Seed Funds for DEI Platform Included

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) experience platform Included has raised a $3.5m seed round of funding, which it will use to expand its engineering team and support engineering, product, marketing and sales initiatives.

Seattle-based Included uses artificial intelligence and insights to help companies with their DEI hiring decisions. Its platform is designed to uncover real-time, data-powered insights for companies looking to 'diversify talent pools and retain top talent'.

Seed funding was led by Trilogy Equity Partners, with participation from Flying Fish Partners, SignalFire and Alumni Ventures. Raghu Gollamudi (pictured), co-founder and CEO of Included, comments: 'Traditional HR software was not designed with DEI in mind, making it difficult for companies to spot and support employees who statistically tend to slip through the cracks. Rapid technology advancements have allowed us to course correct and provide companies with modern tools for today's workforce. Our customers understand that DEI opportunities are essential to delight and retain diverse talent and we've made it easy to get it done'.

Web site: www.included.ai .