Private Company Salary Increases for Staff-Level Employees: 2021–2024

Welcome back to the first Private Company Digest of 2024. Following a successful week at the J.P.Morgan Healthcare Conference, we hosted a women’s event at Tiffany & Co honoring more than 300 women executives and investment professionals. You can find pictures here. This month we are diving deeper into the results from the Salary Increase & Bonus Survey, which […]

Exclusive Preview Of Our CVC Salary Increase Data 

Each year, we team up with PitchBook to run our annual Salary Increase & Bonus Survey. As it’s the holiday season, we wanted to provide our email subscribers with a treat for our December Thelander Digest. We’ve included an exclusive preview of the results from the Salary Increase & Bonus Survey that examines how salary increase percentages are looking for 2024 from those that have […]

How are Salary Increases Impacted by Total Amount of Financing?

In this month’s Thelander Digest, we are excited to give you a peak at some of our findings from the Thelander 2023 Year-End Merit Increase, Option Pool & Bonus Survey. With more than 350 participating companies, the survey was a huge success. We explore how CEO salary increases at private companies are impacted by the total amount […]

Exclusive Preview Of Our Investment Firm Salary Increase Data 

Each year, we team up with PitchBook to run our annual Salary Increase & Bonus Survey. As it’s the holiday season, we wanted to provide our email subscribers with a treat for our December Thelander Digest. We’ve included an exclusive preview from the Salary Increase & Bonus Survey that examines how salary increase percentages are looking for 2024 from those that have responded to […]

Watch our Latest Webinar for All the Latest Compensation and CVC Industry Trends

Welcome back to the Thelander Digest. As we near the end of the year, CVC units are making decisions on salary increases, bonuses, and benchmarking their teams against the market based on real-time data. As Jody, our founder & CEO, frequently states, the data is only as good as you know what to do with it. That’s why we hosted a […]

What is Venture Debt?

Welcome back to the Thelander Private Company Digest. We have a special November edition with a guest writer, Jonathan Norris, who is a Managing Director at HSBC Innovation Banking. In our newsletter, he clearly explains everything you wanted to know about venture debt financing. We’ll let him break it down for you!  1. What is venture […]

Do You Have to Commit Capital for Your Carried Interest?

For our November Digest, we’re looking at committed capital and if you have to commit capital for your carried interest. First, we need to define what this means. Committed capital is the percentage that the General Partners (GPs) contribute to the overall capital of the fund.  So, why is this important? It shows how much skin GPs have in the game by indicating the […]

How Does Gender Impact Compensation at Venture Capital Firms?

For our October Digest, we’re looking at gender compensation data for investment professionals. Today, we examine the gender pay gap for three positions: 1) Managing General Partner (Investment Professional I)2) Managing Director / Partner (Investment Professional III)3) Associate (Investment Professional VI)  To do this, we looked at median total cash and carried interest for males and females at venture firms with […]

How Does Gender Impact Compensation?

Lately, women in the workforce have been regularly making headlines. We’ve seen topics such as the “number of women in the workforce tops pre-pandemic levels for the first time” and that “more mothers are working than ever before.”  Thus, for our October newsletter, we are taking a look at gender compensation data for CEOs. In the […]

What Compensation Trends are We Seeing at CVC Units?

Welcome back to the Thelander Digest. This month we’re exploring compensation trends for CVC Unit Leaders and Corporate Venture Business Development (CVBD) Leaders. We particularly look at how the median and 75th percentile in total cash has changed since 2019. Let’s dive into the data! Chart 1 shows how the median total cash for CVC Unit Leaders and CVBD Leaders has […]