Bento：小公司的员工财务管理便当小型创业公司员工往往需要身兼数职，在企业开展业务的同时员工也会产生各种费用。对这样的需求，大公司可以通过给员工申请公司卡和通过财务人员的对账报账来进行处理，但如果小公司也玩这一套，从成本和便捷性上都吃不消。对此，一家名为Bento for Business的创业公司推出了针对小企业的员工财务管理解决方案：Bento MasterCard。
Bento MasterCard是Bento和MasterCard合作推出的一种虚拟预付卡。说到虚拟预付卡，其实在美国的很多超市都可以买到虚拟卡，用户可以往卡里进行充值当借记卡使用（之前雷锋网为了购买海外产品还专门买过这样的虚拟卡）。然而Bento的不同之处在于，小企业的创始人可以在网上方便管理每张卡片的额度，一键开启/关闭卡片的使用，对消费情况进行统计汇总和分析，了解花费的数目和构成，更神奇的是，你还可以自行授权每张卡片的用途，例如说，你设定了某位员工的卡片只能采购办公用品或者加油，如果他瞒着你下馆子，当他拿出公司卡要结账的时候，这样不符合授权的交易将会被自动拒绝，同时企业主也会收到一条信息，从而也杜绝了员工滥用的可能性。更重要的是，由于每张卡片可以方便设置额度、用途等，由于卡片丢失或者卡片信息泄露造成的财务问题（如盗刷）可能性也会大大降低。
Bento CEO Farhan Ahmad称，他们推出这一针对小企业的产品是因为他们认为小企业是经济的基石，不仅承担了大量的就业机会，还给整个经济带来了活力。但相对于大企业，银行对小企业的服务就有点跟不上趟，例如很多小企业无法申请到公司信用卡，而通过他们的方案，小企业也可以根据自己的需要方便地控制采购费用，而无需依赖于企业或CEO的评分。如同其名字一样（“Bento”在英文中的意思是快餐盒饭），Bento的目标是为中小企业提供快捷、便利而且经济的员工财务管理服务。
费用方面，Bento for Business采取的是对卡片收取一定费用，如图所示，公司申请一张卡的时候是免费的，2-5张卡每月收取29美元的服务费，6-20张卡收取每月79美元服务费，如果超过20张卡还有特殊通道，再加上附加的财务统计功能，无形中省了一个人做账，对于小企业来说还是很经济实惠的。
未来发展计划：
Bento for Business计划进一步扩展其针对小企业的其他金融服务项目和为小企业提供金融工具，如：开发票、记账、信用卡管理等，未来Bento for business还计划与银行进行合作，为符合条件的企业提供申请贷款等服务。
融资情况：
Bento for Business是目前已获得250万美元种子融资，目前员工5人，。
来源：雷锋网
作者：硅谷锋向标
员工交流平台Reflektive获得350万美元种子轮投资
该公司成立于2014年，总部位于旧金山。
本轮的投资者为Andreessen Horowitz、Lars Dalgaard、Beresheit General Partner Ltd。
该公司致力于为雇佣者和雇主建立一个及时有效的交流和工作反馈平台，目前包括Pinterest, Glassdoor, Lyft, Optimizely, Instacart 和Thumbtack等公司均在使用Reflektive来管理员工。
Reflektive Raises $3.6 Million From Andreessen Horowitz To Rethink Annual Performance Reviews
Everyone dreads them: The annual performance review. After all, it’s hard for employees to do much with a yearly sit-down where some past accomplishments and failings are outlined, and a vague improvement plan with far-off objectives is set in place.
Numerous companies have emerged in recent year to kill such reviews, including pulse survey startups like Tiny Pulse that produce frequent, anonymous employee polls to help bosses understand in real time who is happy, who isn’t, and what they can do about it.
Reflektive, a year-old, San Francisco-based employee engagement and performance platform, is taking things in a slightly different direction by making it easier for colleagues and managers to deliver real-time feedback via Gmail, Outlook and Slack.
With a pop up tab that appears in the body of an email, a colleague can provide feedback about what someone did particularly well any time they’re moved to do so. Meanwhile, managers can use the field any time they like to deliver constructive feedback.
The idea: by making it easy to garner more frequent feedback and generate more open conversation, employee reviews – whether annual, quarterly, or monthly – can include many more data points, presumably becoming more productive in the process.
Andreessen Horowitz apparently likes the approach. It just gave Reflektive $3.5 million in seed funding in a deal led by general partner Lars Dalgaard, who earlier founded and ran the HR software company Successfactors.
Going forward, says founder and CEO Rajeev Behera, Reflektive’s 13-person team aims to build up more products that are engaging for employees, including profiles where people can update others about what they’re doing, what they’ve accomplished, and what projects on which they’re working.
Reflektive also plans to integrate with many more services, including Salesforce, Github, and Hubspot.
“We want to be where you are,” says Behera, who last worked at Disney Interactive, managing a team of roughly 80 people and observing firsthand lots of “task management” versus employee development.
Behera thinks that by creating a far more open feedback loop, managers will be better equipped to help their employees’ careers to evolve, and employees will be more motivated to spend time with their management.
More than 50 paying clients are giving it a shot. Among Reflektive’s customers is Pinterest, Glassdoor, Lyft, Optimizely, Instacart and Thumbtack.
来源：techcrunch.com
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