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malibou

malibou is a web application helping French SMBs to manage employees, run payroll and track compliance in a single app. When processing payroll in France, you either have the choice between an accountant with good advice but no way to connect an HRIS with him, or a good HRIS that does not include payroll services. It was time for a change, to finally bring payroll and HR at the same place. Due to increasing competition in the space, French payroll engines have just opened their APIs. This allows

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2026-07-15
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malibou is a web application helping French SMBs to manage employees, run payroll and track compliance in a single app. When processing payroll in France, you either have the choice between an accountant with good advice but no way to connect an HRIS with him, or a good HRIS that does not include payroll services. It was time for a change, to finally bring payroll and HR at the same place. Due to increasing competition in the space, French payroll engines have just opened their APIs. This allows

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malibou is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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payrollFrench SMBsAPIsweb applicationweb application
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Companies similar to malibou

Developer tools · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

BrioHR

match 72

Our HR management platform helps companies instantly digitize all HR functions across the full employee journey, all in one place: - talent acquisition: digitize and collaborate over recruitments with our ATS (applicant tracking system), then onboard your new joiners fully digitally - HR admin: manage paid time off, employee database and documents, payroll (for Singapore and Malaysia, more to come!), expense claims, timesheets... - Performance management: track KPIs / OKRs, manage performance ap

shared extracted concepts: payroll; shared product terms: hr, employee, place, track; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Vectrix

match 67

As organizations around the world continue to rapidly adopt SaaS applications as the way they run their businesses, many are left without a way to manage the security of those same applications. Corporate IT and security teams are left asking questions like: - How will I know if someone shares a sensitive Google Doc publicly? - What if one of our employees doesn't have two-factor authentication enabled in Zoom? - Will I know when a new user is added to Slack? - What happens if our Salesforce min

shared extracted concept terms: application; shared product terms: application, manage, employee, run; shared product theme: security and compliance; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Humi

match 66

Humi is building important infrastructure for Canada's economy. Software that helps SMBs employ Canadians. Payroll, HR, and Benefits all together in a single simple to use platform. Serving thousands of Canadian companies, Humi’s clients include innovators such as Ada, Hubdoc, LiveCA, AudioBooks.com, Inkbox, and others. www.Humi.ca

shared extracted concepts: payroll; shared product terms: smbs, payroll, hr, single; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Shor

match 65

Shor is international payroll, built for founders. Hire your first international employee or contractor at startup speed. Set up on one call, run payroll the same week. Pay contractors and employ full-time team members through Shor's EOR across the world. Localized contracts, automatic compliance, and same-day local-currency payouts at a flat FX margin. No setup fees, no lock-ins. Backed by Polychain Capital, Founders Capital, and Goodwater, among others.

shared product terms: employee, run, payroll, compliance; shared product theme: security and compliance; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Decentro

match 64

Almost every company that has to integrate with the legacy financial institutions, faces several challenges when it comes to the product cycle. Not only are the APIs and documentations less available, but they are also old school and ridden with errors and loopholes. On top of that, the lack of a single point of contact from the underlying institutions, makes the already long integration cycle of 5 months feel like a temple run between different departments. And since those services break and up

shared extracted concepts: apis; shared product terms: when, apis, but, single; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Acanthis

match 62

Acanthis is an integrated SaaS web application that provides SMBs with the insights and advice that they need in a way that they can understand.

shared extracted concept terms: smbs, web, application; shared product terms: web, application, smbs, advice