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8 Productivity Tools Startups that are now Unicorn Companies

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If you want to start an online business, you should look for the following 8 productivity companies that achieved unicorn status.

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Calendly

Calendly

Calendly's easy-to-use online scheduling tool makes it simple to quickly schedule meetings, appointments and calls.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation:

    $3.00

    B (

    January 2021

    )

  • Country:

    United States

  • City:

    Atlanta

  • Started in:

    2013

  • Founders:

    Tope Awotona

  • Industries:

    Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Meeting Software, Productivity Tools, Scheduling

  • Number of employees:

    250-500

  • Funding Amount:

    $350.55M

  • Number of funding rounds:

    2

  • Number of investors:

    3

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Clari

Clari

Clari provides a real-time, cloud-based platform that provides revenue operations teams with the information they need to execute at warp speed.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation:

    $2.60

    B (

    March 2021

    )

  • Country:

    United States

  • City:

    Sunnyvale

  • Started in:

    2012

  • Founders:

    Andy Byrne, Venkat Rangan

  • Industries:

    Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Business Information Systems, Enterprise Software, Productivity Tools

  • Number of employees:

    500-1,000

  • Funding Amount:

    $496.00M

  • Number of funding rounds:

    8

  • Number of investors:

    16

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ClickUp

ClickUp

ClickUp is a cloud-based platform that replaces other workplace apps for all users and all departments in an organization.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation:

    $4.00

    B (

    December 2020

    )

  • Country:

    United States

  • City:

    San Diego

  • Started in:

    2017

  • Founders:

    Alex Yurkowski, Zeb Evans

  • Industries:

    Apps, Collaboration, Productivity Tools, SaaS, Software, Task Management

  • Number of employees:

    500-1,000

  • Funding Amount:

    $535.00M

  • Number of funding rounds:

    5

  • Number of investors:

    6

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Grammarly

Grammarly

Grammarly’s writing assistant detects and corrects mistakes in your text so you can be confident that more people will actually read what you’ve written.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation:

    $13.00

    B (

    October 2019

    )

  • Country:

    United States

  • City:

    San Francisco

  • Started in:

    2009

  • Founders:

    Alex Shevchenko, Dmytro Lider, Max Lytvyn

  • Industries:

    Assistive Technology, Information Technology, Productivity Tools

  • Number of employees:

    500-1,000

  • Funding Amount:

    $400.00M

  • Number of funding rounds:

    3

  • Number of investors:

    8

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Hive

Hive

Hive revolutionizes how companies organize their teams, processes, and workflows. With Hive, work flows in real-time so everyone can easily see who’s doing what—and what will be done next.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation:

    $2.00

    B (

    April 2021

    )

  • Country:

    United States

  • City:

    San Francisco

  • Started in:

    2013

  • Founders:

    Dmitriy Karpman, Kevin Guo

  • Industries:

    Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Software, Speech Recognition

  • Number of employees:

    100-250

  • Funding Amount:

    $85.00M

  • Number of funding rounds:

    5

  • Number of investors:

    12

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Lattice

Lattice

Lattice is a people management application that helps people leaders and teams to organize their digital workplace.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation:

    $3.00

    B (

    March 2021

    )

  • Country:

    United States

  • City:

    San Francisco

  • Started in:

    2015

  • Founders:

    Eric Koslow, Jack Altman

  • Industries:

    Enterprise Applications, Human Resources, Management Information Systems, Productivity Tools

  • Number of employees:

    250-500

  • Funding Amount:

    $329.32M

  • Number of funding rounds:

    9

  • Number of investors:

    20

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Unqork

Unqork

Unqork's No Code Platform helps companies build, deploy and manage complex applications with zero coding or scripting.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation:

    $2.00

    B (

    October 2020

    )

  • Country:

    United States

  • City:

    New York

  • Started in:

    2017

  • Founders:

    Gary Hoberman

  • Industries:

    Enterprise, Enterprise Applications, Financial Services, Insurance, Productivity Tools, SaaS, Software

  • Number of employees:

    250-500

  • Funding Amount:

    $367.17M

  • Number of funding rounds:

    5

  • Number of investors:

    23

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Yimidida

Yimidida

Yimidida is a Chinese pioneer in the crowd-sourced delivery industry which provides high-quality logistics services with an AI algorithm model.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation:

    $1.17

    B (

    January 2019

    )

  • Country:

    China

  • City:

    Shanghai

  • Started in:

    2015

  • Founders:

    Yang Xingyun

  • Industries:

    Cloud Data Services, Logistics, Productivity Tools, Supply Chain Management

  • Number of employees:

    10,000+

  • Funding Amount:

    $553.61M

  • Number of funding rounds:

    6

  • Number of investors:

    10

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