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Info Edge Turned a Job Board Into a Bet on India’s Internet
Naukri pays for much of the ambition behind 99acres, Jeevansathi and a far-reaching startup portfolio. Now AI is helping the recruitment business while disrupting another member of the family.
Matrix and the art of making hiring less chaotic
Councils need temporary workers. They also need to know where the money goes. Matrix has built a business around the awkward space between the two.
Daxtra Wants Recruiters to Stop Losing the People They Already Found
The Scottish software company built its business turning unruly CVs into searchable records. Its next bet is that the same machinery can carry a candidate all the way to a conversation.
Orgvue lets you rehearse the reorganization
Before a company moves people, it needs to understand the work. Orgvue turns workforce data into costed scenarios - and gives HR and finance a common picture to argue over.
Ana Perez Makes the Complicated Business of Benefits Feel Human
PlanSource's chief marketing officer has spent her career translating dense systems into clear choices. Her method joins revenue discipline to a warmer idea: technology earns attention only when people can trust what it helps them do.
Jennifer Lorenzo Makes the Back Office Worth Looking At
After years of marketing payroll, people operations and professional employer services, Jennifer Lorenzo has learned the quiet craft of making complex work feel clear - across brands, borders and buying committees.
Josh McCullough Learned Marketing from the Revenue Side of the Table
After two decades spanning sales, HR technology, collaboration software, and AI contracts, Greenshades' CMO has a plain conviction: marketing works when it shares a scoreboard with revenue.
Adam Christensen Has Spent 25 Years Making Technology Sound Human
Before BambooHR made him its first chief marketing officer, Christensen learned the trade in PR, helped tell PayPal's independence story, and spent years arguing that trust belongs on the same dashboard as growth.
Samir Gulati Has Spent Three Decades Making Enterprise Software Make Sense
From electronic commerce at GE to AI-assisted hiring at Hirevue, Gulati’s career follows one durable idea: complicated technology earns attention only when its value becomes plain.
PlanSource Wants to Make Benefits Admin Boring - and That’s the Point
HR teams do not need another dazzling demo. They need the newborn to be covered, the carrier file to match and open enrollment to end without a fire drill. PlanSource has spent nearly two decades turning that unglamorous promise into enterprise software.
Kate Freer Made a Career Out of Marketing the Work Nobody Sees
Before employee relations became boardroom language, Kate Freer learned how to sell another invisible system: the machinery behind how companies pay. Now she is turning workplace casework into a category leaders can see, measure and discuss.
Carl Madaffari Learned the Database, Then Learned to Tell Its Story
After two decades inside Epsilon's data machinery, Carl Madaffari took a breath, changed lanes, and found a second act translating complex products into plain business value.
OneSource Virtual Put the Back Office Inside Workday - Then Bet the Company on Staying There
Most outsourcers ask for your data. OneSource Virtual sends its specialists into the system where that data already lives - a narrow Workday-only bet now moving more than $250 billion a year.
Clarity Spent 30 Years Simplifying Benefits. Then Its Own Call Center Got Complicated.
The New Jersey benefits administrator sells simplicity to HR teams. Its most revealing product lesson came when slow change requests, split agent screens and siloed reports forced Clarity to simplify itself - and save a reported $100,000 a year.
Namely Raised $217 Million to Fix HR Software - Then Found Its Second Act Inside a Payroll Empire
Namely set out to make the employee database feel less like a filing cabinet and more like a product people would actually use. A founder crisis, $217 million in funding and a 2022 merger turned that clean software idea into something messier - and potentially more durable.
The ‘Easy Button’ for HR: How BizLibrary Turned 13,000 Courses Into a Training Operating System
HR teams do not need another library card. They need compliance reports, useful courses, fewer spreadsheets, and a human who answers the phone. BizLibrary has spent three decades turning that unglamorous bundle into its product.
Mike Vannoy Has Spent 30 Years Turning HR Complexity Into a Growth Story
Before HR became a cloud platform and marketing became an AI workflow, Mike Vannoy was already learning how work gets measured, sold and explained. His career is a case study in staying with one stubborn business problem long enough to watch the tools change completely.
Allie Collins Is Making the Performance Review Face Real Life
After more than 15 years marketing SaaS, Betterworks CMO Allie Collins has arrived at a deceptively human thesis: work improves when managers get better signals, employees get timely conversations, and everyone stops pretending an annual form can remember the year for them.
Daniel Yanisse Put Trust Behind an API. Then the Hard Part Began.
A slow background check gave a young robotics engineer an elegant startup idea. Twelve years later, Daniel Yanisse is still working through the gloriously untidy question hidden inside it: how should software decide whom to trust?
Athena Karp Put a Conscience in the Hiring Machine
A bathroom line on Wall Street exposed a workforce imbalance. Eleven years later, the company she built from that observation joined Workday - and her argument for explainable AI moved into the center of enterprise software.
Chris Fudge Is Betting the Workplace on One Small Signal: I Saw What You Did
After three decades crossing marketing, sales, service and coaching, the Achievers CMO has arrived at a plainspoken thesis: culture is built in the moments when useful work becomes visible.
Gary Goldstein Is Still Fixing the Paperwork Nobody Sees
The Insynctive CEO has spent decades turning forms, handoffs and disconnected systems into software. His career is a study in the unglamorous work that keeps companies moving.
Workday or Oracle Is Really a Choice About Your Company
The HCM contest looks like a feature comparison. Underneath, it is a decision about architecture, purchasing power and how much of the enterprise one vendor should own.
IFIT Solutions Built a Five-Country Recruiting Engine - Then Sold It to Give HR Software a Human Edge
The small London recruiter built offices across Europe and the Americas before Substrate AI bought the business for $4.602 million. The useful lesson is not “add AI” - it is that software gets sharper when it inherits customers, recruiters and a stubbornly real workflow.
Samantha Orihuela Is Building ADP's Next Growth Story Around People
After two decades moving between brand, experience, innovation and growth, Samantha Orihuela has returned to ADP with a clear brief: make a global company feel coherent, useful and human.
Enforce Bet the Firm on One HR Platform - Then Sold the Playbook
Most consultancies hedge across software vendors. Enforce narrowed itself to Dayforce, turned implementation headaches into a repeatable service, and became HR Path's route into a larger North American practice.
The Employee Benefit That Only Sends a Bill When Care Shows Up
CorporateCARE Solutions is betting that family care works better as infrastructure than as a perk - and that employers should pay for the hours their people actually use.
Alan Miegel Put Twenty Years of Pay Data Into One Focused Bet
After two decades inside compensation software, Miegel built Bettercomp around a narrow idea: give pay teams control of their data, remove the manual grind, and let customers shape what ships next.
Your ERP Is Quietly Choosing Your HR Software
Workday and SAP SuccessFactors sell similar HR outcomes, but their architectures ask companies to make very different bets. The real choice is between a unified cloud operating model and the pull of an existing SAP estate.
The Background Check Is Becoming a Living Trust Layer
First Advantage built its business checking people before they start work. Now, with Sterling absorbed and identity fraud rising, it wants to become the trust layer that stays switched on long after day one.