February 7, 2021
Florent Crivello, the Parisian founder of virtual office startup Teamflow, is fond of saying that remote work is missing a certain
He felt that acutely one day in 2018, when he had to handle a crisis as the head of a remote team. Crivello was a product manager for Uber Works at the time, and the platform had just suffered a major outage. He spent the day in a flurry of video calls trying to contain the chaos. By the time he logged off for the night, he was exhausted, alone, and felt like crying.
“I realized what made that moment so painful was the absence of presence,” Crivello said. Two years later when the pandemic hit and many workers suddenly found themselves alone, exhausted, and on the edge of tears he left Uber and founded Teamflow, a company created to help remote teams feel a sense of being together with their colleagues.
Teamflow lands $3.9 million for a productive virtual HQ platform
After a year of video calls and Slack messages, the definition of workplace is set to shift again. In a post-pandemic world, some will return to the office, many will remain remote and regardless of where an employee sits, Florent Crivello, the founder of Teamflow, has raised millions for what he views as a trillion-dollar idea to make their work day easier.
Teamflow, formerly Huddle, is creating a virtual headquarters to help distributed teams collaborate and communicate from a singular platform. The startup, which has been in private beta for six months, today announced it has raised $3.9 million in a seed financing round led by Menlo Ventures’ Naomi Ionita.