Maria Colacurcio

Eradicating workplace inequities fuels Maria’s leadership. A first-generation college graduate, she raised $17.1 million in Series B funding for Syndio while she was eight months pregnant. Syndio is a SaaS company that empowers companies to optimize pay equity. Before joining Syndio as CEO in 2018, Maria spent four years at Starbucks and co-founded Smartsheet, a NYSE-listed company that was acquired by Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners for $8.4 billion in 2025.