掐架！ ADP周二向竞争对手Zenefits发起诽谤诉讼
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创业公司Zenefits目前获得巨大胜利，北加州地区的美国地方法院驳回了ADP的诉讼。根据和解条款，ADP 声明它相信 Zenefits 软件的安全性不存在问题，而Zenefits 则表明ADP 没有不道德的行为。
持续数月之久的官司最终以和解告一段落。这场争端始于 6月。有着50年历史的老牌公司ADP在6月份切断了Zenefits 小型企业客户使用ADP工资单系统，停止与Zenefits共享数据。ADP 指出它切断 Zenefits 是出于安全考虑：zenefits没有做好个人身份识别信息的保护工作，如社会保障号码。
作为反击，Zenefits 在其发布的一篇博客文章中指责 ADP 切断服务是因为他们推出了一款具有竞争性的产品。随后ADP 起诉 Zenefits 及其创始人康拉德 · 帕克，并在同一天推出一个名为 Opum 的服务和zenefits竞争。今年7月，Zenefits 称ADP 的诉讼无关紧要，并呼吁对方撤诉。曾经参与庭审的人员，如一个法官在 9月份说到 ADP 明显没有证据表明zenefits诽谤，以及唯一的问题是"诉讼将是缓慢的死亡还是快速的死亡"。
如今在法庭上，法官支持 Zenefits。
我们很高兴在法律上取得了胜利，不过相比之下，我们是更欣慰的是现在可以继续前进，专注于服务我们的小企业客户，"康拉德说在一次新闻发布会上说道，"有时，这可能意味着与 ADP竞争，而其他时候也可能意味着与 ADP 的合作。不管在什么情况下，我们（Zenefits）的目标始终致力于使HR管理这一辛苦的工作变得更轻松更少痛苦。
"双方争论的核心是指控质疑我们的道德和诚信，"ADP 在 给techcrunch 的一封电子邮件中如是说，"这些（诚信和道德）对ADP来说意义重大， 也是我们（企业）文化的核心。我们衷心希望 Zenefits能收回他们发表的毫无根据的公开声明。如果他们满足我们这一需求，我们会撤回诉讼。
ADP Drops Lawsuit Against Human Resources Startup Zenefits
The legacy payroll company ADP on Tuesday dropped its defamation lawsuit against its quickly growing competitor, Zenefits.
In a major victory for the startup, a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice. Per the terms of the settlement, ADP stated it has no reason to believe problems exist with the security of Zenefits software. Zenefits said on the record it had no reason to believe ADP is unethical.
The settlement brings a months-long legal battle to a close. The dispute began in June when ADP, a 50-year-old payroll company, cut off Zenefits small business clients who were sharing data with the cloud-based startup from ADP’s RUN payroll system. ADP stated that it blocked Zenefits due to security concerns because the company was not doing enough to protect personal identifying information, like Social Security Numbers.
Zenefits fired back with a blog post accusing ADP of cutting off the service because they were rolling out a competing product. ADP then sued Zenefits and its founder Parker Conrad, but on the same day launched a competing service called Opum. In July, Zenefits called ADP’s lawsuit frivolous and called for it to be dismissed. According to those in the courtroom, a judge in September said it was clear ADP had no defamation claim, and the only question was whether the “lawsuit will die a slow death or a fast death.”
Today in court, the judge sided with Zenefits.
“While we are gratified by this legal victory, we are more pleased that we now can move forward and focus on serving our small business customers,” Conrad said in a news release. “At times, this may mean competing with ADP, and at times, it may mean working with ADP. In either case, we at Zenefits are committed to making the hard work of administering HR as effortless and painless as possible.”
ADP said in a statement that the settlement would allow them to put the case with Zenefits behind them.
“At the core of our dispute were accusations that questioned our ethics and integrity,” ADP said in an email to TechCrunch. “These are meaningful values to ADP and core to our culture. All we have ever wanted was for Zenefits to retract the baseless public statements they made. We withdrew the lawsuit after Zenefits satisfied that demand.”
来源：TC
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2015年10月29日
Zenefits
在线人力资源服务平台Allay获得340万美金种子轮投资
Allay成立于2014年，总部位于旧金山。Allay为一家在线人力资源和福利平台网站。需要保险和福利的公司可以通过此在线平台可以完成无纸化劳动合同签订并为员工制定包括医保在内的多项保险服务。本次领投的公司为BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners，以及Sandbox Industries, 500 Startups, Arnold Capital和多位独立天使投资人参投。
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Allay, a San Francisco-based HR management platform provider, raised $3.4m in seed funding.
The round was led by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners with participation from Sandbox Industries, 500 Startups, AngelPad’s Thomas Korte, Ryan Holmes, Geoff Entress, Arnold Capital and others.
The company intends to use the funds to expand in the U.S. health insurance market.
