A SaladStop employee uses StaffAny to clock in
EmployeeAny, a management platform for SMBs with shift workers, has raised $3.4 million in Series A led by GGV Capital. The round included participation from East Ventures, FreakOut Shinsei Fund, Far East Ventures, Farquhar Venture Capital and angel investors including Allen Shim, former CFO of Slack. The round will be used to expand into additional markets and develop new features for StaffAny’s platform, which currently operates in seven countries including Singapore, where it is based, Malaysia and Indonesia. This brings the startup’s total to $4.2 million.
Co-founder Janson Seah told TechCrunch that StaffAny is used by companies with more than 30 employees and serves customers ranging from single branch offices to chains with more than 1,000 employees. “While we serve smaller businesses perfectly, there is much greater value for SMBs with scaling aspirations where work processes need to be streamlined with data and transparency,” he said.
Before jumping onto the platform, many of StaffAny’s customers, primarily in the F&B or retail sectors, used spreadsheets, punch cards, or apps that didn’t sync rosters, payroll, and vacation management the way StaffAny does. The software offers both management and employees the opportunity to communicate in real time.
Its features include an online roster that allows managers to view staffing schedules for different branches and forecast where workers might be needed and forecast labor costs for the next week. Empty shifts are scheduled automatically and employees are immediately informed of changes to their working hours or additional shift requests. They can clock in and out with their smartphones through StaffAny, replacing punch cards or manual logins, and adjustments to payroll are made automatically as their hours change. Both employees and management can view timesheets so errors can be spotted. That means fewer disputes over payslips.
Other features of StaffAny include features for processing vacation requests and tracking employee work performance in the event of an audit. To adapt to the pandemic, features for contact tracing, test reminders or vaccination status have also been added, depending on each country’s regulations.
In a statement, GGV Capital’s Global Managing Partner, Jixun Foo, said: “Despite F&B being the industry hardest hit by COVID-19, StaffAny has seen strong growth and unprecedented adoption among SMEs, a testament to its product and resilience his leadership team. SMB Tech is a sector in which GGV invests globally. We look forward to working with StaffAny as they expand and scale.”
