How This African-American Women-Led Tech Startup Raised Nearly $600K In Funding
Summary
However, Kanarys, Inc., the first social enterprise technology platform that aims to foster collaboration between companies and employees on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace, was able to secure $575K in its first round of funding, which ended this month. Kanarys co-founders, Mandy Price and Star Carter, who serves as Kanarys’ Chief Operating Officer, attended Harvard Law School together but left their careers as corporate attorneys to work towards building the “sense of belonging” that research demonstrates everyone needs to be most productive. Data analytics collected from reviews and surveys will be made available via a company dashboard for corporate early adopters so leaders can make informed decisions about how to improve the culture directly based on employee feedback and input. And by re-aligning our collective focus to value inclusion and equity, along with diversity, employees become more engaged, more productive, and ultimately, more valuable to a company’s bottom line – which is also backed up by research. For us to genuinely benefit from the complex melting pot of backgrounds, ideologies and personal experiences that our world has to offer, we must get intentional about inclusion and not just a diversity check box.