Equitybee enables startup employees own their equity by providing capital to exercise their stock options. They become shareholders and benefit from the value they’ve created while working at the company, in return for a share in their potential future gains.
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Equitybee Benchmark
Launching today
Equitybee Benchmark helps U.S. startup employees understand how their equity grants compare. Explore 9,000+ verified new-hire grants across 2,500+ startups by department, seniority, and company stage. For years, companies have benchmarked the equity they offer. Now you can benchmark yours.
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The benchmark provides market context based on Equitybee's dataset and is intended for informational purposes only. The dataset has not been independently verified. Data presented as is.
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Equitybee
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I’m Oren, co-founder and CEO of @EquityBee, alongside @oded_golan
Today, we’re excited to launch Equitybee Benchmark, a free tool that lets U.S. startup employees compare equity grants by department, seniority, and company stage.
🎯 Why we built it
Companies have long used compensation benchmarks when structuring equity offers. Employees evaluating those offers rarely have access to the same market context.
We believe employees should have a benchmark too.
That context can help when evaluating a job offer, comparing opportunities, or preparing for a compensation conversation.
📊 How it works
Equitybee Benchmark is built on more than 9,000 verified new-hire option grants covering more than 2,500 U.S. startups.
Select your:
• Department
• Seniority level
• Company stage
So, if you’re a senior engineer evaluating an offer from a Series B startup, you can create a relevant comparison group and see the 25th percentile, median, 75th percentile, and average fair market value of grants within that group, alongside insights that help put those figures into context.
The goal is not to predict what those options may eventually be worth. It is to give employees a relevant comparison point for understanding the equity they are being offered.
Equitybee Benchmark is free and built specifically for startup employees, not their HR teams.
💬 We’d love your feedback
Explore the Benchmark and tell us: what additional information or comparisons would help you better evaluate startup equity?
@oded_golan @orenbarzilai Building a tool tailored specifically for startup employees rather than HR or compensation departments keeps incentives completely aligned with job seekers, qq Is there any plan to expand the dataset globally to cover international startup hubs in Europe, LatAm, or APAC? congrats for launching🙌
Equitybee
@oded_golan @vikramp7470 We’re using @Equitybee proprietary data to generate the benchmark. At this time, we aren’t active in Europe or Latin America, so unfortunately, we can’t provide accurate data for these geographies yet.
Equitybee
@orenbarzilai
Here’s to bringing more value to the startup community. Startup employees should have access to this kind of data, and I’m super proud that we’re the ones making it available!
Congratulations on the launch :)
Are people using it more when weighing an offer, or later when deciding whether to exercise?
Equitybee
@alieksia Thanks for asking!
We think Equitybee Benchmark can be especially valuable in three key moments:
When weighing a new offer
When preparing for a promotion or equity refresh conversation
When considering your next career move
The decision of whether to exercise is a bit different. It’s not necessarily about how your grant compares to the market, but more about your belief in the company, your risk appetite, your overall portfolio, and the opportunity cost of exercising.
Hope that helps!
VYVE
@orenbarzilai @guy_elbaz1 , This fills such a big gap to help hiring with startups a fair play where both startups and talent can negotiate a full cash + equity in a transparent and data driven way. Congrats on the launch!
Equitybee
@orenbarzilai @guy_elbaz1 @illaigescheit Very true!
Equitybee
Thank you @illaigescheit, that's what we're trying to do here.
Equitybee
@guy_elbaz1 @illaigescheit thanks for your support
Everyone here is on the employee's side of the table. From the founder's: the option pool is the line item we see modelled worst — headcount goes in as cash, equity as "free".
Any plan for the reverse lookup? Feed it an 18-month hiring plan, get the pool it takes.
Equitybee
@xp_vit Great point. On the company side, there are already some useful tools for this - Carta, for example, has an option pool calculator that helps companies estimate the pool they’ll need based on their hiring plans.
What felt much less solved to us was the employee side of the table: giving startup employees access to the market data they need to understand and benchmark their own equity.
That’s exactly the gap we’re trying to close with Equitybee Benchmark.
KwaKwa
Tried a few combinations of department, seniority, and stage. Looks good!
Are you planing to add more dimensions? industry? company valuation?
Equitybee
@shaulmert We will. This is V1 of the benchmark. We are collecting feedback and will add additional data based on users feedback.
Equitybee
I’m Lior, VP R&D at @Equitybee
One of the biggest challenges with startup equity is that employees often have very little context for understanding how their grant compares.
That’s exactly why we built Equitybee Benchmark.
We’ve taken a complex set of inputs, data points, and comparison dimensions and turned them into an experience that feels simple, clear, and useful.
Now every startup employee can explore how their equity compares by role, seniority, and company stage.
Take it for a spin and let us know what you think. We’d love to hear your feedback and what you’d like to see next
Really interesting tool! Equity grants can be pretty difficult to compare with one another, so having more context around how a grant stacks up across companies/industries seems like a great way to assess one's position.