HR disruptor Borderless AI raises $5m, bringing total funding to $32m

January 17, 2025

Borderless AI, a Toronto-based company specialising in AI-powered HR solutions, has announced a $5m extension to its previously raised $27m seed round, bringing total funding to $32m.

The extension saw participation from Cohere co-founders Aidan Gomez and Ivan Zhang. Cohere’s large language model (LLM), optimised for enterprise use cases, underpins Borderless AI’s platform.

In addition to the funding, Borderless AI launched HRGPT, an AI search engine. HRGPT allows employees and HR managers to search internal and external data sources, and Borderless AI’s knowledge base to get instant answers to complex HR questions. Its capabilities include generating employment agreements, job descriptions, and compensation benchmarking, freeing HR teams to focus on strategic tasks.

Borderless AI focuses on streamlining HR processes through generative AI, enabling businesses to automate tasks such as employee onboarding, payroll, and international payments. The company also provides enterprise search solutions that connect organisations’ applications and databases, simplifying knowledge management for HR teams.

The newly secured funding will support Borderless AI expand its enterprise search product.

Borderless AI co-founder and CEO Willson Cross highlighted the innovation, stating: “With HRGPT, you can get answers to HR questions across both internal and external data sources – all in one place. That’s not been done before. Unlike other general-purpose AI search engines, we are hyper-focused on innovating in the HR space. HR-specific search will fundamentally change how HR software operates.”

Greg De Santos, CFO of Incubeta, shared his experience: “Our employee experience has fundamentally changed for the better. With HRGPT, we effectively have a 24/7 HR sidekick that can answer questions and engage in any language around the world for our team — it’s a real productivity boost, saving our teams countless hours each day. We also used HRGPT to create an employment contract for a new employee and could do so in about 20 minutes without needing an attorney. We saved time and money. That’s a game-changer.”