Top HR Tech Startups 2023

Deel is the all-in-one HR platform for global teams. It helps companies simplify every aspect of managing an international workforce, from culture and onboarding, to local payroll and compliance. Deel works for independent contractors and full-time employees in more than 150 countries, compliantly. And getting set up takes just a few minutes. For more information, visit Deel.com.

We’re on a mission to eliminate the administrative work of running a company. We believe that people should focus on the hard stuff— the things that only people can do— and that software should manage the rest. Rippling lets you effortlessly manage your employees’ payroll, benefits, training, devices, and apps— all from one seamlessly integrated SaaS platform. Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B from the world's top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Bedrock, and Greenoaks—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes (#12 out of 500)

Lattice is people success software that empowers leaders to build engaged and high- performing teams, inspire winning cultures, and make strategic, data-driven business decisions. Our software helps nearly 4,000 companies globally align employees to the most critical objectives, measure and reward performance, and create an effective feedback loop between employees and managers.

Pave allows you to make smarter comp decisions and eliminate spreadsheets, powered by real-time integrations with your HRIS, ATS, and Cap Table.

Human Interest is an online service and tool that helps small businesses and startups set up 401(k) plans for their employees. It encourages employers to safeguard the financial futures of their employees. It enables businesses of any size to set up and administer a 401(k) plan online with an automated investment advising component to help employees make better financial decisions about their savings. It also helps employees become more educated about the best available choices. Human Interest was founded in 2015 to help address an important financial concern for Americans: not having enough money for retirement. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Fountain’s all-in-one high volume hiring platform empowers the world’s leading enterprises to find the right people through smart, fast, and seamless recruiting. Candidates can apply anytime, anywhere in minutes, right from their phone. Automated and customizable processes streamline the candidate experience and save time for recruitment teams so they can scale with growing hiring needs. Advanced analytics provide end-to-end process visibility so managers can make swift, data-driven decisions. Throughout the candidate journey, the openly integrated platform enables companies to find, qualify and convert more applicants. Fountain’s global customers hire over 1.2 million workers annually in 78 countries.

Out-of-pocket healthcare costs are skyrocketing and every day, people all across America are forced to make difficult decisions about their health. Lively is the benefits solutions provider that gets it right. We designed our solutions to take the guesswork out of managing benefits. And our innovative features are built to simplify benefits administration and evolve with your business. Managing wellness and wealth takes more than a series of transactions. By combining robust features with unparalleled service, we make benefits administration effortless, even when time and energy are limited. Experience benefits administration as it should be with Lively. Go to www.livelyme.com to learn about how HSAs other modern employee benefits can help you and your team.

Platzi cracked online education. It teaches courses on design, marketing and programming with a 70% completion rate, to over one million students worldwide. The classes include real-time collaboration among students and industry leaders as teachers. It aims to be the professional home for lifelong learning of advanced skills.

Ontop allows companies to hire international workers, and we enable those workers to save in USD.

Momentu is a corporate mental health platform for Latin America. We address mental health challenges in employees through an emotional test, where we understand their needs and provide support through digital content, therapy and coaching sessions. We are already working with top companies in LATAM such as Fintual, La Haus, Clara, Grupo Ecopetrol, Axa Colpatria. We served thousands of employees in LATAM in over 11 countries.

With over 500M white-collared job offers rolled out annually, companies find it very difficult to be certain about what to offer. Companies rely on old compensation survey data, which are updated only once every year. The salary expectations of candidates in the market change significantly on a quarterly basis (~7% statistically) in the startup ecosystem. This results in more than 50% of qualified/selected candidates not joining the company due to expectation mismatch. HireSure.ai is an API-driven compensation benchmarking tool. We integrate with your existing HR/payroll systems, removing the need for manual data entry, and also getting updated in real-time. HireSure.ai provides the most accurate real-time compensation benchmarking data which helps you make the right offer to the candidate. The platform allows you to communicate your offer to the candidate in the most presentable and engaging manner. It also uses behavior signals to predict a potential dropout in order to make course-correction to retain them. This has the following advantages : - All the process of compensation data submission is automatic and needs no manual intervention - Since the job market is dynamic in nature, the offers made on HireSure.ai’s real-time benchmarks would be the most efficient - The presentation of the offer to the candidate makes it look more appealing and explanatory to the candidate - Predicting a potential dropout help companies put focused efforts into retaining the candidate

