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Homebase DIGITAL

DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUDIT UPDATED 2026-08-28
Digital Score 0.00 /10 E Homebase - BDS-1000 107
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Homebase - Digital Audit

Homebase, Inc. (legal entity Pioneer Works, Inc.) is a San Francisco-headquartered workforce-management, scheduling, and payroll SaaS company founded in 2014, serving small and medium-sized businesses 123. This audit addresses Homebase, Inc. / joinhomebase.com as the entity fitting a digital-supply-chain technographic review. A distinct and unrelated UK home-improvement/DIY retail chain also trades under the “Homebase” name; that entity’s technology stack was not separately profiled and no evidence tying it to Israel-related relationships was located either. No public evidence identified.

Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

Homebase’s Trust Center identifies its cloud infrastructure provider as Amazon Web Services (AWS), its AI/ML subprocessor as Anthropic, its data and analytics platform as Databricks, its payments processor as Checkout.com, and its collaboration tooling as Atlassian, with security-posture monitoring supplied by BitSight, Qualys SSL Labs, and UpGuard, and the Trust Center itself hosted via Drata/SafeBase 4. None of these disclosed vendors are Israeli-origin firms 4. Homebase’s public security documentation states that AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is used for database and storage-bucket encryption, and it references generic categories of SIEM, EDR, SAST, and SCA tooling without naming specific vendors 5; its privacy policy governs handling of customer and employee data but does not name additional third-party processors beyond those on the Trust Center 6. Targeted checks for a Homebase relationship with Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, or CrowdStrike returned no connecting source. No public evidence identified of an Israeli-origin cybersecurity or analytics vendor relationship. Homebase’s disclosed point-of-sale integration partners are Clover, Lightspeed Restaurant, Lightspeed Retail, PayAnywhere, Poynt, Revel, Square, Talech, Toast, and Upserve; disclosed payroll-integration partners include ADP RUN, Gusto, Paychex, QuickBooks Online Plus, SurePayroll, Heartland, Millennium, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America 78. None of these named integration partners are Israeli-origin companies 78. No systems-integrator or IT-outsourcing engagement (e.g., Accenture, Deloitte, Infosys, TCS) was identified for Homebase, consistent with its profile as a venture-backed SMB SaaS provider rather than an enterprise running large third-party digital-transformation programmes. No public evidence identified.

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

Homebase markets its time-tracking product as an alternative to biometric time clocks: company glossary and product materials state that Homebase deliberately avoids fingerprint and facial-recognition hardware, instead offering geo-fencing, PIN check-ins, and photo capture to sidestep biometric-privacy-law exposure 910. No Israeli-origin biometric vendor (Trigo, BriefCam, AnyVision/Oosto, Trax) was found associated with Homebase in this documentation 910. No public evidence identified of predictive-policing, sentiment-analysis, social-media-monitoring, or workforce-surveillance tools of Israeli origin in connection with Homebase. No public evidence identified of indirect delivery of Israeli-origin surveillance or biometric technology to Homebase via bundled platforms or managed security services.

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

Homebase’s disclosed cloud infrastructure provider is AWS, per its Trust Center and security documentation, but no specific AWS region or data-center location is disclosed publicly 45; its privacy policy likewise does not specify data-residency locations 6. No public evidence identified of any Israel-based data center, co-location facility, or hosting arrangement used by Homebase. No public evidence identified of Homebase participation in Project Nimbus or any comparable Israeli government-backed cloud programme. No public evidence identified of Homebase marketing or providing data-sovereignty or resilience services to Israeli state or military institutions.

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

No verified contracts, partnerships, or service agreements between Homebase and the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, Israeli intelligence agencies, or other state security bodies were identified. A search of USASpending.gov for “Pioneer Works”/“Homebase” federal contracts returned no relevant match, though this addresses only U.S. federal spend and does not itself confirm or rule out Israeli-government relationships 11. No public evidence identified. No public evidence identified of Homebase’s commercial product being deployed for military, intelligence, or law-enforcement surveillance applications in Israel or the Occupied Palestinian Territory. No public evidence identified of offensive-cyber-capability development, zero-day tooling, or digital-weapons involvement by Homebase.

