Top Human Resources Startups in 2026

We're changing the way millions of small businesses make money, spend money and track money. Wave delivers innovative financial services and award-winning free software to small- and micro-businesses around the world. By improving cash flow (Payments), delivering money to employees (Payroll), helping businesses get paid (Invoicing), preparing for tax time and providing business insights (Accounting, Receipts), Wave covers the spectrum of a small business owner's financial life, and helps businesses grow and thrive.

Jellyvision helps companies explain their important (but maybe kind of complex) messages in a delightful way. We create virtual salespeople, brokers, guidance counselors, HR reps, and teachers, who have fun, personalized conversations with your customers and employees and help them understand confusing or snooze-inducing topics. Our most famous virtual helper is ALEX, America’s best-selling and most-trusted standalone benefits decision support tool. Used by hundreds of companies (including 30 in the Fortune 500), ALEX helps millions of employees make smarter decisions that save them—and their employers—surprising amounts of time and money.

Leena AI is an autonomous conversational AI platform that helps enterprises better employee experience. With Leena AI, companies can eliminate the need for HR staff to work on tasks such as answering policy-related questions, knowledge management, generating employee documents on demand, and managing employee tickets so they can focus on high-value activities. Leena AI plays well with 20 plus platforms, including SAP SuccessFactors, ADP, Oracle, Workday and Microsoft Office 365, and companies like Nestle, Puma, AirAsia, Coca-cola, Lafarge Holcim and Abbott rely on the platform.

Betterworks® aligns, develops and activates your workforce for business growth. Through our easy-to-use, integrated software solutions and expertise, we help organizations replace outdated annual review processes with powerful Continuous Performance Management® programs that help managers be better at the conversations, coaching and development necessary to inspire and motivate the entire workforce to meet today's goals and be ready for tomorrow's challenges. Our solution supports truly global workforces, and is used daily by workers from more than 100 countries with localization support in more than 20 languages. Betterworks seamlessly connects the four aspects of a performance process – goals, check-in conversations, peer feedback and reviews – to help Walmart, Schneider Electric, Vertiv and more improve performance and engagement. Learn more at betterworks.com.

The ripple effect of a great meeting is an engaged and productive team. Fellow is where teams gather to build collaborative meeting agendas, record decisions, and keep each other accountable.

Zeta (bootstrapped fin-tech startup) is part of the Directi group, a prestigious tech conglomerate with a 19-year-long history and 25 software products in the market. The group has churned out successful mass market businesses like Media.net, Flock, Ringo, Radix, Skenzo, and Codechef, without any external funding. Here’s what we’ve built so far: 1. Zeta Optima: Fully-digitised employee tax-benefits programme that helps employees save over 80K in taxes and helps organizations save up 90% of their time and resources. 2. Zeta Express: A corporate cafeteria solution that makes cafeterias automated and completely cashless 3. Zeta Super Card: An advanced card-based payment solution that is 10x more secure than bank-issued cards 4. Zeta Spotlight: A digitized rewards, recognition and gifting solution that is easy to distribute and easy to spend.

With Visier’s workforce analytics and planning solutions, leaders are able to better understand their workforces, make decisions based on fact, and more accurately plan for the future. The results include better workforce productivity and performance, more effective recruitment and retention (including in the critical area of top talent), and significant bottom line savings.

Martal Group is a top lead generation & sales agency servicing B2B tech companies. We are a turnkey solution sales partner generating qualified leads, providing support staff and sales streamlining services, right through to signed contracts. Our team specializes in creating leads for SaaS, IT services and IOT vendors who cater enterprise software, location-based services, search relevance, data annotation, video analytics, consumer insights, sales performance management, cloud backup, fleet management, AI powered applications and other products. We provide managed services for outbound sales, our fractional sales executives, marketing leaders and account managers will help your team in sourcing deals, pitching prospects and winning new business. Our U.S. and Canada based executives serve as an extension of your sales and marketing team; they are sourced to fill your sales teams’ calendar with new business, accelerate your growth and fill gaps in your process. We build weekly prospect lists enriched by intent data. We target decision makers using multiple touch points - email marketing, linkedin messaging, cold calls and trade shows.

PAYROLL + HR + SCHEDULING + TIME TRACKING. Push helps business owners grow and scale their business by simplifying HR, Payroll and Workforce Management with our all-in-one platform. Push helps business owners stay compliant to labor laws, integrate operations through their POS systems, and manage and measure metrics. Do what you love! It’s the key to happiness. That’s why at Push we aim to create a supportive environment to help foster your passion for work, and keep you feeling energized and happy so you can do more of what you love. Grow Yourself We want to see you win in all areas. At Push, our mantra is: you will grow professionally and personally. We drive conversations around your personal and professional goals. Let’s crush it together. Make an Impact At Push, we believe everyone is born a genius, and our responsibility is to develop that genius within. Impact is our key metric - that’s why we challenge Pushies to show up as their authentic selves while creating a legacy. Connect with Push today to learn how we are on a mission to help people do what they love.

Thera is changing that with an All-In-One HR platform for companies to hire, pay and support their remote teams. Through the Thera platform you're able to collect the needed compliance documents, execute locally compliant contracts, and facilitate payments in over 135+ different currencies.