RESEARCH SECTOR

Future of Work

Future Of Work

The way we work is changing rapidly. We’re interested in technologies that redefine where, how and when work is done, including workforce management and optimization as well as talent acquisition, development, and management platforms.

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Future Of Work

Key themes and focus areas

Our future-of-work focus encompasses tech companies that enable employers, individuals and broader society to optimize their returns on investments in people.

  • Talent acquisition
  • Learning & development
  • Talent management
  • Employee experience
  • Workforce planning
  • People analytics
  • Workforce management
  • Payroll
  • Benefits
  • Vendor management
  • Freelance management
  • Marketplaces

Our sector leaders

Corey Greendale
Corey Greendale
Managing Director, Office of the President

Jim Macdonald
James Macdonald
Managing Director

Richard Conklin
Richard Conklin
Managing Director

Matt Nicklin
Matthew Nicklin
Managing Director, Office of the President

Charles Morgan
Charles Morgan
Analyst

Featured insights and research reports

Fow 2023q4
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HR integration tech helps companies win the best-of-breed vs. suite battle

Corey Greendale, Charles Morgan

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Futureofwork 2022q3
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Large opportunity for employee coaching platforms helping win the war for talent

Corey Greendale, Christopher Tran

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Mentoring and coaching tech: Key to scaling learning and development
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Mentoring and coaching tech: Key to scaling learning and development

Corey Greendale

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Futureofwork 2021q4
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Freelance marketplaces an essential element of the future talent tech stack

Corey Greendale

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Futureofwork 2021q3
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COVID-19 is a lit match in the tinderbox of workforce globalization

Corey Greendale

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Futureofwork 2021q2
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Talent acquisition technology: New ammunition in the re-escalating war for talent

Corey Greendale

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Venture capital activities

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Visage

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Founded in 2016, Visage simplifies candidate sourcing and outreach so recruiters can focus on what really matters – their candidates. Visage creates a strong and diverse candidate pipeline so that employers can focus on interviewing and assessing talent rather than searching for it. Visage solves this through its crowdsourcing solution plus advanced AI, a combination that can find the best candidates for open roles in a matter of hours. Its community of over 4,000 global sourcers has access to millions of passive candidates.

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Perceptyx

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Since its founding in 2003, Perceptyx has been redefining the employee insights industry, delivering enterprise-level employee listening and people analytics to more than 400 clients, including nearly a third of the Fortune 100. With an unrivaled technology platform and a tailor-made, flexible approach, the Perceptyx platform makes it easy for managers, HR executives and business leaders to discover insights deep within large and complex organizations, driving meaningful action to improve business outcomes. Driven by a deep intellectual curiosity and a culture of innovation, Perceptyx is challenging the status quo — to help people and organizations “see the way forward.” Perceptyx acquired First Analysis portfolio company Waggl in 2021.

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Yello

Yello

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Yello

Yello’s early talent acquisition platform allows the world’s leading brands to deliver personalized candidate experiences to every job seeker, resulting in quality hires and faster fills. The centralized platform is easy to use, enabling recruiters to collaborate with one another to attract and engage top talent. Key hiring statistics provide meaningful insights that lead to more accurate, data-driven decisions while staying on budget.

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Relevant advisory transactions

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The Benefits Expert

Exclusive financial advisor

TBX

Has been acquired by Selerix

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Exclusive financial advisor

TBX has been acquired by Selerix

$0,000,000

First Analysis acted as the exclusive financial advisor to The Benefits eXpert® (TBX), an employee benefits technology company that offers an engagement, education and administrative platform, in its sale to Selerix, a provider of cloud-based benefits administration and communications solutions.