Ajourney is building Gusto for South East Asia. With Ajourney, instead of using spreadsheets and multiple portals, business owners can run payroll with just one click.

Aragorn enables people ops and IT teams to continuously maintain employee data across diverse systems in a reliable, scalable, and cost-effective manner, all on a single platform - whether through API, EDI, Webhook, or file feeds.

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Disclo is the first software for employers to collect, verify, and manage health disclosures and employee accommodation requests (HIPAA and SOC2 compliant, of course). We help employees secure the enhancements and protections they need to succeed in their careers without having to disclose their underlying medical condition to their employer. We handle the collection of that data, the verification, the secure data management, and much more. Using our patent-pending medical verification system, Disclo validates that an employee's accommodation request is legitimate and required, interacting with medical providers directly, so HR managers can focus on what they do best. We help companies stay compliant with EEOC, ADA, and HIPAA guidelines.

We provide a self-assessment which identifies the underlying causes of poor wellbeing and match proven solutions for individuals and teams. https://www.quanwellbeing.com/

Venue makes large remote meetings more fun and interactive. Companies like Shopify use Venue every day for Town Halls, Kickoffs, AMAs, and more. We’re building Venue to be a place where teams can: - Reflect their unique personality and culture. - Create a vibe that’s fun, energizing, authentic and spontaneous. - Provide a safe and inclusive space for colleagues to interact how they want to. As a result, we’re seeing higher meeting attendance, better in-meeting engagement and remote team members that feel more energized and connected post meeting! We'd love for you to try Venue at your next team-wide meeting. Let us know how we can help!

HoyTrabajas is a platform that provides high-quality, pre-screened, and curated low-skilled talent to businesses in less than 48 hours. This service enables companies in Latin America to save more than 60% of their recruitment costs. We launched in October 2020 and currently have a monthly recurring revenue (MRR) of $350k, growing at a rate of +7% month on month. Our technical co-founders, Rubén, Vladimir, and Sebastián, bring extensive experience from the HR industry. HoyTrabajas is backed by Rebel Fund, Alan Rutledge, Kube Ventures, Flucas VC, Magic Fund, New Ventures, Y Combinator (w22), and others.

Drivingforce is building “Rippling for trucking”, an all-in-one workforce management solution for the trucking industry. We consolidate multiple back office functions such as compliance, payroll, and recruiting, so trucking fleets can manage their entire workforce in one place. Check us out on TikTok! tiktok.com/@truckingnewbie

Happl (formerly Tahora) Personalised benefits for employees to choose what’s right for them, and tools for managers to engage their teams, whilst we take care of all the compliance and admin. Founded in 2020 and based in London, UK, Happl works with some of the UK’s leading employers to bring their hybrid working culture to life! https://www.happl.com/

StafBook help SMEs to simplify HR & expense management. With StafBook, business managers can manage the People administration starting from HR (onboarding, leave & attendance, payroll, until off-boarding) and also expense management (reimbursement, cash advance). Thus, people can save their time on administrative task, and focus on core business

We are disrupting hospitality hiring by reducing the time it takes to hire staff from months to < 3 days. Hiring staff is the biggest challenge for many of the 2M+ hospitality businesses in Europe. Covid and Brexit ceased the usual oversupply of candidates, making traditional job boards unable to meet employers' needs, and agencies more expensive than ever. As a consequence, employers spend huge amounts of time sourcing candidates manually and filtering through irrelevant CVs. Up to 80% of candidates who get invited to an interview, don't even show up. At Hirebolt we eliminate all this work for employers, by finding actively-looking candidates, vetting them and automatically matching them to the best employers using AI. We schedule interviews and extend offers to candidates faster than humans can, giving employers time back to run their businesses. To date, we’ve raised ~$1.5M from investors including Y Combinator, Entrepreneur First, world-class Venture Capital funds and industry leaders.

