Startups Directory

Rippling is a unified HR, IT, and finance platform built on a single employee data graph that automatically propagates changes across all connected business systems. It eliminates manual data entry and reduces security risks by serving as the single source of truth for employee information across payroll, benefits, SSO, IT management, bill pay, and corporate cards. The platform is designed for companies that want to streamline operations across traditionally disconnected systems with a modern, integrated approach rather than legacy point solutions.

Deel is a global payroll and compliance platform that enables companies to hire, onboard, and pay full-time employees and contractors across 150+ countries. The platform automates payroll in 120+ currencies, manages local tax compliance, and handles the entire employee lifecycle from recruitment to offboarding. It serves 35,000+ customers from startups to enterprises like Shopify, Nike, and Klarna.

Remote is a global Employer of Record (EOR) platform that enables companies to hire, manage, and pay employees across 70+ countries without establishing legal entities. The platform handles employment contracts, payroll, taxes, benefits, and compliance through in-house operations rather than third-party networks. Remote serves mid-market to enterprise companies looking to build distributed teams while avoiding costly subsidiary setup and contractor misclassification risks.

PayFit is Europe's leading cloud-based payroll and HR software that combines the control of in-house payroll with the expertise of outsourced services. It automates payroll calculations, tax deductions, and social contributions while offering integrated HR capabilities including absence management, time tracking, expense tracking, and onboarding. The platform targets SMBs with 20-300 employees across Europe, with particular strength in France and the UK, serving over 6,500 companies.

Worki is an AI-native infrastructure platform that unifies fragmented healthcare workforce and HR systems into a single contextual data layer. The platform sits between existing tools like Workday, UKG, Oracle, and ServiceNow, mapping task-role architecture to identify where AI agents can augment or automate administrative work. Using a four-part system (Pathways, Unify, Amplifiers, Infrasharing), Worki enables health systems to reduce overhead by 20%+ while deploying AI agents with human governance across workforce operations.

Personio is a cloud-based HR management platform that centralizes recruiting, onboarding, time tracking, performance management, and compliance in a single system for SMEs and startups. The platform eliminates fragmented HR processes by consolidating employee data, workflows, and analytics while offering AI-powered insights through Personio Assistant. It integrates with over 200 business applications and serves as an alternative to legacy HR systems, enabling HR teams to operate more efficiently while improving employee experience.

Paradox AI provides Olivia, a conversational AI assistant that automates candidate screening, interview scheduling, and follow-ups within existing ATS platforms. The platform integrates with systems like Workday and SAP SuccessFactors to engage candidates via mobile chat, reducing time-to-hire by 50% and increasing applicant conversion by 5x. Used by 500+ companies globally including Unilever, Nestle, and McDonald's, Paradox eliminates manual recruiting work at scale.

Andela is a global talent marketplace that connects companies with vetted software engineers across 135+ countries. Using proprietary AI matching algorithms, Andela sources, screens, and onboards developers while handling the entire hiring lifecycle—offering flexible engagement models from individual contractors to fully managed teams. The company specializes in application development, AI, data engineering, cloud, and DevOps roles, and has evolved to provide the human compute layer behind modern AI systems. Andela's core value is reducing hiring friction through speed, quality, and cost-efficiency via its Adaptive Hiring model.

360Learning is an AI-powered learning platform that combines LMS and LXP capabilities to enable organizations to create, share, and scale collaborative training at speed. The platform turns internal expertise into skills-based learning for employees, customers, and partners through peer learning and team-driven knowledge sharing rather than top-down course delivery. It integrates deeply with enterprise systems like SAP and Workday, helping L&D teams reduce course creation time from 3-6 months to as little as 17 minutes.

Amelia is an enterprise conversational AI platform that combines deterministic workflows with generative AI to automate customer and employee interactions. The platform handles complex, multi-turn conversations across customer service, IT support, HR, and other business functions while reducing escalations to human agents. Unlike rigid rule-based chatbots, Amelia can orchestrate multiple AI agents and adapt to user requests that deviate from training data, delivering human-like interactions at scale. The company was acquired by SoundHound AI in August 2024 for $80 million.

