This article showcases our top picks for the best California based Employee Benefits companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Employee Benefits industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top California Employee Benefits Startups
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Origin
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Origin is a platform that provides insurance and financial services for employees.
Earnin
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Earnin gives people access to their pay directly from their smartphones, whenever they need it
Carrot Fertility
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Carrot Fertility helps employers offer their workers fertility benefits that are flexible, transparent, and cost-conscious.
Topia
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Topia is a talent mobility platform that enables employees to work remotely.
Rain
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Rain offers early wage access and financial wellness benefit for mid-market to enterprise employers.
Path
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Path makes it easy to find a world class mental health provider that’s covered by your insurance.
Payactiv
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Payactiv helps put financial wellness within reach.
HealthSherpa
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HealthSherpa is a technology company that focuses on connecting individuals with health coverage.
Gusto
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Gusto provides a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and human resource management solution for businesses.
Even.com
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Even is the leading responsible on-demand pay platform helping companies reimagine the way they pay so people can live the lives they want.
Fuel50
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Fuel50 is the AI-powered Talent Marketplace that delivers internal talent mobility and workforce reskilling.
Amino
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Amino is an all-in-one healthcare financial wellness platform for employees.
Northstar
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Northstar is a financial wellness benefit that makes it easy for companies to offer personalized financial advice about comp and benefits.
Pave
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Pave is a real-time compensation platform that helps organizations plan, communicate, and track employees’ compensation.
Fond
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Fond is a SaaS platform that makes it easy to manage rewards and recognition programs.
Airvet
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Airvet is a telehealth platform designed to offer continuity of care between pet parents and veterinarians.
Torpago
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Torpago is a financial technology company that provides corporate cards equipped with spend management software.
Cleo
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Cleo is a benefits platform that provides personalized guidance for working families.
Grayce
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Grayce is a navigation platform for families with aging, ill, and vulnerable loved ones.
XP Health
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XP Health is an artificial intelligence-powered vision benefits platform for employees.
Assemble
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Assemble is a compensation management platform for forward-thinking organizations.
WithMe Health
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A medication guidance company personalizing medication experiences for employers, employees and their families
Agora
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Agora is a compensation platform that helps companies figure out how to pay their employees by making data driven decisions.
Marco Experiences
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Meet Marco, the better way to bring your people together. We create extraordinary experiences.
Espresa
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Espresa is the world’s first Culture Benefits® platform that makes heroes out of HR teams.
Abound
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Abound is the tax and benefits API for businesses that serve independent workers.
Lyra Health
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Lyra helps companies improve access to effective mental health care for their employees.
Highway Benefits
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Highway Benefits is an employee benefits platform that increases retention and attraction of top talent through modernized benefits.
Tuition.io
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Tuition.io delivers student loan contributions as a benefit, allowing companies and governments of all sizes to recruit and retain talent.
Dreami
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Dreami is a beautiful and mission-driven platform to make mentorship and career development equitable
Human Interest
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Human Interest helps employees of small and medium-sized businesses save for retirement.
Pilot
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Pilot takes care of payroll, benefits, and compliance for US-based companies hiring anywhere in the world.
Joblist
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Joblist helps anyone find the right job for them.
Rubica
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Advanced cybersecurity for remote workers & mixed-use device environments. Threat detection & prevention built for ease-of-use.
Forma
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Forma is a modern-day benefits platform that gives employees the freedom to choose health and wellness options that are right for them.
MixR
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B2B community building platform on a mission to address lack of belonging at work and create healthier, happier & more productive workforces
SimpleTherapy
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SimpleTherapy is a digital platform that combines physical therapy with AI to bring a musculoskeletal pain recovery.
Hoopla
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Hoopla is a performance and motivation management platform for driving performance and productivity.
Plethy
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Plethy delivers easy to follow at-home recovery programs for musculoskeletal conditions in healthcare and workers comp.
BridgeCare
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BridgeCare is a white-label child care data and community management platform.
Milk Stork
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Milk Stork is the first breast milk shipping company for breastfeeding moms.
Stride Health
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Stride Health is a provider of an insurance recommendation platform designed to offer health insurance services.
Recognize
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Recognize is motivating the workplace through the easiest-to-use employee recognition platform on the market.
Flock
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Flock is an all-in-one software platform to manage HR, Benefits, and Compliance.
Tall Poppy
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Tall Poppy builds tools and services to help companies protect their employees against online harassment and abuse.
Ease
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Ease is a benefits administration software designed for small businesses, insurance brokers, and insurance carriers.
Sphere
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Sphere is a community of employees across hundreds of companies dedicated to getting fossil fuels out of our companies’ 401(k)s.
Stork Club
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Stork Club is a maternity care platform that extends insurance coverage and provides all possible options to people who want to have a baby.
LeggUP Inc.
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LeggUP’s integrated coaching platform supports people development and retention through Productivity and Wellbeing called Talent Insurance.
