Amy Spurling

Founder of Compt

Amy Spurling is the founder and chief executive of Compt, a reimbursement-based platform for flexible employee stipends and Lifestyle Spending Accounts. Compt's site says HR sets eligible categories, limits and participants, employees submit receipts, and the platform applies the rules, handles tax treatment and sends reimbursements through existing payroll. It also offers rewards and employee discounts, with optional professional-development and business-expense add-ons.^[3]

The company's site describes itself as covering all 50 U.S. states and usable in every country, and states that it is SOC 2 certified and does not use customer data to train AI models. These are company claims, as are its published figures for participation, setup time and pricing.^[3]

Operator before founder

Spurling's biographies describe a finance and operations career before Compt. A Shortlister profile says she has more than 20 years of executive leadership at venture-backed companies, from early stage through high growth and exit, and lists her areas of responsibility as strategic planning, international expansion, team development, finance and accounting, HR, and governance and risk. A HCI speaker bio says she was previously CFO and COO of early and growth-stage companies, has closed more than ten financing rounds totaling over $200 million, and has managed two acquisitions to close.^[1][4]

CFO Brew, where she writes as a contributor, describes her as a three-time former CFO and two-time former COO who focuses on bridging HR and finance. The same HCI bio says the Boston Business Journal named her Boston's CFO of the Year in 2016. None of these biographies names the earlier employers, so they are not listed here.^[4][5]

How Compt works for customers

Compt's pitch is that benefits only deliver value when employees use them. The site claims an average participation rate of 93 percent, against an industry average of about 50 percent without a platform; about 30 minutes of monthly administration after launch; programs that launch in roughly 14 days; and fixed annual pricing starting at $3,000 a year for up to 50 employees with no prefunding or minimums.^[3]

Named customers on the site include Fictiv, SevenRooms, SnapDocs, Masterclass, Carrot, Column, Jackbox Games and Veson Nautical, and a Quickbase benefits manager is quoted on cutting benefits processing from weeks to 90 minutes. These are logos and testimonials supplied by the company.^[3]

Her stated thinking

In an October 2024 HackerNoon interview, Spurling said Compt helps companies offer benefits that fit different life stages, cultures and work arrangements, while giving finance teams budget control and compliance. She said the team includes many people with HR or finance backgrounds, which helps balance tax-compliant, budget-approved programs against what employees want, and that the platform targets companies moving beyond cafeteria-style benefit plans.^[2]

She said her biggest concern is inertia rather than competition, as many companies still follow a we've-always-done-it-this-way approach that she expects to become more costly as younger workers demand more personalization. She also described demand growing among mid-market companies competing for talent against larger employers, expansion into family benefits beyond fertility support and professional-development scholarships, and international growth.^[2]

Fundraising and women founders

Spurling has spoken and written about the funding gap for women founders. In a September 2023 episode of the Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots podcast, she discussed fundraising, the gender investment gap and the challenges female founders face, and shared her experience as a lesbian founder and the value of a diverse workforce. In a 2023 CFO Brew opinion piece headlined as arguing that venture capital needs to invest more in women, she argued that women founders need cold hard cash rather than soft skills.^[6][5]

Recent profile

The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center included her in its Faces of Entrepreneurship series in August 2024, describing Compt as an HR software company focused on employee benefits and personalized, tax-compliant Lifestyle Spending Accounts. Compt's site cites 29 G2 badges for Fall 2026.^[7][3]

Why she matters

Spurling's background as a CFO and COO shows in how Compt is built: a product that serves HR's wish for flexible benefits and finance's need for budget control and tax treatment at once. Her public advocacy on funding for women founders adds a second thread to her profile, and the company's reach among mid-market employers is the measure to watch.^[2][4]

On The Executive List

Amy Spurling is ranked No. 79 on The Executive List (October 2026) in the Chief Human Resources Officers discipline. The ranking reflects The Executive Review's own editorial Trending Score; it is not an outside award, and placement on the list is never sold. View the October 2026 edition.