Top 49 Talent Management and HRM startups

Updated: Mar 21, 2026
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These startups want to disrupt HRM software, introducing AI-driven talent analytics, automated onboarding platforms, skill-matching algorithms.
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BrioHR
Country: Malaysia | Funding: $7.8M
BrioHR is an all-in-one, affordable, modular, and simple cloud-based HR management software with complementary mobile app.
2
Rippling
Country: USA | Funding: $2.45B
Rippling is a human resource management company that manages employees’ payroll, benefits, devices, and apps.
3
Personio
Country: Germany | Funding: $724.3M
Personio is a Germany-based company developing an HR management and recruiting solution for startups and SMEs.
4
Gusto
Country: USA | Funding: $746.1M
Gusto provides a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and human resource management solution for businesses.
5
Zenefits
Country: USA | Funding: $584.1M
Zenefits delivers a complete, all-mobile HR experience for small and medium businesses.
6
HiBob
Country: Israel | Funding: $574M
Hibob offers a mission critical, cloud-based human resources platform that allows companies to streamline HR processes and engage top talent
7
BetterUp
Country: USA | Funding: $570M
BetterUp is the first mobile platform to transform your managers into inspiring leaders with personalized coaching at scale.
8
Employment Hero
Country: Australia | Funding: $521.5M
Employment Hero is a cloud-based platform that helps businesses manage HR, payroll, and employee benefits.
9
Eightfold
Country: USA | Funding: $424M
Eightfold develops a platform that helps companies find, hire, and retain talents. Specifically, it features an AI Interviewer, which automatically conducts conversational video-interviews and analyzes candidates, highlighting those who best meet hiring criteria. The developers claim the AI understands context and nuance in over 22 languages ​​to ask thoughtful, insightful questions - just like your most experienced hiring manager. The platform also integrates enterprise data, market trends, and real-time job signals to create a dynamic understanding of your workforce. By modeling the skills, capabilities, aspirations, and work people perform every day, it helps you anticipate talent needs, close skill gaps, and improve productivity.
10
Factorial
Country: Spain | Funding: $419.9M
Factorial is a human resources software platform for small and medium companies that integrates vacation management and more.
11
Lattice
Country: USA | Funding: $330.3M
Lattice builds performance management software for growing companies.
12
Darwinbox
Country: India | Funding: $307.3M
Darwinbox is an end-to-end enterprise HR software that enables enterprises to automate entire employee lifecycle in one HR platform.
13
Smart Pension
Country: UK | Funding: $300.8M
Smart Pension is a workplace pension tailored specifically for UK businesses.
14
SmartHR
Country: Japan | Funding: ¥42.6B
SmartHR provides a cloud-native human resources management platform for businesses.
15
League
Country: Canada | Funding: $271.1M
League is a digital health platform that connects people to a comprehensive network of health services and benefits.
16
Visier
Country: Canada | Funding: $216.5M
Visier is an HR analytics platform that offers cloud-based solutions for workforce analytics and workforce planning.
17
Homebase
Country: USA | Funding: $189M
Homebase is a software application that provides tools for employee scheduling, time tracking, communication, and task management.
18
Moka
Country: China | Funding: $144.3M
Moka is a SaaS-based HR platform that allows companies to optimize recruitment services.
19
Flash
Country: Brazil | Funding: $130M
Flash offers customize benefits cards and vouchers to employee needs.
20
PerformYard
Country: USA | Funding: $95M
PerformYard is an HR performance software that focuses on performance management and employee feedback.
21
15Five
Country: USA | Funding: $94.1M
15Five develops cloud-based performance management software designed to help employees grow and develop into their best selves.
22
iCIMS
Country: USA | Funding: $92.6M
iCIMS offers HR professionals with a web-based employment management system featuring a parsing tool to automate resume acquisition.
23
Xactly
Country: UK | Funding: $89.9M
With Xactly, companies unleash the motivational power of their incentive compensation.
