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Workers Benefit Fund
Workers Benefit Fund is a New York-based, mission-driven company that closes the benefits gap for gig workers, freelancers and independent contractors. Acting as a PEO-style solution for the gig industry, it builds the technology, outreach infrastructure and partnerships that platforms, labor unions and public institutions need to connect non-traditional workers with health, wellness and financial benefits. Its flagship work powers the Drivers Benefits program alongside The Black Car Fund, which has enrolled tens of thousands of New York for-hire drivers at no cost to them.
Catch
Catch is a benefits platform built for the more than 50 million Americans who work for themselves and have no employer to hand them a health plan. It helps freelancers, contractors, gig workers and solopreneurs find, compare and enroll in health, dental and vision insurance, applying tax credits instantly so coverage costs less. The service is free to users. Founded in 2019 as a Y Combinator startup, Catch raised about $20M, was wound down by its original founders in early 2023, then bought and relaunched the same year by two operators who personally believed independent workers deserved a real safety net.
Laura Speyer
Laura Speyer is the co-CEO of Catch, a benefits marketplace that helps America's self-employed and independent workers find and enroll in health, dental, and vision insurance. After Catch's original founders shut the company down in March 2023, Speyer and her former CLEAR colleague Alexa Irish bought it with their own money and relaunched it in time for the November 2023 open enrollment. A Yale-trained dealmaker who came up through KKR and led corporate development and growth at CLEAR, Speyer pitches Catch as a 'personalized HR department' for the roughly 60 million Americans who work without an employer's safety net.