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Stephanie Van Putten, a notable leader in tech and entrepreneurship, shares her journey from PG County, Maryland, to becoming a major force in Silicon Valley. She discusses her experiences at Microsoft and MIT, founding Blendoor, and creating Visible Figures, a platform enhancing visibility for women leaders of the African diaspora. With insights into navigating tech, raising venture capital, and fostering diversity, Van Putten reflects on challenges and the importance of community and networking. Join this enlightening conversation to explore the intersection of human capital, technology, and the push for more inclusive, equitable workplaces.

This episode of Money Tales is about how education, employment and financial freedom are not as closely linked in the US today as they've been in the past. Stephanie Van Putten, our guest on the podcast, is a Stanford and MIT grad who followed all the "rules" for success in America— only to discover the game had changed. Stephanie challenges the long-held belief that education and hard work automatically lead to financial freedom. As a Black woman in tech, she navigated complex layers of bias and confronted pay disparities at tech giants like Microsoft, and later witnessed the uneven playing field of venture capital firsthand. Stephanie's journey reveals an uncomfortable truth: even with elite credentials, the path to building wealth is not as straightforward as it once was. Stephanie Van Putten a is a founder, technologist and activist that has been featured in The Atlantic, MIT Tech Review, NY Times, Fortune, Forbes and Bloomberg to name a few.  Stephanie's career spans two decades working in SaaS, consulting, startups and venture capital: Microsoft, Deloitte, TripAdvisor, Blendoor and the Equity Alliance. Stephanie is currently a trustee at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), guest lecturer and the executive director of Visible Figures: executive network and platform for high profile women leaders across the African diaspora. She has a BS in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University, an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and an Alpine Level I Certification from Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA).

On this episode of the Startup of the Year Podcast, Frank Gruber, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Established and Co-Founder of Established Ventures, introduces an Alumni Spotlight panel discussion from our 2020 Summit. The discussion was hosted by the Established Chief Operating Officer, John Guidos, and the alumni panel included Stephanie Lampkin, the Founder & CEO Blendoor. Courtney Caldwell and Dr. Tye Caldwell, the Co-Founders of ShearShare were also a part of the group. Additionally, the panel was rounded-out with Polly Rodriquez, the Co-Founder & CEO of Unbound, and Danielle Rushton, the CEO and Co-Founder of Wherewithal. We also hear the “VC Minute” segment from Rich Maloy of Established Ventures who talks about “TAM.” The 2021 Startup of the Year Application is open! The top 100 startups will come together for additional opportunities to connect, showcase, and potentially take home the title of Startup of the Year at our annual Summit. You can see if your startup fits our criteria and apply today at: soty.link/apply We also once again talk about TaxTaker, which offers an easy to use tech solution that helps startups claim R&D tax credits and earn back tens of thousands of dollars or more every year. They're on a mission to help startups and founders fuel their growth efforts so they can continue doing what they do best - building awesome companies and changing the world. Get started now for free at TaxTaker.com/SOTY. Lastly, we invite you all to join our community today to access the support, expert advice, and resources you need to elevate your startup by going to: est.us/join Thank you for listening, and as always, please check out the Established website and subscribe to the newsletter at www.est.us Checkout Startup of the Year at www.startupofyear.com Subscribe to the Startup of the Year Daily Deal Flow: www.startupofyear.com/daily-dealflow Subscribe to the Startup of the Year podcast: www.podcast.startupofyear.com Subscribe to the Established YouTube Channel: soty.link/ESTYouTube *** Startup of the Year helps diverse, emerging startups, founding teams, and entrepreneurs push their company to the next level. We are a competition, a global community, and a resource. Startup of the Year is also a year-long program that searches the country for a geographically diverse set of startups from all backgrounds and pulls them together to compete for the title of Startup of the Year. The program includes a number of in-person and virtual events, including our annual South By Southwest startup pitch event and competition. All of which culminate at our annual Startup of the Year Summit, where the Startup of the Year winner is announced, along with an opportunity at a potential investment. Established is a consultancy focused on helping organizations with innovation, startup, and communication strategies. It is the power behind Startup of the Year. Created by the talent responsible for building the Tech.Co brand (acquired by an international publishing company), we are leveraging decades of experience to help our collaborators best further (or create) their brand & accomplish their most important goals. Connect with us on Twitter - @EstablishedUs and Facebook - facebook.com/established.us/.