Founded in 2014 by Julien Emery and Andrew Draper, Allay provides provides an HR platform which enables employers to onboard new hires, sign documents, select and enroll in the most relevant benefit plans for each individual and/or group, and provide HR and benefits administration and compliance. The solution can work with any broker that an employer wants. In addition, the company is also building out its own preferred partner broker network to ensure employers are getting trustworthy broker/advisors.
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2015年10月26日
Zenefits
ZenPayroll改名为Gusto，向福利业务拓展，追Zenefits 的节奏？
（HRTechChina编辑部 9月24日报道）
ZenPayroll正式改名为Gusto。
人工处理工资单很容易犯错，这一直以来都是企业者的心头痛，ZenPayroll这家创业公司要帮业主做好这一业务。然而ZenPayroll突然宣布其将改名，并把其业务向福利方向拓展。
首席执行官乔希 · 里维斯透露到，我们早就意识到会改名，在公司发展到第三个月的时候我们就知道会这么做。
里维斯告诉BI团队选择 ZenPayroll 作为其初始名称的来由：眼看就只有二天我们产品要在 [Y Combinator] 演示了，在这之前我们需要打印t 恤（所以就取了这么个名字并且决定以后要改？！）。
不过新名称， 里维斯说，我们也想了好久，最后受服务对象启发而起了这个名字。
公司总部位于 San Francisco，目前业务包括提供一个基于云计算的系统来自动执行税款计算和支付薪金。其基于 web 的服务已经在超过 20,000 的小型企业得到使用。
当它还没改名（还是叫 ZenPayroll ）的时候，公司的目标是帮助 600 万美国的小企业— — 像花店、 教堂和沙龙— — 解决工资条的问题 ，要知道在过去这些机构的工资条通常是由人工完成。
但在上周四公司还宣布，它将推出健康福利和工人赔偿等企业服务，这样雇主和雇员可以使用他们的一站式系统满足他们基于补偿的一切需求。“回看 2012 年我们种子轮融资文件，你会发现我们从一开始就打算这么做，包括福利这一内容，现在我很兴奋把这一计划与公众分享。”
在Gusto的平台上，员工可以访问和管理他们的福利和工资信息。基于已有企业的工资数据里, 夫斯说，它们可以完美实现与福利的无缝对接。
Gusto和 Zenefits在过去曾密切合作过，不过现在这一公告似乎证实了早些时候两家公司成为对手的报告。早在本周前BuzzFeed曾报道Zenefits（一家估值45亿美元的福利管理公司）正开发新系统用于处理工资条，而现在，Gusto打算闯入福利这一领域。
今年早些时候公司宣布了 其6000 万美元 B轮融资（此轮融资由谷歌资本领投），而今估值已达5亿6千万美元。公司每年要处理数十亿美元的工资单，业务遍及美国各大州。公司现有员工约 250 人，和里夫斯说，未来几个月我们还会招募300员工。Gusto除了在 San Francisco 有个办公室外，还在丹佛市另开设了一间办公室。
早期2000 万美元A轮融资的投资方包括支付公司Stripe，Evernote（印象笔记），Eventbrite（在线活动策划服务平台），Instagram （图片社交网络）和 WordPress 的首席执行官，阿什顿 · 库彻、 贾里德 · 莱托以及PayPal, Nest, Mint, Twitter, and Reddit等科技公司创始人均参与此次投资。
（图片来源Inc）
以下为Gusto创始人关于ZenPayroll改名的一封邮件：
Today is a big day for the whole ZenPayroll community.
ZenPayroll is now Gusto.
When we founded the company in 2011, our core belief was that people are the most important part of every business. Four years later, we believe it even more strongly, as we’ve grown to serve tens of thousands of businesses across all 50 states.
We are on a mission to help businesses everywhere put employees first. Today, we’re taking another step towards accomplishing this mission by launching health benefits and workers’ compensation services that make employers’ lives easier, and enable employees to do the best work of their lives.
Our new name Gusto was inspired by our customers and their teams who show courage and passion in the work they do every day. When you work on something you care about, with people you enjoy spending time with, it’s an amazing feeling. That energy. That oomph. That’s Gusto. We believe everyone has the potential to feel this way at work.
HEALTH BENEFITS AND WORKERS’ COMPENSATION
Today, we are also launching two incredible new services: health benefits and workers’ comp. These services are fully integrated with payroll, which removes a tremendous amount of unnecessary manual effort for business owners. Most importantly, both employers and employees can now onboard and manage all forms of compensation in one modern product.
This is just the beginning. We exist to serve our customers. Helping them build great businesses and put their employees first is what motivates us every day. In the coming months and years, we’ll continue to add exciting ways to make employers’ and employees’ lives better. Stay tuned.
Please reach out if you have any questions for us. We’d love to hear from you.
Josh, Tomer and Eddie
Co-founders of Gusto
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