Remote EOR
Remote was founded in 2019 by Job van der Voort and Marcelo Lebre on one structural bet: own every legal entity rather than rent compliance from local partners. EOR employment runs through roughly 80 to 90 owned entities, while contractor payments reach 180+ countries. The product line spans Employer of Record, Global Payroll, Contractor Management, […]
Oyster HR
Oyster is a global employment platform founded in January 2020 by Tony Jamous and Jack Mardack, built to let companies employ people in countries where they hold no legal entity. Hadi Moussa took over as CEO in January 2026, with Jamous moving to Executive Chairman. The product line covers Employer of Record in 120+ countries, […]
Rippling EOR
Rippling was founded in 2016 by Parker Conrad and Prasanna Sankar, and runs from San Francisco as Rippling People Center, Inc. It was built on the premise that employee data feeds far more than HR, so keeping one record removes the manual syncing between HR, IT and finance tools. Two dozen products now sit on […]
Deel
What is Deel? Deel is a global HR and payroll platform founded in 2019 by Alex Bouaziz (CEO) and Shuo Wang (CRO) in San Francisco. It was built to solve a specific problem: companies wanting to hire international talent had no clean way to do it without opening local entities. Deel acts as the Employer […]
Pebl (Formerly Velocity Global)
What is Pebl? Pebl (formerly Velocity Global) is a Denver-based Employer of Record platform founded in 2014 by Ben Wright. Built to solve the legal and operational complexity of hiring across borders without establishing local entities, it spent a decade growing into one of the more established names in global employment. The company rebranded from […]
Justworks
What is Justworks? Justworks is a New York-based HR company founded in 2012. It started as a Professional Employer Organization (PEO), giving US small businesses access to payroll processing, compliance support, and large-group health insurance rates they could not negotiate on their own. International EOR services came later, in 2022, expanding to 17 owned-entity countries […]
Rivermate
Rivermate is a global Employer of Record platform that helps companies hire, manage, and pay international employees without setting up a local entity. It takes care of all the heavy lifting involved in hiring people in other countries, things like local labor laws, compliant contracts, payroll, taxes, and employee benefits, so companies can focus on […]
Remofirst
Remofirst is one of those EOR platforms that keeps things simple in the best possible way. If you’ve ever used an overbuilt HR tool and felt like you had to climb through layers of menus just to do something basic, Remofirst feels like the opposite. It’s built for teams that want to hire internationally without […]
Mercans
Mercans is a global Employer of Record solution that makes it easier for companies to hire and manage employees across borders without needing to set up a local business entity. It steps in as the legal employer, taking care of everything behind the scenes, like employment contracts, payroll, tax compliance, and local labor regulations, so […]