20 Companies Building Our Remote First Future
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Buckle up for the biggest global work from home experiment. As the Coronavirus continues to spread, most major companies are pushing their workers to work remotely. All eyes are now on the companies that enable remote work. In the last couple months, Slack and Zoom have seen their stock prices surge. There’s a new generation of startups innovating on the infrastructure of remote work. From online collaboration tools, to task management and mobile productivity software, to virtual reality conferencing, here’s a list of companies building a remote first future.
Transform the attribution, connection, and measurement of Design to increase its impact11-50 Employees- B2B
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- https://www.abstract.com/
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- Remote
- About
Abstract is a design workflow platform that centralizes design decisions, feedback, Sketch files, and specs for your team. Since launching in July 2017, over 5,000 design teams across 75 countries have adopted Abstract, including teams from Cisco, Intuit, Spotify, Salesforce, Instacart, OpenTable, and more.
- Industries
- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Website
- http://www.coscreen.co
- Employees
- 1-10
- Locations
- Silicon Valley
- About
Work is becoming increasingly more agile and more and more people are working remotely. That’s why we’ve made CoScreen for highly agile teams who want to collaborate more naturally and tear down the boundaries between their computers.
- Industries
- B2C
- B2B
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Website
- https://doist.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- Remote
- About
We’re a remote-first team that collaborates across 18 timezones and over 25 different countries. We build tools for the future we want to work in. We're the creators of Todoist and Twist. Todoist (todoist.com) - The top-ranked productivity app that helps millions of people organize life. Twist (twist.com) - A communication app for teams who want a calmer, more organized, more productive workplace.
- Industries
Business Productivity
Figma501-1000 EmployeesActively Hiring- B2B
- Scale StageRapidly increasing operations
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Valuation $1B+This company has a valuation of $1B or more
- Website
- http://figma.com
- Employees
- 501-1000
- Locations
- San Francisco
- About
Figma is the first professional-grade, online tool created specifically for interface design. The tool is based entirely in the browser and enables teams to collaborate in real-time. It offers the speed and stability of powerful design programs like Adobe with the versatility and collaborative flexibility of online apps like Google Docs. With Figma the design process is shareable across teams, no matter where the members are located.
- Industries
Jobs
2 days ago$140k – $140kIn office • San Francisco7 days ago$169k – $245kRemote only • United States5 years of exp
- B2C
- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Website
- http://www.focusmate.com
- Employees
- 1-10
- Locations
- New York City
- About
Focusmate is a virtual coworking platform that eliminates procrastination and activates a productive flow state, on demand. Whether you’re building a business, hustling on the side, or preparing for a big test, you know that working at home can be hard. Focusmate eliminates procrastination by providing you with a live, peer accountability partner any time, for a 50-minute working session over video. There’s no chit chat and no collaboration. Just book a time, show up, share your first task and get to work. Join us today, free.
- Industries
- Scale StageRapidly increasing operations
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- YC FundedStartup funded by Y Combinator
- Valuation $1B+This company has a valuation of $1B or more
- 5.0Highly ratedFront is highly rated on Glassdoor, with 5.0 out of 5 stars
- 4.6Work / Life BalanceEmployees rate Front 4.6/5 on Glassdoor for work / life balance
- 4.9Strong LeadershipEmployees rate Front 4.9/5 on Glassdoor for faith in leadership
- Website
- http://front.com
- Employees
- 201-500
- Locations
- San Francisco, Paris
- About
Today, more than one billion people are spending at least four hours of their workday on email. At the same time, we depend more and more on collaboration to get work done. Yet, there’s been very little innovation to make it easier for teams to work together on email.
- Industries
- B2B
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- YC FundedStartup funded by Y Combinator
- Website
- https://www.gitstart.com
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- San Francisco Bay Area
- About
GitStart is akin to a Mechanical Turk for small coding tasks. It adds on-demand capacity into engineering sprints and focuses on tasks doable within a sprint. The platform integrates very deeply into the engineering process of companies and is already operational at ~500 dev hours / day with plans to scale to thousands within a couple of months.
