HR Tech Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2025

Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 120+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly. Discover how Deel makes global work simple at deel.com.

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds. Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks and Bedrock.

Checkr builds people infrastructure for the future of work. And we believe everyone should have a fair chance to work. That's why we've designed a faster—and fairer—way to screen job seekers. For more information on our mission and products, visit https://checkr.com.

Hireglide is an AI screening tool for hiring teams. Instead of wading through 500 CVs, we screen them and surface the best candidates. In future, with access to millions of CVs, we will match candidates with relevant roles.

Tinder for Jobs. Swipe right, AI applies on your behalf.

Openroll is the AI-native operating system for compensation. Openroll gives companies a single system where compensation finally happens. Offers are sent instantly, budgets stay aligned automatically, promotions stay consistent, and salary decisions are made with confidence. Instead of fragmented tools, spreadsheets, and manual approvals, compensation runs end-to-end in one intelligent system used across the entire organization. Learn more at https://www.openroll.com

Shor is a new Employer-of-Record built from the ground up with AI agents and stablecoins. We enable remote teams to hire and pay global employees at a fraction of the cost. The process is fast, simple, and fully compliant. Today, global payroll is broken. Payments take days, cost 5–10% in fees, and force companies to navigate complex banking, tax, and labor regulations. Platforms like Deel and Rippling solved this for large enterprises but remain too expensive and cumbersome for the millions of startups and growing remote teams scaling globally. Shor fixes this by combining autonomous AI agents with stablecoin-based settlement. Our agents handle contracts, worker classification, compliance, and payroll automatically in a simple, messaging-first experience. Payments can settle in seconds rather than weeks at a fraction of the cost of legacy providers. We are making global payroll fast, affordable, and accessible for the millions of companies left out by legacy platforms.

Gale is an immigration platform that makes getting a visa suck less for US companies. We've simplified the visa application process to a web form, streamlined compliance, and can integrate with HR systems - saving teams time, money and headaches. Through automation, we enable the independent attorneys we coordinate with to maintain quality whilst being more efficient.

Spott is the first AI-native ATS/CRM for recruiting & staffing firms. We built Spott because existing recruitment platforms require extensive manual work, are clunky to use, rely on fragmented add-ons, and are not designed for AI adoption. Spott combines everything recruiting firms need, from a full ATS & CRM to AI agents across the entire workflow, into one AI-native solution. It enables recruiters to focus on what matters most and close more placements.

Symphony helps enterprises train their customer-facing employees using interactive AI voice simulations of real-world scenarios. Users can create an infinite number of simulations that allow their teams to practice the job - avoiding costly mistakes with real customers. For example, we’re live with 2 of the top 3 auto insurers in NA, helping train 1000s of newly hired claims adjusters.

Modus helps companies hire and retain only the people they need instead of becoming bloated messes. Modus connects your HRIS, ATS, and analyzes extensive data across your organization so leaders can detect, inspect, and correct their workforce plans - without relying on spreadsheets or complex systems. Lin experienced these challenges firsthand as a VP BizOps at HashiCorp, scaling from 100 employees to IPO, while Chris and Amar faced similar issues scaling 40+ person teams as a fractional CTO. They’re motivated by the belief that companies should have the least number of employees possible.

Central kills back-office work for startups. While HR/payroll platforms give you software to figure it out, Central actually does all the work using AI agents and human experts: payroll, benefits, compliance, accounting, taxes, and more. That's 10+ hours back every month. Thousands of founders trust Central, including high-growth companies like Magic Patterns, Wordware, and Bitesight. Learn more and start for free at centralhq.com

malibou is a web application helping French SMBs to manage employees, run payroll and track compliance in a single app. When processing payroll in France, you either have the choice between an accountant with good advice but no way to connect an HRIS with him, or a good HRIS that does not include payroll services. It was time for a change, to finally bring payroll and HR at the same place. Due to increasing competition in the space, French payroll engines have just opened their APIs. This allows us to offer a unified payroll and HR solution, which wasn't possible before.

