Compensation strategy for high-growth companies

We design salary structures, equity incentive plans, and compensation frameworks that help fintech, digital asset, and technology companies attract, retain, and reward top talent.

15+
Years of rewards leadership
Fintech · Digital Assets · Tech Platforms
3
Continents delivered across
Asia · Europe · Middle East
30+
High-growth engagements
Advisory · Design · Implementation

A specialist advisory firm for the companies shaping finance and technology.

Cycas Solutions is a specialist compensation advisory firm. We partner with ambitious technology companies — from venture-backed startups to PE-backed platforms — to design compensation architectures that align with their growth trajectory.

Our expertise sits at the intersection of compensation design, equity incentive strategy, and market intelligence. Whether you’re building salary bands from scratch, structuring an ESOP for a Series B raise, or benchmarking executive compensation for a portfolio company, we bring the domain depth and hands-on implementation experience that generalist consultancies can’t.

“We focus exclusively on compensation. It’s all we do — and we do it for the companies shaping the future of finance and technology.”

Four pillars of compensation expertise

End-to-end advisory and implementation across the full compensation spectrum.

Salary bands · FY25SGD
L3
L4
L5
L6
Range Midpoint

Salary & Total Compensation Design

We build the foundational pay architecture that enables you to hire competitively, pay fairly, and manage costs as you scale.

  • Base salary structure and band design
  • Bonus and variable pay framework design
  • Total compensation philosophy development
  • Pay-for-performance alignment
Vesting · 4yr / 1yr cliffESOP
Y0Y1Y2Y3Y4

Equity & Incentive Plan Design

From ESOP creation to RSU implementation, we design and implement equity incentive programs that drive long-term retention and value alignment.

  • ESOP and RSU plan design and documentation
  • Plan rules, award certificates, and grant guidelines
  • Token-based and crypto-native compensation structures
  • Equity refresh, retention, and new-hire grant frameworks
Compensation Policyv2.1
Approved · Compensation Committee

Compensation Governance

We help boards and leadership teams build the governance infrastructure to make defensible, transparent compensation decisions.

  • Compensation committee charter and structure
  • Compensation philosophy and policy documentation
  • Pay equity and transparency frameworks
  • Executive and board compensation review
Market benchmarkFintech · APAC
Eng L5
Prod L6
Sales AE
You P50 P75

Compensation Survey & Benchmarking

Proprietary benchmarking intelligence for fintech, digital asset, and technology companies — because generic surveys miss your market.

  • Custom compensation surveys for niche technology sectors
  • Market benchmarking and competitive positioning analysis
  • Salary and equity data for digital asset and Web3 companies
  • Annual compensation trend reporting

Built for the companies others don’t understand

Deep sector specialisation

We work exclusively with fintech, digital asset, and capital-driven technology companies. Our benchmarks, frameworks, and advice are calibrated to your market — not borrowed from a generic cross-industry survey.

Advisory through implementation

We don’t hand you a slide deck and walk away. From compensation philosophy to plan rules and award certificates, we stay through implementation — designing, documenting, and operationalising every element.

Practitioner expertise

We build with high-growth companies, so we think from first principles. Every salary band, equity plan, and governance framework we deliver is built bottom-up — calibrated to the realities of your stage, your sector, and your talent market — not retrofitted from someone else’s playbook.

DWF Labs
Boss Zhipin
HashKey Group
Avenir Group
CVC Capital Partners

We also work with several stealth-stage startups and Web3 companies under NDA.

Dexter Chong

Dexter Chong

Founder & Principal Consultant

Dexter founded Cycas Solutions to bring specialist compensation expertise to the technology companies that need it most. With over 15 years of experience in compensation and rewards leadership — including senior roles at Binance, ByteDance, and Lazada (Alibaba Group) — he has designed and implemented compensation architectures across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East for organisations ranging from high-growth startups to listed technology platforms.

Dexter holds an Executive MBA from the University of Oxford (Saïd Business School) and is a recognised practitioner in equity incentive design, salary benchmarking, and compensation governance for the fintech and digital asset sector.

Oxford Saïd Business School (EMBA)Formerly: Binance · ByteDance · Lazada (Alibaba Group)

We’re building technology-enabled compensation intelligence tools for the next generation of high-growth companies. More to come.

Let’s talk compensation

Whether you’re building from scratch or optimising what you have, we’d welcome a conversation.

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