Zeal blog · Feb 2026
Describes the Series B and new product pushes including remote I-9 with E-Verify, custom paperwork, benefits administration, and a white-label mobile app.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Zeal is a San Francisco-based embedded payroll and workforce-payments platform for staffing companies, labor marketplaces, EOR/PEO organizations, and workforce management tools. It provides onboarding, payroll, payments, and billing infrastructure through API, embeddable components, a white-label mobile app, and an admin dashboard.
Primary product
Embedded payroll and workforce payments infrastructure
Founded
2019
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
11-50
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Financial Technology
Sub-industry
Embedded payroll and workforce payments infrastructure
Offices
80 Langton St, San Francisco, CA 94103
49 Geary St, San Francisco, CA 94108
Business model
B2B SaaS
API platform
white-label embedded infrastructure
partner referral / revenue-share
Funding
People & investors
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
CTO & Co-Founder
Head of Marketing
Head of People & Culture
Work & culture
Empathetic, iterative, staffing-focused, and communication-centric. Public career and engineering pages emphasize learning from mistakes, clear expectations, mentorship, open communication, and building for the staffing economy.
Work style
Hybrid
Compensation
Public career pages advertise competitive salary and equity. A public Zeal job posting also showed a Senior Technical Account Manager role at $130K-$160K.
Benefits
100% health, dental, and vision coverage
Competitive salary and equity
Monthly wellness stipend
Hybrid work model
Endless snacks and beverages
Friday happy hours
Zeal swag
Product & market
Pricing
Sales-led custom quote / enterprise contract
Differentiators
- —Built specifically for staffing and workforce platforms
- —Unified onboarding, payroll, payments, and billing
- —White-label mobile app and embeddable components
- —Remote I-9 with E-Verify
- —Native tax engine covering 11,000+ jurisdictions
- —Supports both W-2 and 1099 workers
- —Launches and migrations in weeks
- —Focuses on dynamic work rather than generic SMB payroll
Technology
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JIRA
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Trello
Square
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Customers
Wonolo
Qwick
Lawtrades
Band of Hands
WorkGenius
ACE FMS
Lead & Gain
Backlit
Competitors
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ADP Embedded
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Rollfi
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Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Estimated monthly visits
33.2K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Zeal blog · Jan 2026
Highlights year-end payroll improvements, new Jobs and Departments entities, contractor payment line items/deductions, and AI-assisted SOC code selection.
Zeal blog · Dec 2025
Adds Instant Pay on web, self-serve payout support, bank transfers out of Instant Pay, Canadian payroll, and worker dashboard MFA.
Zeal blog · Nov 2025
Explains Zeal's remote, white-label I-9 and E-Verify workflow, why staffing-specific onboarding was needed, and how it reduced completion time from days to hours.
BusinessWire · Oct 2024
Announces a $15M Series B led by Portage, with Spark Capital and Commerce Ventures continuing support, to expand product capabilities for staffing, gig work, and HR service providers.
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