Dealls offers a curated selection of job vacancies for individuals pre-screened and curated by our team. By partnering with us, more than 500 companies have saved time and money by receiving only eligible and top candidates. Job seekers love Dealls because they can apply to multiple top companies with a single click and receive responses 21X faster than with other platforms.

Café connects teams across your organization through real-life interactions. Build human connection, give your workplace purpose, and increase cross-collaboration — all in one place

We are building a benefits marketplace for employers to purchase and compare benefits by industry and company size. We are currently a decision support tool for employees to select the best benefit package.

Advantage Club is a global platform for employee engagement including rewards, flexible benefits, perks and communities. We are currently live with 1000+ companies across 100+ countries and have a ARR of ~$8m. Our revenue has grown ~4x in the last 1 year.

Cercli is the modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). We automate payroll, compliance, reimbursement, onboarding, and offboarding by seamlessly integrating with tools across the workplace.

Nestor is the People Intelligence Platform that helps hybrid organizations develop and retain talent. Nestor takes a unified skills-based approach to bring together employee engagement, performance and development planning. We use predictive analytics to provide individual nudges for employees and actionable insights for managers and HR professionals. Get a demo here: https://nestorup.com/demo.

Affinity is a compliance training platform designed specifically for regulated industries. We’ve previously built a fintech from inception to a successful exit and are leveraging that experience to solve the learning management needs of regulated tech companies from growth stage to large enterprise banks.

Ascen is the modern EOR for staffing firms. Ascen provides employer of record/agent of record services for fast-growing companies, staffing and recruitment firms, and labor marketplaces.

Easily customize GitHub-based technical assessments, where candidates can complete tasks like reviewing code, submitting a pull request, or improving a system’s design. Hatchways helps you build a state-of-the-art practical interview process that is customized to your role while saving you engineering interview load along the way.

Hire Smarter with HireArt. We're a modern staffing agency that uses work samples and video assessments to generate deeper insight & connect contractors to companies where they'll thrive. Our graders and account managers individually assess each candidate on culture fit, experience, and communication skills. The proof is in the talent: our candidates have filled roles at leading start-up and technology companies like Facebook, Airbnb, and Waymo. We put people first, from our candidates to our clients, we believe in the power of transparent hiring. Learn more about our team and our platform at HireArt.com.

Tall Poppy is building tools and services to make personal digital safety accessible to everyone. Founded in 2018, we work both proactively to help prevent harassment from escalating, and also provide expert incident response services when people come under attack.

tEQuitable helps companies get in front of and prevent harassment. We are an independent, confidential platform to address issues of bias, discrimination, and harassment in the workplace. For employees, we provide a sounding board they can consult without fear of retribution on issues ranging from subtle, insidious slights and invalidations to overt discrimination and harassment. For companies, we provide data and insights to identify systemic issues, track behavioral trends, and develop actionable recommendations. tEQuitable is using technology to make workplaces more equitable.

ModernLoop helps every company automate and streamline recruiting operations to deliver the best candidate experience. In 2022, the Department of Labor estimates there is a global talent shortage of 40 million workers, and that number is expected to grow to over 85 million by 2030. In order for companies to win the war for talent, they need to provide a best-in-class candidate experience to recruit top talent, and our product aims at doing just that! Our founders Lydia Han (CEO) and Chris Triolo (CTO) both founded ModernLoop in December of 2020 after they saw the challenges recruiting teams had when it came to coordinating hundreds of interviews across various teams, all while making sure both hiring managers and candidates had the best experience possible. After spending 15+ combined years at companies like Facebook, Slack, Brex and Salesforce, they understood what it took to enable talent teams do their best work, and are building a product to scale alongside them as they grow. We created ModernLoop to serve companies of all sizes in every industry to help Talent teams interview candidates quicker, easier, and enhance productivity of teams as they continue their search for top talent!

