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Mixing it up with technology
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Mixing it up with technology

Increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) through technological solutions

A master’s thesis in cooperation with the Chair of Strategy and Organization at the Technical University Munich.

Supervisor: Dr. Theresa Treffers

Chair of Strategy & Organization: Prof. Dr. Isabell Welpe

Student: Britta Felzmann

  • Increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) through technological solutions
  • ⭐  Key Findings
  • ℹ️  About
  • 🖼️  Infographic on the Topic
  • 🌍  The DEI Tech Market
  • 👩‍💻  Technologies for DEI Tech
  • 🧩  Areas of DEI Tech
  • 🤿  Deep Dives
  • 📚  Further reads
  • 💽 Full Database with respective categories
  • 🗞️  Sources
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Click on the links for a detailed description of each topic.

⭐  Key Findings

📌  For most issues identified by the literature where individuals from underrepresented groups face adversity in the workplace exist tech tools that aim at solving them

📌  The area of employee assessment and performance management is a space with a lack of tech solutions

📌  Future research is needed to identify the long term effectiveness of bias interventions that are supported by Virtual Reality

📌  Trackers for diversity representation in societal fields like media and business should be extended to include more underrepresented groups

📌  DEI tech still very focused on the recruiting area, since inclusion and equity are gaining importance, this is expected to change in the future

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For means of simplification, the terms diversity, equity, and inclusion will be abbreviated as DEI. The terms underrepresented identity and underrepresented group are used throughout the thesis to achieve inclusivity within the language. These terms refer to any groups that might experience the negative impact of biases or discrimination. This includes women, people with disability, or people that are different from the majority in terms of race or ethnicity, among others. On this page, they will be abbreviated as URI and URG.

ℹ️  About

The topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion is increasingly discussed in society and the workplace. Global movements like MeToo and Black Lives Matter, in particular, have driven this development and DEI also simply makes sense for companies. It is proven that diverse teams are more creative and can be more effective and performant than teams of people with the same background. However, to reap these benefits, inclusion and equitable practices are considered prerequisites.

Unfortunately, companies are not progressing as much in this area as hoped for. A 2020 McKinsey study found that 15% of leadership teams in 2019 were made up of women, while just 13% of leaders were from ethnic minorities in the U.S. and UK in the same year [1]. Furthermore, employees lack inclusive business environments [2].

To address the lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion, technologies have come up that bypass the negative impact of (un-)conscious biases and structural inequities. These technological tools - or in the following called DEI tech - are explored on this page.

🖼️  Infographic on the Topic

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🌍  The DEI Tech Market

Over 60% of the DEI Tech market is located in the United States, followed by 13% in the UK. The remainder of the companies and tools is distributed over Canada, Australia, Singapore, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Poland, Iceland, and Greece.

Distribution of DEI Tech vendors around the globe
Distribution of DEI Tech vendors around the globe
Distribution of funding in DEI Tech space worldwide
Distribution of funding in DEI Tech space worldwide

This picture is also reflected in the worldwide funding amounts for DEI Tech. The total funding amounts add up to around 2.9 billion US Dollars, of which 77% flow into companies in the US. Nine percent of the funding is located in Australia, where Culture AmpCulture Amp is the best-known company operating in the DEI space. VisierVisier is another company that has received a lot of funding, contributing to the 8% of the total flow of money that can be found in the UK.

Company Size

Companies operating in the DEI tech market are mostly classified as micro or small enterprises (70%). This indicates a market with many startups, which are also younger, as more than half of the companies were founded after 2016.

Market areas

The market areas where DEI Tech vendors operate fall into 6 categories (Click here for an in-depth explanation of these areas in a DEI context. The largest percentage of companies (37%) provide recruitment solutions, followed by 25% of firms operating in the employee engagement & retention space. The next most saturated area is attraction of employees, where 18% of companies offer a solution. Next up are mentoring & career development (10%), technology-supported DEI learning (8%), and employee assessment & performance management (1%).

👩‍💻  Technologies for DEI Tech

Scientific papers mention six technologies that are used to solve problems related to DEI. These technologies are Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Virtual Reality (VR), Computer Vision, and Analytics. The sample collected for this thesis reflects these findings.

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Click on the toggles to learn more about how the technologies are used for DEI.
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

AI is the most used technology in Human Resources Management. Since Machine Learning is a subset of AI and is often connected to AI for technological applications within Human Resources Management, it is concluded within this section.

Within the employee lifecycle, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are deployed in multiple areas within the DEI context:

  • Machine Learning in combination with NLP is used to screen job advertisements or other textual content within companies for biases and exclusionary language. Exemplary companies are Develop DiverseDevelop Diverse or TextioTextio. In this context, NLP structures the text so that Machine Learning algorithms can analyze for biased patterns.
  • Both AI and Machine Learning can be used for the pre-screening of candidates. The technologies predict the likelihood of someone being successful in the job based on criteria that are pre-determined by the employing company or through analyzing successful teams within the company. PymetricsPymetrics is an interesting example of the use of Machine Learning in pre-screening. The startup has developed a game-based approach where successful employees at the hiring company play a number of games that were validated by psychological studies for the purpose of recruiting. Based on the performance of these employees, a model is trained by a machine learning algorithm that automatically evaluates the performance of applicants within the games and predicts how successful they will be in the job. HiredScoreHiredScore evaluates candidates not based on games but uses AI to screen them based on criteria that are chosen by the hiring company.
  • Another use case is conversational AI, as used by AllieAllie, that conducts conversations with candidates automatically to determine their fit for a specific role.
  • RetorioRetorio deploys AI to evaluate applicants within video interviews. For this, it compares their facial expressions with the Big 5 personality traits to determine how well they fit into a company’s culture. See the further reads for more insights into this approach.
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There are different hazards when using AI technology in human resources contexts. AI algorithms can enhance existing biases within data sets and even if there is no demographic information provided by an applicant, AI can correlate non-demographic information with demographic information and discriminate based on this. Therefore, companies that use AI for DEI-related purposed need to thoroughly follow ethical guidelines, and the data needs to be vetted. Good examples of a careful approach to this topic is PymetricsPymetrics. The start-up has open-sourced its code and done an external audit to free its systems of any biases. Go to further readings for more information. RetorioRetorio is using the FairFace [3] dataset for their facial recognition which has been diligently developed to include most groups within the population.
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Natural Language Processing
  • NLP is used to detect spoken or written language biases for DEI purposes. NLP is often combined with machine learning technology to identify biased language in job advertisements or textual content published within a company (see the companies Develop DiverseDevelop Diverse and TextioTextio ).
  • NLP can also be used to redact any demographic information from resumes while leaving sentence structures intact. MeVitaeMeVitae is an example company.
  • Another very specific use case of NLP is presented in the Gender Gap TrackerGender Gap Tracker. Here, NLP is utilized to determine gender representation in media content.
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Virtual Reality

Using Virtual Reality to change attitudes towards a different group is becoming increasingly relevant in the literature on DEI technology.

