Top 17 Payroll and Employee Benefits software startups

Mar 15, 2025 | By Fernando Lopez

These startups want to disrupt Payroll software, incorporating real-time wage processing, automated tax compliance and AI-powered payroll analytics.
1
Country: USA | Funding: $979M
Deel is a payroll and compliance platform for international employees and contractors.
2
Country: Kenya | Funding: $10.3M
Workpay is a Payroll, Benefits, Compliance & embed finance for local and remote teams in Africa.
3
Country: USA | Funding: $2B
Rippling is a human resource management company that manages employees’ payroll, benefits, devices, and apps.
4
Country: USA | Funding: $746.1M
Gusto provides a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and human resource management solution for businesses.
5
Country: France | Funding: $495.8M
Payfit allows small and medium enterprises to easily and quickly pay their employees.
6
Country: UK | Funding: $375.5M
CloudPay provides global payroll, treasury, and on-demand pay solutions to multinational organizations.
7
Country: USA | Funding: $286M
Oyster is a human resource platform designed for globally-distributed companies
8
Country: USA | Funding: $189M
Homebase is a software application that provides tools for employee scheduling, time tracking, communication, and task management.
9
Country: Canada | Funding: $79.8M
Wave offers tailored financial services (payments, payroll) and award-winning free software for small/micro-businesses around the world.
10
Country: Denmark | Funding: $54M
Pento provides a SaaS-based online platform intended to optimize payroll services.
11
Country: France | Funding: $54.4M
Skello makes schedule in a few clicks, communicate with teams and automatically process payroll.
12
Country: USA | Funding: $39.4M
Global payroll and HR compliance. An infrastructure for hiring remote employees compliantly from any country in the world!
13
Country: USA | Funding: $21M
Fringe is a lifestyle benefits marketplace that makes benefits personalized to the individual and self-selected by each employee.
14
Country: USA | Funding: $20.8M
Payroll Integrations is a software-as-a-service that connects payroll providers with benefits providers.
15
Country: USA | Funding: $10M
Salsa offers a payroll infrastructure platform that allows businesses to lauch embedded payroll products quickly and efficiently.
16
Country: India | Funding: $3.7M
Zimyo is an all-in-one HR software and payroll platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) in India
Editor: Fernando Lopez
Fernando Lopez is a senior editor for SaaStartups. He joined the company after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to his work as a reporter, Fernando worked in I.T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software. Fernando graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (Computer Science). He is more-than-averagely interested in photography and can often be found with a camera slung over his shoulder. He wrote a book about pitching startups to investors. You can contact Fernando at fernandolopez(at)saastartups(dot)com