Top 100 Start-Ups
Founders: Marc-Oliver Fiedler and Trevor Townsend Year founded: 2016 Location: Carlow Sector: payroll Payzaar provides a single plat- form for global payroll needs. It was founded by a group of industry veterans who had helped to build successful busi- nesses in the Enterprise Soft- ware and Payroll/HR Services markets at ADP, Oracle, Hewl- ett-Packard and OneClickHR. The team recognised the rapidly increasing demand by multinational companies for integrated global payroll solu- tions tomanage their local pay- roll operations more effectively, but also saw the fundamental flaws in the previous model. Payzaar is the first open platform for global payroll. It allows users to workwith any local provider of their choos- ing, giving customers flexibility and control. payzaar.com 100 HOT START-UPS 24 | SEPTEMBER 2019 | The Sunday Business Post Founders: Nigel Rutherford and Paul Murphy Year founded: 2017 Location: Dublin Sector: finance Peeled provides a consumer lending platform, delivering 100 per cent digital, secured car finance. The platform is provided on a white la- bel basis, fromoriginations through to customer service and collections. It bills itself as “digital car finance in a box”. Over the past year, it has raised €1 million in seed funding, launched a mini- mumviable product (MVP) under Peeled Finance brand, secured its first lending part- ner, and was the first con- sumer finance business to launch open banking in Ire- land. In the coming months it will launchwith its first brand partner in Ireland, and foresees British entry in Q2 2020 and a series A funding round in Q4 2020. peeledfinance.com Payzaar Founders: James Brogan, Bernard Brogan, Michelle Fogarty and David Clancy Year founded: 2016 Location: Dublin Sector: employee wellbeing James Brogan, co-found- er and chief executive of Peptalk, explains its mission: “We help com- panies sustain high per- formance and transform their culture through our real world wellbeing-in- spired employee engage- ment platform.” Major new client wins include Mercury Engi- neering, Grenke, Astra Zeneca and KCI. PepTalk established a London of- fice in early 2019 to serve increasing demand from outside Irelandwith users now stretching across Eu- rope. Brogan says: “PepTalk’s ambition for the next 12 months includes building out client bases across Britain and Europe, clos- ing a series A investment round of approx €2 mil- lion and the release of an enhanced version of the product in early 2020.” peptalk.ie Peptalk Peeled Finance
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