  • VR is used in practice to intensify the experience of interventions to reduce biases. Equal RealityEqual Reality, Vantage PointVantage Point and Praxis LabsPraxis Labs do VR training on topics like unconscious bias, harassment, or microaggressions.
  • One approach that is suggested by Zaleski (2016) [4], is that the applicant can disappear behind an avatar so that the recruiter cannot judge the person based on their appearance. UnbentUnbent offers something similar. This startup creates a VR space where applicants can choose an avatar of their liking and their interaction with other people in a workplace setting is tested.
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Computer Vision

Computer vision is useful to automate the analysis of visual data. The JanetBotJanetBot is based on this technology and determines gender representation in pictures from media content.

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Analytics

Analytics tools are often referred to as People Analytics in an HR context. Organisations can support their decision-making through analytics based on an objective, data-driven approach. Analytics can determine pay gaps of diversity representation and create valuable insights for the development of DEI initiatives.

Within the data sample, it was found that the analytics solutions either target a specific problem area (mostly pay gaps, see PayAnalyticsPayAnalytics ), an area within the employee lifecycle, like candidate attraction (VisierVisier ) or recruitment (JoonkoJoonko ), or DEI-related topics in every part of the area. To determine the performance of a company in DEI, many analytics tools in the third category also provide employee survey, of which they analyse the results (KanarysKanarys, AllVoicesAllVoices or Culture AmpCulture Amp). Another approach is taken by UmbrellaUmbrella, which detects and analyses DEI-related content in company reports.

🧩  Areas of DEI Tech

Six areas have been identified that are related to the workplace, where the scientific literature lists problems that people from underrepresented groups are facing, or where traditional approaches to improving DEI are not sufficient.

Categories

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Attraction of Employees

Employee attraction is the first stage of the employee lifecycle where potential candidates become aware of a company as employer. There can be differences in how people see the external image of an employer.

For example, while men rate a high salary as more important when considering an employer, women are attracted more towards employee diversity, work-family balance, and similar colleagues. Similarly, underrepresented identities emphasise diversity within the workplace (Backhaus et al., 2002; Thomas & Wise, 1999) [5][6].

Another important aspect is the wording within job advertisements. For example, stereotypically male language in job ads can decrease the number of women that will apply for an occupation (Gaucher et al., 2011; Hentschel et al., 2020) [7][8].

An adjustment of how a recruiting message is conveyed can positively influence whether an applicant feels threatened in their identity by the advertisement – so whether a so-called Stereotype threat is triggered – and therefore if the applicant is attracted towards applying or not (Liu et al., 2021) [9].

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Recruitment

Recruiting is the area where the tech space is most saturated and also where most issues for underrepresented identities are listed in the scientific literature.

In a study performed in the Netherlands, Derous and Ryan (2018) [10] found that people with Arab names received fewer callbacks than those with Dutch names. The same adverse effects have been found for African American names on applications compared to typically white-sounding names in the US (Bertrand & Mullainathan, 2004; Dovidio & Gaertner, 2000) [11][12].

Further, women’s qualifications are often rated lower than men’s, even if they are the same or strongly comparable (Campbell & Hahl, 2020) [13].

Within interviewing, mental processes and unconscious biases can impact the result of the interview negatively for underrepresented identities (Gaucher et al., 2011).

Factors outside of interpersonal biases that can keep diverse applicants from being recruited can also result from institutional or structural discrimination like the recruitment preference from prestigious universities (Bogen & Rieke, 2018) [14].

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Employee Assessment and Performance Management

Literature has found significant differences in the way women and minority employees are generally rated in performance reviews and assessments of how well they are performing in their job. Performance reviews are a relevant factor in determining someone’s compensation and steering career trajectories.

In an earlier study, McKay and McDaniel found that white employees were rated significantly higher than their black counterparts within performance ratings (2006) [15].

A recent study examined language differences between performance reviews for men and women found that women are often described as more communal in their personality and communication style (Correll et al., 2020) [16]. They have less favourable future-oriented reviews. Furthermore, they are less likely to be related with ‘standout words’ like ‘visionary’ or ‘brilliance than men .

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Mentoring and Career Development

Racial minorities and women receive less mentoring on higher levels within a company. Therefore, they are appointed to corporate boards in smaller numbers than White men (McDonald & Westphal, 2013) [17].

Women and people of colour are also at a disadvantage in their assignments at work - receiving less prestigious tasks than white men (Williams & Multhaupt, 2018) [18].

A Canadian study also found that racial minority employees are less likely to be promoted than their White counterparts, particularly at lower organizational levels (Yap & Konrad, 2009) [19].

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Engagement and Retention

Engaging and retaining diverse employees is deeply connected to inclusion and how integrated they feel into the workplace (Brown, 2018) [20]. An essential way of fostering the feeling of inclusion is employee voice. Voice is understood as how employees can influence decision-making and other aspects like activities at work.

Voice mechanisms like anonymous feedback channels or dedicated networks have shown to be very important for underrepresented identities like members of the LGBTQIA+ community (Bell et al., 2011) [21].

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DEI learning or bias interventions

Unconscious bias trainings are commonly used to improve DEI at the workplace. In 2017, companies in the US have spent 8 billion dollars on diversity training (Kirkland & Bohnet, 2017) [22].

However, except for initiatives that were scoped for an extended period (Rudman et al., 2001) [23], few positive results have been reported for these types of training (Forscher et al., 2019) [24]. On the contrary, it has been shown that these initiatives can even lead to increased discriminatory behavior (Kalev et al., 2006) [25].

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Additionally, technologies outside of the workplace have been analyzed.
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More information on the technologies within the different categories can be found in the Deep Dives.

