Kenya’s FaidiHR Launches New Platform to Facilitate Casual Worker Payments

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FaidiHR, the Nairobi Kenyan-based payroll startup, has launched a new fintech product called CasualPay that is designed to transform the way businesses manage and pay casual workers.

Previously known as Crew HR &Payroll until a rebrand last year, FaidiHR was founded in 2018 as an all-in-one cloud platform that allows small and medium enterprises in Africa to automate their HR processes. The platform helps to automate payroll, off-days, employee data, tasks, inventory, training, appraisals, and expenses.

The startup, which received an undisclosed amount of funding from SprintX, a US-based VC focused on early-stage startups, in August of last year, has now launched CasualPay, which allows businesses to manage casual workers on a cloud database. It allows attendance to be booked in the system on a real-time basis, and reconciliation of working days which automatically computes the total amount owed to the casuals.Finally, business owners are able to initiate payments, which once approved sees casuals receive their money on M-Pesa automatically with a click of a button

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Kenyan HR Startup FaidiHR Raises New Funding

SprintX, a US-based Venture Capitalist (VC) for early-stage entrepreneurs, has invested an undisclosed sum in Kenyan HR startup FaidiHR.

Following the funding, the firm rebranded from Crew HR &Payroll.

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FaidiHR, which provides digital human resource solutions to African businesses, stated that the investment would be used to develop their business in East Africa, with plans to enter Uganda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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The company provides an all-in-one cloud platform that enables African Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to automate their HR procedures.

The platform is available through the internet and aids in the automation of payroll, vacation time, employee data, duties, inventory, training, and appraisal charges, among other things.

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