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In 2023, technology's relevance is unparalleled as it drives innovation across all sectors. From AI and automation to sustainability solutions, tech accelerates progress, shapes economies, and addresses global challenges, ushering in a transformative era of possibilities.

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Top Tech Companies 2023

The companies listed below were named winners in the 2022 Powderkeg Unvalley Awards. Awards data was validated by CLA, a top 10 accounting firm and Powderkeg National Corporate Member.
120Water
Zionsville - The end-to-end lead management solution designed to ease the compliance burden and optimize the efforts of water systems.
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Accern
Accern is a no-code generative natural language processing platform that transforms content into solutions to solve enterprise problems.
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Akooda
Akooda is a Ops Intelligence platform, providing true insights on existing SaaS tools used across the digital footprint.
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Ampaire
Ampaire's mission is to be the world's most trusted developer of practical, compelling electric aircraft.
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A.Team
A.Team is a distributed, on-demand team formation platform that allows members to team up and build things.
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Attain
Attain is an outcomes driven platform enabling marketers with better data to achieve their goals
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Avalanche Energy
Avalanche Energy is a fusion energy startup that develops micro-fusion reactors for distributed energy and mobility.
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Bluesky
Bluesky is a new social media platform.
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Catalyte
Baltimore - Catalyte is a software engineering services company that uses data science and AI to build technology workforces for forward-looking companies. Its Odyssey workforce development platform delivers exceptional and sustainable tech talent and powers transformational software engineering. Its services specialize in talent and workforce development, software engineering, technology, and process transformation, application development, and modernization that enable businesses to access affordable technology development services and scale software innovation by letting its software developers learn new technology development techniques in real-time. Founded in 2000, Catalyte is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Cherry
Cherry is a payment solutions company that offers fast and easy payment plans for medical practices.
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Chowbus
Chicago - Chowbus is an online and mobile food-ordering platform that curates daily featured dishes from select ethnic restaurants and delivers them hot and fresh directly to your home or office. What makes Chowbus different is the dish-centric ordering experience so consumers can easily explore authentic ethnic food. Chowbus empowers local restaurants with the technology, tools, and marketing to grow their businesses. With more than 3,000 featured restaurants in over 25 major cities around the world, Chowbus' mission is to connect Chinatown with its supporters.
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EcoMap Technologies
We create data-drive platforms to power any ecosystem, from entrepreneurial communities, to industries, to corporate networks
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EigenLayer
EigenLayer provides developers access to the Ethereum staked capital basis and decentralized validator set.
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Electric Era Technologies
Electric Era Technologies develops AI-controlled battery storage for the cost-effective operation of charging stations.
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Emotive
Emotive is a conversational texting platform for eCommerce brands, enabling two way text message communication at scale.
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Escalated Solutions
Carmel - Escalated.io is a real-time fraud prevention and monitoring SAAS Platform. Our services were built to be affordable and flexible enough to be used by individuals and companies of any size or budget. Protect from ad fraud, click fraud, and other harmful bot activities. Increase brand safety and protect relationships. Bots are bad for business!
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Evisort
Evisort is the next generation of AI-powered contract intelligence.
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Falkon AI
Falkon AI is an intelligence platform for marketing, sales, and account management teams.
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Farmer's Fridge
Farmer’s Fridge provides an automated smart fridge that serves salads, bowls, snacks, and more.
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FiscalNote
FiscalNote uses artificial intelligence and big data to deliver predictive analytics on government information to determine its impact.
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Flexware
leading systems integrator who helps forward thinkers in manufacturing and related industries build long-lasting solutions with ease.
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Fluree
Fluree is an open source semantic graph database that guarantees data integrity, secure data sharing, and powers connected data insights.
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Foxtrot
Chicago - Foxtrot is a mobile app that lets customers shop their curated collections of drinks, food, and everyday essentials. The customer's order will be delivered straight to them in under an hour. The company was co-founded by Mike LaVitola with Brian Jaffee and Taylor Bloom in 2013 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Gable
