Plane (formerly Pilot) is a San Francisco-based global payroll, HR, and compliance platform that lets fast-growing companies pay U.S. employees, international employees, and contractors from a single system. Founded in 2017 out of Y Combinator's Winter 2017 batch, Plane runs domestic payroll, hires people abroad through employer-of-record services, and pays contractors in 240+ countries and 130+ currencies - pitching itself as the easiest-to-set-up multi-country payroll tool, with an unusual approach of charging foreign-exchange fees at cost rather than marking them up.
Anthony Mironov is the co-founder and CEO of Wingspan, a New York fintech building payroll and benefits infrastructure for the 1099 economy. After a career in private equity and a stint as a freelancer who got tired of reverse-engineering his own paycheck, he started Wingspan in 2019 with Greg Franczyk. The company has processed more than $3 billion in contractor payments and raised $54 million, betting that as one in three American workers go independent, the back office for that work needs to be rebuilt from scratch.
Found is a San Francisco-based financial technology company that bundles business banking, automated bookkeeping, and tax tools into a single platform for self-employed Americans. Founded in 2019 by ex-Square executives Lauren Myrick and Connor Dunn, Found pairs an FDIC-insured business checking account (via Lead Bank) with real-time tax estimates, automatic expense categorization, invoicing, and quarterly tax payments - aimed at the 64 million Americans who work for themselves.