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Kanarys CEO Mandy Price Brings Data to DEI Efforts
The Harvard grad left her law career to help companies with diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies that have real impact.
Mandy Price watched her community change before her eyes, and she didn’t always like what she learned about her friends and neighbors. Growing up in Desoto, she was the only Black student in her kindergarten class.
By the time she graduated from high school, her class was half Black. In middle school, Price’s White friends would mention how “dangerous” the school had become, a thinly veiled reference to the influx of Black students who had joined them in the halls. When Price asked what they meant, her friends backtracked, reassuring Price that she was not included in their stereotyping.
Kanarys raises $3 million for its data-driven platform to assess diversity and inclusion efforts
Mandy Price was already a highly successful lawyer in private practice before she took the jump into entrepreneurship alongside two co-founders to launch Kanarys a little over one year ago.
The Harvard Law School graduate didn’t have to start her company, which helps businesses measure the efficacy of their diversity and inclusion efforts using hard data, but she
needed to start the company.
Now, a year after its launch, the company counts companies like Yum Brands, the Dallas Mavericks and Neiman Marcus among the dozen or so companies using its service, and has $3 million in seed funding to help it expand.