Tech Talk
30 Apr This Fund Will Invest In Startups That Aren’t Run By White Men In Big Cities
Between 2011 and 2013, companies with a female CEO got only 3% of the total venture capital dollars available. That’s $1.5 billion out of the total $50.8 billion invested in that two year period—a tiny slice of the pie. This year’s Crunchies, the Oscars for the tech community, had a new award category: the Diversity Include Award. Silicon Valley is as guilty as Hollywood for its lack of diversity.
29 Apr Code Tenderloin Connects Formerly Homeless With Tech Jobs
For almost two decades, U.S. Army veteran Del Seymour battled addiction and homelessness in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, a neighborhood long known for poor immigrants, drug use, displaced vets and makeshift shelters.
28 Apr Inaugural technology conference stresses importance of diversity with suppliers
In an inaugural technology conference hosted by the U.S. India Chamber of Commerce DFW, members of the business community spoke about the importance of minority businesses and collaboration with outside technology development. The keynote breakfast speaker was Albert Shen, who was appointed by President Barack Obama to be the national deputy director of Minority Business Development Agency, said minorities will make up a majority of the country by 2044 and that five states or districts — Texas, New Mexico, Hawaii, California and Washington D.C — are already that way.
27 Apr Will Twitter’s New Board Members Help Solve Its Diversity Problem?
In November 2015, a former Twitter developer lambasted the company for its inability to foster a diverse workplace. "There were moments," Leslie Miley wrote in a Medium post, "that caused me to question how and why a company whose product has been used as an agent of revolutionary social change did not reflect the diversity of thought, conversation, and people in its ranks."