HR & People Tech Brands

15Five is a continuous performance management platform combining weekly check-ins, OKRs, 1-on-1 tools, and engagement surveys for managers....

Full-service employment background screening and drug testing provider. Irvine CA, raised $1.4B via PE, enterprise and mid-market focus....

ADP (NASDAQ: ADP) cloud HCM for 50-1,000 employee businesses with integrated payroll, benefits, and time management; world's largest payroll processor...

Gurugram India global employee rewards and recognition platform at $11M total ($4M Axilor Series A Dec 2024) with $6.6M FY2023 revenue; YC S21 serving...

Relationship intelligence CRM for VC and private equity; automatic email/calendar capture building relationship maps and deal pipeline for investment ...

Workforce planning platform for org design and headcount scenario modeling; HRIS-integrated with real-time org visualization for HR and finance planni...

AI recruiting platform automating candidate screening via phone and video interviews; $20M raised with 80% screening time reduction serving Fortune 10...

Employee benefits navigation app that helps workers understand and use their benefits year-round through personalized guidance....

Dallas HR Operating System integrating payroll/ATS/benefits data with no-code analytics and AI HR analysts; YC $5.5M LiveOak-backed at $1M+ revenue se...

Microlearning platform delivering training through Slack, Teams, and SMS with 95%+ completion rates; $12M Series A serving Google, AbbVie, and Ford co...

Modern ATS for high-growth tech companies; deep recruiting analytics, CRM sourcing, and automated scheduling with transparent published pricing....

Assemble is a compensation management and pay transparency platform for HR and finance teams, raised $30M+ in San Francisco....

Workforce management platform for customer support; AI-powered staffing forecasts and scheduling for teams using Zendesk, Salesforce, and Intercom....

Employee recognition, engagement, and internal knowledge platform. Los Angeles CA, raised $15M+, combines peer recognition, kudos, surveys, and AI-pow...

BambooHR, trusted by 30,000+ companies in 190 countries, launched managed payroll services in March 2026 and was named Best Cloud HR Solution in the 2...

Enterprise talent lifecycle platform combining CRM, skills ontology, and workforce planning to help companies build skills-based talent pipelines....

Frontline employee communication and operations platform. Zurich Switzerland, raised $100M+, serves 1,000+ enterprise customers across manufacturing, ...

Cloud-based benefits management platform for large employers and insurance carriers, publicly traded and acquired by Voya Financial....

Employee flexible benefits platform with Visa debit card for pre-tax commuter, FSA, and lifestyle stipends; automated merchant controls replacing reim...

Modern health benefits platform for SMBs combining benefits administration, employee support, and broker services in one experience....

Beqom is an enterprise compensation and performance management platform for large global organizations, headquartered in Nyon, Switzerland....

Betterworks is an enterprise OKR and continuous performance management platform helping large organizations align teams through goal setting, check-in...

AI marketing compliance review platform for financial services and healthcare automating FINRA and FDA regulatory checks; $2.8M from YC and Finovate a...

US YC AI global HR/recruiting platform; $5.6M total ($5.1M General Catalyst/Morado/YC seed Mar 2025) with ex-Lazard/Harvard/Microsoft founders serving...

Boundless is a global employment and payroll platform based in Dublin, enabling businesses to hire compliantly across international markets....

Employee financial wellness platform offering personalized financial planning, 401k optimization, and guided benefits decisions....

Southeast Asia HR platform with multi-country payroll and compliance for ASEAN markets; $5.3M revenue in 2024 with $6.5M Series A competing with regio...

Benefits education platform helping 1M+ employees make better enrollment decisions; personalized interactive guides for 1,000+ employer groups competi...

Enterprise benefits administration technology platform owned by CVS Health, serving large employers and insurance carriers....

Benefits administration and advocacy platform combining technology and human support to drive employee benefit engagement....

HR compensation management platform for tech companies; pay equity analysis, market benchmarking, and merit cycle automation integrated with Workday c...

US AI-native payroll/HR/compliance platform for 500+ startups saving 10+ hours monthly via Slack-native agents; YC S24 $8.6M First Round Capital compe...

