Remote has acquired Bravas, adding identity and device management to its platform.
Bravas is a French software company founded in 2021 by François-Xavier Signori, Yoann Gini and Olivier Gaudéchoux. It focuses on identity and device management, an area that has often forced employers with international teams to rely on separate tools, vendors and local IT support.
The acquisition is intended to extend Remote's system across more of the employee lifecycle. Remote already provides employment, payroll and compliance services for businesses hiring across multiple markets.
Broader Platform
Bravas is Remote's third acquisition tied to workforce management. The earlier deals were Easop, which covers equity incentive management, and Atlas, which focuses on global spend management.
The sequence shows Remote's effort to bring more workplace functions into a single product. The latest deal adds technology for managing employee identities, device access and related compliance requirements.
Remote also pointed to a broader shift in how organisations manage access controls. As companies rely more on automated workflows and AI agents, the identity layer that governs system access is becoming more important and more complex to manage.
Bravas is built on open standards that are gaining wider industry support. Remote believes that approach will help customers manage identities across their businesses as workplace systems evolve.
Executive Views
Job van der Voort, co-founder and chief executive officer of Remote, said the acquisition reflects changes in how companies are organised.
"Global teams are becoming the default, not the exception, and the tools supporting them have to keep pace. The team at Bravas has built device and identity technology that meets the demands of international teams today while also being ready for what comes next," he said.
"Our vision has always been that Remote is the single system that makes global teams work. Bravas brings us closer to that."
François-Xavier Signori, chief executive officer of Bravas, said the company has focused on businesses with demanding security and compliance needs.
"We built Bravas for the companies operating at the frontier of global work, where the stakes around device security, identity, access, and compliance are highest," he said.
"Remote has built that same rigor into its global employment infrastructure, and together we can keep raising the bar for what global teams can expect from their platforms."
Customer Impact
Remote said customers will gain a stronger foundation for managing the full employee lifecycle in one place. The addition will sit on top of the global infrastructure and operating model they already use for hiring, payroll and compliance.
For Bravas customers, the deal is expected to bring faster product development and support from a larger international platform. Remote positioned that as a way to extend Bravas beyond stand-alone IT management into a broader employment system.
The transaction also highlights the growing overlap between human resources systems, IT administration and security management. For distributed employers, onboarding a worker now often involves contract setup, payroll registration, access permissions and device management across several jurisdictions.
Combining those steps in a single system is becoming a more common goal among software providers serving international workforces. Remote's latest acquisition suggests it sees identity and device administration as a core part of that process rather than a separate IT function.
Founded in 2019, Remote has built its business around helping companies find, hire, manage and pay staff in multiple countries. Bravas, launched two years later, developed tools designed to automate IT administration while maintaining security and compliance controls.
The acquisition brings those two approaches together as employers try to simplify the software stack behind cross-border hiring. It also places device and identity management alongside payroll, compliance, equity and spending tools within Remote's broader platform.