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January 28, 2026
•Jesse LandryJesse Landry

Compa Secures $35M in Series B Funding for AI-Powered Compensation Solutions

Compa didn’t decide to raise a $35M Series B on a whim. This was a slow burn, frustration turning into leverage. Founded in 2020 and now based in Newport Beach, Compa was built by Charlie Franklin, Joseph Delmonico Malandruccolo, and Taylor Cone after watching enterprises make billion-dollar pay decisions with museum-grade tools. Spreadsheets. Annual surveys. Guesswork dressed up as rigor. That gap became the business.

Charlie Franklin had lived it. Mercer taught him how Fortune 500 compensation really works. Juniper Networks showed him scale. Workday exposed the seams while he ran People M&A and Global Mobility. When you see how pay actually gets decided, you either accept the mess or fix it. Compa chose to fix it.

Compa closed a $35M Series B led by Jump Capital, with Crosslink Capital, Storm Ventures, Permanent Capital, HR Tech Investments LLC, and PagsGroup. Total funding now stands at $48.9M. Infrastructure money, not flash.

The product earns the name. Compensation is comparison, made literal. Instead of surveys that go stale before anyone opens the PDF, Compa runs on nine million verified offer observations across 50+ countries. Market data with a pulse, what companies are actually paying.

Joseph Delmonico Malandruccolo built the engine to handle that scale across HCMs, ATSs, and equity systems while preserving privacy. Taylor Cone shaped workflows that hold up under pressure. Then came the agents, Analyst Agent, Partner Agent, AI built to think like compensation leaders, leave audit trails, and surface risk early.

Since the Series A in January 2024, Compa has grown revenue 10x, expanded its data network 793%, and crossed 100 enterprise customers including Apple, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, and Accenture. This isn’t novelty adoption. It’s pay moving from back office to spotlight.

Tarun Gupta at Jump Capital didn’t fund a dashboard. He funded a thesis. Compensation is now live, regulated, global, and too expensive to get wrong. Compa is betting enterprises are done guessing.

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