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EdTech: Corporate Learning

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 Founded in 2017 by Sean Hinton, SkyHive is a Canadian company that offers a proprietary Quantum Labor Analysis (QLA) platform to optimize corporate reskilling and upskilling by using economic theory, workforce modeling, human analytics, and data science. SkyHive identifies high-value emerging skill sets by using resumes, profiles, and skills assessments uploaded by employees and matching them with learning resources. The company currently provides support to enterprises such as EdX and Accenture to reskill their employees. Additionally, the platform gathers data through HR systems and other data points to create a database of jobs, skills, and training, which can be used to automate extraction from existing employee data. As of October 2021, the company was active in 200 countries and reportedly maintained over 700 million profiles and 1.5 billion jobs. 
 
 
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 Founded in 2015 by Rachel Carlson and Brittany Stich, Guild Education partners with businesses, non-profits, and universities to offer education as a benefit in the form of online classes, programs, and degrees from more than 80 universities and more than a dozen community colleges. Companies may provide their employees with partial or full tuition support to upskill or earn a degree. Guild works with employers to select programs that are most relevant to its employees, earning a percentage of the fees paid to the universities. The universities then save the expense and effort involved in marketing and recruitment. The company also provides its own support and mentoring services to help students plan, apply for, and finish their programs. As of November 2019, about 400,000 working adults joined the program–around 3%-5% of employees at partner companies. As of May 2020, the Guild Education platform offered more than 1,600 online degree programs.
 
 
 In June 2021, the company announced the formation of a new Advisory Board of diverse business education leaders to generate insights and better serve all stakeholders.
 
 
 In May 2020, Guild Education launched Next Chapter, a program that replaces outplacement services by using algorithms to match employees with new roles in fields that are hiring and recommend programs for retraining. The company also acquired Entangled Group, an educational technology (EdTech) consulting and venture studio that also served as an initial investor in Guild Education. Entangled Group's portfolio of 21 EdTech companies will be managed independently of Guild Education.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In February 2021, the company partnered with 2U, Inc., a developer of digital educational offerings in partnership with colleges and universities, to make 2U’s portfolio of more than 500 digital programs (including online degree programs, online short courses, and boot camps) available on the Guild Education platform. In March 2021, Ancora Corporate Training, a part of Ancora Education, an operator of private, post-secondary schools across the US, partnered with Guild Education by joining the Guild Education Learning Marketplace. In February 2022, the company partnered with UCHealth to launch the UCHealth Ascend Career Program, an educational and upskilling program investing up to USD 50 million for UCHealth employees. 
 More recently, In June 2022, Guild Education partnered with Snowflake, a cloud computing–based data warehousing firm, to deploy Snowflake’s new cybersecurity workload solution to strengthen its data security. 
 
 
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 In June 2022, Guild Education reportedly raised 
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Founded in 2016 by Joel Hellermark, Sana Labs develops an adaptive learning platform that provides corporations with artificial intelligence-driven personalized learning, course creation, and analytics, for skilling, upskilling, and reskilling their workforce. Using adaptive assessments, learning, and reviews, Sana Labs identifies skill gaps, personalizes lessons, provides learning analytics, and recommends interventions. The platform also contains an authoring tool for companies to create their own courses. Sana serves the healthcare, financial services, life sciences, and technology industries.Funding and financialsIn May 2023, the company raised <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19023">USD 28 million in an extended Series B funding round </a>led by NEA, with a post-money valuation of USD 250 million. It planned to use the funds to further expand its product development and commercial teams across its offices in Stockholm, London, and New York. The round follows its <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15308?industryIds=46">USD 34 million in a Series B funding </a>round led by Menlo Ventures in December 2022.

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 Founded by Alexi Robichaux and Eduardo Medina in 2013, BetterUp is a mobile-first coaching, counseling, and mentorship platform that pairs employees with a dedicated coach to cultivate leadership behaviors that support personal growth, professional development, and holistic wellbeing. The platform, which combines coaching with AI technology and behavioral science, offers interactive professional development content, analytics, and real-time insights to track employee progress. BetterUp is reportedly the world&rsquo;s largest coaching network, with more than 3,000 coaches serving 380+ enterprise businesses in 60 languages across 70+ countries as of July 2023. 
 
 
 In March 2021, BetterUp introduced BetterUp Care, a comprehensive mental fitness program for enterprises that provides access to coaching with behavioral health specialists, curated content, on-demand support, parenting specialists, nutrition specialists, sleep specialists, group coaching, and digital learning, aiming to assist employees in problem-solving and adapting to change. As part of its increased focus on mental health, the company appointed Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, as Chief Impact Officer.
 
 
 In September 2021, BetterUp made two strategic acquisitions: Motive, an AI-based software company, and Impraise, a workforce collaboration solution provider. Motive offers proprietary AI-based technology including an Emotion API that identifies emotions in language by applying machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) to multi-channel data. This acquisition will allow BetterUp to leverage Motive's AI technology and develop its leadership platform. The acquisition of Impraise will allow BetterUp to accelerate efforts to scale its operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and strengthen its research and development capabilities. Amsterdam-based Impraise will be BetterUp&rsquo;s third outpost in Europe in addition to its offices in Munich and London. Both Motive and Impraise serve a wide range of customers globally, including Skyscanner, eBay, Achmea, Sony, and CERN, some of which will be given access to BetterUp&rsquo;s corporate learning solutions.
 
 
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 In March 2022, BetterUp and Walmart announced a new partnership to offer &quot;BetterUp for Caregivers,&quot; a curated subscription and community offering exclusively available through The Wellness Hub on Walmart.com. BetterUp and Salesforce have been partners since 2017, and in April 2023, announced the integration of BetterUp's Sales Performance solution with Salesforce's Sales Cloud platform, to offer customers access to specialized sales coaching provided by BetterUp. 
 
 
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 Wellington Management, ICONIQ Growth, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing its post-money valuation to USD 4.7 billion. It planned to use the funds for further product development, and for international expansion. The round follows its 
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 UK-based EduMe is a mobile-based corporate learning platform focused on the gig economy and deskless employees; it offers a suite of corporate training products in onboarding, compliance, and professional services. As of January 2022, the platform had served 60 customers globally across several industries such as ride-hailing, food delivery, logistics, mobile network operators, retail, hospitality, and healthcare. Its customers include Gopuff, Deliveroo, Deloitte, Uber, and Vodafone.
 
 
 EduMe entered into several partnerships in 2021 to extend its services. The company partnered with goPuff, an online grocery delivery platform in February 2021, to deploy its technology across 500 cities nationwide, in which goPuff operates. In June 2021, it partnered with workforce management solutions provider Quinyx, to offer its services to the latter’s customers. This was followed by a partnership with global online delivery solution Wolt in July 2021, allowing it to deploy its technology across Wolt’s operations in 180 cities across 23 countries. 
 
 
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 Strivr has developed a virtual reality (VR) product for workplace training that simulates real-world and on-the-job situations. Strivr was incubated at Stanford University when co-founder and CEO Derek Belch developed a VR application in 2014 to help football players train off the field. The company's focus later shifted to workplace training. Its products combine interactive 360-degree videos with computer-generated scenarios in which trainees must actively participate. Strivr exclusively uses Oculus headsets for its VR experiences. As of March 2020, Strivr’s 22,000 VR headsets in operation had registered 1.6 million sessions.
 
 
 In 2017, Strivr partnered with Walmart to bring VR instruction 200 “Walmart Academy” instruction centers and all Walmart stores. In March 2021, Bank of America announced that it was rolling out Strivr’s VR product to thousands of employees across its 4,000 banks after a pilot program with about 400 employees. The bank plans to incorporate VR into its corporate learning program, “The Academy,” and apply the technology across a range of training areas such as notary services, fraud detection, and practicing empathy with customers.
 
 
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Distributed workforces require new solutions for office operations, HR, payment, and more.

Remote Work Infrastructure

Workboard offers objective and key results (OKR) software for large enterprises and startups to help align and track goals and outcomes across divisions. The company provides Trello-like Kanban boards for organizing tasks, due dates, and statuses.&nbsp; Workboard also offers GenAI-backed tools (launched in May 2023) to suggest key results based on OKRs, setting relationships between workstreams, publishing progress summaries and summarizing team ideas.&nbsp; &nbsp;The platform is also deeply integrated with Microsoft Teams with options to automate status updates, celebrate weekly results, automatically calculate progress toward targets and implement calendar agendas, among other features. Further, the platform integrates with Azure DevOps (auto updating the team’s key results) and Office 365 (create smart meeting agendas), alongside other third party applications (Jira, Slack, etc). Other services offered include OKR coaching including relevant courses and certifications and management programs.In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/34350">October 2024</a>, WorkBoard extended its AI capabilities for productivity improvement and performance assessmentKey customers and partnershipsWorkboard stated that it had ‘hundreds’ of clients (May 2021), across a range of industries, notably including Comcast, Microsoft, Cisco and Workday, among others.&nbsp;

Nayya is an employee benefits and experience platform that offers solutions to employees’ needs through automated benefits selection and utilization. The platform guides employees through decisions during open enrollments, new employee onboarding, life events, and managing finances across various benefits throughout the year.It offers a suite of products designed to enhance the benefits experience for employees:1) ‘Nayya Choose,’ a personalized decision support system that combines employee data on health, wealth, and other preferences to recommend a portfolio of benefits to fit employees’ unique needs.2) ‘Nayya Use,’ a benefits engagement module that focuses on maximizing benefits use, providing employees with insights and suggestions on how to make the most of their benefits throughout the year.3) ‘Nayya Claims’ streamlines the claims process by integrating medical data seamlessly with benefits providers to automate and simplify claims management for employees. This ensures employees receive their claims, especially during tough times.4) ‘Nayya Retirement’ offers tools and resources to connect their retirement accounts for effective retirement planning whilst also connecting employees with favorable plans and strategies.5) ‘Naya Leave’ assists employees in navigating the complexities of various leave programs such as maternity. It ensures employees can understand and access their entitlements with ease by providing assistance on form filling and fund disbursements.Nayya claims its AI-powered solution that centralizes benefits data (featuring more than 3 billion external data points) reduces benefits-related questions directed to HR teams by 80%.Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, Nayya’s key customers included Cape Air, Sumit Medical Group, Hilb Group, and Just Global.The firm has partnered with benefits administration and human capital management (HCM) platforms (ADP, Workterra), insurance brokers (NFP, Salty), and digital health solutions providers (Yogavibes, Genomic Life) to extend the capabilities of its platform. In October 2023, Nayya established a strategic relationship with MetLife, making MetLife the exclusive insurance carrier to offer Nayya's AI-powered solutions to employers with more than 1,000 US employees. In July 2023, Nayya partnered with Prudential Financial for the latter’s clients to take advantage of Nayya’s benefits decision support tool during open enrollment.Funding and financialsIn March 2022, Nayya raised USD 55 million in a Series C funding round led by ICONIQ Growth, valuing the company between USD 500 - 750 million. Funds were earmarked to bolster product development efforts and expand partnerships with major healthcare providers.

