Top Human Resources Startups 2023

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)

Launched in 2012 as ZenPayroll, Gusto serves more than 200,000 businesses nationwide. Each year we process tens of billions of dollars of payroll and provide employee benefits—like health insurance and 401(k) accounts—while helping companies create incredible work places. Through one refreshingly easy, integrated platform, we automate and simplify your payroll, benefits, and HR, all while providing expert support. You and your employees will get the peace of mind you need to do your best work.

Since graduating Y Combinator in 2014, Checkr has become the leading technology company in the background check industry. Checkr’s mission is to build a fairer future by designing technology to create opportunities for all. As a company that provides modern and compliant background checks for global enterprises and startups, Checkr knows first hand how difficult it may be for individuals with prior criminal history to find employment and we want to help provide second chances for justice-impacted people. We encourage qualified individuals with prior criminal histories to apply for any of our roles. More than 3,000 businesses trust Checkr for their background screenings including Uber, Instacart, Netflix, Zenefits, GrubHub, Home Depot, and more. Checkr is also featured on BuiltIn as one of the top places to work in 2023. The company is funded by Accel Partners, Google Ventures, Y Combinator and TRowePrice, and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Find out more about Checkr at www.checkr.com.

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.

In today’s environment, employees need training to ensure business compliance, skill development and to support an engaged workforce. Go1 brings together content from the world’s top training providers and makes it easy to access in whichever platform your organization uses. This makes it easier to deliver, manage and engage with training. Go1 also works with existing LMS, HRIS, and business systems to make learning simpler and more effective.

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.

WorkRamp is the All-in-One Learning Platform that your executives, employees, and customers will love. WorkRamp advances learning as a growth engine for your business with a flexible platform that empowers teams to develop top talent, exceed revenue targets, and inspire customers to become advocates. With a flexible, All-in-One Learning Platform, WorkRamp redefines the LMS for the modern workplace to help executives recognize learning as a growth engine and one of the most strategic investments an organization can make. See why top learning teams at Box, Outreach, and Reddit trust WorkRamp to drive business outcomes and organizational scale.

From borders and bureaucracy to openness and simplicity. With Localyze, we’re reimagining how people move for work by bringing together seamless technology, transparency and unrivalled service. We believe in freeing talent from borders, so we’re building a centralised platform for a decentralised world. A world where companies can hire from everywhere — and people can work and live where they want to.

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

Build a visual index of everyone in your organization that's instantly accessible, fully customizable, and always connected to your data. Help everyone from the CEO to the new joiner get to know who's who, get context for where people fit in and get in touch when they need to.

Pasito saves companies money on healthcare and payroll by guiding their employees to make better and more efficient health and retirement benefits decisions. We integrate payroll, financial, and claims data to optimize benefits coverage and utilization.

Deed makes it easy for employees to donate to their favorite charities and volunteer with great causes at work. Companies like Airbnb and Stripe use Deed to increase employee retention and happiness. Since launching publicly in January, we’ve increased our logo count by 4X with companies like DoorDash, Box, and Lob. We did this by making sure employees have the same awesome experience using their workplace giving tool as they do with their favorite consumer apps.

We make it easy for growing teams to set up and run their payroll & HR (instead of a mess of spreadsheets, poorly integrated tools, and emails with accountants). - 1 min to run payroll - 2 mins to onboard new starters - Hands-off pension & accounting integrations - Centralised employee info, time-off, and reporting Our team are software engineers who spent 4 years scaling Monzo from 400k to 6m customers. While at Monzo we repeatedly got paid incorrectly by their poor payroll providers. So we decided to build the product that they should have used from day 1. We’ve gained certification as a payroll software from the UK government.

Runa is a modern, cloud-based payroll and human resources software built for companies in Latin America. Companies can manage payroll, human resources, time tracking, performance management and reporting all in one platform.

