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Two former and executives put their employee analytics and collaboration expertise together to start , a Sydney-based company focusing on employee learning and communications.

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Formed last year by and , Pyn is in position for growth. The company has been buoyed by a $2.2 million seed round led by , with participation from , , co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian, and , the former president of Atlassian, Luijke told 小蓝视频色情网页版 News.

The company will use the new funding to boost its staff of four. Luijke said he would like to double the team, especially in marketing and product development, over the next year.

鈥淲e are thinking of getting people back to Australia as it is doing a lot better than the U.S. in terms of COVID-19,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e are also taking advantage of the shift to remote.鈥�

Pyn鈥檚 employee-centric communication tool cuts through the clutter of messages in order to send only relevant and well-timed messages at key moments. The tool is able to identify if it is an employee鈥檚 first day on the job, or gets promoted, or even comes back from parental leave, and sends them pertinent information.

For example, if it is your first day back in the office, it might send you a back-to-work plan, or if you get promoted and have direct reports, it will send some information on how to do one-on-one meetings and reports. If you are traveling for the first time, it might provide information on how to do expense reports and even tell you what there is to do in the town you are going to, Luijke said.

鈥淣ow that people are more remote, you have to be careful that though they are out of sight, they are not out of mind,鈥� he added. 鈥淚f you have people working in different countries, it is hard to track moments, as well as local contacts and the time zone. If you don鈥檛 have a machine doing this, how can you do this? HR and corporate communications are struggling with this.鈥�

What investors are saying

As part of the investment, Accel’s general partner is joining the company鈥檚 board. This investment is a homecoming of sorts for Wong, who was one of the original backers of Atlassian 10 years ago.

鈥淲hen people ask what I look for in founders, I say I authentically love the problem they are solving and have a sense of the problem more so than about the mouse trap,鈥� Wong said in an interview. 鈥淛oris and Jon represent that for me. They have the right background, from their time at Atlassian and Culture Amp, respectively, to understand the problem.鈥�

Next steps for Pyn

Luijke said the company will lean in to better understand solutions that complicated, distributed workforces have.

鈥淲e鈥檙e building a startup during a pandemic, so it is kind of amazing because we experienced, ourselves, what we were building for other people,鈥� he said. 鈥淭here is an interesting set of companies approaching the problem with a different lens. We wonder what will be the 2.0 that is going to be fascinating to see, and we think Pyn is one of those products.鈥�

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