HR Path Funding, Investors & Competitors

Phenom is an Ambler, Pennsylvania-headquartered developer of the Intelligent Talent Experience platform powered by AI for recruitment and employee management. The platform includes tools like Phenom Career Sites, AI Chatbots, CRM systems, AI Scheduling, video interviews, and internal talent marketplaces serving over 500 enterprises worldwide including Bayer and Delta Air Lines. Founded in 2010, Phenom processes millions of candidate interactions annually and integrates with major HRIS systems such as Workday and SAP SuccessFactors across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Gem is a San Francisco-based recruiting automation platform integrating with LinkedIn, Gmail, Outlook, and ATS like Greenhouse. It enables talent sourcing, personalized outreach, and pipeline tracking for enterprise teams at companies like Airbnb and Square. Launched in 2016, Gem boosts response rates through AI-driven sequences and deduplication.

TransparentBusiness is a New York software and operating holding company incorporated in Delaware in 2015. Its original cloud platform helps organisations coordinate remote and on-site employees by recording work activity, project status, billable time and cost information. The product also provides project collaboration, communication, performance monitoring and workforce accountability tools for small and medium-sized businesses. The group added talent services through SheWorks and Yandiki, a controlling interest in staffing agency ITSQuest and a majority stake in the Unicorn Hunters media producer Unicorns. TransparentBusiness changed its corporate name to Unicoin in October 2022 while expanding into digital assets and media. In April 2026 the same legal company changed its name back to TransparentBusiness and continued operating software, talent and media interests. It earns subscription and service revenue from business and public-sector customers using its workforce and talent platforms.

Fountain is a recruiting software platform automating high-volume hiring for retail, hospitality, and logistics employers. San Francisco-based Fountain processes applications via SMS and chatbots, serving clients like McDonald's and 7-Eleven with screening and scheduling integrations.

Founded in Germany in 1972 by former IBM employees, SAP is the world’s largest provider of enterprise application software. Known as the leader in enterprise resource planning software, SAP’s portfolio also includes software for supply chain management, procurement, travel and expense management, and customer relationship management, among others. The company operates in more than 180 countries and has more than 400,000 customers, approximately 80% of which are small to medium-size enterprises.

Workday is a software company that offers human capital management, financial management, and business planning solutions for enterprises. Known for being a cloud-only software provider, Workday was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Paychex is a technology company providing human capital management solutions, enabling clients to better implement payroll, talent, time, tax, and benefits administration. It has a diverse set of product offerings addressing client needs. Aside from its traditional cloud-based payroll and HCM software offering, which accounts for close to half of total revenue, the company provides outsourcing options. Paychex's administrative service organization and professional employer organization accounts generate over 40% of sales. The balance of revenue is generated through retirement services, insurance solutions, and other products. In fiscal 2025, the company had 800,000 clients and almost 2.5 million worksite employees across its ASO and PEO.

Deel is a San Francisco-headquartered global workforce management platform handling payroll, compliance, HR, and payments for employees and contractors in over 150 countries. The service includes Employer of Record and Contractor of Record options, automated invoicing, multi-currency transfers, and integrations with HRIS systems like Workday and BambooHR, ensuring local tax and benefits adherence.

Rippling is a San Francisco-headquartered workforce management platform that integrates HR, payroll, IT, and finance in one system. Founded in 2016, the company automates onboarding, benefits, device management, expense tracking, and compliance for global teams at over 100,000 organizations including Shopify and DoorDash. Its API ecosystem connects with 500-plus apps for seamless operations.

Founded in 1998, Paycom is a human capital management software-as-a-service provider addressing customer requirements surrounding payroll, talent acquisition, talent management, human resources management, and time and labor. The company primarily generates revenue through the sale of subscriptions providing access to its HCM platform. To a lesser extent, the company also generates revenue from implementation services provided to customers as well as interest income generated from customer funds.

Gusto is a San Francisco-based software company founded in 2011 under the original ZenPayroll name and providing payroll, benefits and workforce-management tools to small and midsized businesses. Its cloud platform automates payroll calculations, tax filings, direct deposits, employee onboarding, time tracking and compliance workflows. Gusto also distributes health benefits, retirement products and business-finance tools through integrated services. Customers pay recurring software fees and, for some services, transaction or administrative charges. The platform operates across all U.S. states and connects with accounting and financial software used by employers. Ontario Teachers entered through a 2025 employee tender offer rather than through the company's older primary funding rounds. The tender provided liquidity to eligible current and former employees while maintaining Gusto's private-company status.

Founded in 1997, Paylocity is a cloud-based human capital management and payroll platform servicing midmarket customers. The company’s average client size is around 150 employees. Its products help with recruiting and onboarding, payroll, time and labor, human resources, benefits, learning, and performance and compensation workflows. In fiscal 2025, the company generated over $1.5 billion in revenue across more than 41,000 customers.

Personio is a Munich-headquartered provider of cloud-based HR software for small and medium-sized businesses operating internationally. Its platform combines core HR administration, recruiting and applicant tracking, onboarding, absence and time tracking, performance management, payroll preparation, workflow automation and people analytics in a single system. Personio sells subscriptions to companies typically with about 10 to 2,000 employees, mainly in Europe. By June 2024 it served around 12,000 customers across 70 countries and employed roughly 2,000 people, and its statutory accounts show revenue rising from EUR 1.8 million in 2017 to EUR 50.7 million in 2021. The company is venture-backed: after a EUR 2.1 million seed round in 2016 it raised rounds led by Northzone, Index Ventures, Accel, Index and Meritech, and Greenoaks, reaching a USD 8.5 billion valuation in June 2022. Personio was founded in 2015 by Hanno Renner, Roman Schumacher, Arseniy Vershinin and Ignaz Forstmeier; Renner is chief executive.

Checkr is a San Francisco company that supplies background checks and verification services to employers through an API and web platform. It was founded in 2014 by Daniel Yanisse and Jonathon Perichon after the Y Combinator program in the summer of 2014, and its early growth came from gig-economy customers such as Uber. The platform uses automation and AI with human review to run criminal, identity, education and employment checks and to keep reports compliant with US rules. Checkr says more than 140,000 customers use it and that its gross revenue passed $800 million in 2025. Funding rounds were led by Accel, Y Combinator, T. Rowe Price and Durable Capital, with a $250 million Series E at a $4.6 billion valuation in September 2021. It has bought Lytmus, ModoHR, GoodHire, Truework and Truv, and it invested in Argyle.

BetterUp is a San Francisco-headquartered coaching platform serving Fortune 500 companies. The service pairs employees with ICF-certified coaches via video for leadership tracks focused on DEI and resilience. BetterUp integrates with Workday for goal alignment and measures outcomes through 360 feedback. Clients include NASA and Hilton with programs in 190 countries.

G-P/Globalization Partners is a Boston- and San Diego-headquartered employer of record platform that facilitates hiring in over 187 countries. Its Global Expansion Platform handles payroll, tax compliance, and HR for international talent without establishing local entities. Regional hubs operate in London, Dubai, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Singapore, and Berlin. The company holds Privacy Shield certification for HR data transfers and serves clients expanding sales, engineering, and support teams globally.

micro1 is an AI data platform headquartered in San Francisco, California, converting human expertise into datasets via its Data Engine for AI model training. Founded in 2022, it offers Zara, an AI recruiter sourcing global talent, and APIs for human-in-the-loop operations. The Research Lab publishes on AI recruitment, speech-to-text, and proctoring, serving enterprises with 10,000 experts recruited quarterly.