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Benepass

Benefits administration platform

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21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • HR
  • Payments
  • SaaS
Chelsea, New York, NY

Company mission

To help companies distribute meaningful benefits that support the personal and professional well-being of their team.

Led by a woman
Top investors

8% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

The US labor market is creating higher demand for top tier talent, and many companies are looking to improve their benefits as a way of staying competitive. Strong health insurance and holiday policies, however, no longer cut it. Benepass is a benefits administration company looking to help companies stay ahead in this new landscape.

The basic Benepass premise is that pre- and post- tax benefits should be flexible and accessible for employees. As things stand, tax-advantage benefits are hugely under-leveraged by employees: they’re either unsuitable for individual employees, or are procedurally complicated or difficult to use. Benepass’ app centralises and simplifies the process, allowing employees to explore, track, and exercise benefits from a single platform and VISA card.

Building Benepass’ product around a card is a nice twist. Platforms like Zestful and Compt, who are similarly directed towards simplifying communication and education around employee benefits, don’t yet offer the same tangible feature. They’re also not as focused on the more complex area of tax-advantage benefits - which make substantial savings for employers as well as employees. Benepass’ solution is an easy win/win, and in today’s labor market conditions an increasingly necessary one.

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Benefits

  • Healthcare: We pay $430 per month toward your health insurance and fully cover dental and vision. You also get membership to OneMedical, Teladoc and Talkspace
  • Flexible, autonomous work: We’re remote first so live where you’re most happy. We come together in-person as a team 3-4 times per year
  • Benepass perks: $500 to set up your home office, $100 per month for wellness, however you define it, $150 per month for home internet and cell phone, $150 per month for co-working

Company values

  • Empathetic: Listen and make others feel heard. Be respectful. No assholes
  • Seek joy: Have fun! Celebrate wins big and small, personal and professional, team and individual
  • Set audacious goals: Disruption and innovation are hard by definition. We dream big and achieve big

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jan 2024

$20m

EARLY VC

Sep 2021

$12m

SERIES A

Total funding: $34.2m

This company has top investors

Leadership

Jaclyn Chen

(Co-founder & CEO)

Previously an Associate at Goldman Sachs, then TPG Capital, before moving on to work in Business Development at Teampay.

Mark Fischer

(Co-founder)

An ex-Google Mechanical Engineer, who went on to hold a Senior Robotics Engineering role at X: The Moonshot Factory.

Kabir Soorya

(Co-founder & CTO)

An In-Q-Tel technologist who then worked on the Senior Technical Staff at Sidewalk Labs.

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