Katika Roy

Founder and CEO, Pipeline · 1 appearance on the record.

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She is the founder and CEO of Pipeline Equity, an enterprise SaaS platform leveraging artificial intelligence to eliminate gender equity gaps. An economist and media contributor, she publishes economic analyses for outlets such as Fortune and advises workforce policy forums.

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7 assertions · 1 opinion · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 5 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Roy: A 10% rise in gender equity drives 1-2% revenue growth

“We actually did research across 4000 companies in 29 countries, and what we found was that for every 10% increase in gender equity in companies, there's a one to two percent increase in revenue.”

Katika Roy Jul 1, 2020 ▶ 2:17 PipelineEquity Looking to Raise $4m with $1m in Revenues Helping Bring Gender Equality to Workplaces

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Assertion Supported

Roy: A 10% rise in gender equity drives 1-2% revenue growth

Katika Roy Jul 1, 2020 ▶ 2:17 PipelineEquity Looking to Raise $4m with $1m in Revenues Helping Bring Gender Equality to Workplaces

Opinion

Pipeline competes primarily with internal analytics teams over point solutions

“Well, it's actually true because there are a number of point solutions in what we, in, in the diversity and inclusion tech space, but when you really look at what Pipeline does, which is across all the five key talent decisions that you make we mostly, actuall…”

Katika Roy Jul 1, 2020 ▶ 13:17 PipelineEquity Looking to Raise $4m with $1m in Revenues Helping Bring Gender Equality to Workplaces

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Pipeline charges $60 per employee per year, billed annually

“Well, yeah, mostly we charge 60 dollars per employee per year, billed annually.”

Katika Roy Jul 1, 2020 ▶ 4:09 PipelineEquity Looking to Raise $4m with $1m in Revenues Helping Bring Gender Equality to Workplaces

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Pipeline's average enterprise customer pays $350,000 per year

“350,000 dollars.”

Katika Roy Jul 1, 2020 ▶ 4:44 PipelineEquity Looking to Raise $4m with $1m in Revenues Helping Bring Gender Equality to Workplaces

Disclosure

Roy: Pipeline serves three large enterprise customers

“Right now we serve three. So we have three big customers.”

Katika Roy Jul 1, 2020 ▶ 7:45 PipelineEquity Looking to Raise $4m with $1m in Revenues Helping Bring Gender Equality to Workplaces

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Roy: Pipeline grew revenue almost 6x year over year

“Yeah, we had our first revenue last year, so we grew six X, almost six X year over year.”

Katika Roy Jul 1, 2020 ▶ 8:04 PipelineEquity Looking to Raise $4m with $1m in Revenues Helping Bring Gender Equality to Workplaces

Disclosure

Pipeline expects ramped enterprise sales reps to close 2-3 deals annually

“Yeah, two to three. ... Yeah, you wouldn't close, I mean, it's just too big to try and close that many in a year.”

Katika Roy Jul 1, 2020 ▶ 9:50 PipelineEquity Looking to Raise $4m with $1m in Revenues Helping Bring Gender Equality to Workplaces

Disclosure

Pipeline operates with a monthly cash burn rate under $100,000

“We were in less than that.”

Katika Roy Jul 1, 2020 ▶ 12:55 PipelineEquity Looking to Raise $4m with $1m in Revenues Helping Bring Gender Equality to Workplaces

Assertion Supported

Only two Fortune 500 female CEOs have majority-female boards

“Mary Barrett GM, because she's one of the only, one of only two female CEOs in the Fortune 500 that also has a majority female board.”

Katika Roy Jul 1, 2020 ▶ 14:17 PipelineEquity Looking to Raise $4m with $1m in Revenues Helping Bring Gender Equality to Workplaces

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Pipeline spent about $300,000 to build its MVP before generating revenue

“About 300,000 dollars. Something like that.”

Katika Roy Jul 1, 2020 ▶ 3:27 PipelineEquity Looking to Raise $4m with $1m in Revenues Helping Bring Gender Equality to Workplaces

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Roy: Pipeline employs about 20 people across staff and contractors

“We have about 20 people. Both employees and contingent.”

Katika Roy Jul 1, 2020 ▶ 5:08 PipelineEquity Looking to Raise $4m with $1m in Revenues Helping Bring Gender Equality to Workplaces

Disclosure

Pipeline acquired its initial customers through Roy's speaking and writing

“Mostly from my speaking or from my writing.”

Katika Roy Jul 1, 2020 ▶ 6:06 PipelineEquity Looking to Raise $4m with $1m in Revenues Helping Bring Gender Equality to Workplaces

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
PipelineEquity Looking to Raise $4m with $1m in Revenues Helping Bring Gender Equality to	Jul 1, 2020	6m

Katika Roy

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