Venture Capital Associate Compensation: How Much Recent Grads Make
It is commencement season, which means many graduates will soon be in the market for jobs that will jumpstart their earnings and their career. (If this is you, check out Complander). Among hopeful jobseekers are those who wish to dip their toes in venture capital, an increasingly difficult industry to break into. With thousands of […]
Private Company Salary Structures: Entry Level Pay Bands & Equity
It’s commencement season, which means many college graduates will soon be on the hunt for their first career jobs – with many looking to the private capital markets to jumpstart their careers. This could prove challenging in this economy, where landing a well-paid job is extremely competitive, coupled with fewer entry-level job openings. However, for companies […]
How CVC Unit Structure Impacts Long Term Incentives
Welcome back to the April edition of our Thelander Digest. Last month, we dug into how CVCs can incentivize existing and prospective employees. This month, we’re going to look at how long term incentives are impacted by CVC unit structures. For context, not off balance sheet CVC units invest directly from the parent company’s balance […]
VC Investors Continue to Earn Top Dollar
This month, we’re going to dig into compensation trends for the top investment positions at investment firms. Since 2021, the median cash compensation for VC investors has gone up across all positions at the highest levels, including managing general partner, sr. managing director / sr. partner and managing director / partner. There’s a number of […]
Private Company Non-Investor Board Member Compensation
One of the most frequently asked questions we get from our survey participants and clients is about how to compensate non-investor/independent board members. Non-investor board members contribute to private company boards because they typically have industry knowledge and valuable contacts that can help the company succeed. By appointing an independent member, the board can also […]
CVC Long Term Incentives: What You Need to Know
Welcome back to the Thelander Digest. This month, we are going to share first-hand what comes up on the consulting side of the business regarding long term incentives for CVC Units. Here’s what you need to know: Why is a long term incentive important? Investors are tied to the success of their portfolio companies. CVC […]
Gender VC Compensation Data: The Pay Gap is Closing Among Junior Investors
In honor of women’s history month, we dug into the investment firm dataset to analyze how representation of female VC investors has changed over the last four years and what progress has been made in closing the pay gap between men and women in venture. Here’s what we found: When looking at senior managing directors […]
What Hiring Trends are We Seeing at CVC Units?
Welcome back to the Thelander Digest! For those of you that are new or want to revisit our previous issues, you can find CVC here, traditional investment firm (such as VC) here and private company here. If you are interested in subscribing to one or all of our Digests, you can sign up here. In this month’s edition, we’ll be exploring different hiring trends at CVC […]
Private Company CEO Compensation by Valuation & Financing
In September 2022, Fortune used Thelander data to look at CEO compensation by financing and valuation. With the challenging fundraising environment, private companies staying private longer and shifting valuations, we wanted to see how the data has changed. Chart 1 looks at CEO median total cash year-over-year by total financing. Our data shows: Chart 2 looks at CEO median total cash year-over-year by valuation. Compensation by valuation […]
What Hiring Trends are We Seeing at Investment Firms?
This month we’ll be exploring different hiring trends at investment firms. We’ll take a look at where new hires come from, and how long one stays in a position before being promoted. Chart 1 looks at where new hires to venture capital (VC) firms came from. We see the following trends: Chart 2 looks at the median number of years one stays in […]