50 Best Employment Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent employment companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 3,482 companies tracked on Fsome.

3,482
Total Companies
$17.2B
Total Funding
$4.9M
Avg Funding
London
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
Mercor
Mercor is an AI-based hiring platform that improves the recruitment process by m…
San Francisco $483.6M Series C 2025-10-27
2
WorkWhile
WorkWhile is an hourly labor marketplace connecting businesses with flexible wor…
San Francisco 101 - 250 $39.5M Series B 2025-06-16
3
Emversity
Emversity is an employability-led education platform that offers industry-aligne…
Bangalore 51 - 100 $46.0M Series A 2026-01-15
4
CareRev
CareRev is a healthcare staffing marketplace platform that connects health syste…
Los Angeles 101 - 250 $56.5M Series Unknown 2025-07-25
5
Pebl
Pebl offers a global employment solution that simplifies how companies onboard, …
Denver 501 - 1K $500.0M Series B 2022-05-18
6
Multiplier
Multiplier is a leading global employment platform that manages employment, payr…
New York 501 - 1K $77.2M Series B 2022-03-08
7
Jobs for the Future
Jobs for the Future is a non-profit organization that transforms education and w…
Boston 251 - 500 $86.0M Grant 2026-01-01
8
micro1
Micro1 offers an AI platform that converts human expertise into structured datas…
Palo Alto 101 - 250 $41.6M Series A 2025-09-12
9
Rippling
Rippling is a workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, and finance ope…
San Francisco 1K - 5K $2.4B Series G 2025-05-09
10
Compt
Compt is a perk management software that helps companies create, manage, and str…
Cambridge 11 - 50 $15.5M Series A 2022-04-14
11
G-P/Globalization Partners
GP enables international companies to hire teams without setting up branch offic…
Boston 1K - 5K $350.0M Private Equity 2022-01-23
12
Paycor
Paycor is a provider of online payroll processing, human resource management ser…
Cincinnati 1K - 5K $431.2M Post Ipo Secondary 2024-03-06
13
Fuel50
Fuel50 is the AI-powered Talent Marketplace that delivers internal talent mobili…
Laguna Niguel 51 - 100 $36.1M Series B 2021-04-08
14
Gigs
Gigs connects companies to job seekers looking for full-time or part-time hourly…
Los Angeles 1 - 10 $5.7M Seed 2023-12-18
15
WorkIndia
WorkIndia is a blue-collar recruitment portal offering employment opportunities …
Bengaluru 501 - 1K $30.6M Series B 2025-12-18
16
Censia
Censia is a talent intelligence company that leverages AI to provide skills data…
San Francisco 101 - 250 $81.5M Series B 2024-09-18
17
Teal
Teal is a personal career growth platform offering AI-powered tools and resource…
Miami 11 - 50 $19.8M Series A 2025-01-22
18
Trusted
Trusted Inc is a labor marketplace for healthcare professionals.
San Francisco 251 - 500 $174.8M Series C 2021-11-17
19
Howdy
Howdy is a technology startup that helps technology companies hire and manage so…
Austin 251 - 500 $18.0M Series A 2023-01-10
20
Built In
Built In is a global network of online communities for tech companies and startu…
Chicago 101 - 250 $29.9M Series C 2019-07-16
21
Handshake
Handshake is a college career network that helps students and recent graduates f…
San Francisco 501 - 1K $434.0M Series F 2022-01-19
22
hireEZ
hireEZ is built to source, match, engage, and manage talent 75% faster with agen…
Mountain View 101 - 250 $45.5M Series B 2022-01-25
23
TestGorilla
TestGorilla is an HR tech company offering pre-employment screening assessments …
Amsterdam 101 - 250 $81.2M Series A 2022-06-13
24
HackerRank
HackerRank provides a platform that helps companies to evaluate technical skills…
Mountain View 251 - 500 $102.9M Series D 2022-03-29
25
CodeSignal
CodeSignal is a skill assessment platform that provides live tech interviews, sk…
San Francisco 101 - 250 $87.5M Series C 2021-09-16
26
Shiftsmart
Shiftsmart is a labor-management marketplace connecting part-time workers with o…
New York 501 - 1K $120.6M Series B 2021-12-02
27
Simplify
Simplify is a common application for jobs and internships.
