Seattle Met: A Seattle Startup Helps Companies Measure Their Pay Gaps

WHEN MARIA COLACURCIO started as CEO at Syndio in 2018, class action suits spurred by the MeToo movement had highlighted a glaring need: a way to continuously measure gender pay gaps at large companies. Employers often hired pricey law firms to point out these chasms of inequity on a temporary basis. “You’re just playing Whack-a-Mole over and over again, and just crushing the same problems year after year,” says Colacurcio.

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Built in Seattle: E-Learning Startup Sales Impact Academy Gets $22M, Plans to Hire in Seattle

Schools are great places to learn but they can’t teach you everything. That is especially true for professionals looking to learn new skills to advance their careers. Thankfully there is a slew of educational platforms that vary in disciplines, and because they only require an internet connection are easily accessible to millions. One company looking to make a splash in this industry is Sales Impact Academy (SIA), an online platform focused on creating educational content for sales and revenue employees.

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Built in Seattle: IoT Company TEAL Pulled in $10.8M to Connect Devices Across Networks

In this vast world, time, distance and space pose very little issue when it comes to connecting with one another. The internet has brought people closer together than ever before, and the same goes for devices. This ecosystem of internet-connected objects is continually expanding— wearable health devices and smart home products are just the start. Seattle-based TEAL is aiming to outfit companies in the IoT industry with programmable networking services.

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Geek Wire: In support of free press, this startup’s publishing tech helps get news into and out of Russia

A tiny startup in Redmond, Wash., is taking on the big task of trying to get the truth into and out of Russia as the country wages war against neighboring Ukraine — and the free press. Targetings is a social media automation platform that helps publishers get their content out on various channels. Since 2015, the startup has worked with news publishers all over the globe, including in Russia.

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Geek Wire: Uber, Convoy vets raise $3.4M from Bezos and others for fintech startup that helps freight carriers

The news: Mike Bohlander, Ray Fortna, and Marcus Womack are getting the band back together for another startup run. The entrepreneurs are behind Outgo, a new Seattle startup that came out of stealth mode Thursday, announcing $3.4 million in funding from Jeff Bezos’ investment firm and others.

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