Central

Payroll, benefits, state compliance & other bullsh*t for startups

Y CombinatorSummer 2024AcquiredB2BHuman ResourcesFintechB2BHR TechPayroll

What they do

Problem

Startups waste significant time and risk errors managing payroll, benefits, compliance, accounting, and taxes.

Solution

Central provides an AI-agent and human-expert service that handles payroll, benefits, state compliance, accounting, and taxes end-to-end.

Who it's for

Startup founders and small startup teams that need back-office operations managed for them.

Founders

Josh Wymer

Founder

Josh is the CEO at Central. He was the 12th employee at Mixpanel, ran product engineering, and helped scale it to $1b+ valuation. He's also worked as a software engineer at Meta and played baseball at Virginia Tech.

Pranav Kashyap

Founder

Pranav is the COO at Central, helping other companies automate back-office work. He previously built payment and tax products for millions of users at Stripe, rebuilt Mixpanel's self-serve and messaging products and spent a number of years working with technology companies at McKinsey and Sequoia Capital. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIT Bombay and an MBA from Wharton.