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.
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.
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.
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.
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%.
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;
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Buk is a leading Latin American HR and payroll SaaS platform covering payroll processing, e-signatures, performance management, and talent acquisition; serves 3,000+ companies across Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru;
Factorial is the leading European HR SaaS unicorn based in Barcelona; hit $100M ARR in Sep 2025; raised €110M in Mar 2025 (General Catalyst total €200M); serves 13,000+ businesses across Spain, Germany, France, Italy.
| 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 | Topia |
#31 | Bolto |
#32 | Chief |
#33 | Job&Talent |
#34 | Employment Hero |
#35 | Wrapbook |
#36 | Happenstance |
#37 | Fountain |
#38 | Centrical |
#39 | ChartHop |
#40 | Turing |
#41 | Betterfly |
#42 | Connecteam |
#43 | Gem |
#44 | Ease |
#45 | 15Five |
#46 | Manara |
#47 | Warp |
#48 | lapzo 💰 $17.3M |
#49 | Buk |
#50 | Factorial 💰 $100M |