Stephanie Lampkin, Founder & CEO of Blendoor, talks about human biases, how we can mitigate them with technology, as well as her experience being a business leader.

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.We're closing our survey soon, so this is your last chance (probably) to get your voice heard!Despite it being a short week, as always, it was a busy, busy time. We had Grace on the dials today, and Danny, Natasha, and Alex making chit-chat about the tech world. As with every week this year, we had to cut and cut and cut to get the show down to size. Here's what made it in in the end: Medium saw more employees depart the company after CEO Ev Williams published a 'culture memo.' While the Medium memo doesn't wholly ban politics, some allege that the undertone of the statement, timed weeks after a failed unionization attempt, created an unsafe environment. A week later, Natasha covered another controversy, this time at Y Combinator. We riff on the takeaway, and what this story looks like three months from now. The issue of company culture is attracting companies. Or more precisely startups, with Blendoor dropping a new report this week that TechCrunch covered, and Vault raising $8.2 million to provide a software solution to aid employees in reporting misconduct. On the funding round beat, we explored ChartHop's new $35 million round that Danny had many thoughts about, fake-chicken nuggets startup Nuggs raising $50 million, and Faculty's latest deal that will help power its vision for the future of male grooming. We also got into Lifted's elder-care focused round, a startup in the larger healthtech beat that Natasha is giving some of her attention to. And we wrapped with the ExtraHop exit. We spent a minute trying to figure out why the company was valued at $900 million in its exit. The number, while large, felt light based on what we knew about the company.Thanks for hopping along with us this week and every week. Quick programming note: Natasha will take Alex's spot on the Monday show for next week since he's out, so be nice, and send her stuff to mention.

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.We're closing our survey soon, so this is your last chance (probably) to get your voice heard!Despite it being a short week, as always, it was a busy, busy time. We had Grace on the dials today, and Danny, Natasha, and Alex making chit-chat about the tech world. As with every week this year, we had to cut and cut and cut to get the show down to size. Here's what made it in in the end: Medium saw more employees depart the company after CEO Ev Williams published a 'culture memo.' While the Medium memo doesn't wholly ban politics, some allege that the undertone of the statement, timed weeks after a failed unionization attempt, created an unsafe environment. A week later, Natasha covered another controversy, this time at Y Combinator. We riff on the takeaway, and what this story looks like three months from now. The issue of company culture is attracting companies. Or more precisely startups, with Blendoor dropping a new report this week that TechCrunch covered, and Vault raising $8.2 million to provide a software solution to aid employees in reporting misconduct. On the funding round beat, we explored ChartHop's new $35 million round that Danny had many thoughts about, fake-chicken nuggets startup Nuggs raising $50 million, and Faculty's latest deal that will help power its vision for the future of male grooming. We also got into Lifted's elder-care focused round, a startup in the larger healthtech beat that Natasha is giving some of her attention to. And we wrapped with the ExtraHop exit. We spent a minute trying to figure out why the company was valued at $900 million in its exit. The number, while large, felt light based on what we knew about the company.Thanks for hopping along with us this week and every week. Quick programming note: Natasha will take Alex's spot on the Monday show for next week since he's out, so be nice, and send her stuff to mention.

