Polywork is building a professional network for people to express multihyphenated work lives and to discover collaboration opportunities. The company announced a Series B that coincided with its launch out of private beta and is introducing Clubs, a private-beta group space with badge-based entry and moderators to facilitate collaboration. Early users are mostly full-time tech workers pursuing part-time activities like podcasting, newsletter writing, angel investing and other side projects. Founder and CEO Peter Johnston says the user base is growing but declined to share specific numbers; the team believes it has found product-market fit. Polywork currently has no revenue plans and is prioritizing growth and product development, though future monetization might include paid template customization or advanced search features similar to LinkedIn Premium. The company acknowledges marketplace challenges around matching people seeking collaborators with sufficient counterpart supply. Polywork is a professional social network that blends personal and professional identities via a Twitter-style feed where users post updates about work and life. Profiles surface custom badges (skills, interests, quirks, achievements) and posts can be tagged to slice activity by topic, creating a more visual, gamified professional portrait. The product includes controls for collaboration requests and emphasizes informal, personality-forward discovery for recruiters and collaborators. Polywork launched in April and is operating a wait list; it is not disclosing user numbers. The company recently raised a $3.5M seed round to support the product and growth. Founder Peter Johnson is an ex-Googler who previously founded Lystable/Kalo, which is no longer active after raising close to $30M over seven years.

Total raised

$32M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Sep 2022