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London-based Yapster, a office messenger app for retail and hospitality, introduced on Tuesday that Sona, a frontline working system startup, has acquired it for an undisclosed sum.
The acquisition will speed up the growth of Sona’s Frontline Working System throughout the frontline financial system. Collectively, Sona and Yapster serve over 100,000 customers in 5 nations throughout social care, hospitality, retail, and logistics.
Yapster: What do you have to know
Based in 2015, Yapster is an all-company instantaneous messaging app, enabling one-on-one, group conversations and company-wide social sharing.
At the moment, the app is utilized by a number of corporations, together with BrewDog, Caffè Nero, Krispy Kreme, Subsequent, and Welcome Break.
Yapster co-founder CEO Rob Liddiard says, “All corporations are underneath stress to perform extra with much less proper now, which implies doing all the things attainable to get essentially the most out of workers. With its backing from Gradient Ventures, Sona is the one know-how provider I’ve seen in my seven years working Yapster that seems able to delivering the consumer-grade design and AI energy prospects at the moment are crying out for to resolve their productiveness puzzles. Craig (Yapster Co-founder CTO) and I are excited to see well-liked Yapster performance seem within the Sona platform at a good increased velocity and slickness over the following yr or so.”
Sona: What you have to know
Based in 2021 by Oli Johnson, Steffen Wulff Petersen, and Ben Dixon, Sona is a Frontline Working System (Frontline OS) that goals to alter how frontline organisations function.
The platform combines the workforce administration software program’s performance, together with scheduling, time & attendance, and absence administration, with devoted options to empower workers and simplify frontline work for everybody.
At the moment, the corporate targets industries like Healthcare, Hospitality, Retail and Charities.
Steffen Wulff Petersen, co-founder and CEO of Sona, says, “Yapster and its staff are extensively revered throughout the retail sector, and we see the extraordinary potential to speed up Sona’s mission with this acquisition of their experience. Staff at the moment count on firm software program to be as highly effective and straightforward to make use of as their favorite private apps – and that’s exactly the extent of buyer expertise Sona was based on and funded to ship.”
