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This article showcases Startup Pill’s top picks for the best Virtual Workforce startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating inside of the Virtual Workforce industry and around the world. They are all exceptional startups well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Virtual Workforce Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Qatalog
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Qatalog eliminates your work chaos. No more constant pings, no more trivial meetings, and no more scouring for the latest doc.
Our work hub connects the tools of modern collaboration — wikis, project management, team chat, and more — and lets you use themin concert with each other. It connects people and teams in the same way, so they can be in sync when they’re not in the same place.
It’s the new way of work. Qatalog was founded in 2019 and is a Salesforce Ventures company..
GetSetUp
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GetSetup is a social learning platform that offers classes and social opportunities to help older adults.
ToDoolie
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ToDoolie is a social platform that connects community members to help each other with their to-do list. It allows users to hire a local student to help with simple outdoor tasks for $20 per hr with an additional $5 for the booking fee.
ToDoolie does not provide specialized services such as landscaping, deep cleaning, professional moving, event staffing, handyman work, or any other service that requires a level of expertise beyond what a typical college-age student can offer. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan..
Anthill AI
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Anthill enables companies to retain, engage, and develop employees when work happens away from the office.
MedArrive
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MedArrive is a startup that connects a workforce of EMS professionals to patients from their homes and within their existing health systems. It enables healthcare providers to seamlessly extend care services into the home, unlocking access to high-quality healthcare for more people at a fraction of the cost.
The startup’s platform allows providers and payors to bridge the virtual care gap by connecting physician-led telemedicine with hands-on care from EMS professionals. This unique approach means that patients can access trusted medical expertise from the comfort and safety of their homes without any interruption to the continuity of care, ultimately resulting in better patient outcomes, a better-utilized healthcare workforce, and significant cost savings for patients and providers alike.
MedArrive was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York, USA.. .
WorkWhile
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WorkWhile is a labor technology platform that helps workers find jobs that fit their skills, schedule, and location. The platform uses cognitive science, behavioral analysis, and peer feedback to help identify reliable hourly workers.
WorkWhile was founded in 2017 by Amol Jain and Jarah Euston and is based in San Francisco, California.. .
BuyHive
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BuyHive takes accountability for global buyers, in sourcing products and manufacturers with enhanced trust and transparency
Beepboop.us
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Beepboop is humanizing online language learning. Our mission is to make quality human-led language education accessible to the world in order to elevate students’ verbal skills to spoken fluency in their target language faster than any other method.
Our technology and pedagogical innovations enable us to generate language educators at scale, enabling us to deliver the most inexpensive, personalized, effective, and accessible language education available.. .
Superpro.ai
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Over 100 million knowledge workers, from consultants to advisory services to trainers, have lost as much as 90% of their business due to COVID-19. Superpro helps knowledge workers adapt and thrive online by providing all the tools they need including web pages, marketing, scheduling, video calls and even payment.
Superpro recently partnered with India’s largest analytics community with half a million professionals and is rapidly expanding in the country.. .
Avala
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Avala empowers everyone with access to universal basic opportunity. Humans have an abundance of potential, but most don’t have access to even the most basic opportunities.
Avala believe’s that access to opportunity should be a basic human right, and is doing everything they can to make it readily accessible and available to anyone.. .
New Work City
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A better place to find work that works for you.
Intrepid Technology
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Intrepid is a marketplace community to list, buy, and sell on-demand technology and creative services from remote teams and independent professionals from around the world. We believe that people who sell services deserve the same kind of tools as the people who sell goods.
technology creatives should be able to showcase their work like Behance, but sell like Shopify. We provide technology creatives with a shopping cart for services, and UI templates for service productisation.
Showcase your work clearly with hi-res images, video, and instagram. Describe your unique process, service delivery, price, meetings, and revisions—all in one unique profile.
Now customers can buy your services with confidence through our specially designed shopping cart and service catalogue– made for businesses like yours. Customers from all around the world come to our site to search and shop for the technology or creative services they need, and our platform returns them a profile like yours, that best matches their profile, needs, and requirements.
Our platform is designed to verify, sort, and match technology creatives and customers on a variety of metrics that makes the purchasing decision easy for customers and makes it easy for technology creatives to sell without the endless back and forth of requirements gathering. Beyond simply matching customers and technology creatives, we provide our members with access to financial tools like: Escrow, B2B card payments, POS business Loans, Invoice Factoring, and Lines of Credit.—Growing your business, customer trust, mutual cooperation, and loyalty.
