hr-automation
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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.
Bayzat
Reduce HR admin time, run payroll in minutes, streamline all your payments, and deliver world-class employee experiences - unified on one platform hyperlocalised for the GCC.
DXwand
DXwand is a Dubai- and Cairo-based enterprise AI company whose ORXTRA platform lets large organisations build and deploy generative AI agents on top of their own documents, databases and workflows. Founded in 2018 by two former Microsoft executives, Ahmed Mahmoud and Mahmoud Gomaa, the company built its edge on two hard problems most Western vendors skipped: understanding spoken Arabic across its many dialects, and running useful AI cheaply enough that a bank or a ministry can afford to put it in front of millions of people. Its knowledge-mining and RAG engine removes the manual data-labelling step that normally stalls enterprise AI projects, and its agents ship as pre-built modules for customer service, procurement and HR, or as custom builds through a no-code Agent Builder that supports 20+ language models and 80+ data sources. DXwand serves financial services, government, healthcare, telecom, education, media and retail clients across MENA, has raised roughly $6.9 million to date including a $4 million Series A led by Shorooq Partners and Algebra Ventures, and says it reached about $5 million in annual recurring revenue while remaining profitable.
inFeedo AI
inFeedo AI is an employee experience company built around Amber, a conversational AI that acts as a Chief Listening Officer for enterprises. Amber checks in with employees, surfaces sentiment and disengagement in real time, predicts attrition, and automates HR support. Founded in India and backed by Y Combinator, Tiger Global and Jungle Ventures, inFeedo serves 175+ enterprises across 60+ countries, helping CHROs at companies like Sony, Lenovo, Tata and Samsung understand how their people really feel.
TeamBridge
TeamBridge is a San Francisco company building a composable, AI-native workforce management platform for the hourly and frontline workforce - roughly 70% of the world's workers. Founded in 2020 by former Uber product and design leaders Arjun Vora and Tito Goldstein, it hands operators 'LEGO block' modules for scheduling, onboarding, time and attendance, communication, instant pay and custom mobile apps, so companies can run staffing operations as one connected system. It raised a $28M Series B in September 2024 led by Mayfield, bringing total funding to about $41.5M.
Cascade AI
Cascade AI is a Bellevue/Seattle-based startup building an agentic AI platform for HR and IT operations. Its AI teammates sit across systems of record like Workday, ADP, UKG and ServiceNow to answer employee questions and resolve requests across benefits, leave, compensation, policy and IT - executing workflows in real time rather than just surfacing information. Founded in 2022 by former Microsoft engineers Ana-Maria Constantin and Pulak Goyal, the company raised a $3.75M seed round led by Gradient, Google's AI-focused venture fund, and says customers see roughly a 50% drop in HR ticket volume after deployment.
Informed K12
Informed K12 is a workflow automation and digital forms platform built specifically for the operational complexity of K-12 school districts. It replaces paper and PDF forms with online workflows that route automatically through the real approval chains districts already use - across finance, HR, student services, and IT - capturing e-signatures and a time-stamped audit trail without replacing the ERP, HRIS, or SIS a district already runs. Founded in 2012 by two Stanford Graduate School of Education classmates, the company (formerly Chalk Schools) serves hundreds of districts and employs roughly 70-75 people.
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.
Gusto
Gusto is a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and HR platform built for small and medium-sized businesses. Founded in 2011 as ZenPayroll by Josh Reeves, Tomer London, and Edward Kim, the company has grown to serve over 500,000 businesses and recently crossed $1 billion in annual revenue. Gusto handles everything from payroll runs and tax filings to health insurance, 401(k) plans, and employee onboarding - replacing what used to require a patchwork of accountants, brokers, and spreadsheets with a single platform. The company also offers Gusto Embedded, a payroll API that lets other software platforms build payroll directly into their products. Valued at roughly $9.5 billion, Gusto remains private and is widely considered a leading IPO candidate in the HR tech space.
Humand
Humand is a mobile-first, all-in-one HR platform built for the 2.7 billion deskless and frontline workers who have never had a proper digital work home. Founded in 2020 by Nicolas Benenzon and Geronimo Maspero, the platform combines 30+ HR modules - from internal communications and payroll to performance reviews and AI-powered automation - into a single app. With 1.6 million workers across 1,500+ organizations in 51 countries, and a $66M Series A raised in February 2026 co-led by Kaszek and Goodwater Capital, Humand is positioning itself as the operating system for the world's largest workforce segment.
Leena AI
Leena AI builds an agentic autonomous agent for the enterprise back office - an AI colleague that resolves IT, HR and finance requests end-to-end without humans in the loop. Powered by WorkLM, the company's proprietary LLM fine-tuned on enterprise workflows, it serves 500+ companies including Nestle, Coca-Cola, Sony and Etihad Airways.