Francis Larson

CEO, Ascen Founder of Y Combinator-backed Employer of Record for Staffing Agencies with thousands of employees across the US

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Francis Larson is the founder and CEO of Ascen, a back office platform and employer of record for staffing firms that provides an all-in-one, white-label platform for onboarding, payroll, timesheets, and billing. Ascen is backed by Y Combinator, the top seed investor in technology startups in the world. Before founding Ascen, Francis was the founder and CEO of Leif, a financial technology lending platform he sold in 2018.

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Stop Doing Admin, Start Doing Business

March 13, 2025, 05:00 PM
Francis Larson

Juicebox (PeopleGPT)

The modern AI platform for recruiting. Juicebox combines over 30 datasets with advanced AI models to find qualified talent by easily searching with natural language. Today, we’re trusted by 1,000+ customers, including teams at leading AI labs, Patreon, and Perplexity. Try us for free today!

Ascen

Ascen is a Y Combinator–backed Employer of Record (EOR) built for staffing agencies. With thousands of W-2s across the US, Ascen’s white-label, all-in-one platform handles onboarding, payroll, invoicing, and funding—giving you the power of a large national staffing agency so you can focus on growth.

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Founded in 2012, Crelate is a fast, flexible, intuitive, core platform for the modern talent business. Crelate integrates a powerful and customizable ATS, recruiting CRM, and back-office management, empowering agencies with the tools to make more placements, win more business, and scale their teams

EQ.app

At EQ, we believe the heart of recruitment is building real connections, not getting lost in admin work or managing endless tools. That’s why we created the EQ Agent Marketplace—a first-of-its-kind platform that empowers recruiters with AI-powered assistants, so you can focus on what truly matters.

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