Stephanie Lampkin, a TEDx speaker and former downhill ski racer, is the founder and CEO of Blendoor, which creates enterprise software that leverages augmented intelligence and people analytics to mitigate unconscious bias in hiring. Her 15-year career in the tech industry has included founding two startups and working in technical roles at Lockheed, Microsoft, and TripAdvisor. In this conversation with Stanford lecturer Emily Ma, she discusses her experiences as a Black woman in tech, the importance of expanding our social graphs to solve diversity challenges, and why she's largely opted out of chasing traditional venture capital.

Stephanie Lampkin, a TEDx speaker and former downhill ski racer, is the founder and CEO of Blendoor, which creates enterprise software that leverages augmented intelligence and people analytics to mitigate unconscious bias in hiring. Her 15-year career in the tech industry has included founding two startups and working in technical roles at Lockheed, Microsoft, and TripAdvisor. In this conversation with Stanford lecturer Emily Ma, she discusses her experiences as a Black woman in tech, the importance of expanding our social graphs to solve diversity challenges, and why she’s largely opted out of chasing traditional venture capital.

Looking for tools and sites to make your hiring more diverse? This is the episode for you. African Americans: BlackJobs.com, Black Tech Pipeline, BlackTechJobs, HBCU 20x20, HBCU Career Center, HBCU Connect, Mathison Criminal Histories: 70MillionJobs, 70 MillionStaffing, HonestJobs.      Disabled Persons: AbilityJobs, GettingHired Diverse Professionals (general): Americas Job Exchange, Blendoor, Circa, Diversityjobs.com, DiversityInc, EmployDiversity, Entelo Diversity, eQuest, Hiretual, HRdiversifyd, Incluzion, Jobwriter, Joonko, Jopwell, Mathison, Professional Diversity Network, Seekout, Talvista, The Diversity Dashboard, Unbias Me, WorkplaceDiversity, TapRecruit, Textio. Latin/Hispanic: LatPro, Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement (HACE) LGBT: Include.io, LGBTconnect, OutProNet. Veterans: VetJobs, RecruitMilitary, Military.com        Native Americans: NativeAmericanJobs.com Women: CareerContessa, FairyGodBoss, InHerSight, International Association for Women, The MOM Project, Women For Hire, Hire Tech Ladies, Power to Fly, Women Who Code Sponsored by Adzuna and Emissary Download the ebook of diversity hiring tools here: https://www.rectechmedia.com/ebooks/diversity-hiring-tools-spreadsheet

