With over €1.5B under management, Partech invests from €200K to €50M in B2B and B2C technologies reshaping industries. With a portfolio of almost 180 companies spread across 30 countries in Europe, the US, Africa, and Asia, Partech has been one of the leading international investors helping visionary founders for almost 40 years. We are thrilled to have been supporting them from Day 1 and look forward to the global expansion ahead.” This massive adoption is the best tribute to the incredible work done by Sean, Barry and the entire Blink team. In just a year, Blink has already been adopted by more than 60,000 enterprise users in the UK, US and Australia who open the Blink app more than 15 times per day on average. It’s for the millions of essential nurses, bus drivers, construction workers or supply chain operators that run the economy. Most organisations have realised during this crisis how much they depend on their frontline employees.
Peter Durkin, Business Development, Blink adds, “Just as Zoom’s growth has been bullish amongst desk-based workers in lockdown, Blink has been explosive amongst deskless workers particularly in the transport, health and care sectors.”įurther, Romain Lavault, General Partner, Partech says, “Blink is the digital backbone of companies who run the real world and don’t sit behind a computer. The organisations that will survive and thrive in the next decade will be those who put their frontline first.” We believe if you empower and equip those on the frontline, they are best positioned to make a difference. “We started Blink to make it easy to empower workers wherever they are with information at their fingertips but also have a voice in improving day-to-day operations. Every worker needs instant access to the latest information around staying safe, a voice for feeding back to management, and the capability to support their peers on the frontline.” Now more than ever they need empowering with better tools so they can effectively perform their essential roles. The whole deskless workforce has been starved of investment. Sean Nolan, CEO, Blink comments, “The COVID-19 crisis has underlined the critical role that frontline and key workers play in our society.
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With a 14 day free trial, 24/7 support, and a 100 day money-back guarantee, companies can connect their entire workforces today. The London-based startup is now opening up the platform so any company can get started immediately with a simple online set-up process via the company website. April saw the company growing at the fastest pace yet, as companies adopted Blink as part of their COVID-19 response, with the highest growth in the Healthcare and Care Home sectors. Demand for their service has required a further recruitment drive, with plans to double in size again this summer. So far in 2020, the Blink team has doubled in size and opened offices in Sydney and New York. In recognition of their new approach to transforming frontline culture, Blink won three ‘Digital Workplace of the Year’ awards last year in the USA, UK and Australia, against competition from Microsoft, Google and Facebook. The startup has been able to double employee engagement rates and the dropped staff turnover by up to 26 per cent. Delivers tangible results for its customers Crucially, it supports employees who were previously disconnected from the workplace it gives them a voice to feedback to managers it protects them through reducing transference risks from paper by introducing digital forms. The Blink app allows companies to push out information to employees’ personal phones, like wellbeing & compliance messages, including COVID-19 updates. Two months into the lockdown, Blink had been accessed 25 million times by frontline workers. Since then, Blink has been deployed in over 100 organisations in 14 countries including customers such as the NHS and the Prison Service.
Employees can access rosters, complete digital forms for leave, absence and accidents, access digital payslips and feedback in real-time to managers on issues and concerns impacting them.