# Ganaz, Inc.

> Ganaz is a Seattle workforce and financial-services platform built for the people who pick, pack and process America's food. It lets farms and food plants recruit, onboard, train, message and pay a mostly deskless, multilingual and often unbanked workforce from a phone - replacing paper hiring packets, cash-and-check payroll and predatory check-cashing with digital onboarding, auto-translated bulk texting and a Mastercard payroll card. Founded in 2017 by former Fair Trade USA leader Hannah Freeman, it raised a $7M Series A in 2021 and reached more than 175,000 workers.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** Seattle, Washington, United States
- **Founders:** Hannah Freeman (CEO & Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~21 employees
- **Products:** HR Digital Onboarding, Workforce Communication, Ganaz Mastercard Payroll Card, H-2A Program Management, Workforce Training & Analytics
- **Notable:** Raised a $7M Series A in June 2021 led by Trilogy Equity Partners with Bessemer, AgFunder, Founders' Co-op, Taylor Ventures and Techstars., Grew commercial-grower customer base roughly 10x during 2020., Reached more than 175,000 food-industry workers on the platform.

## Products & services

- **HR Digital Onboarding** — Paperless, mobile onboarding that lets employers complete hiring forms roughly 3x faster - cutting a 20-30 minute-per-worker paper process to a few minutes, with digital record-keeping for compliance.
- **Workforce Communication** — Auto-translated bulk messaging over SMS and WhatsApp so managers can reach an entire multilingual crew at once and workers can reply in their own language.
- **Ganaz Mastercard Payroll Card** — A digital payroll and financial-services card aimed at largely unbanked farm and food workers, replacing paper checks and check-cashing fees, with planned remittance features for money sent home.
- **H-2A Program Management** — End-to-end software and services giving employers visibility into the H-2A guest-worker visa program.
- **Workforce Training & Analytics** — Digital training modules and survey/workforce analytics that help employers train crews and understand retention.

## Achievements

- Raised a $7M Series A in June 2021 led by Trilogy Equity Partners with Bessemer, AgFunder, Founders' Co-op, Taylor Ventures and Techstars.
- Grew commercial-grower customer base roughly 10x during 2020.
- Reached more than 175,000 food-industry workers on the platform.
- Became a public benefit corporation, writing worker welfare into its charter.
- Launched a Mastercard payroll card targeting a largely unbanked workforce.

## Latest updates

- **2021-06** — Closed $7M Series A led by Trilogy Equity Partners; announced plans for a Mastercard payroll card.
- **2021** — Converted to a public benefit corporation.
- **2022** — Expanded H-2A program management software and services.

## Links

- Website: https://ganaz.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/ganaz
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Ganazplatform
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ganazplatform

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Last updated: 2026-08-21