BetterComp
👤 Alan Miegel (Spent 20 years building market-pricing tools at Salary.com, PayFactors and PayScale, then rebuilt the piece they all neglected.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
A modern tool for one dreaded task: matching a company's jobs to salary-survey data to set market-based pay.
Will it work? · our read
Domain, not code. Twenty years inside the incumbents showed Alan which part of comp software was clunky and ignored. He built only that part, kept it survey-neutral, and hit $10M before raising.
01How the money moves
Large employers must market-price hundreds of jobs a year
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BetterComp auto-matches those jobs across every survey
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Comp teams pay annual subscriptions to keep it current
02The numbers
$10MStated2025 rev, founder-stated
2025
Revenue is founder-stated on Practical Founders; Latka's third-party estimate is lower (about $6.6M ARR). Practical Founders
About $1M ARR in 2022, doubling yearly to nearly $10M in 2025 — founder-stated on Practical Founders. Raised $33M growth equity in July 2025.
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Practical Founders — Alan Miegel interview (founder disclosed $1M to about $10M)BusinessWire — BetterComp $33M Series A, July 2025Latka — third-party revenue estimate (about $6.6M ARR)BetterComp — market-pricing product pageSiliconANGLE — $33M raise coverage
Revenue ('almost $10M' in 2025, up from $1M in 2022, doubling yearly) is founder Alan Miegel's own on-air disclosure on the Practical Founders podcast — first-party, but note it is stated 'revenue' not audited ARR, and Latka's third-party estimate is lower (about $6.6M est ARR, $19.8M valuation). BetterComp was bootstrapped on founder money plus friends/angel convertible debt until July 2025, when it raised $33M growth equity (Ten Coves Capital) and SVB venture debt — so it is no longer a pure bootstrap, though founders still own the majority and reached about $10M before raising. Customer count (200), employees (80+) and product facts (survey-neutral, built for orgs with 5+ survey sources, HCM integrations) are from the interview and BetterComp's own site. Competitors Payscale/MarketPay, Salary.com, PayFactors and Mercer/WTW reflect the founder's career and the market. The 'neutrality as the wedge' framing and the 'dies' scenario are [our read], not founder claims. No dramatized story — this won on 20 years of insider domain knowledge and a disciplined narrow focus. We never score you.