Warp

Overview

Warp is an AI-native employee management platform headquartered in New York City [4] that automates payroll, compliance, and benefits for high-growth companies [2]. Founded in 2023 [8], the company was backed by Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 batch [3]. Warp operates a single platform serving companies ranging from 5 to 10,000 employees, using AI agents to handle payroll, HR, compliance, benefits, and IT functions [9]. The company has raised $85 million from investors including Battery Ventures, Peak XV, Sound Ventures, Sapphire, A-Star, SV Angel, and Homebrew Capital [9]. As of July 2026, Warp has 27 open roles [1] and employs approximately 80 people [6].

Warp is the AI-native employee management platform for high-growth companies. We run payroll, HR, compliance, benefits, and IT on a single platform for companies from 5 to 10,000 employees, using AI agents to complete the work that legacy systems leave to people. We've raised $85M from Battery Ventures, Peak XV, Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher), Sapphire, A-Star, SV Angel, and Homebrew Capital. Some of the fastest growing companies of today trust Warp to reduce HR and admin overhead so they build faster. We're proud to serve top startups like Serval, Bland, Greptile, Reducto, Corgi, Campfire, alongside our mid-size and enterprise customers. We're humbled to have the backing of people who have built some of the most important companies of the last two decades: Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, former Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson, Dropbox co-founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan, Eventbrite founder Kevin Hartz, former Cruise founder Kyle Vogt, and Replit founder Amjad Masad. [10]

New York City [5]

2023 [6]

Warp builds an AI-native employee management platform for high-growth companies that automates payroll, tax compliance, benefits administration and IT operations using autonomous agents. [13]

Warp runs US payroll across all 50 states with automatic tax registrations and filings and onboarding from offer to active in under 10 minutes, uses AI agents that monitor 10,000+ tax jurisdictions and research, file and resolve tax notices, administers health, dental, vision and 401(k) enrollment end-to-end, provisions and revokes SSO, devices and access at hire and departure, and pays contractors in 150+ countries. [14]

Y Combinator's directory lists the company location as New York City, NY, USA. [17]

Business address: 169 Madison Ave, New York, New York, 10016. [20]

Growth & traction

80 [8]

Warp says it serves more than 1,000 companies and has saved customers over $100 million in payroll tax penalties. [16]

Y Combinator lists a team size of 80. [18]

Customers

Warp's named customers include Bland AI, Greptile, Paraform, Julius AI, Kaizen, Lapis, Serval, Corgi, Bask Health and Three Wide Brewery. [15]