Workhuman turned two decades of thank-you notes into a data business. The Irish-American company behind the 'thank you economy' now reaches 8 million workers and mines their gratitude for what HR software usually misses.
EngageRocket is a Singapore-based HR technology company that turns continuous employee feedback into actionable people-analytics. Founded in 2016 by two former Gallup leaders, its cloud platform runs engagement, lifecycle and pulse surveys (BELONG), 360-degree and multi-rater feedback (GROW), and performance workflows (PERFORM), pairing survey software with people-science advisory. It serves enterprises across 30+ countries - including Toyota, Sephora, Nikon, Epson and CGS-CIMB - to improve engagement, reduce turnover and support data-informed HR decisions.
eQ8 is a Sydney-based SaaS company building a dedicated end-to-end platform for Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP). Founded by Alicia Roach and Chris Hare, the platform lets organizations model dynamic scenarios, forecast the size, shape and skills of the workforce they will need, identify skills gaps, and align talent decisions with business strategy. Its stated mission is to democratize strategic workforce planning so it is accessible to any organization, not just those able to afford lengthy consulting engagements.
inFeedo AI is an employee experience company built around Amber, a conversational AI that acts as a Chief Listening Officer for enterprises. Amber checks in with employees, surfaces sentiment and disengagement in real time, predicts attrition, and automates HR support. Founded in India and backed by Y Combinator, Tiger Global and Jungle Ventures, inFeedo serves 175+ enterprises across 60+ countries, helping CHROs at companies like Sony, Lenovo, Tata and Samsung understand how their people really feel.
HelloTeam is a Boston-based HR technology company that builds an all-in-one employee engagement and performance management platform aimed at improving employee retention. Founded in 2016 by Tanya Bakalov, the software combines performance reviews, goals and OKRs, recognition and rewards, surveys, learning, a dynamic org chart, and people analytics into a single system so managers and HR teams can keep employees connected, engaged, and productive.
Censia is a San Francisco-based talent intelligence company that uses AI to turn billions of workforce data points into skills-based profiles of employees and candidates. Its platform enriches HR systems - most notably Workday - so enterprises can see hidden internal talent, plan their workforce around skills rather than job titles, and make faster, fairer hiring and mobility decisions. Founded in 2017 and led by CEO Joanna Riley, Censia sells to large enterprises and pitches itself on ethical, bias-aware AI applied to talent data.
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.
Textio is a Seattle-based software company that uses augmented writing - natural language processing and machine learning - to help managers and recruiters write clearer, less biased workplace language. Born from a linguistics PhD's research into how word choice shapes who applies for jobs and how feedback lands, Textio turned bias into something measurable: it scores job posts and performance reviews in real time and suggests fixes. In 2026 it extended that thesis into hiring with Lavalier, an interview-intelligence product.
CPOHQ + Knoetic AI is a New York-based company building an AI-powered 'second brain' for Chief People Officers. It pairs a people analytics platform that integrates with 60+ HR systems - surfacing insights on attrition, DEI, performance, compensation and headcount - with CPOHQ, a private community of 2,000+ Chief People Officers and CHROs. Founded in 2020 by Joseph Quan (originally as Twine Labs), the company combines hard workforce data with the collective judgment of top people leaders so HR executives can make faster, more strategic decisions.
Leapsome is an AI-powered people enablement platform that unifies the HR stack - performance reviews, goals and OKRs, engagement surveys, learning, compensation, and a core HRIS - in one place. Founded in Berlin in 2016 by Jenny von Podewils and Kajetan von Armansperg, it helps managers and HR teams run feedback, development, and alignment processes without juggling spreadsheets and disconnected tools. The company bootstrapped to profitability before raising a $60M Series A in 2022, and today serves more than 1,500 organizations including Spotify, Unity, and monday.com.
AceUp is a Boston-based leadership development company that pairs human coaches with AI-powered people analytics to make executive and team coaching measurable and scalable. Through a network of thousands of ICF-certified coaches and a data platform it calls Ally, AceUp helps enterprises like IBM, L'Oreal and LVMH turn coaching - long treated as a perk for the C-suite - into a quantifiable driver of engagement, alignment and performance.
Natter is an enterprise AI conversation intelligence platform that runs thousands of honest, one-to-one video conversations across a workforce at once, then uses AI to surface the themes, sentiment, tensions and priorities leaders actually need to hear. Pitched as the replacement for surveys and focus groups, it turns a seven-minute conversation into more than a thousand words of usable data and delivers organised, anonymised insight within hours rather than weeks. Founded in 2021 by former BBC and Uber operators, the company raised a $23M Series A in April 2026 and counts Accenture, ServiceNow, PwC and Philip Morris International among its users.
BetterUp is a San Francisco-founded human transformation company that pairs certified human coaches, behavioral science, and AI to deliver personalized professional and leadership development at enterprise scale. It coaches employees at hundreds of companies and government agencies, blending one-on-one coaching, assessments, and data-driven insights, and has increasingly moved toward AI-powered coaching that runs around the clock.
Lattice is a San Francisco-based people-management software company that helps organizations run performance reviews, set goals, gather employee feedback, manage compensation, and track engagement in one connected platform. Founded in 2015 by Jack Altman and Eric Koslow, it now serves several thousand companies and has leaned hard into AI under CEO Sarah Franklin, who joined from Salesforce in 2024.
Pave is a San Francisco-based compensation management platform that helps companies plan, communicate, and benchmark employee pay in real time. Founded in 2019 by ex-Facebook engineer Matt Schulman, the company replaced HR's tangle of spreadsheets with live market data drawn from thousands of HRIS integrations, and now powers compensation decisions at Alphabet, Stripe, Databricks, Snowflake, Roblox, and thousands of others.