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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 ...

Two HR software startups are applying people analytics to make for a more diverse -- and happier -- workforce.

Growing up in Prince George's County and Charles County, Maryland, Stephanie Lampkin was a competitive tomboy in a low-tech household. There was no ...

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

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 ...

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

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 negotiates opportunities for her own company as much as she creates tools to help others negotiate a fair salary. She's the founder and CEO ...

2019 will go down in history as the first time we saw a record number of diverse women serving in the US Congress and announcing their candidacy for ...

Tech workers are among the most in demand this year, commanding the highest salaries and most career opportunities. And while there is a plethora of job ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Stephanie Lampkin, founder and CEO of mobile job matching application Blendoor, is the 2015 National Black MBA Whiteboard Innovation Challenge ...

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

Among the three 'Most Powerful Women' executives featured on the cover of Black Enterprise's January-March issue is Gloria Boyland, corporate VP, operations ...

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..

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

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

The Research Insights published an effective statistical data, titled as Diversity Recruiting Software market. To identify the specific needs, it uses primary and ...

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

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 ...

Stephanie Lampkin has a photo of Ursula Burns, the CEO of Xerox, up in her office. Oprah, Maya Angelou and Melanie Hobson have a special place in her ...

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,

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.

Artificial intelligence can make hiring less of a headache.

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.

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.

The battle for talent is on and it's getting tougher by the day. According to management consulting firm Korn Ferry, by 2030 there will be a global human talent ...

"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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

Despite setbacks, the past year has seen some staggering success stories, with women entrepreneurs raising record funding rounds, blowing past revenue ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sure, there are issues with diversity hiring, especially in the technology industry, but there are a host of other challenges facing the recruitment industry these ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In its S-1 filing Snap Inc. said that diversity is about more than numbers, which is true–but numbers are important too.

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

Analysis Here are 10 startups outside of Silicon Valley you should watch in 2018: Uptake, Pendo, Skuid, Lisnr, Duo Security, Cradlepoint, Lessonly, Qualtrics, ...

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 ...

Kapor Capital, in partnership with Google for Entrepreneurs and Village Capital, hosted a pitch competition earlier today in Oakland, California, for startups that ...

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

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

'Wonder Woman' is a hit at the movies. These business leaders are wonder women in the business world.

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.

Leaders of Warby Parker, Lyft, Coinbase and others share their secrets for obtaining professional and personal success.

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 ...

Google said last week that it had “closed the gender pay gap globally.” Yet the Labor Department alleged in a hearing that “discrimination against women in ...

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 ...

These startups from around the world need your vote to get to the semi-finals of TechCo's 2017 Startup of the Year competition.

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

Stephanie Lampkin has launched a recruitment app to tackle unconscious bias; it removes names, gender and ethnicity details of applicants.

SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that SAP SuccessFactors is building an open community of purpose-built and easy-to-consume applications designed to ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Take a look at SXSW's most innovative companies.

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

Hiring is fraught with unconscious bias, but Interviewing.io aims to change the game at the outset to allow only the skills to shine.

This International Women's Day, we at YourStory organised a live Twitter chat in partnership with Microsoft India, focused on AI's opportunity and influence on ...

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

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

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 ...

TheGrio highlights female forces of nature who showcased #BlackGirlPower making an impact last year with our 20 Millennial Women Making Moves series.

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 ...

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 ...

These days it seems as if "wantrepreneurs" are everywhere, looking to claim their piece of the proverbial business pie. But if you want to know what it really takes ...

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 ...

Jules' Bistro, Seams Like Swing, 7 p.m.. Pioneer Place, Justin Ploof & The Throwbacks: Gold Jukebox Hits of 70's & 80's, 7:30 p.m.. Rollies Rednecks ...

It's one of the tech industry's biggest embarrassments. But for a handful of startups, Silicon Valley's lack of diversity is also a money-making machine.

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 ...

TripleByte removes variables like previous job experience and college degrees to help employers focus on candidates' technical skills.

SAN FRANCISCO -- If lack of diversity is Silicon Valley's problem, is there a tech solution? While creating a diverse workforce with proportionate women and ...

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

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 ...

Let's be real: We live in a fundamentally unfair society where bias against black-sounding names is just the tip of the iceberg. A job applicant may have ...

As tech companies continue to receive heat over their lack of inclusivity of women and people of color, more studies are showing that there is a measurable ...

Q. I have a 2010 Jeep Grand Cherokee. It has been a pretty good vehicle that I keep it for winter travel and trips to the beach in the summer. I have a new Honda ...

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 ...

It's easy to mock the young men who dream of a world where no one has to do their own laundry, but they aren't the real problem.

What if AI isn't taking your job but instead doing the drudge work so you can focus on the things you enjoy?

When Portland financier Nitin Rai established the Elevate Inclusive Fund in 2016 to invest in minority- and female-owned startups, people were skeptical he'd ...

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.

Companies that advertise job openings for “digital natives” may think they're simply appealing to the most tech-adept candidates out there. But they aren't.

In the Trump era, companies are feeling pressured to champion inclusivity. Here's how tech execs are responding.