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The Payroll Company That Grew Up by Buying the Neighborhood
ConnectPay bet that small businesses still want a human on the phone, not a support ticket - then bought dozens of local payroll shops to build a company around that promise.
Pure Chat
The easiest & fastest way to add live chat to your website. FREE for the first 30 days!
JivoChat
The bootstrapped live-chat tool that grew into an omnichannel inbox for 200,000 small businesses - and now wants its AI to handle the easy questions.
HubSpot
How two MIT classmates turned a hunch about buyer behavior into a $2.6-billion software platform that 288,000 businesses now run their growth on.
Chaport
A live chat tool built on a stubborn idea: that talking to customers should feel less like operating software and more like texting a friend.
Broadvoice
CX Built For Where Your Business is Going Next. Broadvoice replaces overbuilt, underperforming communications platforms with cloud calling, contact-center, and AI tools built for small and mid-sized businesses.
Bikry App (Bizrise Technologies YC W20)
Bikry, built by Bizrise Technologies (Y Combinator W20), is a no-code direct-to-consumer platform that lets Indian retailers and small business owners launch an online store in minutes at 0% commission. It bundles a shareable catalog, 40+ digital payment options, and 35+ pan-India delivery partners so shop owners can sell through WhatsApp and social media without building a website or paying marketplace fees.
RentFlow
RentFlow is a New York fintech, part of Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch, that builds a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' layer for commercial rent. It pays landlords their full rent on the 1st of the month, then lets business tenants repay in smaller installments synced to their real cash flow. The company pairs payments infrastructure with AI underwriting that reads transaction-level and behavioral signals to price flexibility, aiming to keep otherwise-healthy small and medium businesses from being pushed into default by a single fixed lump-sum bill.
Roger
Roger is a New York eSignature and contract platform (YC W21) that turns clunky PDF signing into an app-like, mobile-first experience. Built for startups, SMBs, and growing sales, HR, and finance teams, it pairs reusable templates, approval workflows, smart reminders, and a searchable contract repository with pay-as-you-go pricing - positioning itself as a faster, simpler alternative to DocuSign.
HReasily
HReasily is a Singapore-headquartered cloud HR and payroll platform that helps small and mid-sized businesses across Southeast Asia automate payroll, leave, claims, staff records and time-attendance in one place. Founded in 2015, it operates across six Asian markets and handles local statutory compliance so growing companies can run HR with less paperwork.
Qoyod - قيود
Qoyod is a Riyadh-based cloud accounting and e-invoicing platform built for the Saudi market. Founded in 2016 by Abdullah AlDayel, it lets small and medium businesses issue invoices, track expenses, manage inventory and stay compliant with ZATCA (Fatoora) e-invoicing rules - without needing formal accounting expertise. It bundles accounting, point-of-sale and tax compliance into one Arabic-first, locally hosted system now used by tens of thousands of Saudi businesses.
Intermedia Intelligent Communications
Intermedia Intelligent Communications is a Sunnyvale, California cloud communications company that bundles voice, video, chat, SMS, contact center, business email, file sharing and archiving into a single AI-powered platform. Founded in 1993 as a business email and web hosting provider, it now serves more than 130,000 businesses, largely through a channel of thousands of resellers and managed service providers. Its flagship Unite (UCaaS) and Intelligent Contact Center (CCaaS) products, layered with its SPARK AI suite, aim to replace a stack of separate communication vendors with one reliable, secure system aimed squarely at small and midsize organizations.
MightyCall
MightyCall is a San Francisco-based cloud phone and call center provider that gives small and mid-sized businesses enterprise-grade telephony - virtual numbers, IVR, call routing, recording, dialers and analytics - without an IT department or a big budget. Grown out of the Infratel call-center software group, the company now serves more than 10,000 organizations across the US and Canada on a self-funded, subscription model.
Uprise - Embedded Tax and Advisory
Uprise is a San Francisco fintech that embeds full-service tax filing and financial advisory into the SaaS platforms small business owners already use. Its model pairs AI-generated first drafts with review from Certified Financial Planners and tax professionals held to a fiduciary standard, letting partners like Rippling, Carry, Heard and HoneyBook launch white-labeled, premium tax-and-advisory services in weeks rather than years.
Vagaro
Vagaro is a Pleasanton, California SaaS company that runs the back office for salons, spas, fitness studios, and wellness businesses. From a single dashboard, owners book appointments, take payments, manage staff and inventory, run marketing, and get discovered on a consumer marketplace and app. Founded in 2009 by Fred Helou, it now serves more than 83,000 businesses across the US, Canada, UK, and Australia, reached a $1 billion valuation in 2021, and bundles scheduling, point-of-sale hardware, embedded payments, and AI tools into one subscription.
withco
withco is a New York-based property ownership platform on a mission to help small business owners buy the buildings they already work in. Using a lease-to-own model, withco buys commercial real estate alongside high-quality small business owners and transitions them to full ownership over the course of a standard lease term - turning rent payments into a path toward equity and protecting local businesses from displacement.
SimplyInsured
SimplyInsured is an online health insurance marketplace and benefits administration platform built for small businesses. It lets owners shop, compare, and enroll in medical, dental, and vision plans from 200+ carriers in minutes, then automates employee deductions and payroll syncing - all at no cost beyond the regular premiums. The company powers embedded health benefits inside Square, Gusto, Check, and Patriot payroll.