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

Unsaddl enables employers to offer 401(k) plans and education benefits including student loan and 529 plan contributions, student loan refinancing, and tuition reimbursement

Humaans is an HRIS system designed to help People Ops/Finance/IT teams operate collaboratively with all the best in class point solutions they want for their staff while maintaining a central record of employee data. The goal is to automate the employee lifecycle by integrating deeply with other complementary solutions and turn complex/manual processes (e.g. onboarding, offboarding, compensation management, etc) into simple workflows.

WorkPay provides SMBs in Africa with tools for time tracking, payroll processing, and salary disbursement to banks and mobile wallets.

Zazos is the no-code HR platform. We allow startups to set up unique workspaces that centralize information and tasks for employees. For example, companies can create a home page where people can view stock options, ask for time off, and see everyone's profiles. On Zazos, anyone can build and share people management apps, without knowing how to code. As companies grow, the lack of customization of current software forces Heads of HR to buy multiple disconnected tools, allocate engineers to build and maintain people-related projects or use spreadsheets.

Providing self-service analytics for HR practioners.

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.

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.

Instead of waiting for candidates to apply, companies use Crew to pro-actively contact, nurture & close talent, at scale. The 1st all-in-one recruiting CRM that lets teams automate their outbound efforts, streamline the hiring processes, and gather all the data in one place.

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/

With increasing fraud rates, the need for a credible background check system is more important than ever. Unlike other background check solutions that are manual, expensive and require a ton of documentation, HelloVerify creates a seamless experience through its technology platform that is cost effective and provides results instantly from trusted verification sources. It not only automates data collection and matching but streamlines the entire process from order requests, progress status to final report delivery. We help prevent fraud by finding facts about individuals. The online service acts as a means of authenticating and objectively verifying an individual’s identity, court case status, educational check, credit score and employment history - thereby enabling commercial transactions and hiring decisions to take place between parties. Whether you are a corporate or a startup looking to hire new employees or a homeowner seeking to verify your driver's driving license or a landlord wanting to ascertain your tenant’s payment ability - we provide a wide range of checks at affordable rates & quick turnaround time. Sign up today!

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.

Are you looking for a platform that can help you overcome people and culture challenges? We combine human expertise with advanced data analytics to help you achieve the results you dream about. Our platform helps organizations build a great culture, hire the right talent and lead their people. There is no need to be guessing, and worrying all the time. Use Zoios to get real-time actions that will help you create an organization where employees thrive.

MindFi is an app that reduces burnout and improves mental health for employees. We sell to companies in Asia such as Deutsche Bank, KPMG, PatSnap, Visa. Our annual revenue is US $150k to date and we’re growing 53% month on month. The team is headquartered in Singapore and consists of Bjorn, (ex-Zendesk product manager), psychologist Anita Sadasivan (UMich alum, ex-Raffles Hospital), Leon 2X startup founder with 2 exits and Gangeshwar, an award-winning AI engineer.

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

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

Humi is building important infrastructure for Canada's economy. Software that helps SMBs employ Canadians. Payroll, HR, and Benefits all together in a single simple to use platform. Serving thousands of Canadian companies, Humi’s clients include innovators such as Ada, Hubdoc, LiveCA, AudioBooks.com, Inkbox, and others. www.Humi.ca

Mesh is a performance management platform that makes it easy for employees to accomplish goals and get timely feedback, especially in remote teams. It looks like Facebook, and instead of filling boring HR forms, employees like & comment on each other’s progress.

Targeting companies with 500+ employees, Together helps Learning and Development teams run a best-practice mentoring program for employees. It captures everyone's areas for development and goals, matches them with the most relevant mentor within their company, and guides and tracks relationships. Integrating with Outlook, Gsuite and other enterprise tools, it is designed for the professional user.

Vinco helps companies in Latin America pay for blue-collar employees’ online education. We do this by connecting employees to accessible programs (like High School, College, and Language Courses) and in turn, improve employee retention by at least 2x.

Hammr is the all-in-one platform for construction companies to manage their back office. Top contractors use Hammr for time tracking, payroll, benefits and compliance — in one place. In the last 12 weeks: We've already built time tracking, payroll, and job costing and have $2,000 in MRR. Doubling every month.