Benepass consolidates multiple employee benefits, primarily tax-advantaged accounts, as well as company perks and stipends, related to physical and mental wellness, professional development, and meals, onto a single platform. In addition to a Benepass Visa card to be used for their benefits, employees also receive access to a web portal and mobile app to track spending, check balances, and request reimbursements.In 2024, the company rolled out Benebot, an in-app GenAI-powered chatbot which aids employees manage their benefits and increase benefit usage. Users can also receive answers on a company’s specific benefit policies alongside spending suggestions.The platform charges a subscription fee and interchange revenue on transactions initiated through the Benepass card.Funding and financialsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26204">January 2024</a>, Benepass raised USD 20 million in a funding round led by Portage and Clocktower Technology Ventures. Funds were earmarked for growth initiatives, including expanding partnerships and developing new platform features.

Papaya Global is an automated platform for global payroll and workforce management. The platform offers end-to-end solutions that allow businesses to grow their teams globally by hiring from anywhere in the world as the employer of record (EoR). The platform simplifies the onboarding and management process with guidance in local compliance laws and allows cross-border payments with coverage in more than 160 countries, as of April 2024. Additionally the company offers global equity management (managing employee stock purchase plans, stock options, etc.) and contractor management.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21897">September 2023</a>, the company launched ‘made to measure’, an AI-backed solution designed to help organizations navigate complex US payroll regulations. Other notable product updates included the launch of Papaya Global Payroll Payments (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16965">March 2023</a>), a first-of-its-kind, fully automated, embedded payments platform for global payroll and mass payments to employees and other beneficiaries, with payments arriving within 72 hours.Papaya Global has undertaken a series of acquisitons to expand its product offerings; Mensch (an Israeli human resource information platform) in July 2021, to complement its end-to-end offering and feature employee management; NickNack, a remote work connectivity platform, in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/6767">November 2021</a> to enhance its technology solution to support clients onboard employees to remote teams with asynchronous activities by providing a platform to improve employee engagement and connectivity; Azimo, a UK-based online remittance service, in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9416">March 2022</a> to help Papaya Global expand its geographical footprint using Azimo’s payment licenses and network spanning 190+ countries.The company generates revenue through monthly subscriptions on a per employee basis, based on the product offered. As of April 2024, this included payroll (USD 15-25), EoR (USD 500), contractors (USD 30) and agent of record (USD 200). Additionally, the company generates revenue from cross-border payments (USD 2.5 per transaction).Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, the company served over 2,000 enterprises, with 35% of its customer base being Global Fortune 500 firms. Notable enterprises using the platform included Toyota, Shopify, Canva and Wix.In September 2023, the company partnered with HiBob to connect its HR data to Papaya's payments and payroll platform, reducing administrative burden. Previously in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9612">April 2022</a>, the company launched a corporate payment and expense management solution for remote employees in partnership with Mesh Payments, a corporate payment and spend management solution provider.Funding and financialsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/5441">September 2021</a>, Papaya Global raised USD 250 million in a Series D funding round co-led by Insight Partners and Tiger Global, valuing the company at USD 3.7 billion. Funds were earmarked to support the company’s continued growth and attract more Fortune 5000 clients.As of April 2024, the company had over USD 7 billion in total payroll under management. In March 2021, the company claimed that in the past three years it has experienced 300% revenue growth YoY.

Topia is a platform which automates global talent mobility tasks such as scenario-based planning, compliance risk, expat payroll, and reporting among others. Topia’s global talent mobility suite includes <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2787979-1&amp;h=4251998725&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.topia.com%2Fproducts%2Fplan%2F&amp;a=Topia+Plan">Topia Plan</a> (scenario planning for the workforce), <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2787979-1&amp;h=358484588&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.topia.com%2Fproducts%2Fmanage%2F&amp;a=Topia+Manage">Topia Manage</a> (talent mobility dashboard), <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2787979-1&amp;h=1874655056&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.topia.com%2Fproducts%2Fpay%2F&amp;a=Topia+Pay">Topia Pay</a> (payroll delivery and compensation reporting), Topia<a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2787979-1&amp;h=3325457260&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.topia.com%2Fproducts%2Fgo%2F&amp;a=Topia+"> </a><a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2787979-1&amp;h=3524133512&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.topia.com%2Fproducts%2Fgo%2F&amp;a=Go">Go</a> (consumer-grade employee mobility tools) and Topia Compass (business travel compliance).Key customers and partnershipsThe platform is used by Fortune 1000 enterprises in industry verticals such as financial services, energy, manufacturing, technology, and pharmaceuticals among others. Notable enterprises using the platform included Dell, AXA and Equinor.In April 2024, the company partnered with employee relocation platform Jobbatical to simplify the complexities of international work relocations handled by businesses. Previously, in February 2021 the company entered into a strategic partnership with Cartus Corporation, a company offering compliance services for distributed teams. The partnership will allow companies to manage multi-jurisdiction taxes, immigration status, payroll risks, and regulatory compliance for their distributed teams.Funding and financialsIn January 2024, Topia raised USD 15 million from six investors, as disclosed by an SEC filing. The funding strengthened the firm's ability to improve its global talent mobility platform.

HR Tech

Paradox is a conversational recruiting software company founded in 2016 that leverages artificial intelligence to streamline and automate various aspects of the hiring process. The company's flagship product is an AI assistant named Olivia, which interacts with candidates through natural language processing to handle tasks such as candidate screening, interview scheduling, and onboarding. Paradox's technology is designed to reduce the administrative burden on recruiters and hiring managers, allowing them to focus on more strategic aspects of talent acquisition.
The platform supports over 100 languages, making it suitable for global companies with diverse hiring needs. Paradox's software is particularly effective for high-volume hiring, enabling organizations to scale their recruitment efforts efficiently. The company's solutions include a Conversational Applicant Tracking System (ATS), dynamic career sites that adapt to each candidate's interaction, and tools for automating various stages of the recruitment process.
Paradox has achieved significant growth since its inception, with revenues increasing by over 1,000% between 2020 and 2023. The company has been recognized multiple times on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the US and has also been featured on the Deloitte Fast 500 list. In March 2024, Paradox announced a leadership transition, with Adam Godson taking over as CEO from founder Aaron Matos, who moved into the role of Executive Chairman.
Key customers and partnerships
Paradox serves a wide range of global clients across various industries. Some of its notable customers include Unilever, McDonald's, General Motors, Nestlé, Pfizer, L'Oréal, CVS Health, FedEx, Compass Group, and Disney. The company has established partnerships with major HR technology providers, becoming an SAP Endorsed partner and being recognized as an early adopter of Workday's AI Marketplace.
Paradox has demonstrated its impact through case studies with clients such as General Motors, where the implementation of their AI assistant (branded as Evie) reduced interview scheduling time from an average of five days to 29 minutes. The company's solutions have helped clients like Southern Rock Restaurants save over USD 840,000 in a single year through improved hiring efficiency.

BetterUp, founded in 2013, is a human transformation company that provides virtual professional coaching and mental fitness services to enterprises. The company offers a platform that combines coaching, AI technology, and behavioral science to drive personal and professional growth. BetterUp's services include one-on-one coaching, group coaching, and on-demand resources covering topics such as leadership development, mental health, nutrition, sleep, and diversity and inclusion.
The company utilizes a network of over 4,000 coaches providing support in 64 languages across more than 70 countries. BetterUp's platform incorporates AI-driven insights and personalized learning paths to deliver scalable development solutions. The company's products include BetterUp Lead for leadership development, BetterUp Manage for skill development using AI, and BetterUp Care for employee well-being and mental health.
BetterUp has developed partnerships to expand its reach, including integrations with Microsoft Viva and Degreed's Learning Experience Platform. The company has also launched specialized offerings like BetterUp Sales Performance on Salesforce AppExchange to improve sales team effectiveness. As of October 2021, BetterUp was valued at USD 4.7 billion and had raised USD 300 million in funding.
Key customers and partnerships
BetterUp works with over 600 organizations, including major corporations such as NASA, Google, Chevron, Hilton, Salesforce, and Warner Media. BetterUp has partnered with Salesforce since 2017, providing coaching to over 70,000 Salesforce employees worldwide. BetterUp has also formed partnerships with Microsoft to integrate its services into Microsoft Viva, and with Degreed to offer coaching through their learning platform.
In 2023, BetterUp announced a collaboration with renowned researcher and author Brené Brown to launch the Daring Leadership Institute, which aims to develop courageous leaders and foster organizational cultures that embrace change. The US Air Force awarded BetterUp a USD 99 million contract in September 2023 for leadership coaching services, demonstrating the company's expansion into government sectors.