We’re like Shopify for technology creatives. Our mission is to change the way businesses connect, work, and grow–while making global trade universally accessible and inclusive through financial technology.
Growth Collective
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Growth Collective is an exclusive network of freelance marketers. We help companies grow without the agency markup by assembling teams of vetted freelancers.
All of our marketers are available on flexible contracts, enabling companies to adjust their marketer mix as needs change. Our mission is to empower more marketers to work for themselves, flexibly and remotely.
By connecting top marketers with interesting startups and brands, we help freelancers grow sustainable businesses of their own.. .
crystal-matrix.com
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We would like to start with a question, how strong is our business ecosystem in face of this current pandemic? People are forced to look elsewhere for a second source of earning money. Crystal-Matrix.com is an online platform for individuals and entrepreneurs designed to provide them with the appropriate ecosystem to thrive and grow their business.
The problem we are aiming to solve is the financial dependence between the business of the employer and the employee. The solution is to develop an online platform where professionals can safely and securely build multiple streams of income and become financially independent.
Our objective at Crystal-Matrix is to develop the next generation online office and we have started by building on a web-platform crystal-matrix.com, with the sole intent of helping people develop multiple strings of revenue by contracting or providing services, to a local or international market, and in the process to build a name for themselves and grow a network of influence. We are structured on 3 pillar functionalities: 1.
Building of trust and transparency of experience and know-how, by the person providing the service and the benefactor of the service. 2.
Growing your personal network of influence, by adding people to your network in a secure and private environment. 3.
Growing your own business by posting and taking on projects depending on the compatibility between technical, soft skills, background and experience. From final functionality point of view our goal is to develop a platform where individuals and legal entities can safely and securely conduct their online business, from booking appointments, to service providers, to the day by day work.
Kora.ai
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Kora is an enterprise virtual assistant and remote support agent that assists employees in their daily enterprise chores, advanced activities, and support queries from wherever they work. Developed on Kore.ai virtual assistant platform, Kora provides modern employee experience.
She’s smart, intuitive, and fully customizable. You can speak or chat with her whenever you want..
Aiko AI
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Aiko AI is challenging traditional technology through the integration of artificial intelligence. We work on the digital frontier, pioneering ethical solutions to help our customers reap the benefits of AI in their work and personal lives.
Security, privacy, ethics, efficiency, and sustainability are the core tenets which inspire us to build our products, as well as our team. With multi-national and Fortune companies as customers, we were voted “Best Artificial Intelligence Company” by US Business News 2019 Technology Elite Awards; and our products have debuted at #1 on Product Hunt.
Aiko Mail is reinventing your overwhelming inbox with a sleek interface that provides AI powered email assistance that helps you easily manage your emails.Simply sign on to your email provider from the Aiko Mail app and enjoy smart features such as email summarization; advanced tracking with blind copy detection, read receipts quick action buttons that detect common tasks that help accomplish them with the click of a button;among several other features. With an award winning leadership and advisory team that hail from companies such as Square, Zoom, LVMH, and Google, We believe Aiko Mail is on a successful trajectory to revolutionizing a superior email experience..
Hermis
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Hermis is a video conferencing platform designed specifically to provide a venue for geographically distributed teams to bond with each other over activities.. Hermis allows you to organize a team-building activity where your remote team members can connect with each other either as a one-time event or on a weekly (or even daily) basis.
It is built to incorporate fun activities and games so that your corporate team building experience is rewarding and fulfilling for your team.. .
Foundley
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Foundley is a professional network platform that is enabling students to access work experience and companies to identify best talent.
Paydrop
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Paydrop is a payment platform to modernize the way in which gig, freelance and/or contract workers are paid and supported (also known as the future of work). Our core product enables simple, low cost, instant, batch and/or scheduled payments for 1099 employees, while also streamlining critical small business activities such as: invoicing, time tracking, tax reporting and compliance.
The platform is also flexible enough to seamlessly integrate directly into gig-economies or online communities, which can utilize the same payment features with minimal friction on the existing user base.. .
Perflo
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Perflo helps project teams increase the probability of success through micro-feedback loops and people analytics.
Inboarding
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Automate onboarding and engagement of employees with a diverse and inclusive perspective. We automate the onboarding of new hires with an inclusive perspective and use chatbots to create awareness using adaptive Micro Learning focused on inclusion for gender, culture and disabilities.
We use Artificial Intelligence to support companies to have inclusion as a competitive differential, creating a sense of belonging and making companies more creative, innovative and productive. Our chatbot Ella is delivered to organisations as a software-as-a-service (SaaS).
