How many interns do you have? What sorts of projects/assignments do your interns work on?

Hi Kevin! We currently have about 7 interns and they are are working on User Interface, User Research, User Experience Design, and Backend and Frontend Engineering. All our interns either have the opportunity to convert to full-time employees or garner solid experience to be able to take into the real world. Some of our interns have received offers from Facebook and Google, and considering that we were the first company they worked at, it speaks to our emphasis on vocation...

What date is the fund raising campaign deadline?

Hi Burton. Thanks for asking. The campaign is going through the end of next month. We've been adding new customers quite frequently and will soon be profitable and bootstrapped so now is definitely a good time to join the campaign 😃

is there a document that i have to sign and if so who do i return it too?

Hi Cedric; not at all. WeFunder handles all of it on your behalf. Thank you for supporting our mission.

How does your team plan on attracting qualified candidates to use the platform?

Hi Andrew. Fantastic question. We attract qualified candidates through a combination of tactics including hosting affinity groups on our platform, actively reaching out to them on job boards and via other communities, and through search engine optimization and app store optimization.

On your posted financials, you say there was no revenue from Apr-Dec 2018, but you also said Warner Bros was a client. If you have customers, how can there be $0 revenue?

Hi Tre; great question; we started bringing in revenue in the year of 2019. Our focus in 2018 was in piloting our platform and this year we began to focus on monetizing our services. We have diversity hiring contracts with our customers such that they either pay to use our platform or pay for talent we source for them. I hope this answers the question.

Divercity.io

LinkedIn for underrepresented professionals

divercity.io

Los Angeles

Technology SaaS Minority Founder Recreation

Highlights

Over 7000 organic users in our network and counting

Over 3000 jobs posted to our network

We are a team of 50% women with 10+ gender+ethnic combos

We are closing the diversity & inclusion gap

Team

The Story of Divercity.io

In 2016, three best friends put their savings together to start a company to help connect underrepresented people via their smartphones. Our savings ran out and we pitched to our Uncles and Aunties, and they believed in us and helped us bootstrap our first MVP.

Original Co-Founders Emmanuel, Chuka, and Onuwa (and Emmanuel's Little Girl Maya)
Our augmented founding team including Onuwa, Joanna (on of the world's best UI/UX Designers), and Chuka

McKinsey changed the game!

“Companies in the top quartile for racial and ethnic diversity are 35% more likely to have financial returns above industry medians.”
– McKinsey, 2015

For the first time, a lot of companies began to take diversity more seriously and this opened the door for us. We launched our website shortly after research like this proliferated the tech industry.

Open sesame!

In 2017 we decided to open the platform to all folks that consider themselves marginalized as opposed to just people of color, and this was a great decision because it has given us so many different perspectives.

Our Customers

In 2018, Warner Bros. decided to become our first customer, and we were elated! WB has always been a company that valued diversity, so to see them put their money and time where their mouth was was so fulfilling. Then Amplitude, and Unity Technologies, and STARZ, and other tech companies joined the platform and helped us realize we were really on to something.

Our customers as of July 2019

Our Traction

Since our recent launch, we've seen over 7,000 users added to our network and over 3,000 jobs added to the platform. We also have a perfect 5-star rating in both app stores and our pitch was the winner of the Founder Gym cohort 7 pitch competition mainly due to the strength of our product and the company vision. We are aiming for 10000 active users this year and 100,000 by late next year.

Now we're on track to becoming the largest underrepresented professional network in the world!

With thousands of users and jobs and counting we are just getting started and would love for you to join us in this mission. This is how we intend to use the funds we raise via WeFunder:

60% towards our engineering and recruiting teams, 20% towards full-timing our UI/UX Interns, 12.5% towards marketing, legal, and tools costs, and 7.5% towards Wefunder.

Thanks for choosing us! Enjoy a good dose of our team 😃