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Pave

Compensation benchmarking, pay bands and merit-cycle software with an AI comp analyst

Pace
5:20/kmSteady2.25
Distance
Distance Half.
Open ops roles
1
Last week
#426
Move
▼ 68
Peak
#426
Weeks in the 100
0
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Rank and score over time
Board rank
#416#452#488#426Oct 18#478Oct 25
Pace score
02462.3Oct 182.3Oct 25

One point per Sunday re-rank, tracking since Oct 18. The lines fill in week by week.

Pave runs in the Steady lane (5:20/km): 128 of 196. Further right = more momentum. No competitors on the board yet, so it runs alone.
Total raised
~$163Msee rounds ↓
Founded
2019
HQ
San Francisco, CA

Leadership

The problem

Comp teams price jobs on stale surveys and spreadsheets they can't defend

What they do

Compensation benchmarking, pay bands and merit-cycle software with an AI comp analyst

Traction 9,000+ companies on platform; comp budgets managed $175B → $271B in 2025

Hiring trend

Open roles
18
Ops roles
1
Headcount
~175

Headcount +10% YoY (~150-200)

Hiring in

  • San Francisco
  • Salt Lake City

Funding

Last round
$100M
Stage
Series C
Date
Jun 2022

Led by Index Ventures

Distance

Half · edge: learns from use

Leader in pay benchmarking; each new customer sharpens the data all customers rely on.

Sources: Pave AI maturity report release (Jun 2026) ↗ · Pave Agent expansion release (Aug 2026) ↗

Last checked Oct 25, 2026

Funding historyTotal raised ~$163M

  1. Jun 2022Series C$100Mat $1.6BLed by Index Ventures prnewswire.com ↗
  2. Aug 2021Series B$46Mat $400M postLed by YC Continuity venturebeat.com ↗
  3. Dec 2020Series A$16Mat $75M postLed by Andreessen Horowitz techcrunch.com ↗

Profile facts checked Oct 19, 2026. Every fact links to its public source.

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