Gable connects companies and their employees to flexible, scalable, and cost-effective hybrid offices.
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Glassboard
Indianapolis - A Product Development Company
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Gretel.ai
The synthetic data platform for developers.
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H2Ok Innovations
H2Ok Innovations is an IoT-enabled analytics platform.
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Hadrian
Hadrian is a machine-parts startup that manufactures precision components for cutting-edge technology companies.
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Hermeus
Hermeus is developing Mach 5 aircraft to speed up the global transportation network.
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Hologram
Chicago - Hologram is a cellular platform designed for the Internet of Things. Thousands of connectivity teams rely on Hologram to keep their fleets connected around the world — from Burbank to Brisbane. Hologram was founded in 2014 by Benjamin Forgan and Patrick Wilbur. Inspired by the connectivity challenges affecting food delivery startups in Singapore, Hologram's co-founders focused their efforts on removing the red tape preventing fast-growing IoT teams from launching cellular equipped fleets around the world. What started as a Kickstarter, under Hologram's old name, Konekt, has blossomed into the de facto networks IoT teams use to launch their products. In the years since Hologram was founded, the company has been a partner to leading technology pioneers around the world. Hologram made it possible for the rapid growth of micromobility vehicles like e-scooters. Hologram kept self-driving cars connected and on the road. Hologram helped drones deliver medicine to remote communities and kept vital health devices online across six continents. The future will have billions of more devices connected to the internet. Hologram is focused on being the operating system for global connectivity.
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HUNGRY
Arlington - WASHINGTON, D.C. March 05, 2020 – HUNGRY Marketplace Inc., the Washington D.C. based platform connecting top chefs with businesses looking for the best in catered meals, today announced the close of its nearly $20 million Series B funding round. The round was led by former Whole Foods co-CEO Walter Robb and Evolution VC Partners. Additional participants in the round included actor Kevin Hart, Jay-Z’s Marcy Venture Partners, Los Angeles Ram Todd Gurley, Seattle Seahawk Bobby Wagner, Tampa Bay Buccaneer Ndamukong Suh, former White House chef Sam Kass, President Obama’s special assistant Reggie Love and Leonard Green Partners’ Jonathan Sokoloff. The investment brings the company’s total funding to $32.5 million. ABOUT HUNGRY: HUNGRY was founded by serial entrepreneurs Eman Pahlavani, Shy Pahlevani and Jeff Grass, as a revolutionary way for independent chefs to connect with the $60 billion business and events catering market. HUNGRY is committed to improving the communities it serves. Through its ‘Fight Against Hunger’ program, HUNGRY donates one meal to those in need for every two purchased. Additionally, its ‘WeRecycle’ program promotes environmental waste reduction by offering biodegradable plates and cutlery with its delivered meals. HUNGRY is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and has rapidly growing operations in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston and New York City. By the end of 2021, HUNGRY is projected to expand its footprint to a total of 23 U.S. cities. For more information, visit tryhungry.com.
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Hunt Club
Hunt Club is a talent company that leans on subject matter experts to help clients find their next hire.
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Hydrosat
Hydrosat provides geospatial intelligence for food security, critical infrastructure, and the environment.
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Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope designs, administers, and hosts branded scholarship and grant programs on a cloud-based marketplace.
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Kin Insurance
Chicago - Kin Insurance is an insurtech startup and licensed insurance carrier that is fixing home insurance through intuitive tech customer service. Launched by seasoned financial tech entrepreneurs Sean Harper and Lucas Ward in 2016, Kin is committed to serving catastrophe-prone regions and coastal homeowners most impacted by climate change. The company has its headquarters in Chicago with an office in Tampa Bay and currently serves Florida.
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Kinney Group
We help creators harness the power of data to improve lives.
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Lazarus
An API for Advanced Document Understanding
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Level AI
Level AI is a platform for businesses to automate tedious workflows and transform customer experience.
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LevelTen Energy
LevelTen Energy is an energy company that provides renewable transaction infrastructure.
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Loop Returns
More exchanges, fewer refunds.
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Lumatic
AI powered headshots & event photos — Photo management for groups
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Lynk Global
Lynk Global is a mobile network technology company that offers universal connectivity for mobile phones.
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Mashgin
Mashgin is a software company that makes AI and computer vision checkout systems.
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Membrion
Membrion is a manufacturer of ultra-low cost, high performance ion exchange membranes.
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Metafy