DianaHR is an AI-powered HR person for the 1.4 million SMBs with at least 10 employees. Today, SMB owners spend 10+ hours a week struggling with managing software, state compliance notices, benefits questions, onboarding, insurance, workers comp, 401k, etc. With DianaHR, a human-in-the-loop AI takes care of all that and delivers peace of mind.

Alex is an AI recruiter for the future of hiring. Companies use us to get the best hiring signal on their applicant pool and hire in a fraction of the time. Our AI recruiter has a live conversation over a video call with each of your candidates based on the interview questions you choose or that are recommended based on the job description. During the interview, our AI asks personalized follow-up questions in real-time based on the candidate's responses. Our AI recruiter can be customized to your roles in minutes and has already conducted thousands of interviews across engineering, IT, retail, hospitality, and more.

AI-powered recruiting and HR platform. Find and hire the best pre-vetted global software talent and simplify onboarding, payroll, and compliance.

Cercli is the single modern platform for Middle East & North Africa (MENA) businesses to hire, manage and pay their global workforce. We automate your local and remote payrolls, HR, onboarding, compliance, expenses and more - to help organisations reduce human error and stay fully compliant. 

Serra is an AI recruiter that fully automates candidate sourcing and outreach, finding ideal talent from LinkedIn, GitHub, Crunchbase, and your ATS. Companies hiring Serra skip sourcing entirely and simply get qualified interviews on their calendar.

Affinity is a compliance training platform designed specifically for regulated industries. We’ve previously built a fintech from inception to a successful exit and are leveraging that experience to solve the learning management needs of regulated tech companies from growth stage to large enterprise banks.

Generic payroll providers weren't built for construction - Hammr is. Our modern tools simplify construction payroll, HR and operations. We help construction companies boost profits, not paperwork.

No more switching back and forth between Pitchbook, LinkedIn, and ZoomInfo. Verata brings together the best of all three with in-depth financial and people data in one easy to use platform. Verata lets you map markets, find comparables, and conduct deep research on operators with unparalleled metrics on executive track records. Research that took hours now takes minutes. Source deals, operating partners, advisors, and portfolio leaders all in one place.

Warp is the only AI-native HR & Payroll platform that runs itself. Instead of clicking through clunky dashboards or .gov websites for taxes, Warp’s AI agents open every state tax account, file every payroll form, and resolve every notice - automatically. 500+ fast-growing startups (Bland AI, Julius AI, Reducto, Cluely, Greptile and more) trust Warp to stay compliant while they build their companies. We’ve raised $25M from Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher), A-Star, Abstract, Drew Houston & Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox), Balaji Srinivasan, Amjad Masad (Replit), Kyle Vogt (Cruise), SV Angel & Homebrew Capital.

FlexDesk is the modern platform for corporate real estate departments. Combining lease administration with utilization intelligence, financial management, and a coworking booking platform, FlexDesk’s all-in-one solution is designed to help occupiers maximize the ROI of their real estate portfolio. Leading public and private corporations like Confluent, Hopper, ezCater, Blink Health, Paystand, and Bluecrest use FlexDesk to streamline their portfolio management processes while delighting their business users.

Juicebox is on a mission to help teams win the talent war. In the age of AI, human ingenuity is the ultimate scarce resource. Recruiting is a zero-sum game where you either compete or lose. Teams at Ramp, Perplexity, and leading AI labs use Juicebox to power their hiring, alongside 3,000+ customers from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies. We’ve crossed $10M in ARR with 20%+ monthly growth, powering thousands of searches every day and making Juicebox one of the fastest-growing AI SaaS companies in the world. Juicebox has raised $36M in funding, including a $30M Series A led by Sequoia Capital. Additional investors in Juicebox include Coatue, NFDG, Lux Capital, Y Combinator, and BOND Capital.

