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Multi-country HR platform Omni HR secures USD 7.4mn to fuel demand for localized HR solutions across APAC.
SINGAPORE, Dec. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Asia-focused employee management platform, Omni HR, today announced it has recently closed USD 7.4 million in funding, bringing its total funding to date to $9.8 million since its founding in 2021 by former Goldman Sachs executive Brian Ip.
Currently serving hundreds of customers across Asia, with end users spanning 79 countries, Omni solves a common pain point for companies operating within the region: the dilemma of choosing between global HR platforms that lack understanding and functionality of local needs, or rigid legacy systems that lack modern capabilities.
Omni provides modern HR teams with both. A data-driven workspace to automate tasks, manage teams, and handle multi-country payroll from a unified platform. Within its global capabilities, Omni HR offers a unique focus on Asia-based teams, addressing the complexities of local regulations and cultural nuances that are often overlooked in the HRIS market.
The round was led by Picus Capital, with participation from Alpha JWC Ventures, January Capital, and Ratio Ventures. Capitalizing on its strong market traction—continuously growing in the double digits, month over month—Omni will use the funding to expand and further develop its product offerings across the Asia Pacific region and further scale up its localization efforts, including the launch of multi-country payroll. Building what fast-growing companies operating in Asia truly need—sophisticated, flexible workflows that work seamlessly across borders while maintaining localization for their modern workforce.
Rapid economic growth and business expansion within the APAC—staggering estimates in a recent McKinsey report attribute 70% of global post-pandemic economic growth to the region—underscores the critical need for HR solutions that cater to the region's unique characteristics. As more businesses look to capitalize on this boom, navigating the complexities of managing a global workforce with regional nuances will prove to be a major HR challenge; one that Omni HR is prepared to solve.
Since its establishment in 2021, Omni HR has gained notable recognition within the HR tech space for improving data accuracy and automating HR workflows, landing a spot on both Forbes' and CNN's best HR and HCM software lists in 2024. The comprehensive HR management platform has helped optimize global workforce management—with nearly 70% of their customers running multi-country teams—for a noteworthy list of customers over the course of their 3 year tenure, among of which are Asia's leading digital wealth management platform Endowus, Southeast Asia's leading SME digital financing platform Funding Societies, and Singapore government tripartite partner, HR professional body Institute for Human Resource Professionals (IHRP).
"Asia has long been overlooked in the HR tech landscape, forcing companies to choose between global platforms that lack localization or local platforms that fail to scale. We're changing that by building natively for Asia, blending localized features with modern functionalities like automations and flexible workflows. Designed for the needs of modern, multi-country teams, we aim to be the foundational operating system for seamless and effective employee management." - Brian Ip, Founder & CEO, Omni HR
"We at Picus Capital are thrilled to partner with Omni HR as they revolutionize the HR tech landscape. Their innovative, full-stack approach addresses critical pain points for organizations, enabling them to streamline their operations and enhance employee experience. We firmly believe in their vision and the potential to set new benchmarks in the industry. This investment reflects our commitment to backing forward-thinking founders who are transforming the future of work." - Naman Jhawar, Partner – Head of India & SEA, Picus Capital
"As one of Omni HR's early partners, we at Alpha JWC Ventures have had the privilege of witnessing their growth and commitment to transforming workforce management. Omni's ability to combine localization with innovation by providing users with one of the industry's most integrated and easy-to-use HR platforms has set them apart in the industry. We are proud to deepen our partnership as they expand regionally, continuing to push the boundaries of what's possible in HR tech." - Jefrey Joe, Co-Founder & General Partner, Alpha JWC Ventures
Omni HR is a software-as-a-service company that provides a unified, data-driven workspace for modern People teams to automate HR tasks, manage teams, and handle multi-country payroll from a single platform. Omni's global reach and customizable offerings streamline HR team's evolving needs, ensuring compliance and actionable insights alongside growth. Its platform currently offers features to automate manual HR processes from multi-country payroll to performance management, while integrating with renowned office productivity suites. Founded in 2021, Omni HR is expanding across Asia Pacific, bringing comprehensive HR solutions to modern, growing teams. For more information, please visit www.omnihr.co.
Picus Capital is a global venture capital company with headquarters in Munich and offices in New York, Berlin, London, Bangalore, and São Paulo. Picus predominantly invests in early-stage rounds and focuses on technology companies in FinTech, enterprise infrastructure, enterprise application, GenAI, cybersecurity, energy & climate, and healthcare. As an entrepreneurial sparring partner, Picus Capital pursues a long-term investment philosophy and supports founders from the ideation phase to the IPO and beyond. For more information, please visit www.picuscap.com.
