Empower Every Employee

We’re on a mission to make people feel truly connected to their work – especially those who don’t sit at a desk.

From the spark of an idea at Porsche to the daily app for employees at Bosch, MAHLE, and McDonald's: Flip has become the employee platform of choice for enterprises that value their frontline workforces. With Flip, employees find the tools, knowledge, and inspiration they need to transform their work. And the world.

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Our Vision

Empower every single employee

Did you know that 80% of employees worldwide don’t work at a desk? Many still rely on bulletin boards and outdated methods for communication and HR processes. We’re here to change that – by connecting them with the people, information, tools, and systems that make it easier to do a great job, every day.

Our Approach

Focus on deskless employees

Only 1% of today’s software is built for the deskless workforce. While most communication tools cater to office-based employees, they fall short in the field. Flip is changing that. We put deskless employees at the heart of everything we do, designing our app with and for them.

The Result

Your company in their pockets

Flip puts your entire company in the pocket of your deskless employees, securely and in line with GDPR. It connects teams and tools, turning connection into engagement and action. Built specifically for non-desk workers, Flip bridges the gap between deskless and office-based teams, bringing the future of work to everyone.

Our Flip DNA

Bold

We love breaking the mould. We don’t shy away from unconventional ideas or from admitting if something hasn’t gone to plan. For us, boldness doesn’t mean that we aren’t afraid of challenges. It means that we take on these challenges despite any uncertainty. We always question the status quo, press ahead with topics independently and take a solution-oriented approach.

Authentic

We endeavour to establish an environment where everyone is open and authentic and can freely share their own perspectives. At Flip, we celebrate individuality and believe that nobody should have to hide who they are. We believe that every interaction should be open and respectful, whether that’s internally within the Flip team, with our customers or with our service providers.

Responsible

We take responsibility for our conduct, our successes and our mistakes, always keeping our team, our users and our customers at the core of what we do. We handle our resources with care and place great value on sustainable growth. All of our decisions are made based on their long-term benefits and impacts, and not based on whether they will give us short-term boosts.

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Focused

At Flip, the end result is what counts. For this reason, we focus solely on the things that help us achieve our goal. Guided by our motto ‘Less Is More’, we make sure to prioritise important aspects and to invest our energy in areas that align with our focus.

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Our founders

Benedikt Ilg

Before founding Flip, Benedikt worked as a project manager at Porsche AG. He noticed that there was a gap in the market for a standardised, easy-to-use tool that enabled internal communication with all employees – including the deskless workforce. He was guided by one specific aim: to create an employee-focused solution that keeps employees updated digitally, lets them network with each other and the company, and is both quick to learn and easy to use.

Giacomo Kenner

Early on in his career, Giacomo realised he had a profound intuition for product design. While he was a student, he led the pre-incubation phase for a product at a healthcare start-up, developing the product through to the investor pitch phase. Motivated by the vision of simplifying corporate communications with an easy-to-use product, Giacomo went on to found Flip in 2018.

What our investors and supporters have to say

"Flip enables companies to actively involve all employees in the company's activities. Employees in production can thus be informed and connect for the first time, independent of time and location. Flip therefore builds the digital bridge between corporate management and the shop floor and makes an important contribution to the digital transformation of many companies."

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Prof. Dr. Kurt Joachim Lauk

Founder & President Globe Capital Partners (family office)

"The possibilities of digital communication for and with deskless workers within the supply chain are far from being fully exploited. This is where Flip comes in and creates enormous efficiency potentials both for workflows as well as product and service quality by connecting these employees. I'm happy to support Flip with my years of expertise because the potential of the space has been underappreciated for too long."

Roland Berger

Founder and former CEO of the management consultancy Roland Berger

"Flip gives all deskless employees the opportunity to truly engage with communications within their company. There is huge potential for actively improving identification with the company among these employees."

Jos White

Partner, Notion Capital

"We are convinced that Flip is setting-up new standards in this evolving market with its safe, lightweight and extremely powerful product."

Claude Ritter

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Cavalry Ventures

"By showcasing its vision, Flip has showed us how to enable all employees to network and connect in equal measure, and how to pair these opportunities with a technically outstanding, yet straightforward, product strategy."

Christian Saller

General Partner Holtzbrinck Ventures Capital

"Deskless employees in production determine efficiency, and in retail they are the customer’s first point of contact with the company. Organisations would do well to invest in forging closer bonds between their employees and their corporate culture."

Matthias Müller

Former VW CEO and Flip Business Angel

"The digital transformation is unstoppable. The biggest challenge for companies today is to engage all employees on this journey. Flip is building a digital operating system for the deskless workforce with an easy-to-use app. The scalability of the system and the Swabian mentality of the founders convinced me fully."

Jürgen Hambrecht

former CEO and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE

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Learn more

02/27/2023

Empowering deskless workers with technology

The world of work has changed significantly since the Covid-19 pandemic – but it has only changed for a minority. Around 80% of workers are deskless and aren’t benefiting from the flexibility afforded to desk-based workers. In an interview for the Times special report on "The Future of work 2023", Flip CEO Benedikt Ilg explains how we are seeking to change that.