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Leland is an education and career coaching marketplace platform that connects users with expert coaches, courses, and community resources to achieve their education and career goals. The platform serves over 100,000 users across 70+ countries with access to coaching across 50+ categories including MBA admissions, career transitions, and professional development.

Mercor uses AI to match talent with high-skill work and to provide the expert human data and evaluation infrastructure used to train and improve frontier AI systems.

Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform that combines an applicant tracking system, CRM, scheduling automation, and analytics into a single product. Used by companies like OpenAI, Notion, and Ramp, it helps ambitious hiring teams scale with AI-powered workflows and deep recruiting insights.

Metaview builds an AI recruiting platform that records, analyzes, and summarizes interviews while adding sourcing and recruiting workflow agents for talent teams. The product helps recruiting organizations reduce manual note-taking, improve hiring signal quality, and run AI-assisted candidate workflows across existing ATS, CRM, scheduling, and communication tools.

Niural is an AI-native global PEO and payroll platform that unifies payroll, hiring, compliance, and payments for employees and contractors across multiple countries. It is expanding beyond payroll into long-horizon AI agents for regulated CFO and people-operations workflows via Niural AI Labs. The company reports crossing $200M in annualized gross revenue on its PEO product following its Aetna partnership.

Multiverse is the UK's first EdTech unicorn, providing an alternative to university through professional apprenticeships in AI and tech skills. Partnered with over 1,500 companies in the US and UK.

Thatch is a modern health benefits platform that enables employers to offer Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRA), giving employees a monthly allowance to choose their own health insurance plans. The platform has onboarded over a thousand companies and integrates with payroll systems like ADP to streamline benefits administration.

Basic Capital offers an innovative 401(k) platform that provides $4 of financing for every dollar in retirement contributions, helping workers leverage appreciating assets and achieve their retirement goals while offering employers affordable record keeping at just $5 per employee per month.

Recruiting marketplace and platform that matches companies with specialized recruiters and AI-powered hiring workflows.

Pave is an AI-powered compensation management platform that helps organizations benchmark, plan, and communicate compensation with real-time market data from 8,700+ companies. It provides tools for merit cycles and an employee-facing total rewards portal.

Juicebox is an AI-powered recruiting platform that uses LLM-powered search to automate talent sourcing and recruiting workflows, trusted by over 3,000 customers including Ramp, Perplexity, and leading AI labs, with access to 800 million candidate profiles globally.

Teamshares buys small businesses from retiring owners and transitions them to employee ownership, targeting 80% employee-owned over 20 years. It installs new leadership, provides financial education and equity-management software, and sells financial products to its network companies. Founded in 2019, it operates as part holding company, part fintech across 40+ industries and 30 states.

Merge provides a Unified API platform that lets B2B companies add hundreds of integrations to their products through a single integration. Covering HRIS, accounting, CRM, ATS, and file storage, Merge powers integrations for over 3,000 companies including Ramp, Drata, and AngelList.

Sona is the AI platform for frontline enterprises, combining regulated workforce infrastructure — scheduling, HR, payroll and compliance — with an operational data layer businesses build on. Its Forge product is an enterprise AI application builder that lets operators create custom software on top of their workforce data. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in London with a growing New York presence, it serves large frontline operators in healthcare, hospitality, retail and facilities.

Awardco is an enterprise employee rewards, recognition, and engagement platform provider, used by thousands of organizations.

Branch provides earned wage access and digital banking tools that let employers pay hourly, gig, and contract workers instantly instead of waiting for the traditional payroll cycle. Its platform offers on-demand access to earned wages, zero-fee digital wallets, a paycard alternative, and instant payouts for both W-2 and 1099 workforces. Branch serves companies such as Walmart Spark, Uber Freight, and Kelly.

AI-powered compliance training platform for frontline workers that automatically identifies risks, generates documentation, and delivers bite-sized training content in over 25 languages.

Finch is a unified employment API platform that enables HR tech, fintech, and benefits companies to securely read and write data across 250+ HRIS and payroll systems through a single integration. Founded via Y Combinator in 2020.

AI-powered sales role-play and assessment platform for hiring and training.

Lighthouse is an immigration software company that helps founders, engineers, and researchers prepare U.S. work visas and green cards in weeks instead of months. It combines legal workflows, operations software, and AI-driven automation to speed up case preparation.

