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How an 8-Person Idaho HR Firm Beat the Big Boxes - Then Took the High Road to Scale
High Road PEO sold small businesses something they rarely get from payroll vendors: a human who knows their name. Its 2025 merger with Helpside is a test of whether that intimacy can survive a much bigger operating system.
Sage
Sage grew from a pub-side solution for one printer's paperwork into financial infrastructure for millions of businesses. Its next act is less about replacing the accountant than teaching software to chase invoices, explain anomalies and show its working.
Moka
Moka (MokaHR) is an AI-native HR SaaS company founded in 2015 in Beijing that builds recruiting and human-capital-management software for mid-market and enterprise employers. Its platform combines an applicant tracking system, talent CRM, recruitment automation, analytics, and the Moka Eva AI assistant to speed up hiring and HR operations. Moka reached unicorn status after a $100M Series C led by Tiger Global in 2021 and serves 2,000-3,000+ brands, including roughly 30% of the Fortune 500, with a growing presence in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
BetterComp
BetterComp is a Walnut Creek, California based compensation management software company that helps large enterprises replace spreadsheet-driven market pricing with an automated, AI-assisted platform for benchmarking, range modeling, and pay decision-making, serving a customer base in which roughly 38% are Fortune 500 companies.