Workpay
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Payroll Services
HR & Payroll Software
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$2.7M
1 round on record
Latest round
$2.7M
Venture round · Feb 2023 · 3 yr ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
7
+7 posted in 30 days
Backers
3
Y Combinator, Acadian Ventures
The money's age
Long since its last round
43 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
40/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 21, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $2.7M · TechCrunch
Nov 2, 2021
Expanded WorkPay, Nairobi-based HR and Payroll company, expands to Nigeria · tech-ish
Jun 7, 2021
Released an app Workpay · App Store
Jan 2020
Went through Y Combinator
2019
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.11%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
3.0 ★
2 ratings
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Feb 2023 | $2.7M | — | TechCrunch |
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Y Combinator 
Acadian Ventures 
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News
Kenyan HR and payroll startup Workpay lands Visa as investor in $5M round
Workpay provides cloud-based HR, payroll, and benefits solutions for businesses with employees across Africa.
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YC-backed HR-payroll provider Workpay raises $2.7M to scale in Africa
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Nairobi-based Workpay Technologies spreads wings to Nigeria for core HR, payroll services - Intelligent CIO Africa
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WorkPay, Nairobi-based HR and Payroll company, expands to Nigeria
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Workpay over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
34
Postings analysed
5
Stack modernity
73/100
Languages
Go
Java
Python
SQL
TypeScript
C
Frameworks & libraries
Cypress
Playwright
Rest-Assured
SDL
Selenium
Pact
Cloud & platforms
Apache Kafka
Datadog
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Grafana
Kubernetes
RabbitMQ
Applitools
Developer tools
Microsoft Excel
Docker
Gatling
GraphQL
JMeter
Jenkins
Prometheus
Rest API
Practices & domains
CI/CD
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
73/100
Growing
Open positions
7
7 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
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.
Finance
57% ▲
QA
14% ▲
Legal
14% ▲
Sales
14% ▲
Actively hiring for Finance (+4 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
+7 jobs in a week
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
This company is a staffing agency: the cities below are where its clients hire, not its own offices.
Cities
3
Hiring now
2
Countries
3
Busiest office
Abidjan
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Nairobi
Kenya
HQ
Workpay
7th floor, West Park Towers, Mpesi Ln, Westlands Nairobi.
Abidjan
Ivory Coast
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 33% remote 200-500 est. staff
hires for Finance, Legal, Sales
Bengaluru
India
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for QA
Jobs
≈ $13k – $31k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bengaluru
Python
Go
Java
TypeScript
SQL
RabbitMQ
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Copilot
Cursor
Claude Code
Frontend
GraphQL
DevOps
Rest API
GitHub Actions
Datadog
Prometheus
GitLab CI
CI/CD
Jenkins
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
Shift-Left
Cybersecurity
OWASP Top 10
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QA
Selenium
JMeter
Cypress
Playwright
Gatling
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Pact
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Financials
Total raised
$2.7M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | $2.7M | Details |