A Different, Better Firm
As Ultranauts, we believe our differences make us better together. The diversity of human minds can be a powerful asset in any industry, and our differences can propel us forward to better ideas, better teams, better organizations, and a better world.
– Ultranauts Co-founders
Company
Founded by two MIT engineers, Ultranauts Inc. (formerly Ultra Testing) is on a mission to demonstrate that neurodiversity is a competitive advantage for business. To achieve our mission, we’re building a world-class quality engineering firm that delivers superior value for our customers, and designing a Universal Workplace that embraces diversity and serves as a replicable blueprint for other employers.
In 2013, we built the world’s first fully remote workplace for cognitively diverse teams, and today, we have colleagues working in 30 states across the U.S. More than 75% of our professionals across the company are neurodivergent, and 100% of Ultranauts believe our differences make us better together.
As a leader in software and data quality engineering services, Ultranauts has established a track record of partnering with both large enterprises and hyper-growth startups across a wide range of industries. Whenever our teams have been benchmarked vs. global consulting firms, we’ve delivered measurably superior results in terms of improving software and data quality, reducing business risk, and freeing up internal engineering, analytics and data science teams.
Named a Fast Company World Changing Idea, Interbrand Breakthrough Brand and MIT Solve Challenge Winner, Ultranauts is reimagining how a company hires talent, manages teams and develops careers to empower our teams to perform at their best.
75%
of us are
neurodivergent, the
majority are autistic
100%
believe our
differences make us
better together
Universal Workplace
Traditional HR policies, management practices, and approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion, tend to focus on the needs of some groups but not others, which is wholly inadequate for a group as diverse as Ultranauts. Our team represents a wide range of information processing models, learning styles, problem solving approaches, communication preferences, lived experiences, strengths, and challenges, and our needs can’t be met through group-centric initiatives or individual accommodations.
As a result, what has emerged at Ultranauts is a work environment that is intentionally designed to be inclusive of everyone. When each of us can leverage our unique strengths and collaborate effectively with colleagues who are different, we achieve greater results together than any of us could on our own.
This is what we call a Universal Workplace.
Inclusion by Design
To design a work environment that leverages the power of our differences as an asset and creates the conditions for us to thrive together, we need workplace policies and practices that reflect our mission and operationalize our values.
75%
of us are
neurodivergent, the
majority are autistic
A Different, Better Firm
As Ultranauts, we believe our differences make us better together. The diversity of human minds can be a powerful asset in any industry, and our differences can propel us forward to better ideas, better teams, better organizations, and a better world.
– Ultranauts Co-founders
100%
believe our
differences make us
better together
Company
Founded by two MIT engineers, Ultranauts Inc. (formerly Ultra Testing) is on a mission to demonstrate that neurodiversity is a competitive advantage for business. To achieve our mission, we’re building a world-class quality engineering firm that delivers superior value for our customers, and designing a Universal Workplace that embraces diversity and serves as a replicable blueprint for other employers.
In 2013, we built the world’s first fully remote workplace for cognitively diverse teams, and today, we have colleagues working in 30 states across the U.S. More than 75% of our professionals across the company are neurodivergent, and 100% of Ultranauts believe our differences make us better together.
As a leader in software and data quality engineering services, Ultranauts has established a track record of partnering with both large enterprises and hyper-growth startups across a wide range of industries. Whenever our teams have been benchmarked vs. global consulting firms, we’ve delivered measurably superior results in terms of improving software and data quality, reducing business risk, and freeing up internal engineering, analytics and data science teams.
Named a Fast Company World Changing Idea, Interbrand Breakthrough Brand and MIT Solve Challenge Winner, Ultranauts is reimagining how a company hires talent, manages teams and develops careers to empower our teams to perform at their best.
Inclusion by Design
To design a work environment that leverages the power of our differences as an asset and creates the conditions for us to thrive together, we need workplace policies and practices that reflect our mission and operationalize our values.
Universal Workplace
Traditional HR policies, management practices, and approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion, tend to focus on the needs of some groups but not others, which is wholly inadequate for a group as diverse as Ultranauts. Our team represents a wide range of information processing models, learning styles, problem solving approaches, communication preferences, lived experiences, strengths, and challenges, and our needs can’t be met through group-centric initiatives or individual accommodations.
As a result, what has emerged at Ultranauts is a work environment that is intentionally designed to be inclusive of everyone. When each of us can leverage our unique strengths and collaborate effectively with colleagues who are different, we achieve greater results together than any of us could on our own.
This is what we call a Universal Workplace.
What does a Universal Workplace look like?
Find out about the Management Principles that underpin our Universal Workplace and examples of how we’ve operationalized those principles at Ultranauts.
Ultranauts Team
As a team, we embrace human diversity in all its forms. 75% of Ultranauts are neurodivergent, the majority of our team members are Autistic. Many of us are ADHDers and Dyslexics, some of us are non-speaking and hard of hearing. We have more females than males, including on the leadership team. A third of us identify as LGBTQ+ and a fifth of our managers are Black.
Board
Art Shectman
CEO Elephant Ventures
Eric Chapman
Managing Principal, SustainVC
Rajesh Anandan
CEO Ultranauts
Advisors
Allison Sagraves
Board Advisor, Consultant, Adjunct Faculty Carnegie Mellon
Arthur Woods
Author, Hiring for Diversity. Co-founder, Mathison, Imperative
Brian Jacobs
Founder Moai Capital and Emergence Capital
Cara Dailey
Chief Data Officer T. Rowe Price, Founding Member InvestInData
Christian Chabot
Chairman and Co-founder Tableau
Lisa Yang
Philanthropist and advocate
Marcia Scheiner
Founder and President, Integrate Advisors
Matthew Marolda
Principal, True Bearing Ventures, Investor & Strategic Advisor
Meena Srinivasan
Chief Financial Officer, Essential
Rajesh Tolani
Data Geek, Impact Investor, Strategic Advisor
Russ Hagey
Partner and Chief Talent Officer, Bain & Company
