Tagged: project-management
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Lark
Lark is ByteDance's productivity superapp that stitches chat, video meetings, docs, spreadsheets, calendar, and project workflows into one platform, designed for multilingual teams that want to shrink their tool stack without losing power.
Atlassian
Atlassian is an Australian enterprise software company that builds tools helping teams plan, track, and ship work together. Founded in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, it is best known for Jira and Confluence and now serves as the collaboration backbone for software, IT, and business teams worldwide. The company grew famously without a traditional sales force, relying on a low-friction, self-serve model, and has expanded into cloud, IT service management, and AI through its Rovo agents and Teamwork Collection.
Monday CRM
Monday.com is a publicly traded Israeli SaaS company (NASDAQ: MNDY) that builds a Work OS platform used by 245,000+ organizations globally. Its flagship products include Monday CRM, Monday Dev, and Monday WorkOS — a suite of customizable tools for sales, project management, and team collaboration. Founded in 2012, the company has grown from an internal Wix.com tool to a $1B+ ARR business with AI-powered agents, workflow automation, and deep integrations with 200+ enterprise tools.
Apptivo
Apptivo is a cloud-based, all-in-one business management platform founded in 2009 and headquartered in Fremont, California. The company offers 65+ integrated business applications — from CRM and project management to invoicing and field service — under a single affordable subscription starting at $15/user/month. Bootstrapped and self-funded, Apptivo has grown to serve 200,000+ customers across 193 countries, reaching approximately $75M in annual revenue by 2025. Its core value proposition: enterprise-grade software at small-business prices, with 24/7 human customer support at every tier.
Bitrix24
Bitrix24 is an all-in-one online workspace that bundles CRM, project management, HR, communication, and AI automation into a single platform. Launched in 2012 and used by over 15 million organizations in 16 languages, it is the only major CRM in the world that prices per organization rather than per user - a structural bet that has made it a go-to for SMBs and growing teams that refuse to pay headcount taxes to their software stack.
Copper CRM
Copper is a CRM built for Google Workspace users - specifically teams of 5 to 100 people who live in Gmail and Google Calendar all day. Founded in 2013 as ProsperWorks and rebranded in 2018, Copper is the only CRM officially recommended by Google on the Workspace Marketplace. Rather than forcing sales reps to log every interaction manually, Copper pulls contact and activity data straight from Gmail, auto-populating records so nothing falls through the cracks. Used by over 30,000 businesses across 100+ countries - from creative agencies to consulting firms to real estate teams - Copper has raised $99.5 million and evolved from a sales tool into a full client management platform for professional services.
HoneyBook
HoneyBook is an AI-powered business management platform built for independent service professionals - photographers, event planners, consultants, and creative freelancers. Founded in 2013 in San Francisco with roots in Tel Aviv, the platform combines CRM, contracts, invoicing, payments, scheduling, and workflow automation into a single clientflow hub. With $498M in total funding, a $2.4B valuation, $140M ARR, and more than $12 billion in payments processed, HoneyBook has become the dominant platform for the growing independent economy - helping over 100,000 small business owners run client relationships from first inquiry to final payment without switching between a dozen tools.
Josh Lee
Josh Lee is the Co-Founder and CEO of Swit Technologies Inc., a San Francisco-based enterprise Work OS that unifies team chat and task management into a single platform. A former English teacher from Korea who turned his frustration with fragmented collaboration tools into a $20M ARR business, Lee launched Swit in March 2019 with co-founder Max Lim. Today, over 40,000 teams across 184 countries use Swit, which has raised $85.8M in total funding including a $32.7M Series B in 2022. Lee has pioneered the 'Super Work' framework for AI-era collaboration and unveiled Swit Snap, an AI co-pilot, at Google Next 24 in April 2024.
Vignesh Girishankar
Vignesh Girishankar is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Rocketlane, a San Francisco-based professional services automation platform that has raised $105M in total funding. Before Rocketlane, he co-founded Konotor (acquired by Freshworks in 2015), where he transformed an in-app messaging tool into FreshChat, scaling it to $13M ARR. Based in Chennai, India, Vignesh is known for his rigorous customer discovery approach - conducting 80+ interviews spanning 200+ hours before writing a line of code - and for building category-defining enterprise software from India without relocating to Silicon Valley.
COR
COR is an AI-powered management platform built for creative and professional services firms — advertising agencies, consulting companies, law firms, and IT shops — that need to understand where their time actually goes and whether their projects are making money. By automating time tracking and layering on predictive analytics, COR gives agency leaders real-time visibility into project profitability, team capacity, and billing gaps before they become losses. Founded in 2017 in Silicon Valley by former agency operator Santi Bibiloni and co-founders Jose Gettas and Gabriel Marin, COR serves clients including Havas, Publicis, Ogilvy, Dentsu, and DDB across 35+ countries, with a reported $6.6M ARR and backing from investors including the founders of DoubleClick, Anaplan, MercadoLibre, and Krux.
