51 Awesome Employee Benefits That Will Take 2021 By Storm

January 8, 2021

This article showcases Startup Pill’s top picks for the best Employee Benefits startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating inside of the Employee Benefits industry and around the world. They are all exceptional startups well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top Employee Benefits Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Pave

Pave

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Pave provides real-time compensation transparency tools that track, measure, and communicate the total compensation of employees.

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Skuad

Skuad

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Skuad is a digital payroll platform to build, pay, and manage globally distributed teams. Through its Global Employment Platform, the company helps employers build and pay their remote workforce seamlessly, without needing to set up local entities.

The platform not only automates global payroll, local compliance, and taxation but also provides benefits for employees to spread across geographies.. .

Plum

Plum

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Plum provides best-in-class health insurance at affordable price. Plum’s group health insurance comes with no surprises, no hidden costs & no out-of-pocket expenses.

Give your employees access to great care with Plum.. .

HappyPal

HappyPal

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HappyPal is changing the French employee benefit market ($20bn) replacing paper gift vouchers (o/w 20% expire before usage) with an innovative SaaS and fintech solution. HappyPal offers a new kind of credit card for all employee allowances (gift, culture, vacation, sport…).

« After experiencing first-hand the pain points of employee benefits management in France (hefty fees, unused allowances, poor user experience…), we are now driven by the belief that it is high time employees and admins had access to a modern plug & play solution to offer employee perks ». .

Facio

Facio

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Facio is a digital platform that facilitates the process of contracting loans for the working class. It acts as a Banking correspondent that follows the guidelines of Resolution No.

3,954 of February 24, 2011 from the Central Bank of Brazil. It provides 15% increase in productivity in businesses, turnover decrease of up to 36%, and doesn’t not charge anything from the company.

It is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.. .

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minu

minu

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In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent.

minu is supported by FinTech’s leading institutional investors globally, including QED.. .

Benepass

Benepass

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Benepass is a fintech platform that provides benefits cards for startups and small and medium-sized businesses. The platform helps consumers to set the wellness policy in alignment with corporate values, distributes the funds via prepaid debit cards, learn what employees care about via tracked spending, and connect seamlessly to payroll and accounting software for tax compliance.

Jaclyn Chen, Kabir Soorya, and Mark Fischer founded it in Mountain View, California.. .

Garner Health

Garner Health

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Garner Health is a technology company that works with employers to get their employees to the best quality providers. The company offers its solution through employers who want to give their employees a better quality healthcare experience and in-turn save on the cost of healthcare because the best doctors end up costing the least money.

Garner Health was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA.. .

Onaroll

Onaroll

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Onaroll is an employee rewards app that incentivizes productivity and longevity.

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Path

Path

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Path is a holistic addiction treatment solution for employers and organizations. It’s working to treat and manage Substance Use Disorder (SUD) for employees and their families.

Path has enlisted the help of seasoned healthcare visionaries and professionals to scientifically treat SUD at scale. Path’s mission is to provide everyone with an affordable, accessible, and scientifically-proven way to manage the chronic illness that is addiction.

Learn More: www.pathccm.com. .

Pyn

Pyn

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Pyn is a human resources company that improves employee communications using marketing techniques, such as personalization, scheduling, and automated triggering. It specializes in the fields of employee engagement, human, employment, and training.

Pyn’s employee-centric communication tool cuts through the clutter of messages in order to send only relevant and well-timed messages at key moments. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales..

Fertifa

Fertifa

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Fertifa is an innovative employer benefit solution making fertility care more accessible and affordable. The company works with employers to offer a valuable employee benefit which bridges the gap between an employer and their employees when dealing with the sensitivity and privacy of employees’ reproductive issues.

It also offers guidance and advice, next-generation fertility treatment, and access to a range of holistic services for the best chance of success. The company was founded in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom..

Torpago

Torpago

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Torpago is a financial technology company that provides corporate cards equipped with spend management software. With Torpago, employees can have the ability to spend as needed while finance departments and management can set appropriate controls.

The company’s mission is to empower employees and enable businesses to work more efficiently. Torpago was founded to simplify corporate expenses.

It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.. .

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GIGI Benefits

GIGI Benefits

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GIGI Benefits offers full-time employment-related benefits like insurance and savings to freelancers and gig workers. The company helps workers set aside part of a paycheque to cover their costs of insurance, short-term expenses, and plan for their retirement.

The company’s solutions are proven to increase week on week retention, leading to better worker satisfaction, and reduction in hiring costs.. .