🤿  Deep Dives

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Attraction
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Five subcategories have been identified in the attraction area. Hiring funnel analytics and tools for inclusive language solve problems identified in the literature. Platforms, Active sourcing tools, and applicant matching depict additional offerings.
Problems identified in literature
Tech solution
Example companies
URIs are attracted by different characteristics of a job or company
Analytics for the attraction space in the hiring funnel ⇒ the insights can be used for appropriate branding
UntappedUntapped, VisierVisier
Exclusionary wording
Tools that flag biased or exclusionary language and suggest different words
Develop DiverseDevelop Diverse, Diversely.ioDiversely.io, JobWordsJobWords, TextioTextio, EnteloEntelo, MathisonMathison
Platforms that bring together job seekers from URGs and companies looking to increase their diversity representation
TesthubTesthub, JobseekrsJobseekrs, hackajobhackajob, ersityersity, The Mom ProjectThe Mom Project
Tools for active sourcing that suggest jobs to URIs
Diversely.ioDiversely.io, JobWordsJobWords, HireVueHireVue
Active matching solutions to suggest URIs to companies based on their answers on questionnaires or tests
TesthubTesthub, JobseekrsJobseekrs, HireVueHireVue
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Recruitment
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Eight subcategories have been identified in the recruitment area where tech tools exist. Resume redaction, pre-screening tools, gamified screening, VR screening, structured interviewing and sourcing tools solve problems identified in the literature. Technical recruiting tools and recruiting analytics depict additional offerings.
Problems identified in literature
Tech solution
Example companies
People with names connected to being from an underrepresented group receive fewer callbacks on their resumes, also qualifications are rated differently based on demographic factors
- Tools for anonymizing and redacting resumes and profiles - Pre-screening tools that automatically evaluate candidates before an interview - Gamified testing of applicants’ skills - Skill assessment in VR environment
Resume redaction TalVistaTalVista, MeVitaeMeVitae, Diversely.ioDiversely.io, CensiaCensia, AppliedApplied, EnteloEntelo Pre-screening HermanHerman, Career.PlaceCareer.Place, HubertHubert, FortayFortay, HarverHarver, RetorioRetorio Gamification OWIWIOWIWI, PerspectAIPerspectAI, EqualtureEqualture VR Screening UnbentUnbent
Implicit biases in interviews
Companies providing structured interview guidelines for comparability of interviews
HireVueHireVue, KaratKarat, TesthubTesthub, EquitasEquitas, FilteredFiltered, CloversClovers
Structural discrimination
Sourcing tools suggest diversity-friendly filters or sources automatically while only taking skills into account
Divercity.ioDivercity.io, TalenyaTalenya, AtipicaAtipica, UntappedUntapped, EnteloEntelo
Tools focused on technical recruiting to solve issues of unfairness within technical interviews and coding challenges
KaratKarat, CodilityCodility
Recruiting analytics that surface injustices within the recruiting process
LeverLever, JoonkoJoonko, SeekOutSeekOut, UntappedUntapped, HiringSolvedHiringSolved
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Employee Assessment & Performance Management
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One subcategory has been identified in the employee assessment & performance management area where tech tools exist. This is the only category where no solutions have been found to the problems identified in the scientific literature.
Problems identified in literature
Tech solution
Example companies
Lower ratings of URIs
Different wording in assessments of women
Tools that offer pre-defined templates for objective performance reviews.
Culture AmpCulture Amp, SAP Success FactorsSAP Success Factors
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Mentoring & Career Development
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Two subcategories have been identified in the recruitment area where tech tools exist. Matching tools for mentoring and internal sourcing for promotions solve problems identified in the literature. The issues that employees from URGs receive less prestigious assignments has not been found to be solved.
Problems identified in literature
Tech solution
Example companies
URIs receiving less mentoring
DEI-focused matching platforms for mentees and mentors
PowerToFlyPowerToFly, ChronusChronus, LanditLandit, BravelyBravely
Less prestigious assignments for people from URGs
URIs disadvantaged in promotions
Tools that match employees to job openings based on their skillset
HermanHerman, TalenyaTalenya, CangradeCangrade, PymetricsPymetrics
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Engagement & Retention
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Three subcategories have been identified in the area of engagement and retention. Voice tools solve problems identified in the literature. Employee experience tools, and analytics solutions depict additional offerings.
Problems identified in literature
Tech solution
Example companies
Giving a voice to URIs
Tools with surveys that give insights on inclusion and potentially offer whistleblower hotlines, one-on-one feedback channels, or offer strategies directly from the survey results
IdealIdeal, BetterWorksBetterWorks, OrgAnalytixOrgAnalytix, Fair HQFair HQ, PeakonPeakon, AllVoicesAllVoices, KanarysKanarys, Vault PlatformVault Platform
Some solutions provide different improvement options for the experience of URIs
- Language analysis within corporate context: ishieldishield - Self-assessment for leaders with improvement suggestions: FortayFortay - Background checks for employees before they are employed for toxic comments in publicly available content: FamaFama - Virtual Meeting plugin that tracks speaking times: EqualicertEqualicert
Analytics solutions for inclusion and equity within the company
VisierVisier, IdealIdeal, CNGLMRTCNGLMRT, UmbrellaUmbrella, MeVitaeMeVitae, PayScalePayScale, Syndio SolutionsSyndio Solutions, TranslatorTranslator, QlearsiteQlearsite, KanarysKanarys
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DEI Learning or bias interventions
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Bias interventions tools are either supported by VR or provide more traditional content like videos or textual lessons. Virtual Reality technology increasingly supports interventions for bias reduction to make the experience more intense and vivid. Through the VR support, these interventions fulfil more of the criteria that have been identified to make an intervention successful, these are high intensity and vividness, context relevance, and targeting multiple cognitive processes.
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Praxis Labs has the offering which fulfills most criteria of a successful intervention that works at least in the short term (long term success of VR supported interventions has not yet been researched). It creates awareness of the biases, is repeatable, provides high intensity and vividness, is context-relevant, and targets multiple cognitive processes. The only characteristic that it doesn’t fulfill is being individualized to the person that receives it.
Problems identified in literature
Tech solution
Example companies
VR-supported interventions
Equal RealityEqual Reality, PERSPECTIVESPERSPECTIVES, Vantage PointVantage Point, Praxis LabsPraxis Labs
Bias interventions without VR
Lead InclusivelyLead Inclusively, BiasSyncBiasSync, Media PartnersMedia Partners, AllieAllie, inclusivvinclusivv, The Moxie ExchangeThe Moxie Exchange, Lunaria SolutionsLunaria Solutions
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Technologies outside of the workplace
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Technologies that have been researched outside of the workplace are trackers for either media content, business, or the tech industry. Especially for media content, these tools are technologically advanced and can, for example, track screen or speaking time according to gender. However, this focus on gender is also limited, since it excludes other URIs.
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See further readings for information on the Gender Gap Tracker and the GD-IQ, which are the tools with the most extensive description of how they have been developed.
Tech solution
Tools
Diversity tracking in media content
JanetBotJanetBot, Geena Davis GD-IQGeena Davis GD-IQ, Spellcheck for BiasSpellcheck for Bias, ◽GenderMeme, ◽Journalism DEI Tracker, Gender Gap TrackerGender Gap Tracker, CeretaiCeretai
Diversity tracking in business and tech
◽Global Diversity Tracker (EZ), Gender Equality IndexGender Equality Index, ◽Track Inclusion
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📚  Further reads

Pymetrics AI Audit: https://evijit.github.io/docs/pymetrics_audit_FAccT.pdf

Retorio Fairness approach:

Retorio Whitepaper.pdf1213.6KB

GD-IQ: https://seejane.org/research-informs-empowers/data/

Gender Gap Tracker: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0245533

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💽 Full Database with respective categories

Name
Area
Desciption of functionality in this area
Technology
Website
Country
# of Employees
Latest Funding Round
Total Funding Amount (in US $)
Source
Founded Year
Testhub
Attraction

Employers can post jobs on a platform specifically for diverse talent. Applicants register and take a short test to be matched to potential employers.

www.testhub.tech

Norway

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2019
Jobseekrs
Attraction

A job-matching platform where jobseekers answer a short questionnaire to determine their culture fit. Companies looking to hire also answer questions on their company culture. An AI algorithm trained on unbiased data matches applicants and companies. After matching, companies can schedule an interview with the applicant through the platform.

www.jobseekrs.co.uk

United Kingdom

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2017
Brilliant Hire by SAP
Attraction

Increases the ratio of visitors to applicants on a companys career page through AI-powered personalized job recommendations. Aims to increase diversity through encouraging diverse talent.

