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

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 ...

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

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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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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,

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By Samantha Walravens & Heather Cabot. After graduating from Stanford with an engineering degree and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Business, ...

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.

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 ...

Top tech companies have a diversity problem. Reports show that Facebook and YouTube—and many companies like them—struggle to build a workforce that is ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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.

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.

"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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

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 ...

Children of the Dream: The Tech Ecosystem was a conference focused on bringing attention to contributions made by Black and Brown people in Silicon Valley.

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

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CEO Stephanie Lampkin talks unconscious bias and diversity at Dreamforce.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A new mobile app called “Blendoor” hopes to make hiring in the tech world less transparent, in a way that benefits minority applicants and companies looking for ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

Take a look at SXSW's most innovative companies.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

These venture capitalists are not only some of the top investors but many of them are committed to spending dollars with black-owned businesses.

Stad has made a career by surprising people. His collection of hedge funds focuses on public securities and Asia, yet two of its biggest wins have been funding ...

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 ...

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 ...