Freemodel
Freemodel is a presale home renovation company that designs, manages, and pays for renovations before a homeowner sells - then collects from escrow at closing. Local project directors run the job; the homeowner sells for more.
David Marks
David Marks is the founder, President, and CEO of TEECOM, a California-based technology design and engineering firm he built from a one-man operation into a 200+ person global consultancy over nearly three decades. Starting at the Moscone Convention Center expansion in San Francisco, he has since shaped the technology infrastructure of hospitals, Fortune 500 offices, universities, and civic institutions across the U.S., EMEA, and APAC. A licensed Professional Engineer with credentials in communications distribution, design technology, and LEED, Marks is known for his belief that buildings should work as hard as the people inside them - and that the best technology is the kind you never notice.
Jake Olsen
Jake Olsen, P.E. is the CEO of Stratus, the leading cloud software platform for MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) contractors, helping hundreds of firms digitize workflows from BIM design through fabrication to field installation. A serial entrepreneur with over 20 years in construction technology, Olsen previously co-founded DADO - a construction document management startup that was acquired by Stanley Black & Decker - and also built Hangerworks, DEWALT Design Assist, and Powercalc Anchor Design. He steered Stratus to a $32 million Series B funding round in January 2025 led by Radian Capital, positioning the company as the connective tissue between the design table, fabrication shop, and job site in the evolving era of data-driven MEP contracting.
Richy Nelson
Richy Nelson is the co-founder and CEO of Roofr, the cloud-based operating system for roofing contractors. A third-generation roofer who first climbed a roof at twelve years old, Nelson transformed decades of hands-on industry experience into a platform trusted by over 12,000 roofing companies across North America. After selling his house to fund the company, surviving Y Combinator in 2017, and raising a Series B from TCV and ABC Supply in January 2025, he leads a 150-person remote team on a mission to build the most trusted roofing platform in the world.
Vaughn Paladin
Vaughn Paladin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Arcsona, a Salesforce consulting and IT services firm headquartered in Campbell, California. He co-founded Arcsona in 2010 alongside Stephan Thomsen, drawing on 15 years of consulting experience at Ernst & Young and as CEO of FocusFrame. Under his leadership, Arcsona has grown to 83 employees across three continents, completed over 200 Salesforce implementations, and shipped Spark - a no-code tool for Salesforce Experience Cloud - on the AppExchange.
Santi Bibiloni
Santi Bibiloni is the Co-Founder and CEO of COR, an AI-powered project profitability platform built for creative agencies, consulting firms, and professional services. Born in Buenos Aires and now based in San Francisco, he bootstrapped his first agency Balloon Group to 400 clients across 12 countries before pivoting to solve the profitability problem he lived firsthand. COR has raised ~$7.9M, grown 9% month-over-month, and counts Ogilvy, BBDO, and McCann among clients in 38 countries — backed by unicorn founders and the board member who built DoubleClick.
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz co-founded Facebook in a Harvard dorm room in 2004, then quietly built Asana into a billion-dollar project management company while giving away billions through Open Philanthropy (now Coefficient Giving). The youngest self-made billionaire in the world when Forbes first named him in 2011, Moskovitz has spent the years since turning wealth into what he believes are the most high-impact charitable causes on Earth - from malaria nets to AI safety - alongside his wife Cari Tuna.
Laila Ahmadi
Laila Ahmadi is a Senior Program Manager at Ingram Micro, specializing in Cloud Growth Solutions, based in Ladera Ranch, California. A certified PMP and CSM, she works at the intersection of IT services, cloud technology, and business operations, driving cloud adoption programs within one of the world's largest IT distributors.
Insightly
Insightly is a San Francisco-based SaaS CRM platform founded in 2009 by Anthony Smith in Perth, Australia. It offers an integrated suite of CRM, marketing automation, and customer service tools targeting small to mid-sized businesses and mid-market companies. With over 1.5 million users across 200+ countries and ~25,000 customer organizations, Insightly differentiates itself through deep integrations with Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, a unified platform (CRM + marketing + service), and mid-market pricing. In July 2024, Insightly was acquired by private equity firm Crest Rock Partners and merged with Unbounce, the Vancouver-based landing page platform. In December 2025 it launched an AI Copilot for natural-language CRM interactions.
Karri Saarinen
Karri Saarinen is the co-founder and CEO of Linear — a $1.25B unicorn project management tool trusted by 66% of Forbes' top 50 AI companies, including OpenAI, Ramp, and Vercel. A Finnish designer-turned-engineer who grew up questioning why everyday objects look ugly, attended 5,000-person LAN parties as a child, and turned that instinct into one of the most respected product careers in Silicon Valley. After shaping the visual language at Coinbase and Airbnb (Cereal typeface, Design Language System, Lottie, Google Material Design Award), he co-founded Linear in 2019 with two fellow Finns from Helsinki — and built it to 20,000+ customers and $100M+ ARR while staying profitable the entire time. His philosophy: quality is the growth strategy, tools embed opinions so choose accordingly, and the best MVP in a crowded category isn't minimal — it's sharply opinionated for a specific audience.