Rain
Rain is a financial health platform that provides earned wage access and budgeting tools to employees through their employers. It has distributed over $4 billion in wages to 3.5 million workers across 1,200 companies including McDonald's and Marriott.
The growth story
Rain grew from 120 to 352 employees between 2021 and 2026, raising $558M along the way, most recently a Series B in February 2025.
About
Rain sells financial wellness tools to employers as an employee benefit. Its platform lets workers access earned wages early, track spending, and build savings—aiming to reduce financial stress that impacts job performance.
The company reached $4 billion in wage payouts just five years after its 2019 founding. Its $558 million Series B in February 2025 suggests rapid scaling, though current headcount of 352 shows capital efficiency compared to payout volume.
Founders and leadership
Engineering makes up the largest department with 43 staff. The leadership team comes from payments and HR tech backgrounds, with median tenure at 3 years suggesting stable core teams.
The Rain org chart
Alex Bradford (CEO / Co-Founder) leads 55 mapped leaders with 7 direct reports. Click +N to expand a team; names link to the person’s public profile.
Departments, and which ones grew
Headcount by function: Sales 63 (+40% YoY), Engineering 54 (+32% YoY), Operations 32 (+14% YoY), Customer Success and Support 27 (+23% YoY), Business Development 25 (+25% YoY), Information Technology 19 (+6% YoY).
Talent flow
Rain recruits heavily from payroll providers like DailyPay (13 hires) and Paychex (7). Alumni frequently move to fintechs and consultancies, with Capgemini and Uber as top destinations.
Most common previous employers of Rain staff: DailyPay (13), Paychex (7), LivingSocial (5), AI/R Invillia (5), Square (4), Deloitte (4). Former Rain employees most often moved to Capgemini (2), Grupo Boticário (2), Segura (2), Uber (2), Alternative Payments (2), Google (2).
Alumni worth knowing
The Rain mafia
15 former employees have founded companies, including ZILLOUT (52 staff) and Zucca (14 staff), showing Rain's role as a fintech talent incubator.
15Anshul Jhawar, was Head of Design (India) until 2022Jesse Guzman, was Chief Of Staff to CEO until 2022Mateus Torres, was Senior Software Engineer until 2024Abhishek Gaur, was Employee #33 until 2023Nijish Nair, was Vice President, Marketing until 2023
Ndimphiwe Bontsi, was Back End Developer until 2024
Max London, was Team Lead, Business Development until 2021
Matheus Marzochi, was Agile Specialist until 2023
Alexandra Baratchegaray, was European Head of Talent | Scaling Teams & Building Strategies from the Ground Up until 2022
Aditya Sharma, was Vice President , Partnerships until 2023
Rafael S., was Independent Consultant | Contractor until 2024
Brittany Young, was Sales Enablement Manager until 2021
Oxana Lapuzina, was HRBP EMEA until 2024
Evett Van Beek, was Head of Global People Operations until 2022Hiring now
Web traffic
Traffic mix: 52% direct, 37% search, 1% social, 4% paid.
What this company is made of
Most common skills at Rain: Customer Service (85), Leadership (79), Microsoft Office (77), Communication (74), Management (68), Sales (68), Microsoft Excel (60), Teamwork (57).
Where the team actually sits
Rain people are concentrated in Tennessee, United States (22), California, United States (14), São Paulo, Brazil (14), New York City Metropolitan Area (7).
Search footprint
Rain attracts about 929 organic search visits a month, traffic worth roughly $6K a month if bought through ads. It gained 243 ranking keywords and lost 252 in the last period.
What employees say
- Compensation
- 3.30 / 5
- Career opportunities
- 3.20 / 5
- Senior management
- 3.00 / 5
- Work-life balance
- 3.50 / 5
Frequently asked
Rain has 352 employees as of September 2026.
Rain has raised $558M in total, most recently a Series B round in February 2025.
Rain was founded in 2019 by Alex Bradford, Gilberto Garcia Jr.
Alex Bradford (CEO / Co-Founder) sits at the top of Rain's reporting structure, with 7 direct reports.
The most common previous employers of current Rain staff are DailyPay (13 people), Paychex (7 people), LivingSocial (5 people).
Former Rain employees most often move to Capgemini (2), Grupo Boticário (2), Segura (2).
At least 15 companies have a founder who previously worked at Rain, including ZILLOUT, Zucca, Affilion.
Rain attracts about 929 organic search visits a month, worth roughly $6K a month in equivalent ad spend.
The most common skills among Rain staff are Customer Service, Leadership, Microsoft Office, Communication, Management.
Rain staff are concentrated in Tennessee, United States (22), California, United States (14), São Paulo, Brazil (14).
Rain has about 63 people in Sales, up 40% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Rain has about 54 people in Engineering, up 32% over the past year, as of September 2026.
Computed from 184 current and 268 former Rain profiles, as of September 2026. Source: Crustdata.
Build this for any company
Every number on this page came from the Crustdata API. Point the MCP at a company and get the same org chart, alumni list and talent flow in one prompt.