“Can a Europe-born unified API become the interoperability layer for the AI-era workforce stack — HR, payroll, ATS, LMS, and beyond?”
Founded 2022 in Berlin as a European-focused unified API for HR, payroll, ATS, and LMS integrations — competing with US-based Merge and Finch by going deeper on the future-of-work vertical. Expanded into the US via a Delaware LLC and NYC office. In 2026 raised a $25M Series A from Volition Capital and pushed into AI-native workflows (AI Apply, browser-agent integrations), positioning interoperability as the defining problem of the AI-era workforce stack.
Kombo processes payments through Stripe.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 2 layers in Kombo's stack: Payments / PSP (Stripe); Unified APIs (Kombo (self-operated) and kombo).
Kombo was founded by Alexander Kübel and is founded in 2022, headquartered in Berlin, Germany (with New York office).
Kombo has raised $30M in total (latest round: Series A, 2026).
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