Craze makes it simple for founders and growing teams in India to manage, run and automate all of payroll, HR and IT in one place. Our integrated system serves as the single source of truth for all of admin, from onboarding to offboarding and everything in between. With Craze, businesses in India: - Have a system of record for people, employee and entity data that automates onboarding and offboarding - Run payroll in one click - Ensure payroll compliance - Manage leaves, time and attendance seamlessly synced with payroll - Automate and manage expenses, devices, benefits and lots more Entrepreneurs start businesses to build something people want and change the world. Craze eliminates disjointed point solutions, multiple spreadsheets and coordination headaches and saves time, money and unnecessary stress so founders can focus on what matters most — growing their business.

With over 500M white-collared job offers rolled out annually, companies find it very difficult to be certain about what to offer. Companies rely on old compensation survey data, which are updated only once every year. The salary expectations of candidates in the market change significantly on a quarterly basis (~7% statistically) in the startup ecosystem. This results in more than 50% of qualified/selected candidates not joining the company due to expectation mismatch. CompUp is an API-driven compensation benchmarking tool. We integrate with your existing HR/payroll systems, removing the need for manual data entry, and also getting updated in real-time. CompUp provides the most accurate real-time compensation benchmarking data which helps you make the right offer to the candidate. The platform allows you to make better compensation decisions such as annual increments, candidate offers using internal and external data. This has the following advantages : - All the process of compensation data submission is automatic and needs no manual intervention - Since the job market is dynamic in nature, the offers made on CompUp's real-time benchmarks would be the most efficient - The presentation of the offer to the candidate makes it look more appealing and explanatory to the candidate

Peoplebox.ai is an AI-native talent platform used by 500+ companies to hire, manage, and grow their people. At the center is Nova, the world’s most human-like AI teammate, for all talent conversations. Nova runs two-way voice/video pre-screen calls, first-round interviews (with coding round and advance proctoring), check-ins, and assessments, all with your company’s context built in. The talent management platform brings together OKRs/goals, performance reviews, career growth, calibration, and compensation into one unified system, helping companies align, assess, and develop talent faster.

Disclo is the first software for employers to collect, verify, and manage health disclosures and employee accommodation requests (HIPAA and SOC2 compliant, of course). We help employees secure the enhancements and protections they need to succeed in their careers without having to disclose their underlying medical condition to their employer. We handle the collection of that data, the verification, the secure data management, and much more. Using our patent-pending medical verification system, Disclo validates that an employee's accommodation request is legitimate and required, interacting with medical providers directly, so HR managers can focus on what they do best. We help companies stay compliant with EEOC, ADA, and HIPAA guidelines.

Dealls offers a curated selection of job vacancies for individuals pre-screened and curated by our team. By partnering with us, 5000+ companies have saved time and money by receiving only eligible and top candidates. Job seekers love Dealls because they can apply to multiple top companies with a single click and receive responses 21X faster than with other platforms.

StafBook help SMEs to simplify HR & expense management. With StafBook, business managers can manage the People administration starting from HR (onboarding, leave & attendance, payroll, until off-boarding) and also expense management (reimbursement, cash advance). Thus, people can save their time on administrative task, and focus on core business

The complete way to communicate compensation, starting with our interactive offer letters.

Think of us as your dedicated AI recruiting team, available 24/7 to engage with every single candidate in their preferred language. We help companies to evaluate 100% of their candidates while reducing the workload on their recruiting teams. Our technical co-founders, Rubén, Vladimir, and Sebastián, bring vast HR industry experience. HoyTrabajas is supported by Rebel Fund, Alan Rutledge, Kube Ventures, Flucas VC, Magic Fund, New Ventures, Y Combinator (w22), and more.

