Volition Capital led the round with participation from existing investors: Acadian Ventures, 468 Capital, and Y Combinator. This brings our total funding to $30M since starting Kombo in 2022. We’re also happy to welcome Sean Cantwell, Volition Capital partner, to our board. Sean brings deep industry expertise from his investments in JazzHR and Hackajob.

Here's where we're headed:

AI is speeding up software change, which is increasing the number of systems companies run across recruiting, HR, payroll, and IT. That is why we believe interoperability is becoming the defining problem of the workforce ecosystem.

Interoperability Is the Defining Problem of the Workforce Ecosystem

Across history, humans have always organized labor to create value. While the forms of work have evolved, the need to coordinate people and their outcomes has remained constant.

Over the past 50+ years, the digitization of work triggered a Cambrian explosion of technologies:

• systems of record (HRIS, Payroll, ATS, LMS)
• specialized point solutions
• and broader platforms

This created enormous value, turning the workforce ecosystem into a $40B+ market today, on track to exceed $100B by 2030. At the same time, it introduced massive complexity: people data became siloed, brittle, and expensive to move. This is the core of the problem we're solving.

The Infrastructure Layer for People Data

We are entering another major transition. The AI-powered future of work will look very different in ten years, but one thing remains true: regardless of how work changes, people data must reliably move between systems, tools, machines, and humans.

• Work will continue to evolve, while the need for systems of record and people data will not
• Change increases fragmentation: every new wave of innovation introduces more systems, more vendors, and more data silos

Kombo exists to break these silos and provide the infrastructure layer that enables this ecosystem to function.

We sit at the center of the interoperability problem, providing the infrastructure layer for the flow of all people data — from hire to retire.

From Today’s Scale to a Long-Term Vision

We raised to move faster at a global scale. Today, Kombo works with 300+ companies, including Indeed, Paychex, Thatch, HireVue, Mercor, Juicebox, Edenred, Gem, and others.

Over the next few years, we will:

• expand capabilities for agentic and API integrations across HR, Payroll and IT systems
• continue investing in enterprise-grade flexibility (including on-prem and advanced security requirements)
• enable the next wave of AI agents and automation across talent acquisition, HR, payroll, and IT by making people data portable, permissioned, and dependable end to end

We will also scale our team across two continents, with a strong emphasis on technical excellence, reliability, and long-term ownership.

Our vision:

• the entire people data , from hire to retire, runs globally on Kombo’s infrastructure
• Kombo becomes the backbone of not just HR tech, but of any company that depends on workforce data across systems of record and point solutions

People data is among the most sensitive data companies handle. Fragmentation creates risk – reliability compounds. We believe this demands a single, trusted infrastructure layer. Kombo is built for this reality: combining European rigor and compliance-by-design with US ambition and scale.

Work and the technology around it will keep changing. New tools will emerge, and old ones will be replaced. But the need for connectivity will only grow. This Series A is a step toward building that infrastructure, and a workforce ecosystem that works as one.

I’m excited about a future where the companies shaping the workforce ecosystem can focus on building great products, while we take care of the underlying infrastructure.

— Alex Kübel, CEO and co-founder

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