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Arrow Labs
Arrow Labs is a Dubai-founded enterprise software company behind MIMS, a service-delivery and field-operations platform that connects deskless workers, assets, and back-office systems through mobile apps, wearables, and IoT. Using AI-driven scheduling, dispatch, and workflow automation, MIMS gives operations teams in telecom, oil and gas, logistics, utilities, and security real-time visibility and SLA control across distributed, mission-critical environments.
Sidekick
Sidekick is an AI-powered SMS assistant for frontline and deskless workers in manufacturing, auto dealerships, and retail. Workers text questions in any language and get instant answers pulled from their company's own documents - no app, no login, works on any phone. They can send photos of equipment for identification or voice memos when their hands are dirty. When Sidekick cannot answer, it escalates to a manager over SMS and learns from the reply. Founded in 2026 by Justin So and backed by Y Combinator (S26), it is live with 20+ plants and 600+ workers.
Disprz
Disprz is an AI-powered corporate learning and skilling platform that bundles a learning management system, a learning experience platform, a content hub, frontline enablement and analytics into one suite - and now layers an agentic AI product called Turo on top that builds, localises and publishes training content on its own. Founded in 2015 in India as Learntron and renamed Disprz in 2017, the company sells per-learner subscriptions to more than 500 enterprises across 20-plus countries, reaching over 3.5 million learners at employers including Amazon, Petronas, Axis Bank, Starbucks, Carlsberg, GE Aviation and Emirates NBD. Its wedge is the workforce most learning software ignores: the deskless, multilingual, high-churn frontline in retail, banking, logistics and pharma across India, Southeast Asia and the Gulf. Disprz crossed Rs 100 crore in annual recurring revenue in April 2025 and is targeting Rs 200 crore by 2028, having raised roughly $45M-$52M across four disclosed rounds, most recently a $30M Series C co-led by Lumos Capital Group and 360 ONE Asset.
Firstup
Firstup is a San Francisco-based enterprise software company that builds an intelligent communication platform for connecting large organizations with their entire workforce - including the deskless and frontline majority. Formed in 2021 through the merger of SocialChorus and Dynamic Signal, Firstup uses AI-driven orchestration to deliver personalized, multi-channel messages to each employee across mobile apps, email, intranet and other channels, and measures the impact on outcomes like onboarding, retention, safety and productivity. Its platform is used by more than 500 enterprises - including roughly 40% of the Fortune 100 - reaching over 15 million employees worldwide.
Rachael Nemeth
Rachael Nemeth is the CEO and co-founder of Opus Training, a mobile, AI-powered training platform for distributed, frontline workforces used by multi-unit restaurants and hospitality operators. She spent more than a decade running operations and people functions across New York kitchens, including Union Square Hospitality Group, Baked NYC, and Hot Bread Kitchen, and is a certified ESL instructor who first built ESL Works to teach industry English by text message. Opus, founded in 2020, has raised roughly $10.8M with a $6.8M Series A in 2023 and translates training into 130 languages.
MiChamba
MiChamba is a Mexico-founded startup that turns WhatsApp into an operational management platform for frontline and deskless teams across Latin America and the US Hispanic market. Instead of forcing workers onto a new app, it layers AI agents - led by an assistant named MarIA - on top of the messaging tool people already use, converting informal chats into trackable tasks, reports, and productivity data. It raised a $2.25M pre-seed round in 2025 and counts Hilton, Pemex, and Repsol among 50+ customers in construction, hospitality, logistics, and industrial sectors.
OLOID
OLOID is a Sunnyvale, California software company building passwordless, biometric identity and access for the 1.8 billion deskless and frontline workers who rarely sit at a desk or carry a company laptop. Its cloud platform lets factory, hospital, retail and pharmaceutical workers authenticate with their face, an NFC or RFID badge, or a QR code on shared devices and doors, without new hardware, while plugging into existing HRIS, SSO and physical access control systems. In 2025 OLOID extended into agentic identity with AURA, an AI identity-assurance agent that verifies employees in real time during help-desk requests like password resets and account unlocks.
Mohit Garg
Mohit Garg is the co-founder and CEO of OLOID, a Sunnyvale-based company building passwordless authentication and identity tools for the 1.8 billion frontline and deskless workers who clock in on shared devices rather than personal laptops. A serial entrepreneur out of Silicon Valley, he earlier co-founded Mindtickle, the AI-driven sales-readiness platform that grew into a unicorn, and trained at the Stanford StartX accelerator on a computer-vision product for the enterprise. He was named to Thinkers50's Leaders50 list in 2024.
Humand
Humand is a mobile-first, all-in-one HR platform built for the 2.7 billion deskless and frontline workers who have never had a proper digital work home. Founded in 2020 by Nicolas Benenzon and Geronimo Maspero, the platform combines 30+ HR modules - from internal communications and payroll to performance reviews and AI-powered automation - into a single app. With 1.6 million workers across 1,500+ organizations in 51 countries, and a $66M Series A raised in February 2026 co-led by Kaszek and Goodwater Capital, Humand is positioning itself as the operating system for the world's largest workforce segment.
Max Wang
Max Wang is the Co-Founder and CTO of Workstream, a San Francisco-based HR and payroll platform built specifically for America's hourly workforce. He co-founded China's AngelList equivalent (VC.CN) in 2011, built it to a 50-person team, then crossed the Pacific to co-build Workstream with Desmond Lim and Lei Xu after a 100-interview discovery sprint revealed that hiring hourly workers was a massive unsolved problem. Today, Workstream serves 4,000+ businesses across 24,000 locations, has raised $118 million, and is deploying AI tools - including VoiceAI - to compress hiring cycles from weeks to hours for restaurants, franchises, and deskless-workforce employers.
Nicolas Benenzon
Nicolas Benenzon is the CEO and co-founder of Humand, an AI-powered HR and internal communication platform built for the world's 2.7 billion deskless workers. Founded in 2020 in Argentina and now headquartered in San Francisco, Humand serves 2+ million employees across 2,000+ organizations in 51 countries. In February 2026, Benenzon led the company's $66 million Series A - described by Nasdaq as the largest in Latin American history for its category - backed by Kaszek, Goodwater Capital, Y Combinator, and notable angels including the founders of Dropbox, Vercel, and MercadoLibre.