Gusto is a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and HR software platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses. It automates payroll processing, tax filing, benefits administration, and employee onboarding while simplifying workflows that were traditionally manual and error-prone. The platform saves businesses approximately $1,800 annually in payroll and HR administration costs and is known for its user-friendly interface compared to legacy systems like ADP.

Lattice is a People Success Platform that unifies performance management, goal-setting, employee engagement, compensation management, career development, and people analytics into a single solution for mid-to-large enterprises. The platform helps organizations move beyond annual performance cycles to continuous feedback and development workflows. Customers like Huge and Million Dollar Baby Co. report significant efficiency gains—including 2,000 hours saved and 92% survey completion rates. Lattice differentiates itself through deep modularity, comprehensive HRIS integration, and enterprise-grade analytics capabilities.

Awardco is an employee recognition and rewards platform that helps organizations build culture, drive engagement, and reduce attrition through customizable recognition programs. The platform integrates five core modules—Recognition, Celebrations, Incentives, Benefits & Perks, and Rewards—with direct access to Amazon Business and other retailers, eliminating traditional vendor markups. Trusted by 3,000+ organizations including AT&T, Adobe, and Hertz, Awardco was the first in its category to integrate with Amazon Business API, setting new standards for transparency and scalability.

HiBob is a cloud-based Human Capital Management (HCM) platform that centralizes HR operations including onboarding, performance management, payroll, time tracking, and employee engagement. Built for mid-market companies (50-500 employees), it combines core HRIS functionality with AI-powered insights and modern UX to help teams connect, develop, and retain talent. The platform has achieved 254% average ROI with payback in under 9 months, and recently integrated payroll processing through the acquisition of Pento.

Trusted Health operates a dual-sided marketplace connecting nurses and allied health professionals with flexible travel jobs while providing healthcare systems with workforce management solutions. For clinicians, it offers real-time job matching with transparent compensation details and a dedicated Clinical Care Team. For hospitals and health systems, Works—their B2B product—enables data-driven staffing to manage both predictable and unpredictable workforce fluctuations, from seasonality to acute callouts.

Darwinbox is a cloud-based HCM platform that manages the entire employee lifecycle from recruitment through retirement. The platform combines recruitment, onboarding, payroll, performance management, and analytics in a single system with 15 modules built in just 6 years. It serves mid-market enterprises (3,000+ employees) across 130 countries with a mobile-first, AI-powered interface and exceptional customization capabilities.

Employment Hero is an AI-powered Employment Operating System that automates the entire employee lifecycle—from recruitment and onboarding through payroll, benefits, and compliance management. Built by an employment lawyer and product technologist, it serves 300,000+ businesses managing 2 million employees globally, including EOR capabilities through Global Teams. Unlike traditional HRIS platforms that act as systems of record, Employment Hero functions as a system of action, with AI automating manual workflows and triggering next moves autonomously. The company differentiates through Swag, a consumer-facing superapp that serves employees alongside employers.

Gtmhub (rebranded to Quantive in December 2022, acquired by WorkBoard in May 2025) was a cloud-based OKR and strategy execution platform that connected to 150+ business systems to automatically update key results and enable real-time performance visibility. The platform helped organizations break down internal silos, align employees with long-term goals, and execute strategy faster without waiting between quarterly reviews. With $161M in total funding—more than any competitor in the space—Gtmhub served 500,000+ users across 75+ countries, including enterprise clients like Adobe, Red Hat, Experian, Société Générale, and Absa.

CloudPay is a global payroll SaaS platform that processes payroll, payments, and workforce management for multinational organizations across 140+ countries. It handles 3+ million payslips annually and over $24 billion in payment transactions, consolidating fragmented payroll processes across geographies, currencies, and regulatory environments. The platform automates calculations, ensures local compliance, and provides centralized visibility into payroll costs and performance. CloudPay serves enterprise customers including Visa, Wayfair, Wells Fargo, Expedia, and the London Stock Exchange.

Factorial is an AI-first business management platform that unifies HR, Finance, and Operations for mid-market companies. It combines time tracking, talent recruitment, performance management, payroll, benefits, and document management in a single platform. The platform serves 14,000+ clients and 1M+ daily users, distinguishing itself through simplicity and ease of use compared to complex enterprise solutions like Workday, without requiring dedicated IT teams.

