Jet HR is the new - all-Italian - startup based on an idea by Marco Ogliengo, former founder of a successful tech company he exited in 2021, and Francesco Scalambrino, a top manager who was responsible for the software in 'unicorn' companies. Both, in their careers, have experienced the difficulties of bureaucratic personnel management and, knowing the potential of technology, decided to solve the problem.

The first people to believe in them are many of the most successful entrepreneurs and innovators in Italy who, having shared the frustration of dealing with incomprehensible languages and time-consuming activities related to personnel management, immediately recognized the project's potential.

Jet HR has closed a €4.7 million pre-seed round, the largest ever raised in the Italian market. Exor Ventures and Italian Founders Fund lead the investment round, as well as renowned personalities such as Luca Ascani (founder of Lambda Alpha), Dario Brignone and Alberto Dalmasso (co-founders of Satispay), Max Ciociola (founder of Musixmatch), Luca Ferrari (founder of Bending Spoons), Luca Foresti (CEO at Santagostino), Diego Piacentini (founder of View Different) , Matteo Pichi (founder of Poke House), Giorgio Tinacci (founder of Casavo), as well as other angel investors who have held key roles in international technology companies, such as David Clarke (former CTO at Workday) and Joe Zadeh (former VP Product at Airbnb).

This prestigious list includes several other key players in the Italian innovation ecosystem such as: 2100 Ventures, B Heroes, Club degli Investitori, Ithaca Investments, Proximity Capital, PranaVentures, Plug & Play Tech Center, FG2 Capital, LVenture Group.

Such a considerable interest stems from a very clear vision: eliminate ALL bureaucracy and needless complexity and create an employee management technological platform. Jet HR unifies administration (e.g. creating payslips, recording attendance, etc) and IT (e.g. order computers, assigning them, etc), employees and freelancers and, last but not least, makes seemingly obscure labor law concepts simple and clear. Jet HR enables entrepreneurs and managers to manage all administrative activities - paying salaries, hiring employees and independent contractors - while keeping a clear picture of their workforce. It solves, simplifies and automates bureaucracy for SMEs, for startups and larger companies (from 1 to hundreds of employees), who are looking at all possible opportunities to create efficiency and better manage their growth.

Marco Ogliengo, CEO and co-founder of Jet HR, comments: 'As an entrepreneur, I have experienced the typical frustration of those who run businesses in Italy: hours and hours dedicated to bureaucracy, administrative tasks and interpreting obscure requirements. In an SME it is difficult to delegate delicate matters such as people and salaries: it is therefore the CEO, the person whose time is the scarcest, who is in charge of bureaucracy. Jet HR is the solution I wanted when I started as an entrepreneur. Winning the support and enthusiasm of so many other entrepreneurs confirms that we are on the right track'.

Francesco Scalambrino, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Jet HR, adds: 'Managing all employee-related activities efficiently, starting from payroll, can contribute to a company's very competitiveness. During my experiences abroad, I found out how much entrepreneurs, administrations or CFOs, and HR Managers can deal with it with a much lower level of complexity, and therefore time, than in our country. We want to bridge this gap for Italian companies by automating activities that take up too much of the precious time of employees who, due to their role and skills, should concentrate on strategic activities'.

HOW IT WORKS

Through a single proprietary platform, Jet HR automates payroll (processing, issuing and archiving payroll), and accompanies employers and managers through all stages of their employees' working lives. The easy-to-understand and simple-to-navigate interface makes it possible to access detailed employee information, obtain labor cost simulations, send contracts and formalize hirings independently.

Jet HR goes much further and becomes the one stop shop for all administrative work, by integrating, for example, the rental and delivery of PCs for employees, the booking of medical examinations, the participation in safety courses and other compulsory tasks.

Jet HR supports each client company by also providing a partner labor consultant. In fact, Jet HR is forming a selected network of chartered labor consultants who look forward to and embrace the transformation of the profession by focusing on proactive and value-added consultancy, such as the design and execution of welfare plans, which are increasingly crucial for attracting and retaining talent, the updating and identification of sensitive issues or opportunities arising from the continuous evolution of labor regulations, and much more.

Not only does Jet HR address companies by solving their problems, but also their workforce’s. Through an equally simple app, it gives employees and contractors the possibility, for example, to request vacation days and leave, enter expense reports which, once approved, flow directly into their pay slips.

Overall, Jet HR has all the features to help make the relationship between employer and employees increasingly fluid, clear and transparent.