Sprout Solutions

Sprout Solutions describes itself as the largest homegrown B2B SaaS company in the Philippines. Founded in 2015 by husband-and-wife team Patrick and Alex Gentry, it grew out of a payroll tool into a full HR and payroll platform used on a subscription basis by thousands of Philippine businesses.

The platform handles the operational core of Philippine HR and payroll — timekeeping, leave management, performance management, benefits administration — along with local statutory compliance filings for BIR, SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG, which is a significant technical and regulatory undertaking specific to the Philippine market.

Sprout has publicly discussed crossing $10 million in annual recurring revenue by Q2 2023, and has continued raising capital (including a Series C effort reported in 2025) to fund regional expansion and acquisitions across Southeast Asia.

Philippine HR and payroll compliance is genuinely complex: businesses must correctly calculate and file contributions and taxes across multiple government agencies (BIR, SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG) on overlapping schedules, on top of standard HR functions like timekeeping and leave management.

Before platforms like Sprout, many Philippine businesses — especially small and mid-sized ones — handled this manually or with generic, non-Philippine-specific software, creating real compliance risk and administrative overhead.

Philippine businesses of all sizes, from SMEs to larger enterprises, that need HR and payroll software built specifically around local statutory compliance requirements rather than a generic international HR platform.

Sprout's core differentiator is being purpose-built around Philippine compliance requirements from day one, rather than being a global HR platform with the Philippines bolted on. That local-first depth is a genuine moat against larger international HR SaaS competitors who treat Philippine compliance as an afterthought.

Its founders' prior experience (Patrick Gentry co-founded KMC, the largest flexible workspace provider in the Philippines) also gave the company an early network and credibility within the Philippine business community that helped drive enterprise adoption.