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

Homebase has publicly launched AI-powered “Hiring Assistant” and “Scheduling/Payroll Assistant” features for small-business customers, including interview screening, shift scheduling, and automated clock-out, announced in June 2025 and December 2025 respectively 1213. Its Trust Center identifies Anthropic as the underlying AI subprocessor for these features 4. These are general-purpose small-business administrative tools with no disclosed government, military, or security-sector customer application 1213. No public evidence identified that these AI products are provided to Israeli state, military, or security bodies. No public evidence identified that Homebase’s AI models were trained on or given access to civilian population data, intercepted communications, or surveillance-derived datasets originating from Israel or the Occupied Palestinian Territory. No public evidence identified of autonomous target-generation, threat-detection, or tracking-system provision by Homebase to any military or security force.

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

No public evidence identified of an Israeli R&D centre, engineering office, innovation lab, or accelerator programme operated by Homebase. Homebase’s disclosed offices are San Francisco (headquarters), Houston (largest office), Denver, and Toronto 21415. No acquisitions of Israeli-origin technology companies by Homebase, and no strategic investments by Homebase in Israeli startups or venture funds, were identified. Homebase’s funding history shows it consistently as a capital recipient rather than an investor: a Seed round of roughly $2M prior to 2016; a $6M Series A in 2016 led by Khosla Ventures with Baseline Ventures and Cowboy Ventures, which added Keith Rabois to its board 1617; a $20M Series B in 2018 led by Bain Capital Ventures; a $71M Series C in 2021 led by GGV Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and Khosla Ventures 18; and a $60M Series D on 2024-04-03 led by L Catterton Growth and Emerson Collective, joined by Notable Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, and PLUS Capital 119202122. CEO and co-founder John Waldmann has been publicly profiled discussing Homebase’s product and mission 23, and the company maintains a general corporate profile on LinkedIn and industry databases 2215. Homebase holds at least one registered U.S. trademark (“HOMEBASE,” USPTO Registration No. 4694369, held by Pioneer Works, Inc.) 24. No public evidence identified of any co-development or licensing arrangement with Technion, Hebrew University, the Weizmann Institute, or any other Israeli-domiciled research institution.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

Homebase does not appear in the OHCHR database of business enterprises operating in relation to Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including its 2023 update (a 112-entity review) and its further September-2025 update 252627. It does not appear in the Who Profits company database 28, and it does not appear in the AFSC Investigate company database 29. Based on available search access, it is not named in UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s July 2025 report A/HRC/59/23, “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide” 30. No public evidence identified of a BDS Movement, Don’t Buy Into Occupation, or other organized boycott/divestment campaign targeting Homebase. No public evidence identified of a regulatory inquiry, legal challenge, export-control action, or sanctions investigation involving Homebase’s technology sales or services to Israeli state entities.

Homebase board member and early investor Keith Rabois, added to Homebase’s board in 2016 alongside the Series A round he helped lead as a Khosla Ventures managing director 16, has made repeated, well-documented public statements in support of the Israeli government’s conduct of the war in Gaza. In October 2023, Rabois publicly stated he would refuse to work with anyone who spoke at the Web Summit conference after its CEO criticized Israel’s response to the October 7 attacks 31. In December 2023, he posted that “this is what anyone in tech who supported a cease-fire is defending” 32. He has been described, per secondary reporting, as characterizing the IDF as “the most ethical military in world history” 17. In mid-2024, he credited Elon Musk’s platform X with preventing “another Holocaust” 33. He was also named among tech figures who lobbied for a U.S. TikTok ban partly over the platform’s handling of pro-Palestinian content 34. Rabois left Khosla Ventures for Founders Fund in 2019 and rejoined Khosla Ventures in January 2024 3536; his continued board or advisory status at Homebase specifically as of 2024–2026 was not independently reconfirmed beyond the original 2016 appointment announcement. These are personal statements attributed to a named investor/board-affiliated individual rather than corporate statements by Homebase, Inc. or its executive leadership; no statement on Israel or Gaza by CEO John Waldmann or co-founder/COO Rushi Patel was identified 23. Series D co-lead investor Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital U.S.) discloses on its own team page that it invests across “the U.S., Israel, Europe, Latin America,” indicating a general Israel-market investment mandate at the fund level rather than a Homebase-specific Israel nexus 37.