Alpha JWC Ventures is an early to growth-stage Southeast Asian venture capital firm. Its debut fund was launched in 2016 as Indonesia's first independent and institutional early-stage venture capital fund. Over the years, Alpha JWC has established a strong reputation and clear positioning in the market as the leading venture capital firm with one of the region's largest on-the-ground teams and a global network. The firm currently manages around US$ 650 million AUM – the largest early-stage fund in Southeast Asia – and 80+ active portfolio companies across Southeast Asia. For more information, please visit https://www.alphajwc.com.
Multi-country HR platform Omni HR secures USD 7.4mn to fuel demand for localized HR solutions across APAC.
SINGAPORE, Dec. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Asia-focused employee management platform, Omni HR, today announced it has recently closed USD 7.4 million in funding, bringing its total funding to date to $9.8 million since its founding in 2021 by former Goldman Sachs executive Brian Ip.
Currently serving hundreds of customers across Asia, with end users spanning 79 countries, Omni solves a common pain point for companies operating within the region: the dilemma of choosing between global HR platforms that lack understanding and functionality of local needs, or rigid legacy systems that lack modern capabilities.
Omni provides modern HR teams with both. A data-driven workspace to automate tasks, manage teams, and handle multi-country payroll from a unified platform. Within its global capabilities, Omni HR offers a unique focus on Asia-based teams, addressing the complexities of local regulations and cultural nuances that are often overlooked in the HRIS market.
The round was led by Picus Capital, with participation from Alpha JWC Ventures, January Capital, and Ratio Ventures. Capitalizing on its strong market traction—continuously growing in the double digits, month over month—Omni will use the funding to expand and further develop its product offerings across the Asia Pacific region and further scale up its localization efforts, including the launch of multi-country payroll. Building what fast-growing companies operating in Asia truly need—sophisticated, flexible workflows that work seamlessly across borders while maintaining localization for their modern workforce.
Rapid economic growth and business expansion within the APAC—staggering estimates in a recent McKinsey report attribute 70% of global post-pandemic economic growth to the region—underscores the critical need for HR solutions that cater to the region's unique characteristics. As more businesses look to capitalize on this boom, navigating the complexities of managing a global workforce with regional nuances will prove to be a major HR challenge; one that Omni HR is prepared to solve.
Since its establishment in 2021, Omni HR has gained notable recognition within the HR tech space for improving data accuracy and automating HR workflows, landing a spot on both Forbes' and CNN's best HR and HCM software lists in 2024. The comprehensive HR management platform has helped optimize global workforce management—with nearly 70% of their customers running multi-country teams—for a noteworthy list of customers over the course of their 3 year tenure, among of which are Asia's leading digital wealth management platform Endowus, Southeast Asia's leading SME digital financing platform Funding Societies, and Singapore government tripartite partner, HR professional body Institute for Human Resource Professionals (IHRP).
"Asia has long been overlooked in the HR tech landscape, forcing companies to choose between global platforms that lack localization or local platforms that fail to scale. We're changing that by building natively for Asia, blending localized features with modern functionalities like automations and flexible workflows. Designed for the needs of modern, multi-country teams, we aim to be the foundational operating system for seamless and effective employee management." - Brian Ip, Founder & CEO, Omni HR
"We at Picus Capital are thrilled to partner with Omni HR as they revolutionize the HR tech landscape. Their innovative, full-stack approach addresses critical pain points for organizations, enabling them to streamline their operations and enhance employee experience. We firmly believe in their vision and the potential to set new benchmarks in the industry. This investment reflects our commitment to backing forward-thinking founders who are transforming the future of work." - Naman Jhawar, Partner – Head of India & SEA, Picus Capital
"As one of Omni HR's early partners, we at Alpha JWC Ventures have had the privilege of witnessing their growth and commitment to transforming workforce management. Omni's ability to combine localization with innovation by providing users with one of the industry's most integrated and easy-to-use HR platforms has set them apart in the industry. We are proud to deepen our partnership as they expand regionally, continuing to push the boundaries of what's possible in HR tech." - Jefrey Joe, Co-Founder & General Partner, Alpha JWC Ventures
Omni HR is a software-as-a-service company that provides a unified, data-driven workspace for modern People teams to automate HR tasks, manage teams, and handle multi-country payroll from a single platform. Omni's global reach and customizable offerings streamline HR team's evolving needs, ensuring compliance and actionable insights alongside growth. Its platform currently offers features to automate manual HR processes from multi-country payroll to performance management, while integrating with renowned office productivity suites. Founded in 2021, Omni HR is expanding across Asia Pacific, bringing comprehensive HR solutions to modern, growing teams. For more information, please visit www.omnihr.co.
Picus Capital is a global venture capital company with headquarters in Munich and offices in New York, Berlin, London, Bangalore, and São Paulo. Picus predominantly invests in early-stage rounds and focuses on technology companies in FinTech, enterprise infrastructure, enterprise application, GenAI, cybersecurity, energy & climate, and healthcare. As an entrepreneurial sparring partner, Picus Capital pursues a long-term investment philosophy and supports founders from the ideation phase to the IPO and beyond. For more information, please visit www.picuscap.com.