Glean is an enterprise AI company founded in 2019 by former Google engineers, including CEO Arvind Jain. The company provides a Work AI platform that combines enterprise search, an AI assistant, and tools for building custom generative AI applications. Glean's technology connects to over 100 enterprise data sources and applications to provide employees with quick access to relevant information across their organization. The platform uses advanced search, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and large language models to generate personalized answers grounded in a company's proprietary data. Glean's core offerings include Glean Chat, an AI assistant that answers employee questions using company data; Glean Apps for creating custom AI agents and chatbots; and enterprise search capabilities to help identify internal subject matter experts. The platform also features AI-powered summarization, analysis, and multi-step prompting to automate complex workflows. Glean emphasizes security, privacy, and permissions enforcement to meet enterprise requirements. As of September 2024, Glean reported that its annual recurring revenue had more than tripled over the previous year. The company's customers include major technology firms like Reddit, Instacart, Pinterest, Duolingo, and Databricks, as well as enterprises in telecommunications, banking, retail, and manufacturing. Glean is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and has an office in Bengaluru, India that serves as a hub for global operations. Key customers and partnerships Glean's customer base includes several high-profile technology companies such as Reddit, Instacart, Pinterest, Duolingo, Databricks, BILL, Samsara, and Grammarly. The company also serves leading global enterprises across industries including telecommunications, banking, retail, semiconductors, electronics, and manufacturing. In 2024, Glean announced new integrations with customer service applications, launching Glean Assist for Zendesk and Salesforce Service Cloud. These embedded solutions aim to help support teams serve customers faster by providing relevant information within their existing workspaces. The Zendesk integration was made generally available, while the Salesforce integration entered beta testing.

Censia is a San Francisco-based company that provides AI-driven talent intelligence solutions for the recruiting and talent management sector. The company's platform leverages artificial intelligence to enhance various aspects of human resource management, including sourcing, recruitment, workforce planning, and internal mobility. Censia's proprietary data model comprises trillions of data points from thousands of sources, encompassing hundreds of millions of professionals, companies, and industries. This extensive database allows the platform to offer comprehensive and insightful talent information.
The company's product suite includes several innovative features. In January 2024, Censia introduced Conversational Talent Search LLM, which allows users to conduct multidimensional talent searches through a conversational interface. This feature enables recruiters to ask detailed questions and receive context-aware responses. Additionally, Censia offers Automatic Candidate Screening and Sourcing, which integrates seamlessly with leading Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), streamlining talent processes without requiring users to learn new third-party systems. The platform also includes Targeted Search capabilities, designed to handle complex queries such as finding CFOs in SaaS companies who have taken a company public.
Censia's technology aims to reduce time and cost to hire by 50% through predictive analysis and advanced modeling. The platform simultaneously searches and ranks applicants, employees, and passive talent to ensure optimal hiring decisions. It can be used as a standalone tool or integrated into most ATS systems to add AI modeling and search capabilities to existing platforms. Censia's solutions cater to a wide range of organizations, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, helping them make data-informed decisions across various HR functions.
Key customers and partnerships
Censia has established partnerships with several prominent organizations in the talent management industry. In September 2024, the company received a strategic investment from Workday Ventures, which will support product scaling, model training, and integration with Workday solutions. This partnership allows Censia to surface talent information directly within the Workday platform, enabling more efficient talent management processes for joint customers.
Cielo Talent, a significant player in the talent acquisition sector, has been identified as a customer of Censia. Ales Koblizek from Cielo Talent expressed excitement about Censia's enhanced AI capabilities, highlighting the technology's potential to keep Cielo at the forefront of transforming the talent industry. The company's solutions have also been utilized by various organizations to address recruitment challenges, improve internal talent mobility, and develop data-driven talent strategies.

Mya Systems, founded in 2012 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, developed a conversational AI platform to address challenges in talent acquisition. The company's primary offering is an intelligent chatbot designed to streamline the hiring process from search to onboarding. Mya's technology leverages natural language processing and understanding to engage job seekers in natural conversations, gathering crucial data and keeping dialogues ongoing. The platform integrates with standard HR systems such as CRM, ATS, and HRIS platforms, enhancing its functionality across the entire talent acquisition cycle. Mya's success stems from its ability to make bots feel more human-like, utilizing semantic parsing, intent classification, and dynamic dialogue management. The company's AI continuously evolves, benefiting from millions of data points collected from job seeker interactions. By May 2021, Mya Systems had expanded its services to support over 500 brands globally, including Fortune 100 companies and major staffing agencies. The company's mobile app further increased accessibility for job seekers. In May 2021, Mya Systems was acquired by StepStone, a leading online job marketplace, to enhance StepStone's Autonomous Matching platform.
Key customers and partnerships
Mya Systems' technology has been adopted by numerous Fortune 100 companies and large staffing agencies. The company expanded its reach across North America, EMEA, and APAC, serving customers in more than 35 countries. Mya Systems also established partnerships with global HR software providers such as Workday and SAP SuccessFactors, integrating its AI chatbot with these widely-used platforms to enhance its functionality and reach.

New data privacy regulations have opened up space for a new wave of compliance-focused startups.

Digital Privacy Tools

Vanta graduated from Y Combinator in 2018 and was largely bootstrapped since its founding in 2016. Vanta provides compliance tools that help companies to automatically comply with cybersecurity and privacy standards to protect data. The company currently supports six compliance standards including the GDPR and CCPA. Vanta helps enterprises and SMBs earn security certifications and continuously monitors their systems to ensure compliance. Vanta Trust Reports demonstrates an organization’s security posture by displaying the real-time status about tests and controls and helps them share their real-time security status with prospects and customers. The platform integrates with automated security tools including cloud services, cybersecurity software, and other applications to automatically evaluate and determine whether each application is configured in accordance with security requirements.Vanta automates the collection of evidence to document the actions taken to prove compliance. Vanta’s set of controls for GDPR and CCPA are always updated to reflect new regulations and requirements. Vanta provides continuous security monitoring to alert and address failing tests, non-compliant employees, and other risks in real time. Vanta’s policy builder tool creates and implements controls tailored to the organization while complying with privacy regulations. The company also provides ongoing access to a network of in-house experts.As of March 2024, Vanta reported more than USD 100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR).Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, Vanta served more than 8,000 organizations, including Quora, Omni Hotels, and IcelandAir.

Securiti emerged out of stealth in 2019 with the launch of its platform Privacy.ai, which enables companies to meet the compliance requirements of regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. The solutions are AI-driven automating processes such as data discovery, data subject rights management, and consent management, among others. The bot can also provide answers to queries and carry out tasks upon request through a natural language interface. Securiti.ai’s platform can integrate with 1,000+ data sources and comes pre-built with templates for privacy regulations to identify data, in line with regulatory requirements.In October 2022, the company launched Data Controls Cloud—a solution that acts as a centralized command center for businesses to monitor and control digital privacy workflows across typically siloed enterprise tools.Key customers and partnershipsThe company caters to notable organizations across various industries, including Cisco, Alaska Airlines, Skechers, DELL, Toyota, and Comcast.Funding and financialsIn October 2022, the company <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13499">raised USD 75 million</a> in a Series C funding round led by Owl Rock Capital. In March 2023, Securiti <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17068">received undisclosed investments</a> for Capital One Ventures and Citi Ventures. The new funding was to be funneled towards bolstering Securiti’s DataControls Cloud platform.During FY2022, Securiti reported 4x growth in total contract value, more than tripled its annual recurring revenue and had plans to double its 370-strong workforce by 2023.

Automation to improve business efficiency

Workflow Automation Platforms

Automation Anywhere offers a cloud-based platform that enables citizen and professional developers to orchestrate processes and create end-to-end automations across the finance, HR, and customer service business functions. Named the “Automation Success Platform,” it provides a suite of solutions including: 1) A GenAI-powered co-pilot solution that converts natural language prompts to automations; 2) A no-code process composing interface; 3) A document processing solution that enables users to extract and embed document data into workflows; and 4) Robotic process automation (RPA) bot-building tools.The platform’s function-specific solutions include procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and tax automation solutions for accounting teams, order management, and complaint resolution solutions for sales teams, and vendor onboarding and procurement solutions for operations teams.The platform also offers an API-as-a-service solution that offers low-latency APIs as pre-built packages to enable developers to integrate automations across multiple third-party applications. Users can also transform APIs into no-code automation building blocks to build automations at scale and reuse assets when required. As of October 2023, the company also offered over 1,200 of pre-built connectors to enterprise workflow apps, such as MuleSoft, Salesforce, Workato, ServiceNow, Boomi, Alteryx, and Pipefy.Automation Anywhere leverages custom GenAI automation models trained on anonymized metadata from millions of automations as a foundation for many of its products. Named the “Responsible AI Layer,” the company integrates this layer into its tools to add a range of use cases, such as email triage and routing for customer service teams, anti-money laundering alerts and reporting for banks, and after-visit summaries for patients in healthcare. In June 2024, it <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30479">launched the “AI + Automation Enterprise System,”</a> which aimed to infuse GenAI technology across a range of its workflow automation products. It includes a low-code development studio, which enables users to create and manage custom AI Agents that can make informed decisions and perform automated actions across enterprise systems. The system is powered by the company’s new GenAI process models that are trained on metadata from over 300 million process automations running on the platform.Moreover, the company has also expanded its offerings through acquisitions. The company acquired Cathyos Labs, an Indian product engineering company, and KlevOps, a French RPA startup, in 2019. Automation Anywhere leveraged the acquisition of Cathyos to add to its engineering team, increase product development, and support its expansion in Asia, and KlevOps to expand its RPA solutions. The company went on to acquire FortressIQ, a process mining company, in December 2021, to offer process discovery, intelligence, and optimization solutions to its customers. Key customers and partnershipsAutomation Anywhere has an extensive partner ecosystem with a range of companies that include Google, Oracle, Salesforce, and Microsoft, among many others. In June 2023, the company expanded its partnership with Google to use Google Cloud's large language models (LLMs) via Vertex AI to support the development and launch of new GenAI features on the Automation Success Platform. In December 2023, It <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24821">entered with a multi-year strategic partnership with AWS</a> to enhance its capabilities in AI applications and intelligent automation and develop industry-specific automation solutions. It went on to <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30347">expand its partnerships with AWS and Microsoft</a> in June 2024 to integrate Q, Amazon’s GenAI assistant, and Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service into its platform. The integrations enabled the company to enhance the capabilities of virtual AI agents created via the Automation Anywhere platform, enabling users to automate more complex tasks. Users can leverage Amazon Q to program agents to answer queries, provide summaries, generate content, and complete tasks based on enterprise data. Moreover, the integration of OpenAI enables the company to leverage Azure AI Document Intelligence, enabling customers to process unstructured documents.As of October 2023, the company served a range of enterprise customers across more than 90 countries in the healthcare, financial services, insurance, and manufacturing sectors. These include the NHS, Dell, Merck, Granite, Eastman, and Tata/Sky.Funding and financialsIn October 2022, Automation Anywhere secured USD 200 million in debt funding from Silicon Valley Bank and Hercules Capital to finance operational and strategic capital over the next several years.