Artificial Intelligence, Analytics

www.brillianthire.io

United States

1-10

Seed

1000000
Crunchbase
2018
hackajob
Attraction

This is a job posting platform which specifically aims to bring diverse talent together with employers. The applicants sign up to the platform and post their skills, without any background information. Companies can then reach out to them. The pltform is targeted at tech talents.

Analytics

www.hackajob.co

United Kingdom

51-100

Series A

7900000
Crunchbase
2014
PowerToFly
Attraction

This is a platform which brings diverse job seekers into contact with employers that are interested in hiring with diversity in mind  through events.

powertofly.com

United States

51-100

Series A

7500000
Crunchbase
2014
ersity
Attraction

This tool is a job board specifically targeted to underrepresented candidates.

hirediversity.us

United States

11-50

0
Mattermark
2017
Develop Diverse
Attraction

The tool analyzes job ads for language that is potentially not inclusive and flags which groups might feel excluded. The tool uses AI to keep up with continuous language evolution.

Artificial Intelligence

www.developdiverse.com

Denmark

11-50

Venture - Series Unknown

2500000
Crunchbase
2017
Diversely.io
Attraction

The tool finds and replaces biased language in job ads. It also automatically posts jobs to non-traditional job boards to reach more diverse talent.

diversely.io

Singapore

1-10

Pre-Seed

1000000
Crunchbase
2020
JobWords
Attraction

Within Brand Attraction, the software finds exclusive language within job ads and flags them. It also connects to the employer's HR software to display modern and accessible job ads or job boards on the employer's website. These are specifically designed to increase accessibility for people with a disability.

jobwords.ai

Australia

1-10

Pre-Seed

74000
Crunchbase
2018
Textio
Attraction

The tool finds and replaces biased language in job ads. It calculates a score for how inclusionary the language within job ads is which makes it easy for companies to improve.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

textio.com

United States

101-250

Venture - Series Unknown

42500000
Crunchbase
2014
TalVista
Attraction

For Brand Attraction, the tool can be used to flag and replace problematic language.

www.talvista.com

United States

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2018
Tallocate
Attraction

Companies looking to employ diverse employees can post jobs on the platform.

Artificial Intelligence

www.tallocate.com

United States

11-50

Corporate Round

570000
Crunchbase
2020
Mathison
Attraction

At the Brand Attraction stage, this tool finds and replaces exclusionary language in job-descriptions or other written communication.

mathison.io

United States

11-50

Seed

6200000
Crunchbase
2019
Untapped
Attraction

Through analyzing the diversity of the sourcing funnel, the tool helps companies to target their branding towards underrepresented identities and groups.

Analytics

www.untapped.io

United States

51-100

Series C

82700000
Crunchbase
2017
SAP Success Factors
Attraction

The Job Analyzer Functionality within SAP Success Factors helps business create unbiased job desciptions.

Machine Learning

www.sap.com

Germany

10001+

0
SAP Blog
1972
ishield
Attraction

Within Brand Attraction, the tool analyzes marketing content for exclusionary language.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

ishield.ai

United States

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2021
InHerSight
Attraction

The tool provides a platform where job ads are focused on chracteristics of a company that are especially relevant to women.

www.inhersight.com

United States

1-10

Convertible Note

750000
Crunchbase
2014
Jopwell
Attraction

The platform connects, Black, Latinx and Native  American Students with companies that want to increase their diversity hiring .

www.jopwell.com

United States

51-100

Series A

11900000
Crunchbase
2014
Applied
Attraction

The tool analyzes job ads for language that is potentially not inclusive and flags which groups might feel excluded. The tool uses AI to keep up with continuous language evolution.

beapplied.com

United Kingdom

11-50

Seed

4600000
Crunchbase
2015
Entelo
Attraction

The tool highlights non-inclusive language in job ads.

www.entelo.com

United States

101-250

Venture - Series Unknown

40700000
Crunchbase
2011
The Mom Project
Attraction

The tool is a platform that connects moms to companies.

themomproject.com

United States

101-250

Series C

115600000
Crunchbase
2016
Witty Works
Attraction

The tool supports inclusive langauge through AI.

www.witty.works

Switzerland

11-50

Pre-Seed

843400
Dealroom
2018
Visier
Attraction

The tool helps a company to analyze what's important for diverse talent and understand the hiring funnel, so that the company can use this information to attract them. It analyzes applicant, candidate and employee data to show the success of hiring measures. It measures the quality of hires to see what a successful employee needs. It models scenarios to see what it will take to increase diversity and it collects content updates to inform a company of the demands of diverse talent needs.

Analytics

www.visier.com

Canada

251-500

Series E

216500000
Crunchbase
2010
HireVue
Attraction

Hiring with this tool is based on video interviews where applicants record themselves in giving anaswers on a pre-determined structured interview. They also use games and coding interviews to further test candidates or for technical hiring. The AI sources candidates automatically through social media or the companys applicant tracking system. It then screens the candidates based on pre-determined objective criteria and lead candidates through the beginning of the hiring pipeline.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

www.hirevue.com

United States

251-500

Private Equity

93000000
Crunchbase
2004
Yello
Attraction

The tool offers a job board that is specifically aimed at people from underrepresented groups.

yello.co

United States

101-250

Venture - Series Unknown

89400000
Crunchbase
2008
HireVue
Recruitment

Hiring with this tool is based on video interviews where applicants record themselves in giving anaswers on a pre-determined structured interview. They also use games and coding interviews to further test candidates or for technical hiring. The AI sources candidates automatically through social media or the companys applicant tracking system. It then screens the candidates based on pre-determined objective criteria and lead candidates through the beginning of the hiring pipeline.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

www.hirevue.com

United States

251-500

Private Equity

93000000
Crunchbase
2004
Karat
Recruitment

This tool is specifically desgined for technical interviews. It is based on the research finding that women and underrepresented identities perform better in technical interviews when they are guided through them. Therefore, they give structured interview guidelines to Interview Engineers which they are held accountable to. Also, they only lead the technical interview, but don't do further interviewing based on a resume. Contrary to traditional code tests, this tool supports live technical interviews which have found to be more effective than traditional coding tests.

karat.com

United States

251-500

Series C

169100000
Crunchbase
2014
Lever
Recruitment

At the recruiting stage, companies can send diversity-focused surveys to people that have applied or have not applied to find out how diverse the hiring pipeline is or potential reasons why underrepresented talent has decided against applying.

Analytics

www.lever.co

United States

251-500

Late Stage Venture

122800000
Crunchbase
2012
Retorio
Recruitment

This tool supports AI-powered interviews. Recruiters can determine the traits needed for a job based on the Big 5 model and candidates are evaluated accordingly to how strongly they show any of these Big 5 traits within their application video. To not introduce any biases into the software, the AI is supervised - which means that it only trains under human supervision - and is based on a diverse and broad data set (UCLA's Fairface dataset).