24
GamEffective
Country: Israel | Funding: $66M
GamEffective is an easily integrated employee engagement and sales gamification platform.
25
Finch
Country: San Francisco | Funding: $62.1M
Finch is the universal API for employment systems
26
HeyJobs
Country: Germany | Funding: $62M
HeyJobs is a Talent Acquisition Platform (TAP) that enables large companies to achieve their recruitment goals at scale. Through a combination of machine learning, marketing automation and software, we can target active and passive candidates and convert them into applicants for our clients.
27
Leapsome
Country: Germany | Funding: $60M
Leapsome is the platform for Performance Management & Employee Engagement to help you build high-performing teams.
28
Knoetic
Country: USA | Funding: $54M
Knoetic is building a software analytics platform and community for HR managers
29
Snapshift
Country: France | Funding: $49.3M
Snapshift is a staff management web solution for restaurants.
30
Flex
Country: South Korea | Funding: $41M
Flex is a human relations platform that addresses a wide range of difficulties in enterprises involving people and organizations.
31
Perkbox
Country: UK | Funding: $31.9M
Perkbox is a cloud-based HR technology platform designed to help improve staff engagement and interaction between management and teams.
32
BambooHR
Country: USA
BambooHR is a SaaS-based company providing subscription-based HR software for SMEs.
33
Cocoon
Country: USA | Funding: $25.5M
Cocoon is a platform that provides employee leave benefits from compliance to payroll.
34
Rallyware
Country: Ukraine | Funding: $24.7M
Rallyware offers various types of engagement programs for different scenarios and environments to motivate and engage your workforce.
35
Jazz
Country: USA | Funding: $24.6M
JazzHR is easy, powerful and affordable recruiting software purpose-build for SMBs. SaaS ATS for masses.
36
Vault Platform
Country: UK | Funding: $21.4M
Vault Platform is the next generation of misconduct reporting for employees. Vault empowers employees to feel confident to report misconduct and employers to take meaningful actions to reach a resolution.
37
Tango
Country: USA | Funding: $19.7M
Tango Technology provides a workflow intelligence platform that makes employee onboarding easier.
38
Sora
Country: USA | Funding: $19.3M
Automate and personalize employee onboarding, offboarding, and key moments in between.
39
InFeedo
Country: India | Funding: $16.1M
InFeedo is helping major companies efficiently listen to how happy — or unhappy — their employees
40
HowNow
Country: UK | Funding: $9.3M
HowNow is a London-based EdTech startup that connects experts and learners by offering interactive video lessons.
41
PeopleForce
Country: Ukraine | Funding: $8M
PeopleForce is the first all-in-one Recruiting and HR solution for all companies.We collected the best HRM practice in the market.
42
Orgnostic
Country: Serbia | Funding: $5.9M
Orgnostic is the human capital analytics platform for startups. Orgnostic provides investors and leadership teams with high-quality organizational insights that link organizational dynamics with companies’ bottom lines, creating better and more sustainable businesses for the new economy.
43
Palm.hr
Country: Saudi Arabia | Funding: $5M
palm.hr is a fully automated HRMS and your path to building a streamlined and consistent employee experience. It has everything modern HR teams need to manage, grow and engage their people without compromise.
44
SocialCrowd
Country: USA | Funding: $4.6M
SocialCrowd is a SaaS company that offers a software application for workplace performance tarcking and reminders.
45
StaffAny
Country: Singapore | Funding: SGD5.6M
StaffAny is a computer software company that focuses on providing platform solutions for timesheets, payslips, and human resource.
46
Zimyo
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
47
GoDays
Country: Kazakhstan | Funding: $675K
AI-driven analytical tool, preventing burnout of employees
48
Hirpo
Country: Azerbaijan | Funding: $52K
Hiro - is cloud-based employee performance management system for SMEs. It combines intuitive design with Agentic AI to automate workflows, surface insights, and help teams grow with confidence.
49
RotaCloud
Country: UK
RotaCloud is the no-nonsense way to schedule shifts, record time and attendance, and manage annual leave.
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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