Alpha JWC Ventures is an early to growth-stage Southeast Asian venture capital firm. Its debut fund was launched in 2016 as Indonesia's first independent and institutional early-stage venture capital fund. Over the years, Alpha JWC has established a strong reputation and clear positioning in the market as the leading venture capital firm with one of the region's largest on-the-ground teams and a global network. The firm currently manages around US$ 650 million AUM – the largest early-stage fund in Southeast Asia – and 80+ active portfolio companies across Southeast Asia. For more information, please visit https://www.alphajwc.com.
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Building Asia's Future: Omni HR Secures $7.4mn for HR Tech Expansion
The platform delivers end-to-end AI vision product prototyping — from concept to investor-ready demo — faster than any existing outsourcing model
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Kickers.ai, an AI vision product Proof-of-Concept (POC) service, today officially launched at www.kickers.ai, offering global developers, startups, and enterprise innovation teams a fast, end-to-end path from product concept to fully functional AI vision prototype.
The launch addresses one of the most persistent bottlenecks in AI hardware development: most promising ideas never make it past the ideation phase — not because the vision is wrong, but because the path from concept to working prototype is too slow, too costly, and too fragmented for early-stage teams to cross alone.
Kickers.ai is built to close that gap.
End-to-End POC Delivery — Not Modules, Not Demos, but a Complete Product
Unlike fragmented vendors that deliver isolated components or algorithm demonstrations, Kickers.ai delivers at the whole-device level. Every engagement covers the full development stack:
- Optical system design
- Image tuning and performance validation
- Hardware R&D and structural engineering
- Software system integration
- Custom vision algorithm development
The final deliverable is a fully functional working prototype — ready for product demonstrations, investor pitches, roadshows, and early-stage market validation — in a standard delivery cycle of three weeks. Kickers.ai's integrated capabilities across optical design, vision hardware, and system-level engineering give early-stage teams the manufacturing backbone they cannot build on their own.
Proven in Production: From Wearable Innovation to Global Stage
The Kickers.ai model has already been validated in a demanding real-world deployment.
A next-generation AI wearable company sought to build what would become a category-defining product: an AI-powered device with active visual perception capability, requiring a fully integrated dual-camera vision system compact enough to fit within one of the most space-constrained wearable form factors in consumer electronics.
The engineering challenge was significant. The vision system needed to deliver a 2-megapixel sensor with an effective resolution of 1600 × 1200 and a pixel size of 1.75μm — all contained within a total module footprint of just 8 × 10.31 × 4.01 mm — while simultaneously meeting strict requirements for image quality, low power consumption, ISP integration, and mass-production viability.
Kickers.ai delivered a complete dual-camera vision module incorporating ISP and scanning functionality, supporting high-quality static imaging, low-power dynamic capture, and rapid interaction response across high-frequency use cases including payment and contextual AI services.
The project was completed on schedule and successfully showcased at a major international consumer electronics exhibition, marking a global first in its product category and drawing significant industry attention. The client was able to proceed directly from prototype to investor roadshow and pre-production planning — the exact outcome Kickers.ai is designed to enable.
"Most AI hardware innovation gets stuck at the same point: teams have the idea and even the algorithm, but they cannot build the actual device fast enough to raise capital or validate the market. We built Kickers.ai so that any team — startup, solo developer, or corporate innovation unit — can arrive at that first real product moment without burning months and six-figure budgets on traditional outsourcing. Three weeks to a working prototype is not a marketing number. It is what we deliver."
— [Hugo Hern], Kickers.ai
Who Kickers.ai Is Built For
Kickers.ai is built for teams at the earliest and most critical stage of AI hardware development:
- Global AI startup teams validating AI vision hardware opportunities before committing to full production
- Independent developers and creators building consumer-grade AI vision devices
- Corporate innovation and new product teams needing to move quickly from internal concept to demonstrable product
- Investment-backed projects requiring a working AI vision prototype to unlock the next funding round
Kickers.ai focuses specifically on consumer-grade AI vision products — devices designed for end users that require the ability to see, perceive, and understand the physical world — including smart wearables, spatial computing devices, robotics interfaces, and AI-native imaging hardware.
About Kickers.ai
Kickers.ai is an AI vision product Proof-of-Concept service headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Kickers.ai serves global developers, entrepreneurs, and enterprise innovation teams, providing complete, end-to-end AI vision product prototyping — from concept to fully functional working device.
Website: www.kickers.ai
Contact: kickers@kickers.ai
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Kickers.ai Launches AI Vision POC Service to Help Global Innovators Build Real Products in Three Weeks
