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Pequity was founded in 2020 in San Francisco by Kaitlyn Knopp, a former compensation leader at Google and Cruise, who built the platform based on her experience designing compensation systems at scale inside large technology companies. The company raised over $11M to bring compensation management tools previously available only to large enterprises down-market to mid-sized and growth-stage companies, with pay equity as a core design principle throughout the platform.\n\nThe platform provides compensation band management, offer generation and approval workflows, merit cycle planning, and equity compensation modeling. Pequity's band management system is built to be easily maintained and communicated to employees, supporting the growing expectation of pay transparency in the technology sector. The platform also includes robust analytics that allow HR and finance teams to audit compensation decisions for potential bias across gender, ethnicity, and other demographic dimensions.\n\nPequity integrates with ATS systems and HRIS platforms to pull candidate and employee data into compensation workflows automatically, reducing manual data entry and the risk of errors in offer calculations. The company targets technology companies with 100 to 2,000 employees that are building out formal compensation programs for the first time, competing with Assemble, Pave, and Ravio in the emerging compensation technology category.