On this episode of the Startup of the Year Podcast, we hear some startup wisdom from the Founder and CEO of Blendoor, Stephanie Lampkin. Blendoor is inclusive recruiting and people analytics software that mitigates unconscious bias. Candidates are sourced from hundreds of strategic partners and universities and presented to recruiters without the candidate’s name, photo, or dates. Blendoor was also the winner of the Startup of the Year pitch competition in 2015.   We also hear some segments from some of our Established Team members. Our VP of Engagement, Rich Maloy, provides some advice with the “VC Minute” and our Director of Strategic Operations and managing member of Established Ventures, John Guidos, gives his “Pitch Deck Pointers.”  Lastly, our Co-CEO Frank Gruber provides his thoughts about how to stay positive in the current state of the world.    As mentioned in the episode, please join us for our upcoming 8th Annual Startup of the Year Summit which will be held online on November 16-18. The Summit is a curated experience for emerging founders, seasoned entrepreneurs, corporate innovation leads, accelerators, and investors to build relationships that fuel success. Summit is also the culmination of the 2020 Startup of the Year competition, and attendees can expect some of the following: The Top 100 Startups will compete for the 2020 Startup of the Year championship title. Up to $20K in potential investment from Established Ventures for one of the semifinalists. $10K non-diluted cash prize for a U.S. Veteran-led company from sponsor .US Curated connections for the Top 100 with investors and corporate leads. Keynote speakers, such as Tim Draper, Mary Grove, and more. "Ask Me Anything" sessions with VCs, Corporate Leaders, and Seasoned Entrepreneurs. Opportunity to network with expert judges and mentors, such as Phil Nadel, Lesa Mitchell, Erica Minnihan, and more. You can learn more about the Summit and register for the event at the following link: https://summit.startupofyear.com/   Also, please get your free .US domain today by going to the following link: soty.link/dotusplus.    Thank you for listening, and as always, please check out the Established website and subscribe to the newsletter at www.est.us   Checkout Startup of the Year at www.startupofyear.com/   Subscribe to the Startup of the Year Daily Deal Flow: www.startupofyear.com/daily-dealflow   Subscribe to the Startup of the Year podcast: http://startupoftheyear.libsyn.com/   Subscribe to the Established YouTube Channel: https://soty.link/ESTYouTube   *** Startup of the Year helps diverse, emerging startups, founding teams, and entrepreneurs push their company to the next level. We are a competition, a global community, and a resource.     Startup of the Year is also a year-long program that searches the country for a geographically diverse set of startups from all backgrounds and pulls them together to compete for the title of Startup of the Year.    The program includes a number of in-person and virtual events, including our annual South By Southwest startup pitch event and competition. All of which culminate at our annual Startup of the Year Summit, where the Startup of the Year winner is announced, along with an opportunity at a potential investment.   Established is a consultancy focused on helping organizations with innovation, startup, and communication strategies. It is the power behind Startup of the Year.  Created by the talent responsible for building the Tech.Co brand (acquired by an international publishing company), we are leveraging decades of experience to help our collaborators best further (or create) their brand & accomplish their most important goals.  Connect with us on Twitter - @EstablishedUs and Facebook - facebook.com/established.us/.

Stephanie Lampkin is the founder and CEO of Blendoor, an AI and people analytics platform that helps companies hire and retain a diverse workforce by mitigating unconscious bias and leveraging big data and analytics to drive more meritocratic decision-making. Candidates are sourced from hundreds of strategic partners & universities and presented to recruiters without name, photo or dates. Then, Blendoor integrates with a company’s HR systems to track candidates based on demographics to identify where & how bias happens; this transparency drives accountability within orgs, teams, and even individual hiring managers. In addition to measuring bias, Blendoor provides metrics that demonstrate the ROI of diversity & inclusion initiatives. With data & AI, they aim to move the discussion from social good to business intelligent. Stephanie has had a 15 year career in the tech industry founding two startups and working in technical roles at Lockheed, Microsoft, and TripAdvisor. She holds a BS in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from MIT. Connect with Stephanie Lampkin Blendoor YouTube Twitter Facebook Instagram LinkedIn slampkin@blendoor.com Some of the Topics Covered by Stephanie Lampkin in this Episode How Stephanie taught herself coding at age 13 What Blendoor is and what led Stephanie to found it Stephanie's original vision for Blendoor and how it has pivoted and evolved into what it is today How Stephanie created the idea at a hackathon How Stephanie approaches customer acquisition The early fundraising process for Blendoor and what she learned from it The importance of relationship building Product development as an AI SaaS B2B company How Stephanie has defined her ideal customers and approached sales Stephanie's move to Silicon Valley Leveraging press and PR for sales Building out the team for Blendoor How Blendoor sources diverse talent How Stephanie approaches partnerships for Blendoor Identifying and onboarding clients that are ready to work with Blendoor The importance of DE&I and getting companies to prioritize it The challenge of fundraising as a black woman The business model for Blendoor The big vision for Blendoor Stephanie's advice for entrepreneurs How Stephanie recharges away from work Stephanie's book recommendations Stephanie's entrepreneurial experience founding Hoowenware prior to Blendoor Deciding to get an MBA How to get involved with Blendoor Links from the Episode Black Data Processing Associates Hackathon Blendoor on Fast Company Blendoor on Forbes Tech Inclusion Conference Blendoor's BlendScore tool National Black MBA Association Society of Women Engineers Anita Borg Institute Grace Hopper Celebration National Society of Black Engineers Mellody Hobson on Corporate Diversity #131: Olivia Owens, Creator and General Manager of IFundWomen of Color and Head of Partnerships at IFundWomen, a Platform for Female Entrepreneurs to Raise Capital Through Crowdfunding IFundWomen of Color Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Caste by Isabel Wilkerson #143: Lillian Rafson, Founder and CEO of Pack Up + Go, a Travel Agency with Surprise Destinations, on Bootstrapping the Business, Planning 10,000+ Trips, and Running a Travel Company During the COVID Crisis #121: Samantha Patil, Founder and CEO of Well Traveled, a Members Only Review Platform for Millennial Travelers