Happl - Personalised benefits for employees to choose what’s right for them, and tools for managers to engage their teams, whilst we take care of all the compliance and admin. Founded in 2020 and based in London, UK, Happl works with some of the UK’s leading employers to bring their hybrid working culture to life! https://www.happl.com/

MindFi is an app that reduces burnout and improves mental health for employees. We sell to companies in Asia such as Deutsche Bank, KPMG, PatSnap, Visa. The team is headquartered in Singapore and consists of Bjorn, (ex-Zendesk product manager), psychologist Anita Sadasivan (UMich alum, ex-Raffles Hospital), Leon 2X startup founder with 2 exits and Gangeshwar, an award-winning AI engineer.

We are disrupting hospitality hiring by reducing the time it takes to hire staff from months to < 3 days. Hiring staff is the biggest challenge for many of the 2M+ hospitality businesses in Europe. Covid and Brexit ceased the usual oversupply of candidates, making traditional job boards unable to meet employers' needs, and agencies more expensive than ever. As a consequence, employers spend huge amounts of time sourcing candidates manually and filtering through irrelevant CVs. Up to 80% of candidates who get invited to an interview, don't even show up. At Hirebolt we eliminate all this work for employers, by finding actively-looking candidates, vetting them and automatically matching them to the best employers using AI. We schedule interviews and extend offers to candidates faster than humans can, giving employers time back to run their businesses. To date, we’ve raised ~$1.5M from investors including Y Combinator, Entrepreneur First, world-class Venture Capital funds and industry leaders.

Zaz OS is a “Lovable for internal products”: an AI-native platform with an opinionated infrastructure that makes it easy to build and edit Apps and Agents through vibe-coding. Using spec-driven development, it ensures consistency and security for critical processes, solving challenges like user management, notifications, and multi-app integration within a single interface. With over eight years of experience in back-office and HR, Zaz OS was designed from the ground up with core structural issues already solved and the flexibility to adapt to each company’s unique needs. The result is the speed to build and iterate, combined with the robustness required for mission-critical processes — the ultimate solution to replace the Frankenstein stack of SaaS tools that currently dominates company management. As companies grow, the lack of customization of current software forces Heads of HR to buy multiple disconnected tools, allocate engineers to build and maintain people-related projects or use spreadsheets.

Café makes it easy to discover people, meet in-person, and organize internal events. Boost connection, engagement, and attendance — all in one place.

Brite is disrupting the employee benefits education space by building a platform that allows employee benefits brokerages to build digital benefit guides that drive employees to enroll in the right plans and understand their benefits better. To those who are in the industry...we are the "Employee Navigator" of benefits education software.

Advantage Club is a global platform for employee engagement including rewards, flexible benefits, perks and communities. We are currently live with 1000+ companies across 100+ countries and have a ARR of ~$8m. Our revenue has grown ~4x in the last 1 year.

A mobile app. It allows employees to get paid whenever they want, instead of just once a month (or biweekly). We sell it to companies as an employee benefit (B2B SaaS).

ModernLoop helps every company automate and streamline recruiting operations to deliver the best candidate experience. In 2022, the Department of Labor estimates there is a global talent shortage of 40 million workers, and that number is expected to grow to over 85 million by 2030. In order for companies to win the war for talent, they need to provide a best-in-class candidate experience to recruit top talent, and our product aims at doing just that! Our founders Lydia Han (CEO) and Chris Triolo (CTO) both founded ModernLoop in December of 2020 after they saw the challenges recruiting teams had when it came to coordinating hundreds of interviews across various teams, all while making sure both hiring managers and candidates had the best experience possible. After spending 15+ combined years at companies like Facebook, Slack, Brex and Salesforce, they understood what it took to enable talent teams do their best work, and are building a product to scale alongside them as they grow. We created ModernLoop to serve companies of all sizes in every industry to help Talent teams interview candidates quicker, easier, and enhance productivity of teams as they continue their search for top talent!

