Humanyze
Headquarters
Boston, MAFounded
2011CEO / Founder
Ben WaberEmployees
51-200Funding
Series B — $11MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
6.7/10Website
humanyze.com/
Profile updated
About Humanyze
Humanyze is a workplace analytics company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The company was co-founded by Ben Waber, who serves as CEO, and grew out of research conducted at the MIT Media Lab. It focuses on analyzing organizational behavior and communication patterns to help companies understand how work actually gets done.
The company's primary product is an organizational analytics platform that aggregates data from enterprise communication tools—such as email, calendars, and messaging systems—to map collaboration networks, identify bottlenecks, and measure team dynamics. Humanyze positions its platform for use cases including office space planning, change management, and employee retention analysis. The company has worked with large enterprises across financial services, manufacturing, and professional services sectors.
Humanyze has raised approximately $11 million in funding across multiple rounds, including a Series B. The company employs roughly 51 to 200 people. Humanyze has emphasized privacy-by-design in its data collection approach, aggregating and anonymizing individual-level data before surfacing insights to organizational leaders.
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Products by Humanyze
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How Our Review Panel Scores Humanyze
Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Humanyze's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.4 points — The Finance Lead was the hardest to convince, The Domain Strategist the most positive.
Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.
Competitive Landscape
Who Humanyze competes with, and how they differ.
Viva Insights folds passive Microsoft 365 communication telemetry into workforce analytics and ships bundled with any E5 seat — a distribution scale advantage Humanyze cannot match as a standalone vendor.
9 products reviewed on TopReviewed
Broader HR data-warehouse analytics platform sourced from HRIS/payroll systems rather than Humanyze's communication-metadata approach; competes for the same enterprise workforce-analytics budget.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
People-analytics data platform that unifies existing HR systems for reporting, versus Humanyze's sensor/communication-metadata specialty for organizational network analysis.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Device-level employee productivity monitoring rather than organizational-network analysis; overlaps with Humanyze on "workforce analytics" positioning for remote/hybrid teams.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedPrivacy-preserving organizational network analysis pulling metadata from calendar/email/Slack without a physical badge — the closest like-for-like rival to Humanyze's original ONA approach.
Company Timeline
Key milestones in Humanyze's history, with sources.
- Acquisition
LiveChain (a Vyome Holdings subsidiary) took control of Humanyze via a debt default
LiveChain acquired Remus Capital's senior secured convertible note in Humanyze in an all-stock deal (~$325K), then initiated a default and asset transfer to assume Humanyze's IP, trade secrets and day-to-day operations.
sec.gov - Launch
Launched Pulse, an AI-powered external market-intelligence platform
Companion product to Insights monitoring workforce and market sentiment, hiring trends and competitor activity from hundreds of external sources.
safar.partners - Launch
Launched Humanyze Insights, a rebuilt AI-powered workforce-analytics platform
A significant SaaS platform revamp with 20+ third-party integrations after 13 years serving global enterprise brands.
silicon.co.uk - Funding
Series A — $4M led by Romulus Capital
Funded the rollout of the Humanyze people-analytics platform to its Fortune 500 customer base.
techcrunch.com - Founded
Founded as Sociometric Solutions, an MIT Media Lab spinout
Spun out of MIT Media Lab's Human Dynamics group by Ben Waber and collaborators, using sociometric-badge research; rebranded Humanyze in 2015.
techcrunch.com
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