Emily Chang speaks to Tristan Walker, founder and CEO of Walker and Co., Iman Abuzeid, founder and CEO of Incredible Health, Chris Bennett, the founder and CEO of Wonderschool and Stephanie Lampkin, founder and CEO of Blendoor about the lack of racial diversity in corporate America.

Chris Russell recaps a long week at the HR Tech Conference in Las Vegas and shares some audio from the final round of startup pitches. Blendoor who had a really great female CEO who showed off their diversity recruiting platform.   Compliance HR…like LegalZoom but for enterprise legal departments... Jane.AI - virtual HR assistant that asnwers question for your employees RelishCareers---MBA level recruiting platform The RecTech Podcast is sponsored by WorkHere.com and Hiretual.com    

Welcome back to Tech Forward, listeners! This week I spoke with Stephanie Lampkin, founder and CEO of Blendoor, technology that mitigates unconscious bias in hiring through artificial intelligence and people analytics. During Stephanie’s 14-year career in the tech industry, she has founded two startups and held technical roles at Lockheed, Microsoft, and TripAdvisor. Despite a tech background beginning in her teen years, Stephanie still faced hiring bias from recruiters who told her she was “not technical enough,” and tried to steer her towards sales and marketing roles. This was her inspiration to start Blendoor, which enhances the ability of humans to judge other humans based on merits — not molds. On Blendoor, qualified candidates are presented to recruiters with no names, photos, or age listed — just that they are a fit for the role. Once the company selects a candidate, the person’s identity is revealed. Stephanie designed Blendoor around the idea that certain demographics are disadvantaged, and often very small details can signify someone as a member of such a demographic. Something as simple as someone’s name can indicate race, nationality, religion, class, and more. She chose which aspects of candidates’ identity to mask based on this knowledge. By choosing when to reveal those details, Blendoor can track how far along different demographics of qualified candidates make it in the hiring process. From there, they identify where bias happens and bring some transparency and accountability to the objectivity that recruiters and hiring managers have. “In the knowledge worker economy, it’s important to hire the smartest and best people. And if you allow your own bias to get in the way of seeing those people, you are handicapping your business. This is not a ‘nice to have.’ This is a ‘need to have.’ ...You are so reliant upon different types of people to drive innovation and marketing and sales. You need to equip yourself with devices that ensure you’re being as objective as possible in your assessment.” While Blendoor has focused primarily on large tech companies for their initial target market, Stephanie wants her platform to be industry agnostic. They’ll be expanding their scope later this year to include Fortune 500 companies in finance, retail, consulting, and more. Stephanie, thanks so much for coming onto the show to tell us about your incredible work with Blendoor. I can’t wait to see where you go from here. Thank you also to all of you out there listening. See you next week!

Meet Stephanie Lampkin, Founder and CEO of Blendoor, a recruiting platform designed to reduce unconscious bias in the job matching process.  She's an African-American female tech founder on a mission to level the playing field for underrepresented groups. 

In this episode, you'll hear a fantastic male ally moment story from Stephanie Lampkin, founder of Blendoor, as well as hear the reaction of her ally, or co-conspirator, Dan Malmer (recorded in the Belmont library, with a lot of excited high schoolers in the background ... if you listen closely, you might even hear a ukulele!).