Dubai UAE YC W23 Rippling-for-MENA HR/payroll at $100M+ annual payroll across 50 countries with 10x revenue; $16M total ($12M Picus Series A Oct 2025 ...

Modern background screening platform for SMBs and international hiring. Vancouver BC Canada, raised $52M+, API-first global screening....

API-first background check platform processing checks in minutes; serves Uber, Lyft, and 100K+ customers with fair chance hiring compliance tools....

US YC W21 employee sleep wellness platform at $2M revenue 2024 with 13 employees; M&A offer Apr 2025; CBT-I behavioral sleep coaching and tracking com...

GPS time tracking and scheduling app for construction and field service companies. Chico CA, raised $8M+, serves 9,500+ businesses tracking mobile and...

Raised $17.25M Series A (Feb 2026) led by Khosla Ventures with Keith Rabois on board — Khosla's first investment in a Brazilian company. Clients inclu...

Compa is a compensation intelligence platform for market pricing and offer decisions, helping talent and HR teams move faster....

Employee lifestyle benefits and stipend management platform helping companies offer personalized, tax-compliant perks programs....

Bengaluru compensation benchmarking and salary band platform with real-time market data; YC and Three State Capital-backed at $7.4M revenue competing ...

Contrario is an HR tech platform that streamlines contractor and freelance workforce management, automating onboarding, compliance, payments, and perf...

Paris YC AI recruiting ATS/CRM for executive search and boutique firms; $2.3M Feb 2023 from Indeed co-founder Paul Forster with $12K+ ACV competing wi...

Pre-employment testing and talent assessment platform. Los Angeles CA, raised $40M+, offers 300+ validated assessments covering cognitive aptitude, pe...

$750M revenue 2025; $228M funding; $1.5B valuation unicorn; 1,100 employees; acquired Orgnostic 2024; #1 G2 Employee Engagement/Performance; 311% cust...

Compensation management SaaS. AI Compose Insights and Predictive Compensation (Mar 2026). 2026 Lighthouse Tech Award. $23.4M raised. Ramsey NJ....

$300M Series E Oct 2025 ($17.3B valuation); Alex Bouaziz/Shuo Wang/Ofer Simon founders; $1B+ ARR; Forbes Cloud 100; YC...

Workforce scheduling, time tracking, and labor compliance platform for shift-based businesses. Sydney Australia, raised $210M+, serves 330,000+ workpl...

SF AI HR platform for 10+ employee SMBs at $99/month doubling revenue quarterly in 2025; YC W24 $3.7M General Catalyst/SNR-backed by ex-Gusto founders...

Austin ADA accommodation management platform for employee disability disclosures and compliance workflows; $12.2M General Catalyst and YC W22 backed c...

Benefits administration platform built for SMBs and insurance brokers, simplifying enrollment, eligibility, and carrier connectivity....

Lagos payroll and payment API for 15,000+ African businesses with embedded fintech microloans and early wage access; YC $125K serving Nigeria's $200B ...

AI talent intelligence platform using deep learning to match candidates on skills potential, helping enterprises build diverse and future-ready workfo...

Engagedly is a people enablement platform with performance reviews, OKRs, learning, and gamified engagement for modern HR teams....

Figures is a compensation benchmarking and pay equity analytics platform for European tech companies, backed by €10M+ in funding....

Universal employment API connecting 150+ payroll systems (ADP, Gusto, Workday); enables 401k, benefits, and financial apps to access employee data wit...

Raised $51M total ($36M Series C led by Silver Lake Waterman + $15M JP Morgan debt). 100x user base growth in 12 months. 3x YoY revenue. 1.6 trillion ...

Intelligent communication platform for employee experience and workforce engagement. San Francisco CA, raised $50M+, used by 40% of Fortune 100 compan...

Firstwork is a workforce platform for hourly and frontline employees that streamlines scheduling, training, and benefits access for the deskless workf...

