EMAYA

What EMAYA does

EMAYA is a privately held, for-profit business services firm founded in 2010 and headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, operating with a workforce in the 101–250 range. According to its firmographic description, the company helps companies in the United States and Canada build secure remote teams in Latin America, which positions it within the Employer of Record (EOR) / international staffing segment. In this model the firm acts as the legal employer of distributed LATAM-based talent placed with North American client companies, absorbing payroll, benefits, and local-labor-compliance obligations on behalf of those clients.

The available sources disclose no product names, no proprietary technology platform, and no technical architecture details. The corporate website (emayaservices.com) currently renders only a CAPTCHA verification page and provides no additional information. Consequently, the underlying delivery mechanism — whether the firm relies on manual recruiting and onboarding workflows, partner networks, or a software-enabled staffing platform — cannot be characterized from the data on hand. Business model specifics (pricing, contract length, gross margin, customer segments, and revenue mechanics) are likewise not disclosed.

Governance and operating leadership visibility is limited to a single named executive: Saied Avash, Vice President of Finance and Operations. There is no information on founders, board composition, funding history, investor base, or strategic partnerships. The firm's 15-year operating history and mid-sized employee count suggest an established rather than early-stage entity, but the absence of growth, revenue, and pipeline signals means any forward-looking assessment must rest on primary diligence.

Name

EMAYA

Website

https://emayaservices.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

EMAYA is a Wilmington, Delaware-based private firm, founded in 2010, that helps US and Canadian companies build secure remote teams across Latin America, operating with 101–250 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nearshore Staffing Services

NAICS

Professional Employer Organizations (561330)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPACAHAL

Onboarding, Offboarding & Employee Lifecycle Administration

Business & Public Services/HR, Staffing & Recruitment Services/Employer of Record (EOR) & Global Employment / PEO Services

SECONDARYBPAEAMAL

Offshore Development Center (ODC) / Dedicated Team Services

Business & Public Services/IT & Digital Services (Managed Services, Systems Integration)/IT Outsourcing & Offshoring Services

Keywords

• Remote team building
• LATAM staffing services
• Nearshore team setup
• Remote workforce solutions
• Offshore team operations

Headquarters

HQ city

San Salvador

HQ country

El Salvador

HQ region

Latin America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Core offering

EMAYA provides nearshore staffing and remote team-building services, helping companies in the United States and Canada establish and operate secure remote teams located in Latin America. The company delivers a managed, cross-border workforce solution rather than acting as a software platform or marketplace, with internal leadership covering finance and operations to support compliant team deployment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Secure Remote Team Building in LATAM End-to-end service for U.S. and Canadian companies to stand up and operate secure remote teams located in Latin America, covering cross-border staffing, finance, and operations support. Target customers are corporate buyers in the U.S. and Canada.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Deel: Deel is a global EOR and contractor-management platform that lets companies hire, pay, and manage remote workers in LATAM and worldwide, making it the closest direct competitor to EMAYA's cross-border team-building model.
• Remote: Remote.com offers global employer-of-record services with strong LATAM coverage, enabling US/Canada companies to hire full-time employees in the region — the same value proposition EMAYA targets.
• Oyster HR: Oyster is a global EOR/HR platform for hiring compliantly across borders, including LATAM countries, directly competing with EMAYA for US/Canada clients building distributed teams.
• Globalization Partners: Globalization Partners is an established EOR provider covering LATAM and ~180+ countries; it serves many of the same US/Canada enterprise customers EMAYA targets, often through long-term contracts.
• Velocity Global: Velocity Global provides global EOR and international PEO services with deep LATAM country coverage, overlapping directly with EMAYA's cross-border hiring model for North American clients.
• Multiplier: Multiplier is an EOR and contractor-management platform with strong LATAM presence enabling US/Canada firms to hire remote employees in the region — overlapping with EMAYA's core offering.
• WorkMotion: WorkMotion offers global employment and EOR services with explicit LATAM focus, helping European and North American companies build compliant distributed teams — a near-clone of EMAYA's positioning.
• Near (Toptal-style LATAM talent): Near.us is a talent-sourcing platform focused specifically on building remote LATAM teams for US companies, occupying the same nearshoring niche EMAYA serves from the EOR/managed-team angle.

Emerging players

• Borderless AI: Borderless AI is an AI-native global EOR platform with growing LATAM coverage, targeting the same North-American-buyer pool as EMAYA but with a newer, automation-led delivery model.

Broad incumbents

• ADP TotalSource / PEO incumbents: Large US-based PEOs and payroll providers (e.g., ADP, Paychex, Insperity) offer EOR/co-employment solutions that compete with EMAYA at the enterprise end of the market where buyers want bundled, brand-name HR infrastructure.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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