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Mrinal Singh and the résumé that stopped being enough
Dartmouth and Lazard gave Mrinal Singh a familiar route into business. Building Bolto taught him to ask a different question: what has someone actually made?
Factorial found the business inside the paperwork
A Barcelona startup turned the chores of employment into a paid software business. Now it wants the same employee record to connect HR, finance, IT, and a pair of AI agents.
One Model wants to end the argument over whose spreadsheet is right
Before HR can predict who will leave, it has to agree on who works there. One Model built its business on that awkward little problem - and is now taking it into the age of enterprise AI.
Jolly puts a price on doing the right thing
A finished shift. A timely care note. A referral who stays. Jolly turns the work employers need into points employees can spend - and asks whether the reward earned its keep.
Jellyvision turned a game-show trick into a benefits business
The makers of You Don’t Know Jack found a second act in the least festive corner of working life: employee benefits. ALEX turns a bewildering choice into a conversation - and is now moving into enrollment itself.
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.
HRMC would rather see your work than your resume
A blueprint, a few pointed questions, and an interview slot: HRMC Acclaim turns the front end of hiring into one continuous encounter. Its wager is that employers lose good people long before they get to meet them.
Ease made the insurance broker the software department
Small employers needed better benefits software. Ease put it in the hands of their insurance brokers - and built a business that is now being folded into Employee Navigator.
Nectar makes the quiet work visible
A $500 award can still miss the people who deserve it. Nectar is building a business around a different idea: let colleagues notice one another, then give that appreciation somewhere to go.
Reflektive moved the performance review into the working day
A good piece of feedback has a short shelf life. Reflektive built a business around delivering it sooner - and learned that changing management habits and making money are separate challenges.
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.
Metaview wants your recruiters to stop doing the paperwork
The interview notetaker has become a recruiting platform with $110 million in backing. Its wager: the conversation you were too busy typing to hear can teach the rest of the hiring process what to do.
ProLiant and the art of an uneventful payday
A truck driver’s time card reveals the real test of payroll software. ProLiant’s answer pairs cloud tools with a person who knows what to do when the numbers get awkward.
Vantage Circle and the business of being noticed
A corporate discount platform grew into a system for everyday appreciation. Its wager: the useful reward is only half the story; the other half is who remembers to say thank you.
Rival and the expensive art of passing a PDF
A new hire can be ready while the paperwork is still wandering. Rival has built its business around the awkward handoffs between HR systems - and is now giving AI a job in the middle.
Equus and the Cost of Copy and Paste
Moving an employee abroad is easy to announce and awkward to administer. Equus has built a business around the expensive gaps between payroll, tax advisers, relocation vendors and the people waiting for an answer.
Workable and the trouble with “just email it”
A shared inbox can hire your first employee. Workable built a business around what happens when it has to hire your fiftieth - and now wants to handle the work on both sides of the offer letter.
PIO and the Price of One More Country
A first overseas hire can bring a whole country’s paperwork with them. PIO sells a way to handle the contracts, payroll and local obligations before expansion becomes an administrative occupation.
The Free HR Software That Had to Learn the Price of Trust
Zenefits made HR software free and collected when customers bought insurance. Then insurance law caught up with the growth story. Inside TriNet, its software now anchors a very different bargain for small businesses.
The Company You Never See on Payday
Worklio lets payroll companies and software platforms put their own name on the pay run. Its wager is that the least visible company in the transaction can be the one doing the most consequential work.
The Shift Nobody Wanted to Schedule
Humanity began with a runner who kept losing weekends to bad schedules. Its more useful lesson is what happened after growth made the numbers look better than the customers felt.
Kraferd connects the business card to the back office
A taco restaurant’s business card and an HR dashboard seem like different assignments. Kraferd’s mix of design and software work suggests they belong in the same conversation.
Culture Amp wants your employee survey to have consequences
Thousands of companies use Culture Amp to ask employees what they think. Its next bet is AI that helps managers do something with the answers - while the company faces hard questions about its own workplace.
Perkbox found a better business in saying thank you
A failed group-buying venture became an employee benefits platform. Now, after joining forces with Vivup, Perkbox is putting supermarket savings, workplace recognition and mental health support behind the same login.
ECA puts a price on working abroad
A foreign posting starts with an offer. ECA handles the arithmetic behind it - and the growing tangle of pay, policy and compliance that follows people across borders.
Pluxee UK wants a place in your weekly shop
The former Sodexo Engage business is putting cashback at the centre of its employee benefits app. Its customer stories show why the hard part is getting people to use what their employer has already bought.
AdviserPlus wants to take HR off speed dial
At Currys, managers took on 88% of employee relations tasks with AdviserPlus. The UK company’s proposition combines guided software, human advisers and a surprisingly practical idea: help the person closest to a problem handle more of it.
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.
ECA International knows what it costs to move a life
An overseas posting comes with a salary, a school bill and a surprising amount of paperwork. ECA International is turning decades of expatriate pay research into software that helps employers manage the whole move.