HR SaaS startups in France
There are 543 HR SaaS startups in France which include Swile, Spendesk, Cegid, 360Learning, Kraaft. Out of these, 160 startups are funded, with 88 having secured Series A+ funding, and 3 achieving unicorn status.
Over the past 10 years, an average of 31 new companies have been launched annually. Notably, several of these startups have been founded by alumni of HEC Paris, Imperial College London and Cornell University.
Here is the list of top HR SaaS startups in France
1. Swile
Work tech company offering meal and gift vouchers for employees. It provides a card that digitizes payment processes and allows employees to book business trips, retrieve vouchers, manage cards by freezing and unfreezing them, track expenses, and more. It enables users to organize and participate in team events, find restaurants near the office, donate meal vouchers to charity, and more.
Key facts about Swile
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Paris (France)
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $328M
- Investors: Index Ventures, SoftBank Group and 11 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Oct 08, 2021, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 79/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 1 of 14 Competitors

2. Spendesk
Provider of prepaid cards for financial benefits of employees. It offers corporate travel and expense management solution. Platform solution enables enterprises to keep a track of the daily expenses of their employees. It also allows companies to manage to spend with specified budget limits per team and person, review each purchase request, get automatic reminders for employees to upload docs for the purchases and more. Platform features include expense tracking, virtual-physical cards, spending reports, payment invoice and more.
Key facts about Spendesk
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Paris (France)
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $304M
- Investors: Index Ventures, Eight Roads Ventures and 21 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Jan 18, 2022, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 74/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 2 of 145 Competitors

3. Cegid
Platform offering suite solution for offline businesses. The platform provides an online POS solution that allows customers to buy goods online, reserve an out of stock product or carry out click and collect shopping. Other features include customer interaction, management module, merchandising facility, clienteling, CRM, analytics, BI module, inventory management, and compensation management solution. The solution caters to businesses like beauty & cosmetics stores, fashion stores, homeware stores, and more.
Key facts about Cegid
- Founded Year: 1983
- Location: Lyon (France)
- Stage: Late Stage
- Total Funding till date: $900K
- Investors: Silver Lake, Apax Partners and 9 Others
- Latest Funding Round: PE, Jun 03, 2021, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 73/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 11 of 3,867 Competitors
4. 360Learning
360Learning provides a learning management system for enterprises, training organizations, and higher education institutes. Allows the users to create engaging courses. Courses include assessments and quizzes. Features include content authoring, MOOC library, collaborative and more. Works with MOOC providers to create a library of industry-specific courses. Clients include Dior, Cape Gemini, HEC Paris and others. Offered on a subscription model.
Key facts about 360Learning
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5. Kraaft
Job site management software for field workforce. It manages the communication and collaboration of field workers. It allows users to chat and generate reports from work sites, and send and receive audio, videos, and photos. It caters to construction, security services, maintenance of network & equipment, logistics, transport & delivery. It is a tool available on the subscription based pricing model.
Key facts about Kraaft
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Paris (France)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $16.8M
- Investors: Stride, Dawn Capital and 8 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jan 21, 2025, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 66/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 20 of 3,524 Competitors