Gusto宣布收购专注支持远程办公的初创企业Remote Team（土耳其）劳动力市场正在发生变化。越来越多的工人期望继续以远程方式工作，即使许多大雇主不愿意支持这一运动。这种大流行病拖得越久，未来的工作看起来就越是不同。正如TechCrunch所报道的那样，初创企业已经在未来的远程工作中投下了自己的一票，他们经常跨时区和跨地域地建立自己的早期团队。
这一趋势非常明显，我们看到私营科技公司正在进行收购，以更好地支持它。例如，今天上午，工资和人力资源供应商Gusto宣布，它正在收购Remote Team，一家专注于支持远程员工办公的创业公司。
作为其新闻的一部分，Gusto还宣布，它现在支持在80个国家支付承包商，并在美国所有50个州进行快速税务登记。
与Gusto不同，Remote Team是一家处于早期阶段的创业公司。例如，Crunchbase只有关于其历史和资本筹集的一丝数据。在Gusto首席执行官Josh Reeves看来，Remote Team大约处于创业的A轮阶段。撇开目前的筹资趋势不谈，这意味着这家较小的公司可能有客户，并且有一个刚刚起步的市场推广计划。
相比之下，根据Crunchbase的数据，Gusto已经筹集了近7亿美元的资金，最近在其账户中增加了1.75亿美元，估值略低于95亿美元。因此，用现在的话说，Gusto本质上是一个准IPO公司。
不管我们对目前后期独角兽市场的看法如何，Gusto可以为Remote Team提供一些简单地筹集更多资金所不能提供的东西，即规模。根据Remote Team首席执行官兼创始人Sahin Boydas的说法，将他的公司卖给Gusto是有意义的，因为它可以提供比筹集更多私人资金更多的全球企业足迹，而不是让初创公司自己去筹集。
博伊达斯表示，对更多国家的支持即将到来，这意味着Gusto支持国际招聘的能力在未来几个季度只会增长。
交易的条款没有披露，但Gusto的首席执行官确实表示，股权是交易的一个组成部分。稍微翻译一下，该交易是以股票和现金两种方式执行的。关于后者，里夫斯告诉TechCrunch，他的公司今年早些时候的E轮融资并不是为了资助公司的日常运营；Gusto在银行里还有前一轮的大部分资金。当你能筹集到额外的资金时，我们会补充说，当你想购买一些拥有技术或员工的小公司时，你想把它们添加到你目前的业务中。
如果Gusto在上市前再买一两家公司，我们不会感到完全震惊。（三家收购的公司分别是：首先是Ardius（一种基于人工智能的研发税收抵免解决方案）和Symmetry（工资基础设施技术的长期领导者），现在是RemoteTeam—）
在这方面，Gusto说它每年的增长速度约为50%，但没有分享更多信息。TechCrunch向Reeves追问关于其财务表现方面缺乏细节的问题，主要是好奇他为什么不在这个时候分享更多，因为我们希望在他的公司上市时能够回顾这段时间。正如我们向每一位CEO提出的问题一样，他的回答很有礼貌。
总结一下。Gusto专注于中小型企业，但这并不妨碍它看到对更多国际和州际招聘的需求，因此它正在调整其服务以满足这一需求。事实证明，看看Gusto与Rippling之间更大的竞争是如何进行的会很有趣。这两家公司有不和的历史，Rippling最近进行了自己的大型融资，以65亿美元的估值为其资金增加了2.5亿美元。
展望未来，我们很好奇Gusto和相关的私人技术公司是否会进入企业支出游戏，这是创业公司工作的另一个角落，在风险资本和市场需求方面都很丰富。你可以在一定程度上看到协同效应；Gusto希望帮助中小企业开始和经营他们的业务，无论他们或他们的工人在哪里。如果Gusto要帮助这些公司实现薪资管理，为什么不把另一类支出加入到这个组合中？
来自TC。我们也附录了Remote Team的对于本次收购的介绍，就不做翻译了
The story behind RemoteTeam and how a remote world became a reality.
