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Stephanie Lampkin, founder and CEO of Silicon Valley company Blendoor, is focused on increasing diversity and reducing unconscious bias in technology ...

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Lampkin was a full-stack web developer by 15 and holds degrees from Stanford and MIT. But that wasn't enough to get her in the door at . With its 55000 ...

These entrepreneurs on Inc.'s Female Founders 100 are creating the solutions you didn't know you needed.

rtificial intelligence (AI) applications are multiplying rapidly in the workplace today—so quickly that in some cases they're outflanking managers' ability to ...

Can new software that reduces unconscious bias in the hiring process succeed if investors won't back it?

MIT alumna Stephanie Lampkin created her startup Blendoor to correct for unconscious bias in the hiring process. Her company's app connects applicants to ...

Both quantitative data and anecdotal evidence show that the tech industry has a diversity problem and Stephanie Lampkin is looking to chip away away at the ...

Stephanie Lampkin learned to code at age 13. By 15, she was a full-stack web developer, fluent in the languages of computer programming. She has a Stanford ...

Las Vegas - The technology industry is quickly moving into a time where there will be a plethora of jobs but a shortage of tech workers, therefore finding,

Blendoor, founded by engineer Stephanie Lampkin, has a new ranking of tech firms based on their demographic data and diversity efforts.

With her venture firm, Backstage Capital, and a new $36 million fund for black female founders, Arlan Hamilton is changing entrepreneurship in the U.S..

Stephanie Lampkin created Blendoor last year, a job-matching app that hides candidates' name, photo, gender and race information, only highlighting what's ...

When Lampkin pitched Blendoor, the two female investors were completely opposed to the concept.

LAS VEGAS, Sept. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that it is building an open community of purpose-built and ...

Founding teams that include men and women produce dramatically stronger valuation growth than all-male founding teams, according to research from First ...

With a record 18 women, the 2018 list is the most gender-balanced to date and features a strong mix of influencers from diverse backgrounds.

Blendoor hides applicants' names, ages, gender, and ethnicity so that their qualifications and skills can take center stage.

While writing my posts Forbes.com, I have a chance to talk to many CEOs. Often I will ask them what books they have read recently. If anything, this gives me a ...

Twenty-one years after Toyota replaced the alluring Previa with a new, more conventional people mover, the Sienna minivan finds itself falling out of favor ...

Blendoor wants to help recruiters focus on the things that really matter.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Stephanie Lampkin, founder and CEO of Blendoor, an app that tries to counteract bias in the job application process, about the ...

Stephanie Lampkin, founder and CEO of Blendoor, explains why the diversity needle in tech is not moving and how her company is working to help.

Artificial intelligence can make hiring less of a headache.

Stephanie Lampkin’s Blendoor app helps remove bias and increase diversity in recruitment. The black female owned job matching app has raised $100000.

Just a few days left, and the wait will be over for the grand HR Tech Conference. We have packed our bags and will soon be heading towards Las Vegas.

I first met Stephanie Lampkin at Harvard Innovation Lab's first Startup Scramble in November 2011 when she was an MBA student at MIT Sloan. During this d...

By Samantha Walravens & Heather Cabot Blendoor founder and CEO Stephanie Lampkin is learning how tough it is for tech startups to raise money these days.

Four years ago, Hamilton was living out of a hotel room she shared with her mother. Today she's a VC who has deployed some $4 million across 100 companies ...

Although 2017 saw a few welcome success stories, the generally dire fundraising landscape for female founders is well documented. Of the $60bn in venture ...

Implicit bias in hiring is so hard to root out because, well, it's implicit. Even when managers talk a good game about increasing diversity at the office, their actions ...

2017 has made it official: Diversity problems are impossible for tech companies to continue to avoid. With these apps, you can start to address them.

The app comes two years after being told during an interview with a well-known tech company that she didn't have enough technical skills.

How well do U.S. businesses really do when it comes to workplace diversity? Google's disagreement with the Department of Labor -- which found “very ...

Leaders from Snap, Google, and more share their ideas for making 2018 the year that tech finally becomes more inclusive.

