Founded in 1991, The Walking Company is the leading national specialty retailer of high-quality comfort footwear and accessories, dedicated to bringing customers the best comfort brands from around the world. Offering the most technically-advanced selection of comfort footwear under one roof, The Walking Company sells premium and exclusive brands such as ABEO® footwear, Dansko, ECCO, Taos & more. The Walking Company headquarters are based in Westlake Village, CA, and the company operates over 180 stores in premium malls nationwide, and online at thewalkingcompany.com.
Stride simplifies the complexities of being an independent worker by solving their biggest healthcare, savings & tax benefits challenges. Stride’s portable benefits system enables companies to contribute to individual workers’ benefits accounts while workers—regardless of their employment status—can manage on their own and take with them.
Stride is partnered with over 130 organizations, including the world's leading work platforms, employers, and service providers of non-benefited workers, such as Uber, Amazon, DoorDash, Instacart, Lyft, Grubhub, Patreon, Care.com, Gusto, Homebase, TaskRabbit, Recording Academy, ShiftKey and more so they can provide their workers with access to a complete marketplace of health and wealth benefits. The company is backed by $96 million in capital from Venrock, New Enterprise Associates, F-Prime Capital, Mastercard, Allstate and King River.