We are excited to announce today our Series A investment in Shyft.
Since investing in Shyft’s seed round nearly two years ago, we have watched Brett Patrontasch (CEO) and team continue to make impressive progress against their goal of reinventing the way hourly workers manage their shifts and the way national employers both manage and support their workforce.
We originally met Brett through our involvement and support of the TechStars program. Shyft taps into our love of supporting scrappy entrepreneurs using technology to change people’s lives for the better. Through a mobile cloud connected application, Shyft enables a workforce that has little control over their schedule to take control by easily swapping shifts. Shyft started as a ground up platform that appealed to workers at Starbucks and many other retail chains, and, over the past two years, managers have taken note.
Shyft has responded by creating an enterprise software solution that enables retail outlets to manage their workforce while providing the flexibility that employees value.
This all comes at a crucial time in how the expectations of the modern workforce are changing and along with that, the move to create rules that protect this growing workforce. Cities and legislatures around the country are taking a close look via Secure Scheduling (also known as Predictive Scheduling) at how these hourly workers are scheduled – and creating protections that require some stability of schedule. This is a great thing, and as companies are required to support these regulations they need solutions like Shyft.
The proof is in the customers – and Gap has adopted the Shyft platform as their workforce management platform for all of their brands – Old Navy, Banana Republic, Althleta. Companies such as the Gap are adopting Shyft because the app creates real collaboration amongst employees which helps with productivity and general satisfaction.
We are investing alongside Ignition Partners for this round and it is great to work with them again.
The team’s relentless focus on product and end user experience is inspiring and is winning them new customers every day. Brett and his team are extremely passionate about the market and their product and we believe that they’ve created a game changing company poised for continued success.
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