Nmbr says it’s reshaping payroll competition in Canada. Now it wants to go worldwide

The average person will probably go their whole life without uttering the words “payroll” and “super cool” in the same sentence, but that’s why Simon Bourgeois is a self-proclaimed payroll nerd. “I know it’s hard to [make payroll] seem cool, but man, I think what we’re doing right now is super cool.” Bourgeois is the CEO of Toronto-based embedded payroll company Nmbr. Since the FinTech startup’s founding three years ago, it has been helping 25 Canadian companies build bespoke payroll offerings.