Workato offers a cloud-based platform that enables citizen and professional developers to integrate a range of data and apps and create end-to-end automations across several business functions, including finance, HR, sales, IT, and marketing. The platform suite of solutions includes robotic process automation (RPA), integration platform-as-a-service, business process automation, and chatbots. Users can publish APIs, build data integrations, and create customized apps and bots from scratch via the platform's low-code interface or use over 500,000 community-built automation templates (called “recipes”).Moreover, the platform enables users to build tailored solutions for each business function, including automations for 1) accounting teams: Wuote-to-cash, accounts payable, and reporting, 2) sales and marketing teams: Campaign operations and lead management, 3) HR teams: Talent acquisition, onboarding, and collaboration, and 4) IT teams: Incident management and end-user support.The platform also provides software infrastructure, named “Common Workato Runtime” (CWR), which handles capacity planning, load balancing, fault-tolerance, and run-time optimization. In September 2023, the company launched “Workflow Apps,” a no-code tool that enables users to build end-to-end workflow automation applications.In November 2021, the company acquired RailsData, an Indian integration platform, for an undisclosed amount. Workato leveraged the company’s technology to power its own automation solutions and enable large customers to deploy services via application programming interfaces (APIs).Key customers and partnershipsAs of November 2023, served over 17,000 businesses across a number of industries, including financial services, retail, logistics, and healthcare. Its clientele includes large enterprise clients, such as Atlassian, AT&amp;T, Adobe, Autodesk, Box, Stitch Fix, GitLab, NYU, Nokia, and Broadcom.The company also offers integrations with over 1,000 third-party applications and databases (as of December 2023), including Salesforce, Slack, Marketo, NetSuite, ServiceNow, and Workday.The company also partners with a number of systems integrators and technology service providers such as Trianz, Cognizant, Cloud9 Consulting, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32627">Reltio,</a> and <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32626">Deloitte.</a>In June 2023, the company partnered with OpenAI, to integrate the company’s large language model (LLM) technology with its automation platform, and develop a new GenAI-driven solution. Named AI@Work, the solution will feature a number of tools including: 1) Workato Copilot, which enables users to convert natural language prompts into powerful Workato recipes, 2) Workato AI Connect, which enables users to create personalized content, and 3) WorkbotGPT, which enables users to interact with enterprise applications such as Slack and Microsoft Teams in a conversational manner.

Exploring the limitless possibilities of AI

Generative AI Applications

Sana is a Swedish AI-based knowledge management and learning platform for enterprises. Sana utilizes large language models (LLMs), including OpenAI's Whisper, GPT-4, and Dall-E, to combine live collaborative sessions with self-paced courses and streamline knowledge sharing through automated content generation, transcription, and summarization. It engages learners with interactive features like video chat sessions, presentations, quizzes, Q&amp;A, and polls. Sana integrates with various team applications, including Github, Google Workspace, Notion, Slack, and Salesforce.The Sana platform allows employees of organizations to chat with its data in natural language to retrieve relevant information.The platform claims to boost productivity by up to 30% through GenAI, achieving a 10x increase in speed with its real-time collaborative editing, templates, and AI-assisted suggestions, all while maintaining ISO 27001 certification and GDPR compliance.Key customers and partnershipsAs of August 2023, the platform had served 300,000 users across 200 organizations. Some of its customers as of May 2024 included Vell, Securitas, Swile, Truecaller, Electrolux Group, Foodora, Merck, Lenus, Kry, Veoneer, and Beamery.Funding and financialsIn May 2023, the company raised USD 28 million in an extended Series B funding round led by NEA. It planned to use the funds for product development and expanding its team of 70 employees. The round followed its USD 34 million Series B funding round in December 2022.

Glean offers an AI-powered enterprise search and knowledge discovery platform to improve workplace productivity. Its products include;1) Workplace Search: Allows employees to look up documentation, instructions, and data points using simple language queries2) Assistant: A digital assistant that answers questions by understanding company’s content, internal language, people, and relationships3) Platform: A no-code tool to develop custom GenAI apps by integrating with more than 100 enterprise datasources4) Knowledge Management: A tool that brings all company knowledge together providing answers to frequently asked questions5) Work Hub: A platform to share important news and updates, streamlining communication6) Connectors: A tool that enables connection of over 100 apps via native, push API, and web history-based connectors with real-time sync.The company introduced Glean Chat in June 2023, a ChatGPT-like interface that can summarize business documents and help engineers with coding tasks.Glean uses vector search and LLMs trained on an organization’s knowledge articles to provide responses to natural language queries. The platform continuously learns an organization’s language and contexts and updates itself automatically to provide relevant information. The company targets various use cases including engineering, sales, support, and HR.Key customers and partnershipsAs of June 2023, Glean served over 100 customers, including Databricks, Grammarly, Duolingo, Canva, Okta, and Plaid.In January 2023, the company partnered with Google Cloud to make its products available on the Google Cloud Marketplace and in March 2024, it partnered with NVIDIA to enable its customers to use NVIDIA NIM and choose from a variety of language models to self-host on their own infrastructure. It has also partnered with cloud tech company DoiT in September 2023 to manage cloud costs better.

Now anyone can become a software developer.

No-code Software

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Membership-based, non-insurance healthcare companies helping maintain a steady state of well being.

Preventive Healthcare

Vida Health is a digital therapeutic startup that provides personalized health programs and chronic care management solutions to prevent, manage, and reverse hypertension, obesity, and diabetes. It also helps members manage mental health conditions such as anxiety, stress, and depression, which accompany chronic conditions.The Vida platform has more than 30 health trackers and integrates with more than 100 third-party apps and devices. The company operates in the B2B enterprise market (employers and health plans), offering members video sessions with health coaches or therapists, text-based support, and educational content via Vida’s app. Further, Vida operates a "100% fees at risk" model, whereby service fees are entirely contingent upon achieving specific health outcomes. It uses health claims as well as biometric and health risk assessment data to identify members in an organization that can benefit from its program.Key customers and partnershipsAt a program cost of USD 79 per month, it is available to two million covered lives via Vida’s partnerships with health plans across all 50 states. The company’s key corporate clients include Boeing, Visa, Cisco, eBay, Humana, and Blue Cross Blue Shield.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29420">May 2024</a>, the company partnered with Hawaii-based Outrigger Resorts &amp; Hotels to provide personalized diabetes management solutions as part of Outrigger's employee benefits program.Funding and financialsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23803">November 2023</a>, the company raised USD 28.5 million in a funding round led by General Atlantic, Ally Bridge, Canvas Ventures, and Hercules Capital. The new funds were used to scale up the company’s operations and pursue growth prospects, especially in the GLP-1 industry.Vida reported revenue growth of 3x from the beginning of 2020 to May 2021 and has also expanded its network of therapists, coaches, and dietitians by more than 5x.

Artificial intelligence is helping sales teams manage relationships and optimize the customer lifecycle.

Sales Engagement Platforms

Clari is an AI-powered platform designed to optimize revenue operations (RevOps) and sales processes. The company's technology leverages advanced AI to provide detailed, actionable insights that streamline sales operations and increase productivity. Clari's product suite includes features such as Forecast, which provides revenue forecasts; Capture, which automatically captures deal activity; Inspect, an AI-driven deal inspection tool; Align, which supports buyer collaboration; and Groove, an automated sales engagement strategy optimizer. Emphasizing its sales intelligence solutions, Clari provides tools such as Revenue Database (RevDB), RevAI, and comprehensive analytics that improve data quality and forecasting. In addition, its conversation intelligence solutions, branded as Copilot, focus on revenue conversation intelligence and coaching, enabling sales teams to learn from client interactions. Clari supports 40+ integrations, including customer relationship management (CRMs) like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Pipedrive.In January 2022, Clari reported a 10x growth in revenue data under management over the previous two years.&nbsp;Clari entered the M&amp;A space by acquiring DealPoint, a deal management and collaboration software, for an undisclosed sum in September 2021. The acquisition bolstered Clari’s product capabilities, with the addition of new features such as deal rooms and mutual action plans. In June 2022, the company acquired Wingman, a conversation intelligence platform, to enhance communication across various departments. In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21434">August 2023, </a>the company acquired <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/234681">Groove,</a> a sales workforce automation platform, to offer an end-to-end revenue platform that manages internal and external revenue workflows, from prospecting to closing to renewing.&nbsp;Clari claims a 10% reduction in lost deals, a 90% increase in productivity, and a 30% increase in pipeline creation.Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;As of August 2024, the platform has served 1,100 companies globally, including Okta, Adobe, Workday, Zoom, and Finastra.In April 2024, the company partnered with consulting firm Deloitte Digital to improve revenue accuracy and operational efficiency for B2B companies.

More important now than ever, telehealth will long outlast the pandemic that drove its growth.