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

www.retorio.com

Germany

1-10

Seed

0
Crunchbase
2018
Testhub
Recruitment

Recuiter gets an interview manual and instructions on how to perform a non-biased structured interview.

www.testhub.tech

Norway

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2019
Herman
Recruitment

The tool assesses candidates before they talk to a human recruiter based on non-demographic information. It works through analyzing a fully automated online interview.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Analytics

hermanpro.com

United States

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2017
Career.Place
Recruitment

With this tool, the employer gives pre-defined criteria, skills, scenario questions for candidates to qualify against. Candidates go through a funnel anonymously and if they qualify based on the employer's criteria, the employer is able to see the CV.

career.place

United States

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2017
Equitas
Recruitment

The tool provides frameworks which are used as the basis for video interviews with candidates. Interviews can be conducted through phone, video and in-person, objectivity is secured through the structured and consistent frameworks. The platform also supports panel interviews with up to 4 interviewers for objective evaluation of the candidates. Evidence-based scoring can be conducted through assessing the audio and transcript of the video to endure that candidates are only evaluated based on the content they provide. Another feature that ensures fair and inclusive interviewing is collaboative scoring, which is supported for all of the interviewers. D&I-relevant demographic information is captured anonymously to track the progression of candidates.

Analytics

www.equitas.ai

United Kingdom

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2018
Quinn Cobbledger
Recruitment

Within recruitment, candidates can provide 60-second long video elevator pitches which they are evaluated based on. The elevator pitch format is supposed to reduce biases through the comparable structuring.

www.qclfocus.com

United States

1-10

Seed

0
Crunchbase
2020
Propl AS
Recruitment

Recruiters can choose from games that fit the role they are hiring for. Candidates are then evaluated based on their performance in the games.

Artificial Intelligence

propl.no

Norway

1-10

Grant

17500
Crunchbase
2021
Hubert
Recruitment

Conversational-AI platform that leads chats with candidates and reduces the number potentials before a human recruiter takes over.

Artificial Intelligence

hubert.ai

Sweden

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2016
Sigma Polaris
Recruitment

AI tool that pre-screens candidates based on their skills.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

sigmapolaris.com

United Kingdom

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2019
Unbent
Recruitment

This is a recruiting tool which leverages Virtual Reality to create real-world scenarios where candidates simulate interaction with other people to test their soft skills. The platform builds and analysis of the candidates' behavior which companies can compare to their recruiting profile and to other candidates.

Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Virtual Reality

www.unbent.io

United States

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2020
Employa
Recruitment

Add-on for the ATS systems of companies, which checks resumes based on their skills through AI.

Artificial Intelligence

employa.com

United States

11-50

0
Crunchbase
2019
Fortay
Recruitment

Within recruitment, the tool focuses on the value fit of a person. It tests this based on a questionnaire that the applicant has to answer.

Artificial Intelligence

fortay.co

Canada

1-10

Non-equity Assistance

0
Crunchbase
2015
TalVista
Recruitment

The tool redacts any non-skills related information from a resume. The resume structure remains intact so that candidates can present themselves how they want. The tool also provides structured interview templates for recruiters.

www.talvista.com

United States

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2018
Divercity.io
Recruitment

The tool offers diversity filters to look specifically for diverse candidates.

www.divercity.io

United States

11-50

Seed

0
Crunchbase
2016
Wonderlic
Recruitment

The tool determines a score for each candidate based on their cognitive ability, personality and motivation. It does so based on questionnaires which were designed by I/O-psychologists.

www.wonderlic.com

United States

51-100

0
Crunchbase
1937
OWIWI
Recruitment

The tool tests the soft skills of applicants within an online game.

Gaming

www.owiwi.co.uk

Greece

1-10

Non-equity Assistance

551800
Crunchbase
2014
MeVitae
Recruitment

The tool redacts any non-skills related information before it passes the applicants on to the recruiting companys' ATS. It then screens candidates for skills and shortlists them.

Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Natural Language Processing

mevitae.com

United Kingdom

11-50

Pre-Seed

1700000
Dealroom
2015
Harver
Recruitment

IO-psychologists work for the tool to determine qualities and competencies that are important for the job, so that recruiters have pre-determined metrics to come back to during the interview to make sure they are not biased. The tool also enables blind hiring to automatically analyze an applicants' objective information and match them to the qualities needed for the job.

Analytics

www.harver.com

The Netherlands

51-100

Series B

28900000
Crunchbase
2010
Cangrade
Recruitment

The tool is based on unbiased psychometric pre-hire assessments, to select applicants before the interview process. To match applicants to an employer, personality attributes of the applicant and success metrics of employees at the company are matched through an ML algorithm to filter out promising candidates.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

www.cangrade.com

United States

11-50

Seed

525000
Crunchbase
2014
Interviewer.AI
Recruitment

The tool pre-screens candidates automatically through AI.

Artificial Intelligence

interviewer.ai

Singapore

11-50

Seed

612600
Crunchbase
2018
GoodJob Software
Recruitment

The tool uses AI to automatically assess not only the skills and experiences of an applicant, but also their behaviors, traits and how they match to top performers in the company. Candidates answer questions and the AI generates the characteristics according to the path assessment. .

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

www.goodjob.io

United States

11-50

Seed

3000000
Crunchbase
2019
Diversely.io
Recruitment

In the Recruitment Stage, the tool anonymizes non-essential information from profiles.

diversely.io

Singapore

1-10

Pre-Seed

1000000
Crunchbase
2020
Talenya
Recruitment

In the Recruitment Stage, the tool shortlists candidates based on their skills. For sourcing of diverse employees, this tool offers a specific search which suggests search words based on what would surface more diverse candidates. This works on multiple pages where candidates might have posted their profiles. Once it surfaces a profile, it removes all demographic information.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

www.talenya.com

United States

51-100

Venture - Series Unknown

9500000
Crunchbase
2016
Filtered
Recruitment

This tool focuses on hiring engineers for technical teams. For this it has different methods to find the right candidates. For culture fit, candidates record themselves while answering pre-determined, non-biased questions. The tool also provides an objective score, determined from the resume, so that recruiters are unbiased before they check the coding challenges of candidates. For the coding challenges, the avatar or name of a candidate can be masked.

www.filtered.ai

United States

11-50

Venture - Series Unknown

17100000
Crunchbase
2016
PerspectAI
Recruitment

The tool provides pre-determined assessments for different roles. Applicants are assessed through playing games and candidates are shortlisted through their performance within the games. .

Artificial Intelligence

perspect.ai

India

11-50

Grant

673000
Crunchbase
2017
Headstart
Recruitment

The tool focuses on college-recruiting. It pre-screens candidates and gives them a score before the best-scoring applicants are passed on to the recruiter.

www.headstart.io

United Kingdom

11-50

Seed

16600000
Crunchbase
2016
Talent Alpha
Recruitment

The tool uses the skills identified in a company's best performing teams to match candidates by using AI and Machine Learning.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

talent-alpha.com

Poland

11-50

Seed

5000000
Crunchbase
2018
Censia
Recruitment

Within recruitment, the tool masks demographic identifiers.

www.censia.com

United States

51-100

Series A

28600000
Crunchbase
2017
Joonko
Recruitment

Within recruitment, the tool analyzes a company's recruitment efforts specifically targeted at diversity. The tool also collects resumes from individuals from underrepresented groups, screens these resumes and connects the candidates with companies that are specifically aiming at recruiting diverse people.

