Warp

You run expenses through Ramp/Meow not SAP Concur. You run payroll through Deel/Warp not ADP. You bank with Rho/Slash not Chase. So why is your 401(k) still stuck in the past? The 401(k) hasn't changed much since 1979. Meanwhile, everything else has. Basic Capital is fixing that. A retirement platform actually built for how businesses operate today.

Dylan M. used to think health insurance was boring. Then he spent over eight years at Paychex, Paylocity, and Check trying to understand why the industry seemed frozen in time. He even started his own brokerage just to figure out how it actually worked. Eighteen months later, he had his answer. And he wasn't impressed. "The only technological change most brokers have seen in their careers is BenAdmin tools released fifteen years ago," Dylan says. "I would ask people about automating workflows or using AI to parse documents, and they'd tell me it couldn't be done." Now, Dylan is joining Warp as our first Benefits Specialist to build something that doesn't exist yet: an AI-native brokerage designed from the ground up for modern companies. His combination of payroll knowledge, hands-on brokerage experience, and exposure to cutting-edge HR technology is exactly what this role demands. It's also incredibly rare. Two years of administering benefits taught us the space is broken. Everything runs on spreadsheets and PDFs, and as a result customers suffer. We're building the AI-native benefits layer that modern companies deserve. Every startup founder knows that the tools that handle payroll and the tools that handle benefits don't talk to each other. Employees get added to health plans late. Qualifying life events slip through the cracks. Someone asks if their doctor is in-network and nobody knows how to find out. Warp is different. Warp already manages payroll, onboarding, and employee records. Building benefits into that system means we can automate what's always been manual. One platform. No gaps. This is core to what we're building: the first back-office platform that actually runs itself. AI that doesn't just track operations but executes them. Starting with the hardest problems first. When we posted the Benefits Specialist role, Dylan's first reaction was to laugh. "I read through the description and thought, 'Good luck finding that,'" Dylan recalls. He reached out anyway. Our first conversation lasted two hours. "I've been watching Warp for about two years," Dylan says. "I knew they could execute. Their customers love them." Customers have been asking us for this. Now we can finally build it right. The revenue impact will be massive, but we ultimately care more about product experience this unlocks. Warp now owns the entire employee management layer. At the center of Dylan's vision is what we're calling a benefits copilot: an AI platform that translates complex plan information into personalized guidance. Instead of decoding a 40-page PDF, employees ask questions in plain English and get real answers. "We have touchpoints with employees that brokers have never had access to. We can use those moments to help people make better decisions about their health." He pauses. "We can save lives. That's what gets me excited about this." That's the kind of person we want building Warp. Welcome to the team, Dylan. Let's build.

A week in, and it already feels like the right decision. I've officially joined Warp. I joined Ramp 4.5 years ago as one of their first inbound SDRs and grew with the company through hypergrowth, from SDR to Team Lead to AE to Commercial AE. There, I sourced and closed over 2,000 customers and helped build the inbound sales engine from the ground up. It was an incredible run. But I was looking for that early energy again. Massive amounts of hunger. Incredibly high standards. A team genuinely obsessed with the product and the problem. Warp has it. Earlier stage, scrappy, product-first. An incredible founder with real conviction. People who care deeply about getting things right and aren't afraid to challenge how this space should work. The opportunity is huge. HR, payroll, and compliance are still way harder than they should be, especially for high-growth companies. Warp is building the AI-native employee management system that actually scales with you. We have a real chance to become the system modern companies trust to hire, pay, and stay compliant - autonomously. Warp is backed by an incredible group of investors including Sound Ventures, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Homebrew and founders and operators from Dropbox, Cruise, OpenAI, and Brex. We've raised over $25M to fix this problem. With over $1B run-rate in payroll volume, some of the fastest-growing trust Warp to power their back-office through hypergrowth. Grateful for everything Ramp gave me. Very excited about what we're building at Warp. Huge shoutout to Thiago Bocayuva and Ayush Sharma for bringing me on to this rocket ship of a team. Officially… Kendall from Warp.

We woke up to a very pleasant notification! Warp has announced Synthio Labs as being in the top 2% of fastest growing startups! Very excited for our strong start, and to continue building on the momentum! If you're interested in building Intelligence for Life Sciences with us, drop a comment below!

This time last year, Warp was 7 people. This week, 7 people joined our team on Monday. Incredible new hires coming from Ramp, Lovable, Check, Palantir. People who could work anywhere but chose to bet on what we're building. It’s humbling to see how far we've come. We look for people who move at warp speed, care deeply about craft, and act like owners. I interview every person before they join. It’s the highest-leverage part of my job. As Vinod Khosla famously said “the team you build is the company you build”. Next year I want to write this post celebrating 100+ people at Warp. Our mission is to build the AI-native employee management platform for high-growth companies. That's a decade-long bet. Teams that are having fun tend to outlast everyone else, and we're having a lot of fun. If you’d like to work with this all-star team, and build a generational company, you should apply. We’re hiring across eng, design, and GTM actively. DM me.