Top list · Worldwide
131 payroll startups worldwide have raised money in rounds we track. These are the 50 that have raised the most, $2.6B between them, with the United States the most common home.
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Founded 2011San Francisco, United States$518Mlast round Jul 2025Deel is a global HR and payroll platform founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Founded 2019San Francisco, United States$300Mlast round Oct 2025Restaurant365 is an enterprise management software for restaurants that provides accounting, inventory, scheduling, and payroll solutions.
Founded 2011Irvine, United States$195Mlast round May 2024Tide is a UK business financial platform providing business current accounts and admin tools, including invoicing, expense management, accounting integrations,
Founded 2015London, United Kingdom$194Mlast round Sept 2025Fingercheck is a cloud-based platform that provides payroll, HR, time tracking, and scheduling solutions tailored for small and mid-sized businesses with hourly
Founded 2013Brooklyn, United States$115Mlast round Oct 2024PayFit is a prominent European SaaS company that offers a cloud-based payroll and human resources management platform tailored for small and medium-sized busine
Founded 2015Paris, France$95Mlast round Aug 2022Albo is a challenger bank that focuses on personal and business finances, as well as debit, credit, payroll, savings, and crypto.
Founded 2016Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico$86Mlast round Oct 2024Immedis is a specialist provider of enterprise technology solutions for global payroll and mobility tax services.
Founded 2016Ireland$78Mlast round Dec 2020Cloudpay Ltd offers global payroll, salary payments, and pay-on-demand services through a unified, cloud-based system.
Founded 2022United Kingdom$77Mlast round May 2018Check Technologies, Inc.
Founded 2019PRINCE, United States$75Mlast round Feb 2022OnPay is a cloud-based provider of payroll, human resources (HR), and benefits management software tailored for small to mid-sized businesses, accountants, and nonprofits.
Founded 2011Atlanta, United States$63Mlast round Jan 2025Atomic Financial is a FinTech and Banking Technology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, founded in 2019.
Founded 2019Salt Lake City, United States$55Mlast round Sept 2026Omaha National is provides workers compensation insurance and payroll services to small and midsize companies through agents and brokers.
Founded 2016Omaha, United States$45Mlast round Sept 2021Tako is an AI platform based in São Paulo, Brazil, that specializes in HR and people operations.
Founded 2022Sao Paulo, United States$37Mlast round Jul 2025Avante Health Inc.
Founded 2024Seattle, United States$30Mlast round Oct 2026Jet HR is an Italian technology platform founded in late 2022 that automates personnel management and payroll processes for businesses in Italy.
Founded 2023Milan, Italy$29Mlast round Jun 2025Clasp is a New York-based HR software company that specializes in modern employee benefits infrastructure through its Benefits API.
Founded 2023New York, United States$28Mlast round Oct 2026Ravical is the agentic operating layer for professional services firms.
Founded 2025Ghent, Belgium$25Mlast round Oct 2026With Truv, users can easily connect their payroll and financial accounts to instantly verify employment, income, and identity.
Founded 2020San Francisco, United States$25Mlast round Mar 2022Ataraxis is a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) with worksite employees across the US.
Founded 2009Boise, United States$24Mlast round Mar 2025Xintairuan is a human resource payment company that offers payroll and expense reimbursement services by leveraging digital technologies.
Founded -China$22Mlast round Dec 2018E-Duction facilitates processing capabilities via consumer-friendly, payroll deduction-based services for SMBs.
Founded 1997United States$21Mlast round May 2007ChartHop is an AI-powered People Operations Platform founded in 2018 and based in Brooklyn, New York.
Founded 2018New York, United States$20Mlast round Jan 2023Wrapbook is a fintech SaaS platform that modernizes payroll, accounting, onboarding, insurance, and financial management for the entertainment industry and the
Founded 2018New York, United States$20Mlast round Oct 2024Salsa, founded in 2021 by Juan Barroso and John Kramer, is an embedded payroll provider based in San Francisco, California.
Founded 2021San Francisco, United States$20Mlast round Apr 2025Wingspan is a modern payroll platform designed specifically for managing independent contractors, freelancers, and gig workers.
