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Fingercheck Wants to Turn Every Clock-In Into a Paycheck - Without the Payroll Spreadsheets
Fingercheck started with a digital time clock. Now it is chasing a larger prize: making the messy handoff from shift to paycheck disappear for the small businesses legacy payroll software tends to overlook.
Connecteam Found Its $800 Million Idea in Four Words: ‘What Promotion?’
A waiter missed one message from headquarters. Connecteam’s founders saw an entire workforce missing its operating system - and turned a narrow training tool into a three-hub business used from construction sites to restaurant counters.
How a $21-a-Month PowerPoint Add-In Became Lucen Software's Four-Product Bet
Office Timeline spent 14 years making project managers look better in meetings. Now renamed Lucen, it is betting that the same trick can stretch from PowerPoint timelines to planning, process maps, and the awkward question of where everyone's time went.
BQE Had a Hit Billing App. Then It Bet $25 Million on Architects’ Messy Back Office.
The software company began with a garage-built fix for timecards and invoices. Thirty years later, its sharper idea is that architecture and engineering firms should not need a scavenger hunt to learn whether a project made money.
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.
Agendrix Took 30 Months to Reach $10K MRR - Then a Cabin-Built Time Clock Put 235,000 Workers on Its Schedule
The Quebec SaaS company survived ignored pitches and two years of tiny salaries by solving one dull, expensive problem at a time. Its playbook is useful precisely because it begins with a spreadsheet, not a moonshot.
Trayd
Trayd is a New York-based back-office operating system built for specialty trade contractors, unifying payroll, HR, compliance, scheduling and real-time labor tracking in one platform. It automates the hardest parts of construction pay - union rules, Davis-Bacon prevailing wages, multi-state taxes and certified payroll - cutting weekly processing from 14 hours to 27 minutes while giving workers earned wages days sooner. Founded in 2021 by Anna Berger and Cara Kessler and backed by Y Combinator, Suffolk Technologies and White Star Capital, Trayd has grown revenue 600% year over year.
AlignOps
AlignOps is a Colorado-based construction operations software company that unifies tool and asset tracking, workforce time tracking, jobsite safety and compliance, and fleet/materials management into a single platform. Formed in 2024 by consolidating four established construction-tech brands - ToolWatch, busybusy, Safety Reports, and FleetWatcher - AlignOps helps thousands of contractors gain real-time visibility into where their tools, crews, equipment, and money are going across warehouses and jobsites.
Time Doctor
Time Doctor is a bootstrapped workforce-analytics and time-tracking platform built for remote, hybrid, and distributed teams. Launched in 2012 by Rob Rawson and Liam Martin, it gives managers real-time visibility into how work happens - tracking time, app and website usage, productivity trends, and workload balance - while pairing the data with AI-supported insights. Used by 280,000+ people across 30+ countries and integrating with 60+ tools, Time Doctor turns activity data into fairer policies, better workload decisions, and burnout prevention.
Monograph
Monograph is a San Francisco-based software company that builds cloud practice-operations software for architecture and engineering firms. Its platform replaces spreadsheets with real-time tools for project budgets, staffing, time tracking, invoicing and profitability forecasting, giving design professionals live financial visibility into their work. Founded in 2019 by three architectural designers, Monograph serves thousands of A/E firms and has helped manage hundreds of millions of dollars in projects.
Homebase
Homebase is a San Francisco-based workforce management platform built for small businesses running hourly teams. Founded in 2014, it combines employee scheduling, time tracking, payroll, HR compliance, and team communication in one mobile-first app. As of 2024, the platform serves over 150,000 businesses and 3.8 million hourly workers, having logged 8 billion hours and processed $3 billion in gross payroll. Backed by $198 million in total funding, Homebase competes by bundling tools that small business owners previously paid for separately - and more recently by embedding AI assistants across hiring, scheduling, and payroll.
Hourly
Hourly is a Palo Alto-based fintech platform that combines payroll, workers' compensation insurance, and time tracking into a single mobile-first system built for small businesses with hourly workers. Its pay-as-you-go workers' comp model calculates premiums against actual wages in real time, eliminating year-end audits and helping employers avoid overpaying. Founded in 2018 by Tom Sagi, Shay Litvak, and Amir Faintuch, the company raised $39M+ and serves 500+ businesses across construction, manufacturing, transportation, and similar industries. In July 2025, Hourly was acquired by Israeli insurtech WeSure in a deal valued at approximately $168M.
Lumber
Lumber is an AI-powered construction workforce management platform that unifies payroll, time tracking, HR, safety, compliance, and field productivity for contractors. Founded in 2023 by Shreesha Ramdas and Manish Kumar, the company is building autonomous AI agents for an industry where 41% of the workforce is set to retire in seven years.
COR
COR is an AI-powered management platform built for creative and professional services firms — advertising agencies, consulting companies, law firms, and IT shops — that need to understand where their time actually goes and whether their projects are making money. By automating time tracking and layering on predictive analytics, COR gives agency leaders real-time visibility into project profitability, team capacity, and billing gaps before they become losses. Founded in 2017 in Silicon Valley by former agency operator Santi Bibiloni and co-founders Jose Gettas and Gabriel Marin, COR serves clients including Havas, Publicis, Ogilvy, Dentsu, and DDB across 35+ countries, with a reported $6.6M ARR and backing from investors including the founders of DoubleClick, Anaplan, MercadoLibre, and Krux.