There are 2.7B deskless workers in the world, a number that is not a niche but the backbone of retail floors, factory lines, and hospital corridors, the people who actually make the world move while most software was built for someone staring at a second monitor. Humand looked at that imbalance and saw the market hiding in plain sight.
On February 23, 2026, the San Francisco based company announced a $66M Series A co-led by Kaszek and Goodwater Capital, with participation from Y Combinator and a lineup of operators who know how to build enduring companies, including Arash Ferdowsi of Dropbox, Guillermo Rauch of Vercel, Martin Varsavsky, Rajat Suri of Lyft, plus Marcos Galperin, Manny Maceda, Sebastián Mejía, and Vlad Magdalin, which tells you this is conviction capital, not tourist money passing through.
Credit Nicolas Benenzon, Co-Founder and CEO, and Geronimo Maspero, Co-Founder and CTO, who founded Humand in 2020 and chose a lane most founders ignored; while others kept polishing tools for the already plugged in, Humand built an AI powered operating system for the unplugged majority, an operating system not for desktops but for deskless, and that wordplay is more than clever branding, it is the thesis.
Humand provides a centralized, mobile first platform that connects frontline employees to their companies and helps them manage their employee experience, bringing communication, HR, and operations into one place so that if your workforce lives on the move, the system moves with them instead of asking them to adapt to it.
The traction is not theoretical, with more than 1.6M workers across 1,500+ organizations already using the platform, including MINISO, Domino’s, and OXXO, which signals scale with logos you recognize and workforces that do not clock in behind a keyboard.
There is a business lesson sitting right there: they did not chase hype cycles or vanity metrics, they chased density, because when you build for a structural reality of 2.7B people, prove it with real adoption, and position your product as infrastructure instead of a feature, capital tends to follow with focus.
Kaszek and Goodwater Capital did not co-lead this round because it sounded poetic; they leaned in because connecting every employee, no matter their role or location, is a systems level play, and systems that truly work have a habit of compounding quietly before everyone else realizes what just happened.
If you operate in retail, manufacturing, healthcare, or any business powered by frontline teams, Humand is not just selling software but offering alignment at scale, an AI powered layer designed to ensure the message, the workflow, and the experience reach the people actually doing the work, which is where value is either created or quietly lost.