Analytics

www.joonko.co

United States

11-50

Series A

13500000
Crunchbase
2016
Mathison
Recruitment

Within recruitment, the tool supports sourcing and the actual hiring phase. For sourcing, it has a LinkedIn sourcing tool which masks demographic information when searching for candidates. The tool also automatically scans candidates that applied to a company's job ads by only analyzing skills and experiences

mathison.io

United States

11-50

Seed

6200000
Crunchbase
2019
Crosschq
Recruitment

The tool scans candidate profiles and scores without taking demographic information into account.

Artificial Intelligence, Analytics

crosschq.com

United States

11-50

Series A

40600000
Crunchbase
2018
Codility
Recruitment

The tool focuses on technical recruiting. Recruiters can design role-specific code assessments and coding challenges are scored objectively by the tool based on the pre-determined specifications.

www.codility.com

United States

101-250

Series A

24600000
Crunchbase
2009
Clovers
Recruitment

The tool provides question frameworks which are consistent by role. It also engages video recording of the interviews to ensure that videos can be rewatched and shared with multiple people in order to check the recruiters on any implicit biases.

Artificial Intelligence

clovers.ai

United States

11-50

Corporate Round

15000000
Crunchbase
2020
SeekOut
Recruitment

Within recruitment, this tool analyzes the diversity presentation and talent pool of a company as well as targeting sourcing efforts specifically at diverse applicants through specific filters. It also helps recruiters to mask demographic information for sources candidates. Further, it has AI-enabled matching which can be used to mask demographic information.

Artificial Intelligence

seekout.com

United States

101-250

Series C

188600000
Dealroom
2016
hireEZ
Recruitment

The tool is desgined specifially for outbound recruiting and sources candidates automatically from so far untapped talent pools.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

hireez.com

United States

101-250

Series C

45500000
Crunchbase
2015
Untapped
Recruitment

The tool connects to a company's ATS and analyzes the funnel of people that apply to the company's jobs based on diversity metrics. The tool also supports that companys can join their talent pools together to source a broader net of people.

Analytics

www.untapped.io

United States

51-100

Series C

82700000
Crunchbase
2017
Pymetrics
Recruitment

For Recruitment, the tool uses pre-determined assessments to test the soft skills of candidates and evaluates them through AI. It then matches the applicants to any company within the customer ecosystem.

Artificial Intelligence

www.pymetrics.ai

United States

51-100

Series B

56600000
Crunchbase
2011
Atipica
Recruitment

The tool continuuously reviews historical and current applicant profiles. Within resume reviewing, the tool uses demographic models and bias interruptors.

Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Natural Language Processing

www.atipica.co

United States

11-50

Seed

2000000
Crunchbase
2015
Entelo
Recruitment

The tool offers filters that are based on diversity to look specifically for diverse candidates. It can also mask pictures or demographic information from the canddidates' profiles.

www.entelo.com

United States

101-250

Venture - Series Unknown

40700000
Crunchbase
2011
HiringSolved
Recruitment

The tool matches candidates from job platforms with job characteristics that the recruiter can choose. It also analyzes the hiring funnel for diversity.

Artificial Intelligence, Analytics

hiringsolved.com

United States

11-50

Venture - Series Unknown

4500000
Crunchbase
2012
Applied
Recruitment

Within recruitment, the tool anonymizes applications, randomizes candidates' answers to guarantee fair and analyzes D&I data throughout the recruiting process.

beapplied.com

United Kingdom

11-50

Seed

4600000
Crunchbase
2015
Greenhouse
Recruitment

Throughout the recruiting process, the platform sends reminders to stay objective to the recruiter.

www.greenhouse.io

Singapore

11-50

Seed

3900000
Greenhouse Blog
2017
Checkr
Recruitment

The tool conducts fair background checks. Candidates can provide background stories to justify any criminal records.

checkr.com

United States

501-1000

Secondary Market

559000000
Crunchbase
2014
GoodHire
Recruitment

The tool conducts fair background checks.

www.goodhire.com

United States

101-250

0
Crunchbase
2013
HiredScore
Recruitment

The tool automatically reviews candidates by job related qualifications.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

www.hiredscore.com

United States

101-250

0
Crunchbase
2012
8 and Above
Recruitment

The tool collects application videos from candidates which are distributed to companies looking to diverse employees. The tool also takes out any biases that might be built into a companys' ATS.

8a.network

United States

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2019
Equalture
Recruitment

The tool first takes a culture assessment of a company. It then evaluates candidates based on their culture fit and performance in diferent neuroscience games.  This assessment is a pre-screening before human recruiters come into play.

www.equalture.com/

Netherlands

11-50

Venture - Series Unknown

3800000
Dealroom
2018
Culture Amp
Employee Assessment & Performance Management

The tool offers pre-defined templates for objective performance reviews.

Analytics

www.cultureamp.com

Australia

251-500

Series F

257500000
Crunchbase
2009
SAP Success Factors
Employee Assessment & Performance Management

The tool offers pre-defined templates for objective performance reviews.

Machine Learning

www.sap.com

Germany

10001+

0
SAP Blog
1972
OrgAnalytix
Mentoring &  Career Development

The tool collects survey data from employees and creates network maps from them to identify high-performing employees.

Machine Learning, Network Analytics

www.organalytix.com

United States

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2016
PowerToFly
Mentoring &  Career Development

For mentorship, the tool connects people from an underrepresented group with mentors based on the mentees career needs.

powertofly.com

United States

51-100

Series A

7500000
Crunchbase
2014
Herman
Mentoring &  Career Development

The tool analyzes employee data to make objective decisions about internal promotions and source internally.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Analytics

hermanpro.com

United States

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2017
Quinn Cobbledger
Mentoring &  Career Development

The tool works for promotion through applicants taking 60-second voice messages in an elevator-pitch style through which they are evaluated for promotion.

www.qclfocus.com

United States

1-10

Seed

0
Crunchbase
2020
Talenya
Mentoring &  Career Development

For Career Development, the tool sources talent within a company and creates a profile of the employees' skills.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

www.talenya.com

United States

51-100

Venture - Series Unknown

9500000
Crunchbase
2016
SeekOut
Mentoring &  Career Development

Within Career Development, the tool can be used to source internally employees  for open roles without taking their demographic background into account.

Artificial Intelligence

seekout.com

United States

101-250

Series C

188600000
Dealroom
2016
Cangrade
Mentoring &  Career Development

At the Career Development Stage, the tool helps companies build a leadership pipeline based on objective data that was won through employee assessment based on scientifically proven characteristics.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

www.cangrade.com

United States

11-50

Seed

525000
Crunchbase
2014
Chronus
Mentoring &  Career Development

The tool offers matching and pre-determined frameworks and programs for the mentoring relationship.

chronus.com

United States

51-100

Private Equity

78000000
Crunchbase
2007
Landit
Mentoring &  Career Development

Through curated and personalized content, this tool supports the career paths of women and individuals from underrepresented groups.

www.landit.com

United States

11-50

Non-equity assistance

18900000
Dealroom
2014
Pymetrics
Mentoring &  Career Development

The tool objectively assesses the workforce and the skills of employees and matches them to internal job openings.