Humanly is transforming the world of talent acquisition with our recruiting platform that connects candidates and hiring teams through conversation, backed by natural language processing and AI. With products such as automated candidate screening and scheduling, we empower companies to present their best selves while giving candidates an unrivaled experience.

Benepass consolidates corporate benefits onto a single card, powered by our in-house fintech payments stack We help companies take care of their employees through tax-advantaged benefits (e.g. FSA/HSA, dependent care, commuter) and company-funded stipends (e.g. wellness, WFH, professional development) all on a single card + mobile app. With Benepass, HR teams can centralize all ancillary benefits and perks in the same place and make them a no-brainer for employees to use and engage with.

In 2016, we set out on a mission to make 100 million employees heard and valued. Today we’re Asia’s leading employee experience platform that helps engage employees, predict attrition & answer FAQs with conversational AI that people love ❤️ From India’s Shark Tank to Tiger Global. We’re backed by Y Combinator, Bling Capital and founders of Gainsight, Freshworks, Zeta, Lenskart, innov8. As a Chief Listening Officer, our A.I. bot Amber helps people-first leaders find hidden gaps in their culture, managers and wellbeing in real time. Spanning across 60 countries, our customers include MNCs like Samsung, Xiaomi, Lenovo, conglomerates like TATA, Godrej, Bharti. Come join our mission to help build cultures where people love to come to work. For career opportunities, please visit our careers page: jobs.infeedo.com

Candidately simplifies the process of sharing candidate resumes between staffing firms and their clients. Instead of relying on email attachments, Candidately offers a collaborative space where staffing firms can submit their top candidates, receive prompt client feedback, track client activity on candidate profiles, and increase the number of successful placements.

Companies use FlexDesk to book, manage, and track their spend on coworking space. FlexDesk provides employees with a booking interface to search and rent across a worldwide network of 7,000 coworking spaces. For employers, FlexDesk makes it easy to track the spend, configure policies, and streamline billing across all employees, geos, & brands. The solution is soon expanding for companies to use FlexDesk as the OS to streamline their entire scope of office-related spend and management.

Paragon One wants to help anyone, starting with students, launch their career by getting access to professional experiences in the era of generative AI. To achieve this mission, we pioneered a new form of professional experience called the remote "Externship" that scales the management of top performing GenZers on real company projects. Our platform recruits cohorts of students from around the globe to tackle strategic & analytical problems across customer discovery, market insights, R&D, analytics, and product strategy. Training and guidance is provided by subject matter experts, and our automated system and support team removes the resource drain on employees and HR so that externs receive the assistance they need. Paragon One launched Remote Externships in 2019 and has helped thousands of students from underserved backgrounds gain professional experience from Fortune 1000s such as PwC, Home Depot, Meta, HSBC, HP, Pfizer, Hugo Boss, Beats by Dre, National Geographic, The Nature Conservancy, Greenpeace as well as numerous growth stage companies. Nearly 80% of students are from underrepresented backgrounds, and we see 1 in 2 students land Fortune 1000 jobs within 6 months of completing an externship. Backers include YCombinator, Foundation Capital, Learn Capital, University Ventures, and Launch Fund.

The complete way to communicate compensation, starting with our interactive offer letters.