San Francisco 11 - 50 $4.2M Seed 2024-02-07
28
Papaya Global
Papaya Global is a fintech platform that provides cloud-based payroll and paymen…
New York 501 - 1K $444.5M Series D 2021-09-11
29
Jobright
Jobright is an AI-native job platform providing a career agent that finds, custo…
Santa Clara 1 - 10 $7.7M Seed 2025-06-24
30
Perkbox
Perkbox is a global benefits and rewards platform that helps companies care for,…
London 101 - 250 $31.9M Series Unknown 2019-04-29
31
The Muse
The Muse is a job search and career development platform that helps candidates d…
New York 101 - 250 $39.7M Series Unknown 2022-09-21
32
Sona
Sona is a workforce management platform for frontline enterprises like care home…
London 51 - 100 $81.5M Series B 2026-04-01
33
RigUp
RigUp is an employment agency for the energy industry.
Austin 251 - 500 $752.5M Series E 2021-05-20
34
RippleMatch
RippleMatch is the recruitment automation platform replacing job boards as the w…
New York 101 - 250 $79.2M Series B 2022-06-08
35
Emi Labs
Increasing Frontline Workers’ access to professional opportunities
San Francisco 101 - 250 $13.0M Series A 2022-02-24
36
Borderless AI
Borderless AI is a global HR platform that designed to helps companies onboard, …
Toronto 51 - 100 $25.0M Seed 2025-01-16
37
Final Round AI
Final Round AI is an AI-native platform that is built for job interviews and res…
San Francisco 1 - 10 $6.9M Seed 2025-01-30
38
Bolster
Bolster helps startup CEOs scale themselves, their leadership teams, and their b…
Indianapolis 11 - 50 $22.0M Series Unknown 2024-07-30
39
Claira
Claira is a competency based assistant matching human and AI talent to work.
Grand Rapids 1 - 10 $4.4M Seed 2022-05-03
40
Vangst
Vangst is a recruiting platform that connects job seekers with opportunities in …
Denver 51 - 100 $31.5M Series B 2022-01-13
41
Appcast
Appcast is a job advertising platform that enables employers to promote their op…
Lebanon 501 - 1K $9.7M Series B 2017-07-24
42
Take2 AI
Take2 AI automates phone screens with AI agents.
New York 11 - 50 $19.0M Series A 2026-02-11
43
Manara
Identifying and vetting undiscovered talent
San Francisco 51 - 100 $3.0M Pre Seed 2022-05-09
44
Glassdoor
Glassdoor is a job and recruiting sites that operates online jobs and career com…
San Francisco 501 - 1K $204.5M Secondary Market 2017-01-26
45
Assemble
Assemble is a compensation management platform for forward-thinking organization…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $5.0M Seed 2022-12-08
46
Talent.com
Talent.com is a platform that centralizes jobs available on companies' career we…
Montreal 251 - 500 $150.0M Series B 2022-03-15
47
ZipRecruiter
ZipRecruiter is an online employment marketplace, connecting millions of employe…
Santa Monica 1K - 5K $769.0M Post Ipo Debt 2022-01-07
48
ConverzAI
ConverzAI provides AI-powered virtual recruiters that automate and to streamline…
Seattle 51 - 100 $21.0M Series A 2025-02-11
49
JustCo
JustCo operates a co-working space chain intended to empower communities with wo…
Singapore 101 - 250 $160.4M Corporate Round 2021-08-20
50
Grupa Pracuj
Grupa Pracuj, the owner of GP HR VENTURES, is the fastest developing technologic…
Warsaw 501 - 1K $115.9M Debt Financing 2025-10-22