ADP Workforce Now
ADP (NASDAQ: ADP) cloud HCM for 50-1,000 employee businesses with integrated payroll, benefits, and time management; wor...
Workday
NASDAQ-listed (WDAY) enterprise HCM and financial management cloud at $8.4B revenue serving 10,500+ customers; competing with SAP SuccessFactors and O...
SAP SuccessFactors
SAP (NYSE: SAP) enterprise HCM with 240M+ users across 6,000+ customers for Core HR, payroll in 40+ countries, and talen...
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NASDAQ-listed (WDAY) enterprise HCM and financial management cloud at $8.4B revenue serving 10,500+ customers; competing with SAP SuccessFactors and Oracle for enterprise HR and finance system of record.
ADP (NASDAQ: ADP) cloud HCM for 50-1,000 employee businesses with integrated payroll, benefits, and time management; world's largest payroll processor competing with Paycom and Paylocity for mid-market HR.
SAP (NYSE: SAP) enterprise HCM with 240M+ users across 6,000+ customers for Core HR, payroll in 40+ countries, and talent management; competing with Workday for global enterprise human capital management.
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) enterprise HCM Cloud with global payroll in 35+ countries serving 6,000+ enterprises; competing with Workday for cloud HR system of record through ERP integration and AI automation.
Ultimate-Kronos merger HCM with $3.5B+ revenue; UKG Pro payroll and UKG Dimensions workforce scheduling competing with ADP and Workday for enterprise HR and complex labor scheduling in healthcare and retail.
Workforce management platform with $13.5B valuation unifying HR, IT, and payroll; automatic app provisioning on hire and offboarding competing with Gusto, Workday, and Okta.
Deel is a global hiring platform with $1B+ ARR and $17.3B valuation (Oct 2025 Series E); handles payroll, compliance, and entity management for contractors and employees in 150+ countries.
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 2025/26 Cloud Awards.
SMB payroll and HR platform with $9.5B valuation serving 300K businesses; automatic tax filing, onboarding, and health insurance competing with ADP and Rippling for 1-500 employee companies.
Mid-market HCM platform with $1.1B revenue; modern payroll and HR with Community employee engagement features competing with ADP and Paychex for 20-1,000 employee companies.
People management platform with $3B valuation serving 4,500+ companies; performance reviews, OKR tracking, engagement surveys, and HRIS expansion competing with Culture Amp and BambooHR.
Structured hiring ATS with interview scorecards and bias reduction; mid-market and enterprise recruiting platform serving Airbnb and DoorDash competing with Lever and Workday Recruiting.
$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 customers; Bob HRIS platform leader
Global employer-of-record platform for compliant international hiring in 180+ countries; $550M+ raised at $3B valuation competing with Deel and Rippling for remote-work international employment infrastructure.
$750M revenue 2025; $228M funding; $1.5B valuation unicorn; 1,100 employees; acquired Orgnostic 2024; #1 G2 Employee Engagement/Performance; 311% customer ROI; HR platform leader
Enterprise employee listening and people analytics platform; Temecula CA; raised $100M+; serves Fortune 500 with annual and pulse surveys, always-on listening channels, manager effectiveness tools, and people analytics connecting engagement to bus...
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 with Bullhorn and Vincere for unified recruiter workflow automation combining ATS/CRM/email/LinkedI...
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 1,000+ enterprises in 100 countries competing with Workhuman and Bonusly for employee engagement.
Welcome to the Jungle is a Paris-based job platform with 5,500+ employer profiles and ~3M active job seekers across France and Europe; raised $54M Series C in 2023; acquired UK job platform Otta in January 2024 to expand into the UK and US markets.
Employee engagement, pulse survey, and manager feedback platform serving 50,000+ teams globally; Montreal Canada; part of Workleap; regular short pulse surveys surface engagement trends and management issues before they result in costly attrition.
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 serving Plaid and The Friedkin Group competing with Visier for enterprise people ops intelligence.
Seattle AI recruiting platform processing 250K candidate interviews monthly with 600M+ profile database; YC W20 $24-30.6M with Teamable/Sprockets/Qualifi/HourWork acquisitions competing with Paradox and HireVue for talent acquisition automation.
NYC YC construction payroll and workforce platform for union contractors with same-day pay; $5.11M total ($4.5M Suffolk Technologies/Bloomberg Beta seed Feb 2025) serving Century Drywall with certified payroll automation competing with Procore.
Darwinbox is a Hyderabad-based cloud HR platform serving 850+ enterprises and 3M+ employees across 100+ countries; raised $72M Series D led by TCV and Microsoft M12; competes with SAP SuccessFactors and Workday in the Asia-Pacific HCM market.
NYC YC W20 virtual team events platform for remote company culture with expert-hosted outside-the-box experiences; 2-person team competing with Airbnb Experiences and TeamBuilding.com for distributed team engagement and connection-building.
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 + $4M Afore/YC seed) competing with Bayzat for MENA multi-country workforce management.
CodeSignal is the leading AI-native skills assessment platform for technical hiring; tens of thousands of candidates completed its AI-assisted coding assessments in 2025, with ~1/3 of customers adopting agentic coding assessment formats.
Berlin YC W20 career platform for skilled trades/renewable energy workers with 30K+ solar systems installed; €24M Series B Eurazeo/General Catalyst/Headline 2023 competing for blue-collar electrician/HVAC/solar technician recruitment.
