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Papaya Global Revenue, Valuation, Funding & Investors
Papaya Global is valued at $3.7B as of September 2021, a 37.0x revenue multiple. Papaya Global revenue was $100M, as disclosed with its latest round.
Last Papaya Global valuation
$3.7B
Series D · Sep 2021
Last Papaya Global funding round
$250M
Series D · Sep 2021
Papaya Global revenue
$100M
Series D · Sep 2021
Key investors in Papaya Global
New Era Capital Partners
Insight Partners
Bessemer Venture Partners
Group 11
Dynamic Loop Capital
Scale Venture Partners
About Papaya Global
Papaya Global provides software and regulated payment infrastructure for managing international workforces. Its platform unifies payroll, employer-of-record services, contingent-worker administration, compliance, workforce data and payments across more than 180 countries. Finance, human-resources and payroll teams use it to standardize data, validate payroll cycles, manage different worker types and deliver cross-border workforce payments through one operating system.
Founded
2016
HQ
Website
Status
Privately held
Customer focus
B2B
Revenue model
Subscription
Revenue
$100M (Sep 2021)
Valuation
$3.7B (Sep 2021)
Papaya Global Valuation
Papaya Global is currently valued at $3.7B, based on its Series D in September 2021. Read the announcement ↗
The $250M round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from Group 11, Greenoaks, IVP, Scale Venture Partners, Access Industries and 4 other investors.
Papaya Global's valuation has grown 3.7x from $1B at its Series C in March 2021 to $3.7B in September 2021, across 2 priced rounds.
Papaya Global valuation by funding round
Revenue multiple| Date | Stage | Valuation | Revenue Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2021 | Series D | $3.7B | 37.0x |
| Mar 2021 | Series C | $1B | 41.7x |
Papaya Global Revenue
Papaya Global's latest recorded revenue is $100M, as of its Series D in September 2021. At a $3.7B valuation, that implies a 37.0x revenue multiple.
Revenue grew from $24M in March 2021 to $100M in September 2021, while the revenue multiple moved from 41.7x to 37.0x.
Papaya Global revenue by funding round
| Date | Revenue * | Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2021 | $100M | $3.7B | 37.0x | Series D |
| Mar 2021 | $24M | $1B | 41.7x | Series C |
* Revenue (or ARR) figures are the values recorded alongside each funding round. Typically run-rate revenue at the time of the deal, or a reported LTM (last 12 months) revenue.
Papaya Global Funding History
Papaya Global has raised a total of $440M across 6 funding rounds, plus 1 secondary share sale.
Papaya Global's first fundraising round was a $2M seed round in June 2016. The most recent completed round was a $250M Series D in September 2021.
Papaya Global funding rounds
| Date | Stage | Investors | Raised | Valuation | Deal Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2021 | Series D | Insight Partners (lead); Group 11; Greenoaks; IVP; Scale Venture Partners; Access Industries; Bessemer Venture Partners; Workday Ventures; Tiger Global; Alkeon Capital | $250M | $3.7B | Papaya Global is an Israel-based workforce management platform founded in 2016 that provides a cloud-based solution for hiring, onboarding, managing, paying, and ensuring regulatory compliance for workers across over 140 countries, including payroll, EOR, contractors, equity, benefits, and global payments. The company raised $250 million in a Series D funding round in September 2021 led by Insight Partners with participation from Tiger Global, Greenoaks Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Alkeon Capital, Scale Venture Partners, IVP, Workday Ventures, Access Industries, and Group 11, bringing total funding to $440 million and achieving a post-money valuation of $3.7 billion—more than triple the prior $1.2 billion valuation from its March 2021 Series C round and a tenfold increase since September 2020. Papaya reported tripling revenue in 2020 and starting 2021 with $20 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), projecting growth to $100 million ARR by year-end amid hyper-growth driven by its 'Total Payroll' offering and demand for global workforce solutions in a remote work environment. The funds are earmarked for rapid global expansion, accelerating recruitment of high-growth and Fortune 500 clients, and enhancing its platform's automation for compliance and efficiency, positioning Papaya to redefine global people management with seamless technology. |
| Mar 2021 | Series C | Greenoaks (lead); Group 11; IVP; New Era Capital Partners; Scale Venture Partners; Dynamic Loop Capital; Bessemer Venture Partners; Workday Ventures; Insight Partners; Alkeon Capital; Access Ventures | $100M | $1B | Papaya Global is a Tel Aviv-based cloud-based payroll and payment management platform that enables companies to manage global workforces, including onboarding, payroll automation, compliance, and payments across multiple countries. In March 2021, it raised $100 million in a Series C funding round led by Greenoaks Capital Partners, with participation from IVP, Alkeon, and existing investors such as Insight Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Dynamic Loop, New Era Capital Partners, Workday Ventures, Access Ventures, and Group 11, bringing total funding to $190 million and achieving a post-money valuation over $1 billion, marking its entry into unicorn status. The funds were allocated to meet demand for its global workforce management platform, reinforce market leadership, and invest in product, engineering, and go-to-market teams amid rising remote work and compliance complexities. The round highlighted Papaya's impressive growth, with CEO Eynat Guez noting the platform's emergence as a standard for workforce management similar to ERP in finance. Greenoaks Partner Patrick Backhouse praised its best-in-class solution for onboarding, payroll automation, and global workforce management through a single interface, serving both growing and established companies adapting to new work practices. This Series C followed a $40 million Series B in October 2020 (noted in some sources as September 2020), reflecting rapid scaling. Subsequent developments included a $250 million Series D in September 2021 at $3.7 billion valuation led by Insight Partners with Tiger Global, increasing total funding to $440 million and demonstrating hyper-growth in global payroll management, including 'Total Payroll' offerings for equity, benefits, and full compliance. |