Pinwheel builds payroll and income data connectivity products for banks, lenders, credit unions, and fintechs, including direct deposit switching, income and employment verification, subscription management, and consumer-permissioned financial data APIs.

A London-based AI-native employee benefits platform that helps enterprises manage and optimize employee benefits using artificial intelligence.

MeritFirst builds a skills-first hiring platform that uses assessments and verified work samples to help companies evaluate candidates on ability instead of pedigree. The product is designed to surface overlooked talent and streamline merit-based recruiting workflows.

An autonomous AI recruiter that automates interviewing and recruiting, conducting thousands of voice interviews to help companies hire the best talent.

AI-driven engineering hiring platform with dynamic coding challenges, skills assessments, and fraud detection.

Seso is an all-in-one employee management platform built for the agriculture industry, helping farms hire migrant workers through H-2A visa automation, manage HR and compliance, and run payroll. Serves 27 of the largest 100 ag employers in the U.S.

ChartHop is a people operations platform that unifies, visualizes, and connects workforce data from HR, payroll, and other systems into a single source of truth. It offers org charts, headcount planning, compensation management, and people analytics for HR and finance teams. The company is actively hiring across roles including Senior Professional Services Consultant.

Natter is an AI-native conversation intelligence platform that runs thousands of simultaneous 1:1 video conversations with employees, members, and customers, then uses AI to moderate them and turn the transcripts into themes, sentiment, and decision-ready insights. It positions itself as a replacement for enterprise surveys, focus groups, and research interviews, since a seven-minute conversation yields roughly 1,000 words of data versus about ten from a survey answer. Customers include Accenture, ServiceNow, Deloitte, Salesforce, PwC, and Philip Morris.

Represents X-Bow Systems, which develops additive-manufactured solid rocket motors and modular launch services for defense and space customers.

Griting is an AI-native talent infrastructure company that makes capability provable through evidence-based, traceable evaluation—an evidence-first system designed for trustworthy talent decisions.

Ravio is a compensation intelligence platform that helps companies benchmark pay in real time and make salary decisions with market data.

Payroll, benefits, and compliance platform for 1099 contractors and the companies that hire them.

Caro is an HR and workforce management platform focused on home-based care, connecting caregivers with families and care agencies. It streamlines scheduling, compliance, and payroll for home care providers.

Every provides an all-in-one back office platform for founders, combining banking, accounting, payroll, taxes, and compliance.

Fika Jobs is a Stockholm-based video-first hiring platform that runs personalized AI-agent video interviews (currently powered by Google's Gemini) and compiles candidate responses into short video profiles, letting employers assess communication and personality beyond resumes. The platform is free for job seekers and charges employers 10% of a successful hire's first-year salary. It raised a $4M pre-seed in June 2026 led by Luminar Ventures.

GoTu is a dental talent marketplace that connects practices with verified dental professionals for flexible staffing.

Kula is a modern all-in-one ATS with native AI, built to unify sourcing, candidate screening, interview coordination, scheduling, and analytics into a single recruiting workflow.

Nectar is an employee recognition and culture platform that enables organizations to build connection and engagement through recognition, rewards, internal communications, and employee listening tools. Used by 1,500+ organizations.

Global employer of record platform that enables companies to hire, manage, and pay employees and contractors in over 180 countries without establishing local entities.

Twill operates a talent referral platform that helps companies hire through trusted introductions and lets candidates access roles through referral-driven recruiting.

Zeal is a modern payroll infrastructure platform that enables staffing companies and platforms to onboard, pay, and bill workers through its API-first approach. The platform automates payroll compliance, tax calculations, and worker onboarding.

A gamification platform powered by AI designed to improve sales training, employee engagement, and team performance through interactive incentives.

An AI-native benefits brokerage and enrollment platform that simplifies employee benefits management for employers.

Bolto is an AI-native, all-in-one platform that unifies recruiting, global payroll, and HR (EOR and contractor payments across 150+ countries) in a single product. Its AI HR-orchestration agent surfaces proactive insights to help HR leaders make better human-capital decisions. Founded in 2023 (YC S23), it serves fast-growing companies globally.

BuildStream provides recruiting support and candidate sourcing services that help hiring teams and staffing agencies identify, qualify, and engage talent faster.

