Remote builds a full-stack platform to hire distributed employees and manage payroll, benefits, taxes, local compliance and Employer of Record services for contractors and full-time staff. The company offers fully operational legal entities, visa and immigration support, employee relocation and a single dashboard to manage teams across countries. Remote serves customers ranging from small startups to large enterprises, including GitLab, DoorDash, HelloFresh, Loom and Paystack. It currently provides services in over 60 countries and aims to expand to 100 countries this year and ultimately serve 140 countries. Remote reported that employees processed through its platform grew 900% in the last year and revenues grew 13x in the same period, though it does not disclose absolute revenue figures. The company is based in San Francisco and emphasizes an integrated, cloud-native stack built from the ground up to scale global HR operations. Remote provides a fully integrated platform to manage onboarding, payroll, benefits, equity planning, visa and immigration support, and employee relocation for international hires and contractors. The company differentiates itself by fully owning its infrastructure and operating legal entities in market to deliver Employer of Record services. Remote today provides HR services as fully operational legal entities in 50 countries and is targeting 80 by the end of the year. It has launched a Global Employee API to let domestic HR platforms offer international payroll and is announcing integrations with Rippling and Greenhouse. The business has seen rapid growth: customer numbers grew seven-fold and users on the platform increased tenfold in nine months, while reported revenues rose 65x; packages start at $149 per month. Remote also reports headcount growth from 50 to 220 employees working across 47 countries since November 2020. Remote builds and operates localized legal entities and a platform to handle payroll, employer-of-record services, benefits, taxes, visa and immigration, and contractor payments for companies with international employees. The company manages hiring and employment terms in workers' home markets, enabling firms to offer full-time packages or permanent-contractor arrangements. Customers range from 10 employees to a few thousand, and Remote says it has been doubling its customer base every month since launching earlier this year. Today the service covers 17 countries and Remote plans to expand to 30 countries using the new funding. The founders have direct experience with remote-first organizations — CEO Job van der Voort scaled GitLab and CTO Marcelo Lebre led engineering at Unbabel — and Remote emphasizes building each part of its stack from the ground up rather than relying on third parties. The company is positioning itself amid competitors like Deel and Papaya Global while targeting the broader opportunity of unlocking global talent for businesses. Remote offers a compliant, end-to-end platform that handles payroll, benefits, tax and compliance across international markets, simplifying global employment and onboarding. The company was founded in San Francisco in 2019 by Job van der Voort (formerly VP of Product at GitLab) and Marcelo Lebre (formerly VP of Engineering at Unbabel). Remote is a fully distributed company with employees based in several countries. It raised $11M in seed funding to support product and geographic expansion. The funds will be used to expand its onboarding platform and extend coverage to forty new markets by the end of 2020, including Canada, Germany, the United States and France. The platform targets employers seeking a compliant single-solution approach to hiring and paying remote talent internationally.

Total raised

$496M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Apr 2022