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35 Best Tech Companies in NYC

When it comes to technology companies in New York City, the sky’s the limit – just like the view from the top of the Empire State Building. While the city is often associated with business, finance, and fashion, it has also become a thriving hub for tech companies of all shapes and sizes.

From startups to established giants, New York is home to some of the most innovative and exciting tech companies in the world. And just like Lady Liberty, these companies stand as a beacon of progress and innovation in a city that has always been at the forefront of change.

Whether you’re looking for cutting-edge software, advanced hardware, or game-changing apps, you’ll find it all in the city that never sleeps. So join me and let鈥檚 look into 35 of the best technology companies in NYC!

1. IBM

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The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) was formed in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) in Endicott, New York. It was renamed “International Business Machines” in 1924. It is also known as Big Blue because of its blue logo and color scheme. In 1964, Its headquarters were moved to Armonk, New York.

 It specializes in computer hardware, middleware, and software, as well as hosting and consulting services spanning from mainframe computers to nanotechnology. If you are a computer geek, then you have come across IBM Watson and the Fortran programming language-all IBM inventions.

2. Apple

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Apple is the largest technology company by revenue and as of 2022, the world鈥檚 biggest company by capitalization. It designs, manufactures, and sells smartphones, PCs, tablets, wearables, and accessories, as well as a variety of related services. The company’s products include the iPhone, Mac, iPad, Air Pods, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Beats goods, Home Pod, iPod touch, and accessories.

Apple was founded by Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and Ronald Wayne as Apple Computer Company on April 1, 1976. It operates worldwide and has approximately 164, 000 employees. It has one of its offices in Chelsea, New York, U.S.

3. Verizon Communications

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Verizon Communications Inc. is a broadband and telecommunications firm that runs 4G LTE and 3G networks and provides information and entertainment services. It is commonly referred to as Verizon. It was founded on October 7, 1983. The company鈥檚 headquarters are at 1095 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, but is incorporated in Delaware.

The company was formed as Bell Atlantic as part of the break up of the Bell System. In 2000, Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp. merged. Bell Atlantic changed its name to Verizon. Verizon is responsible for providing wireless internet and Tv services in the United States.

4. Outbrain

Outbrain is a platform for web recommendations. The company generates revenue for online publishers by showing content and ad feeds, or boxes of links “chumboxes”, to pages inside a website or mobile platform. Advertisers pay Outbrain per click, and a percentage of the money is split with publishers.

It was founded by Yaron Galai and Ori Lahav in 2006. The company’s headquarters are in New York, U.S. and it has 13 global offices. It has approximately 850 employees.

5. Google

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Everyone with a smart device must be aware of Google. It majorly specializes in Online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, search engine technology, computer software, and e-commerce. Google has offices at 111 Eighth Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google on September 4, 1998, while earning their PhDs at Stanford University in California, U.S. It is one of the most valuable brands worldwide because of its market domination, data collecting, and technological advantages in the field of artificial intelligence.

Its headquarters are located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, U.S. See our article to learn some fun facts about google!

6. Facebook

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One of the well-known online social media and social networking services is Facebook. It is owned by an American Company Meta Platforms. Facebook offices are located at 770 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City. You can鈥檛 visit Facebook offices anyhow; you have to be invited.

It was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook may be accessed via Internet-connected devices such as personal computers, tablets, and smartphones. Facebook users can communicate directly with each other through Facebook Messenger, join common interest groups, and receive notifications on the activities of their Facebook friends and the pages they follow.

7. Microsoft

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Microsoft is one of the Big five American information technology companies, alongside Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, and Meta (Facebook). It was the world’s largest software manufacturer as of 2019. Some of the Microsoft products include; the Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers.

On April 4, 1975, William Gates and Paul Allen launched Microsoft. In New York, its offices are located at 11 Times sq,8th Ave New York, U.S. Microsoft was placed No. 21 in the 2020 Fortune 500 list of the biggest firms in the United States based on total revenue. It has over 2000 employees in the city.

8. LinkedIn

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LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented social networking platform with websites and mobile apps. It is owned by Microsoft. It was launched on May 5, 2003. LinkedIn is mostly utilized for professional networking and career promotion. Additionally, it allows both job seekers and employers to publish CVs and vacancies.

LinkedIn is a professional network service. Its members may build profiles and connect with one another in an online social network. Its headquarters are located in Sunnyvale, California, U.S. but also has offices at 350 5th Ave, New York, U.S.

9. Twitter

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Twitter is a free social networking service in which members send very brief messages known as tweets. Many people identify it through its well-known blue logo 鈥淭witter bird鈥�. Tweets can be text, videos, photographs, or links. Users commonly interact with Twitter through a browser using a smart device on an internet connection.

Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams founded Twitter in March 2006, and it launched in July of the same year. It is based in San Francisco, California but has offices at 249 W 17th St, New York U.S. Elon Musk acquired Twitter, Inc. on October 27, 2022.

10. Spotify

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Spotify is one of the leading music streaming service providers with over 489 million monthly active users. It is a public audio streaming and media service provider. It is found in most of Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.