Telehealth

League is a Canadian patient engagement platform offering personalized solutions to healthcare organizations. Its application programming interface (API) platform and technology infrastructure allow healthcare providers, payers, employers, and consumer health practitioners to build personalized digital experiences for their patients. Additionally, its health OS (operating system) platform provides a customizable digital front door solution that supports patient triage and helps increase patient engagement. The company claims its customers can build and deploy healthcare experiences within six months.The health OS platform was developed using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources technology and leverages the Google Cloud Platform Healthcare API to collate patient health data from multiple sources, including electronic health records (EHRs), medical claims, wearable devices, and third-party partnerships to tailor patient experiences.League announced in <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/league-brings-generative-ai-to-digital-member-and-patient-experience-with-google-cloud-301950717.html#:~:text=LAS%20VEGAS%2C%20Oct.,consumer%20experience%20personalization%20at%20scale.">October 2023</a> that the company would use Google Cloud's Generative AI capabilities for greater customer experience and personalization capabilities on its platform, with an initial focus on optimizing member and patient journey orchestration.Key customers and partnershipsIn <a href="https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/highmark-health-google-cloud-league-partner-build-digital-front-door#:~:text=Earlier%20this%20year%2C%20League%20and,a%20healthcare%20consumer%20experience%20platform.">November 2022</a>, the company announced it would work with healthcare provider Highmark Health and Google Cloud to develop a digital health platform for Highmark members.In <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220322005816/en/League-Announces-Collaboration-with-Google-Cloud">March 2022</a>, the company announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to improve patient engagement and offer a customized experience to its B2B clients using Google Cloud’s application programming interface (API).

Helping employers provide personalized, high-touch, and holistic financial wellness tools to their entire workforce.

Financial Wellness Tools

Northstar provides a financial wellness platform for employers which connects employees with certified financial advisors to obtain personalized financial coaching. The platform also offers a compensation management solution that allows to manage fringe benefits. Northstar’s mobile app for employees links with the user’s bank accounts and helps them to set and track financial goals such as retirement planning, building emergency funds, and managing debt. The platform provides recommendations and tools to automate savings, debt payoffs and investments to achieve these goals.&nbsp;Northstar also provides financial coaching via a direct-to-consumer subscription model, and charges USD 25 in monthly subscription fee per user.Key customers and partnershipsNorthstar’s platform is in use by companies such as Snap, Zoom, 23andMe, Virgin Orbit, and NerdWallet. While Northstar’s platform is primarily offered as an employee benefit, the company also sells a direct-to-consumer personal membership at USD 25 per month.

New technology allows individuals and organizations to become carbon intelligent

Carbon Management Software

Pulsora (previously known as pulsESG) is an ESG management company that provides SaaS solutions for corporate sustainability performance. It caters to <a href="https://pulsora.com/private-capital-firms/">private capital firms</a> via carbon accounting tools, GHG calculators, and industry benchmarks for Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. In addition, the company builds a <a href="https://pulsora.com/corporate-sustainability-teams/">customized platform</a> for corporate customers to streamline their ESG goalsThe company delivers an integrated platform streamlining sustainability reporting for businesses. The Pulsora platform is a suite of tools that automates collecting ESG data with existing workflows and process integrations. Through the platform, customers can prepare investor-grade, audit-ready disclosures to meet regulatory and stakeholder requirements.Key customers and partnershipsIn July 2022, the company joined <a href="https://pulsora.com/newsroom/accenture-invests-in-pulsesg/">Accenture Ventures</a>’ Project Spotlight, an early investment program, to receive financial support. In October 2022, The company joined <a href="https://pulsora.com/newsroom/cornerstone-building-brands-partners-with-pulsesgtm-for-esg-reporting-and-measurement/">Cornerstone Building Brands</a> to provide ESG data collection and analytics. In November 2022, the Pulsora platform was integrated with “<a href="https://pulsora.com/newsroom/pulsesgtm-announces-strategic-investment-and-partnership-with-workday-ventures-for-esg-performance-management-and-disclosure-solution/">Workday</a> Financial Management'' and “Workday Human Capital Management” to enable joint customers to improve structured and unstructured carbon data for external report quality.In February 2023, <a href="https://pulsora.com/newsroom/aker-asa-partners-with-pulsesgfor-sustainability-esg-reporting-and-measurement/">Aker</a>, a Norwegian industrial group, signed up Pulsora, to report ESG and sustainability metrics and streamline the collection of ESG data across the latter’s operations. The company’s high-profile clients include Apax Partners, Aligned Climate Capital, Cornerstone Building Brands, Aker ASA, and Clayton Dubilier &amp; Rice, among others. As of February 2024, the company had tracked 182 million tons of CO2 emissions for over 450 companies.Funding and financialsThe company’s latest funding round was in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22012">September 2023</a>, when it raised USD 20 million in a Series A funding round led by Galvanize Climate Solutions. The company intended to use the funding to scale its platform via carbon accounting and sustainability regulation compliance and drive its global expansion.

Technologies bringing about a new reality

Extended Reality

Strivr develops virtual training solutions by combining VR, data science, and spatial design. It offers professional services in strategy and planning, content production, usage and engagement analytics, and on-site hardware configuration and management for enterprise workforce training.The platform holds a patent that covers a predictive algorithm, which uses head, hand, and eye movements, in addition to physiological data, allowing it to infer how an employee’s performance in VR would translate to real life.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18767">May 2023</a>, Strivr announced the launch of generative AI tools for the creation of VR training content. Key use cases include health and safety training, customer service coaching, and soft skills enhancement.Key customers and partnershipsIn December 2023, the company noted that it held ~2 million enterprise VR training sessions across its client base. The company caters to enterprise customers including Verizon, BMW, Fidelity, Walmart, and Bank of America.In May 2023, Strivr partnered with Reulay and Helium to expand its VR mental health content library.Funding and financialsStrivr announced an extended Series B funding round in which it raised USD 35 million led by Georgian in April 2022. The round also included strategic investments from Workday and Accenture, while Bank of America and Gaingels also participated. The funds were earmarked for the development of upskilling and reskilling solutions for enterprise workforces.

Enabling the health systems to seamlessly connect, exchange, and interpret shared data

Hospital Interoperability

League is a platform technology company that provides a healthcare consumer experience (CX) platform called Health OS. Founded in 2014, League enables payers, providers, consumer health partners, and employers to build and deploy personalized digital healthcare applications and experiences for consumers. The company's platform is built on the Fast healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard and leverages the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) healthcare API to serve as a "digital front door" to healthcare services for millions of consumers.
League's Health OS platform consolidates data from various sources, including electronic health records (EHRs), claims, health and wellness devices, and third-party partners, to deliver personalized digital health experiences and create a cohesive, omnichannel experience for consumers. The platform empowers stakeholders across the healthcare continuum to develop and deploy next-generation applications with a secure, reliable, and interoperable foundation.
Among League's notable customers are organizations such as Humana, Shopify, Shoppers Drug Mart, and Highmark Health. In November 2022, League collaborated with Highmark Health and Google Cloud to unveil an interoperable digital health platform that simplifies navigation and access to healthcare services for Highmark's 6.8 million members through a new "My Highmark" member portal and mobile application.
Key customers and partnerships
In May 2023, League announced a partnership with Publicis Health, a global leader in healthcare communications, to enable better and more connected patient experiences by combining League's healthcare CX platform with Publicis Health's marketing insights and engagement design capabilities.
League has also collaborated with Accenture to create personalized digital healthcare experiences and increase access to healthcare services for people, providers, payers, and retail pharmacies. The companies are working together with Shoppers Drug Mart to expand the capabilities of its PC Health platform.
Additionally, League has partnered with Google Cloud to leverage its technology and enable successful digital transformation in healthcare.

Managing employee health-related benefits

Health Benefits Platforms

Nayya is an employee benefits and experience platform that offers support for employees’ personalized needs through automated benefits selection and utilization. The company’s platform guides employees through decisions during open enrollments, new employee onboarding, qualifying life events, and managing financial spending across various benefits throughout the year.The company’s platform offers a suite of products designed to enhance the benefits experience for employees. These include 1) ‘Nayya Choose,’ a personalized decision support system that recommends a portfolio of benefits to its employees’ unique needs by combining health, wealth, and preferences, 2) ‘Nayya Use,’ a benefits engagement module that focuses on maximizing benefits use, providing employees with insights and suggestions on how to make the most of their benefits throughout the year, 3) ‘Nayya Claims,’ a solution that streamlines the claims process by integrating medical data seamlessly with benefits providers to automate and simplify claims management for employees, 4) ‘Nayya Retirement,’ a solution that offers tools and resources for effective retirement planning, whilst connecting employees with the right plans and strategies for their future, and 5) ‘Naya Leave,’ a solution that assists employees in navigating the complexities of various leave programs such as maternity.Nayya claims that its AI-powered solution that centralizes benefits data featuring more than 3 billion external data points reduces benefits-related questions directed to HR teams by 80%.Key customers and partnershipsNayya's key customers include major US employers and insurance carriers. As of March 2024, Nayya’s key customers included companies such as Cape Air, Sumit Medical Group, Hilb Group, and Just Global.The firm has partnered with Benefits administration and Human Capital Management firms (ADP, Workterra), insurance brokers (NFP, Salty), and digital health solutions providers (Yogavibes, Genomic Life) to extend the capabilities of its platform. In October 2023, Nayya established a strategic partnership with MetLife, making MetLife the exclusive insurance carrier to offer Nayya's AI-powered solutions to employers with more than 1,000 employees in the US. This partnership aimed to enhance benefits experiences among employees. In July 2023, Nayya partnered with Prudential Financial for the latter’s clients to take advantage of Nayya’s benefits decision support tool during open enrollment.In May 2024 the Nayya partnered with Aflac Incorporated, an US-based supplemental health insurance provider, to enhance the way employees access their supplemental health benefits. Through the partnership, Nayya collaborated with Aflac to streamline health claims procedure for selected employers in the supplemental health insurance space.In August 2024, as part of a fundraise, Nayya expanded its partnership with ADP. Through this expanded partnership, Nayya helped ADP enhance its benefits management for over 1 million employees. The expanded partnership also entailed the two companies collaborating to offer benefits to various stakeholders in the ecosystem.

