Remofirst
Remofirst is a global employment platform founded in 2021 by Nurasyl Serik and Volodymyr Fedoriv, both immigrants who ran into the cost of international hiring first-hand. The company built its product around a single idea: charge one flat rate everywhere and win on price. It runs four services from one dashboard, covering EOR employment in […]
Papaya Global
Papaya Global is a global payroll and workforce payments company founded in 2016 by Eynat Guez, Ruben Drong and Ofer Herman, and headquartered in New York. Its product line covers Employer of Record, managed payroll for companies with their own entities, contractor management and standalone workforce payments across more than 160 countries. The 2022 acquisition […]
Multiplier
Multiplier is a global employment platform founded in Singapore in 2020 by Sagar Khatri, Amritpal Singh and Vamsi Krishna. It covers Employer of Record, Global Payroll, Contractor of Record, contractor management and immigration across 150+ countries, though its pricing page and brand material now say 160+. Since spring 2026 the company has repositioned everything under one […]
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 […]