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In 2018, after working at a series of startups, Amy Sprilling took a leap and found in her own

company.

It's called Compt, and it makes software for offering flexible employee perks.

Right, this was Amy's big idea, the flexible perk.

So for instance, if an employee gets a stipend to use for wellness, maybe they don't want

to use that money for a gym membership.

Maybe instead they want to fix and broken appliance.

There was one person that said, hey, my dryer is broken.

And can I get that done because it's winter, and if my clothes aren't dry, I will get sick.

And the HR department approved it.

So they took a very liberal approach to kind of how they thought about wellness.

Can we get that?

Can we have a liberal approach?

I would like a toaster oven, please.

A couple of years later, Amy turned to venture capital to grow her business.

She raised $1.5 million in her first round of funding for Compt.

She had raised money before in her previous jobs, but getting that first check for this

startup that she founded, that felt really special.

I mean, I literally, I mean, I literally cried.

Like it was, it was pretty incredible.

Ah, well, that was a couple of years ago, and then in April of this year, Amy enjoyed

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