Cercli 2024: The Best of the Year

2024? It was a big year for Cercli. We kicked things off with some serious momentum—launching our platform, rolling out new product updates, growing the team, and focusing on making things easier for our customers.

Here’s a peek at what we’ve been up to this year:

Funding? Check! 💸

We started strong with $4M in seed funding, thanks to Afore Capital, COTU Ventures, Y Combinator, and Rebel Fund. This funding helped us tackle the real headaches: payroll chaos and those pesky compliance costs caused by human error that slow businesses down. 

With this, we quickly got to work, building tools that make managing teams smoother than your last holiday weekend 😉

What We Built in 2024 🔧

At Cercli, everything we build starts with you—our customers. Your feedback is our blueprint, shaping every feature and update to make your work life smoother. Each of our 60+ product updates this year was inspired by real customer needs and designed to boost workforce efficiency, save time, and, of course, reduce errors and keep you compliant.

Some highlights:

• Cercli Bot: Manage tasks right in Slack—no app-switching needed! Approve time off, expenses, and more, with notifications for leaves, anniversaries, and customisable updates on team leave schedules.

• Org Charts: Keep track of who’s who with a simple, easy-to-read chart of team structures and reporting lines.

• Expense Reimbursements: Quick, accurate, and stress-free reimbursement management.

• Time-Off Management: A seamless process for tracking and approving leave requests. No more chaotic calendars. as well as granular policies for each category. Admins can assign different employees to each individual policy, allowing for policies to be defined by team, entity or even country!

• Homepage Dashboard: Your new favorite dashboard, giving you a snapshot of approvals, requests, and all the milestones you need to remember (birthdays, work anniversaries, you name it).

• Multi-Currency Compensation: Configure team pay in 90+ currencies, simplifying remote team management with expanded multicurrency support.

And that’s just the start. More awesomeness is coming your way soon.

Our Dream Team 💪

In 2024, we expanded our team and made the big move to our Dubai HQ and now, we’re an unstoppable force with over 11 nationalities united by the same vision.

Our squad includes talent from Careem, Kitopi, Google, ADP and other big-names. They’re the ones bringing real-world experience into the tools we build to make your life easier.

How We Helped Our Customers Crush It 💯

It’s all about the results, right? In 2024, Cercli helped businesses do more with less (and with fewer headaches, too):

• 92% of customer queries were resolved on the first contact across five dedicated channels: Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, email, and phone.

• Supercharged team collaboration, giving clients the tools to crush it in a remote-first world.

• Simplified compliance, taking the guesswork out of regulations so businesses could focus on growing.

Fun Stats from 2024 (Because, Why Not?)

It’s not all about numbers and launches—sometimes, we have a bit of fun with the data, too:

• Payroll paid out compliantly across 39 countries and in 13 currencies for our customers.

• Saved our customers approximately 22,900 hours of admin work annually by reducing human error and eliminating manual tasks equating to $780,000 in savings*

• 5330+ time-off days requested – because who doesn’t need a break?

• 23 December? Bet you didn’t guess that was the most taken day off this year! 👀

• 1,500 expense reimbursements processed – because no one likes dealing with receipts, but someone’s gotta do it.

These insights help us understand how you work (and maybe where you slack off 😉).

What’s Next for Cercli? 🚀

2025 is right around the corner, and we’ve got big plans. We’re doubling down on listening to our customers, expanding our existing products, and rolling out even more solutions that make running your global workforce easier. 

To everyone who helped make this year incredible—our customers, our partners, our investors, and of course, our amazing team—thank you. We couldn’t have done it without you. Let’s make some magic!

*Based on internal data points across Cercli’s typical customer workforce