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Founder in Five: Q&A with Qatalog CEO Tariq Rauf

Qatalog founder

Tariq Rauf is the founder and CEO of Qatalog, a company that provides collaboration software for distributed workforces.

Its platform, which integrates with popular enterprise software such as Slack and Zoom, is used by the likes of Nvidia, Twitter and Airbnb.

While Qatalog is headquartered in London, the company itself has a distributed workforce with its team of 48 hailing from 18 nationalities and staff located across the world.

Founded in 2019 by Rauf, a former global product lead at Amazon, Qatalog has raised £14.7m in funding, with nearly £12m of that coming from a Series A round in October 2020.

In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, the Qatalog founder explains why location-based hiring is a diversity barrier, reveals the flaws with open-plan offices and shares a tip for building employee connections among remote workforces....