What Blink Does
Blink (joinblink.com) is a mobile-first employee experience platform built for frontline and deskless workforces in industries like retail, hospitality, transport, manufacturing, and healthcare. It gives every worker a single app to access company news via a social-style feed, message colleagues, find documents and policies, complete forms, view schedules and payslips, and use self-service tools. Blink connects frontline staff to the systems and information they need without requiring a corporate email or desktop login, addressing the long-standing communication gap between head office and the field.
AI and Growth
Blink has layered AI into its platform, including AI-driven employee analytics and self-service assistants that help workers get answers and surface engagement insights for managers. The company reports rapid adoption in hospitality and retail, partnering with brands such as Shake Shack, and saw self-service tool usage grow sharply year over year. Founded in 2014 by Sean Nolan and headquartered in London, Blink has raised funding from investors including Next47, Partech, and Enlightened Hospitality Investments, the growth fund affiliated with Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group.