About

Built for the operators that actually run companies.

Zinye builds a connected suite of business software — ERP, CRM, HR, Helpdesk, BI, LMS, Chat and more — on one platform, one login and one customer record. We took the best open-source foundations (ERPNext, Frappe CRM, Frappe HR, Raven and the rest), forked and hardened them, and wrapped them in the hosting, compliance and human support a modern company actually deserves. Start with one product. The rest are ready when you need them.

Most business software was
designed to be sold, not
used. We're fixing that.

— Why we built Zinye
Why we exist

ERP shouldn't be a career-defining implementation.

The old enterprise software model — six-figure implementations, 12-month rollouts, a dedicated consultant on retainer — was built for an era when finance happened in a back office. Today's finance team is global, mobile, and short on patience. The tools haven't caught up. We're building the ones that have.

01

The open core wins.

Frappe, ERPNext, Raven — twenty years of community engineering across accounting, manufacturing, healthcare, retail and messaging. We bet on open foundations because closed software becomes a prison; open software becomes a platform you can build on forever.

02

A suite beats a stack.

Zoho proved it. Frappe proved it. Eight best-of-breed tools with eight contracts, eight integrations and eight support lines costs more — in money, in time, in reconciliation work — than one suite on one data layer. We're building that suite for the companies Zoho and Salesforce price out.

03

Hosting is the hard part.

Deploying an open-source product takes a weekend. Keeping it patched, backed up, monitored, scaling and compliant takes a team. We do that for you, in regions you choose, to standards your auditor will sign off on.

04

Compliance is local, not optional.

Every country has its tax authority, e-invoicing standard, payroll format and bank file spec. We track the regulators so you don't have to — and ship the connector the week it goes live.

How we work

Six principles, non-negotiable.

These aren't aspirations. They're the criteria we use when we disagree about a feature, a price, a policy. If a decision conflicts with one of these, we don't ship it.

01
Calm software, not exciting software.
Every screen should reduce the load on the operator's brain — not add to it. We measure features by how much we can remove, not how much we add.
02
Your data is yours.
Full SQL, CSV or JSON export from the UI, any day, no negotiation. Standard ERPNext schema. We'd rather earn renewals than trap people.
03
One platform. Every product.
Every Zinye product runs on the same data layer — one customer record, one item master, one login. Add a product and it already knows your business. No integration project, no sync, no duplicated masters.
04
Speak like a human. Reply like one too.
Plain language in the UI, plain language on the website, plain language in support. If we can't explain it in one sentence, we haven't figured it out yet.
05
Compliance is the floor, not a feature.
SOC 2, ISO 27001, encryption, backups, audit logs and MFA come in every plan. Security upgrades are something other vendors charge for; we treat them as the price of entry.
06
Operators over orchestras.
We hire people who've actually closed a month-end, run a payroll, audited an inventory. Domain experience beats credentials. Most of our team has been the customer.
A short history

How Zinye got here.

2024 · Q4
An idea in a spreadsheet.
A finance director, tired of stitching QuickBooks to a payroll script to an inventory spreadsheet, drafts the spec for what would become Zinye.
2025 · Q1
The suite vision.
The founder decides ERP is product one, not the whole company. The roadmap expands: fork every major Frappe product, rebrand, harden, and ship as a connected suite. CRM, People, Desk, Insights, Learn, Chat and Plan join the backlog.
2025 · Q1
First tenant on managed ERPNext.
A friend's distribution business runs on our infrastructure for the first time. We learn what "managed" actually means at 2am during a power cut.
2025 · Q2
Multi-region hosting, EU + US.
Frankfurt and Virginia regions go live. First international customers sign up. SOC 2 Type I audit kicks off.
2025 · Q3
First e-invoicing connector ships.
Peppol Access Point certified. India IRN and Italy SDI follow within the quarter. The framework that makes the rest of the world easy is in place.
2025 · Q4
SOC 2 Type II. ISO 27001.
Both attestations land in the same quarter. Enterprise sales conversations get a lot shorter.
2026 · Q1
Singapore region. APAC live.
Marina Bay data centre online. APAC customers stop being routed through Frankfurt at 200ms ping. NRS e-invoicing for Nigerian customers ships the same quarter.
Today
Still early. Still listening.
We're a small team with a clear plan, growing customer by customer, building toward the version of ERP that should have existed all along.
The team

People who've been the customer.

Most of us came to building Zinye from running operations at mid-market companies — closing books, fixing payroll, untangling inventory. We know the job because we've had it.

JV
Jasper Voss
Co-founder & CEO

Former finance director at a mid-market distributor. Built and ran ERPNext deployments for ten years before deciding to do it properly.

London · UK
RP
Rafael Padilla
Co-founder & CTO

Ex-NetSuite, then ERPNext contributor since 2019. Has merged more pull requests into Frappe than he's signed customer contracts.

Madrid · ES
SM
Sana Marwah
VP Customer

Implementation lead for two decades, half of it inside global supply-chain firms. Has personally onboarded over 200 finance teams onto ERPs.

Singapore
CA
Chioma Adeleke
Lead Engineer · Compliance

Wrote the NRS e-invoicing connector in fourteen days because the deadline was real. Now responsible for every regulator we connect to.

Lagos · NG
Investors & advisors

The people backing us.

We're funded by operators and angels who've built — and exited — the kinds of businesses Zinye serves. They're useful, not loud.

Lead investor
Hedge Capital Partners
Advisor
Former CFO · global FMCG
Advisor
Former CIO · Fortune 500 retail
Angel
Founder · accounting platform (exited)
Angel
Founder · payroll platform (acquired)
Strategic partner
HedgeVPS · Hosting infrastructure
Careers

Come build the ERP you'd actually want.

We're hiring engineers, solutions specialists and finance ops people. Remote-first, distributed across four time zones, biased toward people who've operated the kinds of businesses we serve.

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