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Ben
We're not your average benefits platform; we're the unordinary force that uplifts people's lives.
- 101-200 employees
- Fintech
- B2B
- HR
- SaaS
- Farringdon, London, UK
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Company mission
To create a world where everything operates at its very best, ensuring that every employee receives the support they need to live life to the fullest, both at work and beyond.
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back within 2 weeks
38% female employees
106% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (4.5)
Our take
The way companies reward their employees today is often a one-size-fits-all model that hasn't evolved to meet the demands of the modern workforce.
Businesses wanting to attract top talent frequently look for ways to win over candidates with additional work perks like free lunches, healthcare and discounts. However, this benefits infrastructure is inflexible and so Ben wants to become this infrastructure.
By issuing prepaid payment cards to each team member, Ben allows employees to choose how they want to be rewarded. This unlocks benefits that people actually want while reducing the amount of admin. It is also working to become a Ben is looking to solve a problem the problem of benefit flexibility. Benefits aren't flexible, but why? We argue it's because the infrastructure itself isn't flexible and therefore, we have the ambitious goal which is to essentially become the financial infrastructure of employee benefits. Prepayments cards are part of the proposition to enable benefit flexibility, but they alone don't solve the problem. We therefore need to be more than a SaaS platform. We need to be a data company, a marketplace and so much more to make this happen!
It's this handing over of autonomy which differentiates them from others in the space. By putting the decision making in the hands of employees, it will allow companies to see how their workforce wants to be rewarded and extract meaningful insight through detailed spend analytics with zero hassle.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- 🧠 Comprehensive and tailored mental health support through a leading provider
- Work-from-anywhere scheme: you have the option to work from anywhere for up to 3 weeks 2x a year
- Assisted Reproduction paid leave & support
- 🍿 Team activities: we have quarterly team social budgets to support spending time together and we frequently organise company wide events
- Eyecare vouchers
- 🔋 £500 annual Learning & Personal Development Ben Balance: plus 3 days paid study leave a year to support you with your professional development
- 👩🏽💻 £500 work from home set up allowance, which you can put towards your home office
- DNA Profiling & Epigenetic Testing
- 🏖 28 days of holidays a year + bank holidays
- 🌴 ...and an option to buy or sell 5 days per year. Also, your holiday entitlement will increase to 30 days at your 3rd year of service!
- 💳 £100 monthly personal Ben Balance: for whatever works for you, whether that's Netflix, Spotify, or a really expensive cup of coffee! This allowance will increase by £50 for each year of service until you reach £250
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2022
$16.6m
SERIES A
Jan 2021
$2.2m
SEED
Total funding: $18.7m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Sebastian Fallert
(CEO)Previously the MD of Secret Escapes (UK & Germany)
David Duckworth
(COO)Worked in consulting and venture capitalism, and founded the SaaS marketplace Mixer.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Ben
Alicia Riley (Senior People Lead)
- We are organically growing a brilliantly diverse, inclusive and respectful bunch of people we are extremely proud of. This should go without saying but all applications are very much welcome. If you need any adjustments to support you with your application, just let us know.
- We provide comprehensive mental health support for all employees
- We provide enhanced parental leave policies and salary-sacrifice nursery schemes to help parents & carers
- We offer individuals the ability to swap bank holidays for days of celebration that are important to them
Endorsements
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Open and honest communication (2)
Challenging work (1)
Intelligent people (1)
My opinions are valued (1)
Focus on employee wellbeing (1)
At Ben were trying to enable companies to offer benefits and allowance cards at a global scale. It's a complex product that continually presents interesting and challenging problems to solve from a product and design point of view. We are challenged to ship efficiently yet retain a high quality of code, design and user experience. I love challenging myself to work smarter, refine processes yet retain super high quality output.
Product
Challenging work
Apr 2023
At Ben we pride ourselves on being able to have open and honest dialogs with our colleagues and leaders. We have weekly 121 meetings with our line managers to give and receive feedback and to discuss work and how we're feeling. Some of these meetings have been the most meaningful and impactful of my career, helping to increase my self-belief and abilities. We also encourage positive and critical feedback between colleagues to help each other grow in our roles. We seek to elevate each other in ways that increase our value inside and outside of the company.
Product
Open and honest communication
Apr 2023
I was hired at Ben because I have a wealth of experience in my area of expertise. They treat me as the expert and take my advice and opinions seriously. For the first time in years, I feel as though I am able to effect positive change in the business and within my team. Work feels meaningful and I feel valued.
Product
My opinions are valued
Apr 2023
Business updates are regular and transparent. Founders and leadership never sugarcoat any part of the business's performance. It's great to feel informed and trusted with this info and we also get regular shoutouts and recognition!! 😁
Marketing
Open and honest communication
Mar 2023
Everyone who works at Ben is the best in their area I have worked with. It's a great opportunity to grow and learn from everyone — which is also encouraged
Marketing
Intelligent people
Mar 2023
Our Benefits are awesome! From mental health to private medical, I feel supported in every area of my well-being. We practice what we preach by making our great benefits accessible and known so you actually use them 💪
Marketing
Focus on employee wellbeing
Mar 2023
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