| Sep 2020 | Series B | Scale Venture Partners (lead); Group 11; New Era Capital Partners; ClalTech; Access Industries; Dynamic Loop Capital; Bessemer Venture Partners; Workday Ventures; Insight Partners | $40M | - | Papaya Global raised USD 40 million in a Series B financing announced in late September 2020. Scale Venture Partners led the round, with Bessemer Venture Partners, New Era Capital Partners and other existing and new backers participating. The financing supported product development and international expansion for Papaya's global workforce-management platform. Papaya Global provides multinational employers with software for payroll, workforce payments, employer-of-record services, contractor administration and related compliance workflows. Its system centralizes workforce and payroll information that would otherwise be distributed among local providers and internal systems. Contemporary financing coverage establishes the amount, stage and investor syndicate, while Papaya's corporate history independently records the round. The correct participant is New Era Capital Partners, not the unrelated New Era Ventures record previously linked in the database. This synopsis describes only the 2020 Series B and excludes later unicorn valuations, acquisition activity and speculative sale discussions that are not part of this financing event. |
| Jun 2020 | Secondary | Group 11 (lead) | $5M | - | - |
| Nov 2019 | Series A | Insight Partners (lead); New Era Capital Partners; Dynamic Loop Capital; Bessemer Venture Partners | $45M | - | Papaya Global, a global payroll and payment management platform founded in 2016 by Eynat Guez, Ruben Drong, and Ofer Herman, closed a $45 million Series A funding round on November 5, 2019, led by Insight Partners with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and existing investors New Era Capital Partners and Dynamic Loop Capital. The platform supports all types of workers across 100 countries, handling onboarding, payroll automation, cross-border payments, and more, serving clients like Microsoft, Wix, Fiverr, and CyberArk. The funding aimed to support rapid growth, scale operations, invest in automation, launch new products such as benefits management and salary benchmarks, and triple growth in clients, revenue, and employees across offices in Tel Aviv, New York, San Francisco, and Melbourne. The company's technology has been recognized by Deloitte, Gartner, and Visa as disruptive in global payroll and payments. Subsequent funding included a $40 million Series B in September 2020 led by Scale Venture Partners, a $100 million Series C in March 2021 led by Greenoaks Capital, and the $250 million Series D co-led by Insight Partners and Tiger Global. Papaya Global operates at the intersection of fintech and HR-tech, offering a SaaS platform for global workforce management including EOR services, contractor management, payments infrastructure, compliance, and analytics. |
| Oct 2018 | Seed | New Era Capital Partners (lead); Sir Ronald Cohen | $3M | - | Papaya Global announced a USD 3 million seed financing in October 2018 from New Era Capital Partners. The capital was intended to expand the team and strengthen the company's technology for managing international workforces. Papaya Global provides businesses with software for global payroll, workforce payments, employer-of-record administration and contractor management. The platform consolidates payroll data and supports local compliance workflows across the countries where a customer employs workers. New Era Capital Partners, the Tel Aviv- and Boston-based venture firm, is the verified investor in this round; the similarly named New Era Ventures is not the disclosed participant. Papaya's announcement and corporate history support the amount, timing and investor identity. No round valuation was disclosed, so none is inferred. The synopsis is limited to the 2018 financing and its use of proceeds and deliberately excludes later funding valuations, speculative sale reports and subsequent acquisitions that do not describe this transaction. |
| Jun 2016 | Seed | New Era Capital Partners; Dynamic Loop Capital | $2M | - | Papaya Global completed a USD 1.5 million seed financing in June 2016. New Era Capital Partners and Dynamic Loop Capital participated in the round, which supplied early capital for the company's global workforce-management platform. Papaya Global was founded by Eynat Guez, Ofer Herman and Ruben Drong to help multinational employers manage payroll, payments and workforce administration across countries. Its software brings payroll data, local compliance workflows and payments into a single system for employees and contractors. The company sells the platform to business customers operating internationally rather than acting as a consumer payroll application. Papaya's own company history records the amount, timing and early investor relationships. The transaction is retained as the company's 2016 seed event, with both verified investors linked to the existing row. Later fundraising and acquisition activity are outside the perimeter of this seed-round synopsis. |
Who has invested in Papaya Global?