Stephanie Lampkin is the CEO of Blendoor, a merit-based recruiting platform that takes names and photos out of the early stages of interviewing job candidates.

WayUp helps hiring managers spot unconscious bias and break out of their recruiting ruts.

On the new streaming show Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch, founders step into the Entrepreneur Elevator and have just 60 seconds to present their idea, product or ...

In the last two years, diversity practices at major Silicon Valley tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter have been held under a microscope. The big ...

CEO Stephanie Lampkin talks unconscious bias and diversity at Dreamforce.

Lindsey Wingo had a big decision to make. She grew up in the small town of Rector in Northeast Arkansas, and when it came time to choose a college, she ...

The Atlantic magazine, based in Washington, D.C. organized a free, well-attended one-day conference in San Francisco on improving diversity in the US tech ...

How do you improve the diversity of your applicants? These tech tools can help you remove bias, review resumes and target diverse candidates.

Black women-owned businesses represent the fastest-growing group of small business people in the U.S. but raise surprisingly little startup capital.

This past year has witnessed a major cataclysmic shift in the world of female entrepreneurship. No longer are we telling women they have to code to work in tech ...

"Raise your hand if you've judged a candidate based on the college on their résumé," says Kelly Grossart, recruiting manager for Evernote. She's standing ...

To hear them tell it, the biggest and most influential Silicon Valley companies don't make any distinction between women and men when payday comes around.

Anna Wiener writes about the tech industry's diversity problem, and about startups that aim to recruit women and people of color to Silicon Valley jobs.

The argument that increasing the diversity of job candidates leads to “lowering the bar” is flawed because it presumes the existence of an objective, quantifiable ...

Thirty Companies Will Present Over Three Days. HORSHAM, Pa., Aug. 21, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- After careful consideration, 30 companies have ...

A variety of new apps aim to create blind hiring processes and draw more women and minority job candidates to tech businesses.

'Blind interviews' force companies to consider applicants based on their merits, not their names or profiles. They're showing promise in the tech industry.

BI Prime: We've rounded up some of the most active female angel investors who are writing early stage checks for growing startups in cities ranging from San ...

With their company-logo T-shirts tucked in by Gucci belts, gripping mixed drinks in Gatorade bottles and chatting about the latest work gossip, hundreds of ...

The votes are in, and we're excited to announce that Blendoor is our Celebrate Startup of the Year.

The 2018 Fortune 40 Under 40 list released today, introducing 34 new names to the list, but who are young leaders that have joined the likes of Mark Zuckerberg ...

Oprah had the last laugh in 2016, proving naysayers wrong with ratings for her 5-year-old OWN network. Photo: Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images. By most measures ...

Earlier this week, I wrote that the two questions I get most frequently from people who are interested in learning about Heartland Tech are about what cities they ...

Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here's why not much has changed—and what might ...

Computing pioneer Stephanie Shirley thinks we need to start teaching children, especially girls, to code between ages of 2 and 7.

Once we are aware of the shortcuts our minds take when deciding who to listen to, we can take steps to block those shortcuts.

Salesforce vet Todd McKinnon, co-founded Okta in 2009 foreseeing the enterprise shift to cloud computing technology. As more businesses moved their ...

When is a dating app more than a dating app? When it's Bumble, Wolfe Herd's startup turned cultural phenomenon. The woman-first swipe app has acquired ...

Fast-rising ByteDance owns Toutiao, China's most popular news app with more than 700 million users; it also bought short-video app Musical.ly for $1 billion last ...

Hiring bots are being utilized by companies to reduce employee turnover and fix the human error that has historically shut out women and minorities.

Elevate Capital, a new venture capital firm based in Portland, today unveiled its first funds. The firm announced that it closed both a $10 million Elevate Capital ...

From her UK classroom to becoming one of the most celebrated media personalities on the continent, Peace Hyde is now fast becoming a household name ...

Take a look at SXSW's most innovative companies.

The “closet in the cloud” *service* now claims more than 9 million members and has moved well beyond its roots: renting gowns for special occasions.

Perhaps no person encapsulates show business right now more than Glover. In May, “This Is America”—the viral single from his musical alter ego, Childish ...