Mistro

Mistro

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Mistro offers a platform that provides unique benefits plan to each remote employee.

Linxe

Linxe

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focused on offering small and short-term loans to low-income employees of SMEs with direct discount from their paycheck

CaringWire

CaringWire

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We believe that growing old is a privilege. One that does not come with a roadmap.

CaringWire’s goal is to become that roadmap. Integrating technology with the human touch to become the “Google Maps” for caregivers.

CaringWire is a decision support tool for seniors and caregivers. Empowering and preparing caregivers with guided content and recommendations to enable self-management, while feeling connected..

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Benefi

Benefi

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Benefi is an employee group benefit that helps individuals escape from consumer debt.

Qiqingsong

Qiqingsong

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Qiqingsong is a B2B platform for enterprises to promote single gift supply, focusing on the B2B platform for corporate single gift supply. The company cooperates with thousands of first- and second-line brands to create high-quality product supply channels, and realizes “maximum purchase of single gifts by means of platform thinking”.

There is no middleman to make a difference, and it provides money, worry and effort for thousands of entities. One-stop high quality procurement service.

With a strong product supply chain, three-dimensional warehouse logistics layout, Internet technology, the three core advantages.. .

SupportRoom

SupportRoom

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SupportRoom is a digital behavioural technology healthcare company. SupportRoom platform connects individual clients with a network of licensed therapists through an easy to use & HIPAA compliant, web & mobile platform.

With SupportRoom clients can send text, videos & voice messages anytime & from anywhere. All our therapists are fully qualified & offer confidential, convenient online therapy.

Get access to therapy, wherever & whenever you need it. We also offer a digital behavioural technology healthcare platform for businesses & EAP.

SupportRoom connects employees with therapists in real-time.. .

Emplova

Emplova

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Emplova is a human resources company that provides its clients with employee benefits, streamlined payroll, HR expertise, compliance, and risk mitigation solutions. The company believes in the importance of creating high-value relationships that focus on people.

Emplova was founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, United States.. .

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Bennie

Bennie

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Bennie is an employee benefits platform.

Rain

Rain

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Rain provides a voluntary benefit that is free for employers to implement. Rain integrates with TSheets to collect your employee’s shift data.

When they log into the Rain Instant Pay app, they can withdraw portions of the money they’ve earned from the shifts that they have worked but have not been paid for yet. If they choose not to withdraw, they receive the money on payday as normal.

Features include: – Employees can access their pay any day, not just on payday. – The Rain checking account feature provides overdraft protection and allows digital pay access without the use of a traditional checking account – Users can be notified when they have bills due but lack the funding to pay for them so that they can withdraw some of their wages – Other saving & budgeting tools will be included in the app.

CareerGig

CareerGig

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CareerGig is a technology platform and ecosystem that matches freelance and contract workers to top employers.

Fern Health

Fern Health

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Fern Health builds innovative technologies and compassionate services to guide people toward a pain-free life. Fern’s 100% digitally-delivered musculoskeletal pain programs reduce MSK costs and functional pain symptoms without surgery or opioids by bringing together clinically-validated exercise therapy, pain neuroscience education articles and skill-building, and one-on-one virtual health coaching.

The Fern MSK program is available anytime, anywhere.. .

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Coverflex

Coverflex

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Flexible compensation easy to manage, made for you

Koppr

Koppr

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Koppr puts your employees above all. We help you become an employee-first organisation and stay ahead of the curve.

In today’s dynamic and challenging business environment, we give you the tools to engage, retain and delight your employees by taking care of their financial well-being. Join hands with Koppr and build your happy company.

Our happy company.. .

Aman

Aman

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Supercharge your employee benefits experience with one central, easy-to-use platform

kalke

kalke

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Kalke is a HR technology based start-up company helping people in Bangladesh hire young promising talent and grow careers for youth. Kalke has worked with organizations like Maya, Sheba.xyz, D-Money, Pulse HealthCare, Kazi IT, Her Story foundation and many more to connect the right talent to the right job.

We intend to provide youth with access to the best and the most relevant internship/job opportunities and also help them learn in-demand skills with our online training. An internship is your first job before the first job.

A chance for you to discover what you would like to do for the rest of your professional life, If you love what you do, it’s not work – It’s Life.. .

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The 401(k) Plan Company

The 401(k) Plan Company

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About The 401(k) Plan Company – Focuses on the celebration of a person’s lifestyle, as well as their retirement. The 401(k) Plan Company serves organizations across the nation, connecting industry professionals and employers to their ultimate end user investors.

