Not every employee is ditching the office for good. But if even a small percentage do, it could create a number of “second-order effects,” says Andreas Klinger, a remote-work advocate who launched Remote First Capital in 2019. The $7.5 million fund looks for startups that solve remote-work problems—for example, helping startups run payroll when their employees are scattered across the globe—but also ones that “leverage remote work in a unique way.” Klinger says the potential opportunities go far beyond traditional business services. These startups begin to reimagine how the future will look if more people can uncouple where they work and where they live: “How does the world change if more people work remotely? How do countries, families, education, and daily life change?”