Artificial Intelligence

www.pymetrics.ai

United States

51-100

Series B

56600000
Crunchbase
2011
Bravely
Mentoring &  Career Development

The tool provides underrepresented individuals targeted mentoring and matches them with employees from all different levels withing the company for coaching sessions.

workbravely.com

United States

51-100

Series A

18000000
Dealroom
2017
my2be
Mentoring &  Career Development

Mentoing platform targeted at diverse employees.

www.my2be.com

United Kingdom

1-10

0
Dealroom
2018
Diversely.io
Engagement & Retention

For Enagagement & Retention, the tool tracks diversity progress within the company.

diversely.io

Singapore

1-10

Pre-Seed

1000000
Dealroom
2020
Visier
Engagement & Retention

Through analyzing diversity and inclusion within a business, this tool helps companies retain underrepresented employees.

Analytics

www.visier.com

Canada

251-500

Series E

216500000
Crunchbase
2010
Ideal
Engagement & Retention

The tool enhances employee survey data with insights on inclusion. The tool analyzes the data specifically for diversity, equity, and inclusion and banchmarks a company's score against the industry.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

ideal.com

Canada

11-50

Venture - Series Unknown

3000000
Crunchbase
2013
CNGLMRT
Engagement & Retention

This platform provides analytics to benchmark a company against competitors in terms of diversity and inclusion efforts to take action on any issues.

Analytics

www.cnglmrt.com

United States

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2020
Umbrella
Engagement & Retention

The tool analyzes data and written content a comany has and automatically generates diversity and inclusion reports.

Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Natural Language Processing

www.umbrellaanalytics.net

United Kingdom

1-10

0
Dealroom
2019
MeVitae
Engagement & Retention

The tool provides analytics to track D&I Data and to find the areas where more diverse talent is needed or issues like diverse employees not being promoted.

Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Natural Language Processing

mevitae.com

United Kingdom

11-50

Pre-Seed

1700000
Dealroom
2015
PayScale
Engagement & Retention

The tool analyzes pay equity within companies.

Artificial Intelligence

www.payscale.com

United States

251-500

Venture - Series Unknown

33400000
Crunchbase
2002
BetterWorks
Engagement & Retention

The tool makes it easy to create surveys and polls for employees  as well as safe two-way communication between employees and their managers. It is designed to analyze the data with transparency in mind and to cluster common topics for a high-level overview.

www.betterworks.com

United States

101-250

Venture - Series Unknown

129500000
Crunchbase
2011
OrgAnalytix
Engagement & Retention

The tool collects survey data from employees and creates network maps from them to show dynamics within the company and create a Diversity Index and Diversity SWOT Analysis.

Machine Learning, Network Analytics

www.organalytix.com

United States

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2016
ishield
Engagement & Retention

The tool analyzes the language within a company to free content from microaggressions, bullying, harassment, bias and toxicity, in order to retain employees.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

ishield.ai

United States

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2021
Fair HQ
Engagement & Retention

The tool starts with a DEI Audit based on an evidence-based assessment through a confidential employee survey. It then generates Insights from the assessment from the survey, other company documents, and diversity data and scores the current D&I against company benchmarks. The tool automatically develops strategies on how D&I can be improved within the company.

Analytics

fairhq.co

United Kingdom

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2020
Peakon
Engagement & Retention

The tool provides pre-determined surveys to measure Employee Voice. The tool then automatically analyzes the data to show diversity and inclusion. The tool also supports confidential feedback communication between employees and managers.

Analytics

www.workday.com

Denmark

251-500

Series B

68000000
Crunchbase
2014
Waggl / Dialogue
Engagement & Retention

The tool provides per-determined assessments, dependent on what a company specifically wants to measure regarding DEI. It then provdes constant assessment on how included employees feel within the company.

Artificial Intelligence, Analytics

www.waggl.com

United States

51-100

Debt Financing

12500000
Crunchbase
2014
AllVoices
Engagement & Retention

This tool is a platform that includes a whistleblower hotline, anonymous feedback, and surveys for employees to provide their voice.  The tool then generates relevant insights from the data.

Analytics

www.allvoices.co

United States

11-50

Series A

13700000
Dealroom
2017
Culture Amp
Engagement & Retention

The tool analyzes company culture to generate DEI insights which can be used to improve on areas with issues and retain diverse employees.

Analytics

www.cultureamp.com

Australia

251-500

Series F

257500000
Crunchbase
2009
Fortay
Engagement & Retention

The tool offers a self-assessment for leaders which measures how inclusive they manage their employees. The data generated from the assessment can be used to address issues regarding inclusivity.

Artificial Intelligence

fortay.co

Canada

1-10

Non-equity Assistance

0
Crunchbase
2015
Qlearsite
Engagement & Retention

This tool offers surveys for employees to voice how included they feel. The surveys are then automatically evaluated so that any areas with D&I issues can be improved.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Analytics

www.qlearsite.com

United Kingdom

11-50

Venture - Series Unknown

7700000
Crunchbase
2014
Blendoor
Engagement & Retention

This tool analyzes different data points across a company to assess the corporate DEI performance across relevant demographics.

Analytics

blendoor.com

United States

1-10

Seed

165000
Crunchbase
2014
SAP Success Factors
Engagement & Retention

The tool has in-built capabilities for analyzing D&I measures within a company.

Machine Learning

www.sap.com

Germany

10001+

0
SAP Blog
1972
Visier
Engagement & Retention

The tool analyzes company culture to generate DEI insights which can be used to improve on areas with issues and retain diverse employees.

Analytics

www.visier.com

Canada

251-500

Series E

216500000
Crunchbase
2010
SameWorks
Engagement & Retention

The tool analyzes D&I metrics and surfaces unequal treatment like pay gaps.

Analytics

www.sameworks.com

United States

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2018
Syndio Solutions
Engagement & Retention

The tool helps companies measure pay and opportunity equity. For example, in pay, promotions, performance, retention, and policies.

Analytics

synd.io

United States

51-100

Series C

83400000
Dealroom
2016
Translator
Engagement & Retention

The tool analyzes company culture to generate DEI insights which can be used to improve on areas with issues and retain diverse employees.

Artificial Intelligence, Analytics

www.translator.company

United States

11-50

Seed

0
Crunchbase
2016
Allie
Engagement & Retention

For Engagement & Retention, the Chatbot can be used as feedback tool if employees have any issues with inclusion.

www.alliebot.com

United States

1-10

Pre-Seed

100000
Crunchbase
2017
Kanarys
Engagement & Retention

Tool for analyzing internal DEI data and comparing it to industry benchmarks. Offers a feedback channel for underrepresented identities.

www.kanarys.com

United States

11-50

Seed

4600000
Dealroom
2018
Fama
Engagement & Retention

The tool bakcground checks candidates for any toxic or discriminatory comments within publicly available online information.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

fama.io

United States

11-50

Series B

17700000
Dealroom
2015
Vault Platform
Engagement & Retention

The app helps with reporting discrimination and provides analyses on unethical behaviors within a company.

