MEDIA
Pitch Stages, Big Credibility, High Stakes Rooms
TechCrunch Startup Battlefield
"Watch the Pitch"
Watch Anita pitch Onēva on a global stage where clarity, numbers, and confidence
matter, because you’ll see how she frames a real market problem, earns trust fast, and
communicates like a CEO who can move investors, partners, and buyers.
PBS NewsHour
“Funding challenges for African-American female entrepreneurs”
A grounded, candid segment where Anita speaks to what it really takes to build when
capital access is unequal, so you’ll hear the resilience, strategy, and calm persistence
she brings to high-pressure conversations and long, uphill builds.
TechCrunch
“Onēva expands platform for child and elder care, housecleaning”
A TechCrunch look at Onēva’s platform expansion alongside Disrupt momentum,
showing how Anita thinks about scaling scope without losing execution
discipline—useful if you care about product strategy, positioning, and shipping what the
market will buy.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/19/oneva-expands-platform-for-child-and-elder-care-housecleaning
Founder Story, Traction, and Enterprise-Grade Trust
Kiva
“Oneva’s journey to create quality in-home care and jobs”
A detailed founder story that ties mission to operational rigor—background checks, trust, and enterprise readiness—plus how Anita built early momentum, navigated funding realities, and earned corporate credibility through relationships and consistent delivery.
Employee Benefit News
“How concierge services can help ease the burden on employee caregivers”
Anita’s thought leadership for benefits decision-makers—risk, compliance, trust, and caregiver professionalism—so readers see her as a leader who can translate a human problem into an enterprise-ready solution with clear guardrails and outcomes.
ValiantCEO
“Elevating Caregiving as an Honorable and Worthy Profession”
A leadership-forward interview that highlights how Anita builds resilience, asks for help strategically, and keeps standards high while scaling, so you get a strong read on her operating mindset, decision-making cadence, and people-first leadership style.
IT Chronicles
“Tech Founder Friday: Meet Anita Darden Gardyne of Onēva”
A quick founder Q&A that blends business clarity with personal warmth, including what shaped Anita’s leadership voice and how she advises others building companies, which makes it easy to see how she coaches, communicates, and motivates action.
https://itchronicles.com/start-up/tech-founder-friday-meet-anita-darden-gardyne-of-oneva/
Recognition and Community Impact
Berkeley Haas Magazine
“Care Leader”
A recognition highlight that underscores Anita’s leadership credibility and impact, including acknowledgment tied to a Women in Leadership award, reinforcing the theme you’ll see everywhere—mission anchored in care, executed with real-world business discipline.
https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2015_Summer_BHmag_FINAL.pdf
AfroTech
“Award-Winning Entrepreneur Anita Gardyne is Revolutionizing Care Through Her Tech Platform Onēva”
A profile that connects Anita’s executive background with her founder path, spotlighting the credibility she brings when she walks into a room, sells a vision, and aligns partners around practical execution, not just inspiration.
ENSPIRE Magazine
“Tech Czar… Takes Caregiver Platform Oneva to New Heights”
A deeper personal-and-professional story that shows why Anita leads with both empathy and standards, sharing the lived experience behind the company and the practical business thinking that makes her approach feel trustworthy and scalable.
Equity, Funding Realities, and Building in Public
SF Gate
“What it’s like to be a black, female entrepreneur”
A powerful window into the bias founders can face in fundraising rooms, and how Anita keeps her footing anyway, which makes this a must-read if you care about grit, negotiation stamina, and staying strategic under pressure.
https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/What-it-s-like-to-be-a-black-female-5938594.php
Black Enterprise
“Peeple App is VC Funding Gone Amok”
An article on venture-funding priorities that name-checks Anita’s experience pitching as a Black female CEO, reinforcing what she’s navigated—and why her coaching and leadership guidance are grounded in reality, not theory.
https://itchronicles.com/start-up/tech-founder-friday-meet-anita-darden-gardyne-of-oneva/
Contra Costa Pulse
“Gratitude Shop Owner Honored as ‘Woman of Impact’”
Community recognition that places Anita among local women leaders making tangible impact, which adds another layer to her brand: she builds, she shows up, and she contributes beyond the boardroom and beyond the pitch stage.
https://ccpulse.org/2017/03/21/gratitude-shopowner-honored-as-woman-of-impact/