productivity software

The pandemic boost to productivity-themed startups is at least partially over. Venture investors may be hunting up something new.

Venture investors hit the brakes on productivity software

If the pandemic-triggered proliferation of online meetings is killing your team productivity and sapping the attention of overloaded info workers, German startup tl;dv might have just the tool: It’s built…

This startup wants to help teams get more out of virtual meetings

Visual work communication tool CloudApp has raised $9.3 million in Series A funding led by Grayhawk Capital and Nordic Eye. The round also includes previous investors Kickstart Fund, Cervin Ventures,…

Collaboration platform CloudApp raises $9.3M to enhance workplace productivity

The European Union’s competition regulator has given the all-clear to Microsoft’s $19.7 billion purchase of transcription tech firm Nuance, which was announced earlier this year. The EU said today it…

EU clears Microsoft-Nuance without conditions

TikTok announced today it’s expanding its Video Kit offering for developers to include those building apps for the web, desktop and consoles, in addition to its previous support for mobile…

TikTok brings its Video Kit to desktop, web and consoles

The explosion in productivity software amid a broader remote work boom has been one of the pandemic’s clearest tech impacts. But learning to use a dozen new programs while having…

Slapdash raises $3.7M seed to ship a workplace apps command bar

Just six month after raising its first bit of outside funding, ClickUp has closed $100 million in new funding and reached a $1 billion valuation, a report in Bloomberg first…

ClickUp hits $1 billion valuation in $100M Series B raise

Productivity software has been getting a major re-examination this year, and human resources platforms — used for hiring, firing, paying and managing employees — have been no exception. Today, one…

Hibob raises $70M for its new take on human resources

Productivity software has had a huge couple of years, yet for all of the great note-taking apps that have launched, consumers haven’t gotten a lot of quality options for Google…

Woven adds to its calendar app’s $20/mo premium plan

The productivity software space is filled with niche startups designing premium tools with very particular customers in mind. On the flip side a growing class of startups are beginning to…

Productivity platform ClickUp raises $35 million from Craft Ventures

Workplace collaboration platforms have become a crucial cornerstone of the modern office: workers’ lives are guided by software and what we do on our computers, and collaboration tools provide a…

Monday.com raises $150M more, now at $1.9B valuation, for workplace collaboration tools

Contrary Capital is raising $35 million to invest between $50,000 and $200,000 in students and recent college dropouts.

Part fund, part accelerator, Contrary Capital invests in student entrepreneurs

Seoul-based Polaris Office is launching its cloud-based software suite in the United States with the very ambitious goal (some might say quixotic) of challenging Microsoft Office and Google for Work’s…

Seoul-based Polaris Office launches its enterprise productivity suite in the U.S.