Virtual coworking platform hosting 1,700+ weekly body doubling sessions for remote workers; $5M revenue backed by Work Life Ventures competing with Fo...

Flexible employee benefits platform offering lifestyle spending accounts and personalized perks, backed by $40M in funding....

Talent acquisition platform with a recruiting CRM and sourcing automation suite designed for technical and high-volume enterprise hiring teams....

Structured hiring ATS with interview scorecards and bias reduction; mid-market and enterprise recruiting platform serving Airbnb and DoorDash competin...

SMB payroll and HR platform with $9.5B valuation serving 300K businesses; automatic tax filing, onboarding, and health insurance competing with ADP an...

SF YC AI people search with natural language queries (find notification system engineers at big tech) at $330K revenue Sep 2025; $2.5M from YC/Pioneer...

$574M funding; $2.7B valuation; $121.7M revenue 2024 (+47% YoY); 3,500+ customers; $10M to $100M ARR in 3 years; IPO ready; Fiverr/VaynerMedia custome...

Bengaluru AI resume builder with ChatGPT-powered ATS optimization and LinkedIn profile enhancement; YC $2.83M Prime/Venture Highway-backed at 4.7/5 Tr...

AI outbound recruiting platform that automates candidate sourcing across 45+ talent data sources to accelerate pipeline building for enterprise teams....

Paris/SF YC AI talent acquisition platform with ML candidate sourcing, ranking and engagement; data-driven recruiting with analytics competing with Se...

Video interviewing and AI-assisted talent assessment platform. South Jordan UT, raised $90M+, processes 50M+ assessments annually for 900+ enterprise ...

Modern HRIS for 50-500 person tech companies; API-first employee database with integrations for Greenhouse, Slack, and payroll tools to keep people da...

Buenos Aires mobile-first internal communications and HR platform for deskless workers at 1,000+ enterprises; YC $5.12M serving ArcelorMittal and indu...

Seattle AI recruiting platform processing 250K candidate interviews monthly with 600M+ profile database; YC W20 $24-30.6M with Teamable/Sprockets/Qual...

Instawork is an on-demand staffing platform connecting businesses with flexible hourly workers for hospitality, food service, warehouse, and events ro...

International local payments API aggregating 50+ country payment methods in one integration; mobile wallets, bank transfers, and local networks for ga...

Learning and development stipend management platform helping companies fund and track employee education spending....

Seattle technical interviewing platform at $1.1B valuation from $248M total ($110M Salesforce Ventures/Serena Williams Series C 2022); acquired Triple...

Knoetic is a people analytics and CHRO intelligence platform for strategic HR decisions, raised $18M+ in San Francisco....

Unified HR integration API connecting 100+ HRIS, ATS, and payroll systems through a single normalized API; $2M ARR within 18 months backed by YC compe...

Lano is a global payroll consolidation and contractor management platform, connecting HR teams with local payroll providers in 150+ countries....

Monterrey HR and performance management platform for Latin American remote workforces at $17.3M revenue; $800K raised competing with Factorial and Lat...

People management platform with $3B valuation serving 4,500+ companies; performance reviews, OKR tracking, engagement surveys, and HRIS expansion comp...

Leapsome is an AI-powered performance management and employee engagement platform used by companies including Spotify and Unity to run reviews, OKRs, ...

Self-directed L&D marketplace giving employees a learning budget to spend on books, courses, and events. London UK, raised $17M+....

Autonomous AI agents for enterprise HR/IT service desks. 300+ enterprises, 3M+ employees. Founded 2018, Palo Alto/India. Raised $40.1M. Private....

ATS + CRM talent acquisition platform serving 20K+ companies under Employ Inc.; combines active hiring pipeline management with passive candidate nurt...

Indonesian HR marketplace connecting 1.5M blue-collar workers with 30K+ SMEs in Southeast Asia; AI+human Lumibot automation service at $13/hour backed...

Paris France YC W24 all-in-one payroll/HR for French SMBs handling 800+ labor agreements; $9.2M total (€3M Breega/FundersClub/YC seed) competing with ...

