Today, Tulip’s Manufacturing App Platform is deployed at dozens of global customers in six countries across multiple industries including Electronics, Aerospace & Defense, Medical Devices, Footwear, Pharmaceuticals, and Contract Manufacturing.
Website — tulip.co
Total Funds Rasied — $52,500,000
47. AutoRABIT
AutoRABIT is a developer platform for enabling continuous delivery for SaaS technologies like Salesforce and MuleSoft. AutoRABIT helps its customers automate their cloud software release processes and accelerate the DevOps journey. The company’s Metadata MasteryTM combines process and software so customers can achieve continuous delivery on their salesforce platform.
Website — www.AutoRABIT.com
Total Funds Raised — 12,500,000
46. Aircall
Aircall is a cloud phone system and call center software. It makes phone support as easy as email or chat. Aircall’s app enables its clients to have a localized phone presence. The calls are distributed by the app across the team, using their existing devices, wherever they are, and the company is already active in 30 countries.
Website — aircall.io
Total Funds Raised — $40,550,000
45. DocSend
DocSend is a secure sharing and tracking platform that helps you identify who is interested in doing business with you and protect your sensitive documents from getting in the wrong hands. With DocSend you can track who opens your document and how much time they spend on each page, protect your documents with security features like email verification and viewer whitelisting, and share multiple documents with a single link using Spaces, our virtual deal room
Website — www.docsend.com
Total Funds Raised — $15,300,000
44. Zinc
Zinc is a secure enterprise communication platform built to connect deskless and mobile workers with colleagues both in and out of the office. Zinc combines a full-featured mobile messaging platform that employees love to use with the security, compliance and administrative features that businesses need.
Website — www.zinc.it/
Total Funds Raised — $16,000,000
43. Sourcegraph
Sourcegraph makes code search universal so developers can work on solving problems, not struggle with finding code. With rapidly growing codebases, proliferating number of repos, multiple languages and file formats, and a wide variety of developer tools, Sourcegraph Universal Code Search empowers developers to quickly explore and better understand all code faster.
Website — sourcegraph.com
Total Funds Raised — $43,000,000
42. TRIBE
Tribe is all about premium content at an unprecedented scale at a fraction of the cost. Social Influencers have become powerful allies in the marketing world, yet most remain unaware of their true value as influencers and creators. Tribe is a marketplace where brands invite influencers to create thumb-stopping content and engage audiences they’re desperate to reach.
Website — www.tribegroup.co/
Total Funds Raised — $12,295,586
41. PlanRadar
PlanRadar offers a SaaS solution for documentation and communication in construction and real estate projects (e.g. construction documentation, task and defect management. due diligence, etc.). PlanRadar’s solution with web access and native apps for all kinds of mobile devices supports the user in recording, documentation, communication, and tracking of any kind of information for project & site managers, architects & planners, specialists, technicians, property & facility managers, and investors.
Website — www.planradar.com/
Total Funds Raised — €31,200,000
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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