Chris Priebe, founder of Zelt, chats with Michael Barone, investment analyst at Everywhere Ventures.

In episode 110 of Venture Everywhere, Michael Barone, analyst at Everywhere Ventures, talks with Chris Priebe, founder and CEO of Zelt — an all-in-one workforce management platform consolidating the fragmented tools companies rely on to manage their people. Chris shares how years in private equity watching acquired companies struggle to untangle messy, unintegrated employee systems revealed a gap no modern vendor was solving. He discusses how Zelt challenges the industry consensus that fragmented HR stacks are simply the cost of doing business, instead unifying employee data into one system where org chart logic, payroll, and expenses all speak the same language.

In this episode, you will hear:

1. Replacing fragmented HR, payroll, and IT stacks with a single workforce management platform.
2. Scaling go-to-market with a focused geo strategy after expanding to 40+ countries.
3. Balancing product depth and ease of use across growing markets and customer segments.
4. Embedding AI into Zelt to simplify access to a feature-rich platform.
5. Overcoming change management when introducing a new system to resistant teams.

Learn more about Chris Priebe | Zelt

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisagain/

Website: https://zelt.app/

Learn more about Michael Barone | Everywhere VC

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-barone-0a5375241/

Website: https://everywhere.vc/