Employee benefits platform Ben has closed a £13m Series A investment to accelerate the development of its software and payments technology.

London-based employee benefits platform Ben has raised $16 million in a Series A round that will see the company up the headcount as it further pushes the envelope on its SaaS and payments technology offer. Since its inception in late 2019, Ben has now raised a total of $21 million. You don’t need to stick your head too far out the window to realise that the pandemic had changed employee expectations well beyond any form of recognition prior. Hell, the pandemic has even given birth to a workforce movement, The Great Resignation, one that is still ongoing according to the World Economic Forum, and one that a quarter of American job-leavers are now regretting

HRtech startup Ben enables companies to personalise benefits and reward for each employee.