HR Tech Startups

Starbem provides a corporate mental health and wellness platform for companies, offering employees access to psychiatrists, psychologists, nutritionists, and AI-powered emotional support through a mobile app, while providing HR teams with compliance tools for Brazil's NR-1 psychosocial risk regulations.

1 investor

Starling Trust provides behavioral intelligence tools to organizational leaders, helping them identify performance risks and opportunities through analysis of workplace relational dynamics. The company serves enterprises seeking real-time operational insights to prevent failures and optimize management decisions.

1 investor

StarsHunt provides an AI recruiting agent that sources, researches, and screens candidates for a company's specific open roles, using LinkedIn and public web data plus a voice agent ("Emma") that conducts live candidate calls and produces briefs. It books qualified intros onto hiring managers' calendars and charges a success fee (15% of salary) only when a candidate becomes a hire.

1 investor

StartupJobs is a job board focused on connecting job seekers with roles at startups and companies, offering job listings, company profiles, and knowledge tests. The Czech-language platform also publishes career advice, a blog, and a startup program.

1 investor

A web-based calculator that models how different salary and equity mixes in a startup job offer affect an employee's total take-home wealth at exit, accounting for factors like vesting, dilution, exit timing, and preference terms. It is aimed at people evaluating or negotiating startup compensation offers.

1 investor

Stebby is a wellness service platform that enables employees to manage wellness benefits, including tickets, compensation accounts, and personalized wellness programs. The platform serves organizations in the Baltic region looking to support employee health and wellbeing.

1 investor

StepsConnect provides a hiring management platform that centralizes staffing requests from store and department managers into a single dashboard for HR leadership to review, prioritize, and route. The platform integrates with over 120 job boards to publish and optimize job postings across multiple channels simultaneously, while handling candidate screening and selection without replacing existing HRIS or ATS systems.

1 investor

Sterling Capital Brokers is a Canadian employee benefits brokerage that pairs advisory services with a proprietary benefits administration platform for plan sponsors and plan members. It serves small to medium-sized and fast-growth businesses, offering products from Canadian insurers, multi-employer plan designs, and integrations with HRIS and payroll systems.

1 investor

Sterling, now part of First Advantage, provides background and identity screening services, including criminal record searches, identity verification, drug and medical screening, and driver/fleet qualification checks for employers hiring domestically and globally.

1 investor

Stiira is a purpose-built leave management platform that automates tracking, requests, approvals, and reporting for employee leaves of absence, helping organizations manage compliance with regulations such as FMLA, ADA, PFML, and PFL. It serves HR teams and third-party administrators handling complex, multi-state leave programs.

1 investor

StillJobs is a continuous-employability platform for senior/experienced workers, combining training, 1:1 coaching, community, and an HR tracking dashboard focused on digital upskilling, intergenerational collaboration, and wellbeing. It operates mainly as a B2B offering for companies seeking to retain senior talent and reduce turnover costs, while also providing individual onboarding/offboarding programs.

1 investor

StoreForce provides real-time performance analytics and insights for retail stores, enabling teams to monitor metrics like sales, traffic, conversion, and labor efficiency to optimize store operations.

1 investor

Strada provides people, payroll, and workforce management solutions along with related technology for large employers. Serving 1,400 customers across more than 180 countries, the company focuses on payroll accuracy, compliance, and reducing administrative complexity for global organizations.

1 investor

Strategic Kids partners with schools and districts to provide student enrichment programs (such as LEGO, Chess, Magic, Origami, and Visual Arts), vetted staffing including enrichment instructors and substitute teachers, and turnkey Expanded Learning Opportunities Program (ELO-P) services covering curriculum, scheduling, and compliance. It serves K-12 school communities across the Western United States.

1 investor

StrategyConnect is a platform that matches organizations with independent consultants and subject-matter experts for short-term project work and strategic advice. It serves startups and enterprises seeking flexible access to specialized talent.

1 investor

StrateX provides workforce planning and team management solutions to help organizations better forecast and organize work schedules. The company serves customers across healthcare, government, education, customer service, and other sectors.

1 investor

StreamTECH provides workforce management and operational compliance software for field-based businesses, initially built for oil & gas but expanded to serve multiple industries. The platform handles scheduling, time tracking, compliance reporting, and equipment management with a focus on reducing manual work and improving operational visibility.

1 investor

Stressie is an employee wellness program tailored for shift-based teams in hospitality and other frontline industries, offering stress management tools and rewarding workers for prioritizing health to reduce turnover and improve operational metrics.

1 investor

Strive Labs helps fast-growing companies build remote engineering teams by recruiting, vetting, and onboarding senior engineers with 10+ years of experience, and handling back-office functions such as contracts, HR, accounting, and IT setup. It operates across 15 countries and focuses on placing teams in a single remote office.

1 investor

StrongIntro provides recruiting software and services that let companies source candidates through the professional networks of their existing employees. It combines a software and human-driven approach to support hiring teams.

1 investor

Student Pop is a mobile application that connects students and young people with flexible job opportunities that adapt to their schedules rather than requiring them to adjust their lives to rigid work arrangements. The platform enables users to find missions quickly, work on their own schedule, and receive prompt payment.

1 investor

Summer is a financial wellness platform that helps individuals reduce student loan debt by guiding them through federal repayment, forgiveness, and savings programs. It is offered as a benefit through employers and government organizations, handling paperwork and connecting employees or residents to debt-relief and education-savings options in the US.

1 investor

Studyflix is a German online learning platform offering educational content (videos and materials) for pupils, university students, and trainees. It also operates a job and training marketplace that connects learners with apprenticeships, dual study programs, internships, working-student roles, and permanent positions across Germany.

1 investor

Suggestion Ox is an anonymous feedback and reporting platform designed for HR teams and organizational leaders to collect employee suggestions, conduct whistleblowing investigations, and manage cases without storing identifying data. The platform integrates with Slack and Microsoft Teams and supports regional data hosting for compliance.

1 investor