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Aria | AI for Manager Enablement + Retention
We’re building Aria, an AI-powered leadership development platform that helps organizations retain talent by transforming the way managers lead. Aria combines journaling, behavioral science, and natural language processing to surface team insights and deliver real-time, anonymized coaching
nudges—replacing broken feedback loops and scaling the human side of leadership.
Companies lose $550B annually to burnout, disengagement, and bad management, while spending over $370B trying to fix it with tools that don’t scale. Aria flips the model: instead of relying on untrained managers to coach their teams, we equip them with private, AI-led feedback that integrates seamlessly into their daily workflow (Slack, Teams, email). We’ve seen early excitement from enterprise HR leaders and are running our first pilot with the Red Cross.
We're two experienced founders:
Nora Delay, former Deloitte leadership consultant (Fortune 100 focus)
Darnell Nance, ex-founder (Serve Club) with a behavioral science lens
Currently raising a $1.5M pre-seed SAFE to launch 3–5 pilots and build our MVP. Backed by decades of research, lived experience, and the belief that better leadership shouldn’t depend on luck or legacy training.