About Us
The Problem
Aequip is a mobile, feedback and listening platform that actively measures and promotes trust within an organisation.
Disconnects between what company leaders know and what employees experience can undermine organisations’ agility and productivity.
Adapting quickly to a rapidly changing work environment requires trust between an employee and their employer. Without it, critical issues can go unannounced and valuable ideas can be overlooked because employees may not feel safe enough to speak up.
Aequip supercharges your company’s internal communications with behavioural science, so that you can get more value out of every interaction with everyone in your business. Our anonymous platform actively helps leaders and employees alike to speak up with ideas, questions, and concerns, while delivering in-app behavioural nudges that encourage inclusive, transparent, and consistent communication from all parties. Aequip’s tailored inclusion and speak-up analytics allow you to track how your organisation is progressing in real time without any additional effort, or use of long, tedious surveys.
The Mission
To create workplaces for the future with inclusive tools that give every employee a voice.
Our Approach
Aequip offers a mobile-first, double-feedback and listening loop that reduces friction and improves performance.
The product applies behavioural science design principles with safety (physical and psychological), trust and inclusion in mind to empower managers to:
Communicate effectively with teams
Hear employee feedback productively
Track staff inclusion in real time
The Leadership Team
Michael Hayato Vela
CEO & Co-founder
Second-time founder, Stanford, UCL School of Management.
Miriam Lahage
COO & Co-founder
30 years of leadership experience at TJX, eBay and Net-a-Porter. CEO network in US/UK.
Patryk Kubiak
CTO & Co-founder
Serial start-up CTO, including Beem, Mobile apps, Full-Stack Dev, SaaS.
Aequip’s Advisory Board
Tina Baker (Strategic Advisor)
30 year entrepreneur, legal and business advisor in the startup world.
Owain Service (Strategic Advisor)
Co-founder, ex-MD of the Behavioural Insights Team (‘Nudge Unit’).
Garry Turner (Strategic Advisor)
20 years int. sales, chartered MCIPD, 5 years cultural and people dev.
Our Partners
