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Surfboard

Sector

AI & Infra

Exits

Year Invested

2022

A simpler, smarter and fairer collaborative team planning tool for customer support teams.

Surfboard (exited in 2024) is a collaborative planning tool for customer support teams. It's shift planning, scheduling, and forecasting functionality allows support teams to make work more human by reducing burnout and increasing scheduling flexibility through a single source of truth connecting disparate systems in one place.

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Year Invested

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