Analytics

vaultplatform.com

United Kingdom

11-50

Series A

12400000
Dealroom
2018
Diversio
Engagement & Retention

The tool helps companies track their DEI measures and automatically suggests improvements for any issues.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Analytics

diversio.com

Canada

51-100

Series A

6600000
Dealroom
2018
culture Shift
Engagement & Retention

The tool gives employees an easy way of reporting  discriminatory behavior.

www.culture-shift.co.uk

United Kingdom

1-10

Venture - Series Unknown

2900000
Dealroom
2018
Flair Impact
Engagement & Retention

The tool offers surveys for measuring how anti-racist the workplace culture of a company is. It then automatically analyzes the culture and gives recommendations on improvement actions.

Analytics

flairimpact.com

United Kingdom

11-50

Seed

1400000
Dealroom
2017
Equalicert
Engagement & Retention

This tool is a Virtual Meeting plugin which enables measurement of spaeking time by participant, tracking of interruptions and monologues and generates insights by gender.

Artificial Intelligence, Analytics

www.equalicert.com

United States

1-10

Pre-Seed

0
Dealroom
2021
PayAnalytics
Engagement & Retention

The tool analzes pay inequities.

Analytics

www.payanalytics.de

Iceland

11-50

Series A

3900000
Dealroom
2017
GapSquare
Engagement & Retention

The tool analyzes pay inequities and the diversity representation within companies.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Analytics

www.gapsquare.com

United Kingdom

1-10

0
Dealroom
2017
Equal Reality
DEI Learning

The company offers customized Virtual Reality Training to decrease biases, discrimination, harassement and bullying and increasing inclusion for people from underrepresented groups.

Virtual Reality

www.equalreality.com

Australia

1-10

Grant

56300
Crunchbase
2017
PERSPECTIVES
DEI Learning

The company offers customized Virtual Reality Training to decrease biases, discrimination, harassement and bullying and increasing inclusion for people from underrepresented groups.

vrperspectives.com

United States

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2018
Lead Inclusively
DEI Learning

The company offers an app that sends reminders about inclusive behavior to the user. It can be targeted towards different focus areas, like for example Team meetings.

Artificial Intelligence

leadinclusively.com

United States

1-10

Seed

1500000
Crunchbase
2016
BiasSync
DEI Learning

The company has developed a bias assessment tool to give managers a view on biases they might have and how the perpetuate inequality throughput the organization. The tool then provides training content to reduce these biases.

biassync.com

United States

11-50

Seed

3600000
Crunchbase
2017
Media Partners
DEI Learning

The platform offers content on Diversity and Inclusion, as well as Sexual Harrasment training. The programs are one off learning experiences which can be tailored to different organizations.

www.mediapartners.com

United States

11-50

Series A

6700000
Crunchbase
1993
Vantage Point
DEI Learning

The company offers customized Virtual Reality Training to decrease biases, discrimination, harassement and bullying and increasing inclusion for people from underrepresented groups.

Virtual Reality

www.tryvantagepoint.com

United States

51-100

0
Crunchbase
2018
Praxis Labs
DEI Learning

The company offers tailord and immersive VR learning journey that can take 6 or 12 months. The learning is supported by Virtual Reality.

Virtual Reality

praxislabs.co

United States

1-10

Series A

18700000
Crunchbase
2019
Allie
DEI Learning

This tool is a Chatbot which can be accessed for regular D&I training content.

www.alliebot.com

United States

1-10

Pre-Seed

100000
Crunchbase
2017
inclusivv
DEI Learning

The tool can be used to bring teams together for conversations about inclusion. It ensures that everyone has a voice through structured conversations.

www.inclusivv.co

United States

11-50

Seed

1100000
Crunchbase
2016
The Moxie Exchange
DEI Learning

The app offers daily reminders to employees about inclusive behavior and offers learning content around DEI.

themoxieexchange.com

United States

11-50

0
Dealroom
2012
Lunaria Solutions
DEI Learning

The tool first audits the current state of DEI and matches a DEI learning program to the company. Employees are connected to 10-15 minte weekly education units.

lunariasolutions.com

Canada

1-10

Grant

79000
Dealroom
2017
JanetBot
Other

Bot checking for Female representation in the Financial Times.

Machine Learning, Computer Vision

• https://labs.ft.com/product/2018/11/07/janetbot.html • https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/ • https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/nov/14/financial-times-tool-warns-if-articles-quote-too-many-men

United Kingdom

0
See websites
2017
Geena Davis GD-IQ
Other

The GD-QI Tool measures diversity in screen time and speaking time through machine learning.

Machine Learning, Voice Activity Detection, Segmentation, Acoustic Feature Extraction, Feature Normalization

• https://about.google/main/gender-equality-films/ • https://seejane.org/research-informs-empowers/data/ • https://seejane.org/wp-content/uploads/gdiq-reel-truth-women-arent-seen-or-heard-automated-analysis.pdf • https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/movies/geena-davis-inclusion-quotient-research.html

United States

0
See websites
2017
Spellcheck for Bias
Other

Spellcheck for Bias analyzes film and television scripts, manuscripts and advertising briefs to create a breakdown of characters and dialogue. Determines representation of six identities (gender, race, LQBTQIA+, Disabilities, Age 50+, Body Size, skin tone) through Human Expert Coding. Provides an analysis of Tropes and Stereotypes, such as attributes as racial injustice violence, discrimination and intelligence. Recognizes not only the amount of lines that a character has but also the quality of the character.

Machine Learning

• https://seejane.org/spellcheck-for-bias/

United States

0
See websites
2019
Global Diversity Tracker (EZ)
Other

Tracks number of women on boards since 2012

• https://www.egonzehnder.com/de/global-board-diversity-tracker

Switzerland

0
See websites
2012
GenderMeme
Other

Tracks gender representation in media.

Natural Language Processing

• https://gendermeme.org/ • https://github.com/poorna-kumar/gendermeme-core (Open Source Code)

United States

0
See websites
2017
Gender Equality Index
Other

Bloomberg Gender Equality Index

• https://www.bloomberg.com/gei/about/

United States

0
See websites
2016
Gender Avenger
Other

Female representation in Social Media. Uses users' social media data to calculate number of women in posts / social media forums.

• https://www.genderavenger.com/tally

United States

0
See websites
2014
Track Inclusion
Other

Tracks inclusion of women in Tech awards, conferences, companies and the US government.

• https://trackinclusion.org/

United States

0
See websites
2021
Journalism DEI Tracker
Other

Tracks journalism outlets on DEI criteria.

• https://democracyfund.org/idea/journalism-dei-tracker-2/

United States

0
See websites
2019
Gender Gap Tracker
Other

Tracks gender representation in media.

Data Scraping, Natural Language Processing

• https://github.com/sfu-discourse-lab/GenderGapTracker • The Gender Gap Tracker: Using Natural Language Processing to measure gender bias in media

Canada

0
See websites
2018
Ceretai
Other

The tool automatically analyzes any audiovisual content and generates diversity data from it. It is targeted at media content like movies or books.

Analytics, Machine Learning

ceretai.com

Sweden

1-10

0
Crunchbase
2018
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