diversity News of 10/24/20

Dear Sophie: What Visa Options Exist For A Grad Co-Founding A Startup?

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for ...

Human Capital: Prop 22 Puts The ‘Future Of Labor’ At Stake

Welcome back to Human Capital, where we look at the latest in tech labor and diversity and inclusion. Because election day is quickly approaching and given that California’s Prop 22 puts the “future of labor” at stake, as Instacart ...

The Need For True Equity In Equity Compensation

Carine Schneider Contributor Share on Twitter Carine Schneider is the president of  AST Private Company Solutions, Inc. , a division of  AST Financial. I began my career at Oracle in the ...

Startup Founders Set Up Hacker Homes To Recreate Silicon Valley Synergy

In Y Combinator’s early days, founders would move to Palo Alto, split a two-bedroom with five others to save money and trade notes around the clock with their new, like-minded roommates. Now, as remote work continues and the pandemic ...

Emerging Companies Thrive On Data. Shouldn’T They Use It To Improve Hiring Decisions?

Zoe Jervier Hewitt Contributor Share on Twitter Zoe Jervier Hewitt is a leadership coach and talent partner at multi-stage VC fund EQT Ventures , where she helps portfolio companies structure and ...

Brazil’S Black Silicon Valley Could Be An Epicenter Of Innovation In Latin America

Paulo Rogério Nunes Contributor Paulo is the co-founder of Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley) and AFAR Ventures , a global diversity and inclusion creative and consulting agency that identifies opportunities for multinational ...

The Wing Co-Founder Admits The Coworking Space Upheld ‘The Kind Of Social Inequality We Set Out To Upend’

Audrey Gelman, the former CEO of The Wing who resigned in June, today posted a letter she sent to former employees of The Wing last week. In it, Gelman apologized for not taking action to combat mistreatment of women of color at The Wing. She ...

Trump’S Latest Immigration Restrictions Are Bad News For American Workers

Jay Srinivasan Contributor Share on Twitter Jay Srinivasan is co-founder and CEO of atSpoke . I’m an immigrant, and since arriving from India two decades ago I’ve earned a Ph.D., launched ...

Dear Sophie: I Came On A B-1 Visa, Then COVID-19 Happened. How Can I Stay?

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for ...

BLCK VC Launches Educational Initiative To Bring More Black Entrepreneurs Into Investing Ecosystem

It is no secret that Black founders face an uphill battle in Silicon Valley with just a sliver of the investment pie being devoted to people of color. BLCK VC along with partners Operator Collective , Salesforce Ventures and Berkeley Haas School ...

Bumble Balances Gender Representation Of C-Suite With Two New Hires

Women-friendly dating and networking app Bumble announced today it’s expanding its C-Suite with two new hires: Anu Subramanian as Bumble’s Chief Financial Officer, who hails from Univision, and Selby Drummond as Chief Brand Officer, who ...

Dear Sophie: How Can Employers Hire & Comply With All This New H-1b Craziness?

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for ...

Human Capital: Uber Engineer Explains Why He Spoke Out Against Prop 22

Welcome back to Human Capital where we discuss the latest in labor, and diversity and inclusion in tech. This week’s eyebrow-raising moment came Wednesday when the U.S. Department of Labor essentially accused Microsoft of reverse racism ...

Funding For Female Founders Falls To 2017 Levels As Pandemic Shakes Up The VC Market

So much for progress. New data out this week from PitchBook indicates that the number of rounds raised by female-founded and co-founded companies fell year-over-year, with dollars invested in those rounds collapsing to 2017-era levels. The ...

Here’S The Curtain Raise On The Sight Tech Global Agenda

The goal of Sight Tech Global , a virtual, global event on December 2-3, 2020, is to gather the world’s top experts who are applying advanced technologies, notably AI, to the future of accessibility and assistive tech for people who are blind or ...

Dear Sophie: Is It Easier And Faster To Get An O-1a Than An EB-1a?

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for ...

Amazon’S Josh Miele And Ann Toth Talk Alexa And The Future Of Accessibility At Sight Tech Global

When Alexa launched six years ago, no one imagined that by today there would be hundreds of millions of Alexa-enabled devices or that Alexa would become part of so many lives. For people who are blind or visually impaired, voice assistants are a huge ...

Google Is Providing Cash Awards To 76 Startups Through A Racial Equity Initiative Announced In June

In June of this year, as more of the world began to awaken to the many ways that people of color are systematically discriminated against amid months of protest, a wide number of companies announced initiatives aimed at improving the representation of ...

Dear Sophie: Now That A Judge Has Paused Trump’S H-1b Visa Ban, How Can I Qualify My Employees?

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for ...

2 Kindred Capital Partners Discuss The Firm’S Focus And Equitable Venture Model

Kindred Capital, the London-based VC that backs early-stage founders in Europe and Israel, recently closed its second seed fund at £81 million. Out if its first fund raised in 2018, the firm has backed 29 companies. They include Five, which is ...