The beauty industry needed a *fresh* face. Enter Weiss and her Glossier brand, which preaches minimal, individualized selfcare. Weiss, an art-school grad, ...

In taking Stitch Fix public in November of last year, Lake became not only the sole woman to take a tech startup public in 2017, but one of the youngest female ...

is transforming itself for the e-commerce era as it battles over the future of retail, and at the center of it are Dunn and Balbale. They're young, urban, and digitally ...

The Irish-born brothers are a couple of the world's youngest self-made billionaires. Patrick and John dropped out of MIT and Harvard, respectively, and sold their ...

Industrial robotics have come into the mainstream as machines take on more and more manual work. One of the leaders in this field has been San Jose's Fetch ...

If you're a hiring manager, you're probably happiest getting a sense of a candidate through unstructured interviews, which allow you to randomly explore details ...

In the Pacific Northwest, women investors are having a bigger impact both at the angel level and at venture capital firms, which are increasingly adding women ...

It's possible that Houston will regard 2018 as one of the most important years in his relatively young life. After 11 years running one of Silicon Valley's hottest ...

After joining the company as a controller 10 years prior, Cozza was named president and CEO of in 2014. Under his leadership, Icahn—the conglomerate with ...

More than 2,000 attendees and 100 speakers from 30 different countries gathered in Stockholm in September for the second incarnation of me Convention.

Entrepreneur turned investor Duggal launched Female Founders Fund in 2014 as a seed-stage venture fund to invest in female-led technology companies.

There's more to the diversity-in-tech equation than just gender. Two solutions that I've heard of recently are tackling the lack of black professionals in these fields.

The ride-hailing startup's name is a perfect description of its approach to 2018. In March the company snapped up rival Uber's Southeast Asia operations, ...

Former venture capitalist Jurich started the $1.7 billion market value Sunrun in her cofounder's attic a year before the 2008 recession. She weathered the crisis ...

Inspired by a lost pair of glasses and a grad school budget, Blumenthal and Gilboa, along with two other cofounders, started the socially conscious and ...

Ries became a corporate guru after his 2011 book The Lean Startup influenced a generation of startups and big companies alike. Now he's focused on building ...

Sud joined Vimeo as head of marketing in 2014; last year she was named CEO, charged with focusing Vimeo as a cloud-based platform for video creation, ...

El Kaliouby is training machines to master the fuzzy realm of human feelings. The Egyptian-American entrepreneur cofounded Affectiva, a venture-backed ...

In Spotify's tenth year, Ek is still thinking of new ways to keep his music streaming company thriving. Already a leader in the industry, Spotify focused more on ...

President Donald Trump has seen an upsurge in his job approval rating in Arkansas and that's boosting the Republican brand in political races headed into the ...

PORTLAND, Ore., July 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Elevate Capital, which manages one of the nation's first venture capital funds to support inclusion and diversity, ...

You may know Peele as an actor, or more recently as an Oscar-winning writer-director, but the Manhattan native has emerged as one of Hollywood's premier ...

To tackle gender bias in the workplace, employers are turning to an array of new software options and adopting training programs to foster diversity.

Put down your phone. Go outside. Do something else. This is the gospel that Harris, a modern-day Neil Postman, preaches. Formerly Google's resident “design ...

Because most of the quickly growing companies and startups that tend to dominate it emerged from the maker community, the 3D printing industry often seems ...

Wang attempted Twitter-, Facebook-, and Friendster-like startups, but none were as successful as the Groupon inspired firm he launched in 2010 and grew to ...

Under Systrom, the photosharing app has been on the upswing for a while, but in 2018 it took things to another level: It crossed the billion-user mark, introduced ...

After working at and Aéropostale, Zak brought her retail and tech backgrounds to the table with an idea to start a fitcentric company to make buying—and ...

There's a plethora of tech meant to make recruiting fairer. Joonko wants to help ordinary workers pinpoint bias throughout the workday.

Snap can attract users. Can it attract ad dollars? That was the question that dogged the Los Angeles media company after its highflying 2017 IPO. Spiegel spent ...