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Speakap and the art of reaching people without desks
Two supermarket colleagues turned missed messages into a business. Speakap’s next challenge is making the employee app useful enough to become a habit.
Connecteam Found Its $800 Million Idea in Four Words: ‘What Promotion?’
A waiter missed one message from headquarters. Connecteam’s founders saw an entire workforce missing its operating system - and turned a narrow training tool into a three-hub business used from construction sites to restaurant counters.
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.