Rani Mavram is the co-founder and CEO of Complete, a San Francisco compensation platform that turns the awkward salary conversation into an interactive offer letter. A UC Berkeley dual-degree grad and former Google product manager, she launched Complete through Y Combinator's Winter 2022 batch, raised a $4M seed led by Accel, and was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for enterprise technology. Her pitch is simple: every company should know what it means to pay people, and no candidate should have to guess.
Lattice is a San Francisco-based people-management software company that helps organizations run performance reviews, set goals, gather employee feedback, manage compensation, and track engagement in one connected platform. Founded in 2015 by Jack Altman and Eric Koslow, it now serves several thousand companies and has leaned hard into AI under CEO Sarah Franklin, who joined from Salesforce in 2024.
Matt Schulman is the Founder and CEO of Pave, the AI-powered compensation platform he built after watching coworkers at Facebook struggle to understand their own stock options. Starting with a cold email to 200 executives in 2019 (59 replied within 24 hours), he grew Pave into a $1.6 billion company with 3,500+ customers and $471M in total funding - making it the largest compensation data provider for private companies in the world after acquiring Option Impact from Morgan Stanley in 2022.
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.
Shali Peng is a Carried Interest Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capital firms. Operating within a16z's People Practices team, she specializes in carried interest administration - the complex machinery that translates fund returns into partner compensation. Her work sits at the intersection of finance, talent, and the internal architecture of a $39B+ AUM firm, making her a behind-the-scenes force in how a16z structures and retains its top talent. With an educational background from Teachers College at Columbia University, she brings an unusual blend of people-centered thinking to a rigorously quantitative domain.
Zahabiya Gabaji is a Compensation Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of the world's most influential venture capital firms. Based in San Mateo, California, she leads compensation strategy and people operations for a16z's portfolio and internal teams. With roots in education and arts — she studied English and Education at UC Berkeley and worked at the Berkeley Art Museum — Gabaji made a deliberate pivot into tech HR, scaling compensation programs at Snowflake before joining a16z. At one of the most closely-watched firms in Silicon Valley, she architects the compensation frameworks that help a16z attract and retain world-class talent across its 950-person organization and advise portfolio companies on competitive pay structures.