Omnipresent is an Employer of Record (EOR) and HR SaaS platform that enables companies to hire and manage remote employees across 80+ countries without establishing local legal entities. It centralizes contracts, payroll, tax compliance, and HR administration—handling local regulations, multi-currency payments, and statutory requirements across jurisdictions. The platform is particularly strong in European markets (UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Nordics) with SOC 2 certification and integrations with 20+ HRIS systems. Omnipresent was acquired by Deel in 2025, expanding its global reach.

Staffbase is an enterprise internal communications platform that reaches employees across all channels—mobile app, intranet, email, and AI assistant—with a specific focus on frontline workers without desk access. The platform centralizes company updates, news, and resources while ensuring AI-generated answers about the organization are accurate through content governance. Used by nearly 3,000 organizations including Adidas, DHL, and Siemens, Staffbase solves the critical gap that two-thirds of employees cannot be reached via traditional browser-based tools.

Fingercheck is an all-in-one payroll and HR management platform built specifically for small businesses with hourly and deskless workers. The platform consolidates time tracking, payroll processing, scheduling, hiring, onboarding, benefits administration, and job costing into a single system that deploys in hours rather than months. Fingercheck serves over 5,000 companies across construction, healthcare, retail, and professional services, and recently raised $115M in growth funding to expand its market presence.

Envoy is a workplace management platform that digitizes visitor management, space booking, deliveries, and emergency notifications for modern offices. Built for mid-market companies managing hybrid and multi-location workplaces, it replaces paper logbooks and fragmented tools with an integrated security and compliance solution. The platform handles over 100,000 daily sign-ins across 16,000+ workplaces globally, serving companies like Slack, Asana, Pinterest, and Warby Parker. Envoy's strength lies in combining security, audit trails, and operational efficiency into a single platform tailored for workplace safety.

Prytek Holdings is a technology investment group that builds and operates financial services infrastructure through a dual-arm model: a corporate services division providing managed financial services, cybersecurity education, and recruiting solutions; and a venture capital division investing in fintech, regtech, cybersecurity, and data companies. The company operates a vertically integrated ecosystem of 25+ portfolio companies serving over 140 financial institutions and 1,000 corporate clients. Prytek differentiates through its integrated platform approach, combining multiple complementary technologies and services under one structure rather than competing as standalone products.

Nomad Health is a digital marketplace that directly connects clinicians (physicians, nurses, etc.) with healthcare facilities, eliminating traditional staffing agencies. The platform manages job matching, credentials, licensing, travel arrangements, and payments—offering hospitals and health systems 40-50% cost savings compared to traditional recruiter commissions. With 300K+ registered clinicians and 390K+ jobs posted, Nomad has grown 200%+ annually to become the fastest-growing US staffing firm.

Apna is a mobile-first digital marketplace connecting entry-level and blue/gray-collar job seekers to employers across India. The platform features 70+ professional communities (carpenters, painters, telecallers, delivery personnel, etc.) and uses AI-driven matching to enable bulk hiring campaigns, automated candidate sourcing, and integrated chat for interview coordination. Employers can post jobs, filter profiles, unlock contact details, and engage candidates via WhatsApp, while job seekers access real-time alerts, interview prep tools, and social networking features.

OnPay is a cloud-based payroll and HR platform that helps small to mid-sized businesses run unlimited payroll runs for a flat monthly fee of $49 plus $6 per employee. Unlike competitors with tiered pricing and add-on features, OnPay bundles all payroll capabilities—tax filings, multi-state support, off-cycle runs, and HR functions—into a single transparent plan. The company serves over 25,000 businesses nationwide and is backed by $128M in funding, positioning itself as the simplest, most affordable payroll solution for cost-conscious businesses.

Employee Navigator is a broker-centric benefits administration platform that consolidates benefits enrollment, compliance, onboarding, and payroll integration into a single system. It automates the exchange of benefits data between employers, brokers, insurance carriers, and payroll providers, reducing manual work and compliance risk. The platform connects 195,000+ employers, 7,000+ brokers, and 600+ partners, positioning itself as an agnostic marketplace rather than an enterprise HCM suite.