Founded 2019New York, United States$20Mlast round May 2025Symmetrical.ai is a payroll technology company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, with additional offices in London and Barcelona.
Founded 2019Warszawa, Poland$20Mlast round Apr 2022Finsocial provides credit solutions including payroll loan for teachers and pensioners.
Founded 2012Barranquilla, Colombia$20Mlast round Aug 2020Payroll Integrations is a San Diego-based B2B software company that specializes in providing an Integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS) to automate data excha
Founded 2016Carlsbad, United States$20Mlast round Sept 2023Humi is building important infrastructure for Canada's economy.
Founded -Toronto, Canada$20Mlast round May 2022HeavenHR is a Berlin-based HR software company that provides an all-in-one platform for personal administration and real-time payroll processing.
Founded 2015Berlin, Germany$18Mlast round Dec 2018Osmos is a single platform that enables complete cloud-based management of payroll and human resources.
Founded 2017United States$18Mlast round Jul 2021Perquest is a financial services company based in Dublin, California, with an additional location in Frisco, Texas.
Founded 2001Dublin, United States$17Mlast round Jul 2007Lano is a global technology company based in Berlin that offers an Employer of Record (EOR) and payroll platform.
Founded 2018Berlin, Germany$17Mlast round Dec 2023SyncHR provides enterprises with cloud-based technology solutions that are able to streamline HR, benefits, payroll and reporting processes.
Founded 2010Denver, United States$16Mlast round Jul 2017QRails enables payroll providers, fintechs, and other financial services businesses to deploy innovative payment solutions.
Founded 2016Denver, United States$15Mlast round Aug 2022dopay is a fintech company based in Egypt that offers a digital payroll and payment platform.
Founded 2014Cairo, United Kingdom$15Mlast round Jul 2024Celergo offers global payroll services and provides companies with solutions to meet their global payroll requirements.
Founded 2003United States$15Mlast round Mar 2011Paywatch Korea is a payroll advance payment service with good social influence.
Founded 2019Seoul, South Korea$14Mlast round Jun 2024Bento Africa is a pan-African fintech and payroll technology company focused on transforming how people earn, spend, and borrow across the continent.
Founded 2016Lagos, United States$14Mlast round Feb 2023Cercli is a human resources, modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Founded 2023United Arab Emirates$12Mlast round Oct 2025Yellow Canary is a Sydney-based RegTech company that specializes in automating payroll compliance through AI-powered audits.
Founded 2017Sydney, Australia$11Mlast round May 2022Sprout Solutions is a leading B2B SaaS company based in the Philippines, specializing in HR, payroll, compliance, and work management solutions.
Founded 2015Mandaluyong, Philippines$11Mlast round Apr 2023Skuad is an HR Platform that automates payroll management, local compliance, and taxation of their employees.
Founded 2019Singapore, Singapore$10Mlast round Oct 2022Intermezzo is an AI-native global payroll API platform that helps businesses automate payroll and compliance across multiple countries.
Founded 2024West Menlo Park, United States$10Mlast round Sept 2026AccessPay is a UK-based fintech company headquartered in Manchester, specializing in cloud-based bank integration solutions, payment automation, and cash management.
Founded 2012Manchester, United Kingdom$9.4Mlast round Jun 2024Everyset is a SAG-AFTRA-approved platform tailored for the film and television industry, focusing on the management of background performers from onboarding to payroll.
Founded 2016Los Angeles, United States$9.0Mlast round Oct 2025Zone & Co is a software development company based in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2013.
Founded 2000London, United Kingdom$8.5Mlast round Mar 2024Gig Wage is a Dallas-based fintech company focused on payroll, payment, and banking solutions for the 1099 gig economy and independent contractors.
Founded 2014Dallas, United States$8.3Mlast round Dec 2024Talana is an HCM platform that offers payroll processing, digital signature and many more solutions with an easy to use interface.
Founded 2016Santiago, Chile$8.0Mlast round Aug 2023Companies whose own description names this theme, ranked by the total they have raised in rounds we hold. Nobody pays to be on a list.
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