Kinfolk secures $7M seed funding to expand its AI-powered HR platform

HR and People Operations teams are facing increasing pressure to stay productive as team sizes shrink and organisational complexity grows. A significant portion of their time is spent handling repetitive administrative tasks, while traditional ticketing systems and basic AI chatbots often fail to keep up, leading to inefficiencies as companies scale.

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Kinfolk aims to solve this challenge by introducing what it calls a new “Workforce Operations” category, beginning with HR and People Operations. Its platform integrates agentic AI within Slack, along with request management, employee lifecycle automation, and analytics, to manage employee support and people programs from start to finish.

Commenting on the challenge, Jeet Mukerji, co-founder and CEO of Kinfolk, said HR teams remain burdened by manual administrative work and outdated tools, often forced to choose between cumbersome ticketing systems and limited chatbots.

We built Kinfolk to break this cycle. By shifting from manual coordination to autonomous execution, we enable HR teams to scale their operations and focus on the strategic work that drives company growth. We’re excited to give People teams the operating system they deserve, one that performs work instead of simply managing it,

Mukerji added

By replacing disconnected tools and manual processes with a single, unified platform, Kinfolk aims to help organisations scale their operations more efficiently, provide consistent employee support, and increase team capacity without hiring additional staff.

Unlike traditional chatbots that mainly retrieve information, Kinfolk’s AI agents are built to carry out tasks independently across different systems. These include drafting documents, updating HRIS records, and managing employee lifecycle changes directly within Slack or Microsoft Teams. This move from manual coordination to autonomous task execution is designed to help HR teams expand operations while maintaining oversight and control.

With the fresh funding, Kinfolk plans to further develop its agentic AI platform, strengthen its enterprise capabilities, expand into payroll and IT workflows beyond core HR, and grow its go-to-market teams to support rising demand.