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.

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.

Humand transforms how companies digitize their internal communication, culture, and HR processes within one user-friendly app. As a result, Humand provides every company with a digital Community to centralize every company-employee interaction. Humand's digital Communities are powerful, customizable and easily adapt to the needs of every company, no matter the industry, size or region. Companies that implement Humand benefit from the following suite of Mini Apps, which are getting smarter thanks to the power of AI: + Forms & Smart Workflows 📋 + Internal Social Network ❤️ + Chat 💬 + Time Off 🏝 + Magazine 📰 + Surveys 📊 + Smart Intranet 📲 + Kudos 👏🏻 + Learning 📚 + Onboarding 🎉 + Org chart 👥 + Company Files and Employee Documents 📂 + Perks & Benefits 🥂 + Birthdays & Work Anniversaries 🥳 + Employee Development 🥇 + Electronic Signature ✍🏻 + Smart Tickets 📧 + Marketplace 🛍 + Calendar & Events 📆 + Agenda 🔎 + Integrations 🔗 More than 130 companies use Humand. Implemented by ArcelorMittal (biggest steel producer in the world), Tenaris (global leader in steel pipes production), NSG group (among the biggest glass producers in the world), and many other organizations across different countries. Humand enables all workers, particularly those without direct access to a computer at their desks, to stay connected with their company anywhere, anytime. Humand enhances internal communication speed, streamline information flow between collaborators, and enable instant, targeted reach to all employees with push notifications tailored to their needs. Companies that adopt a digital Community powered by Humand experience an enriched work environment, heightened employee camaraderie, and a surge in productivity, all contributing to a thriving and connected workforce.

NudgeLabs is a service that helps enterprises improve team performance and employee retention. We pair each employee with an online coach and use smart watch data to improve their physical and mental health.

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.

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.

Therify is an inclusive mental health benefit for companies. Through our web platform, employees access culturally responsive therapists, live community sessions, and self-guided content to support their emotional well-being.

We help Spanish-speaking companies create, execute and measure their online learning strategy. We offer more than 5.000 courses across three categories: Soft skills, business, and tech skills.

Membership to 1M pre-negotiated child care slots, exclusively available to employers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

lapzo makes it easy for companies in Latam to develop their workforce, even when they are remote. We allow them to set and track goals, evaluate their performance, and train them with online courses.

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

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teaBOT offers an amenity-as-a-services to offices and showrooms. Your staff and clients will love coming to your space and sharing their custom-made tea blend with colleagues and guests! Offices like Google, HubSpot, and McKinsey use teaBOT as a recruiting and retention tool to have their teams love coming into the office! Details at www.teabot.com

Our HR management platform helps companies instantly digitize all HR functions across the full employee journey, all in one place: - talent acquisition: digitize and collaborate over recruitments with our ATS (applicant tracking system), then onboard your new joiners fully digitally - HR admin: manage paid time off, employee database and documents, payroll (for Singapore and Malaysia, more to come!), expense claims, timesheets... - Performance management: track KPIs / OKRs, manage performance appraisal, gather 360° feedback...

A mobile app. It allows employees to get paid whenever they want, instead of just once a month (or biweekly). We sell it to companies as an employee benefit (B2B SaaS).

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/

Impraise empowers your people to accelerate their performance and professional growth with clear direction, alignment, feedback exchange, and recognition. The Impraise platform offers solutions such as Goal Management, Performance Check-ins, 1:1 meetings, 360 reviews, real-time feedback and coaching.

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.

Qulture.Rocks makes people management, OKR management, and culture management software for some of the world's most innovative companies, backed by the likes of Founders Fund, Blackstone, Sequoia, and Tiger Global. Our suite of products encompasses 1:1s, engagement surveys, performance reviews, OKRs/goals, ongoing feedback, and peer to peer recognition, and integrates seamlessly with your existing software (including Slack). We also help our customers design their processes, which is of special help for startups and scaleups implementing these practices for the first time.