10 years ago I moved to Silicon Valley, after many startups in Istanbul. Throughout these years and following, my startups were run with 100% remote teams. Since settling in Silicon Valley, I’ve met with over 500 investors, and raised from more than 50+ investors. For a long time, when I told investors we were a 100% remote team, most of them told me this was a bad idea. They told me many reasons why it was not a good plan: time zones, communication problems, lack of local creativity, etc. I even heard that remote work will not work. They gave me all the possible reasons why remote work was going to be my ultimate failure. Many people also told me that being a remote company was not going to bring in new investors and might, in fact, deter me from raising more capital. In addition, they told me I would be a company that nobody would want to acquire because larger companies mostly prefer local talent. These comments weren’t just from investors, but also from advisors, partners, and even other entrepreneurial friends of mine. I always felt defeated trying to explain all the benefits of remote work to my colleagues and community including investors. So I continued on knowing in my heart that this was the best approach to building a company and rarely mentioned this fact to investors unless necessary. I was content in going forward knowing my remote team approach was working and frankly, thriving.
RemoteTeam was an idea that came through the lifestyle of our founder Sahin Boydas. He was a remote entrepreneur in Silicon Valley who built and exited companies while working remotely. Sahin saw this trend of remote work, way before it became mainstream, and knew deep down it would become such an important factor for tech companies and competing large companies looking to have an edge against their competition.
Since the early days in Silicon Valley, the atmosphere has changed dramatically in relation to remote work. Investors, partners, advisors, and entrepreneurs now vehemently advocate for remote work, with many of the most successful unicorn companies embracing its advantages.
There’s so much interest and promotion of remote work, that it’s easy to see the 7 environmental factors that led to this boom in remote work culture:
📡 Better internet speed: high-speed internet made a remote living and work possible
🛠️ Tools like Slack and Zoom: platforms allowing group communication and ways to collaborate effectively and efficiently
🏞️ Inadequate and expensive talent in Silicon Valley
💵 The high cost of living in Silicon Valley:💡Thousands of resources and boot camps, which sparked the “self-taught” developer trend and made more talent available around the world: explosive self-taught programs allow anyone in any country to learn on their own given the boot camps guidance.
👩🏿💻 The rise of open source and rise of working together to build software: shared technology platforms allow for better collaboration and sharing of resources for engineers globally..
Remote work is now extensive. Covid expedited many trends in their infancy, and remote work happened to be one of these micro-trends that became completely necessary during Covid and beyond. We also see a more general trend of “talent is everywhere”. It is evolving faster, easier, and cheaper to become a software engineer. Silicon Valley itself cannot provide enough workers for the demand for talent. The number of disruptive startups in multiple categories is growing exponentially, further breaking down the limited resources like engineers required to succeed.
In a short period of time, RemoteTeam grew rapidly. Our team has reached 40 employees and thousands of users. Our dynamic team of 100% Turkish software developers and RemoteTeam's CTO Adam Dilek, who empowers and this team with his many years of experience, are what underlies RemoteTeam's rapid success.
We raised a seed round from notable investors such as Active Capital (lead), Larry Braitman, Adam Nash, Jude Gomila, CapitalX - Cindy Bi, Minal Hasan, IT-Farm, and many others. RemoteTeam became a prominent player in the remote work industry.
