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Frontmatter wants your least glamorous design work
The creative production company has a soft spot for revised decks, RFP documents, and the next batch of ads. Its bet: a brand needs people who will keep showing up after the big reveal.
Upflex Is Turning the Office Lease Into a Playlist
The New York startup survived the empty-office years by moving beyond coworking passes. Now it wants to be the control panel for every desk a company owns, leases or borrows.
RemoteMore Failed Twice, Then Built a 50,000-Engineer Shortcut for Lean Tech Teams
Two founders named Boris burned through two startup ideas before finding the expensive bottleneck hiding behind remote work: companies did not need more resumes - they needed qualified interviews, compliant payroll and specialists who could start without months of overhead.
allwhere
allwhere is a New York-based IT logistics platform that automates the full employee device lifecycle - procuring, deploying, tracking, retrieving, storing, and recycling laptops and equipment for distributed teams anywhere in the world. Built to make onboarding and offboarding painless in a work-from-anywhere era, it gives IT teams a single dashboard to manage hardware across in-office, hybrid, and fully remote workforces.
SoWork
SoWork is a generative-AI-enhanced virtual office platform that gives distributed teams a persistent, customizable workspace where avatars work side by side, spatial audio recreates hallway serendipity, and AI quietly captures meeting notes and action items. Founded at Harvard by three co-founders and legally incorporated as Sophya, Inc., the company raised a $15M seed round led by Talis Capital in 2021 and counts teams from startups to large enterprises among its users - with a stated mission to move workplaces from the earth to the cloud.
Stable
Stable is an AI-powered virtual mailbox and business address service that turns the office mailroom into software. Founded in 2019 and part of Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch, the company gives distributed and remote-first businesses a permanent U.S. address, scans and digitizes incoming physical mail, and automates downstream workflows like check deposits, registered agent filings, and routing. More than 15,000 businesses - from startups to enterprises like Gusto, Brex, and DoorDash - use Stable to handle mail from anywhere.
Time Doctor
Time Doctor is a bootstrapped workforce-analytics and time-tracking platform built for remote, hybrid, and distributed teams. Launched in 2012 by Rob Rawson and Liam Martin, it gives managers real-time visibility into how work happens - tracking time, app and website usage, productivity trends, and workload balance - while pairing the data with AI-supported insights. Used by 280,000+ people across 30+ countries and integrating with 60+ tools, Time Doctor turns activity data into fairer policies, better workload decisions, and burnout prevention.
Gather
Gather is a virtual workspace where remote teams can see each other, walk up for spontaneous conversations, and collaborate without scheduling a meeting for everything. Often described as 'Minecraft meets Zoom,' it pairs a customizable 2-D world with spatial audio and video, plus AI meeting notes and async chat. Founded in 2020 and backed by Sequoia and Index, Gather has been used by millions of people for work, conferences, weddings and gatherings.