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It’s been an interesting year for startups, disruptors and unicorns innovating in the Future of Work space. Using the GlobalData deals database, Verdict presents a summary of four startups that stood out in 2021, hopefully paving the way to a safer future for all of us
UiPath
Founded:
2005
Funding to date:
$2bn
Mission:
UiPath designs and develops robotic process automation and artificial intelligence software. The company’s products include UiPath Studio, which enables users to design automation processes visually. It raised $750m in Series F in February, 2021. Existing investors Alkeon Capital and Coatue co-led the raise. It became a publicly traded company in April, 2021.
Airtable
Founded:
2012
Funding to date:
$1.36bn
Mission:
Airtable is a provider of mobile-friendly productivity tool which combines spreadsheet and database to allow users to manage and manipulate their data. Its Airtable tool helps teams organise their work. Airtable is headquartered in San Francisco, California, the US.
Qualtrics
Founded:
2002
Funding to date:
$400m
Mission:
Qualtrics engaged in customer-survey software business. The company serves as a business operating system for experience management. The company offers a technology platform that helps organisations to manage their business through single platform. It went public in January 2021.
Lacework
Founded:
2015
Funding to date:
$1.9bn
Mission:
Lacework provides a zero-touch workload cloud security platform which allows security teams for identifying and safeguarding the cloud/datacenter workloads without utilising the manual tagging, rules or policies. The company prepares datacenter polygraphs to detect users, workloads and applications and their interactions.
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