AAndo Technologies builds AI-powered scheduling and staffing infrastructure for hourly W-2 workers across food and beverage, retail, logistics, and healthcare. Its platform forecasts demand at the location level and creates schedules that reflect workers’ real-life constraints and preferences, helping managers reduce understaffing and last-minute changes while giving employees predictable, plan-able schedules. It differentiates itself with location-level demand forecasting, constraint-aware scheduling, and strong enterprise deployments, backed by a track record of converting pitches to pilots to paid platforms and solid retention. The company's goal is to scale deployments with enterprise customers to cut understaffing costs and turnover while providing reliable schedules to workers.
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11-50
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Total Funding
$4M
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2023
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Ando, a company building AI infrastructure for the hourly workforce, has raised $4 million in seed funding led by Slow Ventures. Participants include Blitzscaling Ventures, Zero Capital, Monochrome, Gaingels, Mana Ventures and Fireroad. The San Francisco-based startup uses AI to forecast demand and create schedules that accommodate workers' real constraints, including childcare, school pickups and multiple jobs. The platform has achieved over 90% demand accuracy on a daily basis and maintains 100% customer retention. Ando addresses a market of approximately 80 million hourly workers in the US, where turnover regularly reaches 150%. The company has been serving enterprise customers for over a year, with some locations reporting $60,000 to $80,000 in incremental revenue. The funding will support platform expansion and enterprise customer scaling.
Ando is an AI-native labor-optimization platform that keeps businesses with frontline, shift-based workforces fully staffed.
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Industries
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$4M
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2023
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