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The Dashboard Was Right. The Employee Was Still Stuck.
Centrical began with a simple irritation: companies could measure frontline work but struggled to improve it. Its answer is a loop that turns a number on a screen into practice, coaching and a second look at the result.
The Safety Company That Knows Your Training Is Already Fading
Intertek Catalyst built a business around an awkward fact: the safety lesson everyone understood on Monday may be gone by Friday. Its answer is part agency, part classroom and part behavioral nudge - repeated until the right action becomes habit.
Aspect Software Came Back From the Dead. Now It Wants to Schedule Humans and AI
The call-center pioneer survived a $1 billion merger, a $380 million debt reset and a three-year disappearance inside Alvaria. Its second act is less about answering phones than deciding who - or what - should handle the work.
Alvaria
Born from the 2021 merger of two contact center veterans with roots going back to 1973, Alvaria builds the compliance-first outreach software that banks, insurers, healthcare providers and collections firms use to call, text and email millions of customers without breaking the rules.
HelloTeam
HelloTeam is a Boston-based HR technology company that builds an all-in-one employee engagement and performance management platform aimed at improving employee retention. Founded in 2016 by Tanya Bakalov, the software combines performance reviews, goals and OKRs, recognition and rewards, surveys, learning, a dynamic org chart, and people analytics into a single system so managers and HR teams can keep employees connected, engaged, and productive.
Gratia Health
Gratia Health is an Austin-based health-tech startup that turns everyday clinical work into measurable results. Its Workforce Activation Platform uses behavioral-science-designed incentives, real-time recognition, and gamification - points, badges, streaks, and patient shoutouts - to help hospitals keep nurses engaged, cover shifts, and cut spending on expensive contract labor. Emerged from stealth in November 2023 with seed funding led by JumpStart Capital and a launch partnership with ScionHealth's 70-plus specialty hospitals.
Verint
Verint is a Melville, New York-based enterprise software company that builds an open platform of AI-powered bots for customer experience (CX) automation. Its software analyzes behavioral and interaction data from contact centers, back offices, branches, websites and mobile apps to automate manual workflows, boost agent capacity and improve self-service. More than 80 of the Fortune 100 use Verint, and in 2025 the company agreed to be taken private by Thoma Bravo for roughly $2 billion.