https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/02/flip-a-popular-chat-app-for-frontline-workers-raises-30m-as-it-passes-1m-users/

More than 80% of the world’s workforce, some 2.7 billion people, do not spend their days in front of computers, and that has led to a strong disparity when it comes to technology, with some 1% of IT investment targeting them as users. That’s been changing very rapidly with the rise of smartphones and apps, and today, one of the startups that’s seen its business boom as a result of that trend is announcing some funding to jump on the opportunity.

Flip, which makes a communications app for frontline workers to chat with each other, to get communications from management, and to carry out HR activities like swapping shifts, has raised $30 million. The startup — based out of Stuttgart, Germany, and used primarily in the German-speaking DACH region — will be using the funding to break into new markets, starting with the UK, CEO and founder Benedikt Ilg said.