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Viventium Bet the Future of Healthcare HR on the Weirdest Paycheck in the Building
Generic HR software assumes work is tidy. Viventium built around the opposite - then bought its way from first application to final paycheck.
Ontop Bet That Contractors Need a Bank, Not Just a Paycheck
The Bogota-born startup bundled contracts, compliance and cross-border payroll with a financial account for the person getting paid. Its sharper contractor-first strategy is a useful lesson in choosing one messy workflow and owning both ends of it.
Asher Adeniyi Turned Payday Into a Product
Before payroll became his product, people were already his business. Asher Adeniyi's path from a shy recruitment founder to Eazipay CEO is a study in second chances, dependable systems and the quiet drama of paying everyone on time.
Michael Young’s Payroll Playbook: Pick Up the Phone
At ConnectPay, Michael Young has spent years proving that payroll technology works better when a real person still answers. His formula pairs local relationships with repeatable systems - for every pay run and every acquisition.
Payworks Bet That Payroll Needed a Human Voice - 50,000 Canadian Businesses Picked Up
Barb Gamey carried a desktop computer into sales meetings and pitched a radical idea for payroll: modern Canadian software, backed by a person who knows your name. Twenty-five years later, Payworks is testing how far that service-first playbook can scale.
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.