{"slug": "warp-raises-60m-to-automate-hr-workflows", "title": "Warp Raises $60M to Automate HR Workflows", "summary": "Warp, an AI-native employee management startup, raised $60 million in Series B funding led by Battery Ventures, bringing total funding to $85 million. The company automates HR compliance and administrative workflows using AI agents and a rules engine, competing with ADP, Workday, and Rippling. Warp's ARR doubled in Q1 2026, and it targets $2 billion in annual payroll volume this year.", "body_md": "Axios first reported exclusively (June 25, 2026) that Warp, an AI-native employee management startup, closed a $60 million Series B led by Battery Ventures, bringing total funding to $85 million. CEO Ayush Sharma, an MIT-trained ML engineer who ran payroll himself at a previous startup, built Warp to automate the compliance and administrative workflows that have required human operators for 75 years: state tax registrations, multi-jurisdiction filings, new-hire onboarding, and benefits enrollment. For ML practitioners, the architecture is instructive - AI agents handle ambiguous compliance tasks alongside a rules engine, with humans as the last-resort escalation path rather than the primary operator. Warp competes against ADP, Workday, Rippling, Deel, and Gusto, with ARR doubling in Q1 2026 and the company targeting $2 billion in annual payroll volume this year.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/warp-raises-60m-to-automate-hr-workflows", "canonical_source": "https://letsdatascience.com/news/warp-raises-60m-to-automate-hr-workflows-0b7a1611", "published_at": "2026-06-30 05:45:40+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-30 06:53:36.062608+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-startups", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Warp", "Battery Ventures", "Ayush Sharma", "ADP", "Workday", "Rippling", "Deel", "Gusto"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/warp-raises-60m-to-automate-hr-workflows", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/warp-raises-60m-to-automate-hr-workflows.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/warp-raises-60m-to-automate-hr-workflows.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/warp-raises-60m-to-automate-hr-workflows.jsonld"}}