Pipeline Equity

Katica Roy’s Startup, Pipeline, Joins the Salesforce Accelerate Program. Katica Roy’s startup, Pipeline, is one of 18 startups to join the Salesforce Accelerate program.

Pipeline, a Denver-based startup working to eradicate gender inequity and bias by making awareness actionable at the individual and corporate levels, is pleased to announce that co-founder Stefan Ramsbott will assume the full-time role of Chief Technology Officer, where he will oversee product implementation.

Just two months into my tenure as a female founder and CEO driving business to make the workplace equitable for all, the startup world broke open with news of sexual harassment of female founders by male venture capitalists.

It’s no secret that the odds are against women in business, and even more so, women in the tech industry. From pitching investors, growing a startup, and landing leadership roles at mid-to-large sized companies, the numbers are grim.

Denver-based Startup Helps Organizations Make Gender Equity Actionable and Attainable; Improves Economic Impact for All

We need gender equity now. Those are words often uttered in social justice circles, and recently, across a number of headlines. What does that mean? More broadly, how is gender equity different than gender equality?

The Gender Gap is a topic we have talked about multiple times on the Broadview (including this scorecard for our public officials), but how do we tactically make progress towards equality in leadership positions? The Denver firm, Pipeline, is tackling that challenge with software that helps companies “increase financial performance through closing the gender equity gap.”

You’ve heard us talk about the importance of community (I mean we are a network, after all). But this week, we got to hear directly from Ellevate member and Co-Founder of Pipeline Equity, Katica Roy, about the impact having a squad of supporters has had on her life and career.

Baby boomer Karen Larsen used to be afraid to talk about her grandson at work because it would draw attention to her age. Now, she has now found an encore career where her years of experience as a chief marketing officer are wildly sought after. Baby boomers — usually defined as those born between 1946 and 1964, ages 53 to 71 — are staying in the workforce longer than previous generations.

In no country on earth are women equal to men. Not one. Not by any measure – World Economic Forum, United Nations, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and more. In fact, in North America, it will take 158 years until we reach gender equality if our pace and urgency don’t change.