Spotify was founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon. It is a freemium service with free basic features, advertisements, and limited control. Paying subscriptions provide extra capabilities such as offline listening and commercial-free listening.

Its offices are based at 4 World Trade Centre in the heart of New York’s Financial District. If you’re a football fan you might recognize them as the shirt sponsors for FC Barcelona.

11. Etsy

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Etsy, Inc. is an e-commerce marketplace company focused on handmade or antique items and craft supplies. The website was launched on June 18, 2005, by iospace, a small firm comprised of Robert Kalin, Chris Maguire, and Haim Schoppik. The website continues the tradition of open craft fairs by providing vendors with personal storefronts where they may advertise their wares for a cost of US$0.20 per item.

Etsy, Inc. headquarters are located in Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Etsy had 2,790 workers by the end of 2022.

12. Bloomberg

Bloomberg L.P. is classified as a private, limited partnership company. Michael Bloomberg co-founded it in 1981, together with Thomas Secunda, Duncan MacMillan, Charles Zegar, and a 12% ownership stake from Bank of America’s brokerage arm Merrill Lynch.

The firm is well-known for delivering financial software tools such as an analytics and equity trading platform, data services, and news to financial corporations and organizations.

Bloomberg L.P. has its headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The firm has 176 locations and roughly 20,000 employees.

13. Squarespace

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Squarespace was founded by Anthony Casalena. While attending the University of Maryland, he began creating Squarespace for his own use. In January 2004, he established Squarespace as a public do-it-yourself/drag-and-drop website builder.

Squarespace is a website-building and SaaS-based hosting platform. It offers software as a service for building and hosting websites. Users are allowed to use pre-built website templates and drag-and-drop elements to create and modify webpages. Its corporate offices are in New York City, New York, in the United States.

14. Shutterstock

Jon Oringer, an American entrepreneur and computer programmer, founded Shutterstock in 2003. It is an American online marketplace for stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools. Shutterstock has a library of around 200 million royalty-free stock images, and vector drawings as well as approximately 10 million video clips and audio files.

It鈥檚 almost impossible to not bump into Shutterstock while searching Stock photos due to their incredible pricing plans and licenses, huge library, and great quality. It has its headquarters in New York City, U.S. It originally started as a subscription-only site but expanded into a la carte pricing in 2008.

15. Foursquare

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Foursquare Labs Inc. is well known for producing a local search-and-discovery mobile app – 鈥淔oursquare City Guide鈥�. Based on the user’s prior browsing and check-in history, the app delivers customized recommendations of places to visit near the user’s current location. The company majorly specializes in location technology, advertising technology, and app developer tools.

Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai founded the firm in late 2008, and it went public in 2009. Foursquare has its headquarters in New York City, New York, United States.

16. Compass

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Compass, Inc. functions as a licensed real estate broker. It utilizes the internet as a marketing medium with the use of real estate technology. Compass specializes in luxury homes with significant margins in upscale markets. The firm supplies real estate agents with software such as mobile apps.

Compass was launched in 2012 as “Urban Compass” by entrepreneurs Ori Allon, Robert Reffkin, and Avi Dorfman. The company is based in New York, New York, in the United States. It operates in 20 U.S. markets including New York, Philadelphia, and Boston.

17. Xandr

Xandr was formerly known as AppNexus. It operates a cloud-based software platform that enables and optimizes programmatic online advertising. The company provides online auction infrastructure and technologies for data management, optimization, financial clearing, and directly negotiated advertising campaigns.

Xandr was founded by Brian O鈥橩elley, and Mike Nolet in 2007. Its headquarters are located in the Flatiron District of New York City United States. Xandr was ranked 21st on Forbes Magazine鈥檚 鈥淭he Cloud 100鈥� list in 2016. The company operates worldwide.

18. MongoDB

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Tech geeks are quite familiar with MongoDB-a NoSQL database that stores data in JSON-like documents with flexible schemas. The company is a public software company that develops and provides commercial support for the source available database MongoDB. It released MongoDB as an open-source project in February 2009

The firm was founded in 2007 as 10gen. It was founded by Dwight Merriman, Kevin P. Ryan, and Elliot Horowitz. Its headquarters are located in New York City, U.S. On August 27, 2013, 10gen changed its name to MongoDB, Inc.

19. Warby Parker

Warby Parker is an online retailer of prescription glasses, contact lenses, and sunglasses. Apparently, AND Inc. is the company’s corporate name, while “Warby Parker” is its trade name. It began predominantly as an online retailer but currently sells primarily (about 90%) through approximately 160 physical retail shops across the U.S. and Canada.

In 2010, Neil Blumenthal, Andrew Hunt, David Gilboa, and Jeffrey Raider founded Warby Parker in Philadelphia. Its headquarters are in New York City, United States. As of 2022, the company had 200 locations and 3032 employees.

