Our mission is big & our people are bold

In 2015, I departed my role as a senior executive leader at another Los Angeles-based company. After 4 months of backpacking in Southeast Asia, I realized pursuing Bambee would be the journey of a lifetime. The demand to resolve this HR problem was enormous, the mission spoke to my upbringing, and my leadership capabilities had finally caught up to my ambition. In early 2016, I took pen to paper and sketched the first iteration of Bambee.

The initial version of the product was all software aimed at supporting better HR practices. The insight to lean into building an HR Manager-first product was triggered at a small business expo in Houston, Texas. After talking to 50+ small business owners in a single day, it was clear that we were on to something, and the need would be best met by leveraging the empathy of HR Managers in addition to a supporting software.

The first real hurdle we had to solve was figuring out a way to dramatically lower the cost of accessing an HR Manager in a way that made the investment feel logical and affordable to small business owners. We decided that our price would never factor into our customers’ ability to access our service. So our team put a stake in the ground. We would start the price for our service at $99/mo.

We’ve spent the years since tirelessly working to keep our prices insanely affordable while dramatically increasing the level of value, service quality, and returns to our own investors. We decided early on we would innovate to achieve this effort rather than leaning on increasing prices to solve all our problems. Since we launched in 2016, Bambee has only raised prices once.

During the first year of the pandemic, our growth soared to servicing thousands of small businesses and hundreds of thousands of employees. Like most startups during this time, our focus was simple - keep the lights on, be a ray of light for our customers, and take care of our employees.

Bambee came out of 2020 stronger than ever. In 2021, we launched Bambee Guided Payroll™, grew revenue by 100%, and were named Forbes Best Startup Employers for the second year in a row. We also moved into our beautiful new Los Angeles headquarters, fully committing to remain an in-office work culture when the world around us fought to remain fully remote.

Our investments paid off this year. We raised our Series C funding, added 100 employees, launched a health benefits product to our customers, grew to nearly 10,000 active subscribers, and dramatically increased customer satisfaction levels while hiring some of the best executive leaders in tech to make sure we remained positioned to create and own the HR tech space. And somehow it still feels like we’re just getting started. Now with nearly 200 employees we're ready for our next chapter.