Member Profile: Radish
Organization Name: Radish
Location: Columbus
Industry: B2B Software. Future of Work. Social Impact.
What We Do:
Radish is a new breed employee-driven app: useful at work and in life. Lightly gamified, it makes gathering with friends and colleagues purposeful, engaging and competitive while helping employers build engaging cultures and avoid costly complacency and turnover. Radish is also a huge social-impact play that can contribute over $1 Billion in community impact each year.
What’s a Trend You’re Seeing/Prediction for the Future:
Smaller and mid-sized employers are looking to leverage new technologies to better compete with large enterprises for talent. They will be creating rewarding cultures largely driven by employees themselves that don’t rely on expensive, cludgy, enterprise-class software and top-down, HR-heavy resources.
This is going to level the playing field for talent acquisition and offer attractive alternatives to the big, expensive cities as workers flee further afield to seek a better work-life balance. The key will be technologies that are employee-driven vs employer-driven where value flows both ways and makes work blend into life more seamlessly.
A Problem/Challenge We Are Working To Solve:
We’re facing a crisis in this country where the largest segment of the workforce, millennials and GenZs are not engaging with community causes nearly as much as previous generations. It’s ironic in that these younger generations are more in tune -- and highly concerned -- with the ways in which society is broken.
From global warming to environmental issues to income disparity to social justice issues. They’re also highly in tune with technology and expect its application at work to be as easy and awesome as it is in life. We’re working on being one of the leaders in this new frontier where we lean into the blurring of the line between work and leisure while making the world a better place.
Organization Slogan: Radish is Fun with a Purpose
Why is Ohio is a great place to do business?
This is our team’s third technology startup in Ohio. Ohio is our home. We never desired to move our endeavors elsewhere. While many have suggested over the years that getting proper funding for technology startups in Ohio and the Midwest in general has been overly challenging -- and there’s merit to that -- this is counterbalanced by the willingness of organizations in the region to embrace local ideas and risk being early-adopters without much fuss.
There certainly is a Midwest value system in place that is not only favorable to the cost of building a technology business -- but also accelerates go-to-market efforts, which, in our view, trumps almost everything else. We love it here!
For more information on Radish, please visit: www.radishapp.io
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