Firstwork, an AI-powered workforce management platform, secured $5 million in seed funding led by Gradient, with participation from YCombinator, SOMA Capital, 468 Capital, Houghton Street Ventures, Deel Leadership, and the CEO & Co-Founder of Job&Talent. The funding was aimed at supporting the development of their platform to improve HR processes for frontline workers and to expand operations and business reach.

Operator of a skill-based talent assessment platform intended to help companies solve the skills-gap crisis by becoming skills-based organizations. The company's platform collects and structures vast skills data from across the entire workforce, and its apps deliver the day-to-day operational requirements of a skills-based organization, supporting high-stake people decisions at scale with skills-based hiring, succession planning, and reskilling, its analytics dashboard delivers unprecedented, real-time insights to C-suites and HR (human resources) leaders, enabling strategic skills-based decision-making across the entire organization.

Operator of a digital talent platform intended for connecting freelancers with companies. The company's platform offers a wide range of services, including project management, team collaboration and skill development and helps them to access and manage tech talent, enabling businesses to access freelance talent and freelancers to find high-impact projects that match their skills and interes