Although it will be available for all organisations, we will focus on companies with 100+ employees where the struggle to onboard and create and inclusive and diverse workplace is more difficult. Additionally, as Ella is delivered as a chatbot for workplace messaging and team collaboration software such as Slack and MS Team..
Major Care™
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We provide remote wellness care for postpartum people. As a country, we have made incredible strides to educate, support, and serve pregnancy.
Now, it’s time to do the same for postpartum. We are invested in change, and doing it in a way that’s scalable, accessible, and responsive to the monetary needs of the healthcare system.
We’ll ask you this: If you had knee surgery, would you focus only on the surgery and “figure it out” once you went home? Of course not. You’d have your care plan in place, including how you would get home, who would help you, wound care, and a course of physical therapy.
It’s ludicrous we do not put the same systems of care and support in place for after a birth. Major Care™ will be the gold standard for postpartum after-care, providing the long-tail screening, support, and wellness services needed to establish healthy families and curtail negative outcomes and unnecessary trips to the ER for basic perinatal questions and concerns..
BenchK12
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BenchK12 is a mobile-first human capital management platform designed for the unique needs of K12 education and the future of data and work. Our first module is focused on building a better substitute teaching experience for subs, schools, & students.
It integrates with a school’s existing technology, is projected to save our school partners 70%+ over existing solutions, and will allow them to ditch expensive employment agencies.. .
FIT’D
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FIT’D develops a human resource platform to provide assistance in training candidates. The company’s platform offers interviewing practice, connects applicants to firms, and enables the candidates to train and get hired.
FIT’D – Foot In The Door was founded in 2019 and is based in Berkeley, California.. .
IDENFIT
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Saas Hr and Workforce management solution
Seatti
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Seatti – Your Home Office away from Home. Seatti offers remote workers an affordable and flexible alternative to noisy cafés and long-term coworking space contracts.
Seatti helps to find unique and flexible workspaces wherever you are and whenever you need it. Private rooms as well as coworking spaces and other kinds of alternative workspaces can be booked on a half-daily, daily, weekly or monthly basis..
Crypto Blockchain Plug
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We re-purposed 3,000 square feet with the Crypto community in mind. Please join us daily to HODL, create and collaborate.
We invite Crypto enthusiasts to spread the knowledge, educate and train the community. We have REAL live people to answer your Crypto questions, show you how to set up your Crypto Wallets, and keep your assets safe from the bad guys..
JobSiteCheck
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JobSiteCheck creates a solution for checking in all workers and visitors on the client’s jobsite, allowing them to stay in compliance with COVID-19 guidelines. It provides real-time tracking for safer work environments, flexible data and reporting for rapid-response activities, and quick processing of workers and visitors into clients’ locations.
JobSiteCheck was co-founded by Josh Rickel and Tala Matchett in 2020 and is based in Austin, Texas.. .
Vidbase
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Vidbase is a powerful, cross-platform, collaborative video editing tool. Feature Highlights: * Connect your media files and your remote team can start editing in minutes, even from their phones or tablets.
* Manage your assets in an infinite yet highly responsive canvas taking advantage of spatial memory. * Enable rapid search & discovery by indexing your assets by transcript, by text in scene, environment & location, by actors, by objects in scene, etc.
* Edit in and switch between any editing paradigm at will from the same app (edit by timeline, by transcript, by chapters & tags, by index cards, etc). * Use our custom ML-powered analysis & synthesis engine to automatically edit your content to match a certain style in pacing, flow, and even sound / music arrangement.
Our mission is to enable video content creators to publish high quality content at an impossibly fast pace so they can entertain, education, and inspire on a massive scale. Sign up for early access at vidbase.co.
Black Girls Drone
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Black Girls Drone is taking flight in pursuit of STEAM equality and visibility for underrepresented women in UAV aeronautics drone pilots.
UnRemot
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UnRemot is a virtual office platform for remote working to help employees and companies to work together through video calls and text chats.
OpenTeam
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OpenTeam is a virtual office platform that enables teams to communicate, collaborate and bond from anywhere. The OpenTeam platform allows users to communicate more with less meetings.
All of your team communication in one place from stand-ups and 1-2-1’s to sales meetings and team drinks, all in one click. Fewer meetings, more conversations..
Bitskout
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Bitskout is a SaaS platform that allows enterprises add AI/ML capabilities to their project management tools like Monday.com, Asana, etc. Using AI allows you to make decision based on context which in turn makes teams more productive and avoid waste of time.
