Tech Start-Up Relocating to Columbus

Employee Engagement Company SigBee Focused on Increasing Employee Engagement, Reducing Turnover

COLUMBUS, OHIO, May 1, 2023 – SigBee, an innovative employee-input platform that promotes engagement and organizational health, recently inked a deal to call Columbus home. The tech start-up, previously based in Nashville, Tenn., will plant roots at 4920 Reed Road, beginning with its ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday, May 4, at 11:30 a.m.

SigBee has its thumb on the pulse of employee engagement. Its platform is designed to help organizations collect employee and team signals in real time to encourage proactive engagements that can help increase team engagement, improve manager effectiveness, prevent burnout and reduce turnover.

The employee-input platform is especially relevant in a post-pandemic, hybrid-workplace environment where 80 percent of workers are unengaged at work; 41 percent are thinking about leaving their jobs; and 54 percent of those who do leave say they’ve done so because they feel undervalued by their managers.*

SigBee closed an oversubscribed Seed Round of funding in January, with existing investors showing their votes of confidence by increasing their contributions. CEO and Founder Alistair Deakin says the funding is further validation of the product and markets.

SigBee has 14 employees nationwide, with 7 based in Columbus, including its leaders of Strategy and Finance; Sales, Marketing, and Product; and Engineering. Deakin also has roots in the Columbus market, having moved to the city in 2002 to lead the turnaround of CMHC Systems as it transitioned and grew to become market leader Netsmart Technologies.

About SigBee

SigBee is an innovative employee-input platform that promotes engagement and organizational health. We help build more resilient organizations by collecting, processing, analyzing, and routing meaningful signals through all levels of an organization. SigBee combines the science of technology with the art of human interaction, creating a powerful system for checking in with each other. The results are powerful — increasing team engagement, improving manager effectiveness, preventing burnout and reducing turnover.
* 2021 McKinsey & Company study