1,856 HR SaaS Companies in 2026
HR SaaS companies build the software people teams run on: HRIS and core HR records, payroll and benefits, performance reviews, employee engagement surveys and workforce planning.
- Companies
- 1,856
- In LeadWave's database, October 2026
- Total funding raised
- $38B
- Across 753 funded companies
- Median headcount
- 31
- Of 1,303 with a known headcount
- Median year founded
- 2015
- Of 1,718 with a known year
The largest HR SaaS companies
The top 30 of 1,856, strongest matches first, then by size. Headcount is the latest known figure.
| Company | Website | Employees | Headcount | Funding | CEO | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Recruit Group | recruit-holdings.com | 10,000+ | 52,000 | — | Takeo Kojima | |
2 Workday | workday.com | 10,000+ | 15,517 | $230.6M | Aneel Bhusri | |
3 Remote | remote.com | 1,001–5,000 | 11,127 | $196M | Job van der Voort | |
4 Zoom | zoom.us | 5,001–10,000 | 10,500 | $146M | Eric Yuan | |
5 Paylocity | paylocity.com | 1,001–5,000 | 3,970 | $10M | Steven Beauchamp | |
6 Cegid | cegid.com | 1,001–5,000 | 3,934 | — | Pascal Houillon | |
7 Elabram Group | elabram.com | 1,001–5,000 | — | — | Mikel Yaw | |
8 TalentBurst | talentburst.com | 1,001–5,000 | — | — | Baljit Gill | |
9 Vagas.com | vagas.com.br | 1,001–5,000 | — | — | Sidney Monreal Martin | |
10 Paycor | paycor.com | 1,001–5,000 | 2,181 | $270M | Raul Villar Jr. | |
11 Rippling | rippling.com | 501–1,000 | 2,142 | $197M | Parker Conrad | |
12 Gusto | gusto.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,819 | $516.1M | Joshua Reeves | |
13 Razorpay | razorpay.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,711 | $366.6M | Harshil Mathur | |
14 Phenom | phenom.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,364 | $161.4M | Hari Bayireddy | |
15 BambooHR | bamboohr.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,121 | — | Ben Peterson | |
16 Personio | personio.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,077 | $524.2M | Hanno Renner | |
17 SmartHR | smarthr.co.jp | 51–200 | 1,000 | $194.3M | Kensuke Naito | |
18 Xactly | xactlycorp.com | 501–1,000 | 913 | $89.9M | Christopher Cabrera | |
19 Focus Softnet | focussoftnet.com | 501–1,000 | 906 | — | Ali Hyder | |
20 Mercans | mercans.com | 1–10 | 900 | — | Raed Alhelo | |
21 Justworks | justworks.com | 501–1,000 | 817 | $143M | Isaac Oates | |
22 Mitratech | mitratech.com | 501–1,000 | 814 | $4.9M | Mike Williams | |
23 Nexthink | nexthink.com | 501–1,000 | 795 | $345.9M | Pedro Bados | |
24 Mekari | mekari.com | 501–1,000 | 757 | $18M | Suwandi Soh | |
25 WorkForce Software | workforcesoftware.com | 501–1,000 | 756 | $17M | Jeff Moses | |
26 Zenoti | zenoti.com | 501–1,000 | 749 | $331M | Sudheer Koneru | |
27 CloudPay | cloudpay.net | 501–1,000 | 710 | $117.5M | Paul Bartlett | |
28 Culture Amp | cultureamp.com | 501–1,000 | 685 | $157.5M | Didier Elzinga | |
29 PayFit | payfit.com | 501–1,000 | 655 | $208.4M | Firmin Zocchetto | |
30 Darwinbox | darwinbox.com | 501–1,000 | 643 | $35M | Rohit Chennamaneni |
HR SaaS companies at a glance
- 48% are headquartered in United States, followed by United Kingdom.
- The largest is Recruit Group, with 52,000 employees.
- 753 have disclosed funding, $38B in total; 86 raised $100M or more.
- Half were founded before 2015, and 13% in 2020 or later.
- United States884 · 48%
- United Kingdom147 · 8%
- India108 · 6%
- Canada102 · 6%
- Germany69 · 4%
- France60 · 3%
- 1–10485 · 27%
- 11–50719 · 40%
- 51–200395 · 22%
- 201–500126 · 7%
- 501–1,00043 · 2%
- 1,001–5,00044 · 2%
- 5,001–10,0004 · 0%
- 10,000+4 · 0%
- Before 2000102 · 6%
- 2000–2009238 · 14%
- 2010–2014412 · 24%
- 2015–2019748 · 44%
- 2020–2022197 · 11%
- 2023 or later21 · 1%
- Under $1M159 · 21%
- $1M–5M207 · 27%
- $5M–10M73 · 10%
- $10M–50M167 · 22%
- $50M–100M68 · 9%
- $100M–500M71 · 9%
- $500M–1B10 · 1%
- $1B+4 · 1%
How this list was built
A company is on this list if LeadWave tags it as human resources, or its description or website presents HR, payroll or people-operations software.
The data comes from LeadWave's database of SaaS and AI companies, last updated in October 2026. Companies that share a website are counted once. Headcount, funding and CEO come from public sources, so some fields are blank for smaller companies.
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Frequently asked questions
LeadWave's database lists 1,856 HR SaaS companies as of October 2026. This page shows the 30 largest; the full list, with CEO contacts, is part of our 15,000+ SaaS companies list.
By headcount, Recruit Group, with 52,000 employees, followed by Workday and Remote.
United States: 48% of those with a known headquarters, followed by United Kingdom at 8%.
Deel ($629M), Deem ($536.1M) and Personio ($524.2M), by total disclosed funding.
LeadWave's SaaS companies list covers 15,000+ companies and 16,000+ CEOs, with verified CEO emails, LinkedIn profiles, headcount and funding in one CSV. It's on the List of SaaS Companies page.
An HRIS stores employee records and runs core HR processes. An HCM suite adds talent management on top: recruiting, performance, learning and workforce planning.