Intern Pay Benchmarks: How Are Investment Firms Compensating Pre-MBA Analysts?
Recent Thelander IF Digests have focused on the mix of cash and carried interest at high levels within a firm. But adequately compensating analysts in entry-level roles creates consistency, paves a path for career growth and, ultimately, strengthens your firm from the inside. With summer in full swing, college students and new graduates are looking to […]
Where Is CVC Talent Coming From? Hiring & Compensation Trends
Thelander’s compensation offerings encompasses more than data on salaries and long term incentives. Our robust platform also reveals where and how people move within and across organizations, a crucial component when it comes to CVCs building an experienced, innovative and elite team. When a founding partner of GSK’s corporate venture arm, Action Potential Venture Capital, left his […]
How Fund Size Affects Compensation at Investment Firms: Cash and Carry by AUM
Total compensation plays a critical role for investment firms and their teams. Retaining talent is important for firm stability, consistency with LPs as well as portfolio company relationships. As firms grow and expand their assets under management (AUM), the mix of cash and carried interest changes – and staying on top of market data and […]
Compensation Planning for Startups: How Cash and Equity Change as You Raise Capital
You might think the more a private company continues to raise capital, the more they pay their team. After all, more money could mean bigger paychecks, right? That’s not always the case for every position. Based on data and insights captured from our newest compensation planning tool – we analyze how total cash and equity compensation changes for […]
CVC Compensation: How Corporate Venture Capital Pay Has Changed Since 2021
Having a competitive compensation strategy is more than just having access to real-time market data. CVC Units are one of the key players in driving innovation on a global level and as a result, you need deeper insights and analysis into the compensation mix that is unique to their firms in the global private capital market. Using […]
How Has Comp for Life Science CEOs Changed this Decade?
Recent pharmaceutical advances have placed a significant spotlight on biotech and a race to attract top talent in the field. But you might be surprised to learn that, in the past four years, medtech executive salaries and equity have surpassed those in biotech – at least for companies that have raised less than $30 million […]
How Much Do Investment Firms Spend on Payroll?
This month, we are excited to dig into new data on payroll costs for investment firms based on assets under management (AUM). Curious about firm structure and how it relates to compensation based on firm size? Check out last month’s digest here. And if you want to gain access to additional exclusive data, completely free, along with discounts […]
CVC vs. VC Compensation
It’s no secret that CVC units heavily recruit talent from VC firms. But are CVC unit’s relying exclusively on better compensation packages to snag top talent? A glimpse at the data shows where salaries might play a big role in building or expanding your team. Thelander data shows that cash compensation often depends on the size […]
Pay Premiums in the Wave of an AI Boom: What Private Companies Are Paying for Technical Talent
This month, we’re excited to release our updated analysis of technical staff-level pay premiums. In the current tech landscape, certain positions command a premium due to high demand for specialized skills, especially amidst the AI boom. Understanding these elevated compensation rates is crucial to stay competitive. Utilize the Thelander platform to benchmark these sought-after positions […]
Gender Pay Gap Tightens in Startups’ C-Suites
Welcome back to the Thelander Digest. Since March is Women’s History Month, we dug into our private company dataset to look at how the representation of female C-Suite executives at private companies has changed YoY and what progress has been made in closing the gender pay gap between men and women at the highest levels. Here’s […]