# Utmost

> Utmost was an enterprise SaaS company that reframed contingent labor as a people problem rather than merely a purchasing problem. Its Extended Workforce System gave HR, procurement, finance, and IT one view of contractors, consultants, freelancers, outsourced teams, and other non-employees, with a particularly close fit to Workday. Founded in 2018, it raised $32.2 million, won large customers including AstraZeneca, Ecolab, NortonLifeLock, and Colonial Life, and was acquired by VMS incumbent Beeline in 2022 for an undisclosed price.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Annrai O'Toole (CEO and co-founder), Dan Beck (COO and co-founder), Paddy Benson (CTO and co-founder)
- **Products:** Extended Workforce System, Utmost Front Door, Utmost Connect, Worker and Supplier Apps, PayBill
- **Notable:** Raised $32.2 million across Series A and Series B rounds., Increased its contracted customer count by 150% from Q3 to Q4 2020., Reported that 70% of its customers were Fortune 1000 or Global 1000 companies by early 2021.

## Products & services

- **Extended Workforce System** — Cloud SaaS for sourcing, onboarding, managing, paying, and analyzing contractors, consultants, freelancers, outsourced workers, SOW providers, and other non-employees.
- **Utmost Front Door** — A single manager-facing intake that routes requests for work or workers to an appropriate classification and sourcing channel, from staff augmentation to SOW and independent talent.
- **Utmost Connect** — An enterprise connectivity layer described at acquisition as offering more than 1,000 pre-built connectors for business and third-party applications.
- **Worker and Supplier Apps** — Experiences intended to give workers and staffing suppliers clearer access to profiles, engagements, and workflows rather than forcing every interaction through an enterprise buyer.
- **PayBill** — Back-office workforce billing and payment workflow used to track billable time and streamline pay and bill processes across worker classifications.

## Achievements

- Raised $32.2 million across Series A and Series B rounds.
- Increased its contracted customer count by 150% from Q3 to Q4 2020.
- Reported that 70% of its customers were Fortune 1000 or Global 1000 companies by early 2021.
- Won an AstraZeneca deployment covering 34,000 contingent and outsourced service providers across 100 countries.
- Built Utmost Connect with more than 1,000 pre-built enterprise and third-party connectors.
- Was acquired by Beeline in 2022, four years after founding.

## Latest updates

- **2021-05** — Utmost raised a $21 million Series B led by Mosaic Ventures, bringing disclosed funding to $32.2 million.
- **2021-07** — The company launched Front Door, a common intake for managers requesting any category of work or worker.
- **2022-03** — AstraZeneca selected Utmost for external-workforce visibility across 34,000 providers in 100 countries.
- **2022-10** — Beeline announced an agreement to acquire Utmost; financial terms were not disclosed.
- **2024-09** — Industry reporting described Beeline's technology stack as augmented by Utmost's cloud-based extended workforce system and modern API strategy.

## Links

- Website: https://www.beeline.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/utmost-software
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/utmosthq

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