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April 27, 2022

Ravio hopes its transparent salary data can solve your hiring woes

The startup by ex-Deliveroo managers has just raised $10m in seed funding led by Northzone


When Merten Wulfert joined Deliveroo in 2015 it had just 30 employees. But within a year the business had scaled to 1,000 people across 12 countries. That posed a challenge to the C-suite: how much should we pay our staff?

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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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