Qontact bills US$80,000, has over 100 clients, and operates in five countries with a attendance control and HR management system that works via WhatsApp, without biometric clocks.
According to Ecosistema Startup, the Argentine startup Qontact billed $120,000,000, equivalent to US$80,000, according to data shared by the company with iProUP. The company has more than 100 clients and operates in five countries. Its proposal does away with biometric clocks and time clock terminals: attendance control and much of the Human Resources management is done within a WhatsApp chat.
For a company that sells software to teams with operational staff, the case has a concrete reading. Qontact does not compete for the digital transformation budget, but for the time of an administrator who today manually enters spreadsheets.
The employee receives a link via WhatsApp, opens it from their own phone, and from there registers their check-in and check-out, requests vacations, reports updates, and electronically signs pay slips and other documents. There is no need for a username or password for each use, nor to go to a physical terminal at the branch.
Human Resources, for its part, consults everything from a web panel: records by branch, personnel management, and report downloads. The platform integrates with payroll systems and ERP, and offers hour banks and implementation services.
The product stems from the experience of Federico Viale, co-founder alongside Javier Loucim. Viale previously worked at a software company for Human Resources, where he saw the problem up close. As he describes in his statements to iProUP, companies either invested in biometric clocks and expensive hardware, or allocated administrative staff to a routine task.
The obstacle, according to the startup, is not the lack of software, as the market has decades of HR systems. It is adoption: the tool does not reach the employee working on a construction site, in a kitchen, or in a plant, because that employee does not have a computer or corporate email.
Qontact charges a monthly subscription per active employee. The company does not purchase hardware, starts with a limited group of workers, and expands usage as it adds personnel. It serves from SMEs to organizations with around 1,000 collaborators in sectors such as retail, oil and gas, construction, gastronomy, health, cleaning, maintenance, telecommunications, and agriculture.
The startup operates in Argentina, Peru, Guatemala, Spain, and Uruguay. 10% of its billing comes from abroad, and its stated goal is to double that share by the end of 2026. The company has gone through the acceleration programs of Fundación Faro, Endeavor, Emprelatam, Acelera LATAM, Koi Ventures, and Alina VC.
The category has a specific name in the industry: deskless workers, workers who do not have a desk or corporate email address.
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