Ramallah Palestine tech talent platform connecting MENA software engineers to global tech jobs with 71% Google on-site pass rate; YC W21 backed by Str...

Mercor is an AI-powered talent marketplace that automates technical hiring — finding, evaluating, and matching engineers and data scientists with top ...

AI recruiting platform with 3,000+ customers. Founded 2018, London. $50M total funding including $35M Series B led by GV (Google Ventures) in 2025. Pr...

NYC YC W20 virtual team events platform for remote company culture with expert-hosted outside-the-box experiences; 2-person team competing with Airbnb...

Recruiting operations platform automating interview scheduling and coordination; Accel-backed with Slack founder as investor competing with Goodtime.i...

Multiplier enables companies to employ international talent across 150+ countries through an EOR model with integrated payroll, benefits, and complian...

AI-powered benefits guidance and personalization platform helping employees choose the right benefits and use them year-round, $55M raised....

Omnipresent is a UK-based global employer of record and HR compliance platform, enabling businesses to hire employees in 160+ countries....

Raised $100M+ (incl. $63M Series B led by Carrick Capital Partners) in Jan 2025 — first institutional round after bootstrapping 13 years. Targeting 6M...

Global payroll and employer-of-record platform enabling companies to hire internationally; YC Top Company 2023 with 192 employees competing with Deel ...

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) enterprise HCM Cloud with global payroll in 35+ countries serving 6,000+ enterprises; competing with Workday for cloud HR system o...

SF YC S23 AI user research platform with 4x revenue growth 2024 serving WeightWatchers, Nestlé, Microsoft; $20.8M total ($17M 8VC Series A 2025) condu...

Oyster HR is a global employment platform enabling companies to hire, pay, and manage employees and contractors across 180+ countries without local en...

Papaya Global provides an AI-powered global payroll and workforce management platform processing payroll across 160+ countries with compliance automat...

AI recruiting platform with chatbot Olivia. 189M+ candidate conversations. Acquired by Workday for ~$1B in 2025 after $1.5B valuation. Founded 2016, S...

Real-time compensation benchmarking and band management platform; crowdsourced data from customer network replaces annual surveys for pay equity compl...

Paycor is an HCM platform for SMB and mid-market payroll, HR, benefits, and workforce management. NASDAQ: PYCR....

Mid-market HCM platform with $1.1B revenue; modern payroll and HR with Community employee engagement features competing with ADP and Paychex for 20-1,...

Pento is automated payroll software for growing European companies, built to run payroll in minutes via real-time integrations....

AI performance management and OKR platform with talent analytics for predicting flight risk and succession; $1.6M YC-backed at $1M revenue serving Ube...

Pequity is a compensation management platform for equitable pay decisions, raised $11M+ in San Francisco....

Enterprise employee listening and people analytics platform. Temecula CA, raised $100M+, serves Fortune 500 and large enterprises....

YC-backed employee rewards and recognition platform with flexible spending, gifting, and peer-to-peer recognition tools....

Berlin YC W20 career platform for skilled trades/renewable energy workers with 30K+ solar systems installed; €24M Series B Eurazeo/General Catalyst/He...

Enterprise workforce management platform for deskless workers in retail, logistics, and hospitality. Stockholm Sweden, raised $50M+, operating in 30+ ...

Ravio is a real-time compensation benchmarking platform for European tech companies, raised £10M+ and based in London....

Raised $25M Series A (Mar 2024). 180+ countries covered. Positioned as the low-cost alternative to Deel and Rippling for global EOR and contractor man...

Global employer-of-record platform for compliant international hiring in 180+ countries; $550M+ raised at $3B valuation competing with Deel and Rippli...

Workforce management platform with $13.5B valuation unifying HR, IT, and payroll; automatic app provisioning on hire and offboarding competing with Gu...

AI-powered scheduling and workforce optimization for retail and healthcare. London UK, raised $15M+, helps enterprises cut scheduling time by 75% and ...

Bengaluru mobile-first HR and payroll for India's 60M SMEs with selfie attendance and GPS tracking; YC-backed $125K with ₹1.46Cr revenue competing wit...

