Tagged: hr-tech
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Check
Check is a New York-based fintech that provides embedded payroll infrastructure, letting software platforms build and sell their own payroll product through a single API. It handles the hard parts - tax calculation, money movement, tax filing, and multi-state compliance - so vertical SaaS, HR, and workforce-management companies can offer payroll without becoming payroll experts. Backed by Stripe, Thrive, Bedrock and Index, Check powers payroll for platforms like Wave, Homebase, Housecall Pro and 7shifts.
FloCareer
FloCareer is an AI-powered and expert-led interviewing platform that lets companies outsource their hiring interviews at scale. Through its Interview-as-a-Service model it deploys a network of 8,000+ vetted industry interviewers (FloExperts), while its AI interviewer NIVO conducts automated screening and coding interviews around the clock. The company helps 700+ organizations run structured, proctored, unbiased interviews with fast turnaround, reducing recruiter load and time-to-hire.
Welcome to the Jungle
Welcome to the Jungle is a Paris-founded employer-branding and job-search platform that turns static job listings into immersive, media-rich company profiles - videos, photography and editorial content that show what it is really like to work somewhere. Launched in 2015 by Jérémy Clédat and Bertrand Uzeel, it pairs a consumer job-search destination drawing 3.5 million monthly visitors with a B2B SaaS suite used by 5,500+ companies to build their employer brand and manage candidates. After acquiring UK job-search app Otta in 2024, it operates across France, Europe and the United States.
Mehul Bhatt
Mehul Bhatt is co-founder and CEO of FloCareer, an interview-as-a-service HR tech platform that dispatches expert freelance interviewers (plus AI proctoring) to run structured technical screens for enterprises. A former Cisco solutions architect with a Master's from Illinois Institute of Technology, he spent 16 years as an individual contributor before starting the company with Mohit Jain. FloCareer raised a $5.7M Series A in October 2021 and has conducted more than one million interviews for 600+ clients across the US and India.
CoderPad
CoderPad is a San Francisco-based technical interview and assessment platform that lets engineering teams evaluate developers in a real, runnable coding environment instead of on a whiteboard. Founded in 2013 by ex-Google and Amazon engineer Vincent Woo, it pairs live collaborative interviews with asynchronous take-home screens across 40+ programming languages, and has hosted millions of technical interviews for thousands of companies. In 2021 it acquired CodinGame to add candidate assessments and a developer skill-building community.
CoA Nexus, Inc.
CoA Nexus, Inc. (formerly Srust, Inc.) is a Tokyo- and Menlo Park-based deep-tech HR startup that uses proprietary AI to read tens of millions of research papers and patents, visualize a scientist's real skills, and match R&D talent with companies - from university spinouts to large manufacturers. Its flagship platform, CoA Researcher, is billed as Japan's largest researcher-matching platform, supporting full-time roles and side work across biotech, chemistry, medical science and semiconductors. The company raised a roughly ¥300 million Series A in October 2025 to expand its global researcher database and go beyond the reach of conventional job ads.
Natalia Panowicz
Natalia Panowicz is the CEO and co-founder of Codility, a technical assessment platform used by enterprise engineering teams to evaluate developers. Trained as a psychologist, she joined Codility in 2012 as a business developer, became COO in 2014, and stepped into the CEO seat in July 2019. She has helped grow the company past 140 employees across Warsaw, London, Berlin and San Francisco, and led the raise of a $22M Series A in 2020.
JobPixel
JobPixel is a San Francisco enterprise video platform that helps talent-acquisition and marketing teams collect, edit, brand, and distribute authentic user-generated video from employees, candidates, and customers. Founded in 2020 by Omar Khateeb and Anthony Duerr, it aims to humanize hiring by moving beyond the resume - letting companies build employer brand and screen candidates with short-form video at enterprise scale.
Joe Essenfeld
Joe Essenfeld is a serial entrepreneur and Co-Founder & CEO of FORA (fora.day), a New York-based AI communication intelligence platform that transforms unstructured enterprise meeting, email, and chat data into actionable leadership insights. He previously founded Jibe, a recruiting technology platform that raised $40M+ and was acquired by iCIMS in 2019, where he served in senior executive roles before launching FORA. FORA raised a $3.8M pre-seed round in January 2024 and counts Converge, GTM Fund, Zelkova, and Everywhere Ventures among its backers.
