If you're hiring across borders and don't want to open a legal entity in every country, Multiplier is a serious, well-built option. It's an Employer of Record and global payroll platform that legally employs people for you in 150+ countries — a clean fit if you already know who you want to hire and just need the employment, payroll, and compliance handled. Multiplier was founded in 2020 by Sagar Khatri, Amritpal Singh, and Vamsi Krishna, and is headquartered in Singapore. It's a global employment platform: it acts as the legal employer of your team members abroad so you can hire, pay, and manage people in countries where you have no local entity. The company is well-capitalized. In March 2022 it raised a $60 million Series B co-led by Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital India, with participation from DST Global Partners, at a reported $400 million valuation — bringing total funding to roughly $77.2 million. That backing shows up in the product: this is a mature EOR, not a side project.

Multiplier operates its own Employer-of-Record infrastructure in more than 150 countries. You pick the person you want to employ; Multiplier becomes their legal employer of record in their country, generates a locally compliant contract, runs payroll, withholds taxes, and administers statutory benefits. Per TechCrunch's reporting, EOR pricing starts around $300 per employee per month, contractor management around $40 per freelancer per month, and a reduced rate near $20 per employee per month if you already own the local entity and just need payroll run.

The platform also handles contractors, benefits, and multi-country payroll from a single dashboard, so a distributed team of employees and freelancers lives in one place instead of a spreadsheet of local providers.

Genuine global coverage. 150+ countries is real breadth. If you're hiring in markets where standing up an entity would take months and real legal spend, Multiplier lets you employ someone there in days, compliantly. Compliance that's actually theirs to own. As the legal employer, Multiplier carries local labor-law, contract, and tax obligations. That's a meaningful liability transfer, not just paperwork convenience. Mixed workforce in one place. Full-time employees and freelancers, payroll and benefits, across countries — managed from one dashboard. For a lean ops team, the consolidation is worth a lot. Serious backing and customers. Tiger Global and Sequoia India don't co-lead a round in a fragile company, and TechCrunch names Amazon, ServiceNow, and Graphisoft among its customers. You're buying into infrastructure that enterprises already trust.

It employs whoever you already chose. Multiplier is an employment rail. It's excellent at making someone legally your employee abroad — but the "who" is entirely on you. The platform doesn't find the engineer, and it doesn't judge whether they're any good. Per-employee pricing rewards knowing exactly who you want. At roughly $300 per employee per month, the model is cleanest when you've already sourced and vetted the person. If you're still deciding who to hire, that's a separate job Multiplier isn't built to do. EOR is the delivery layer, not the talent layer. This is the right frame, not a knock: Multiplier is the plumbing between you and a person you selected. Sourcing, technical vetting, and deciding this specific engineer is the one — that all happens before Multiplier ever enters the picture.

Here's the honest gap. Multiplier employs the engineer. It doesn't find the engineer, and it doesn't prove the engineer. The best AI engineers usually aren't the ones you can just look up and drop into an EOR platform. The ones you actually want are already working — booked on a contract somewhere else, heads-down on something hard, not sitting in a pool waiting to be hired. Nextdev reaches the top 1% of AI engineers — the ones who aren't looking. Then we prove it. We give each one a real problem to build and watch how they actually work, so you know they're AI-native because you've seen it, not because a profile said so. And then we employ them for you. One named engineer, delivered — the contract, payroll, and compliance never touch your desk. With Multiplier, that whole first stretch — sourcing the right person and confirming they can actually build — is your job, and only then does the employment rail kick in. Nextdev does the finding, the proving, and the employing. You're not picking from who signed up. You're getting the engineer who never would have.

Multiplier is a strong, credible EOR. If you already know who you're hiring and need them employed cleanly across borders, it's a smart, safe choice — and the funding and customer list back that up. Just be clear about what it is: an employment rail, not a way to find or vet talent. If the hard part of your problem is getting the right AI engineer in the first place, that's the part Multiplier leaves to you — and the part Nextdev exists to solve.