zScale Capital Founder to Present AI-Powered Workforce Intelligence Platform at 1 Million Cups Dallas

zScale Capital founder and CEO Sushma Vadlamannati will present at 1 Million Cups Dallas on Tuesday, April 15, 2026.

AI is reshaping entire job categories. New college graduates are entering one of the most challenging hiring markets in recent years. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the underemployment rate for recent college graduates rose to 42.5% in Q4 2025 - the highest level since 2020. The March 2026 BLS jobs report shows long-term unemployment is up by 322,000 over the year, with 1.8 million Americans now jobless for 27 weeks or more.

Universities and community colleges are working hard to align their programs with a workforce that looks different than it did even two years ago. Economic development organizations across Texas are building talent pipelines to attract businesses and strengthen their regional economies.

The challenge they all share: the real-time data they need to make these decisions is scattered, expensive and hard to access.

That is what zScale Capital was built to address. The platform brings together labor market data, employer demand, and program outcomes in one place - tailored to each institution's region and employers - so universities, EDCs and workforce boards can make faster, better-informed decisions.

The need is urgent and local. In DFW, the latest BLS data shows healthcare added 16,500 jobs in 2025 while professional and business services lost 21,700. The March 2026 national jobs report tells a similar story - healthcare led with 76,000 jobs added in a single month while financial activities lost 15,000 positions. The sectors growing and the sectors contracting are telling very different stories, and institutions need real-time visibility to keep pace.

"The people doing this work - university deans, career directors, EDC leaders - care deeply and work incredibly hard," said Vadlamannati. "They deserve tools that keep pace with how fast the labor market is changing."

Vadlamannati is a technology professional with 15 years of experience at Fortune 100 companies, an active investor, startup advisor and nonprofit board member. She founded zScale Capital to bring the same quality of real-time intelligence that the private sector relies on to the institutions that power our communities.

zScale Capital is based in Grapevine, Texas. Learn more at https://zscalecapital.com/
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- Name of the company: zScale Capital LLC
- Postal Address: 1527 W State HWY 114, suite 500/304 Grapevine, TX 76051
- Contact info: Sushma@zscalecapital.com
- Press contact: Sushma Vadlamannati

zScale Capital is an AI-powered workforce intelligence platform that helps universities, EDCs and workforce boards connect education to employment with real-time data. The platform brings together labor market signals, employer demand, and program outcomes in one place - tailored to each institution's region and employers. Based in Grapevine, Texas. Learn more at zscalecapital.com.

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