Brightgo
“Can a purpose-built ERP eliminate operational fragmentation for janitorial contractors and capture the payroll and accounting workflows that currently run across multiple disconnected tools?”
Founded2023
HQSan Bruno, CA
FoundersGerald Fong
Total raised$3M
Latest roundSeed
IndustryVertical SaaS / Janitorial & Facilities Management
The story
Brightgo was founded in 2023 by Gerald Fong, a former Instagram engineering manager, to build a vertical ERP for the janitorial and building services contractor (BSC) industry. The platform combines operations management, workforce tracking, and payroll into a single system. As Brightgo moved upmarket toward larger cleaning companies, it embedded payroll infrastructure via Salsa to handle complex hourly, union, and non-union pay configurations without building payroll tax engines in-house.
Product timeline
2023
Brightgo founded by Gerald Fong (formerly Instagram Engineering Manager) as an all-in-one janitorial management ERP platform.· pivot
2024
Platform expanded to include embedded payroll powered by Salsa, targeting BSC operators with 50–1,000+ workers.· payroll
The stack
1 layer disclosed in Brightgo’s embedded-finance stack
Payroll
Accounting gap: significant