15 investors have backed Papaya Global across its funding rounds, including New Era Capital Partners, Insight Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Group 11, Dynamic Loop Capital and Scale Venture Partners.
Lead investors include Insight Partners, Greenoaks, Scale Venture Partners, Group 11 and New Era Capital Partners.
Papaya Global Investors
| Investor | HQ | Rounds | Role | First check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Lead | Jun 2016 | ||
| 4 | Lead | Jun 2020 | ||
| 4 | Participant | Jun 2016 | ||
| 4 | Participant | Nov 2019 | ||
| 4 | Lead | Nov 2019 | ||
| 3 | Lead | Sep 2020 | ||
| 3 | Participant | Sep 2020 | ||
| 2 | Lead | Mar 2021 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Mar 2021 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Sep 2020 | ||
| 2 | Participant | Mar 2021 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Oct 2018 | ||
| 1 | Participant | Sep 2020 | ||
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Start Free TrialAcquisitions by Papaya Global
Papaya Global has acquired 2 companies to date.
Last acquisition by Papaya Global was on March 28th 2022. Papaya Global acquired Azimo for $175M.
Latest Acquisitions by Papaya Global
| Description | Azimo is a London-headquartered digital remittances provider enabling fast, low-cost international money transfers to bank accounts or over 270,000 cash pickup locations worldwide. Accessible via mobile app, the platform serves corridors in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, processing payments to destinations including India, Philippines, and Poland. | - |
| HQ Country | ||
| HQ City | London | - |
| Deal Date | 28 Mar 2022 | 17 Nov 2021 |
| Valuation | $175M | undisclosed |
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| EV/EBITDA | ||
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Papaya Global Competitors
Papaya Global competitors include listed companies like TOTVS and Freee, and private ones like PayFit, CaptivateIQ, Rippling and Wrapbook.
| Company | HQ | Status | Revenue | EBITDA | Valuation | Revenue Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publicly listed | $1.1B | $303M | $3.3B | 2.9x | ||
| Private | $74M | - | $2.1B | 28.3x | ||
| Publicly listed | $269M | $15M | $1.7B | 5.5x | ||
| Private | $44M | - | $1.3B | 28.4x | ||
| Private | $570M | - | $17B | 29.5x | ||
| Private | - | - | $750M | - |
Papaya Global Public Comps
Papaya Global is still privately-owned, but its public comps include TOTVS, BILL.com, Vertex, Money Forward, BlackLine, Freee, 74Software, Fujian Boss Software, Miroku Jyoho Service and Xero.
| Last FY | EV/Revenue | EV/EBITDA | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | EBITDA | Last FY | LTM | 2027E | Last FY | LTM | 2027E | |
| $1.1B | $303M | 3.6x | 2.9x | 12.8x | 11.1x | |||
| $1.7B | $34M | 2.5x | 2.4x | 118.9x | 10.2x | |||
| $748M | $103M | 3.5x | 3.2x | 25.3x | 13.0x | |||
| $319M | $55M | 7.8x | 6.4x | 45.4x | 36.5x | |||
| $700M | $72M | 3.1x | 2.8x | 29.9x | 9.8x | |||
| $269M | $15M | 5.9x | 5.5x | 105.5x | 66.2x | |||
| $790M | $109M | 1.8x | 1.7x | 13.1x | 9.1x | |||
| $301M | $40M | 2.5x | 2.6x | 19.1x | 19.2x | |||
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Common questions about Papaya Global
| When was Papaya Global founded? | Papaya Global was founded in 2016. |
| Where is Papaya Global headquartered? | Papaya Global is headquartered in New York City, NY, United States. |
| Is Papaya Global publicly listed? | No, Papaya Global is a private, VC-backed company. |
| What is Papaya Global's valuation? | Papaya Global was last valued at $3.7B in its Series D in September 2021. |
| How much funding has Papaya Global raised? | Papaya Global has raised $440M across 6 funding rounds. |
| What was Papaya Global's last funding round? | Papaya Global's last funding round was a $250M Series D in September 2021, led by Insight Partners. |
| Who are Papaya Global's investors? | Papaya Global's investors include New Era Capital Partners, Group 11, Dynamic Loop Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Workday Ventures, Greenoaks, IVP, Access Industries and 5 others. |
| What is Papaya Global's revenue? | Papaya Global's latest recorded revenue is $100M (September 2021). |
| What is Papaya Global's revenue multiple? | Papaya Global's latest valuation implies a 37.0x revenue multiple ($3.7B valuation on $100M of revenue). |
| Which companies are comparable to Papaya Global? | Companies comparable to Papaya Global include TOTVS, PayFit, Freee, CaptivateIQ, Rippling and Wrapbook. |
| How many companies has Papaya Global acquired? | Papaya Global has acquired 2 companies, including Azimo and NickNack. |
| What was the largest acquisition by Papaya Global? | The $175M acquisition of Azimo in March 2022 is the largest acquisition Papaya Global has made to date. |
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