Xero
Xero is a cloud-based accounting software company founded in Wellington, New Zealand in 2006. It serves more than 4.4 million subscribers - mostly small businesses and the accountants and bookkeepers who advise them - across New Zealand, Australia, the UK, the US and beyond. Xero connects bank feeds, invoicing, payroll, expense tracking and a marketplace of thousands of third-party apps into a single real-time platform, and reported NZ$2.1 billion in revenue in FY25.
Pipedrive
Pipedrive is a sales-first CRM built by salespeople, for salespeople. Founded in 2010 in Tallinn, Estonia, and now headquartered in New York, Pipedrive gives small and mid-sized businesses a visual, activity-based pipeline that keeps deals moving. With over 100,000 companies across 179 countries using the platform, Pipedrive became a $1.5 billion unicorn in 2020 after a majority investment from Vista Equity Partners. Its philosophy is simple: salespeople should spend less time in software and more time selling.
Sage CRM
Sage CRM is a customer relationship management platform built by Sage Group plc, designed to help small and mid-sized businesses manage sales pipelines, marketing campaigns, and customer service from a single hub. Deeply integrated with Sage's accounting suite, it lets growing companies turn contact records into revenue without the complexity - or cost - of enterprise alternatives like Salesforce.
Agile CRM
Agile CRM is a Dallas-based, bootstrapped SaaS company founded in 2013 that offers an all-in-one CRM platform combining sales, marketing automation, and customer service tools. Targeting small and medium-sized businesses, it provides enterprise-grade features — contact management, email campaigns, helpdesk ticketing, lead scoring, and 50+ integrations — at a fraction of the cost of Salesforce or HubSpot. With a free plan supporting up to 10 users, paid tiers starting at $8.99/user/month, and 15,000+ customers worldwide, Agile CRM has grown to $2.7M in annual revenue entirely without external funding.
Brevo
Brevo (formerly Sendinblue) is a Paris-based all-in-one customer engagement platform serving 500,000+ businesses across 180 countries. The platform combines email marketing, SMS, CRM, live chat, and marketing automation under one roof — all priced by email volume rather than contact count. Founded in 2012 by Armand Thiberge, Brevo rebranded from Sendinblue in 2023 to reflect its evolution from an email tool into a full customer lifecycle platform. In December 2025 it achieved unicorn status after raising €500 million in a Series C round led by General Atlantic and Oakley Capital, with a valuation exceeding €1 billion.
Close CRM
Close is a bootstrapped, profitable sales CRM built for small and mid-sized teams that want to spend less time on admin and more time actually selling. Founded in 2013 out of a San Francisco sales agency, it combines pipeline management, built-in calling, email, and SMS into one platform - no integrations required. With $17M+ ARR and a fully remote team across 40+ countries, Close has grown almost entirely without venture capital, making it one of the more unusual success stories in SaaS.
HubSpot CRM
HubSpot is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based software company that pioneered the inbound marketing movement and built an AI-powered CRM platform spanning marketing, sales, service, and content. Founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah after meeting at MIT, the company went public in 2014 and reached $3.13 billion in annual revenue by 2025, serving over 288,000 paying customers in 135+ countries. Its all-in-one platform - built around the idea that businesses should attract customers rather than interrupt them - has become the operating system for growth-minded companies worldwide.
Angle Health
Angle Health is a San Francisco-based, AI-native health insurance platform for small and mid-sized employers. Founded in 2019 by ex-Palantir engineers, it combines carrier, third-party administrator, and underwriting functions into one stack, letting brokers quote level-funded plans in minutes and giving members a mobile-first care experience.
Gusto
Gusto is a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and HR platform built for small and medium-sized businesses. Founded in 2011 as ZenPayroll by Josh Reeves, Tomer London, and Edward Kim, the company has grown to serve over 500,000 businesses and recently crossed $1 billion in annual revenue. Gusto handles everything from payroll runs and tax filings to health insurance, 401(k) plans, and employee onboarding - replacing what used to require a patchwork of accountants, brokers, and spreadsheets with a single platform. The company also offers Gusto Embedded, a payroll API that lets other software platforms build payroll directly into their products. Valued at roughly $9.5 billion, Gusto remains private and is widely considered a leading IPO candidate in the HR tech space.
Digits
Digits is an AI-native accounting platform building the world's first Agentic General Ledger - software that autonomously categorizes transactions, reconciles accounts, sends invoices, pays bills, and produces real-time financials for small and mid-sized businesses. Founded in 2018 by Crashlytics alumni Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang, it claims to automate up to 95% of bookkeeping work.
Keap
Keap (formerly Infusionsoft) is an all-in-one CRM and marketing/sales automation platform built exclusively for small businesses. Founded in 2001 in Arizona by Clate Mask and the Martineau brothers, Keap helps entrepreneurs automate follow-up, manage contacts, process payments, and grow revenue through a unified platform. With over 31,500 customers, $85M+ in annual revenue, and a history of processing billions in payments, Keap is a leading SMB-focused CRM that was acquired by Thryv Holdings in October 2024 for $80M.