About Remote
Remote was founded in 2019 by Job van der Voort and Marcelo Lebre, entering the "employer of record" and global payroll market at a time when remote work had become significantly more normalized, creating substantial demand from companies wanting to hire talented employees in countries where they don't have their own local legal entity, a situation that traditionally required either establishing a costly, time-consuming local legal subsidiary or engaging workers as independent contractors, an arrangement that carries meaningful legal risk of worker misclassification in many jurisdictions if the actual working relationship functions more like standard employment.
Remote's platform lets client companies hire full-time employees in other countries by having Remote serve as the legal employer of record in that employee's country, supports local payroll, tax withholding, benefits administration, and employment-related workflows through its employer-of-record structure. The company has particularly emphasized owning its own legal entities directly in the countries where it operates, rather than relying on third-party local partners to provide employer-of-record services in each country, an approach Remote has argued gives it more direct control over compliance quality and data security relative to some competitors that rely more heavily on local partner networks. Remote has expanded beyond core employer-of-record services into broader global payroll, contractor payment management, and equity management tools for distributed international teams, positioning itself as comprehensive infrastructure for companies building genuinely global, distributed workforces. The company's customers span businesses of many sizes, particularly technology and remote-first companies, seeking to hire internationally without establishing local legal entities themselves. Remote has raised very substantial venture funding from investors including Sequoia Capital, Accel, and General Catalyst, reaching a valuation exceeding $3 billion, competing directly with Deel and Oyster in the global employer-of-record category.