CandorIQ is software to manage Headcount and Compensation planning. Employees are +70% of all OPEX and yet still managed in sheets & email. We manage all people spend in 1 platform, integrated into your Finance & HR stack. Product capabilities include: - Headcount & backfill planning - Headcount budget scenarios across departments - Merit cycle planning - Analytics including employee churn, hiring win/loss, cash burn

Peoplebox is a one-stop okr, performance management and employee engagement platform that deeply integrates with your current work tools. It aligns OKRs, 1:1s, Performance Reviews and Compensation into a single platform to drive better execution, visibility, and team performance. Peoplebox integrates with all work tools (Slack, MS Teams, Workday, SQL, Jira, Asana, Hubspot, etc) to drive greater adoption of all business and HR processes and build an engaged and high performing culture with 90% less admin.

Blee easily integrates across the content creation workflow, combining instant feedback and faster approvals with scalable review and recordkeeping. Helping companies maximize revenue by moving faster to market while minimizing risk

Gigs is the world’s first telecom-as-a-service platform. By enabling any company to launch its own wireless service in a matter of days, Gigs helps its customers differentiate their product offering, increase customer stickiness and unlock new revenue streams through embedded connectivity. As the only end-to-end connectivity provider, Gigs offers a broad set of products and services, including premium wholesale, a hosted checkout, subscription management, payments, analytics, AI, and more. The company is backed by Google, Y Combinator, and prominent business angels and investors like Dara Khosrowshahi (CEO of Uber), Tony Xu (Co-founder & CEO of DoorDash), and Fidji Simo (CEO of Instacart). The company was founded by Hermann Frank and Dennis Bauer in 2020 and currently employs over 60 people in the US and Europe. For more information, please visit: gigs.com.

Setup your entire back-office in one place. - Banking: Bank Accounts, Corporate Cards, Payments, Treasury - Bookkeeping & Tax: Keep you books in order and file income taxes at the end of the year - Payroll and Benefits: US Payroll in 50 states, US Contractors, International Contractors. Health, Vision, Dental, 401k Benefits

Pilot is an all-in-one people platform for fast-growing teams. We help companies with payroll, benefits and compliance of employees and contractors in over 100 countries, including in the US.

Finch is the API to access payroll and HR systems. We allow admins to connect their company in a compliant and secure manner to applications. Finch integrates across providers enabling developers to access a previously closed system and are at the source of truth for employee data and money flow. Our API powers use cases across lending, insurance, benefits, FP&A, and HR applications.

Indeed, the world’s number one job site has acquired Interviewed - http://press.indeed.com/press/indeed-acquires-leading-hr-technology-company-interviewed/

HigherMe is all-in-one hiring software for restaurant and retail businesses to easily recruit, screen, interview, and onboard employees. Quickly review applications, schedule interviews, manage job board postings, and fill out employee paperwork from anywhere on any device. Created by a former multi-unit franchisee, HigherMe reduces the time and cost of hiring using a mobile-first applicant tracking system, Text-To-Apply technology, one-click interview scheduling, video cover letters, and more. With over three million applications submitted using our cloud-based software, say goodbye to the stack of paper résumés and easily fill open jobs anywhere, anytime.

Gather is software that helps high-growth teams build and execute their onboarding, offboarding, and other People Operations programs. Gather replaces manual coordination with smart, automated communication powered by a deep integration with Slack.

Zenefits was founded to take the administrative heartache out of getting healthcare. In the five years since, Zenefits'​ consumer-grade technology has tackled one of the economy's gnarliest people problems: delivering easy access to health insurance. Today, this is the foundation of our People Platform which brings everything HR -- benefits, payroll, onboarding and talent management -- into one single app. And we're just getting started. Our team is creating a modern People Platform that empowers employees by equipping them with the tools they need to be independent, mobile, and fully in control. The Zenefits People Platform is where HR comes to life. Learn more at www.zenefits.com

Fond is a global SaaS platform that seamlessly consolidates employee rewards and recognition processes into one easy-to-use solution. With Fond, employees and managers can recognize each other, redeem rewards, access exclusive corporate discounts, and measure success so HR departments spend less time managing programs and more time driving results.

Eden provides workplace software for modern companies. Our suite includes tools such as Desk Booking, Room Scheduling, Visitor Management, and more.