AI, robotics, and IoT to streamline the flow of goods and information

Logistics Tech

ORO Labs develops a smart workflow orchestration platform for procurement. It offers a no-code platform designed to streamline the procurement process for businesses including invoicing, supplier onboarding, supplier bank validation, and risk management. ORO Labs launched its product in November 2021 and offers the service on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) basis. It also introduced GenAI capabilities to its procurement platform in&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/34535">October 2024.</a>The company has employees in the US, Europe, and India.Key customers and partnershipsORO Labs’ customers include companies such as Optimizely and Iovance Biotherapeutics. The company was reportedly working with several Fortune 200 companies, as of November 2023.The company also integrated its platform with multiple SAP products, including SAP Ariba procure-to-pay solution <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23897">in November 2023, </a>to enable clients to manage spending and supplier relationships across various enterprise systems.Funding and financialsThe company reported over 400% growth in its customer base YoY in November 2023 and generated an annual recurring revenue of between USD 1 million and USD 10 million at the time.&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23384">In November 2023, </a>ORO Labs raised USD 34 million in a Series B funding round led by Felicis to accelerate the international outreach and expansion of its platform.

Simplifying healthcare administration with intuitive tech tools

Hospital Management

League is a platform technology company founded in 2014 that powers next-generation healthcare consumer experiences. The company's Health OS platform serves as a secure, reliable, and interoperable foundation for stakeholders across the healthcare continuum, including payers, providers, consumer health partners, and employers. League's platform enables these organizations to build and deploy applications that transform healthcare from disparate point solutions into a cohesive, omnichannel experience for consumers.
Built on the Fast healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard, League's Health OS leverages Google Cloud's healthcare API to connect patient health information from electronic health records, claims, wearable devices, and third-party partners. This integration delivers deeply personalized digital health experiences tailored to individual consumer needs. The platform facilitates access to care navigation, virtual health services, bill payment, cost transparency, and other functionalities through a unified interface.
League has established partnerships with major healthcare organizations, including Humana, Shopify, and Loblaw Companies (Shoppers Drug Mart). In January 2023, League collaborated with Highmark Health and Google Cloud to unveil the My Highmark digital health platform, providing Highmark's 6.8 million members with a seamless, personalized care experience through a single sign-on application.
As of September 2022, League secured over USD 205 million in funding, with a USD 95 million Series C round led by TDM Growth Partners and participation from Workday Ventures. The company aims to position its Health OS as the leading digital infrastructure for an integrated healthcare ecosystem, facilitating innovation, interoperability, and economies of scale across the industry.

Using AI to mimic and understand human language

Natural Language Processing Tools

Unbabel, founded in 2013, is a language operations platform that combines artificial intelligence with human expertise to provide fast, efficient, and high-quality translation services. The company's proprietary technology, the Unbabel Language Engine, blends advanced machine learning algorithms with a network of human editors to translate content across various formats, including websites, newsletters, apps, and marketing materials. Unbabel's solution allows businesses to communicate with customers in multiple languages, enabling global expansion and multilingual customer support at scale. The platform seamlessly integrates with existing workflows and popular applications, minimizing disruption to clients' operations. Unbabel's approach addresses the growing demand for efficient and reliable translation services in an increasingly globalized business environment, particularly for content types previously considered challenging to translate, such as emails and chat conversations. In October 2023, Unbabel reported having clients in 190 countries across 22 industries.

Threat Prevention Toolchain

Vanta is a leading trust management platform that helps organizations automate and simplify their security compliance processes. Founded in 2018, Vanta pioneered the automated compliance category and has since evolved into an end-to-end trust management solution. The platform enables businesses to monitor, improve, and demonstrate their security posture to customers and partners.
Vanta's core offering automates up to 90% of the evidence collection needed for compliance with frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR. The platform integrates with over 300 tools and services to provide continuous, real-time monitoring of an organization's security controls. This automated approach can reduce the time to achieve compliance by up to 50% compared to traditional manual audits.
In 2023, Vanta expanded its capabilities by launching Vanta AI, which leverages artificial intelligence to further streamline compliance processes. Key features of Vanta AI include automated vendor security reviews, AI-powered questionnaire responses, and intelligent control mapping. The company also introduced the Vanta Trust Center, allowing businesses to showcase their real-time security and compliance status to potential customers.
As of 2024, Vanta serves over 7,000 customers across 58 countries, including notable companies like Quora, Autodesk, and Modern Treasury. The platform has helped Vanta achieve significant growth, surpassing USD 100 million in annual recurring revenue in its 2024 fiscal year. Vanta's success has been recognized in various industry rankings, including being named the #1 leader in G2's Winter 2023 Grid Reports for Security Compliance.
Key customers and partnerships
Vanta's customer base spans various industries and includes both startups and established enterprises. Some of its notable clients are Autodesk, Quora, Modern Treasury, Pendo, Sift, and ZoomInfo. The company has also formed partnerships with leading auditors and service providers to offer a comprehensive compliance solution for businesses of all sizes.
In January 2023, Vanta acquired Trustpage, a startup specializing in security posture communication. This acquisition enhanced Vanta's ability to help customers showcase their security measures and streamline the security review process with potential clients. The integration of Trustpage's features into Vanta's platform has reportedly helped reduce deal cycles by 30% for some customers.
Vanta's global reach is evidenced by its expanding international presence, with offices in Australia, Ireland, and the US. Nearly a quarter of Vanta's customers are located outside the US, reflecting the growing global demand for automated compliance and trust management solutions.

Revolutionizing efficiency by redefining human interactions

Humanoid Robots

Sanctuary AI is focused on creating human-like artificial intelligence in general-purpose robots. Their flagship product is Phoenix, a humanoid robot designed to perform a wide range of tasks across various industries. Phoenix is powered by Carbon, an innovative AI control system that gives the robot human-like intelligence and the ability to learn and execute complex tasks.
Sanctuary AI's robots are designed to closely mimic the human form and function, standing at 5'7" and weighing 155 lbs. Phoenix boasts industry-leading robotic hands with 20 degrees of freedom, rivaling human dexterity and featuring proprietary haptic technology for a sense of touch. The robots can lift payloads up to 55 lbs and move at a maximum speed of three miles per hour.
Carbon, the AI control system, integrates modern AI technologies to translate natural language into real-world actions, allowing Phoenix to think and act like a human. It enables explainable and auditable reasoning, task planning, and motion execution. The system uses deep learning, reinforcement learning, and photo-realistic simulations to train the robots. As of April 2024, the seventh generation of Phoenix can automate new tasks in less than 24 hours, a significant milestone in task automation speed and autonomous system capability.
Sanctuary AI's robots have been successfully deployed in commercial settings, completing hundreds of tasks across various industries, including retail, logistics, healthcare, and manufacturing. In March 2023, the company announced its first commercial deployment with a major Canadian retailer, where the robots performed front-of-store and logistics tasks.
Key customers and partnerships
Sanctuary AI has formed strategic partnerships with several industry leaders to advance the development and deployment of its general-purpose robots. In April 2024, the company announced a collaboration with Magna International, a global mobility technology company. This partnership includes the deployment of Sanctuary AI's robots in Magna's manufacturing operations, as well as a joint effort to improve the cost and scalability of the robots using Magna's automotive expertise and engineering capabilities.
Additionally, Sanctuary AI has partnered with Microsoft to leverage the tech giant's Azure cloud resources for AI workloads. This collaboration aims to accelerate the development of AI models for humanoid robots, enabling Sanctuary AI to explore the future of general-purpose robots across various use cases and industries.

ORO procurement automation platform dramatically improves traditional procurement operations by taming the chaotic enterprise spending on business-critical purchases and supplier engagements.

Censia is a talent intelligence company that leverages AI to provide skills data and insights to employees and HR teams. The platform offers comprehensive talent insights, including skills, candidate modeling, and slate creation to aid in effective recruitment and workforce. Through its Talent Intelligence Platform, it transforms talent acquisition into a strategic business partner that shapes the future enabling companies to scale quickly, enable innovation, and improve operational excellence for a fraction of the time and cost it takes today.

At Nayya, we believe there’s a better way to choose and use benefits. A more transparent, less confusing way for employees to control their health and financial potential. Powered by billions of data points and machine learning, our benefits experience platform delivers personalized decision support and guidance during open enrollment, new employee onboarding, qualifying life events, and in the moments that matter all year round. This is one of the most stressful and challenging situations consumers face – and we see that as an opportunity to build an innovative response that can help millions of Americans possess the control and understanding they deserve. Join the consumers and their employers that are now living with more peace and confidence at Nayya.com.

Vanta is a trust management platform that simplifies security and compliance processes for organizations. It automates evidence collection for various compliance frameworks and offers continuous control monitoring to manage risk effectively. The platform supports sales teams by providing real-time insights that enhance trust and streamline security reviews.

Uplimit is revolutionizing the way the world learns by partnering with industry leaders to transform how professionals and companies build the skills of the future at scale. Utilizing an AI-powered platform, Uplimit provides innovative and efficient learning solutions that cater to the evolving needs of the modern workforce. By focusing on scalable skill development, Uplimit ensures that both individuals and organizations can stay ahead in an ever-changing professional landscape, fostering continuous growth and adaptability.

TechWolf develops an AI-based talent intelligence platform that allows enterprises to adopt a skills-based talent model. The company's platform automatically monitors employees’ skills based on HR information and their digital footprint on the work floor. Its AI-based software offers organizations an overview of skills and skill gaps across their workforce and actionable insights on current and future skill needs.

Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool in any company. It provides an AI assistant and enterprise search platform called Workplace Search that connects to internal data sources to help employees find information and answer questions. The platform uses advanced search, retrieval augmented generation, and large language models to generate personalized answers grounded.

Benepass is a benefits administration platform that helps companies manage and distribute employee perks and benefits. Through deep investments into the company's financial technology infrastructure, Benepass has made it easy for employers to offer global benefits that are personalized to every employee. The Benepass platform offers employees four different ways to spend their benefit dollars globally: card, mobile wallet, reimbursements, and a marketplace.

Sana Labs is in the development and application of artificial intelligence to learning. We partner with the world’s leading organizations to transform learning outcomes with personalized learning. The company's platform uses advances in machine learning to create personalized learning, giving health systems, financial institutions, pharmaceutical firms, and other international organizations the ability to assess the teams' strengths, weaknesses, and progress with unparalleled clarity and receive practical advice and insights. Sana Labs was established in 2016 by Joel Hellermark in Stockholm, Stockholms Lan.

