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USA Today
Monique Woodard has joined 500 Startups as its first African-American venture partner to increase the firm's investments in black and Latino tech entrepreneurs, who have historically received a tiny fraction of U.S. venture funding.
The appointment of a black investor at the start-up accelerator and venture firm "sends a huge signal that black investors are needed and that we should have a seat at the table," Woodard told USA TODAY.
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Rolling Out
Felecia Hatcher, co-founder of Black Tech Week and Code Fever, has made it her life's purpose to create and mentor 10K startups founded by people of color. The educational summit is marked for Feb. 17-19, 2016 at Florida International University, Biscayne Campus. Black Tech Week will serve as an initiative to train African American and Caribbean youth and young adults in the areas of technology and entrepreneurship through full stack development coding boot camps and school programs.
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Business Insider
There's a diversity problem in tech, and one side of it is the lack of a pipeline. Not enough minorities are entering the tech industry — getting companies to hire them is a second problem.
Contrast that to sports, says Atom Factory president and CEO Troy Carter, and you have to wonder whether the tech industry is taking the wrong approach to recruitment.
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Tech Crunch
Tech companies have gotten better about disclosing their diversity data, but there are still a ton of companies that haven't done so. In the reports that do exist, what's often missing are insights around retention rates, which can be good indicators of a company's culture and what it's like to actually work there.
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Black Enterprise
Intel is one tech company that not only "talks the diversity and inclusion talk," but really walks the walk. The company released its annual diversity data and the gains it has made with regard to diversity and inclusion, in a relatively short time period, are truly astounding. Intel exceeded its hiring goal for 2015 to increase diverse hiring by 40 percent to 43.1 percent. Hires from underrepresented communities increased by 31 percent.
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USA Today
In Silicon Valley, they call it the 2 percent problem.
African Americans make up a tiny fraction of the overwhelmingly white and Asian male workforces of major technology companies, the ranks of aspiring entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who control the spigot of money and access. Silicon Valley is taking steps to offer more opportunities to underrepresented minorities in the nation's fastest-growing, highest-paying industry.
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Silicon Republic
Accenture has become the first consultancy firm to release a diversity report, and from its findings, it seems it's certainly doing better than many major tech companies.
The Accenture diversity report for 2015, which looks at the make-up of its U.S. staff, comes following the necessary trend of recent years of larger tech companies — like Google, Facebook, Apple etc — publishing the breakdown of the race and gender of its U.S.-based staff for transparency to encourage greater inclusion in what are still largely white-male-dominated companies.
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FORTUNE
According to Slack's new diversity report.
It's no longer enough for tech companies to look at the diversity of their workforce through the lens of race or gender.
They need to look at them both — together.
That’s the message office messaging service Slack is sending in its latest diversity report, published recently on the company's blog.
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PRI
A few years ago, we looked at why there aren't more women in tech, and how to fix it. We thought the story ended there, but one of our listeners set us straight. Not only are minorities (including women) underrepresented in tech; even when they get great jobs, they don't stay.
Just check out this study in the Harvard Business Review: 52 percent of qualified women working in tech end up leaving.
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Tech Crunch
Trans*H4CK, a series of hackathons for transgender and gender non-conforming people, recently launched a Q&A web series featuring trans people in tech. I recently sat down with Trans*H4CK founder Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler to chat about diversity, racism, unconscious bias and more. Below is our conversation, which has been mildly edited for clarity.
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