Jon Cooper
Jon Cooper is the Co-founder and CEO of Overalls, a New York-based insurtech startup that pairs AI-augmented human concierge specialists with employees to handle life's logistics - from childcare coordination to medical billing to passport renewals. A serial entrepreneur who previously built and sold Life.io to Zinnia, Cooper brings 15+ years of insurance and healthcare strategy experience to Overalls, which was named to Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies of 2026. The company has raised $15.8M in funding and serves employers seeking to reduce employee stress and boost productivity through its LifeConcierge product.
TransCrypts
TransCrypts is a blockchain-based digital identity and credential verification company that lets people own and instantly share verified employment, income, education, and health records. Founded in 2020 by cousins Zain Zaidi and Ali Zaheer, it replaces the slow, costly background-check pipeline with permission-based, fraud-proof verification - including JustScreen, billed as the world's first free background check service. Backed by Pantera Capital, Mark Cuban, and others, it serves millions of users and hundreds of enterprises, including Fortune 100 and 500 companies.
Benjamin Encz
Benjamin Encz is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ashby, a San Francisco-based AI-native recruiting platform used by companies like OpenAI, Shopify, and Snowflake. A German-born software engineer turned recruiting-infrastructure builder, he spent 80% of his time on recruiting operations as Director of Engineering at PlanGrid before co-founding Ashby in 2018. Under his leadership, Ashby has grown to 2,700+ customers, 380 employees, and $142.5M in total funding including a $50M Series D in 2025.
Karat
Karat is a Seattle-based company that runs technical interviews on behalf of employers through its 'Interviewing Cloud' - a global network of trained Interview Engineers who conduct 24/7 live, structured technical interviews backed by enterprise infrastructure and hiring analytics. Used by enterprises like Roblox, American Express, Intuit, Pinterest and Wayfair, Karat lets engineering teams scale hiring capacity, reclaim engineer time, and make fairer, more consistent hiring decisions.
BetterUp
BetterUp is a San Francisco-founded human transformation company that pairs certified human coaches, behavioral science, and AI to deliver personalized professional and leadership development at enterprise scale. It coaches employees at hundreds of companies and government agencies, blending one-on-one coaching, assessments, and data-driven insights, and has increasingly moved toward AI-powered coaching that runs around the clock.
Sarah Franklin
Sarah Franklin is the CEO of Lattice, the people-management platform headquartered in San Francisco. A Virginia Tech-trained chemical engineer and biochemist, she spent 15+ years at Salesforce, where she built Trailhead into a movement and later served as President and Chief Marketing Officer before stepping into Lattice's top job in January 2024 to rewire HR for the AI era.
Scott Helmes
Scott Helmes is a senior operator on the CEO team at Gusto, the San Francisco payroll, benefits and HR platform used by hundreds of thousands of small businesses. A product and marketing veteran who spent more than a decade scaling CareerBuilder across North America and Europe, he joined Gusto in 2019 and has been part of the leadership group steering its move into embedded payroll, AI-assisted workflows and SMB benefits.
Ashby
Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform that bundles applicant tracking, sourcing, scheduling, CRM, and analytics into a single AI-powered system used by companies like OpenAI, Shopify, Notion, Snowflake, and Ramp.
ChangeEngine
ChangeEngine is a San Francisco-based AI-powered employee experience platform that helps People teams design, automate and personalize internal communications across the entire employee lifecycle - from onboarding to recognition - across email, Slack, Teams, SMS and SharePoint, without forcing employees to log in to a new tool.
Checkr, Inc.
Checkr is a San Francisco-based HR-tech company that uses AI and a modern API to run background checks at internet speed. Founded in 2014 by Daniel Yanisse and Jonathan Perichon out of Y Combinator, it processes screenings for Uber, Instacart, DoorDash, OpenAI and thousands of other employers - and lobbies hard for fair-chance hiring along the way.
CodeSignal
CodeSignal is a San Francisco-based skills platform that uses AI-driven simulations to assess technical and soft-skills talent and to train workers through Cosmo, its conversational AI tutor. Founded in 2015 as CodeFights and rebranded in 2018, it now powers technical hiring and upskilling at companies like Meta, Netflix, Zoom, Robinhood and Capital One.
Findem
Findem is an AI-powered talent intelligence platform built on a proprietary Talent Data Cloud that enriches candidate profiles with 3D data (people, company, time). It automates sourcing, CRM, analytics and executive search for enterprise talent teams, with customers including RingCentral, Nutanix, and Intuitive Surgical.