Bengaluru AI resume builder with ChatGPT-powered ATS optimization and LinkedIn profile enhancement; YC $2.83M Prime/Venture Highway-backed at 4.7/5 Trustpilot competing with Teal and Kickresume for global job seeker career services.
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 Fiber AI and startups competing with Deel and Remote for AI-native global hiring.
Topia is an enterprise global talent mobility platform automating expatriate payroll, compliance, and workforce deployment for clients like Schneider Electric, Dell, AXA, and Equinor; 98% user satisfaction across enterprise reviews.
Chief is the exclusive membership network for senior women executives — VP to C-suite — offering peer groups, executive coaching, and clubhouses in NYC, LA, Chicago, SF, and DC. Raised $140M; restructured and under new CEO in 2025.
Job&Talent is the world's largest digital workforce marketplace for essential work; raised €92M Series F in Apr 2025 at €1.4B valuation; deployed 120,000+ frontline workers in 10 countries for peak season 2025 (20% more than 2024);
Employment Hero is an Australian all-in-one HR, payroll, and benefits platform for SMBs; raised $250M+ total at a $2B+ valuation; serves 300,000+ businesses and 2M+ employees across Australia, New Zealand, UK, and Southeast Asia;
Wrapbook is the leading production payroll and accounting platform for film and TV; raised $20M from Bessemer at $750M valuation (Sep 2024); acquired Cinapse scheduling platform (Dec 2025); serves SAG-AFTRA, IATSE productions.
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 Fund/Zelda competing with LinkedIn for AI-powered professional discovery.
Centrical is an employee engagement and performance management platform using AI, gamification, and real-time coaching to improve productivity and retention for frontline and contact center workforces; raised $100M+ total;
Fountain launched its agentic-first Frontline OS with 12 products at HR Tech 2025, processing 1.2M+ annual hires in 78 countries; its AI (powered by Anthropic Claude) cuts screening time up to 98% and boosts retention 50%.
ChartHop is a people analytics and org management platform that centralizes employee data for headcount planning, compensation management, and workforce visualization; raised $95M+ total including a $52M Series B in 2021;
Turing is a $2.2B AI talent and services unicorn; raised $111M Series E in Mar 2025; accelerates frontier AI research for leading AI labs; partnered with HUMAIN on the first AI agent marketplace for enterprise (Mar 2026).
Connecteam is the #1 employee management app for deskless teams; serves 80,000+ businesses; raised $160M backed by Insight Partners and Stripes; integrates time tracking, scheduling, comms, and HR in one mobile platform.
Ease (San Diego) is a broker-centric benefits administration platform for SMBs, allowing agencies to manage enrollment, onboarding, and qualifying life events across hundreds of small employer clients from one dashboard.
15Five is a continuous performance management platform combining weekly check-ins, OKRs, 1-on-1 tools, and engagement surveys; helps managers maintain high-frequency connection with direct reports between annual reviews.
Gem (San Francisco) is a talent acquisition CRM with AI sourcing sequences and deep analytics for enterprise recruiting; built for technical and high-volume hiring teams that need pipeline intelligence beyond ATS basics.
Betterfly is Latin America's leading employee benefits and insurance unicorn — $202M raised, $1B valuation — combining gamified wellness, flexible benefits, and life insurance across 2,000+ employers in LATAM and Europe.
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 under $10/filing competing with Gusto and Rippling for AI startup HR.
Ramallah Palestine tech talent platform connecting MENA software engineers to global tech jobs with 71% Google on-site pass rate; YC W21 backed by Stripe, Reid Hoffman, and Paul Graham for MENA-to-global tech placement.
Monterrey HR and performance management platform for Latin American remote workforces at $17.3M revenue; $800K raised competing with Factorial and Lattice for Spanish-speaking HR market with LatAm employment law focus.
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 competing with Headspace Health for employer-sponsored sleep wellness.
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 competing with Gusto and Justworks for small business HR services.
| Rank | Brand |
|---|---|
#1 | Workday 💰 $8.4B |
#2 | ADP Workforce Now |
#3 | SAP SuccessFactors |
#4 | Oracle HCM Cloud |
#5 | UKG 💰 $3.5B |
#6 | Rippling |
#7 | Deel 💰 $1B |
#8 | BambooHR |
#9 | Gusto |
#10 | Paylocity 💰 $1.1B |
#11 | Lattice |
#12 | Greenhouse |
#13 | Hibob 💰 $121.7M |
#14 | Remote |
#15 | Culture Amp 💰 $750M |
#16 | Perceptyx |
#17 | Crew |
#18 | Advantage Club 💰 $6.6M |
#19 | Welcome to the Jungle |
#20 | Workleap Officevibe |
#21 | Aragorn AI 💰 $1M |
#22 | Humanly |
#23 | Trayd |
#24 | Darwinbox |
#25 | Mini Exhibitions |
#26 | Cercli |
#27 | CodeSignal |
#28 | PowerUs |
#29 | Hiration |
#30 | Bolto |
#31 | Topia |
#32 | Chief |
#33 | Job&Talent |
#34 | Employment Hero |
#35 | Wrapbook |
#36 | Happenstance |
#37 | Centrical |
#38 | Fountain |
#39 | ChartHop |
#40 | Turing |
#41 | Connecteam |
#42 | Ease |
#43 | 15Five |
#44 | Gem |
#45 | Betterfly |
#46 | Warp |
#47 | Manara |
#48 | lapzo 💰 $17.3M |
#49 | Chorus Sleep 💰 $2M |
#50 | DianaHR |