Eskalera
Company

Last deal

Amount

Seed

Stage

21.04.2023

Date

3

all rounds

date founded

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General

About Company
Eskalera helps companies improve employee engagement and productivity through its end-to-end platform.

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founded date

01.01.2018

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Seed

IPO status

Private

Description

The company's employee engagement software combines AI, data science, and evidence-based findings to provide insights on diversity and inclusion within a company's HR data, enabling large and medium-sized companies to transform their HR operations and drive a better culture, improve engagement and productivity. Eskalera offers comprehensive D&I training to empower employees and managers to build awareness and elevate decision-making. The company is committed to providing knowledge and skills to build a more inclusive culture and drive systemic and sustainable change.
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Their latest funding was raised on 21.04.2023. Their latest investor Ulu Ventures. Their latest round Seed

Date 
Funding Round 
Investors 
Money Raised 
Lead 
21.04.2023
1
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1
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1
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Number of lead investors

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Clint Korver

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Tolonda Michele Tolbert
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Tolonda Michele Tolbert

Tolonda M. Tolbert, Ph.D., is the Co-Founder, and Head of Strategy and Culture at Eskalera, Inc. She comes to the role with almost two decades of hands-on experience in Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) and culture change. Prior to that, she served as Senior Director of the Inclusive Leadership Initiative and Consultant for Catalyst, partnering with global organizations to build their capacity to create and sustain inclusive workplaces, specializing in D&I strategy, curriculum design, and implementation. She also led the Employee Resource Leadership Initiative (ERLI) with a mission to engage and connect affinity group leaders to share ideas and best practices while learning how to amplify inclusion. Previously she led special anti-bias projects at the Anti-Defamation League’s A World of Difference Institute and GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network). She was also a staff developer at Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility and a faculty member at NYU’s Silver School of Social Work teaching graduate and faculty courses on Inclusive Pedagogy. She holds a BA from the University of Colorado, Boulder and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University, she is a published writer, independent scholar, and community activist.

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Eskalera
Eskalera

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1

Tolonda Michele Tolbert

Debra Kadner
Debra Kadner

Debra Kadner

Debra Kadner is a seasoned product and operations executive with a proven record of building teams, delivering technology, and growing business. Prior to Eskalera, Debra drove data privacy solutions at Salesforce, and as VP Solution Engineering at Krux, scaled a global integration and implementation team. Before Krux, she lead sales strategy and sales engineering for media monetization solutions at Microsoft and Rapt respectively. Previously, she designed and built price/revenue optimization software for the travel, transportation, and energy sectors at Decision Focus, acquired by Manugistics. She holds a B.S. and an M.Eng in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Cornell University.

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Eskalera

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1

Debra Kadner

Roopak Gupta
Roopak Gupta

Roopak Gupta

Roopak Gupta is an industry veteran of 20+ years who has built innovative, highly scalable and best-in-class Big data and Machine learning technologies at startups as well as Fortune 500 companies across multiple verticals. Before Eskalera, Roopak was VP of Engineering at Salesforce and VP of Applications and Data at Krux, where he led the team responsible for the development and delivery of all of Krux’s products. Prior to that, Roopak led inventory management and price optimization engineering teams at Microsoft, having joined via Rapt acquisition. Roopak has a Computer Science and Engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi with a minor in Management.

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Roopak Gupta

Vivek Vaidya
Vivek Vaidya

Vivek Vaidya

Vivek Vaidya is a serial entrepreneur and technology leader who has built industry leading technology companies in enterprise software, data management, analytics, and machine learning/AI over the last 25 years. Currently, he is the Co-founder, General Partner, and CTO of Super{set}, a startup studio that founds, funds, and builds data driven technology companies. Prior to forming Super{set}, Vivek was the CTO of Salesforce Marketing Cloud having joined Salesforce via the acquisition of Krux, a mar-tech platform that he co-founded with Tom Chavez in 2010. Before Krux, Vivek served as the CTO of Rapt, a provider of software for media monetization acquired by Microsoft in 2008. Vivek holds an MS in Mathematics and Computer Applications from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Denver. While at IIT-D, he was an early member of the team at Parsec Technologies, the first company to build and market Interactive Voice Response systems in India. Vivek lives in San Francisco with his wife Pallavi and son Viplav and is a co-author of Data Driven: Harnessing Data and AI to Reinvent Customer Engagement, published in 2018.

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count Of Investments

3

Vivek Vaidya

Employee Profiles
7
Rich Kneece

Rich Kneece

Chief Technology Officer

Jae Lim

Jae Lim

Chief Financial Officer

Roopak Gupta

Roopak Gupta

Chief Technology Officer

Tom Chavez

Tom Chavez

Chief Executive Officer

Debra Kadner

Debra Kadner

Head of Product

Joseph Reid

Joseph Reid

Head of Revenue

Tolonda Michele Tolbert

Tolonda Michele Tolbert

Co-Founder and Head of Strategy and Culture

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