【收购】微软宣布收购OKR公司Ally.io，以便增强其员工体验平台Viva
来自微软官方的信息：
我们很高兴地宣布，微软已经收购了Ally.io，以帮助彻底改变企业如何使用技术，在混合世界中为工作、目的和结果带来更深的联系。Ally.io是一家领先的OKR（目标和关键结果）公司，将加入微软Viva大家庭，成为我们员工体验平台（EXP）的一部分，旨在帮助企业拥抱新的数字工作生活。
将员工的工作与公司的战略任务和核心优先事项相结合是每个组织的首要任务。要做到这一点，领导者需要投资于那些围绕公司的大赌注进行透明沟通的工具，并创造方法在组织的各个层面上层层递进理想的目标和报告结果。当团队看到他们是如何产生影响的时候，员工就会更加投入，更加专注，更加有动力去实现公司的发展和他们自己的个人成就。
灵活性和远程工作一直很重要，但做有意义工作的愿望也很重要。向混合型工作的转变使得保持每个领导者、团队和个人的一致性并按照相同的节奏前进更具挑战性。Ally.io有助于让组织中的每个人对整个工作流程保持可见性和清晰性，将日常工作与公司的战略目标联系起来。
OKR类别是一个快速增长的新兴领域。Ally.io作为市场上最受欢迎的工具之一，正在引领潮流。客户发现Ally.io的体验很灵活，易于使用，能快速实现价值。他们欣赏其与现有工作系统的广泛整合。自2018年推出以来，Ally.io已被80多个国家的1000多家领先的高科技、制造业、金融服务和医疗保健企业采用。
Ally.io将为一个新的微软Viva模块提供动力。Viva是一个员工体验平台，它汇集了沟通、知识、学习、资源和洞察力--从你工作的任何地方。在Microsoft 365和Microsoft Teams的支持下，Viva帮助企业培养一种人际关系、成长、幸福和成功的文化。今天，Viva有四个相连的模块--连接、洞察、主题和学习--在工作流程中提供了一个具有智能和可操作洞察力的整体体验。我们期待着将Ally.io带入Viva大家庭。
Ally.io和微软Viva将丰富人们和团队的合作方式，以建立一致性并实现更好的业务成果。明年，我们将进行投资，把Ally.io引入微软云，发展与微软团队的现有整合，并把Ally.io纳入Viva、Office、Power BI和更广泛的微软365应用和服务。在此之前，现有客户可以继续期待同样出色的支持和服务，而新客户可以继续通过Ally.io购买现有服务。在我们将Ally.io引入微软云的过程中，我们坚定地致力于为所有客户实现平稳过渡。
我们欢迎Ally.io团队加入微软! 我们很高兴有机会帮助客户推动任务调整，并为员工体验带来更多意义和成就感。
关于Ally.io。
Ally.io是一个目标管理和业务执行平台，它将整个公司正在进行的工作与对其成功至关重要的结果联系起来。它使用OKR框架将每个员工的项目和关键成果与公司最重要的目标联系起来。这使得团队能够快速识别风险，主动发现机会，保持对其最大优先事项的协调关注。公司全面的专业服务提供持续的支持、专门的培训和辅导，以确保实施和成功变革管理的最佳实践。自2018年推出以来，Ally.io已被公认为OKR领域的G2人群领导者，赢得了GeekWire梦寐以求的 "年度最佳创业公司 "奖，并被Discord、BambooHR、Remitly、Ticketmaster、TripAdvisor等数百家领先机构采用。
今年2月份：
【美国】OKR公司Ally.io获5000万美元C轮融资，2020年业绩增长3倍
以下是其CEO Vetri Vellore 对于收购的介绍：
We launched Ally.io in 2018 with the mission to bring purpose, happiness, and productivity to work. It is incredible to see that in less than three years, we have grown to 1,000+ customers in 80+ countries and a team of 250+ amazing people.
Today, I’m thrilled to share a major milestone in that journey with you:
Ally.io has been acquired by Microsoft!
Our mission and focus on delighting customers remains the same, while our ability to scale that mission will increase dramatically as we become a key component of the Microsoft Viva platform. As a part of Viva, we’re excited to continue shaping the future of work, now with the power of the most important technology company in the business sector behind us.
Thank you for joining us on this journey
I am grateful to our customers, investors, partners, and team for choosing to trust and support us on this journey.
And what a journey it has been! In less than three years, Ally.io has enabled customers to create over a million OKRs, we were named Geekwire’s Startup of the Year in 2020, we were a finalist for Next Tech Titan in 2021 (which…is technically true now, right?), and we’ve been a G2 Crowd leader every quarter for over a year now. Thank you again for your support, feedback, and trust.
We’re only getting started
As a part of Microsoft Viva, Ally.io will continue to give leaders, teams, and individuals the ability to align and focus everyday work to the company’s most important objectives. We will help bring goals and purpose to wherever the team is doing work, including Teams, Outlook, Slack, and the other systems you use every day. Over the coming months, we’ll share more details about the exciting new features and integrations.
For a preview into the exciting future for Ally.io as a part of the Viva family, please read the Microsoft announcement.
If you’re an Ally.io customer, you can still expect the same great team, product, and experience you’ve come to trust. We’ve put together some resources for your account admin that can be found here.
If you’re not yet an Ally.io customer, I hope this news provides an additional incentive to start or turbocharge your OKR journey with us. Let us know if you’d like to start a free trial or request a full demo from one of our product experts.
Thank you for being a part of our journey; we’re proud to enable yours and excited to accelerate our mission to bring purpose, happiness, and productivity to businesses around the world for years to come!
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