The Logos Fund's Future of Remote Tools Report 2021

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The Logos Fund's Future of Remote Tools Report 2021

The 2021 Q1 Remote Tools Report by The Logos Fund

Shane Mac

Chris Herd

Clarke Coles

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The

Logos Fund⁠

invest in founders building startups defining remote work globally. We invest $50k-$100k in the earliest stages of your company. The rolling fund is managed by

Shane Mac⁠

Chris Herd⁠

. This report was researched and written by our intern

Clarke Coles⁠

. If you’re interested in becoming an LP, you can join here:

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. If you are a founder looking for a partner on your cap table, email us

hi@logoslabs.com⁠

. We may be investors in some companies mentioned below.

Welcome to our 1st Annual Future of Remote Work Report.

Thanks to

Lemonly⁠

for helping us design the report. We plan to keep this database updated so you’ll always have a place to find, sort, and understand what’s happening in this space.

150+ companies, pricing breakdowns, and noteworthy features

Instead of just a logo salad report, we wanted to make this list much more useful. We decided to focus on areas that don’t always get talked about and break them down for each company:

Noteworthy features

Pricing info & breakdown

If you have company or category suggestions, please send us an email here:

hi@logoslabs.com⁠

2021 has begun, and as we look back at 2020, it was a year of resiliency.

We faced many challenges, including most notably COVID-19.

The implication? Acceleration of remote work by 15 years.

Something many people became aware of is how many precious hours they lost commuting to work every day. Hours that could've gone to watching a child’s first steps, self-care, or learning new skills! Instead, these hours were spent traveling to and from work. As unfortunate as COVID-19 was and continues to be, one bright spot did appear from the darkness: remote work.

Remote work allows anyone to work productively from anywhere, not just from home. Through remote work, employees have more freedom with their lives and suffer less from burnout. But hey, don’t believe a bias opinion coming from someone who works for a fund that invests in remote work enabling tools, believe the data. According to a survey by

Flex Jobs⁠

, 66% of workers would prefer to work remotely full-time after the quarantine, 33% of workers would prefer a hybrid model (half remote and half in office), and less than 2% of workers are interested in working full-time in an office again. This is a massive shift.

Beyond the data from workers, companies can benefit by embracing this trend too. By enabling remote work: companies can hire the best workers, cut costs on office spaces, and increase efficiencies in workers.

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Teleworkers are an average of 35-40% more productive than their office counterparts and have measured an output increase of at least 4.4%⁠

With the advancement of technology, remote work has never been more doable. The few companies that are averse to remote work fear that they cannot create the same culture or manage their employees. But with new startups emerging every day, and the daily increase of major companies who are shifting to this new model, it might be harder or different, but it’s going to happen so we should all work together to figure it out.

Remote work is here to stay. With that being the case, we want to share tools, ideas, and companies that can help everyone work remotely better. The best part about this list being built on

Coda⁠

is that as we update companies and categories, this is always being updated automatically.

Quick note: This is by no means a complete and exhaustive list of remote work tools. We are going to go deep on a few areas that we left out of this report such as: documents, databases, infrastructure, and a lot more. These are some of the categories that we believe are quickly changing how we work. This list will be updated frequently with more companies, and even more areas. Dig into the master database at the top, feel free to sort, copy, or take the data. Click on any company below to see all of the information.

Enjoy our top 18 areas driving the remote work movement:

Messaging

Messaging is essential, and since remote workers are not in an office, companies must implant the correct tools. Slack, WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams are all currently dominating this area; however, Loom is one of our favorite tools to use.

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SuperNormal⁠

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An asynchronous communication tool with video and screen recording capabilities suitable for remote teams.

Provides transcripts for video messaging

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Slack⁠

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An enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.

Slackbot, a tool that helps streamline tasks

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Microsoft Teams⁠

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Hub for team collaboration in Microsoft 365 that integrates the people, content, and tools your team needs to be more engaged.