"Gusto for India" mobile-first payroll and HR platform with $8.5M revenue in 2024; $4.12M from YC competing with greytHR and Keka for Indian SMB compl...

SAP (NYSE: SAP) enterprise HCM with 240M+ users across 6,000+ customers for Core HR, payroll in 40+ countries, and talent management; competing with W...

AI talent search platform that helps recruiting teams source diverse and passive candidates from public profiles, GitHub, and scientific publications....

AI-powered knowledge management platform that surfaces answers from enterprise content for support and service teams. New York NY, raised $60M+....

AI job search Copilot helping 1M+ job seekers apply to 100M+ jobs through auto-fill and application tracking; $3M from Craft Ventures and YC competing...

AI-powered employee experience and intranet platform. Redwood City CA, raised $70M+, used by 700+ organizations to improve workforce engagement and in...

Restaurant and retail scheduling, time tracking, and communication platform. Acquired by Toast, now integrated with Toast POS to give restaurant opera...

Tech-first background verification platform for India and emerging markets. Bangalore India, raised $5M+, API-first onboarding verification....

Employee communications platform for enterprise internal comms. Chemnitz Germany, raised $190M+, unicorn, serves 2,500+ enterprise customers across 45...

SF YC W21 automated time tracking eliminating manual entry at $1M ARR 2024 with 5 employees and $125K funding; automatic time capture with productivit...

Colombian AI recruiting platform with multilingual assistants screening 100% of applicants 24/7; $9.5M raised from YC serving 290 clients in Mexico an...

Workforce management platform for staffing firms and flex workers. San Francisco CA, raised $15M+, helps staffing agencies manage contingent and on-de...

TeamOhana is a headcount planning and compensation management platform for finance and HR teams, raised $14M+ in San Francisco....

NYC YC construction payroll and workforce platform for union contractors with same-day pay; $5.11M total ($4.5M Suffolk Technologies/Bloomberg Beta se...

TriNet is a full-service PEO and HR platform for SMBs, offering payroll, benefits, risk mitigation, and compliance. NYSE: TNET....

Trusaic is a pay equity compliance and workforce analytics platform, helping US employers close gender and racial pay gaps....

Ultimate-Kronos merger HCM with $3.5B+ revenue; UKG Pro payroll and UKG Dimensions workforce scheduling competing with ADP and Workday for enterprise ...

Velocity Global provides international hiring and employment services helping companies expand globally with EOR, payroll, immigration, and equity adm...

Raised $26M Series B (Feb 2026) led by Gresham House. 300% revenue run-rate growth in 2025. 6,000+ clients in 180+ countries. Moving from point-in-tim...

NYC YC W23 AI-native payroll for fast-growing startups at 380+ customers; $24M total ($18M Sound Ventures/YC/HOF Series A Jun 2025) with 99% accuracy ...

AI outbound recruiting platform with 250M+ candidate database; automated talent sourcing campaigns achieving 30-40% response rates competing with Link...

Employee scheduling and time tracking app for hourly teams. Minneapolis MN, raised $35M+, used by 200,000+ workplaces across retail, food service, and...

NASDAQ-listed (WDAY) enterprise HCM and financial management cloud at $8.4B revenue serving 10,500+ customers; competing with SAP SuccessFactors and O...

Enterprise workforce management platform for scheduling, labor forecasting, and compliance automation. Serves retailers and healthcare operators manag...

Digital frontline workplace platform for scheduling, training, and communications. Montreal Canada, raised $50M+, used by enterprise retailers includi...

Workleap is an employee experience platform combining engagement surveys, recognition, onboarding, and performance in a unified suite....

Employee engagement, pulse survey, and manager feedback platform. Montreal Canada, part of Workleap, 50,000+ teams globally....

HR software platform for SMBs acquired by TriNet in 2022; benefits administration, payroll, and compliance tools for 10-500 employee companies....

Copenhagen employee well-being AI platform delivering 19% well-being improvement for Telenor and Maersk; YC €1M backed with triple-digit growth compet...