Best HRTech Companies in Nigeria
The 94 best HRTech companies in Nigeria in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: SeamlessHR.
Nigeria's HRTech sector has 94 companies tracked in our directory, ranked by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum. Total disclosed funding sits at $18M — thin for a market this size, but the signal is where it's concentrated.
SeamlessHR leads at $10M, PaidHR follows at $3M, and Decagon has pulled $2M. Those three alone account for most of the capital in the room. The rest of the 94 — including Dropque at $1M and Talstack at $850K — are operating lean. Coverage is flat right now, which honestly makes the funding picture easier to read: the companies pulling real capital are pulling it on the strength of hr cloud infrastructure and AI recruitment tooling, not hype cycles. And as 2019 research showed early on, technology adoption in HR functions tends to concentrate around platforms that solve payroll and compliance friction first, which maps neatly onto who's winning here.
So what's driving the next moves? Predictive analytics and intelligent HR systems are the themes getting attention from the most active investors — Ventures Platform, Village Capital, Microtraction — and a Dubai HRTech startup building on behaviormetrics shows you where the global product conversation is heading. Nigeria's builders are watching the same trend.
Ranked: Best HRTech companies in Nigeria
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SeamlessHR Cloud-based suite solutions for HR management | $10M | 17 mo ago | Series A | Emmanuel Okeleji Co-Founder & CEO | 2011 | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | — |
| 2 | PaidHR Provider of HR and payroll management solutions for businesses | $3M | 12 mo ago | Seed | Lekan Omotosho Co-Founder & CTO | 2019 | WebflowElementorWordPress+38 | — |
| 3 | Decagon Online job portal for tech-industry | $2M | 58 mo ago | Seed | — | 2019 | WordPressMySQLRedis+32 | — |
| 4 | Dropque Video interviewing platform | $1M | 91 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2016 | — | — |
| 5 | Talstack B2B platform that enables businesses to upskill the employees | $850K | 36 mo ago | Seed | Kayode Oyewole Co-Founder | 2022 | WebflowSentryVimeo+17 | 1 partnership |
| 6 | Juiceme Provider of ondemand pay solutions for employee | $450K | 24 mo ago | Seed | Sandile Dlamini Founder & CEO | 2024 | — | — |
| 7 | Eazipay Cloud-based payroll management software | $125K | 52 mo ago | Seed | Asher Adeniyi Co-Founder & CEO | 2021 | TypeScriptGraphQLChart.js+17 | — |
| 8 | Slatecube Remote internship platform for students | $40K | 90 mo ago | Seed | — | 2014 | AMPLightboxCloudflare+2 | — |
Top 12 HRTech companies in Nigeria
#1
Seed · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2019$3.5Mraised▾
Provider of HR and payroll management solutions for businesses. It streamlines global employee life cycles from hiring to exit, and automates payroll, pension, and tax remittances. Features include workflow management, employee benefits administration, split payroll, employee pension, custom schedules and more. Its mobile application is available on both iOS and Android devices.
- Jun 2025Seed$3M
- 2022Seed$500K
#2
Series A · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2011 · 189 employees$10.2Mraised▾
Cloud-based suite solutions for HR management. It offers tools for managing leave, attendance, recruitment, performance, benefits, payroll and more. It also offers tools for monitoring employee time, assess earned wages, loans to employee and more.
- Jan 2025Series A$9M
- Jan 2022Series A$10M
- Oct 2020Seed—
- Mar 2019Seed$150K
#3
Seed · Nigeria · founded 2024$450Kraised▾
Provider of ondemand pay solutions for employee
#4
Seed · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2022 · 2 employees$850Kraised▾
B2B platform that enables businesses to upskill the employees. It provides tools, content, courses, and insights from Africa's professionals and entrepreneurs. Its proprietary competency tool that integrates performance management and upskilling, enabling businesses to monitor employee learning.
- Jun 2023Seed$850K
#5
Seed · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2019 · 609 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Online job portal for tech-industry. The platform allows employers to search and connect with the candidates. The platform enables employers to post full-time, part-time and contractual jobs. The offering sectors include software developer, application developer, python developer, full-stack, and more.
- Aug 2021Seed$1.5M
- Aug 2021Conventional Debt$25M
#6
Deadpooled · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2016 · 4 employees$1Mraised▾
Dropque is a video interviewing platform. Companies can administer role specific questions with response deadline and send link to candidates to complete video interview. Once the video interview is completed, the hiring managers can collaborate and shortlist candidates.
- Oct 2018Seed$1M
- Jun 2018Seed—
#7
Seed · Lekki, Lagos · founded 2021 · 10 employees$125Kraised▾
Cloud-based payroll management software. It offers features such as reports, salaries, tax remittance, receipts, salary calculator, insurance, compliance, etc. It also offers a portal for onboarding employees.
- Jan 2022Seed$500K
#8
Seed · Lekki, Lagos · founded 2015 · 30 employees$20Kraised▾
Online freelance services marketplace for multiple industries. It allows the users to find a matching job. The offering categories include graphics & design, digital marketing, writing & translation, video & animation, music & audio, and more.
- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)$100K
- Oct 2021Seed$20K
#9
Seed · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2014 · 9 employees$40Kraised▾
SlateCube, a product by Microbold, is a remote internship platform for students. The platform provides 150+ free courses for skill development including courses such as Call Center Expert, Negotiation Skills, Manager Management and other technical and soft skills. For certain courses, the company provides an opportunity for students to work on remote internships (working over the internet) with partner organizations. After the successful completion of any of the courses (including assignments, quizzes, final projects). The platform can be used by schools to conduct lectures, manage lesson notes, test comprehension, and track student's performance. Partner organizations include MITx, The Bits Academy, Code.org, and others.
- Nov 2018Seed$40K
#10
Deadpooled · Abuja, Federal Capital Territory · founded 2017 · 6 employees$7Kraised▾
Otrac is an online platform that provides training courses for public and general health practitioners. It offers courses for various categories which include dental surgery, radiology, anesthesia, pharmacology, and more.
- Jun 2019Grant (prize money)$7K
#11
Seed · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2015 · 15 employees—raised▾
DriversNG is an online marketplace for hiring professional on-demand drivers in Nigeria. Claims that the company provides training and support to its drivers. The platform claims to have truck drivers, car drivers, special vehicle drivers, and more. Its mobile app is available for the Android platform.
- Nov 2019Seed—
#12
Seed · Lagos, Lagos · founded 2014 · 92 employees—raised▾
Stutern provides an online platform for student and graduates to find paid internship opportunities in Nigeria. Students can create their profiles by answering a few questions based on which employers can connect with them for internship offers. Employers can also post their opportunities on the website. Pricing is dependent on the number of postings.
- Mar 2017Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of HRTech coverage by sub-theme.
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