Who bot, a tool that helps users find organizational information

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Flock⁠

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A real-time messaging and collaboration app for teams that speeds up and simplifies communication and boosts productivity.

Great video quality

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Loom⁠

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A work communication tool that enables its users to get a message across instantly shareable videos.

Async screencasting

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Whatsapp⁠

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A proprietary, cross-platform, free instant messaging subscription service for smartphones.

Free international messaging

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Workplace by Facebook⁠

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An enterprise connectivity platform developed by Facebook, Inc. and includes the use of groups, instant messaging and a news feed.

Amazing search feature

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Video Communication

The other part of communication: Video Communication, is just as equally important if not more! Picking up on non-verbal cues that were once easy to pick-up, are now a challenge for remote workers. But once again, with new startups launching every day, it’s impossible to say that there aren’t solutions out there. Zoom, Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams are all currently dominating the Video Communication area!

Zoom

A software company that offers a communications platform that connects people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing.

Support for up to 1,000 video partipants

Microsoft Teams

Hub for team collaboration in Microsoft 365 that integrates the people, content, and tools your team needs to be more engaged.

Allows participants to use a whiteboard feature during meetings

Google Hangouts

Communications service that allows members to initiate and participate in text, voice or video chats.

Intelligent muting

Cisco Webex

An engaging, highly interactive way to meet face-to-face with colleagues, partners and customers over an IP network.

Great security

KUDO

Communications service that provides users real time interpretations, so everyone can speak in their native tongue.

Allows users to speak in native tongue and translates it for others who may speak a different language

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Scheduling

With the rise of never-ending Zoom calls, remote workers must be familiar with Scheduling apps. Calendly, Acuity, Doodle, are all amazing scheduling apps. X.ai is a company that I have been blown away by, and I’m curious to see how they grow within the next 5-10 years.

Calendly

An automated scheduling tool that takes the work out of connecting with others so that its users can accomplish more.

Connects with up to six calendars to automically check availability

Doodle

The simplest way to schedule meetings with clients, colleagues, or friends. Meet one-on-one or with your whole team.

Great for group meetings

X.ai

A tool that helps you and your team share ideal availability and schedule meetings.

Personal AI assistants that communicate with those trying to schedule meetings

Woven

An intelligent calendar to manage your schedule and get the most out of your meetings.

Provides analytics of meetings

Acuity Scheduling

A provider of online appointment scheduling software for businesses.

Supports Paypal, Square, and Stripe

Undock

A software company that helps people instantly schedule, host, and document meetings.

Predictive Scheduling

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Team Engagement

Bringing an office like feel & finding ways to engage with employees could be extremely hard if we didn’t live in the 21st Century. But, in this current age of technology, there are plenty of Team Engagement tools to choose from.

NickNack

Tiktok for companies

Provides an interactive newsfeed

Pando

Career frameworks to structure, measure, and accelerate employee growth.

Achievement tracking

Eye Level

Instagram stories for companies.

Share stories to brainstorm with team

Branch.gg

Physical spaces, remotely.

Engage by voice, video chat, and screen share

Loop Team

A virtual office for distributed teams to help them communicate faster, capture and share discussions, and stay more connected — stay in the loop.

Offers both engagement tools and management tools

Sococo

An online workplace where distributed teams come to work together each day, side-by-side.

Engage by voice, video chat, and screen share

Pragli

A virtual office platform for remote teams with a virtual water cooler, avatars, and fast conversations.

Icebreakers, great way for teams to bulid closeness

Tandem

Virtual office for remote teams.

Engage by voice, video chat, and screen share

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Project Management

Making sure that employees are fulfilling their obligations and are not suffering from burnout is important. Monday, Wrike, and Loop Team are all currently dominating the Project Management area of remote work.

Monday

A Work OS, where teams create and shape workflow apps, code free - to run any process and project.

Offers CRM

Loop Team

A virtual office for distributed teams to help them communicate faster, capture and share discussions, and stay more connected — stay in the loop.

