From stadiums
to board rooms.
Our HQ is in Provo, and our heart is in SoCal, but we were born on the basketball court.
From stadiums
2003
Travis is playing basketball for BYU. Ryan, then 9 years old, went to a game with a (Travis Hansen for President) sign. They hit it off.
2004-2006
Ryan attends Travis’ basketball camps while Travis plays in the NBA for the Atlanta Hawks.
2006-2011
They keep in touch over the next few years while Ryan serves a mission in France for his church and attends college at Brigham Young University. During these years, Travis plays for Real Madrid and Dynamo Moscow Russia in the Euroleague.
2011-2015
Travis retires from professional basketball and tried his hand in entrepreneurship. He founds Sunshine Heroes Foundation, Lift Credit, Tesani Companies and starts to realize how hard it is to find good HR and payroll software.
2016
Ryan, now a senior at BYU and budding entrepreneur, asks Travis for help turning an idea into a business. Travis notices through building his businesses how hard it is to find and keep awesome employees. Frustrated with the lack of good solutions, he decided to build one himself. After 6 months of research they realize that every small and medium business is crippled by old software and outdated processes.
2017
They combine efforts and launch EddyHR. The first task: find a world-class team of product experts and software engineers. It took almost a full year to recruit five-star product and engineering stars from their corporate jobs to our start-up but we did it!
2018
Building begins.
January 2019
They launch their minimum viable product (an ATS) and get their first sale.
July 2019
Digital onboarding tools are launched along with people management (HRIS).
August 2019
PTO is launched. EddyHR gains traction among users and review sites.
September 2019
New EddyHR logo and website launched.
October 2019
Awarded 2019 Top Work Places by The Salt Lake Tribune.
December 2019
Acquisition of Pay-Role HR Solutions. EddyHR launches payroll.
April 2020
New EddyHR logo and website launched.
May 2020
Awarded 2020 Best Companies to Work For and 2020 Best Payroll Service by Utah Valley Magazine.
July 2020
Awarded the nationally recognized Great Place To Work award.
July 2020
Selected by Shortlister as one of the Top Vendors in both the HRIS and Payroll categories.
