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Netchex and the art of the 15-minute payroll
At a Wyoming YMCA, a two-hour payroll run became a 15-minute job. Netchex’s wager is that connected software and a familiar human can make payday less of a production.
Ciphr wants to give HR its working day back
A holiday calculation that swallowed months became an afternoon’s work. Behind Ciphr’s pitch to Britain’s mid-sized employers is a practical bet: connect the records, then give people fewer things to chase.
Moorepay sells the hours before payday
The British payroll specialist turns a recurring administrative headache into a software-and-service business. Its most revealing pitch is the time customers say they get back.
Frontier Software and the art of getting payday right
For more than four decades, Frontier Software has worked on the unglamorous machinery behind payday. Its story runs from a kitchen-bench design to multinational payroll, with hard lessons about the price of trust.
BrightHR Put the Awkward Parts of Being a Boss in One Pocket
Leave requests, late shifts, payroll handoffs and risk assessments rarely belong in the same conversation. BrightHR built a business by putting them in the same app - with a lawyer or safety adviser available when the software runs out of answers.
The Payroll Company Betting Your Weirdest Pay Run Should Stay In-House
Greenshades spent two decades turning tax software into a control panel for messy American payroll. Its best customers are not looking for fewer knobs - they need the right ones.
Payworks Bet That Payroll Needed a Human Voice - 50,000 Canadian Businesses Picked Up
Barb Gamey carried a desktop computer into sales meetings and pitched a radical idea for payroll: modern Canadian software, backed by a person who knows your name. Twenty-five years later, Payworks is testing how far that service-first playbook can scale.
palm.hr
palm.hr is a Riyadh-born, cloud-based HR and payroll platform built for small and mid-sized businesses across Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC. It brings employee data, time and attendance, WPS-compliant payroll, and employee engagement into one system that plugs directly into local government rails like GOSI and Mudad, so companies can run people operations that comply with regional labor law out of the box. Founded in 2019, it raised a $5M pre-Series A in 2023 to expand across MENA and pairs its software with an outsourced HR concierge service.
HReasily
HReasily is a Singapore-headquartered cloud HR and payroll platform that helps small and mid-sized businesses across Southeast Asia automate payroll, leave, claims, staff records and time-attendance in one place. Founded in 2015, it operates across six Asian markets and handles local statutory compliance so growing companies can run HR with less paperwork.
Workforce Optimizer - AI Enabled WFM
Workforce Optimizer is a Singapore-based B2B software company that builds an AI-enabled workforce management (WFM) platform. It uses machine learning and mathematical optimization to predict labour demand, automatically generate optimized staff schedules from millions of complex rules, track time and attendance, and dynamically redeploy people in real time when unplanned events occur. Originally founded as FriarTuck, the company serves healthcare, retail, and public-sector customers - including Singapore General Hospital and National University Hospital - and optimizes more than 20 million assignments each year for tens of thousands of daily users.
ZenHR
ZenHR is a cloud-based Human Resources Management System (HRMS) built specifically for the Middle East, North Africa and Gulf region. It automates payroll, attendance, onboarding, performance and recruitment while staying compliant with local labor laws, social insurance (GOSI), and wage protection (WPS) rules. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Riyadh, ZenHR serves companies from small businesses to large enterprises across markets including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait and Iraq.
Keka HR
Keka HR is a cloud-based human resource, payroll and people-operations platform for small and mid-sized businesses. Founded in Hyderabad in 2014 by Vijay Yalamanchili, it bundles payroll, attendance, leave, performance, hiring and employee-engagement tools into a single self-serve system. After bootstrapping for years, Keka raised a $57 million Series A from WestBridge Capital in 2022 - reported as India's largest Series A in SaaS at the time - and now serves thousands of companies while processing payroll for more than a million employees each month.
Paismo
Paismo is a people-first, AI-powered HR and payroll platform built for small and mid-sized businesses in emerging markets. Founded in 2022 by University of Pennsylvania alumni Rebecka Zavaleta and Usama Mahmud, it combines core HR, time and attendance, leave, performance management and automated payroll into one cloud system - with localized features designed from the ground up for markets that legacy HR software has long ignored. Backed by a $1.5M seed haul led by Indus Valley Capital, Paismo now spans the US, UAE, Pakistan, Mexico and Ethiopia, and has layered on Employer of Record services and a one-click payroll partnership with easypaisa.