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Building the modern
HR system for startups

Why do HR systems suck? Why do founders need to spend 100s
of hours on payroll and taxes? It doesn't have to be this way. We're fixing it.

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From left to right: Ayush S, CEO and Adam Rankin, CTO

Our story

Payroll is broken.

We were once those founders before. Every two weeks, we'd lose days wrestling with tax codes, compliance deadlines, and systems that seemed designed to waste time rather than save it.

The moment that changed everything: our payroll provider failed during a critical quarter. Employees weren't paid on time. Tax filings were delayed. We spent 60 hours fixing what should have taken 10 minutes.

That's when we realized the real problem. Every existing solution was just manual work dressed up with software. Same complexity, same errors, same time drain—just with a nicer interface.

We had a different idea: What if payroll actually worked?

Not "worked better." Worked completely. Automatically. Invisibly.

So we built Warp. A system that handles 10,000+ tax jurisdictions without human intervention. That processes compliance while you sleep. That scales from 1 employee to 1,000 without adding complexity.

The result? Our customers launch products instead of debugging payroll. They hire talent instead of hiring specialists. They build companies instead of building spreadsheets.

Payroll should empower businesses, not burden them.

That's why we started Warp. That's why we're here.

Thank you for being part of our journey.

Ayush S

Founder & CEO, Warp

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Backed by incredible investors

We have raised over $24M from some of the top investors and operators in the world.
We're thankful to be building Warp alongside the best.

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Drew Houston

Drew Houston

CEO of Dropbox

Elad Gil

Elad Gil

Investor

Balaji Srinivasan

Balaji Srinivasan

Ex-CTO of Coinbase

Arash Ferdowsi

Arash Ferdowsi

Co-founder of Dropbox

Amjad Masad

Amjad Masad

Founder of Replit

Kyle Vogt

Kyle Vogt

Founder of Cruise

Michael Morgenstern

Michael Morgenstern

Operator at Brex

Colin Evans

Colin Evans

Operator at OpenAI

SV Angel

SV Angel

Investor

Jonathan Wasserstrum

Jonathan Wasserstrum

Investor

Watershed Capital

Watershed Capital

Investor

Homebrew Capital

Homebrew Capital

Investor

We're hiring

We're creating something special here, and we're looking
for people who care deeply about quality to build it with us.

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