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Barley
Compensation management platform
- 1-20 employees
- B2B
- Enterprise
- HR
- Internal tools
- SaaS
- Fort York, Toronto, ON
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Company mission
To help growing businesses implement consistent and equitable compensation in a remote work world.
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Our take
Barley’s smart compensation platform allows companies to visualize their pay structure on a company scale to ensure that staff are fairly compensated. While every business has some form of compensation tracking system, Barley’s offers advantages – namely the ability to visualize pay bands at scale, and gauge employee compensation expectations.
Given the well documented skills shortage and “Great Resignation” of the last few years, there’s more pressure than ever on companies to give employees enough reasons to stay. Factor into that the long overdue move for gender, racial and ability-based pay equity, and a solution like Barley’s could prove very effective.
It’s early days for the 2021 launched startup, but with the successful entrepreneurial backgrounds of co-founders Jafar Owainati and William Mainguy, as well as the financial backing of Golden Ventures and leaders at Shopify and DMZ, the startup looks set for a period of rapid growth.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Competitive Pay: We offer a transparent and comprehensive approach to pay
- Stock Options: Every member of the Barley team gets a piece of the pie
- Parental Leave: Paid parental leave and flexible return-to-work program
- Generous Vacation: Participate in our generous vacation and paid time-off program
- Learning & Development: Dedicated learning allowance to invest in your growth
- Health Benefits: Full health, dental, and vision benefits that kick in on your first day
Company values
- Focus on the Customer: We obsess over understanding our customers' challenges, knowing that the best path to a solution is listening to and collaborating with them.
- Have a Bias for Action: Speed matters. We're not afraid to take action quickly, especially when decisions are reversible. We think and talk in days, not weeks.
- Pursue Continuous Improvement: We seek and provide feedback (even when it can be tough). We invest in personal development, and we strive to teach and mentor others.
- Keep Things Simple: We respect the importance of details, but keep them limited, so that we can deliver simple, innovative, and powerful solutions with velocity.
- Be Relentlessly Curious: We believe that asking the right questions helps us get to the best answers. It all starts with understanding "the why" behind a problem.
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2023
$4m
SEED
Total funding: $4m
Leadership
Jafar Owainati
(Co-founder)Co-founder & board member at RFP response software provider, Loopio. Former senior consultant at Deloitte.
William Mainguy
(Co-founder)Founder & former CEO of Reelhouse - a direct-to-consumer film distribution platform (acquired by Gener8 Media,2014). Former VP of Product & Strategy at Burrard Properties.