Metafy is an online coaching platform that enables video gamers to monetize their talent through coaching and courses.
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Mint House
New York - Mint House is a start-up hospitality company that disrupts the traditional hotel model. The company offers rentals with spacious units with full-service kitchens, pre-arrival fridge stocking, and no-hassle keyless entry, among other features, enabling business travelers to book affordable homes in prime locations. It provides a unique experience that offers the feel of a high-end hotel, with all the comforts and conveniences of a home, all packaged and delivered via technology. Financed and advised by seasoned hospitality executives including the former CEO of Starwood Hotels, President of St. Regis, and CEO of Travelocity, Mint House is in hyper-growth mode expanding around the country and opening new markets every several months. The company is headquartered in New York and operates in multiple locations across the United States. It was founded in January 2017.
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Monetizr
Monetizr is an in-game advertising platform for brands in gaming. We inject Tier 1 brand advertiser campaigns in top mobile games.
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MotherDuck
Data Infrastructure and Analytics for data big and small.
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Multiply
We help global enterprises and rapidly growing orgs implement complex IT Asset Management strategies and solutions.
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myCOI
We Erase the Worry
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Mysten Labs
Mysten Labs develops tools that make web3 secure, reliable, and ready for mass adoption.
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NICKLpass
NICKLpass is a platform that enables users to read the news without paywalls.
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Nori
Nori is a carbon dioxide removal marketplace that aims to reverse climate change.
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Obsess
Obsess is a 3D virtual store platform that enables brands to build immersive, engaging shopping experiences on their e-commerce sites.
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Omneky
Omneky generates personalized creative content at scale.
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Orbit Fab
Orbit Fab is a supplier of tankers and other infrastructure needed for in-space refueling of satellites.
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Parker Technology
Customer Experience Software Solution of Choice for Parking
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Particle
Particle is an integrated IoT platform that helps businesses connect, manage, and deploy software applications.
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Personal AI
Personal AI is an AI messaging application for augmenting human connection and memory recall.
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Pixxel
Pixxel is a space data company that develops a constellation of hyperspectral earth imaging satellites.
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Placemakr
Placemakr is a tech-enabled hospitality platform and operator that offers furnished properties for rent.
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Plunk
Plunk is the first AI-powered and real-time analytics platform for residential real estate.
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Polywork
Polywork is a social networking platform that allows professionals to collaborate with eachother.
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Project 44
Chicago - project44 is an advanced visibility platform for shippers and third-party logistics firms. project44 connects, automates, and provides visibility into key transportation processes to accelerate insights and shorten the time it takes to turn those insights into actions. Leveraging the power of the project44 cloud-based platform, organizations can increase operational efficiencies, reduce costs, improve shipping performance, and deliver an exceptional Amazon-like experience to their customers. Connected to over 175,000 carriers worldwide and having comprehensive coverage for all ELD and telematics devices on the market, project44 supports all transportation modes and shipping types, including Parcel, Final-Mile, Less-than-Truckload, Volume Less-than-Truckload, Truckload, Rail, Intermodal and Ocean.
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Project Canary
Project Canary is a B-Corp that reduces GHG emissions and impacts in the energy, waste, and agriculture sectors through sensor measurement.
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Protect AI
Protect AI offers a cybersecurity platform that specializes in protecting machine learning models and artificial intelligence systems.
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Qwick
Qwick is the professional platform at the heart of hospitality, connecting businesses with industry freelancers in real time.
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RentSpree
RentSpree provides software with a universal tenant screening process, renter management, partnership programs, and rental screening API.
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Rephrase.ai
Rephrase builds generative AI tools to create professional videos with the ease of writing text.
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ResortPass
ResortPass offers day access to luxury hotel amenities in their own neighborhoods.
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Risc Zero.
Risc Zero builds scaling solutions using Zero Knowledge Proofs which will make blockchains accessible.
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Saltbox
Saltbox provides workspaces that offer fulfillment and logistics support to ecommerce entrepreneurs.
