Cercli
HR & Payroll Software
$16Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
1hiring now · +1 posted in 30 days
$12Mlatest round · Series A · Oct 2025 · 12 mo ago
3backers · Y Combinator, Picus Capital
Overview
The AI-native people platform for HR and recruitment. Hire faster, manage your whole team in one place, and put your AI agents to work on the busywork.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$16M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$12M
Series A · Oct 2025 · 12 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Y Combinator, Picus Capital
The money's age
Due for its next round
12 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
13/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
May 18
Launched Cercli launches Cera AI hiring agent globally to help companies hire faster and smarter · Zawya
Mar 7
Released an app Cercli · App Store
Oct 21, 2025
Raised a round Series A $12M · Zawya
Sep 3, 2024
Raised a round Seed $4M · led by Afore Capital
Jun 2023
Went through Y Combinator
Mar 2023
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
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Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | Oct 2025 | $12M | — | Zawya |
| Seed | Sep 2024 | $4M | Afore Capital lead | arabianbusiness.com |
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Y Combinator 
Picus Capital 
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$220k
Typical range
$220k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Middle
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $220k | $220k |
Highest paying role
General Manager
$220k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
53/100
Stable
Open positions
1
1 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Management
100% ▲
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Cercli over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
1
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
85/100
Practices & domains
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News
Cercli launches Cera AI hiring agent globally to help companies hire faster and smarter
New AI-powered hiring agent automates candidate evaluation, screening, and recruitment workflows to accelerate hiring decisions at scale
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Report
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Cercli raises $12mln Series A for AI-native workforce platform, marking Picus Capital's fiirst MENA investment
Cercli's revenue grows 10x in the past 12 months as enterprises embrace generational shift to singular AI-native systems of record across their HR tech stack
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Payroll startup Cercli inks $4M to build the
While scaling and managing teams at two of the largest unicorns in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region,Akeed AzmiandDavid Rechestumbled on what they believed was a $2 billion opportunity. Cercli, the startup they launched in January, addresses
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Payroll startup Cercli inks $4M to build the 'Rippling for the Middle East and North Africa'
The potential of Cercli's payroll platform has attracted investor interest, leading to $4 million in seed funding.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
New York
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Dubai
United Arab Emirates
HQ
New York
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $220k Avg Salary
hires for Management