About TBX

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, TBX is transforming the workplace benefits enrollment and administrative landscape through innovative self-service technology. Its mobile-responsive platform streamlines engagement, education and enrollment, empowering employees to make informed benefits decisions. TBX combines behavioral science-based educational videos, a data-driven decision support tool, and bilingual English–Spanish capabilities to deliver clarity and accessibility. Employers gain a no-cost enrollment solution implemented in 45 days or less, with proactive data audits, seamless electronic data exchange, call center support, and exceptional customer service – offering significant administrative and financial relief. TBX is a trusted partner for organizations seeking efficient and impactful benefits management.

tbxbenefits.com

About Selerix

Selerix is an industry-leading benefits administration provider for both core and voluntary benefits. Its solution combines a flexible benefits admin platform with a commitment to providing best-in-class client service. In addition, the Selerix platform includes ACA reporting and employee engagement to deliver a fully featured, all-in-one package. Trusted by brokers, carriers, over 25,000 employer groups, and 14 million individuals, the Selerix mission is to deliver benefits administration solutions that actually benefit employees. 

selerix.com

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Exclusive financial advisor

ClearCompany

Has been acquired by Gemspring

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Exclusive financial advisor

ClearCompany has been acquired by Gemspring

$0,000,000


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About ClearCompany:

ClearCompany, a full-spectrum talent management platform, has enabled thousands of companies to maximize talent by empowering people at every stage of the employee journey. ClearCompany integrates data-driven best practices, expert-informed content and tailored software tools to recruit, ramp, recognize and retain employees, uniting people and processes to achieve business success.

www.clearcompany.com

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About Gemspring:

Gemspring Capital, a Westport, Conn.-based private equity firm with $3.5 billion of capital under management, provides flexible capital solutions to middle market companies. Gemspring partners with talented management teams and takes a partnership approach to helping drive revenue growth, value creation and sustainable competitive advantages. Target companies have up to $500 million in revenue in the aerospace and defense, business services, consumer, financial and insurance services, healthcare services, industrial services, software and tech-enabled services or specialty manufacturing sectors.

www.gemspring.com

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Exclusive financial advisor

Jellyvision

Has been acquired by Innovaccer

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Exclusive financial advisor

Jellyvision has acquired Picwell

$0,000,000


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About Jellyvision:

Jellyvision’s mission is to improve lives by helping people choose and use their benefits. The company’s platform, ALEX, provides employees with 24/7 benefits resources and guidance at key moments when they’re already thinking about their health and well-being. Through behavioral science, Jellyvision engages employees in a benefits experience that leads to smarter decision-making, more money saved, and increased trust in their employer.

www.jellyvision.com

About Picwell:

Picwell is a healthcare technology company providing enterprise solutions to enhance health insurance and employee benefits and improve consumer experiences. Its flagship offering, Picwell DX, is a SaaS-based decision support product that uses artificial intelligence to match individuals to the right health benefits during enrollment by predicting future care considerations, estimating out-of-pocket expenses, and accounting for individual preferences. Other solutions support consumerism and high-deductible health plan adoption, consumer engagement and risk management.

www.picwell.com

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Exclusive financial advisor

Selerix Systems

Investment by NexPhase Capital

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Exclusive financial advisor

Selerix Systems secured an investment by NexPhase Capital

$0,000,000


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About Selerix Systems:

Selerix Systems produces software (Selerix BenSelect and Selerix Engage) used by employers, brokers and carriers to conquer the chaos of benefits administration, employee engagement, and Affordable Care Act (ACA) reporting. The flexibility of the Selerix BenSelect platform accommodates both core and voluntary insurance products with ease. With an active user base of over 8.3 million client employees, Selerix’s innovative software solutions are trusted by organizations in a wide variety of industries, including healthcare, education, transportation/logistics, state and local government, nonprofit, high technology and waste management.

www.selerix.com

About NexPhase Capital:

NexPhase Capital is a thematic and operationally-focused private equity firm that invests in lower middle market growth-oriented companies within three distinct sectors: consumer, healthcare and software. The firm targets companies that have reached a growth inflection point and are seeking a value-added partner to help navigate the “next phase.” The NexPhase team has extensive industry and operational experience and NexPhase’s partners have invested together for over a decade. The firm has completed more than 80 investments including add-ons and targets control equity investments between $25 million and $150 million.

nexphase.com

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Investment banking and corporate finance services are provided through First Analysis Securities Corporation (“FASC” or “First Analysis Securities”), a subsidiary of First Analysis Corp.