Top Future Of Work Startups in 2024

Mento is a career tech company. We’re on a mission to connect people to the best career advice in the world, and empower them take action on it. In a world where jobs and careers are rapidly changing, we're equipping people with the products, information, and support to build and maintain meaningful careers.

Recently acquired by Fortune 500 company the Adecco Group and voted #1 Most Innovative Company in Education and #28 Most Innovative Company by Fast Company in 2015, General Assembly is a world leader in the higher education space, offering innovative digital skills training to help prepare businesses and individuals for the workforce of the future. We offer a variety of online and offline classes, workshops, and long-form courses, as well as a thorough alumni network with exclusive resources, benefits, and networking opportunities. Our model has enabled us to scale to 20 campuses, 50,000 alumni, and over 300 Fortune 500 clients.

We are designing the future of work by building a better way to tell stories. Chronicle is doing to presentations what Notion did to docs. We are not making a better software to create slides, we are fundamentally reimagining the format by taking away the design burden, making it interactive, and creating a seamless experience for remote work.

We are developing better humans at work and improving workplace culture. We do this by developing critical interpersonal skills that drive engagement, retention, and belonging (e.g., trust-building, communication, collaboration skills) at scale. Every year, companies lose $450 Billion to disengaged employees, despite spending over $26 Billion on interpersonal skills development. AwakeTeams is an AI-powered collaborative learning platform that develops high priority interpersonal skills for enterprise customers at scale. Proprietary monthly data reports track progress and trigger personalized learning paths. AwakeTeams customers include The White House President’s Management Agenda Team, Northwestern Mutual, and Nord-Lock Group, reporting up to +20% improvement in team performance, +30% in productivity, and +40% in constructive conflict. Founder is former Fortune 100 executive with expertise in neuroscience and behavior change Current team includes part-time software engineers, data scientists, PhD behavioral scientist, and world class facilitators.

Current video conferencing tools are built for enterprise, and largely ignore the needs of the creative industry. Homejam's video collaboration solution connects the e-commerce capabilities of talent marketplaces with tech-enabled productivity features in one vertically integrated platform. Founded by entertainment & tech industry veterans, Homejam now represents 400+ artists and facilitates one-of-a kind meet & greet experiences for thousands of fans across 8+ countries. By introducing meet & greets to integrate artists into our ecosystem and adopting a top-down acquisition strategy, we create a strategic launchpad for a must-have video playground. Enabled by industry-leading partnerships, Homejam is well-positioned to becoming a permanent fixture in the global industry of over 80 million connected creatives — professionals & hobbyists alike.

Who are we? Meaningful Gigs is an online marketplace that connects skilled African designers with remote jobs at companies like Starbucks, Facebook, and IDEO. Meaningful Gigs has created a community of thousands of untapped designers, giving marketing, creative and product teams a way to solve their skilled labor shortage while accessing global diversity. Our vision: We believe that you can make money and an impact! Our aim is to create 100,000 skilled jobs for Africans and become the #1 remote jobs and skills marketplace for creatives.

Governments and companies have failed to move the needle against many of humanity’s most important challenges and opportunities. We need new organizational structures. At Tephra Labs, we believe that decentralized human networks have the potential to be the right meta-coordinating structures for these large-scale problems. These networks can engage diverse participants and grow to unprecedented sizes (hundreds of millions of people). Further, they do not rely on the same kind of centralized direction-setting that is characteristic of governments and companies – making them lower overhead organizational structures overall. Tephra Labs’ mission is to enable large-scale human coordination to address humanity’s most important challenges and opportunities. We aim to build the infrastructure to scale decentralized networks to billions of people, and to support network participants in leading consistent, purposeful, and fulfilling lives. Our hypothesis is that hyper-scale decentralized networks will grow by engaging people as independent workers, rather than employees. So, we are building the necessary products, tooling, and services to help independent workers thrive. Our first product is Radius (radius.space). Radius is a decentralized network that connects independent workers and teams to the best projects in web3. As part of the Radius project, we are building decentralized reputation systems, skills attestation protocols, and a user-owned and value accretive economy. In accordance with our mission, we will also build educational curricula and programs to help train Radius workers and onboard them successfully into web3 work opportunities. We are excited to build the necessary infrastructure to enable the first billion-person organizations in human history. If this mission also inspires you, consider joining us.

backstitch offers an employee experience software platform that helps organizations to better manage & measure their enterprise, HR and change communications. We work with some of the largest brands and employers in restaurants, healthcare, manufacturing, and consumer products to better inform, educate and empower their most important audience, their own employees.

Futwork was formerly known as Frapp. Futwork helps companies deploy gig workers on demand. on Futwork, companies can create projects and outsource tasks to our distributed workforce of gig workers. We help companies achieve business objectives across marketing, operations, research, sales and other verticals across 1000+ cities. Website: futwork.com