Adept AI is a research and product AI lab that automates software processes for developers. It's similar to robotic process automation (RPA), or software robots that use a combination of automation, computer vision, and machine learning to automate repetitive tasks like filing forms and responding to emails. Adept is creating general intelligence by allowing humans and computers to collaborate creatively.

Pulsora is an enterprise environmental, social, and governance software as a service platform. pulsESG is based in San Francisco, California.

At Northstar, we believe financial wellness starts with a single paycheck. We work with leading companies to provide 1-on-1 financial advisors and personal finance tools as an employee benefit. Northstar’s financial wellness program helps employees make the most of their total compensation, and helps companies support their teams at scale. Our employer customers include Zoom, Snap, NerdWallet, Superhuman, Virgin Orbit, and more.

The Flatfile Data Exchange Platform provides developers an easy, fast, and secure way to build your ideal solution for importing CSV, Excel, or other data-files, without compromising on flexibility. With our API-first, event-driven architecture developers can build fully customizable, powerful workflows that address any file-based import use case, combined with a highly intuitive experience designed for end-users. Start building today, it’s free! Flatfile was co-founded by David Boskovic and Eric Crane in 2018 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Finlync is a FinTech company that manages complex financial needs through its ERP native apps and API connectivity. It transforms corporate finance and treasury offices by collecting global banking APIs to deliver embedded real-time payments and cash management. Its ERP native apps and API connectivity help treasurers to let banking and financial industries optimize cash and reduce the resources needed to manage complex financial needs. FinLync’s largest clients include Fortune 2000 and Fortune 500 companies. The firm has employees from 11 different countries and offices in Singapore, Los Angeles, New York, and Paris.

Noyo is making modern insurance happen through API-based data exchange. Founded by leaders in benefits, insurance, and API technology, Noyo is the first company to transform the underlying infrastructure of the benefits industry with seamless digital connectivity. With Noyo, crucial benefits data is instantly available anywhere it’s needed, unlocking new possibilities for how benefits are designed and delivered.

STRIVR provides virtual reality, customer experience, and athlete performance. It transforms the way companies train and develop their employees by using virtual reality to simulate real-world and on-the-job situations designed for enhanced learning to help companies grow.

Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation (aka ''Sanctuary AI'') is a mission-driven company focused on developing human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. Sanctuary AI has built a humanoid general-purpose robot powered by Carbon™, a pioneering AI control system, and designed for work.

Pipeline is a software company that increases the financial performance of companies by closing the gender equity gap. Pipeline’s proprietary SaaS platform uses artificial intelligence to assess, address, and action against the gender biases costing the U.S. alone $2 trillion.  The company's platform utilizes artificial intelligence to assess, address, and action against gender biases, enabling companies to deliver improved business outcomes and impact company culture.

CaptivateIQ makes commissions clear and accurate with a flexible, automated solution designed to save teams countless hours and costly errors. CaptivateIQ believes people are motivated by incentives which is why processing commissions correctly and in a timely manner can make or break team morale and company performance. The company's solution helps businesses design and measure the right incentive plans to keep their teams aligned and motivated.

EduMe is a mobile-based training platform for the deskless workforce, used by modern companies in more than 60 countries worldwide. By providing their workforce with seamless access to relevant knowledge, companies like Uber, Gopuff, Deliveroo, Gorillas and Vodafone are enabling their people to achieve Workforce Success. EduMe is headquartered in London, UK with offices in Palo Alto and Santa Monica, USA. Visit us at edume.com to learn more

Prevedere is an industry insights and predictive analytics company, helping business leaders make better decisions by providing a real-time view of their company’s future. While most companies can easily report on internal performance, Prevedere’s external real-time insights engine constantly monitors the world’s activity, identifying future threats or opportunities to business performance. Along with a team of industry experts, data scientists, and economists, Prevedere helps business leaders make the right decisions in an ever-changing world. Named a 2017 Red Herring Top 100 Global Company, the Best Business Intelligence Reporting & Analytics Solution of 2017 by the SIIA CODiE Awards and the Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year by the 2016 American Business Awards, Prevedere works with top global companies.

Founded in 2014, League is a platform technology company powering next-generation healthcare consumer experiences. Payers, providers, consumer health partners and employers build on League’s Health OS™ platform to deliver high-engagement, personalized healthcare experiences consumers love. Millions of people use solutions powered by League to access, navigate and pay for care.

Paradox is an AI company that helps companies capture and screen candidates, improve conversions, and answer all candidate questions. The company IS helping HR and talent teams automate administrative tasks and deliver real-time candidate and employee communications Paradox flagship product is Olivia, the AI recruiting assistant obsessed with improving and reinventing the candidate experience. It delivers one-to-one candidate experience at scale and even handles interview scheduling. It also allows talent acquisition and human resources professionals to focus on what they do best, human interaction while focuses on experience, automation, and intelligence.  Paradox was founded in 2016 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States.

Tealbook is an enterprise software company that connects buyers and suppliers and provides the data needed to make procurement decisions. Tealbook’s innovations in buyer/supplier relations have earned recognition, including being named to the CIX Top 20 and a spot on the prestigious 2018 Gartner Cool Vendor list.  Tealbook was founded in 2014 by Stephany Lapierre and is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

SkyHive is the developer of a SaaS platform that enables workforce reskilling and labor market intelligence. They provide quantum labour analytics services. They also optimizes human economies in real-time and provide customized workforce solutions.

Papaya Global is a SaaS fintech company providing global payroll technology and the only one with an embedded payments platform designed for the workforce needs of global enterprises. Papaya's comprehensive technology, known as Papaya Payroll OS, provides global payroll with automation, compliance, flexibility, and security. The platform gives finance teams the visibility and control to master workforce spending and payments with full liability if anything goes wrong. Papaya's integrated approach connects the dots of global payroll, unifying and standardizing data and processes from HCM and ERP tools to create a single source of truth.

Clari is a connected revenue operations platform that uses automation and AI to unlock all the activity data captured in key business systems such as marketing automation, CRM, email, calendar, phone, content management, conversations, and more. Clari automatically aligns that data to accounts and opportunities, to deliver visibility, forecasting, and apply predictive insights, which results in more insight, less guesswork, and more predictable revenue. Clari helps companies by changing their revenue operations to be more connected, efficient, and predictable. Clari's platform is used by hundreds of sales, marketing, and customer success teams at B2B companies such as Qualtrics, Lenovo, Adobe, Dropbox, and Okta to control pipelines, audit deals and accounts, forecast the business, and reduce churn.

Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people. It helps companies attract, identify, and engage with candidates on one unified platform, to deliver better talent acquisition - at scale. Beamery provides the modern enterprise and its talent acquisition teams with all the tools they need to hire better, faster, and smarter than ever before by delivering exceptional candidate experiences and engaging with talent proactively across every part of the candidate journey.

Securiti is the pioneer of the Data Command Center, a centralized platform that enables the safe use of data and GenAI. It provides unified data intelligence, controls and orchestration across hybrid multicloud environments. Large global enterprises rely on Securiti's Data Command Center for data security, privacy, governance, and compliance. Securiti has been recognized with numerous industry and analyst awards, including ''Most Innovative Startup'' by RSA, ''Top 25 Machine Learning Startups'' by Forbes, ''Most Innovative AI Companies'' by CB Insights, ''Cool Vendor in Data Security'' by Gartner, and ''Privacy Management Wave Leader'' by Forrester. For more information, please visit Securiti.ai and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Utmost provides a Workday-native alternative to legacy vendor management systems. It gives enterprises a single solution to source, engage, and optimize spend for the extended workforce. The company was founded in 2018 and based in Dublin, Ireland.

Vida Health is a virtual care platform intentionally designed to treat a person’s whole health by treating mental and physical conditions, together. Vida’s clinically validated approach combines an AI-powered, personalized experience with the support and human connection of coaches and therapists. Vida’s app offers video sessions, messaging, and digital content to help people prevent, manage, and reverse chronic conditions — like diabetes and hypertension — and the mental conditions that accompany them — like stress, depression, and anxiety. Some of America’s largest employers and health plans trust Vida’s whole health offering. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in 	San Francisco, California

Workboard is an enterprise SaaS company that helps companies unlock growth by making alignment and accountability remarkably easy. The Workboard SaaS Solution transforms an antiquated approach to strategy alignment and progression into a dynamic, data-driven practice augmented by analytics and intelligence. It helps organizations align OKRs and FAST goals, automate business reviews, and execute for growth. Workboard enables goal and execution alignment with full transparency for faster, better results. The Workboard solution helps teams make results in a habit with software to localize, activate, and execute strategic priorities fast and efficiently, and coaching to rapidly localize​ strategy through the org so everyone's engaged on this quarter's results. It sustains high speed, focus, and purpose as the organization grows exponentially. Workboard was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States.

Auditoria is improving compliance using leading-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning technology. It is a provider of ai-driven automation solutions for finance teams, Engineering Capital and Firebolt Ventures. Its flagship offering, leverages natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to remove friction and repetition, automate finance back office business processes, and deliver cutting-edge real-time predictive analytics to enterprise finance and accounting teams.

data.world makes it easy for everyone—not just the “data people”—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. Our cloud-native data catalog maps your siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use. data.world is also home to the world’s largest collaborative data community. It’s where people team up on everything from social bot detection to award-winning data journalism. We use what we learn from this community to improve the enterprise product and vice versa.  Our team co-created the Manifesto for Data Practices, the most effective, ethical, and modern approach to data teamwork. More people signed the Manifesto for Data Practices in its first year than signed the Agile Manifesto in its first two years combined. In 2019 DataPractices.org  became a Linux Foundation Project. The vendor-neutral community features new, open courseware to help people and organizations improve data practices through inclusion, experimentation, accountability, and impact. We are a Public Benefit Corporation. Most corporations are required to prioritize shareholder returns above all else. Not us. We are legally structured as a Public Benefit Corporation so we can pursue our mission and shareholder value with equal vigor. This ability is rare, powerful, and sustaining.