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Scale Computing
A market leader in edge computing, virtualization and hyperconverged solutions.
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Scout Space
Scout is developing orbital products and services to enable a new era of space safety, transparency, and improved Space Domain Awareness.
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ScribeUp
ScribeUp is a chrome plugin that allows you to sign up for free subscription trials without using credit card.
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Secureframe
San Francisco - Secureframe is a provider of SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance automation software used for compliant security. It provides automated compliance audits and ongoing compliance monitoring that ensures the service providers securely manage the data to protect the interests of an organization and the privacy of its clients and enables companies globally to obtain and maintain SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification. Secureframe was co-founded by Shrav Mehta and Natasja Nielsen and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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ShearShare
The #1 Salon and Barbershop Booth Rental App. Reimagine how, when, and where you work!
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Shipwire, A CEVA Logistics Company
Global fulfillment technology and 3PL services for brands and retailers
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Sigo Seguros
Sigo Seguros is an insurance company that offers auto insurance services.
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Slingshot Aerospace
El Segundo - Slingshot Aerospace builds innovative satellite, aerial, and drone signal processing AI and analytics capabilities. Slingshot provides the next generation of signal processing AI. Their solutions and geospatial insights allow customers worldwide to make valuable decisions utilizing Earth Observation data, the world’s largest untapped data source, and other ancillary data sources. The company aims to significantly improve the value of data their customers consume, allowing them to gain a competitive advantage, reduce risk, and reduce costs. Their solutions are tailored to drive deep into specific industries, powered by a flexible, distributed data platform.
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soona
a virtual content studio platform that helps brands to make professional-level photos and videos for e-commerce and marketing.
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SparkCharge
SparkCharge is an automotive company that offers mobile and convenient charging stations for electric vehicles.
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Spokenote
Spokenote bridges the physical and digital, empowering brands to create engaging experiences and gain insights with every interaction.
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Spot AI
Spot AI is the simplest way to move your video security to the cloud. One dashboard for all your cameras.
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Superplastic
Superplastic is a character-based product and entertainment company that creates limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation.
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Surf Air
Surf Air is a membership airline that offers first-class travel on executive aircraft.
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Temporal Technologies
Temporal Technologies enables its users to build and operate resilient applications using developer-friendly primitives.
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The Engineered Innovation Group
We design, build and engineer innovative SaaS products for entrepreneurs, enterprises and educational institutions.
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Toothio
Toothio is revolutionizing the dental staffing industry by seamlessly connecting dental offices with high quality talent on-demand.
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Traba
Traba is on a mission to empower workers and local businesses to unlock their full productivity and earning potential.
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Trellis Research
Trellis Research is a state trial court legal research and analytics platform with AI-based insights on judges.
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True Anomaly
TEST - True Anomaly manufactures space materials to deliver security and sustainability systems and solutions in the space domain.
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True Essence Foods
True Essence Foods is a food technology company rethinking everything we know about food.
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Twelve Labs
Twelve Labs is making video foundation models accessible via APIs to empower businesses and developers to build intelligent video products.
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Union.ai
Union.ai is a Kubernetes-native workflow orchestration platform for data and machine learning at scale.
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Unit21
Unit21 is a no-code platform for risk and compliance operations.
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Wagmo
Wagmo operates a pet wellness platform that offers pet insurance and routine care.
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Whistle
Whistle is the first platform that combines the key elements of behavior change to produce measurable business results.
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Windfall
Our mission is to change how organizations perceive and use people data.
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ZenBusiness
Austin - ZenBusiness makes it easy to start, run, and grow your business
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Zirtue
Zirtue lets you Lend and Borrow Money on Your Terms.
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Tech Inside the Coasts

