Welcome to another portfolio profile episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home

Podcast. We're going to talk to another exciting company that the Ride Home Fund that the Mutant

Podcast Army has invested in.

Today we're going to talk to Cognitive Talent Solutions, which is a really fascinating sort of product in space, and we're going to talk to Francisco

Marin, who is the founder of CTS. Francisco, thanks for coming on the show.

Hi, Brian.

Really excited to be here today.

Well, easiest way to start is give me the two minutes sort of not elevator pitch but just describe what

CTS does and basically what this sort of again I'm mentioning this is an interesting space what this sort of kind of product does.

Sure. So CPS is a people analytics company based in Palo Alto.

And we focus our activity on organizational network analysis,

also known as ONA.

And ONA is a people analytics method

that allows companies to analyze and visualize the informal

interactions that exist within the organization. We leverage active

data sources like online surveys and passive data sources like Office

online surveys and passive data sources like Office 365 and Slack

to understand the informal networks of interactions that exist within

companies and we can do things like identifying who are the informal leaders in the organization, identify organizational silos and bottlenecks or monitor employees burn at risk.

And we apply these across a variety of areas

such as change management, leadership development,

and diversity and inclusion among other things.

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