It was created in response to the rising need for personalization in the 401(k) Plan market and to address disengagement due to automatic enrollment and 401(k) Plan QDIAs. Bringing decades of experience and numerous industry partners together to this unique platform, The 401(k) Plan Company is paving the way for the future of workplace plans by challenging Americans to #LiveBold and build bold new memories today..

Plai

Plai

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Plai is a people and performance management software for forward-thinking companies. Align and focus your team with OKRs; Inspire growth with the employee-centered performance/360 reviews; Reward excellence and live company values with public praise; Help your team grow with regular feedback; Get to know your team with meaningful 1:1s; Learn the best practices with tips and templates.

Plai works with what you use: Slack, Google, MS. Your team will thank you!.

Parable

Parable

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Your passport to financial health and retirement. Parable helps you open financial accounts and optimizes where your money sits.

Reperio

Reperio

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Many people postpone health care, sometimes for years, putting them at an increased risk of developing underlying health conditions. Reperio is the only at-home health assessment that provides comprehensive results immediately.

We offer the convenience, simplicity, and data access that enables a greater understanding of one’s health today – and the means to achieve better health tomorrow.. .

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Sit-a-Bit

Sit-a-Bit

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A powerful SaaS platform giving employers options to provide families instantaneous access to childcare. Think Childcare-as-a-Service.

Inboarding

Inboarding

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Automate onboarding and engagement of employees with a diverse and inclusive perspective. We automate the onboarding of new hires with an inclusive perspective and use chatbots to create awareness using adaptive Micro Learning focused on inclusion for gender, culture and disabilities.

We use Artificial Intelligence to support companies to have inclusion as a competitive differential, creating a sense of belonging and making companies more creative, innovative and productive. Our chatbot Ella is delivered to organisations as a software-as-a-service (SaaS).

Although it will be available for all organisations, we will focus on companies with 100+ employees where the struggle to onboard and create and inclusive and diverse workplace is more difficult. Additionally, as Ella is delivered as a chatbot for workplace messaging and team collaboration software such as Slack and MS Team..

paco

paco

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HR Tech, SaaS, Fintech, Employee Engagement, Employee Benefits

Patriot Growth Insurance Services

Patriot Growth Insurance Services

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Patriot Growth Insurance Services is a growth-focused national insurance services firm.

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GoodHealth

GoodHealth

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GoodHealth is a software company that enables businesses to extend affordable health benefits to their workforce. GoodHealth is India’s enterprise health benefits platform for employees to engage with their health, wellness, and benefit programs.

GoodHealth offers a gateway to healthcare with an ecosystem of over 30+ insurance and healthcare partners. Hundreds of employers are currently using GoodHealth to transform their employee experience and reduce costs..

MIJO

MIJO

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Mijo is your partner for cool corporate fashion, powerful employer and start-up branding and turns your employees into brand ambassadors. We help your newcomers to get started with our onboarding boxes and pave the way to a really good employer image for you.

How did it all start? Mijo is the youngest spin-off from a real family business that has been in the textile labelling and corporate fashion business for more than 60 years. At that time everything still revolved around textile marking.

Then our dad added corporate fashion and now the young savages are at work and have founded Mijo. Therefore we know 100% what we are doing and what is best for your company.

Cool, stylish corporate fashion and awesome merchs and onboarding boxes that help you to strengthen the team spirit and motivation of your employees. We produce and finish in Europe and mainly in Germany.

Our articles are ecological, sustainable, fair and vegan. So you can look forward to your Mijo articles with a clear conscience.

We are also a fulfillment agent, which means we design, produce, store and ship your items. In our Employer-Shop your employees can order your articles 24/7.

WurkLyf

WurkLyf

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WurkLyf provides mental healthcare as a workplace benefit. Give your employees monthly, confidential, company-funded therapy.

Grouple

Grouple

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Grouple is an entertainment platform that primarily focuses on group engagements. We help in bringing people closer while creating memories together.

Our motto is that groups deserve benefits, simply because they come in numbers! What’s important, you can do this now from the safety of their homes via our integrated video conference solution. All Grouple experiences are exclusive.

You choose the entertainment and you choose the people you want to experience it with. Book a memorable experience for your clients, employees or simply to entertain yourselves.

Musicians, comedians, chefs, masterclasses and many talented artists are crafting virtual experiences for you through our platform. All you need to do is – Book, Invite & Enjoy..

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Arvorie

Arvorie

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Tackling the Childcare Accessibility Crisis

Culturelike

Culturelike

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Where teams working from anywhere create a sense of tribe

Yr Plans

Yr Plans

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Yr Plans is a developer of a financial platform that offers financial plans for employees.