Hourly
Hourly is a Palo Alto-based fintech platform that combines payroll, workers' compensation insurance, and time tracking into a single mobile-first system built for small businesses with hourly workers. Its pay-as-you-go workers' comp model calculates premiums against actual wages in real time, eliminating year-end audits and helping employers avoid overpaying. Founded in 2018 by Tom Sagi, Shay Litvak, and Amir Faintuch, the company raised $39M+ and serves 500+ businesses across construction, manufacturing, transportation, and similar industries. In July 2025, Hourly was acquired by Israeli insurtech WeSure in a deal valued at approximately $168M.
Human Interest
Human Interest is a San Francisco-based fintech company on a mission to make retirement savings accessible to every American worker, regardless of where they work. The company provides affordable, full-service 401(k) and 403(b) plans designed for small and medium-sized businesses — the 99% of employers who have historically been priced out of quality retirement plan options. With a platform that handles recordkeeping, compliance, payroll integration, and investment management all in one place, Human Interest has become one of the fastest-growing retirement plan providers in the U.S., serving nearly 50,000 employers and 2 million+ eligible employees.
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.
Abhimanyu Choudhary
Abhimanyu Choudhary is Co-Founder and Chief Sales Officer of Xoxoday, a B2B SaaS rewards, incentives, and loyalty platform serving 5,000+ enterprise clients across 175+ countries. After a decade-long career at Tata Steel rising to General Manager of Sales, he joined Xoxoday in 2018 to lead its commercial growth engine. Today, Xoxoday processes ~250,000 transactions daily and has raised over $100M in funding, most recently a Series C in January 2026 from Apis Partners and 57 Stars.
Adarsh Hiremath
Adarsh Hiremath is the Co-Founder and CTO of Mercor, the AI-powered talent marketplace connecting domain experts with AI labs for model training, evaluation, and data creation. At 22, he dropped out of Harvard, received a Thiel Fellowship, and co-built Mercor from a São Paulo hackathon idea into a $10 billion company generating over $500 million in annual revenue - making him one of the world's youngest self-made billionaires alongside co-founders Brendan Foody and Surya Midha.
Alex Bouaziz
Alex Bouaziz is the co-founder and CEO of Deel, the $17.3 billion global HR and payroll platform that allows companies to hire anyone, anywhere. Born in Paris in 1993 and raised between France and Israel, Bouaziz studied civil engineering at Technion and MIT before pivoting to entrepreneurship. He co-founded Deel in 2019 with MIT classmate Shuo Wang after observing glaring pay inequities for international talent and experiencing firsthand the pain of paying overseas workers. Under his leadership, Deel surpassed $1 billion ARR in Q1 2025, raised $300 million in Series E funding at a $17.3 billion valuation in October 2025, and became one of the fastest-growing HR technology companies in history.
Anand Prajapati
Anand Prajapati is Co-Founder and CTO of Leena AI, an enterprise agentic AI platform that deploys AI colleagues to automate back-office work across HR, IT, Finance, and Procurement. A graduate of IIT Delhi, Anand built Leena AI's technology from scratch after two earlier startup pivots, guiding the company through Y Combinator's Summer 2018 batch to a $30M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Today Leena AI's platform serves 400+ enterprise customers across 90+ countries - including Nestlé, Coca-Cola, and Sony - resolving millions of employee queries autonomously across 100+ languages.
Andrew Higashi
Andrew Higashi is the Co-founder and CEO of ChangeEngine, a San Francisco-based AI-powered employee experience platform that helps companies communicate with and engage their people the way the best brands engage customers. A three-time company builder, he spent a decade honing enterprise sales and go-to-market strategy at Gigya, WorkSpan, and Sendoso before founding ChangeEngine in 2021 with the same co-founding team he has worked alongside for ten years. ChangeEngine has raised $15.5 million in total funding, including a $10 million Series A led by Threshold Ventures in 2024, and serves 310+ employees globally with operations in the US, UK, and Latin America.
Anil Dharni
Anil Dharni is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sense, a San Francisco-based AI-powered talent engagement platform that serves over 1,000 organizations. Before reshaping how companies hire, he co-founded Funzio, the mobile gaming studio behind 'Crime City' and 'Modern War,' which sold to GREE for $210 million in 2012. At Sense, backed by SoftBank with $106 million raised and a $500M valuation, he is on a mission to humanize the contingent workforce and make candidates feel genuinely valued through AI, automation, and omnichannel communication.