Pento

Stress-free UK payroll software

Fintech
B2B
HR
SaaS

Company mission

Build the most exceptional payroll experience for companies and their employees.

Employees

21-100

HQ Location

Metropolzonen

OTTA INSIGHTS

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

40% female employees

-25% employee growth in 12 months

Otta's take on Pento

Xav Kearney headshot

Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Many business processes have been made much simpler over the last 20 years. Payroll software, on the other hand, hasn't changed much. Running payroll still requires huge amounts of manual data entry, which leads to errors, lockdown periods and general frustration. Pento aims to change that by providing a SaaS-based online platform intended to optimize payroll services.

Its platform helps to automate payroll system and offer complementary features to employees, such as user-friendly access to pay history and personal pay-related data, enabling small and medium-sized companies to find a digital way to automate salary processing, taxes and is fully connected to HMRC. It operates a classic SaaS model, charging a monthly subscription per seat.

Typical Pento customers are companies with 1-150 employees, although the startup is also seeing quite a lot of demand from bigger companies too. It now boasts over 700 of these as customers. With enough recent funding, Pento is gearing up for significant improvements to its tech and expanding its team as needed in the next few years.

Total funding - $54.1m

Last 2 fundraises

May 2021

$15.6m

SERIES A

Dec 2021

$35m

SERIES B

This company has top investors

Company benefits

  • Flexible Working. We have been working remotely since day 1 and supporting Pentos working flexibly is within our DNA
  • Unlimited Time-Off. It's important that we're well rested and to enable this we have unlimited time-off. We work hard at Pento and we want you to find balance and ensure work fits into life
  • Mental Health Support. Easy-to-access therapy (one-off or courses) and broader mental health support via Spill
  • Parental Pay & Leave. You can access gender-neutral company enhanced parental pay and leave, to be taken within the first 18-months of your child’s life (inclusive of local statutory pay and leave). This applies to all families, whether you or your partner has given birth, adopted or become a parent through surrogacy. Our family-friendly policies also include support and paid time-off for fertility treatment and parental loss
  • Travel Stipend. We encourage visiting and co-working with team members in other cities and to support this you can access a travel stipend to organise these meet-ups
  • Company Summits & Team Offsites. Summits and offsites play a hugely important role at Pento! Time spent together helps us get to know each other, strengthen our working relationships, and push forward our growth
  • Equity Plan. On top of a location-agnostic, benchmarked salary, all Pentos receives an equity option plan so we can all can benefit from our success
  • Expense A Co-Working Space. You can expense a desk at a co-working space if you’d like to work elsewhere
  • Equipment & Working Environment. New joiners receive an allowance of £500/€600 to purchase tech and home set-up equipment (this doesn’t include laptops)
  • Books. Tell us what you want to read in the #books Slack channel and you're free to purchase the book on us. All we ask in return is that you share a review of the book when you're done reading it — we love reading each others' reviews

Company values

  • 💟 Champion the Customer - We win when our customers win
  • Our customer obsession drives all the things we do and fuels us to go above and beyond. We’re deeply empathetic to the problems we are solving, and the delight and value we create for our customers. Every single touchpoint and experience matters
  • 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Lead with Respect & Candor - We get to the best answer, together
  • We believe we owe it to one another to bring out each other’s best. We demonstrate profound respect, both for what we have in common and for our differences. We speak up, candidly share constructive feedback, and find our way to the best outcome
  • 🚗 Own your Impact - We’re drivers, not passengers
  • We proactively seek solutions to the challenges we find and hold ourselves accountable for the outcomes we bring to life. We approach every challenge as an opportunity and take ownership both for our own growth, and Pento’s growth
  • 💬 Communicate Intentionally - We understand our network effect
  • We thrive when we collaborate and share context openly, so we can all move forward in sync. We care about how we communicate as well as what we’re saying. We default to transparency, lead with the why, and seek the right contribution at the right time
  • 🌟 Drive Excellence at Speed - We balance pace and craft
  • We bias towards action, without compromising our customers' trust and experience. We judge how to have the biggest impact in the shortest time, and balance what to iterate swiftly with what needs extra polish today. We deliver amazing outcomes and do it fast

Founders

Previously Co-founder, Developer at Greenticket for 2 years and Co-founder, CTO at Hivebeat for 1 year.

Jonas Bøgh Larsen

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Previously Co-founder at Greenticket for 6 years and Co-founder, CEO at Hivebeat for 1 year.


People progressing

Daniel joined as one of the first Engineers in 2018 and in this time has been promoted into a Staff role.

Eve plays a leading role in driving growth within our mid-market sector, following an amazing growth trajectory!

Diversity & Inclusion at Pento

Kayleigh Smart headshot

Kayleigh Smart (Head of People)

  • We’re designing Pento so that each and every one of our employees understands how things work here. The foundation of this is our principle of Communicating Intentionally.
  • As much as possible is documented here at Pento, essential for making remote-working work and welcoming everyone to participate equally. Recently this has included our Progression Framework, explaining how progression and compensation works.
  • Check our initiatives in action here: https://www.notion.so/pento/Diversity-Equity-Inclusion-at-Pento-51483565eea94742b9102df248a482ac.

For companies

Claim your profile to receive high quality applications from relevant candidates.

Claim profile

For job seekers

Sign in or sign up to discover relevant roles at exciting companies.

Sign in or sign up

Pento currently has 0 jobs on Otta

We sync with Pento's jobs every 8 hours, so check again soon

Pento 1Pento 2Pento 3Pento 4Pento 5Pento 6Pento 7