The bandages are the easy part. Thompson Safety is building a national business around the visits, records, and predictable bills that keep workplace safety from becoming another unfinished job.
A safety briefing on a Louisiana dock became a business built around a stubborn problem: why must every new job start with proving the same things all over again?
The company began with emergency-care instruction. Nearly five decades and a long acquisition campaign later, it sells a connected operating system for the unglamorous, consequential work of keeping people safe.
OpenSesame is a Portland, Oregon-based e-learning company that runs an online marketplace of curated corporate training courses. Founded in 2011, it aggregates content from hundreds of publishers into a single catalog of tens of thousands of courses spanning business skills, compliance, safety, leadership, technology and wellness, and integrates that content directly into a customer's existing learning management system. The company sells to enterprise and mid-market employers who want to buy, curate and deliver workforce training without stitching together dozens of separate vendors.
STRIVR is a Santa Clara workforce-performance company that began by putting Stanford quarterbacks in virtual reality and now puts AI on the factory floor. After pioneering enterprise VR training for Fortune 1000 giants like Walmart, Verizon and Bank of America, STRIVR has shifted from preparing people for work to guiding them inside the flow of work - building hands-free, smart-glasses AI that detects and corrects operational mistakes in real time and turns expert know-how into instant visual instructions.