Footnotes

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebase_(software_company) ↩ ↩2

  2. https://www.joinhomebase.com/blog/homebase-10-years-release ↩ ↩2

  3. https://www.cbinsights.com/company/pioneer-works-inc ↩

  4. https://trust.joinhomebase.com/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  5. https://www.joinhomebase.com/security ↩ ↩2

  6. https://www.joinhomebase.com/privacy ↩ ↩2

  7. https://www.joinhomebase.com/become-a-partner ↩ ↩2

  8. https://support.joinhomebase.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029279272-Overview-of-Homebase-Point-of-Sale-integrations ↩ ↩2

  9. https://www.joinhomebase.com/glossary/biometric-time-clock ↩ ↩2

  10. https://www.joinhomebase.com/time-clock/biometric-time-clock ↩ ↩2

  11. https://www.usaspending.gov/search ↩

  12. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251202531091/en/Homebase-Brings-AI-to-Main-Street-with-Smart-Tools-That-Reduce-Admin-Work-and-Save-Time ↩ ↩2

  13. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250605551546/en/Homebase-Brings-AI-to-Main-Street-with-Faster-Hiring-Effortless-Scheduling-Tools ↩ ↩2

  14. https://br2025.smallworldlabs.com/?page_id=2424&boothId=boothId%3D236593 ↩

  15. https://www.linkedin.com/company/homebase-app ↩ ↩2

  16. https://talent4boards.com/homebase-adds-keith-rabois-board-along-raising-6m-series-financing-led-khosla-ventures/ ↩ ↩2

  17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Rabois ↩ ↩2

  18. https://www.joinhomebase.com/blog/homebase-payroll-cash-out-series-c-funding ↩

  19. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/industry-leading-team-management-app-homebase-raises-60m-series-d-to-fuel-innovation-and-expand-product-ecosystem-for-local-business-teams-302106917.html ↩

  20. https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/03/team-management-app-homebase-60m-series-d-smb/ ↩

  21. https://www.gunder.com/en/news-insights/client-news/hr-platform-homebase-announces-dollar60m-series-d ↩

  22. https://tracxn.com/d/companies/homebase/__ydR4Cm14J3xsTfQt7AepSt0C7tAO64gTKErAoGmAF-E ↩ ↩2

  23. https://councils.forbes.com/profile/John-Waldmann-CEO-Co-founder-Homebase/e3133760-a743-40f5-b0dc-d9c97f478658 ↩ ↩2

  24. https://trademarks.justia.com/861/63/homebase-86163500.html ↩

  25. https://www.ohchr.org/en/business/bhr-database ↩

  26. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-briefing-notes/2023/06/update-database-business-enterprises-relation-occupied-palestinian ↩

  27. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session31/database-hrc3136/23-06-30-Update-israeli-settlement-opt-database-hrc3136.pdf ↩

  28. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/all ↩

  29. https://investigate.afsc.org/fund-search?keyword=&order=ticker&sort=DESC ↩

  30. https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/ ↩

  31. https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/16/websummit-derailed-by-founders-public-fight-with-those-supporting-israel-in-hamas-conflict/ ↩

  32. https://x.com/rabois/status/1731835535583256765 ↩

  33. https://www.vice.com/en/article/keith-rabois-vc-holocaust-elon-musk-twitter-x/ ↩

  34. https://matzko.substack.com/p/the-pro-israel-techies-who-got-tiktok ↩

  35. https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/09/keith-rabois-dishes-on-his-surprising-return-to-khosla-ventures-after-leaving-the-firm-in-2019-for-founders-fund/ ↩

  36. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2024/01/09/keith-rabois-surprise-return-khosla-ventures-from-founders-fund/ ↩

  37. https://www.notablecap.com/team/jeff-richards ↩