I started my company, Five to Nine, to create more inclusive workplaces and my goal as a founder is to see that change through.
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Full stop.Īgain, a huge thank you to Chicago Tonight for asking me to come and share my thoughts on the topic. If we want more diverse companies, more diverse leadership, more diverse ecosystems - we have to invest in diverse founders together. This includes banks, companies, vendors, and everyday consumers.
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It’s also about investment from you: the community at large. WorkRamp, a provider of learning management systems (LMS), today announced that it has raised 40 million in a series C funding round co-led by Salesforce Ventures, Slack Fund, and Susa. Women and POC are creating businesses at the fastest rates, but still receive the least amount of funding.Īnd, this is about more than investment from VCs. To help paint this picture more clearly, Fortune reported in 2018 all female founders put together received $10B less in funding than the e-cigarette company, Juul, took in by itself. SAN FRANCISCO MaWorkRamp, the All-in-One Learning Platform helping businesses and their employees unlock their true growth potential, has raised a 40 million Series C funding round co-led by Salesforce Ventures, Slack Fund and Susa Ventures. Today is a big day WorkRamp is excited to announce our 40M Series C funding, led by Salesforce Ventures, Slack Fund, and Susa Ventures. Overall, 90% of funding goes to white men and the other 10% goes to everyone else (women & POC). WorkRamp, a startup developing an end-to-end employee onboarding platform, has attracted 8 million in venture capital backing. Unfortunately, that funding fizzled and those gains were lost by 2022. Learners won’t have to worry about missing a WorkRamp training. Integration benefits: Allow your admins to spend less time inviting learners to WorkRamp events with automatic calendar invites and increase attendance rates. In the aftermath of the diversity pledges made post-George Floyd, there was a huge increase for funding towards Black founders. The Outlook integration allows you to automatically add Event sessions in WorkRamp to your learners’ Outlook calendar. Looking at Black founders in the US, according to CNBC, Black founders receive less than 2% of VC funding each year. I had the incredible opportunity to appear live at WTTW/Chicago PBS on Chicago Tonight to discuss a topic close to my heart: Closing the Diversity Gap in Tech.ĭid you know that Black people comprise 30% of Chicago’s population? However, Chicago Inno reported in 2020 that only 9 Black-led startups had ever raised more than $1M in funding.
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