OpenComp Closes $20 Million Round

<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; OpenComp&comma; a provider of compensation intelligence solutions&comma; has closed &dollar;20 million in Series A funding&comma; led by K5 Global and J&period;P&period; Morgan&comma; with returning investor TIME Ventures &lpar;the investment fund for Marc Benioff&rpar; and additional investors 8VC&comma; Circle Ventures and Mantis Ventures&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The funding will help grow the company’s compensation platform&comma; operations&comma; go-to-market and engineering talent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Since securing its seed funding round a year ago&comma; OpenComp says its customer base has grown 432&percnt; to more than 2&comma;100 high-growth companies ranging from seed stage to IPO&period; Customers include Calm&comma; DataRobot&comma; Discord&comma; DrChrono&comma; Figma&comma; Medium&comma; Mosaic&comma; Mux and Reddit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Compensation has always been a confusing&comma; high-stakes gamble for high-growth companies&comma; and this complexity is only growing with new pay transparency laws&comma; employee activism and an incredibly dynamic&comma; distributed employment market&comma;” said Thanh Nguyen&comma; CEO and co-founder&comma; OpenComp&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our rapid customer adoption and investor confidence underscore the large market opportunity for reliable compensation solutions that drive business advantage&comma; accountability and governance&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With 65&percnt; of the employment market looking for new jobs&comma; companies need validated compensation data to confidently find&comma; acquire and keep top talent while designing diverse and distributed teams&period; OpenComp’s compensation intelligence platform provides easy access to verified market data and workforce analysis&comma; so startups and high-growth companies can make data-driven decisions to pay competitively while effectively managing cash burn and equity dilution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Founded in 2021&comma; OpenComp’s platform empowers customers to pay employees fairly and competitively with real-time compensation benchmarking&comma; cross-organization compensation analysis and DEI evaluation tools&period; With insights into organizational pay disparities&comma; for example&comma; OpenComp customers closed their pay gap by 75&percnt; above the national average within a year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Prioritizing the human is a core value at Landed&period; With rapid growth and hiring&comma; we use OpenComp to safeguard against inequity creeps around gender&comma; racial ethnicity&comma; age and more&comma;” said Annie Vasishta&comma; team experience lead at <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cts&period;businesswire&period;com&sol;ct&sol;CT&quest;id&equals;smartlink&amp&semi;url&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;landed&period;com&percnt;2F&amp&semi;esheet&equals;52583598&amp&semi;newsitemid&equals;20220224005073&amp&semi;lan&equals;en-US&amp&semi;anchor&equals;Landed&amp&semi;index&equals;3&amp&semi;md5&equals;b245a79d549ae5425c9804494de468ff" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener" shape&equals;"rect">Landed<&sol;a>&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The OpenComp platform has helped us understand and address any pay inequities and gives our team the pay equality they deserve&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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