HR Tech startups in San Francisco Bay Area

Juicebox

San Francisco

Juicebox is an AI-powered recruitment company founded by Ishan Gupta and David Paffenholz, aiming to disrupt recruiting with AI that can reason and take actions. It serves 2,500+ clients, seven-figure revenue, is cashflow positive, and has

Gigs

San Francisco

Gigs is building the operating system for mobile services, enabling tech companies to embed connectivity and automate phone-plan provisioning for fintechs and HRIS platforms. Backed by nearly $100 million from Ribbit Capital, Google, and Y

Alex (formerly Apriora)

San Francisco

Alex AI builds the future of hiring with an autonomous recruiter that conducts real-time video interviews, asking employer-selected or job-based questions and personalized follow-ups to speed hires and improve signals; it supports thousands

Central

San Francisco

**Central Payroll, benefits, state compliance & other bullsh*t for startups** 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 an

CaroHQ

Palo Alto

Caro is an enterprise headcount platform and the single source of truth for headcount, aligning finance, talent, HR, and hiring leaders with current data across the organization. It connects with HCM, ATS, and financial planning systems to

Paraform

San Francisco

Paraform is a recruiting marketplace that connects companies with a network of specialized recruiters to fill roles faster and more accurately. Backed by prominent investors and partners like Palantir and Decagon, it aims to be the first en

Miter

San Francisco

Miter positions itself as the modern construction operating system, a leading HCM platform for the $2 trillion construction industry that uses AI and embedded payments to overhaul HR, finance, and operations, delivering cost savings and pro

Rippling

San Francisco

Rippling is a San Francisco-based workforce management platform that unifies applicant tracking, payroll, IT, and expenses, delivering a shared source of truth, automation, and insights by syncing data across apps to enable faster, better d

Wisq

Redwood City

Wisq is an enterprise HR technology platform that creates AI agents to streamline processes and enhance employee experience, backed by $55 million in venture funding from Norwest Venture Partners, True Ventures and Shasta Ventures, leveragi

Complete

San Francisco

Complete provides compensation for fast-growth startups, serving elite tech teams such as Render, Linear, Vercel, and DataStax. Revenue has grown threefold this year, momentum as the company is at an inflection point and plans significant t

Colare

San Francisco

Colare is an end-to-end hiring platform for hardtech teams in automotive, aerospace, energy, and defense. Its AI-powered simulations replicate real engineering workflows—from CAD to systems problem solving—to evaluate talent, with stack-ran

Simplify

San Francisco

Simplify builds AI-enabled hiring infrastructure to democratize the job search, offering an AI-powered talent agent to help users plan, manage, and achieve career goals, backed by Craft and Y Combinator, with 1M job seekers applying to 100M

Instawork

San Francisco

Instawork is an on-demand staffing app that connects hourly hospitality workers with businesses, backed by $120 million in funding and led by CEO Sumir Meghani. Founded in 2016 in San Francisco, it aims to create economic opportunities glob

Zeal

San Francisco

Zeal is a Series B fintech backed by Y Combinator, Spark Capital, and Portage, born in Cairo and operating from London. It builds an ecosystem for staffing, payments, loyalty, and AI insights, onboarding thousands of workers weekly and proc

Human Interest

San Francisco

**The 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses.** Human Interest is on a mission to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits. Nearly half of all working Americans are not saving enough for their future

Gem

San Francisco

Gem is a recruiting technology company helping organizations hire great teams; co-founded by CEO Steven Bartel (former Dropbox engineer), it launched in 2018 and has attracted funding from Accel, Greylock, and Y Combinator to modernize recr

Nestor

San Jose

Nestor is a People Intelligence Platform that helps hybrid organizations develop and retain talent with a unified skills-based approach aligning engagement, performance, and development planning, led by co-founders Raluca Apostol and Bogdan

Homebase

San Francisco

Homebase helps small business teams operate effectively, with more than 100,000 small businesses relying on its offerings.

HackerRank

Mountain View

HackerRank is a Mountain View-based platform that helps thousands of companies hire developers by skills, not resumes, and supports upskilling across the developer journey; it raised $60M in 2022 at ~$500M valuation and has 26M+ developers

Dover

San Francisco

Dover is building the first end-to-end recruiting orchestration platform via a Recruiter Marketplace that connects companies with expert Recruiting Partners; launched in 2024 and now serves 200+ early-stage tech companies, 150+ using its pr

Hammr

San Francisco

Hammr modernizes payroll and HR for the U.S. construction industry, offering a construction-specific alternative to platforms like ADP and Paychex in a $2.2 trillion market. Backed by $5M from YC and industry leaders, it's billed as a Rippl

Taro

Palo Alto

Taro, a YC-backed startup founded in 2022, reshapes software engineers' career navigation by supporting startup hiring with sourcing and feedback and operating joinTaro.com for opportunities. Its EdTech platform engages 100,000 engineers an

Trueplace

San Francisco

Trueplace provides interview-preparation tools through its Confetto AI and Soreno AI platforms, offering resources designed to help individuals prepare effectively for interviews.

Sourceress

San Francisco

Sourceress is a San Francisco-based AI recruiter, founded in 2017, with a 35-person team. Its process leaves hiring managers excited about candidates more than 85% of the time.