You can create models via UI for images, videos, text and build your workflows based on selected parameters (e.g. text sentiment, key phrases, topics, image labels, image contents).
There is a small extra – for each task which is approved by a workflow, the user gets a token allowing managers create reward schemes, convert them into existing point systems, run campaigns and etc.. .
Athree
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Athree provides cost effective, state-licensed and hospital credentialed virtual nocturnist and hospitalist care to patients at rural hospitals utilizing widely available, HIPAA compliant technology and audio and video conferencing. Athree is not offering virtual care directly to consumers.
Our mission is to assist hospitals, especially in medically underserved areas (MUA’s), to develop virtual capabilities which increase access to specialized care for the patients who need it most.. .
WFH Team
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A marketplace that matches talented remote candidates with high demand remote job opportunities around the world.
Magical
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Magical is a collaborative calendar for highly effective teams
relak.co
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The future of work is already here. At relak.co, we believe your dreams of working and living remotely should be more than just a fantasy.
That’s why we created our community, relakalittle – to help you live your future now. From the hills of Hollywood to the streets of Shoreditch in London, our team stretches far and wide.
We’re a tried and tested example of how remote work can work, and now we want you to experience it, too. We do this by asking you to adopt our #relaxalittle motto.
It’s a concept our founder Adriana Nem imagined while working remotely in different parts of the world and comes from the Singlish, (Singaporean English) relak a corner, meaning relax a little.. .
Remote Weekly
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New job board? Well, not really. Nobody needs yet another job board.
This is more like your personal curator which sends you an email each weekend. Let us send you the best job offers tailored precisely for you.
It’s like a watchdog. Our AI goes through countless remote job offers each day and learns from your feedback..
The Suite
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The Suite is a videoconferencing solution designed to boost remote teams communications efficiency using artificial intelligence
YOVI
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A virtual hub for businesses to collaborate with a talented network of freelancers
OPSION
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OPSION is an internet company that develops cloud and 3D virtual offices.
Cosmopolify
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Work from anywhere. Hire everywhere.
East Hire
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East Hire was established by a group of professionals with the vision of providing world-class human resource solutions and services to enterprises in the private, government, non-government, and academic sectors. Since its formation, East Hire emerged as the chosen partner for several innovative and disruptive initiatives undertaken by various entrepreneurs across the United States and Canada.
Our scale, scope, and knowledge allow us to treat human capital as a catalyst for value creation, leading to substantial improvements in the performance of the partner firms. For small and medium-sized enterprises operating in high growth industries looking to reduce their burn rate, East Hire becomes an extremely lucrative option since it ensures access to top talent in a cost-effective manner.
Following 5-step process provides a generic base-case scenario indicating how our relationship with our partner firms and clients tends to evolve: 1. Partner firm requests a team of 10 individuals, outsourcing a business process.
2. Professionals at East Hire conduct numerous assessments to identify capability gaps and points of friction, using the information extracted to highlight skills required to ensure functional efficiency.
The data obtained is then used to design a business system for the partner firm. 3.
The hiring process is initiated as a collaborative effort between East Hire and its partner firm. 4.
Ourspark
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Ourspark is an online marketplace where employers & freelance experts connect quickly and effortlessly.
Work Webb
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Work Webb provides office solutions such as virtual, part-time and shared office spaces for businesses with their amenities.
Ready for Remote
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We’re changing the way people work for the better, by challenging the status quo and helping companies work remotely. Ready for Remote is where you, and your company can get access to everything you need to help you get ready for remote working; insights, tools, jobs, and workspaces, we’ve got it covered.
We’ve successfully built and nurtured remote teams; the mindset required, the tools to use, and the rituals to follow. We have the expertise to help you do the same..
Reception 24/7
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Reception 24/7 train a team of dedicated receptionists to answer calls for businesses of all sizes in the UK and US.
Curio
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Curio operates the web application daysk where anyone can immediately find a workspace.
22 North
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We’re changing the way people work for the better, by challenging the status quo and helping companies work remotely. We help companies create and nurture remote teams; the mindset required, the tools to use and the principles to follow.
ReadyforRemote.com. We’re also creating our own products and crafting truly digital services..
InVirtuality
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A Virtual Assistant company that provides more. We have both Virtual Executives and Virtual Assistants to assist you with all of your company’s needs, whether they be entry level, admin or executive.
We do more!. .
OfficeTogether
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OfficeTogether designs and develops desk reservation and team scheduling software to hybrid remote workforces.
