Your FLOCK, a remote work tech听startup听that helps increase employee engagement by discovering a team鈥檚 core values, has secured 拢240,000 from GC Angels and a private angel to bolster its development team and scale the product鈥檚 growth.听听
Based on pioneering methodology from Stanford University and the University of Manchester, Your FLOCK helps employees become more engaged and businesses to become more productive by helping to develop cohesive and employee engagement-driven company cultures.听听
By recommending development activities that are aligned with users鈥� core values and those of their teams, it seeks to strengthen bonds between remote workers.听听听
Your FLOCK will use the investment to build out its technology proposition and grow its team to integrate the tool with LinkedIn and other social platforms, enabling it to grow and scale.听
It will also use the investment to evolve Your FLOCK into a pure Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, by curating users鈥� data with machine learning and artificial intelligence, enabling it to provide deeper insights to team leaders of remote working teams.听听
Jess Jackson, head of investment at GC Angels, will join Your FLOCK鈥檚 board as part of the investment, taking the proportion of women on its board to more than 60%.听听
GC Angels, which is trialling Your FLOCK for its own team, supports SMEs by raising early-stage scale-up capital ranging from 拢25k to 拢2m.听听
Through a network of angel investors, institutional capital partners and in-house co-investment funds, GC Angels has raised over 拢31m for more than 30 businesses across Greater Manchester and the听North West听of England over a听six year听period.听听
鈥淵our FLOCK is a diverse business with huge potential for growth, so we are proud to support it alongside our private co-investors,鈥� said Jackson.听
鈥淓nsuring that employees are engaged and aligned with company cultures will be critical for team leaders in the future as we all balance remote and office working, and we鈥檙e confident that Your FLOCK will play a big part in enabling the world to do so.鈥澨�听
Dan Sodergren, co-founder of Your FLOCK, said:听鈥淩emote working has boomed during COVID-19.听听
鈥淲e鈥檙e excited to help newly remote workers to discover their core values and work more productively with their teammates.听听
鈥淏y enabling us to recruit a new senior developer and appoint Jess Jackson to our board, this investment will also strengthen the diversity of our already inclusive team as we look to scale up in the UK and beyond.鈥