As a startup community, Powderkeg is fortunate to work with some of the best talent and top tech companies in the world, right here in the Unvalley. All across the United States, we’ve been on the frontlines with communities building and maintaining strong startup ecosystems that develop people, companies and economies.

Sure, your mind may go directly to the biggest tech companies in the world like Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix and Google. Or, skyrocketing tech companies’ stock amid an economic boom. But, the software world has so much more to offer than just the Silicon Valley big tech giants. As the market for tech talent continues to roar and workers disperse in remote and hybrid models, the top software companies in the world are increasingly recruiting outside the coasts.

In 2011 Marc Andreessen, a legendary entrepreneur from the Unvalley and cofounder of venture capital fund Andreessen Horowitz, famously stated that “software is eating the world.” A decade later, few would disagree that society now revolves around technology and its advancements. Tech has taken over our economy and our lives.

As more and more human and financial capital pours into the technology industry, the space will see even more growth in the years to come. So, you want to work in tech?

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Coastal Tech Giants

First, we’ll take a look at these tech giants and the impact they’ve had on our society. Then, you’ll learn about the software companies making waves in the Unvalley and Middle America.

The Menlo Park-headquartered Facebook Inc., the first of the notorious FAANG tech companies, is a trillion-dollar conglomerate of social networking platforms Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and other companies. Started by Mark Zuckerberg in a Harvard University dorm in Boston in 2004, Facebook was the first social network to gain traction after MySpace revolutionized how people around the world interact with the internet. Today, Facebook earns its revenue by selling ad space on the different platforms. However, it’s wrestling with both regulators and controversy among its users for creating echo chambers and manipulating its users to think, feel and act certain ways.

Founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in California, Apple is another trillion-dollar company operating out of Silicon Valley. Known for its sleek design and advanced hardware products, such as the Macbook laptop computer, iPhone cell phone and iPad tablet, Apple employs almost 150,000 tech workers across the globe.

Amazon, based in founder Jeff Bezos’s home city of Seattle, Washington, is a product marketplace platform that has changed how consumers shop. Leveraging the internet and technology to initially create a digital bookstore, Amazon now sells everything from A to Z, a notion that has inspired their logo. Bezos’s focus on optimizing Amazon’s supply chain operations has led the industry, including other marketplaces like Walmart and Target, to adopt two-day shipping averages that would’ve otherwise been out-of-reach. The platform has now spun out several other organizations like Amazon Web Services that is building a framework for the next generation of the internet.

Bill Gates’s Microsoft isn’t typically included in the FAANG acronym but deserves mention here. Also headquartered in the Pacific Northwest outside of Seattle, Microsoft is Apple’s closest competitor in hardware products and operating systems. Founded in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen set out to challenge Apple in computer software. In the 21st century, Microsoft has even found its way into the gaming industry. The public tech giant is now valued at more than $2 trillion.

Netfllix sent Blockbuster to its infamous demise when they introduced a digitized movie and television show platform where users pay monthly to get access to thousands of titles without waiting for DVDs in the mail or making a trip to the store. Now, Netflix competes with not only other streaming platforms like Hulu and HBO but also production shops, such as Sony, Paramount and Columbia. The lowest-valued of the FAANG tech companies, Netflix has a market capitalization of nearly $300 billion.

Finally, Mountain View-based Google and its parent company of Alphabet has been “organizing the world’s information” since the search engine debuted on the market in 1998. With more than 140,000 employees, Alphabet now comprises of such market leaders as YouTube, Google Ads and other subsidiaries.

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Top Tech Companies in Unvalley, USA

As illustrated above by the tremendous amount of innovation by American tech companies in the last few decades, the United States is also home to some of the world’s top tech companies to work for. In the new world of work where remote and hybrid models dominate the software industry specifically, your location doesn’t matter as much as it used to. Additionally, employees like you are looking for totally different traits and characteristics in an employer than they were years ago. Below, we dive into the top tech companies in the United States in the Unvalley.

Dell, headquartered in Texas, is one of the largest employers in the world. With their focus on creating computers and laptops, Dell was one of the first movers in the tech world yet continues to innovate and evolve with time. Together with Microsoft operating systems, Dell hardware products are found throughout America and the world. Different from some of their competitors, Dell has found success pursuing a B2B model where organizations acquire hardware for their employees.

Lenovo, another tech company that builds computers and laptops, is located in Morrisville, North Carolina, in the Raleigh-Durham metropolitan area. Like Dell, Lenovo has partnered with Microsoft to include their Windows operating systems on all their devices. Founded by Chinese tech executive Liu Chuanzhi in Beijing in 1984, Lenovo is now one of the largest suppliers of computer hardware in the world.

One Unvalley city in the 2020s has gotten more attention than the others. That city is Austin.

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The Great Tech Migration to Austin

There’s a new face in Austin, Texas, as Oracle moved their headquarters to the Lone Star State in early 2021. Larry Ellison’s Oracle offers a data management solution for large corporate enterprises. Ellison started the company in 1977 to accommodate the growing amount of data that companies had to organize with the advent of the internet and advancements in technology and software. Turns out, Ellison was ahead of the curve as the rate of data creation and collection would only continue to accelerate.

Another recent transplant to Austin, Texas, is Tesla and its team of forward-thinking engineers. Known for its electric cars, founder Elon Musk and Tesla are working on solar electric batteries and other projects as well. The eccentric South African founder has also moved his SpaceX operations from Los Angeles to Boca Chica, Texas, (or “Starbase”) near the Mexican border and Gulf of Mexico.