- Industries
- Development Platforms
- B2B
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- https://highfive.com
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- Redwood City
- About
Named one of The World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company, Highfive simplifies business collaboration with a conferencing platform that builds connected cultures. One of the fastest growing companies in the industry, Highfive is already improving meetings for thousands of organizations.
- Industries
- Meeting SoftwareUnifed Communications
Connecting global employees and emerging leaders one-on-one with personal coaches11-50 Employees- B2B
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- 4.7Highly ratedLingo Live is highly rated on Glassdoor, with 4.7 out of 5 stars
- 4.6Work / Life BalanceEmployees rate Lingo Live 4.6/5 on Glassdoor for work / life balance
- 4.5Strong LeadershipEmployees rate Lingo Live 4.5/5 on Glassdoor for faith in leadership
- Website
- http://www.lingolive.com/
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- New York City, San Francisco, New York
- About
With Lingo Live's customized communication coaching program, you can empower your entire team to confidently contribute and achieve your company's most ambitious goals. Our expert coaches place learning in a real-world context, empowering foreign-born learners who struggle with language and communication issues at companies such as Eventbrite, Google and Outbrain to achieve career milestones.
- Industries
- Tutoring
- B2B
- Scale StageRapidly increasing operations
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Valuation $1B+This company has a valuation of $1B or more
- Website
- https://www.notion.so/
- Employees
- 501-1000
- Locations
- New York City, San Francisco, Tokyo, Dublin, Hyderabad, Seoul
- About
The all-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. Write better. Think more clearly. Stay organized. Your central source of truth. A simpler workflow for docs & tasks. The missing half of Slack.
- Industries
- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- https://www.parabol.co
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- Austin, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, San Francisco, Colombia, Warsaw, Remote
- About
Our retrospective app is designed to put in-person and remote participants on equal footing. Every phase of the meeting can be done together, and brainstormed items always remain anonymous to encourage full disclosure.
- Industries
- Business ProductivityMeeting Software
- Website
- http://www.plentyworks.io
- Employees
- 11-50
- About
We help companies launch top-performing remote engineering teams, from recruitment to office space, HR to payroll to community. We believe that remote work can democratize opportunity in technology. Because talent is everywhere, but opportunity isn't (yet). We're focused on putting the two together.
- Industries
- Website
- https://qatalog.com
- Employees
- 11-50
- About
Qatalog is a paradigm shift in how people operate and use tools in the workplace and we would love for you to join us. We're ex-Amazon, Mozilla and Transferwise Product, Engineering and Design leadership building the next generation operating system for companies and teams.
- Industries
- B2B
- Scale StageRapidly increasing operations
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Valuation $1B+This company has a valuation of $1B or more
- Website
- http://remote.com
- Employees
- 201-500
- Locations
- Remote
- About
Connecting over 2 million professionals with remote jobs. Using machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze skills, experiences, and personality traits to predict the highest probability of job success, which allows recruiting and hiring top quality talent in minutes.
- Industries
- Freelancers
- Top 5% of respondersRocket.Chat is in the top 5% of companies in terms of response time to applications
- Responds within a few daysBased on past data, Rocket.Chat usually responds to incoming applications within a few days
- B2B
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- https://rocket.chat/
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- Wilmington
- About
Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework. It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms.
- Industries
- Business ProductivityCommunitiesGovernments
Jobs
- B2C
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- YC FundedStartup funded by Y Combinator
- Website
- https://safetywing.com/
- Employees
- 51-200
- Locations
- San Francisco, Oslo
- About
People who are location independent fall between the cracks, without proper access to insurance or national safety nets. We know this because we are nomads ourselves.
- Industries
Jobs
SlackKeep conversations organized with Slack, the smart alternative to email501-1000 EmployeesActively Hiring- B2B
- Public StagePublicly traded company
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- 4.6Highly ratedSlack is highly rated on Glassdoor, with 4.6 out of 5 stars
- 4.7Work / Life BalanceEmployees rate Slack 4.7/5 on Glassdoor for work / life balance
- 4.3Strong LeadershipEmployees rate Slack 4.3/5 on Glassdoor for faith in leadership
- Website
- http://slack.com
- Employees
- 501-1000
- Locations
- Chicago, San Francisco
- About
Slack is a messaging platform for teams that brings all communication together, creating a single unified archive accessible through powerful search. Launched in February 2014, Slack is the fastest growing B2B application ever and used by over 3 million daily active users.
