Equitybee Benchmark - Compare your startup equity grant for free.
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Equitybee Benchmark helps U.S. startup employees understand how their equity grants compare. Explore 9,000+ verified new-hire grants across 2,500+ startups by department, seniority, and company stage. For years, companies have benchmarked the equity they offer. Now you can benchmark yours.
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The benchmark provides market context based on Equitybee's dataset and is intended for informational purposes only. The dataset has not been independently verified. Data presented as is.
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Equitybee
Great job helping to bring transparency to the equity compensation space! Nice work!
Equitybee
@m_k101 Thank you!
Great work!
Equitybee
@tripp_middleton Thank you!
Equitybee
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I’m Oded, co-founder and CPO at @Equitybee.
One of the things we’ve seen again and again is how little context startup employees have when it comes to their equity. You can know the number of options you were granted, but still have no idea whether that grant is actually competitive.
That’s a big part of why we built Equitybee Benchmark: to give employees access to real comparison data by department, seniority, and company stage. It’s built on 9,000+ verified new-hire grants across 2,500+ U.S. startups.
Really proud of what the team has built, and I’d love to hear what you think - especially what other data or comparisons would make this more useful for you.
Congratulations on the launch :)
Are people using it more when weighing an offer, or later when deciding whether to exercise?
Equitybee
@alieksia Thanks for asking!
We think Equitybee Benchmark can be especially valuable in three key moments:
When weighing a new offer
When preparing for a promotion or equity refresh conversation
When considering your next career move
The decision of whether to exercise is a bit different. It’s not necessarily about how your grant compares to the market, but more about your belief in the company, your risk appetite, your overall portfolio, and the opportunity cost of exercising.
Hope that helps!
When it comes to stock option grants in the startup ecosystem, the information gap is real. Startup employees (myself included) have struggled with this issue for far too long. Equitybee Benchmark was launched to promote greater transparency across the ecosystem and empower startup employees to make better-informed decisions about what can easily become their most valuable asset: their equity.
Proud to be part of this company!
So proud of our team for this launch! Benchmark makes it so easy to see how your equity grant stacks up against others in your role, seniority, and stage; no more guessing if your offer is fair. Super clear, intuitive, and genuinely useful for startup employees.
Really interesting tool! Equity grants can be pretty difficult to compare with one another, so having more context around how a grant stacks up across companies/industries seems like a great way to assess one's position.
Everyone here is on the employee's side of the table. From the founder's: the option pool is the line item we see modelled worst — headcount goes in as cash, equity as "free".
Any plan for the reverse lookup? Feed it an 18-month hiring plan, get the pool it takes.
Equitybee
@xp_vit Great point. On the company side, there are already some useful tools for this - Carta, for example, has an option pool calculator that helps companies estimate the pool they’ll need based on their hiring plans.
What felt much less solved to us was the employee side of the table: giving startup employees access to the market data they need to understand and benchmark their own equity.
That’s exactly the gap we’re trying to close with Equitybee Benchmark.
@guy_elbaz1 Carta's calculator I used. But it takes my own guess at grant sizes as input, so it gives back the pool my guess implies. Circular.
Your data is the part I was missing. Any chance to run it the other way round, hiring plan in, pool out? 🤔
This is the kind of transparency the equity comp space has needed for a while. Well done!
How complete is the data? I tried searching for Tripadvisor, and the service only found Tripadvisor Japan.
Equitybee
@natalia_iankovych Hi Natalia, thanks for bringing that up. The tool is built for startups and private tech companies, so Tripadvisor is missing because it’s a public company. I’ll need to check why we do have Tripadvisor Japan, though :) Thank you! I really appreciate you taking the time to comment!