Participated · Series C · May 2021

Legion Technologies develops an AI-native workforce management (WFM) platform focused on optimizing schedules, improving employee engagement, and increasing labor efficiency for hourly workforces. In 2024 the company launched 70 product features — including employee productivity‑based scheduling, a generative AI Time and Attendance Workbench, enhanced shift offers, schedule scoring, and increased extensibility — and advanced its Generative AI assistants for conversational schedule and timesheet analysis. Legion reported strong revenue growth, expanded its customer footprint into new regions, and claims the platform delivers 13x ROI through schedule optimization, reduced attrition, and increased productivity. The company has been repeatedly recognized on the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Fast 500 lists and has grown an average of 374% over the past three years. Legion is using the new financing to continue product development and to scale operations and market expansion. Legion builds a workforce management platform that automates scheduling, demand forecasting and labor optimization for hourly and gig workforces. Its platform uses customer and third-party data to generate schedules that match business demand with employee preferences via a mobile app. The company is adding generative AI features (Copilot) to answer work questions and, soon, summarize schedules and handle shift-change requests. Legion also offers InstantPay, an earned-wage-access product that charges $2.99 (capped at about $30) for instant transfers while next-day transfers are free. Legion sells subscriptions priced by the number of hourly workers and counts customers such as Cinemark, Dollar General, Five Below and Panda Express. The business reported revenue growth of 55% and bookings growth of 125% in the past year and employs about 200 staffers. Planned uses of new capital include expanding R&D and customer-facing teams and launching go-to-market efforts in Europe. Legion offers an AI-powered workforce management (WFM) platform that provides demand forecasting, labor optimization, automated scheduling, and time-and-attendance alongside a mobile app for shift preferences and swaps. The platform targets hourly workforces across retail, distribution, manufacturing, hospitality, food services, and healthcare, and is used by customers in more than 38 countries. Legion says its product improves labor efficiency, reduces compliance risk, and boosts employee engagement by matching schedules to employee preferences and offering gig-like flexibility. The company reported 391% year-over-year growth after surging demand driven in part by the COVID-19 pandemic. Legion plans to use the new funding to increase hiring and accelerate product innovation. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., and was founded by Sanish Mondkar. Legion provides an artificial intelligence-driven platform that automates decisions about labor deployment and scheduling by combining demand forecasting, labor optimization and employee preferences. The product generates schedules that aim to match worker preferences (hours, shift lengths, store locations) with business needs. Legion has adapted its machine-learning forecasting to be hyper-localized for pandemic-era scenarios and added COVID-specific features such as contact tracing, identification of healthy versus quarantined workers, and streamlined employee communications. The company sells to mid-sized and larger enterprise customers, naming SoulCycle, Philz and Dollar General among its customers, and reports its largest customer has more than 100,000 employees on the platform. Since April the company has onboarded more than 18,000 new locations. Legion says customers can expect at least a 10x return on investment and that it has reduced churn for many customers by 30–50%. Legion uses large amounts of data — down to local weather and point-of-sale/traffic counters — and machine learning to predict customer traffic and produce optimized employee schedules. The product aims to give hourly workers a spectrum of options, from predictable full-time hours to gig-like flexible shifts. Legion has begun deploying as a proof-of-concept with Philz to validate its approach and prove impact on workforce retention and customer experience. The company integrates with HR tools today (e.g., Zenefits) and may expand its data integrations to better model employees over time. Legion faces competitors offering simpler scheduling apps (such as When I Work) but positions itself on richer data and ML-driven forecasts. To fund expansion beyond pilot accounts, the company raised a $10.5M Series A.