“Can a European country-by-country payroll SaaS become the all-in-one HR and embedded-finance operating system for SMEs?”
Founded in 2015 to replace outdated French payroll software with a modern SaaS product, PayFit became the fastest-growing payroll platform in Europe by verticalizing on France, then UK and Spain — each with heavy country-specific labor-law logic. The 2022 unicorn round funded expansion beyond core payroll into a fuller HR suite (leave, expenses, performance). In 2026 the company is pivoting to embed adjacent financial products directly into payroll — health insurance and AI-driven payroll automation — moving toward becoming an all-in-one HR/finance OS for SMEs.
PayFit moves money over SEPA and Faster Payments.
PayFit's payroll is powered by PayFit (in-house).
PayFit's investing and wealth products are powered by Nest.
PayFit integrates with Xero, QuickBooks, NetSuite and Sage.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 5 layers in PayFit's stack: Money movement (SEPA and Faster Payments); Payroll (PayFit (in-house)); Investing (Nest); Accounting (Xero, QuickBooks, NetSuite and Sage); Spend / AP (Spendesk).
PayFit was founded by Firmin Zocchetto, Ghislain de Fontenay and Florian Fournier and is founded in 2015, headquartered in Paris, France.
PayFit has raised ~$500M+ in total (latest round: Series E, January 2022; valuation: $2.1B post-money (2022)).
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