‘We Need to Break Her Down’: Three Women Allege Harassment at Tech Startup

Asya Bradley stayed late for a meeting at the office of the startup where she worked last year, when her boss became so angry that he threw a notebook and a phone across the table, according a lawsuit she filed this month. In another meeting, the suit says, he physically blocked her from leaving a conference room and yelled profanities. Bradley was far from the only woman at the company who was subject to verbal abuse, according to the complaint.

Today, Bradley, 44, is one of three women suing Synapse Financial Technologies Inc. and its chief executive officer, Sankaet Pathak, for what they allege was a pattern of harassment and discrimination by Pathak at the financial technology company. According to the women’s complaint, which they filed together earlier this month, the CEO targeted employees for mistreatment based on their age, gender and, in Bradley’s case, pregnancy.