Workwize makes global IT hardware management scalable

The founding team of Workwize consists of Michiel Meyer, Victor Dik and Sebastiaan Scholten. Their starting point: IT should facilitate international growth and not slow it down. Especially in fast-growing companies with teams in multiple countries, complexity arises. Arranging a laptop for a new employee in another country, replacing defective equipment, recalling devices during offboarding and ensuring certified data erasure. All of this often requires multiple suppliers, manual coordination and a lot of operational follow-up.

According to Workwize, IT teams at global companies spend an average of 27 hours per employee on hardware management processes. This pressure continues to increase due to remote and hybrid working, international expansion and stricter requirements in the field of security and compliance. This makes hardware management not only an operational issue, but also a strategic theme for companies that want to scale up quickly.

— Michiel Meyer, CEO Workwize

Workwize developed a SaaS platform that automates the entire lifecycle of IT hardware. It covers five key phases: procurement, deployment, management, retrieval and disposal. In this way, the platform supports companies in the purchase or lease of hardware, the roll-out to employees, the daily management of assets, the recovery of equipment and the sustainable and certified processing at the end of its life.

This sets Workwize apart from traditional IT asset management solutions, which are mainly designed for registration. Workwize also automates the operational processes around the hardware. Workflows can be largely automated through integrations with HRIS systems such as Workday, BambooHR, and HiBob, as well as MDM solutions such as Microsoft Intune and Jamf. This makes hardware management less error-prone, more scalable and significantly less labour-intensive.

AI is playing an increasingly important role in this. Workwize uses AI-powered automation to predict hardware needs, optimize inventory management, and further standardize processes. The ambition is clear: to turn IT hardware lifecycle management from a manual process into a largely automated background task.

— Michiel Meyer, CEO Workwize

The results are concrete. According to Workwize, IT hardware management time per employee drops from an average of 27 hours to just 10 minutes. Customers also report up to 70 percent less manual IT work and a 24x ROI. For companies with international teams, this provides direct benefits: new employees can start productive faster, IT departments have more time for strategic projects and organizations get more control over costs, security and compliance.

Sustainability is also an explicit part of the proposition. By integrating reuse, recycling, and certified data erasure into the process, Workwize helps businesses reduce e-waste and manage IT assets more responsibly. In doing so, the platform is in line with two important developments at the same time: the digitization of work and the need for more circular business operations.

— Michiel Meyer, CEO Workwize

Workwize has grown strongly since its inception. The platform operates in more than 100 countries, supports more than 75,000 users, and has more than 100,000 devices under management. In the past two years, the company says it has grown by a factor of ten. Customers include Swapfiets, Pleo, DuckDuckGo and HighLevel. According to Workwize, the latter saved $1.4 million per year by organizing the global hardware lifecycle through one central platform.

The investor base is also solid. After a pre-seed round of 600,000 euros and a seed round of 1.5 million euros, a Series A round of 13 million dollars followed in January 2025, led by Klass Capital with participation from existing investors Peak and Graduate Ventures. In total, Workwize raised approximately 14.7 million euros. In addition, in 2026, the company was included by Gartner as a Representative Vendor in the Market Guide for Hardware Asset Management Tools. This underlines that Workwize operates in a rapidly maturing market in which automation and international scalability are becoming increasingly important.

In addition to venture capital, bank financing is also important for a company in this growth phase. Rabobank has been supporting Workwize with working capital financing since 2022 and has grown with the company in several phases. For a scale-up that expands internationally while investing in product development, operations and enterprise sales, access to appropriate and flexible financing is essential.

Rabobank's added value goes beyond providing financing. The Startup & Scale-up Team understands the dynamics of fast-growing technology companies and combines financing with sector-specific knowledge, speed of action and personal involvement. According to Workwize, it is precisely this combination that distinguishes the collaboration.

— Michiel Meyer, CEO Workwize

This means that the relationship fits in well with the role that Rabobank wants to play for start-ups and scale-ups: a partner that not only finances, but also thinks along about growth phases, capital needs and the next step in the development of the company. In the case of Workwize, it is a company with a scalable SaaS model, strong operational KPIs, international ambitions and a clear route to further growth. In such a phase, it is valuable to have a banking partner who understands how scale-ups invest and grow.

— Robbert Lut, Startup & Scale-up Banker

For Workwize, the coming years will be dominated by further international expansion, expansion of the supplier and warehouse network, further AI integration and deepening of the position in North America. At the same time, the core of the story remains the same: helping companies to organize IT hardware management in a simpler, faster and more sustainable way.

For Rabobank, Workwize is therefore a good example of a Dutch scale-up that uses technology to solve a concrete operational problem, enables international growth and at the same time contributes to more efficient and sustainable use of IT resources. It is precisely in these kinds of growth companies that Rabobank wants to invest: companies with scalability, innovative strength and clear social relevance.

— Robbert Lut, Startup & Scale-up Banker

Startups and scale-ups are drivers of economic renewal through their innovative power. They make a significant contribution to solving societal challenges and are a key engine of economic growth and employment in the Netherlands. As such, this segment represents substantial strategic value for Rabobank. The Startup & Scale-up team supports entrepreneurs who share this mission in achieving sustainable growth by providing access to networks (including international ones), expertise, and financing. Ask for advice.