Eynat Guez
FounderCo-founder & CEO at Papaya Global
Israel
Writes $25K – $100K checks · typically $50K
FoundedPapaya Global
About
Eynat Guez built the first Israeli unicorn founded and led by a woman. She co-founded Papaya Global in 2016 with Ofer Herman and Ruben Drong on a contrarian premise — that global payroll is a payments problem, not an HR one — and grew it into a platform that runs payroll, hiring and cross-border payments for companies employing people in more than 160 countries. It passed a $1 billion valuation in March 2021 and reached $3.7 billion six months later on a $250 million round, has moved over $7 billion in payroll for more than 2,000 companies including a third of the Fortune 500, and bought the payments firm Azimo in 2022 so it would own its licences rather than rent them. She came to software from the operational trenches, having founded two cross-border employment businesses after seven years running operations at an infrastructure group.
Beyond investing
- Education
- Read political science and business administration at the Open University of Israel.
- More
- Founded two earlier cross-border employment businesses, Relocation Source in 2009 and Expert Source in 2013, after about seven years running operations at an infrastructure holding group.
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Co-founder & CEO at Papaya Global
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Experience
- Papaya GlobalCo-Founder, CEOcurrent2017 — present
Skills & more
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Human ResourcesBusiness DevelopmentLogisticsProject PlanningOutsourcingChange ManagementProduct DevelopmentInternational SalesTeam ManagementManagementTeam LeadershipStrategic PlanningLanguages English · French · Hebrew
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Eynat Guez?
- Eynat Guez built the first Israeli unicorn founded and led by a woman. She co-founded Papaya Global in 2016 with Ofer Herman and Ruben Drong on a contrarian premise — that global payroll is a payments problem, not an HR one — and grew it into a platform that runs payroll, hiring and cross-border payments for companies employing people in more than 160 countries. It passed a $1 billion valuation in March 2021 and reached $3.7 billion six months later on a $250 million round, has moved over $7 billion in payroll for more than 2,000 companies including a third of the Fortune 500, and bought the payments firm Azimo in 2022 so it would own its licences rather than rent them. She came to software from the operational trenches, having founded two cross-border employment businesses after seven years running operations at an infrastructure group.
- Where does Eynat Guez work?
- Eynat Guez is Co-founder & CEO at Papaya Global.
- What check size does Eynat Guez write?
- Eynat Guez typically writes checks of $25K – $100K.
- What companies did Eynat Guez found?
- Eynat Guez founded Papaya Global.
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