Offers both engagement tools and management tools

Murmur

Create, test, scale, and share working agreements for everything from a new meeting format, to an important process, to the roles and rights within the team itself

Asana

A computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity.

Free collaboration for up to 15 users

Trello

A visual collaboration tool that creates a shared perspective on any project.

Organize projects using kanban boards

Friday

Automate checkins and workflows for individuals and teams

Wrike

A work management platform for managing cross-functional work and enables contextual collaboration in a secure environment.

Real time reporting

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Virtual Events

Virtual Events are essential for remote workers. Attending workshops, networking, and socializing are all important for remote workers.

Hopin

A live virtual events platform that enables attendees to connect, learn, and interact with people anywhere.

Deep analytics and user data for lead generation and marketing objectives

Social27

A virtual events platform powered by a recommendation engine enables highly personalized learning, networking, lead generation & analytics.

Personalized Virtual Events

Tocca

A virtual event solution focussed on demand generation for B2B companies that want to engage with prospects and customers.

Provides interactives games for attendees

Remo

A video-first virtual workspace for remote teams that fosters real-time collaboration and strengthens company culture.

None

Go Remote

Physical spaces, remotely.

Run rehearsals to ensure virtual events go as planned

Airmeet

An all-in-one events platform for virtual summits, meetups, and workshops that includes virtual social lounges for networking.

Multi-speaker sessions

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Talent Marketplaces

Hiring quality workers cannot be looked-over! As technology is advancing, so has the future of hiring, with the birth of Talent Marketplaces.

Assemble

Flexible talent matching platform.

Toptal

A global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on demand.

Top talent through a rigorous testing and vetting process

G2i

G2i is a hiring community for JS engineers focused on React & React Native.

No risk trial

Thumbtack

An online marketplace that connects millions of people with local professionals for their projects.

Free cost estimates

Upwork

Marketplace, connecting millions of businesses with independent talent around the globe.

A professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.

Squared Away

Hire military spouses as executive & personal assistants.

Personal assistants that assist with everything

AngelList

A marketplace for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.

Fiverr

A marketplace for creative and professional services.

Jopwell

A digital recruiting platform that connects your recruiters with diverse professionals and students.

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Global Payroll

Since remote work is literally remote work, companies can hire the best workers no matter where they live. As a result of that, a worker may or may not be in the same country as their employee, which leads to a need for Global Payroll companies.

Remote

Provides international payroll, benefits, and compliance services for distributed employees and contractors.

Self-service onboarding

Deel

A payroll and compliance platform for international employees and contractors.

Customized hiring contracts

Panther

Global payroll infrastucture

10+ payment methods

Finch

Universal API for Payroll and HR

Make changes across payroll and HR systems through a single API

Papaya Global

Provides a cloud-based HR and payroll platform for global workforce management.

Managae payroll, EoR, and contractors

Oyster

A human resource platform designed for globally-distributed companies

Self-service onboarding

Boundless

The employment platform for your international team.

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e-Learning

Working isn’t the only area of life going remote, learning is also transitioning to E-learning.

ClassEdu

The OS for Zoom Schools

Interactive Learning

Teachable

A venture-backed company that allows anyone to create and sell online courses.

Instructors have full control

Udemy

An online learning platform that helps students, companies, and governments gain the skills they need to reach their goals.

Purposeful Marketing for instructors

Parthean

Patreon for educators

Allows for quick learning

Blackboard

Provides enterprise technology and innovative solutions that enhance teaching and learning methods.

None

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Coaching

Receiving coaching is an area of remote work that is bound to boom.

Practice

Launch and manage your coaching business, instantly.

Provides invoices and monthly subscriptions in seconds

TrueCoach

A personal training platform built for people to save time and grow businesses.

Connect with other coaches to grow

CoachAccountable

A coaching software platform.

Provides analytics

Vagaro

An all in-one software solution for health and wellness coaches, life coaches, sports coaches and business coaches.