Vite Biz

Vite Biz

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Vite Biz Inc has created a well-crafted strategy to help employers and employees. Vite Biz is an artificial intelligence-based professional development platform that will recommend learning opportunities, measure impact, and receive feedback from employees and employers on a constant basis.

This approach will lead to the optimization of a company’s strategic goals, employees’ professional goals, and more. Vite Biz Inc is dedicated to delivering superb experiences through high-quality solutions that contribute to employee engagement and benefit client companies.

The platform will capture skills and tools data from employees’ LinkedIn profiles to identify the necessary data. The next step of the process involves customized recommendations – the platform will match employees’ skills and tools of interest with what they want to learn and with employers’ goals.

An anecdotal example is that of an employee whose skills and tools include digital transformation and IT and Docker and GitHub, respectively. The courses to be recommended to this employee by the platform will match these key words with the learning goals of the employee and the employer.

Recommendations will not only include online courses, but will also contain seminars, industry related events, and more. All customized recommendations will be tailored to the budget offered by the company.

The third phase involves the booking of classes/courses according to employees’ preferred times. In case the employee’s choice is within the client company’s budget, the platform also enables auto approval.

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Smart Home Need

Smart Home Need

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What is Smart Home Need? Smart Home Need is a Start up with social vocation. We believe in a well-being centric lifestyle, where the satisfaction of human Needs is the first step towards a more sustainable and healthy society.

Since we spend most of our time at home, our digital platform helps people to connect with their Needs and to satisfy them, suggesting meaningful habits and Smart Home technologies. Which are our top 3 commitments? HEALTH.

Increase personal well-being thanks to a greater connection with personal Needs. SOCIETY.

Reduce social and gender inequalities through personal growth and purposeful tech use. ENVIRONMENT.

Optimize natural resources consumption through purchases based on real Needs and increased households’ energy efficiency. How to join Smart Home Need? Anyone who wants to live healthily, in harmony with his/her own Needs, making conscious use of new technologies can try the service for free.

To get full access to our platform, there are two subscription plans: One Need (for instance, to improve only the Sleep Need) or All Needs (to enjoy all current and future contents). These revenues will sustain us while remaining independent and ad-free..

Pluckd

Pluckd

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A feedback and upskilling tool that prevents conflicts and encourages teamwork. Silos prevent teams from learning, empathizing, and cooperating.

Internal disputes drive talents away. Pluckd is a tool for feedback and upskilling that hopes to break that cycle and turn your company employees into a community that shares goals and motivates one another.

It maps the skills inside your company and your personal goals; then connects you with potential mentors and supporters.. .

Nomify

Nomify

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Nomify powers your digital workplace and connects your employees. Recognise staff, issue documents, post news & events and manage holidays.

Reward.HR

Reward.HR

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Reward.HR is a revolutionary employee engagement and recognition service that helps companies worldwide to boost their employee performance and decrease turnover. Developed from the ground up to include and enhance all the aspects of employee engagement and recognition, Reward.HR provides employee engagement hub, recognition and appreciation tools, gifting system, analytics, and integrations while offering high data protection standards worldwide.

This easy to use all-in-one SaaS platform allows companies to appreciate, align and connect their employees while measuring the key performance indicators and employee engagement drivers with ease. The company was founded in 2019 and has its headquarter in New York, NY..

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Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing

Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing

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Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing guide businesses through the process of creating a wellbeing culture and strategy, that increases both the productivity and profitability of your organisation. Their initiatives are designed to increase employee awareness of how investing in their wellbeing, both physically and mentally, can improve their productivity and their quality of life.

They also assist them in implementing change and taking responsibility for their advancement. Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing are also passionate about making sustainable changes that can be embedded into business processes.

They carry out employee health checks, using this data as a baseline level of measurement. We host workshops to increase employee awareness, and coach individual team members who are need of a higher level of engagement.

They actively train wellbeing champions within your organisation who can deliver actionable steps and signpost other employees, building a culture of wellbeing internally. They support you to continually measure, plan and embed a wellbeing strategy that works, looking at the wellbeing challenges of the future, and addressing them now in a preventative way, so you are protected when those challenges arise.

Their delivery is CPD accredited, aligned with the Workplace Wellbeing Charter, and continually evolving to ensure that they provide you with the cutting edge solutions to give your employees the hidden advantage that is under-utilised here in the UK.. .

Start&Care

Start&Care

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Start&Care provides personal guidance and job coaching services.