CTech — Israel's leading technology news outlet — profiles Darrow co-founder and CTO Gila Hayat at the Power in Diversity conference, in a candid conversation about what genuine workplace diversity looks like when it is built into a company's DNA rather than retrofitted as a corporate initiative.
Hayat's framing is direct: Darrow's team is roughly 50/50 across gender lines, both in Israel and globally — and that balance has never been something the company had to engineer. "It is interesting to be at diversity events and be praised for something that feels so natural," she tells CTech. "It has never been a struggle or something that we are trying to artificially create."
The distinction she draws is an important one. For many established companies, diversity is a KPI — a target to hit through intentional hiring programs, often after years of building a homogenous team. At Darrow, Hayat argues, the opportunity to build diversely existed from the start, and the company simply took it. "It's not a challenge for us, rather it's an opportunity" — a framing that reflects a broader philosophy at Darrow about what it means to build a team that mirrors the world it is trying to make more just.
Darrow was founded by two lawyers and a former member of the IDF's elite intelligence Unit 8200, and had raised $24 million at the time of the interview, including a $20 million Series A in November 2021.
