Darwinbox

Darwinbox develops a cloud-based human capital management (HCM) platform used mainly by large and mid-sized organisations. The suite covers core HR and employee records, attendance and leave, payroll, recruitment and onboarding, performance and goals, compensation, learning and employee engagement, and it is built with mobile access in mind.

The company was founded in Hyderabad in 2015 and opened a 1,000-seat global headquarters there in November 2022, when it had more than 1,200 staff across India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and the United States. In August 2026 it reported more than 1,400 enterprise customers and about 4.5 million employees on the platform. It partners with Neeyamo to offer payroll across more than 160 countries.

In August 2026 Darwinbox announced Cortex, a rebuilt AI-native version of its platform with an organisation-wide context graph, a governed agent platform and delivery inside tools such as Microsoft Teams and Slack, initially offered to pilot and design partners. Its investors include KKR, Partners Group, Teachers' Venture Growth (Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan), Microsoft, Salesforce Ventures, TCV, Peak XV Partners and Lightspeed; in 2025 it raised USD 140 million and a further USD 40 million.