The Toronto company began with branded swag until one customer punctured the premise: nobody works harder for a coffee mug. Its second act turned appreciation into a daily data stream - and offers HR leaders a useful playbook, with sharp limits.
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.
StackOne is a London-based integration platform that gives B2B SaaS companies and AI agent builders a single unified API to connect to hundreds of enterprise systems - from HR and CRM to ticketing, messaging and identity. Combining a proprietary tool-calling LLM with a real-time, privacy-first engine, it offers 200+ pre-built connectors and thousands of ready-made actions so agents can reliably and securely take actions inside the software businesses already use. Founded in 2023 by Romain Sestier and Guillaume Lebedel, the company raised a $20M Series A led by GV (Google Ventures) in May 2025 and has surpassed 1 billion API calls.