Zenefits
Company

Last deal

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Venture - Series Unknown

Stage

25.10.2021

Date

3

all rounds

$584.1M

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date founded

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About Company
Zenefits is a cloud-based HR platform for small and medium businesses.

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founded date

01.01.2013

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For Profit

Last funding type

Venture - Series Unknown

IPO status

Private

Description

Zenefits offers a comprehensive, all-mobile HR experience that integrates its own powerful applications with dozens of best-of-breed providers. Its applications include HR, Benefits, Time, Payroll, and Compliance, which combine with partner applications like email, collaboration, expense management, and employee engagement to create a powerful platform. The Zenefits People Platform simplifies and integrates all of a business's human resources needs and aspects into one dashboard, making it easy for employees to manage benefits, payroll, and HR access from their mobile devices.
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Archana Shetty

Archana Shetty

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Leonardo Antonoff

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Robin Islam

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Christopher Mendoza

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Head of sales enablement

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