NowPay, a FinTech startup founded by ex-employees of IBM, Microsoft, Orange and Amazon, is building a financial-wellness platform for employees in emerging markets. Saving, spending, budgeting and borrowing. Those are the 4 pillars of financial-wellness. NowPay aims to improve every aspect of those for employees by building products that tackle every vertical. NowPay enables employees to get their salaries in advance at any point in time during the month and also pay their bills instantly. NowPay is backed by 500 Startups, Beco Capital, Endure, Plug and Play, MSA Capital, 4dx, Foundation Ventures, EFG and Beltone and has raised 3.7m USD so far.

At Gigs, we're building the operating system for mobile services - a platform that enables tech companies to seamlessly embed connectivity into their products. Just as Stripe enables businesses to embed a payment button into any product, Gigs enables businesses to add a connect button and issue SIMs with a single click or API call. From fintechs launching mobile services to HRIS platforms offering work phone plans, we automate phone plan provisioning. We're solving complex technical, operational and regulatory challenges to make connectivity truly effortless. We've grown to a team of around 90 people across the US and Europe, bringing together an experienced team of early-stage engineers, product builders and business athletes from companies like Stripe, Airbnb and Shopify. We know what it takes to solve hard problems. With almost $100MM in funding from Ribbit Capital, Google and Y Combinator, Gigs is one of the fastest growing tech companies. Building on our strong foundation, we’re looking for exceptional candidates who want to do the best work of their lives in a high-paced environment, surrounded by a highly talented, ambitious team. You’ll be joining at an exciting inflection point in our company’s history. At sub-100 people and with a year of hyper-growth ahead of us, opportunity is abundant.

Ontop allows companies to hire international workers and gives those workers access to USD accounts.

Pave allows you to make smarter comp decisions and eliminate spreadsheets, powered by real-time integrations with your HRIS, ATS, and Cap Table.

Finch is the API to access payroll and HR systems. We allow admins to connect their company in a compliant and secure manner to applications. Finch integrates across providers enabling developers to access a previously closed system and are at the source of truth for employee data and money flow. Our API powers use cases across lending, insurance, benefits, FP&A, and HR applications.

In 2016, we set out on a mission to make 100 million employees heard and valued. Today we’re Asia’s leading employee experience platform that helps engage employees, predict attrition & answer FAQs with conversational AI that people love ❤️ From India’s Shark Tank to Tiger Global. We’re backed by Y Combinator, Bling Capital and founders of Gainsight, Freshworks, Zeta, Lenskart, innov8. As a Chief Listening Officer, our A.I. bot Amber helps people-first leaders find hidden gaps in their culture, managers and wellbeing in real time. Spanning across 60 countries, our customers include MNCs like Samsung, Xiaomi, Lenovo, conglomerates like TATA, Godrej, Bharti. Come join our mission to help build cultures where people love to come to work. For career opportunities, please visit our careers page: jobs.infeedo.com

Candidately simplifies the process of sharing candidate resumes between staffing firms and their clients. Instead of relying on email attachments, Candidately offers a collaborative space where staffing firms can submit their top candidates, receive prompt client feedback, track client activity on candidate profiles, and increase the number of successful placements.

Our mission is to empower the world’s hiring teams to grow engaged, high-performing organizations - by delivering human connection at scale through innovative technology, commitment, and fairness. High-volume hiring is extremely broken - it is inefficient, ineffective, and biased. Our mission is to fix what is broken. We believe great hiring processes are centered around quality conversations between candidates and employers and a future where every candidate’s journey starts with a conversation - a future where candidates are considered without bias or archaic artifacts like resumes and cover letters.

Benepass consolidates corporate benefits onto a single card, powered by our in-house fintech payments stack We help companies take care of their employees through tax-advantaged benefits (e.g. FSA/HSA, dependent care, commuter) and company-funded stipends (e.g. wellness, WFH, professional development) all on a single card + mobile app. With Benepass, HR teams can centralize all ancillary benefits and perks in the same place and make them a no-brainer for employees to use and engage with.