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Syndio

Workplace equity platform

Syndio logo
101-200 employees
  • B2B
  • HR
  • Analytics
  • SaaS
Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA

Company mission

To build expert-backed technology that helps companies measure, achieve, and sustain workplace equity.

Led by a woman
Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

9% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

As companies are making greater commitments to paying and treating their employees more equitably, Syndio offers them an analytics driven platform that enables them to more easily measure, achieve, and maintain this. The startup counts a number of Fortune 500 companies amongst its customers, including American Airlines, Salesforce, and Nordstrom.

Workplace equity is about much more than just boosting brand reputation. Recruitment and staff retention, company culture, and indeed business performance have all been shown to improve with better DE&I results. Therefore, the draw of Syndio’s offering is quite clear - enabling businesses to convert verbal promises into measurable, provable outcomes.

Syndio’s growth since its 2016 launch has been impressive, with funding secured in 2022 allowing them to ramp up operations and scaling efforts. It recently announced it has joined the London Stock Exchange Issuer Services Marketplace, becoming a trusted third-party service provider for listed companies - which gives it a chance to serve yet more impressive clients.

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Benefits

  • Paid holidays
  • Best medical plans on the market (90% employee coverage, 50% dependents)
  • One-time stipend for 
home office setup
  • Fully remote model
  • Life & disability paid by the company
  • Stock options
  • Monthly electronics allowance
  • Flexible vacation policy with suggested minimum time
  • Week-long company-wide shutdowns twice per year

Company values

  • Relentless Pursuit | We go farther than 'fair'. We are a team of pursuers — in our tasks, our goals, our mission — and we relentlessly pursue our mission to make the workplace fair for everyone. 'Fair enough' is not good enough. We will not stop until we achieve workplace fairness
  • Candor & Trust | We live in the candor-trust loop. Trust in people and systems is at the root of the problem, and the solution, of workplace fairness. It's also at the root of what lets us make bold moves when needed — like hiring cross-functionally — and it's why we do right by our customers, even if that means briefly slowing down to address any mistakes
  • Brave Futurism | We start building tomorrow, today. The workplace is hurting people as we speak. We know because we've been there. We understand what needs to change and can envision a viable, better future. That's why we push each other to innovate. Whether your job is to design our future strategy or fix present bugs, we have each others' backs as we try new approaches, learn, and try again — until our vision is reality
  • Curiosity & Humility | We ask our way to action. Silence and ambiguity breed inequity. Questions — especially difficult questions — unlock information that can activate us and our customers. When in doubt, kindly express your doubt. When in power, humbly acknowledge others and ask even more questions

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Mar 2022

$50m

SERIES C

Sep 2021

$50m

SERIES C

Total funding: $132.8m

This company has top investors

Leadership

Maria Colacurcio

(CEO, not founder)

Co-founded and was VP of Marketing at digital work collaboration platform Smartsheet. Co-founded and is a Board Member at Fair Pay Workplace. Has worked in managerial and directorial roles at Starbucks and Microsoft, and founded educators' professional development foundation Ideas Ignited.

Zev Eigen

(Founder & Chief Data Scientist)

Former Law Professor at Northwestern University and Yale. Co-founder and Board Member of Fair Play Workplace. Former Global Director of Data Analytics at labor and employment-focused law firm Littler Mendelson. Founded Cherry Tree Data Science in 2014, which leveraged data and social science to help employers safely employ people with criminal records.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Syndio

  • Pay transparency: Syndio posts salary ranges for every job opening
  • New Hire Candidate Pipeline: 50% BIPOC + women for all technical roles, 50% BIPOC for all other positions.
  • Leadership team: More than 50% are women. 4 of 9 are from historically excluded groups
  • DEI&B Training: Syndio partners with experts to deliver foundational training to all employees to ensure fluency and understanding around DEI&B concepts.
  • AllVoices Employee Feedback: Syndio invested in a central feedback tool that supports anonymous reports to provide a safe place for employees to speak up and have their voice heard