$5.3m Series A To Make Work Management EASY for EVERYONE - Tobias Hagenau (Awork) | Startup Scout
Description
Tobias is a co-founder and the CEO of awork, a work management tool based in Hamburg. With over a decade of experience in software development and team planning, Tobias and his team are dedicated to revolutionise the way teams work. Although Tobias holds a degree in mechanical engineering, his true passion lies in entrepreneurship and team culture. He firmly believes that we can improve our lives by improving work and how we interact with it. Currently, awork is helping over 2,200 teams to work better and happier together.
awork builds software to help teams work better and happier together.
Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction
0:26 - Tobi’s background
03:07 - Founding team
04:12 - awork origin story
05:04 - MVP of awork
07:50 - Private Equity carve out
09:21 - Problem space
11:32 - Market size
14:31 - awork as more than just software
16:44 - Remote / hybrid work
19:40 - Where remote / hybrid goes wrong
21:49 - How it works
24:29 - Product prioritisation
27:03 - Integrations
28:43 - Customer characteristics
31:41 - Approach to Sales
33:59 - Series A
36:21 - Job openings
37:53 - Partnership opportunities
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Guest & Company info
Startup - awork
Startup's site - https://www.awork.io/en/
Founder - Tobias Hagenau
Founder's LinkedIn - https://de.linkedin.com/in/tobiashagenau
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