- conflicts or gaps
- [{"customer_count_discrepancy": {"value": "Public customer counts range from 900 (Aug 2021) to 9000+ (2026 homepage); growth is plausible but figures are not reconciled in primary sources.", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/10/pave-gets-y-combinator-to-back-better-startup-compensation-tools-again/", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pave-raises-100m-series-c-led-by-index-ventures-and-acquires-option-impact-301576878.html", "https://pave.com/"]}, "employee_count_staleness": {"value": "YC still lists 170 employees; LinkedIn shows 171; Series C (Jun 2022) cited 150—sources not synchronized.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pave-2", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/pave", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pave-raises-100m-series-c-led-by-index-ventures-and-acquires-option-impact-301576878.html"]}, "funding_total_discrepancy": {"value": "CB Insights reports $162.98M (matches Series A+B+C); LinkedIn reports $486.1M total funding (likely erroneous aggregation); Tracxn conflates with unrelated entities.", "source_urls": ["https://www.cbinsights.com/company/pave", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/pave", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/pave/__W0ybGw1xTBNeZY4HHJFu9yGpBzwamdJQABcnwqGf7nY/funding-and-investors"]}, "pre_seed_not_in_cbinsights_total": {"value": "$850K pre-seed (Mar 2020) reported by TechCrunch is not included in CB Insights $162.98M total.", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/25/ycs-most-anticipated-startup-raised-16m-from-a16z-before-demo-day/", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/pave"]}, "no_public_funding_since_2022": {"value": "No publicly announced equity round after Series C (Jun 2022); latest valuation ($1.6B) may be stale.", "source_urls": ["https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pave-raises-100m-series-c-led-by-index-ventures-and-acquires-option-impact-301576878.html", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pave-2"]}, "name_collision_risk": {"value": "Unrelated companies share 'Pave' or 'PAVE' branding (e.g., vehicle-inspection PAVE, Pave Robotics); research must use YC slug pave-2 or domain pave.com.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pave-2", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/pave"]}, "sole_founder_only_documented": {"value": "All primary sources list Matt Schulman as sole founder; no co-founders named in YC, press releases, or a16z.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pave-2", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pave-raises-100m-series-c-led-by-index-ventures-and-acquires-option-impact-301576878.html"]}, "linkedin_revenue_unverified": {"value": "LinkedIn lists $2.0M annual revenue for a 170-person unicorn—likely unreliable third-party estimate.", "source_urls": ["https://www.linkedin.com/company/pave"]}, "former_name_rebrand": {"value": "Company operated as Trove until Dec 2020 rebrand to Pave at Series A announcement.", "source_urls": ["https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/03/pave-trove-a16z-series-a/", "https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-pave/"]}}]
- source urls
- ["https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-pave/", "https://pave.com/", "https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/25/ycs-most-anticipated-startup-raised-16m-from-a16z-before-demo-day/", "https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/03/pave-trove-a16z-series-a/", "https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/10/pave-gets-y-combinator-to-back-better-startup-compensation-tools-again/", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/pave/__W0ybGw1xTBNeZY4HHJFu9yGpBzwamdJQABcnwqGf7nY/funding-and-investors", "https://www.cbinsights.com/company/pave", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/pave", "https://www.pave.com/products/market-data-methodology", "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pave-raises-100m-series-c-led-by-index-ventures-and-acquires-option-impact-301576878.html", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pave-2", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pave-2/jobs"]