Globalization Partners, Inc.

Who owns Globalization Partners?
The company is privately held by founder Nicole Sahin and minority growth investors. No corporation controls it, and it has not been acquired.

Is Globalization Partners publicly traded?
No. It is a private company with no stock ticker and no announced IPO plans as of November 2026.

When was Globalization Partners founded?
Nicole Sahin founded the company in Boston in 2012. It rebranded to the shortened name G-P in 2022.

How much funding has the company raised?
Disclosed funding totals approximately $350 million: a $150 million round announced in early 2020 and a $200 million private investment announced in January 2022, at a reported valuation near $4.2 billion.

How many employees does Globalization Partners have?
LinkedIn-based estimates put the workforce at roughly 2,100 people as of late 2025, distributed across more than 40 countries.

What does G-P do?
G-P is an employer of record provider. Its own legal entities in more than 180 countries employ a client's international hires on paper, handling contracts, payroll, taxes, benefits, and compliance while the client manages the employee's work.

Nicole Sahin founded Globalization Partners in Boston in 2012. She had worked in international expansion consulting and saw the same bottleneck repeatedly: companies wanted to hire one or two people in a foreign market but faced months of entity incorporation, local legal retainers, and ongoing compliance obligations before the first offer letter could be signed.

The EOR model solved that by pre-building the entity infrastructure. Globalization Partners incorporated or acquired legal entities in target countries and used them to employ client hires directly. The client paid a monthly per-employee fee instead of maintaining its own subsidiary.

The model gained traction through the mid-2010s as venture-backed companies expanded internationally earlier in their lifecycles. The company built its entity network across Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Africa, making wholly owned coverage a selling point against competitors that leaned on partner firms.

In early 2020 the company announced a $150 million growth investment. The timing proved fortunate: the pandemic-driven shift to remote work accelerated demand for cross-border hiring through 2020 and 2021. A further $200 million private investment was announced in January 2022, at a reported valuation of approximately $4.2 billion.

The company rebranded to G-P in 2022, adopting the shorthand customers already used. Through 2023 to 2025 it invested in product automation, launching the G-P Gia AI compliance assistant and expanding contractor payment services.

In October 2026 the company reported it was on track to exceed $450 million in annual recurring revenue and $100 million in core operating profit for the year, positioning it among the larger private companies in the HR technology sector.

The company and its founder have received industry recognition in the HR technology sector, including analyst coverage as a leading EOR provider and entrepreneurship awards for Nicole Sahin. Review platforms and HR research firms consistently rank it among the top tier of global employment platforms.

No material litigation, regulatory enforcement, or public controversy involving Globalization Partners was identified in records reviewed for this page. The EOR industry as a whole faces structural scrutiny around worker classification and whether EOR arrangements meet local employment tests, which is a category-level regulatory question rather than a company-specific finding.