Assist in marketing

My PT Hub

An online web and mobile app, enabling personal trainers & fitness professionals to manage their clients.

Connects with Apple Watch to track slient workouts

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The different areas of remote work aren't exclusive to companies like Zoom, Airmeet, and Monday. It also includes companies that are going to make the life of remote workers easier. The 2nd- 3rd tier effects of remote work, as just as important as the 1st tier effects. (For more insight,

here⁠

is Chris Herd’s thread about the different areas and effects of remote working)

Health

Health is an essential component of remote work, as workers have to be in their best mental and physical condition to work. Being able to attend doctor’s appointments or having therapy sessions, via video or text while being at home is going to make life a lot easier for remote workers.

Talkspace

An online therapy startup that offers confidential therapy with a network of licensed therapists.

Covered by many Insurance plans

Betterhelp

An online counseling platform that connects its members to licensed therapists.

Async Therapy + Sync Therapy

Solv

Simplifies everyday healthcare by providing access to high quality, last-minute care.

Wide variety of servicers

Doxy me

Simple, free, and secure telemedicine solution

Whiteboard function

AMC Health

Transforming healthcare delivery with real-time virtual care through remote patient monitoring.

Real time updates

Coa

An online emotional fitness studio for live classes and one-on-one therapy.

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Virtual Marketplaces

Remote working has caused an increase in the ability for accessibility. This is evident by Amazon doubling their net profit during Q2 2020, the BOOM of Instacart, and the demand for same-day delivery options for retailers from consumers. Virtual Marketplaces are rising and show no signs of slowing down.

Amazon

Technology company, which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

Offers a membership account, which includes music, movies, and express shipping

Etsy

E-commerce website focused on handmade or vintage items and craft supplies.

Offers handmade and vintage products

Ebay

E-commerce corporation that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website.

Competitive auctioning

Alibaba

Technology company specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet, and technology.

Connects sellers and buyers

Offerup

Marketplace focused on connecting local sellers and local buyers

Matches users based on interests

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Grooming and Personal Care

With countless Virtual Meetings throughout the day, remote workers are prioritizing how they look on screen. Grooming/Personal Care companies are going to play a vital role in the life of remote workers. Having the ability to receive a haircut or even a massage in the sanity of your own home is attractive and will lead to more efficiencies in workers.

Squire

Offers a barbershop management and POS/Booking mobile application that connects barbers and clients nationwide.

Great interaction between Customer and Barber

theCut

Mobile platform connecting mens groomers and clients

Integrated with Square Pay

Zeel

Delivers on-demand massage from vetted therapists.

Offers massage items

Shortcut

On-demand hair services, massages, manicures and more for the home and office.

Offered for Social Gatherings

Soothe

An on-demand wellness platform that brings wellness and self-care services directly to you--at home or at work.

Supports Beauty, Hair, Skincare, and Massage

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Life Changing

The Life-Changing area includes companies that are currently trendsetters and are creating products/services that we never knew we needed.

Pristeem

Peloton for Laundry

Washes clothes quickly

Switchyards

The country’s first neighborhood work club.

Free coffee throughout day

Modern Animal

An innovative veterinary platform building a new kind of veterinary experience for animals and humans.

Offers virtual and in office visits

Salut

Trainer-led workouts remotely

Donations are bulit into the app

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e-Sports

The age of kids playing outside is now over, and what is now beginning is the age of E-Sports (yes, it’s a real sport). With games like Fortnite, 2k, Modern Warfare, Leagues of Legends, and more it’s no wonder why big companies like Amazon and Microsoft are trying to exert dominance.

Twitch

A social video platform for gamers where more than 100 million gather every month to broadcast, watch and talk about video games.

Edits videos that may infriges on copyright, so that they can still stay posted

Youtube Gaming

A social media platform for gamers to upload video games, interact, and watch.

Great algorithm to search for videos

Caffeine

A new kind of broadcast company focused on the creation and distribution of live, interactive content.

