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Remote sells the paperwork that lets talent stay put
A video call can cross a border in seconds. An employment contract cannot. Remote built a business in the gap - and is now reaching from payroll into the rest of working life.
Rippling Wants One Employee Record to Run the Whole Company
The $16.8 billion software company started with onboarding and kept going - into payroll, laptops, app access, corporate cards, compliance, and AI. The wager is simple: if worker data is clean, the back office can finally stop copying and pasting.
Pebl Wants Global Hiring to Feel Like Booking a Flight. The Hard Part Is Everything You Don't See.
Pebl sells a quick click into 185-plus labor markets. Behind it sits the decidedly unquick work of licenses, payroll rails, local benefits, immigration rules, and human judgment.
Matthew Wilson
Matthew Wilson is the co-founder and CEO of Jack & Jill, a London-based startup building two conversational AI recruiters - Jack for job seekers and Jill for employers - to replace the resume-and-keyword model of hiring. An Oxford-trained theoretical physicist turned serial founder, he previously co-founded Veratrak and scaled the global-employment company Omnipresent to a roughly $600M valuation in three years before its acquisition by Deel. In October 2025, six months after starting Jack & Jill, he raised a $20M seed round led by Creandum with backing from over 75 angels including Nico Rosberg.