Tenacity
Company

Last deal

$1.5M

Amount

Seed

Stage

10.02.2016

Date

3

all rounds

$1.5M

Total amount

date founded

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General

About Company
Boston-based Tenacity empowers underserved youth through education, mentoring, and sports coaching for better academic and career prospects.

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founded date

05.11.2012

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Seed

IPO status

Private

Description

Tenacity offers a comprehensive program that includes literacy and life skills instruction, mentoring, family engagement, and tennis/fitness coaching for underserved youth in Boston. By fostering positive identities as students, mentors, and leaders, Tenacity helps open educational and career pathways for its participants. The organization's whole-child approach has been successful, with 95% of Tenacity Pathway students graduating high school and 70% enrolling in or completing college or post-secondary programs. Additionally, Tenacity has developed a retention-as-a-service platform that focuses on improving the quality of life for customer service employees, reducing attrition rates, and increasing productivity. By using science-based insights and automated solutions, Tenacity helps transform contact centers into rewarding workplaces, delivering a high return on investment for its customers.
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Ron Davis
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Stephen Kay
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Stephen Kay

Hanna Adeyema
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Entrepreneur, cross-functional team leader, and coach with history of building efficient teams and generating results. Hanna began her career at a think tank, researching technology trends. There she got involved in a semantic software spinoff and has loved startups ever since. She went on to work as a consultant, advising top universities, the federal government, startups and many world-beating companies like P&G, Texas Instruments, Dow Corning, and Avon. There, she helped them bring cutting edge technologies to market and won an innovation award from NASA. During the summer of 2011, Hanna worked with a USAID –funded project to promote remote Internet access in Indonesia and developed sustainability business analytics for WM. Before coaching with MIT Bootcamps, Hanna was a COO and co-founder of Tenacity, a cloud-based SAAS product that dramatically improves employee retention in call centers. She earned her MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and an MA from the University of Sussex, UK.

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Employee Profiles
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Hanna Adeyema

Hanna Adeyema

COO

Mariann McDonagh

Mariann McDonagh

Chief Marketing Officer

Stephen Kay

Stephen Kay

Founder

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