Cake Equity is a cap table and equity management platform for startups and scaleups. It enables founders to issue options globally, manage capitalization tables, and run capital raises with integrated 409A valuations.

CLARA is an AI-powered applicant screening platform that scores resumes on skills and de-identifies candidate data to reduce hiring bias for recruiting teams.

Deel is an all-in-one HR and payroll platform that helps businesses hire, manage, and pay global teams across 150+ countries. The platform combines payroll processing, compliance, benefits administration, and workforce management with AI-driven automation.

Happenstance is an AI-powered people search engine that lets users query their personal and extended professional network in natural language (e.g. "who do I know working on notification systems at big companies"). It connects social and CRM graphs to surface warm intros for hiring, sales, and fundraising. A Y Combinator W24 company based in San Francisco.

Instant pay platform that provides employees real-time access to earned wages after every shift, improving employee retention and engagement while reducing payroll administration costs.

Health insurance data platform modernizing benefits data exchange between HR tech and carriers.

Offcall is a career and financial platform built for physicians, offering salary benchmarking, compensation transparency, and financial education tools. The platform helps doctors navigate professional mobility, work planning, student debt, retirement, and taxes. It also provides a HIPAA-compliant referral network and clinician messaging for care coordination.

Orbio builds an AI-native operating system for HR teams, using agents to automate repetitive workflows, improve employee support, and connect with existing HRIS and enterprise systems.

Parable builds a system of record for time, giving modern teams a unified foundation for time capture, payroll operations, and workforce workflows.

Pasito provides employee benefits communication and decision-support software to help employers improve benefits engagement and outcomes.

Phenom is an AI-powered talent intelligence and hiring platform that helps enterprises attract, engage, hire, develop, and retain employees at scale. The platform serves candidates, recruiters, employees, and HR leaders through a unified Talent Experience Management (TXM) suite. Founded in 2010, it has been adopted by over 400 global enterprises and processes more than 25 billion interactions per year.

Pin is an AI-powered recruitment platform that automates candidate sourcing, matching, screening, and outreach. It integrates with 120+ applicant tracking systems and serves 10,000+ users.

Pyn helps companies build better employee experiences with timely, personalized communications and employee journey mapping across onboarding, manager enablement, company communications, and lifecycle moments.

Refer is a Bay Area AI recruiting platform (Public Benefit Corporation) founded in 2024 by Andre Hamra that flips traditional recruiting by making job seekers the primary customer through an AI career agent named Lia. Lia learns a candidate's experience and preferences, matches them to roles, and makes direct email introductions once both sides are interested, with candidates paying 20% of their first month's base salary only after they are hired. The platform reports ~2,000 companies, ~7,000 open roles, and 5,000+ facilitated interviews.

Summer is a Certified B Corp that helps employers offer student loan and education benefits as a workplace perk. Its platform covers SECURE 2.0 student loan retirement matching, tuition assistance, 529 plans, PSLF and income-driven repayment enrollment, plus 100+ federal loan assistance programs. It works with 1,000+ employers, unions, hospital systems and governments, reporting average savings of ~$45K per employee.

Teal is an AI-powered career growth platform offering resume builders, job tracking, and career planning tools to help job seekers make informed career decisions.

The Network is a people search engine that aggregates public online information to help the right people connect. Their first product, Signa, helps venture capitalists and professionals discover and connect with relevant individuals based on social data across the internet. Founded by former Deel early employees, the platform aims to engineer serendipity through meaningful human connection.

Nmbr is Canada's first dedicated embedded payroll software provider, enabling SaaS platforms and financial institutions to launch their own payroll products in days. The API-first platform handles the full complexity of Canadian payroll compliance and remittance.

Global job platform transforming how people connect with work, offering employer branding solutions, job matching, and media content. Merged with Otta in 2024 to expand globally.

Windmill is an AI-native HR platform building a "context graph" of a company's workforce, integrating with Slack, GitHub, and Google Workspace to continuously capture evidence of how work actually happens. Its first product is an AI-assisted performance review system, used by 100+ customers including Kalshi, Rho, and Merge since its November 2025 launch. The New York team raised a $12M seed led by Inspired Capital in April 2026.

Freelance management platform connecting high-skill freelancers with employers, providing tools for workforce orchestration, contractor compliance, and talent acquisition at scale.