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Flip Bet the Office Was the Wrong Place to Start AI - Now 2 Million Frontline Workers Are Catching Up
Flip started with a Porsche factory-floor communication gap and survived when Porsche paused the project. Eight years later, its next wager is bigger: AI will matter at work only when it reaches the people who do not have an inbox.
The Cincinnati Company Betting That Your Employee Newsletter Should Read Like a Feed, Not a Blast
Cerkl Broadcast turns the corporate all-staff email into a personalized feed - one AI-curated digest per employee. Here's how a self-taught coder from Cincinnati built it, who's buying it, and where the whole bet could break.
Francisco Chamorro Builds Marketing From the Inside Out
After a career spanning entertainment, internet services, telecom and enterprise software, Francisco Chamorro has a practical thesis for B2B growth: earn internal belief, protect room to experiment and make every useful idea repeatable.
PlayPlay
PlayPlay is a Paris-based B2B SaaS company that lets communication and marketing teams turn ideas and text into professional, on-brand videos without editing skills. Its browser-based platform pairs drag-and-drop templates with AI tools - avatars, auto-subtitles, voice-over, translation and clipping - plus enterprise brand governance. Founded in 2017 by Thibaut Machet, Aurelien Dayres and Clement Moracin, PlayPlay is used by 3,000+ companies including IBM, L'Oreal and Booking.com, and has raised roughly $65.8M, led by a $55M Series B from Insight Partners in 2022.
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.
Gaurav Saini
Gaurav Saini is the co-founder and Chief Customer Officer of ChangeEngine, a San Francisco AI platform that merges marketing and people operations so HR teams can run employee programs the way marketers run campaigns. A go-to-market and customer success operator, he has spent his career turning early-stage SaaS companies into scaling businesses, including senior growth roles at WorkSpan and UserVoice, and a stint co-founding the advisory firm GTM Venture Studio. At ChangeEngine he leads the charge to collapse the sprawl of HR point tools into one platform, often citing conversations with more than 100 HR teams as the source of the company's roadmap.
ChangeEngine
ChangeEngine is a San Francisco-based AI-powered employee experience platform that helps People teams design, automate and personalize internal communications across the entire employee lifecycle - from onboarding to recognition - across email, Slack, Teams, SMS and SharePoint, without forcing employees to log in to a new tool.
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.
Andrew Higashi
Andrew Higashi is the Co-founder and CEO of ChangeEngine, a San Francisco-based AI-powered employee experience platform that helps companies communicate with and engage their people the way the best brands engage customers. A three-time company builder, he spent a decade honing enterprise sales and go-to-market strategy at Gigya, WorkSpan, and Sendoso before founding ChangeEngine in 2021 with the same co-founding team he has worked alongside for ten years. ChangeEngine has raised $15.5 million in total funding, including a $10 million Series A led by Threshold Ventures in 2024, and serves 310+ employees globally with operations in the US, UK, and Latin America.
Simpplr
Simpplr is an AI-powered employee experience platform - the modern intranet for the chat-overloaded enterprise. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, it consolidates internal communications, engagement, recognition, and knowledge into a single personalized hub used by 1,000+ companies and over 2 million employees worldwide.
Tigerhall
Tigerhall is an AI-powered Change Activation Platform that helps Fortune 1000 transformation leaders communicate, train and measure organizational change at speed. Founded by Nellie Wartoft in 2018, it serves enterprise customers in 32+ countries.