
palm.hr is a Riyadh-born, cloud-based HR and payroll platform built for small and mid-sized businesses across Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC. It brings employee data, time and attendance, WPS-compliant payroll, and employee engagement into one system that plugs directly into local government rails like GOSI and Mudad, so companies can run people operations that comply with regional labor law out of the box. Founded in 2019, it raised a $5M pre-Series A in 2023 to expand across MENA and pairs its software with an outsourced HR concierge service.
Modern is a San Francisco startup building an AI-native IT function - a single platform where always-on agents automate help desk, access, hardware, on/off-boarding, security and procurement inside the tools teams already use, such as Slack, Teams, email and voice. Founded in 2026 by Seb Poole and Aleks Tomovski and backed by Y Combinator (P26), it positions itself as a ServiceNow alternative that resolves requests end-to-end rather than routing tickets, claiming 80%+ automation of inbound IT requests.
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.
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.