AI Payroll Startup Niural, Founded by Nepali-Origin Nami Baral, Secures $31M Funding
Niural, an AI-native financial operations platform founded by Nepali-origin entrepreneur Nami Baral, has secured $31 million in a major funding round to transform the way global payroll and people operations are handled in the modern workforce.
The fundraising round was led by Marathon Management Partners, with significant backing from M13, Inspired Capital, Newform Capital, and prominent investors including NFL legends Larry Fitzgerald and Kelvin Beachum through Trenches Capital.
This funding will accelerate Niural’s mission to modernize global payroll and streamline compliance, HR, and finance operations for distributed teams around the world.
What’s Next for Niural After Securing $31M in Funding?
Following its successful $31 million funding round, Niural is set to accelerate its growth as a leading AI payroll platform. The company aims to expand its global presence, enhance its AI-powered infrastructure, and continue developing EMMA, its proprietary executional AI coworker.
With rising demand for intelligent finance tools, Niural plans to invest heavily in scaling its product for global payroll automation, compliance, and tax management. This funding marks a significant milestone, positioning Niural to become a category-defining player in the evolution of AI-native financial operations for modern, distributed teams.
Founded by Nepali-Origin Entrepreneur Nami Baral
The company was founded by Nami Baral, a Nepali-born entrepreneur now based in the United States. Baral’s vision for Niural grew out of her earlier work building intelligent AI agents that negotiated directly with U.S. banks long before large language models like ChatGPT went mainstream.
Her core belief: AI needs a native foundation, not legacy layers. That philosophy drives Niural’s platform architecture, built from scratch to support smart, scalable financial systems.
What Niural Does
Niural is building the world’s first AI-native Global PEO (Professional Employer Organization). Its platform combines:
a. Embedded payments infrastructure
b. Built-in compliance and tax engines
c. A powerful AI coworker named EMMA for executional support
With this infrastructure, companies using Niural can:
a. Save over 60 hours per month in manual tasks
b. Reduce HR and FX costs by up to 50%
c. Eliminate 90% of payroll errors
Niural’s tools are already proving indispensable to CFOs and HR leaders managing global teams and remote employees.
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