This week, Venture Vignettes host Riana Shah sat down with Stephanie Lampkin, CEO of Blendoor. Stephanie graduated from Stanford with a BS in Management Science and Engineering in 2006 and later received her MBA in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from MIT's Sloan School of Management. Hear how her experiences working in Silicon Valley tech companies led her to create and build Blendoor, a software designed to mitigate unconscious bias in the hiring process by tracking recruits based demographics in the hiring pipeline and identifying where and how bias happens. Stephanie has been on the cover of the The Atlantic, MIT Technology Review, and was called the next Steve Jobs by Barack Obama. In this episode you will learn about raising angel funding and telling your story to garner media attention. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venture-vignettes/support

Blendoor is a startup using technology to overcome the disadvantages of unconscious bias in hiring to help employers find the best candidates, independent of race, gender, (dis)ability, military history, or sexual orientation. Learn more about the origin and mission of Blendoor. Full show notes: http://backstagecapital.com/missionandvalues/s2e5/

Blendoor is a startup using technology to overcome the disadvantages of unconscious bias in hiring to help employers find the best candidates, independent of race, gender, (dis)ability, military history or sexual orientation. Learn more about the origin and mission of Blendoor.

Welcome to Episode 2 of Founder To Founder where Phil speaks with serial entrepreneur Stephanie Lampkin about unconscious bias in hiring great talent and how her venture Blendoor is tackling this issue head on. Stephanie learned to code at age 13. By 15, she was a full-stack web developer. She has a Stanford engineering degree and an MBA from MIT. Phil and Stephanie talk about how to overcome the unexpected in a startup and the role that resilience plays when moving from one venture to the next.

Stephanie Lampkin is Founder and CEO of Blendoor. Stephanie was named by MIT Technology Review as one of the 35 innovators under 35 in the category of Entrepreneurs. After graduating from MIT and Stanford, Stephanie applied for an analytics job at a major tech company but was offered a job in sales instead. After this experience, Stephanie created Blendoor on her own at a Hackathon. Blendoor is a job search platform that hides candidate's names and photos in the initial stages of the process. This is helping tackle bias issues that can occur in the hiring process. We talked about how the idea of Blendoor was formed, and how she built a team and has been growing the user base.

How did the product of a once homeless single mother become the Founder and CEO of a rising startup? This week’s guest, Stephanie Lampkin, shares how an influential aunt led her to coding at a young age, setting the stage for her to graduate from Stanford and MIT Sloan. Later, a surprise rejection from Google would lead her to found Blendoor, a mobile job matching app that hides candidate name and photo to circumvent unconscious bias and facilitate diversity recruiting in tech companies. Blendoor’s goal is to highlight the information that's most relevant to a candidate being a "good fit" independent of race, gender, military history or sexual orientation. In this this episode, Stephanie breaks down: How she determined what kind of business structure to set up The art of the “pitch” How she approaches pitching on stage vs pitching for investors How to build a team as an early stage company How she keeps the company lean and financially sustains herself as an entrepreneur Find out about Stephanie’s experience founding not one, but two startups and her journey to Silicon Valley in this episode. Links mentioned in this episode Blendoor This is your day YouTube video Podcast Details Click here to subscribe via RSS (non-iTunes feed)

Stephanie Lampkin is the founder and CEO of Blendoor - a mobile job matching app that facilitates diversity recruiting in tech companies by circumventing unconscious bias. Despite very humble beginnings, Stephanie first learned to code at 14 through BDPA, by 15 she was a full stack web developer and by 16 a network admin. Fast forward 17 years, Stephanie has worked in tech for companies like Northrop Grumman, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Deloitte and TripAdvisor, but is now focused full time on changing how people, organizations and companies connect in a way that fosters diversity. Stephanie graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Management Science & Engineering and MIT Sloan with a MBA.