Compa
Category: AI in HR & Talent
AI-driven compensation intelligence platform that combines live offer-based market data with agentic AI to help enterprise compensation teams make faster, more precise pay decisions. Compa was founded in 2020. The company is led by Charlie Franklin. Based in Newport Beach, USA. Team size: 101-500. Total funding raised: ~$52M. Latest round: Series B ($35M, Jan 2026). Key investors include Jump Capital, Storm Ventures, Base10 Partners, Penny Jar Capital, Acadian Ventures, HR Tech Investments (Indeed), Crosslink Capital, Permanent Capital, PagsGroup.
- Founded
- 2020
- Headquarters
- Newport Beach, USA
- Team size
- 101-500
- Total funding
- ~$52M
Value proposition
Replaces outdated, annual salary surveys with real-time 'offer-based' benchmarks, enabling companies to adapt to rapid market shifts, win top talent, and ensure pay equity.
Products and solutions
AI Agents: Analyst Agent (comp-team market analysis & exec-ready insights) and Partner Agent (stakeholder/recruiter offer guidance)., Live Market Data / Compa Index: Verified real-time Offers, Employees, Stock, Skills observations (millions of records, 40+ countries)., Compa Offers: Offer workflow automation and benchmarking for talent acquisition., Compa Skills: Skills-based compensation benchmarking., Compa Frontline: Real-time hourly/frontline worker pay data down to zip-code level (launched Jul 2025)., Compa Connect: Integrations with Slack, Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini plus ATS/stock systems (Workday, Oracle, Greenhouse, Carta, E*TRADE).
Unique value
Pioneered the 'offer-based' data category, which aggregates anonymized, real-time job offer data directly from applicant tracking systems (ATS) rather than relying on self-reported or stale annual surveys.
Target customer
Enterprise compensation managers, total rewards leaders, and talent acquisition teams at global technology and high-growth companies.
Industries served
Technology & Software, Life Sciences, Human Resources Technology, Financial Services, Retail & Frontline, Manufacturing
Technology advantage
Maintains a proprietary network effect where the platform's value increases as more enterprises integrate their ATS data; features 'Certified Integration' status with Workday for automated, secure data exchange.
How they differentiate
Pioneered the 'offer-based' data category, using real-time ATS integrations to capture what companies are paying to hire today, rather than relying on stale, annual employee surveys.
Main competitors
Pave, OpenComp, Aon (Radford)
Key partnerships
Workday (Certified Integration Partner), WTW (Strategic partnership for global compensation intelligence), Syndio (Partnership for pay equity and transparency), Indeed / HR Tech Investments (Strategic investor), ATS Partners (Greenhouse, Lever, Oracle)
Notable customers
Airbnb, Stripe, HubSpot, Synopsys, Micron, Home Depot, Ulta Beauty, Meijer, NVIDIA
Major milestones
Seed funding led by Base10 Partners in Sep 2021, Series A funding led by Storm Ventures in Jan 2024, Strategic partnership with WTW for global compensation intelligence (announced Sep 2025), Compa Frontline product launch for hourly/frontline pay data (Jul 2025), Series B $35M led by Jump Capital (Jan 2026) to accelerate AI agents for enterprise compensation
Growth metrics
LinkedIn headcount ~199 (51-200 band); homepage cites 1.2M+ offers / 4.8M+ employees / multi-country coverage with multi-x L12M growth; Workday Certified Integration; WTW strategic partnership (Sep 2025); Series B $35M (Jan 2026) to scale agentic AI.
Market positioning
Enterprise-grade compensation intelligence platform for high-growth and global technology firms.
Geographic focus
North America and Global (expanded via strategic partnership with WTW).
Patents and IP
No registered patents publicly disclosed; relies on proprietary data aggregation algorithms and secure multi-source compensation matching logic.
About Charlie Franklin
Charlie Franklin is the Co-founder and CEO of Compa. He has over a decade of experience in compensation leadership, having previously served as a Compensation Manager at Facebook (Meta), a Compensation Analyst at Google, and a leader in Human Resources M&A at Workday. He began his career as a compensation consultant at Mercer.
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Official website: https://www.compa.ai
