diversity

Diversity Spotlight is a feature on Crunchbase that lets companies add tags to their profiles to label themselves.

A growing effort to attract more women and people of color into the space industry has shared some of its first results and a new occasion to rally around: National…

Two years ago, Jobs for the Future (JFF), a nonprofit dedicated to helping low-wage workers attain upward mobility, established a venture arm, JFFVentures, to back innovative employment tech. In a…

As AI’s presence in our lives increases, so does the number of diverse founders leveraging it to develop positive, socially impactful services and products.

The fund is technically a nonprofit with a debt fund attached.

Pinterest is today expanding on its efforts to make its product more inclusive with respect to body type diversity with the test of a new consumer-facing tool that allows users…

Tech employees who are in charge of diversity, equity and inclusion are tired. They have been talking with internal stakeholders and promoting diversity across the board. But it’s hard to…

Even with some criticisms, most VC think that the state’s effort to track diversity data is worth it.

The Alliance encourages firms and investors to collect diversity data and increase the number of women and minorities hired and funded annually.

Building an equitable cap table allows startups to bring on experts they wouldn’t be able to hire while making VC more diverse.

Pinterest today announced it’s introducing novel computer vision technology that will use shape, size and form to identify various body types across the more than 5 billion images on its…

The U.K has taken the first steps to make its venture landscape more equitable. The U.S. could take notes.

The company seeks to enhance zero-net technologies in a way that gives higher performance and sustainability at lower costs.

She will be the fund’s first female partner as it seeks to build a “world-class” team.

Bridge 2 Technologies began with the notion that it should be easier for companies to find a diverse set of vendors. The company formed three years ago with the idea…

For those with funds that are focused on backing diverse founders who are already working with less capital, the drawback is often the difference between another round or closing shop.

Smaller funds raising less institutional capital gives them more leverage to take risks, which is what investing in diversity is seen as.

Now that Paige Hendrix Buckner is in the role permanently, she and her team “can settle in and have some clarity about where we’re going to be going.”

There are oodles of advantages to having a diverse workforce, but you can’t simply take your homogenous workforce, add diversity, stir and hope for the best.

Maillian talks about power in the industry, the changing landscape for Black women and Latinas, and what her next act will be.

TechCrunch spoke to founders and investors in New Orleans for a vibe check: How is the city emerging as a tech hub?

Increasing amounts of funding to women in AI “opens the doors” for new innovation in the sector.

Ethics is often a separate conversation from AI building, but they should be one and the same. Bias is dangerous, especially as AI continues spreading.