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Ben

We're not your average benefits platform; we're the unordinary force that uplifts people's lives.

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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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38% female employees

106% employee growth in 12 months

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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.

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Steph

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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

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Leadership

Previously the MD of Secret Escapes (UK & Germany)

Worked in consulting and venture capitalism, and founded the SaaS marketplace Mixer.

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Ben

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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

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