Legion Technologies delivers a workforce management platform that enables businesses to maximize labor efficiency and employee engagement simultaneously. The Legion WFM platform is intelligent, automated, and employee-centric. It delivers 13x ROI through schedule optimization, reduced attrition, increased productivity, and operational efficiency. Legion delivers cutting-edge technology in an easy-to-use platform and mobile app that employees love. Backed by Norwest Venture Partners, Stripes, First Round Capital, XYZ Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Workday Ventures, and NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Legion is recognized by Inc. as one of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in America.

Jobcase is an online community dedicated to empowering the world's workers. Millions of members connect on Jobcase to seize opportunities, share advice, and navigate the work landscape together. Online or in the Jobcase app, workers can find jobs, apply instantly, and get and give the support everyone needs on their way to success.  We’re a team of more than 200 passionate and dedicated employees, striving every day to help every worker advance. Our strong mission focus and unique company culture propel our team’s growth as we build a platform where workers can connect to create more opportunities for themselves and each other. We’re headquartered in Cambridge, MA but located across the country with a satellite office in the Bay Area, and a large remote team.

The Topia global talent mobility platform enables businesses to deliver mobility as part of a broader talent and business strategy with enhanced employee experiences. This drives competitive advantage by ensuring the right people are in the right place at the right time. The Topia platform automates the entire global talent mobility process, from scenario-based planning, compliance risk management, expat payroll, reporting, and more. Topia powers global talent mobility programs for many of the world's most trusted brands, including Schneider Electric, Dell, Veolia, Equinor, AXA.

Mya Systems is a conversational AI platform for hiring teams that serves enterprises and agencies. Mya Systems, formerly known as FirstJob, was co-founded in 2012 by Eyal Grayevsky, CEO, and James Maddox, CTO. The San Francisco-based company launched Mya, its conversational AI-recruiter, in July of 2016 to address major inefficiencies in recruiting and improve the process for both job candidates and recruiters. Mya quickly gained an A-list of customers and established itself as a leading A.I. solutions provider in the recruiting industry. The company has signed on four of the largest global recruiting agencies, 15 of the Fortune 100, and 40 of the Fortune 500. Mya has raised $32.4M of venture funding in three rounds from top-tier investors including Emergence Capital and Foundation Capital. The team is comprised of seasoned recruiting, sales, marketing and business executives as well as world-class scientists and engineers, including many with PhDs and/or Masters in Machine Learning, NLP and Data Science. Mya has garnered industry recognition and awards from CB Insight’s AI 100, Bersin by Deloitte's 2017 Disruptions Report,  Recruiter.com’s Top 10 Recruiting Tools, and Kairos Society's K50, among others.

Guild's lifelong learning platform offers classes, programs, and degrees for working adults, with a path for them to move forward in their education and career. Guild offers these adults support from start to finish, with their technology platform for discovery, learning, and organizing the experience, and extra support with their tech-enabled student advising model. Guild aims to unlock opportunities for America’s workforce.

A new EU law, the General Data Protection Regulation, will fine companies up to 4% of WW revenue for violations of people’s privacy. This will have the same impact on all industries as SOX compliance had on the financial sector.   Integris Software helps organizations meet rigid compliance mandates with the ability to visualize where all personal information is located across the enterprise, prove adherence to regulatory standards, and empower strategic decision making by bridging the gap between legal, business, and technology.

Suplari is an innovative startup, lead by veteran entrepreneurs focused on leveraging machine learning to help enterprises change the way they manage their suppliers and costs. Suplari aggregates data from disconnected internal systems including contracts, invoices, and usage data into a common datastore and then delivers applications on top of that data that provides customers with a holistic view of their suppliers.

Scoop is a creator of multi-platform tools that enable businesses and workers to take advantage of flexible work arrangements. The company's platform provides the tools and information required to reduce operational costs while giving workers the opportunity to work from any location, making it simple for businesses to run both an in-office and remote environment. Scoop was established in January 2015 by Rob Sadow and Jonathan Sadow in San Francisco, California.

Solution catalogs. Guided selling. Quotes.  Automated proposal content. Simple approvals.  Quote analytics.  In other words:  Fast.  Simple.  Low Cost.  More Revenue. Selling in the enterprise services market is unjustifiably slow and expensive. It’s plagued with spreadsheets, emails, and cumbersome approvals. Zimit replaces this obsolete process with a collaborative sales platform built for speed and simplicity - built for how services team sell today, not yesterday.

Landit is a technology platform that increases the success and engagement of women and diverse groups in the workplace. The market leader in personalized career pathing, Landit creates a turnkey “one size fits one” solution that  enables enterprises to attract, develop, and retain high-potential diverse talent. Landit provides each member with a personalized playbook that empowers them with the tools, resources, know-how, and human connections they need to advance and navigate their career path. Key features include building a personal brand, executive coaching, creating a personal board of advisors, curated skill development and mapping to career opportunities.

Automation Anywhere is a global company that specialises in Robotic Process Automation, offering AI-powered software bots that automate repetitive tasks. The company's cloud-native platform integrates RPA, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics to enhance productivity, customer experience, and employee engagement.

Scout is a sourcing and supplier engagement platform trusted by Procurement teams to streamline their process, manage a unified pipeline of projects, and collaborate with stakeholders and suppliers. Scout’s platform drives profitability and makes enterprise commerce faster, less risky, and more transparent, giving CPOs the tools they need to transform their organizations. Global brands trust Scout to provide greater visibility across stakeholders and suppliers, centralize core processes, measure effectiveness, and make Procurement teams crazy successful by delivering better business outcomes.  Scout RFP was founded in 2014. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Scout is funded by Scale Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Workday Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, New View Capital, and GV.

Workato is an intelligent automation platform designed to automate work in businesses. It enables businesses 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.

Pymetrics develops neuroscience-based assessment and prediction technology to transform the way companies hire, retain, and develop their employees. It offers cognitive and emotional assessment solutions; and a personalized and dynamic recommendation engine for recruiting/hiring, retaining, and developing talent.  Frida E. Polli and Julie Yoo founded Pymetrics in September 2013. Its headquarters is in New York City.

BetterUp is a human transformation company that dares to innovate the future of work by helping people and businesses grow personally and professionally to reach peak performance and maximize their potential, through coaching, content, community, and cutting-edge AI technology. BetterUp is the inventor of virtual coaching and the largest mental health and coaching startup in the world, with the world’s largest network of over 3,000 Coaches offering support in 46 languages across over 90 countries.  Trusted by more than 380 organizations including NASA, Google, Snap Inc., Hilton, Warner Media, and other leading Fortune 1,000 companies, BetterUp delivers on three key impact areas – Mental Fitness, career & leadership development, and social connection –  inspiring people everywhere to live with greater clarity, purpose, and passion. Investors include Wellington Management, ICONIQ Growth, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Threshold Ventures, PLUS Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Mubadala Investment Company, Morningside Group, SV Angel, Freestyle Capital, Crosslink Capital, and Tenaya Capital. BetterUp’s Science Board is composed of leading researchers in the fields of positive psychology and human performance including Martin Seligman, Adam Grant, Shawn Achor, and Quinetta Roberson.  BetterUp has been recognized in the Inc. 5000, Fortune’s Great Places to Work, and People Magazine’s Companies that Care.

Voicea is the creator of EVA, an Enterprise Voice Assistant. EVA is an intelligent meeting facilitator that helps people have more productive meetings by making meetings searchable, taking note of decisions, and encouraging follow-up on action items. Leveraging a blend of artificial intelligence and speech recognition, EVA is built to propel professionals to be more efficient, effective and creative. Headquartered in Menlo Park, CA. Voicea is led by veterans from Oracle, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

It’s long been known that referrals are the best way to add talent to your company. However, engaging employees in that process is hard. Simppler’s match-making technology makes it easy for companies to find and hire the outstanding people in their employee’s network.  Simppler turbocharges employee referral hiring, leading to faster & more cost effective hiring, better business performance and lower attrition. It’s a competitive advantage in a knowledge economy where making productive hires is often the difference between success and failure

Wavefront is a hosted platform for ingesting, storing, visualizing and alerting on time series data. It is based on a stream processing approach invented at Google which allows engineers to manipulate time series data with unparalleled power.

RedLock develops internet security software. Varun Badhwar and Gaurav Kumar founded it on September 1, 2015, with its headquarters in Menlo Park in California.

Interviewed takes the guesswork out of hiring.  Instead of relying on dubious resume screening criteria or inconsistent interview practices, hiring managers use Interviewed's job simulations to give candidates a day-in-the-life experience of the job they're applying for.  Managers get to see candidates in action as they demonstrate their real-world skills.  Using customer service as an example, candidates talk to simulated customers on the phone while using a CRM to solve the customers' problems. Interviewed evaluate their:  - speed and accuracy  - writing  - verbal communication  - technical skills  - adaptability  - multitasking  - emotional intelligence  Interviewed lets hiring managers select the right person for the job... cheaply, quickly, and fairly.

Jobr allows career-seekers to easily browse for jobs and connect with employers without the hassle of a formal job search. Career-seekers can engage with recruiters at top companies and only spend time on those interested in hiring them.

Metanautix helps large enterprises navigate oceans of data. Its mission is to integrate the data supply chain and enable organizations to transform their information assets into better decisions and new products.

At ThinAir They are building the future of data security--and it's wrought with exciting engineering challenges! As a cloud-based SaaS product, ThinAir is the first data security solution that allows everyone—administrators and employees alike—to take control over their most sensitive data in a way that enhances, not hinders their productivity.  They were the 2014 DEMO Enterprise's DEMOGod Winner and they completed Y Combinator as part of W15.

Unbabel enables modern enterprises to serve customers in their native languages, with always-on, scalable translation across digital channels. Powered by AI and refined by a global community of translators, It combines the speed and scale of machine translation with the authenticity that can come only from a native speaker.

Workday Ventures is the strategic investment arm of Workday focused on identifying, investing, and partners with early to growth-stage companies. The company helps accelerate innovation and connects the next generation of enterprise technology companies with Workday’s customers, partners, and employees.

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