- Industries
Jobs
3 days ago$172k – $260kIn office • Atlanta+25 years of exp1 week ago$207k – $285kIn office • Atlanta+25 years of exp1 week ago$237k – $344kIn office • Seattle+210 years of exp
- B2B
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- 5.0Highly ratedTrainual is highly rated on Glassdoor, with 5.0 out of 5 stars
- 5.0Work / Life BalanceEmployees rate Trainual 5.0/5 on Glassdoor for work / life balance
- 4.9Strong LeadershipEmployees rate Trainual 4.9/5 on Glassdoor for faith in leadership
- Website
- https://www.trainual.com
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- Scottsdale
- About
Trainual is more than an onboarding and training tool. It's an interactive wiki for your business. Once your team starts documenting what they do, you'll be on your way to creating a turnkey operations manual and playbook for every role in the organization.
- Industries
- Small and Medium BusinessesE Learn
- B2C
- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Website
- http://theoasis.com
- Employees
- 1-10
- Locations
- Los Angeles, Remote
- About
What if you could always video chat as your ideal self? Transform is a deepfake video chat app that eliminates camera anxiety & reduces social inhibitions so that people can focus on being present with each other instead of worrying about how they look.
- Industries
- Video Chat
- Website
- https://workfrom.co
- Employees
- 1-10
- Locations
- Portland
- About
We built Workfrom because finding a place to work should be delightful, not complicated. Workfrom lets you find, share, and book the best places to work remotely—and connect with a community of like-minded professionals.
- Industries
- CommunitiesVirtual Workforces
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Nearly nine decades after the Hindenburg disaster, some speculate we’re entering the Second Age of the Balloon. “As all these objects fall, a new space race is rising,” Vox (https://www.vox.com/world/2023/2/7/23588464/suspect-spy-china-balloon-sputnik-moment-space-race) proclaimed. Tens of thousands of balloons float into near-space every year, and the numbers rise every year. The National Weather Service alone launches around 60k high-flying balloons each year. The Pentagon spent nearly $4B over the past two years on its own high altitude balloons, according to Politico (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/05/u-s-militarys-newest-weapon-against-china-and-russia-hot-air-00043860). Why the interest in such old-school tech? “They’re cheap, easy to transport, can be fielded in large numbers and are payload agnostic,” industry expert George Howell wrote. Tucson, Arizona-based World View (https://spacenews.com/world-view-emphasizes-remote-sensing-as-it-prepares-to-go-public/), a stratospheric ballooning company, last month announced plans to go public via SPAC merger. The company develops a “stratollite” that provides high-res imagery for extended periods. (The company also offer space tourism.) Colorado-based Urban Sky (/company/urban-sky) is creating what it claims as the first ever reusable stratospheric balloon. Called “micro-balloons,” they’re the size of a VW bus and can hover in near space to collect data over urban areas. Company founder Jared Leidich (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/04_fm2017-alan-eustaces-jump-1-180961678/) has some chops in this arena, having designed the space suit used in the world record space dive in 2014 via a balloon at nearly 136k feet. Near Space Labs (/company/nearspacelabs) invites people to “step inside a new way of thinking about all things geospatial imaging (https://nearspacelabs.com/blog/).” The company's high-altitude balloons that carry a small, autonomous robot called Swifty to capture the world around them at 60k to 85k feet in the air. The company says it’s done zero carbon emissions and recently launched (https://www.zdnet.com/article/near-space-labs-provide-free-high-resolution-imagery-to-universities-nonprofits/) a program to make its high-resolution Earth imagery available to universities and nonprofits for free. Sounds fascinating, right? Luckily, with a new wave of space technology, comes a brand new, cutting-edge wave of jobs. Check out 5 top startups aiming skywards and hiring now.
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