Opus Training is a New York-based, AI-powered mobile training platform built for the frontline, deskless workforce - the servers, cooks, housekeepers, grocery clerks and factory staff who rarely sit at a desk. Founded by CEO Rachael Nemeth, Opus delivers bite-sized, mobile-first lessons and standard operating procedures directly to workers' phones, onboards staff faster, auto-translates content into 100+ languages, and tracks training completion across every location in real time. It replaces binders and legacy LMS tools with training that lives where frontline employees actually work.
Slice is an AI-native platform for managing employee equity across borders. It unifies cap tables, grants, exercises and reporting while automatically applying each country's tax rules and compliance requirements, helping finance, legal, HR and payroll teams issue equity to distributed teams without triggering local penalties. Founded in 2022 and backed by Insight Partners, Slice raised a $25M Series A in early 2026 and counts fast-growing tech companies such as Wiz, Aidoc, Silverfort and Wayve among its customers.
Emi Labs builds AI-powered recruiting automation for high-volume, frontline hiring. Its autonomous AI agents attract, screen, schedule, and onboard hourly workers through channels like WhatsApp, SMS, and Messenger, promising faster time-to-hire and a more human candidate experience. Founded in 2018 and backed by Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, and Merus Capital, Emi counts large employers such as Walmart, OXXO, Coca-Cola FEMSA, Burger King, and Heineken among its customers and says roughly one in ten frontline hires in Mexico runs through its platform.
Enboarder is an HR technology company that builds an experience-driven employee onboarding and 'people activation' platform. Founded in Sydney in 2015 by Brent Pearson, it helps employers design and automate engaging, human-centered journeys for new hires, managers and existing employees across onboarding, transitions and offboarding. In 2025 the company re-architected its product to be AI-native, positioning itself as an 'AI orchestration layer for the employee lifecycle.' More than 400 global companies - including McDonald's, Deloitte, Shopify, Hugo Boss, ING and Eventbrite - use Enboarder, which has raised roughly $50 million in venture funding.
Aeqium is a San Francisco-based software company building an AI-driven compensation planning platform for HR and people teams. Founded in 2020 by former Uber, Palantir, Walmart Labs and Braze engineers, Aeqium replaces spreadsheet-based comp cycles with an agentic system that builds salary bands, runs pay-equity and analytics, manages merit and bonus reviews, and communicates total rewards to employees. It integrates with common HRIS, ATS and equity systems and counts companies like Braze, Warby Parker, Hopper, WHOOP and dbt Labs among its customers.
allwhere is a New York-based IT logistics platform that automates the full employee device lifecycle - procuring, deploying, tracking, retrieving, storing, and recycling laptops and equipment for distributed teams anywhere in the world. Built to make onboarding and offboarding painless in a work-from-anywhere era, it gives IT teams a single dashboard to manage hardware across in-office, hybrid, and fully remote workforces.
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.
Complete is a San Francisco-based compensation management platform that helps startups and scaling companies design, model, and communicate employee pay - covering salary, equity, bonuses, and benefits. Founded in 2022 by Rani Mavram and Zack Field, the Y Combinator-backed company replaces spreadsheets with interactive offer letters, total rewards statements, salary bands, and AI-driven scenario planning through its Compy agent, integrating across ATS, HRIS, and cap table systems.
Fleet is a San Francisco-based commuter benefits management platform that helps employers set up, run, and stay compliant with pre-tax and subsidized transportation programs. It manages all mobility spend in one place - pre-tax transit and parking, employer subsidies, government grants, and rewards - across transit, parking, bikes, e-bikes, scooters, rideshare, and vanpools. By integrating with 180+ HR and payroll systems, Fleet lets HR teams roll out commuter benefits quickly, meet local mandates in cities like NYC, LA, and the Bay Area, and nudge employees toward lower-carbon commutes.
Workgrounds is a New York-based software company that automates the sourcing, booking, and management of hotel room blocks for corporate group travel. Founded in 2022 by repeat founders Nikhil Sethi and Garrett Ullom (previously of Adaptly, acquired by Accenture), it uses AI agents to run hotel RFPs, parse proposals, and negotiate group rates in the background - replacing the weeks of phone calls and emails that companies traditionally spend booking rooms for offsites, conferences, and team events. Customers include SeatGeek, RevenueCat, and Yieldmo.
Comprehensive is a San Francisco-based, AI-powered compensation management platform that lets companies plan, communicate, and benchmark employee pay without spreadsheets. Founded in 2021 by Roger Lee and Teddy Sherrill, it combines real-time salary benchmarking data from thousands of tech companies with configurable pay-range management, pay-equity analytics, and HRIS integrations so HR and finance teams can run compensation cycles and make data-driven pay decisions in one place.
OneRange is a New York-based HR-tech company building a skills-first talent growth platform. It connects employees' career goals to in-demand skills, then uses AI to match them with the right learning resource from a marketplace of 22,000+ options - courses, books, conferences, certifications - while giving employers usage-based pricing, automated approvals, virtual payment cards, and real-time skill and spend analytics. The pitch: pay only for the learning people actually use, and put employees in the driver's seat of their own development.