None

Facebook Gaming

Watch live video game streams from popular creators on Facebook.

Mobile gamesplay

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Video Highlights

An area that is on the rise is Video Highlights. Creating video highlights of meetings is going to be essential and limitless in its forms of use!

Soopah Genius

Software company that allows users to make meaningful stories from materials they already have.

Quickly highlights notablable gameplay highlights

CLIPr

Applies imperfect AI and machine learning to process and personalize video session recordings.

Personalized recaps

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Subscriptions

A huge area powering the creator economy is subscriptions. Building off of the Kevin Kelly concept of 1000 True Fans, these tools are really allowing people to make a living online doing what they love.

Supercast

Supercast makes podcast monetization simple: It's the easiest way to turn your listeners into paid members and unlock sustainable, recurring revenue.

Substack

Substack is a place for independent writing. Subscribe directly to writers you trust.

ConvertKit

ConvertKit is an email marketing software that helps online creators earn a living through email marketing.

Medium

Medium is a social publishing network that connects ideas and perspectives on topics that matter.

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Ghost

Professional, modern, open source publishing

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Companies Who Allow Remote Work

Finally, we wanted to end our list with Companies Who Allow Remote Work. Although some of these companies may not have remote products/services that directly affect remote work, these companies have seen the future and have announced that they will be supporting a remote way of working going forward. This might be the category that we are most excited about.

Trello

A visual collaboration tool that creates a shared perspective on any project.

Organize projects using kanban boards

YAC

An asynchronous voice messaging platform for remote teams.

Doist

Productivity Software

Gitlab

A web-based open source Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features and built-in CI/CD.

OKTA

A management platform that secures critical resources from cloud to ground for workforce and customers.

An online platform that enables users to submit links, create content, and have discussions about the topics of their interest.

Zapier

Allows its users to easily connect and automate the apps they use.

Buffer

Social media management software for growing brands.

Twitter

A social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.

Shopify

A cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses.

Infosys

A provider of consulting, technology, and outsourcing, and next-generation services.

Slack

An enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses of all sizes to communicate effectively.

Slackbot, a tool that helps streamline tasks

Stripe

A developer-oriented commerce company helping small and large companies accept web and mobile payments.

Hubstaff

Provides staff monitoring through time tracking software.

Parabol

An online meeting tool that helps scrum masters and other leaders conduct powerful guided retrospectives.

Hubspot

Develops cloud-based, inbound marketing software that allows businesses to transform the way that they market online.

Commsor

A community control center – powerful analytics, automations, and engagement tools for world-class community management.

Basecamp

A private, secure space online where people working together can organize and discuss.

Graphy

A data collaboration platform that creates channels for projects, clients, departments, and partners.

Automattic

Develops publishing platforms, including the WordPress.com website and the VIP WordPress.com cloud version.

Figma

A collaborative interface design tool that enables the entire team’s design process to happen in one online tool.

DigitalOcean

A cloud computing platform that provides a cloud platform to deploy, manage, and scale applications of any size.

FirstBase HQ

An all-in-one remote team management platform.

Amazon

Technology company, which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

Offers a membership account, which includes music, movies, and express shipping

Nationwide

An insurance and financial services company.

Paypal

A financial service company that provides online payment solutions to its users worldwide.

Drift

Use conversations to make business buying frictionless, more enjoyable, and more human.

Facebook

An online social networking service that enables its users to connect with friends and family.

Coinbase

A digital currency wallet service that allows traders to buy and sell bitcoin.

Adobe

Provides digital media and digital marketing solutions.

Capital One

An American bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings accounts.

Aetna

A diversified health care benefits company, provides individuals and many others with innovative benefits, products, and services.

Ancestry

A website enabling users to create their own family tree and help them discover, preserve and share their family history.

Gartner

Provides fact-based consulting services, helping clients use and manage IT to enhance business performance.

Mastercard

Provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.

Microsoft

An American multinational technology company.

Salesforce

An American cloud-based software company.

Square

A merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.

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