Ando Raises $4M Seed Round to Revolutionize Hourly Work Scheduling with AI

Venture funding isn't success of course, but it's nearly impossible to win big markets without it. Unlike the AI hype, Ando is very, very real. And unlike others, Ando is here to make lives genuinely better for everyone. (*) #proudinvestor #micdrop #oversubscribed Big thx to Bradford Oberwager and James Kairos, Ben Metcalfe, Andy Mutz, Joseph Chittenden-Veal, Scott Sanders, Massy Ghausi, John Lyman, Thomas Wesley, John Holder… and of course Phoenix Toews and Paul Wellons (to name a few) — (*) Yeah yeah, some pencil-pusher will use AI to over-optimize profits over people, but as American Airlines is learning the hard way (WSJ: https://lnkd.in/ePz_QNzt ), net of competition, "people businesses" don't work that way. You HAVE to care for people or you lose. Ando plays a beautiful collaborative role in that dialogue, helping profit-focused management more clearly see the effects of a motivated labor force. That's why I'm truly #proudinvestor --- Posts co-authored with my LinkedIn secret weapon Dennis Buckley

Monochrome Capital is proud to be investing alongside Slow Ventures, Blitzscaling Ventures, and Jim Messina in Ando - a significant increase in our stake following the initial pre-seed check we wrote to help get the business off the ground in 2024. I’ve spent a significant portion of my career in the "pre-AI" era of logistics digitization - from the early days of Uber to working closely with Paul Wellons at Jyve. While we solved massive problems back then, the frontline workforce was often left behind by the technology meant to manage them. Having seen Paul’s leadership firsthand at Jyve, we knew early on that he was the right person to tackle the 'last broken supply chain': labor. What is Ando? They are building the world’s first AI infrastructure for the global hourly workforce. By using high-accuracy demand forecasting and intelligent staffing tools, they match the right people to the right shifts at the right time - turning a chaotic scheduling process into a precise, stable system. As our industry moves toward an AI-driven future, I am especially focused on what happens to blue-collar and hourly workers. I’ve always believed a "win/win" is possible where optimization for the employer also means better, more predictable lives for the workers. Paul is charting that course responsibly, and I believe Ando will lead to better outcomes for everyone involved than a world without it. Excited to continue our partnership with this additional financing! #FutureOfWork #AI #Logistics #HourlyWorkforce #ResponsibleAI #VentureCapital

We’re excited to share: Ando raised a $4M seed round, led by Slow Ventures with participation from Blitzscaling Ventures, Zero Capital, Monochrome Capital, Gaingels, Mana Ventures, Fireroad, and additional investors. Hourly work runs the world but scheduling is still too unpredictable. We’re building tools that forecast demand and help teams create schedules workers can actually plan around. This funding will help us expand the platform and scale deployments with enterprise customers. https://lnkd.in/gBv_CDSs #Ando #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #WorkforceAI #FutureOfWork #LaborTech #RestaurantTech #RetailTech

Ando, a San Francisco–based company building #AI infrastructure for the global hourly workforce, has raised $4M in Seed funding. The round was led by Slow Ventures, with participation from Blitzscaling Ventures, Zero Capital, Monochrome, Gaingels, Mana Ventures, Fireroad, and additional investors. Led by Paul Wellons, Ando is purpose-built for the hourly W-2 workforce, supporting both frontline employees and the managers who schedule them. The platform helps businesses reduce turnover, eliminate labor waste, and deliver predictable, reliable schedules workers can depend on. The company plans to use the new capital to expand its AI platform and scale deployments with enterprise customers, addressing one of the most operationally complex segments of the global workforce. #Ando #SeedFunding #AIInfrastructure #FutureOfWork #WorkforceTech #HRTech #StartupFunding #VentureCapital

Ando: $4 Million Seed Funding Raised For Hourly Workforce Scheduling Platform: Ando, a startup building AI infrastructure for hourly work, has raised a $4 million seed round to expand its demand-forecasting and scheduling platform and scale deployments with enterprise customers. The financing was led by Slow Ventures, with participation from Blitzscaling Ventures, Zero Capital, Monochrome, Gaingels, Mana Ventures, Fireroad, and additional investors. The post Ando: $4 Million Seed Funding Raised For Hourly Workforce Scheduling Platform appeared first on Pulse 2.0.

Today, we're announcing Comp's R$100 million Series A, led by Keith Rabois at Khosla Ventures, their first-ever investment in Brazil. Joining Khosla are our insiders KASZEK and Canary doubling down, as well as new investors Abstract Ventures and Endeavor Scale-Up Ventures. From day one, we've been building around two core convictions: 1/ People are the most important thing in any business 2/ The way companies manage people (aka "traditional HR") doesn't work anymore We're not another HR software tool. We're not a consulting firm. We're something new entirely: an AI-Native HR Function. We embed forward-deployed HR experts and engineers directly inside our customers’ organizations, building custom policies, processes, and AI tools that make the People function both more strategic and more efficient. Think of us as your superpowered HR teammate -- supporting everything from the most complex organizational decisions to the most operational day-to-day work. We are deeply grateful to our early customers for their trust in us to challenge the status quo in compensation.. and we are thrilled to already be supporting innovative companies across all their HR work. We are growing extremely quickly and hiring ambitious builders to reinvent HR from first principles. If you want to help define a category and build at the frontier of application-layer AI, send me a message. We were born in Brazil, but we are building for the world.

🎉 Celebrating our partnership with absence.io! We’re excited to partner with absence.io, a smart HR solution that helps startups simplify their daily operations and focus on growth 🚀 From absence management and time tracking to digital personnel files and expense management, absence.io brings everything into one central platform. Employees can submit vacation requests or expenses in just a few clicks, while managers approve them in real time. Clear processes, less admin, and more time for what really matters 💡 🎁 With an exclusive offer for SSA Members! 👉🏼 Check them out here: https://hubs.li/Q043cHYY0 #SwissStartupAssociation #Partnership #HRTech #StartupTools #SwissStartups #StartupEcosystem

Khosla’s Keith Rabois backs Comp, which wants to bolster HR teams with AI After graduating from Cornell University, Christophe Gerlach spent nearly two years investing exclusively in HR tech startups for General Atlantic. Investing was exciting, but Gerlach was yearning to get back into entrepreneurship. While at Cornell, Gerlach (pictured above, right) built and sold a food delivery startup alongside classmate Pedro Bobrow (pictured above, left), a Brazilian native. Then in late 2022, Gerlach and Bobrow (previously a product manager at Lyft) teamed up again, merging their sector expertise and cultural roots to launch Comp, an HR tech startup focused on Brazil....

Khosla’s Keith Rabois backs Comp, which wants to bolster HR teams with AI After graduating from Cornell University, Christophe Gerlach spent nearly two years investing exclusively in HR tech startups for General Atlantic. Investing was exciting, but Gerlach was yearning to get back into entrepreneurship. While at Cornell, Gerlach (pictured above, right) built and sold a food delivery startup alongside classmate Pedro Bobrow (pictured above, left), a Brazilian native. Then in late 2022, Gerlach and Bobrow (previously a product manager at Lyft) teamed up again, merging their sector expertise and cultural roots to launch Comp, an HR tech startup focused on Brazil....