Definiti
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Definiti provides National Workers’ Compensation Cost Containment services.
Insynctive
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Insynctive automates Onboarding, HRIS, Benefit Administration, & Insynctive Integrated Marketplace™ for Service Providers & Corporations
Mistro
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Mistro offers a platform that provides unique benefits plan to each remote employee.
TOOTRiS
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TOOTRiS is a technology platform that allows parents affordable access to child care.
Relation Insurance
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Relation Insurance is a insurance broker that offers risk-management.
MyShoperoo
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Digital last-mile logistics platform where optimization meets on-demand services
FitBliss
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Optimize Health & Productivity for the Global Workforce
Enrollify
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Enrollify is an all in one employee benefits engagement and education management SaaS
Whil
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Whil is a provider of digital solution for training stress resilience, mindfulness, sleep, wellbeing and emotional intelligence skills.
RideAmigos
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RideAmigos is an industry-leading provider of TDM software. Used by Fortune 500 companies, major metro agencies, and research universities.
Mobile Health
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Mobile Health is a digital health platform that helps employers, payors, and providers improve population health and manage healthcare cost
Paradigm
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Paradigm works with innovative companies to organize more inclusive work environments.
WageWorks
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WageWorks provides Consumer-Directed Benefits for pre-tax commuter and health accounts.
MerryMint
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MerryMint helps remote teams find and book online workshops and experiences for team building.
Innovative Claim Solutions
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Innovative Claim Solutions is an insurance agency, that provides claims management services, claims administration services to clients.
ABD Insurance and Financial Services
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ABD advises quickly scaling companies on their risk management, employee benefits and 401(k) programs.
Supportiv
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The Support Network: AI/NLU-driven Precision Peer Support(TM) w/ hyper-personalized resource recommendations for mental health & wellbeing
Amelia
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Amelia is a computer software company that offers an app that helps employees develop mental health habits.
Venteur
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Venteur is an AI-powered benefits marketplace that empowers individuals to take control of their health care.
Innovative Broker Services
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Innovative Broker Services is an insurance and employee benefits company.
The Larkin Company
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The Larkin Company renders custom solutions in disability management and leave services for disabled employees.
The Liberty Company
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The Liberty Company is a provider of risk management and insurance services.
Stock & Option Solutions
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We specialize in equity compensation solutions.
Ensu
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Ensu helps people automatically track and manage their emotional health using machine learning and natural language processing.
WeDriveU
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WeDriveU is a leader in transportation solutions specializing in corporate, university and hospital shuttles serving 9M U.S. passengers.
Steer
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Steer is a lightweight performance management system for agile companies.
UAS
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UAS is a Third Party Administrator specializes in the full administration of employee benefit plans.
VentureLoop
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VentureLoop is a job board for venture-backed startup companies. They also provide outsourced services for payroll, benefits and HR.
CircleOf
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CircleOf is a family care coordination platform that supports the 51M unpaid family caregivers in the US.
Humaxa
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Humaxa develops an employee engagement AI assistant for mid-sized tech-enabled companies.
InSpectre Solutions
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InSpectre Solutions is an investigative and medical case management agency specializing in international worker’s compensation services.
Benefits Exchange Alliance
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Benefits Exchange Alliance is a group of advisors specializing in employee benefits and human resources.
Paismo Inc
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Paismo is a California & Pakistan-based SaaS company changing the way everyday talent is valued.
CXApp
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Digital workplace experience platform: Campus, Desks, Meetings, Events, Communities
Compright
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Compright develops employee compensation management software solutions for enterprises.
Optimum Employer Solutions
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Optimum Employer Solutions is an HR company that provides HR services to small and midsize businesses.
Burd Health
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Burd Health is a health care solutions company that engages in healthy and fit employees.
Momentous Insurance Brokerage
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Momentous Insurance Brokerage operates as an independent insurance agency.
Assurance Risk Managers
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Assurance Risk Managers offers commercial insurance, employee benefits and personal insurance services.
EBA&M
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EBA&M is an insurance agency that offers employee benefit plans, account management, claims auditing, compliance & administrative services.
San Bernardino County Employees’ Retirement Association
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San Bernardino County Employees’ Retirement Association offers service retirement, disability retirement and death benefits.
Krost
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Krost offers a full range of accounting, employee benefits, financial advisory, and wealth management services for various industries.
UnitedAg
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UnitedAg renders healthcare, employee benefit and legal solutions to the agricultural industry.
Intercare Insurance Solutions
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Intercare Insurance Solutions is provides insurance brokerage services in the United States.
TEEMWURK Inc
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TeemWurk provides integrated solutions and services, including HR solutions, payroll, and employee benefits enrollments to its clients.
Teamflect
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Teamflect is an employee engagement and performance management tool.
ProView Global
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ProView Global offers employee benefits administration, broker renewal support, risk management, ACA reporting and BPO management services.