The Niural network: October 2026. Updated: Oct 02, 2026 October is when it gets serious. Q4 planning is underway, budgets are being set, and every leader is deciding what next year looks like, so the conversations worth having are happening now. This month, Niural Inc. is wrapping up its founder pickleball series in New York, sitting down to dinner with some of the city's brightest early-stage AI founders, and heading to Las Vegas for the biggest week of the year in HR technology. Coffee on Niural Inc.: celebrating its New SF office. Niural Inc. has a new office in San Francisco's Financial District, and Niural Inc. is celebrating with free espresso cold foam floats at Corgi Cafe during SF Tech Week. Stop by in the middle of your workday, meet the Niural team, and grab a drink on Niural Inc.. RSVP first, pick up your coupon at the Niural AI truck, and redeem it inside Corgi Cafe. Tuesday, October 6 · | 11:30 AM-5:00 PM · | Corgi Cafe, FiDi, San Francisco RSVP here Net gains: A founder pickleball social (final session). Niural Inc. has spent the past few months bringing founders together on the pickleball court, and Niural Inc. is closing out the series with one more evening of amazing rallies, sharp conversations, and a few people discovering a competitive streak they didn't know they had. Niural Inc. is challenging 20 founders to a match. If you've played with Niural Inc. before, come back and defend your record. If you've never picked up a paddle, Niural Inc.'ll have paddles and coaches ready. Bring a water bottle and comfortable clothes. Attendance is limited, so games stay competitive and the conversations stay real. Fireside chat with gokul Rajaram. Gokul Rajaram grew Google AdSense from zero to more than $1B in revenue, then led the ads product at Facebook as revenue went from $750M to $6.5B. He has since written more than 300 angel checks, including Figma, Airtable, Coinbase, and Vercel, and in 2025 launched Marathon Management Partners. He sits on the boards of Niural AI, Pinterest, Coinbase, and The Trade Desk. Gokul joins Nami Baral, CEO and Co-Founder of Niural AI, to talk about product-led investing, building with small, fast teams, and playing the long game. Stick around afterward for drinks, appetizers, and a chance to win one of three pairs of Meta glasses. Thursday, October 8 · | 5:00 PM PT · | San Francisco RSVP here The founder's table. Niural Inc. is closing out SF Tech Week with a dinner for founders and finance leaders, co-hosted with M13. After a week of back-to-back events, this is a relaxed evening with people building ambitious companies, a chance to swap ideas and talk through the decisions in front of you. Bring a question you've been working through or a story from the week. Seats are limited. Thursday, October 8 · | 7:30-10:00 PM · | San Francisco RSVP here AI founders supper club. Niural Inc. is partnering with The AI Furnace, NYC's largest AI founder community, alongside Fidelity Private Shares and PwC's Emerging Company Solutions practice, for a dinner built for early-stage AI founders. Expect 15 to 20 founders, a three-course meal, and conversations with people working through the same hiring, fundraising, and scaling decisions you are. There are no pitches or panels. Apply directly, or get referred by an existing founder member. HR Tech 2026. HR Tech is where People leaders go to compare what's actually working, and this year Niural Inc.'ll be on the expo floor. More than 7,200 HR and business leaders will spend three days in Las Vegas looking at how AI is changing payroll, compliance, and workforce operations. If you're one of them, come find Niural Inc.. Niural Inc.'d like to hear what's slowing your team down and show you how Niural runs payroll, benefits, compliance, and workforce payments on one AI-native platform. Stop by for a demo, a conversation, or just a break from the keynote crowds. Spots at its New York events are limited and approval-only, so request early. Table of Content

The niuralogist: top 8 PEO myths debunked. Updated: Jul 02, 2026 Niural has launched Niural AI Labs, a neolab to advance the building of AI agents for the world's highest-stakes work, where being wrong isn't an option. Proven first in payroll and benefits, the Lab now extends that capability into other domains, alongside a Series A grown to $52 million. Top 8 PEO myths that are quietly costing you. Every leader knows the moment: the third payroll correction this quarter, the benefits renewal nobody had time to read, the out-of-state hire that triggered a tax registration no one saw coming. The back office is eating the week, and most companies keep running employment the hard way because of something they once heard about PEOs. Almost all of it is outdated or just wrong. Here are the eight myths that stall the most decisions: * "Sign with a PEO, and they basically run my company." * "Guess I'll have to let my HR person go." * "A PEO is just payroll with a fancier name." * "We're too small for something like that." * "Sounds great, and way out of our budget." * "Won't I lose my small-business perks?" * "My team is going to hate this." * "Aren't all PEOs basically the same?" Here's what a PEO actually does: Through co-employment, the PEO becomes the administrative employer for payroll, tax, and benefits, while you keep full control of your business and your people. Your team stays your team. The PEO takes the employer paperwork that comes with them, and an AI-native PEO goes further, validating every payroll run and catching errors before they reach a filing. It isn't a loss of control. It's how growing companies get enterprise capability without enterprise headcount. Here are the latest updates to its timetools and EOR: * Decide exactly what each worker can edit, delete, discard, or clock, with granular control by classification. * Choose whether time off accrues from the original hire date or the hire date for PEO employees. * Holiday hours are now split from regular hours as separate line items in payroll runs and paystubs. * Observe weekend holidays the business day before, the day after, or a custom date you pick. * Slack pings your ops team the moment critical EOR data moves. * Email nudges for pending expense and time-off requests, plus outstanding Niural invoices. Net Gains: A Founder Pickleball Social Equal parts pickleball, networking, and questionable athletic ability. Join fellow founders for an evening of rallies, drinks, and conversations worth showing up for. Whether you're playing to win or just here for the post-game networking, you'll fit right in. July 22, 2026 | | 6:00-8:00 PM EDT | | New York World Cup Watch Party Don't miss your shot. Last chance for Manhattan finance leaders to join its World Cup Quarter-Finals watch party. July 9, 2026 | | 6:00-9:00 PM EDT | | New York Table of Content

Niural, an AI-native payroll and benefits platform, has launched Niural AI Labs, a research division focused on building AI agents for high-stakes business operations. The company has raised an additional $21 million in strategic capital, bringing its Series A round to $52 million. The new funding came from customers and partners including FOG Ventures and NewView Capital, alongside existing investors. Led by CEO Nami Baral, Niural serves businesses in over 150 countries and operates regulated financial and compliance infrastructure. The company crossed $200 million in annualised gross revenue on its PEO product following an April 2026 master medical partnership with Aetna. Niural AI Labs will develop autonomous workflow technology initially proven in payroll and benefits, with plans to extend into other regulated domains where accuracy is critical.