# Pave

> Pave is a San Francisco-based compensation management platform that helps companies plan, communicate, and benchmark employee pay in real time. Founded in 2019 by ex-Facebook engineer Matt Schulman, the company replaced HR's tangle of spreadsheets with live market data drawn from thousands of HRIS integrations, and now powers compensation decisions at Alphabet, Stripe, Databricks, Snowflake, Roblox, and thousands of others.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Matt Schulman (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~170 employees
- **Products:** Compensation Benchmarking, Compensation Planning, Total Rewards Communication, Paige (AI Agent), Pave Data Lab
- **Notable:** Joined the unicorn club 18 months after rebranding to Pave.com, Acquired Advanced-HR (Option Impact + OptionDriver) from Morgan Stanley in 2022, Powers compensation for Alphabet, Stripe, Databricks, Snowflake, Roblox

## Products & services

- **Compensation Benchmarking** — Real-time market data sourced live from thousands of HRIS integrations - no stale survey lag.
- **Compensation Planning** — Software that runs merit cycles, promotions, and pay adjustments end-to-end.
- **Total Rewards Communication** — Branded portals that show employees the full value of their pay, equity, and benefits.
- **Paige (AI Agent)** — Conversational compensation intelligence agent that answers benchmarking and workforce questions in plain English.
- **Pave Data Lab** — Insights community where comp professionals access daily AI-driven research and collaborate on pay decisions.
- **Offer Insights (with Greenhouse)** — Live job-offer trend data integrated into the hiring workflow.

## Achievements

- Joined the unicorn club 18 months after rebranding to Pave.com
- Acquired Advanced-HR (Option Impact + OptionDriver) from Morgan Stanley in 2022
- Powers compensation for Alphabet, Stripe, Databricks, Snowflake, Roblox
- Launched Paige, an AI compensation agent, in 2025
- Manages $190B+ in total compensation spend

## Latest updates

- **2025-Q4** — Shipped new Q4 platform release with deeper AI features and expanded integrations.
- **2025-07** — Announced Google Cloud partnership and Marketplace availability for AI compensation intelligence.
- **2025-Q3** — Launched Paige AI agent and Pave Data Lab insights community.
- **2024** — Greenhouse + Pave Offer Insights launched; year-end review reported billions in compensation delivered through the platform.

## Links

- Website: https://pave.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pave
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/pavecomp
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@pavecompensation
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/pavecomp/

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Last updated: 2026-05-23