20. DigitalOcean Holdings

DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. provides developers, startups, and small and medium-sized enterprises with cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platforms. The firm is a public technology company and cloud service provider. It was founded on June 24, 2011, by Ben Uretsky, Moisey Uretsky, Mitch Wainer, Jeff Car, and Alec Hartman.

Do you know Hacktoberfest? It is a month-long celebration of open-source software held annually in October and hosted by DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. Each year, it collaborates with several software firms such as GitHub, Twilio, Dev.to, Intel, AppWrite, and DeepSource. The company has its headquarters in New York City, U.S.

21. Datadog

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Datadog operates as a system monitoring company. It is a cloud-scale application observability service that monitors servers, databases, tools, and services via a SaaS-based data analytics platform. Its corporate offices are in New York City, New York, in the United States.

Datadog was formed in 2010 by Olivier Pomel and Alexis L锚-Qu么c. It was designed to be a cloud infrastructure monitoring service with a dashboard, alerts, and metric visualizations.

22. InterActiveCorp Inc.

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Commonly referred to as IAC Inc it is an American holding firm that owns brands in over 100 countries, mostly in media and the Internet. InterActiveCorp is headquartered in New York City, U.S. but incorporated under Delaware General Corporation law.

IAC began as Silver King Broadcasting Corporation in 1986 as an effort to enhance Home Shopping Network (HSN) viewership by buying local television stations. Silver King was spun off to HSN stockholders as a separate publicly listed business in 1992. On August 1995, Barry Diller was named Chairman and CEO of Silver King. Silver King underwent several name changes till July 2004 when it was named IAC Inc.

23. Meetup

Meetup operates as a social media and membership software site. It is a social networking platform for hosting and organizing in-person and virtual activities, meetings, and events for people and groups with similar interests, hobbies, and professions. It was founded on June 12, 2002, by Scott Heiferman and four co-founders.

Its headquarters are in New York City, United States. In 2017, the company was acquired by WeWork but was later sold to AlleyCorp, an early-stage venture fund, and incubator, in 2020.

24. BuzzFeed, Inc.

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BuzzFeed was founded on November 1, 2006, by Jonah Peretti and John S. Johnson III. The purpose of the company was to focus on tracking viral content. It is a digital media, news, and entertainment firm. Its headquarters are located in New York City, U.S.

The company was originally known for online quizzes, 鈥渓isticles鈥�, and pop culture articles. Lately, the company has grown into a global media and technology company, providing coverage on a variety of topics including politics, animals, and businesses. As of 2017, the company had 1700 employees.

25. Yext

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Yext specializes in helping companies manage their digital knowledge. It is a technology company that allows businesses to manage all of the reviews about their products and services. It provides brand updates using its cloud-based network of applications, search engines, and other tools.

Howard Lerman, Brian Distelburger, and Brent Metz founded the firm in 2006. It is headquartered at 61 Ninth Avenue, New York, New York, U.S.

26. Vince Media Group

Vince Media is classified as a private limited liability company. It is an American-Canadian digital media and broadcasting company. The Vice Media Group has five primary business sectors as of June 2021: VICE.com, VICE STUDIOS, VICE TV, VICE News, and VIRTUE (an agency offering creative services).

Vice Media was founded in October 1994 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by Shane Smith, Suroosh Alvi, and Gavin McInnes. Its headquarters are found in Brooklyn, New York, United States. The company has 35 offices and roughly 3000 employees.

27. ZocDoc

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ZocDoc is a private firm that provides an online service for finding and booking in-person or telemedicine appointments for medical and dental services. The platform also serves as a database for physician and dentist ratings and comparisons. Patients are not charged for the service, and doctors pay to promote their appointment slots.

Oliver Kharraz, Nicholas Ganju, and Cyrus Massoumi founded ZocDoc in New York City in 2007. The company has its headquarters in New York City, United States. It only serves the United States.

28. Dataminr

Dataminr was founded in 2009 by Yale University graduates Ted Bailey, Sam Hendel, and Jeff Kinsey. It is an artificial intelligence company. Dataminr has software products like Dataminr Pulse which is used by businesses to track current events and support crisis management by offering playbooks, communications tools, and post-event documentation.

Dataminr gained further attention after it alerted the public that Osama bin Laden had been slain 23 minutes ahead of the main news outlets. The company is based in Manhattan, New York, United States. As of 2022, It had more than 950 employees.

29. Kaltura

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Kaltura is a software company that provides live and on-demand video SaaS solutions to thousands of organizations. It operates in four major markets: Cloud TV, online video platform, Education Video Platform, and Enterprise Video Platform. Its corporate offices are in New York City, New York, in the United States.

Kaltura was founded in the fall of 2006 and had its public debut on September 18, 2007, at the TechCrunch40 industry conference in San Francisco. Its founders are Ron Yekutiel, Shay David, Michal Tsur and Eran Etam.

30. LivePerson

LivePerson is most recognized for creating the Conversational Cloud, a software platform that allows consumers to message brands. It is a global technology company that develops conversational commerce and Artificial Intelligence software. The company is also responsible for creating LP Insights- which creates organized and unstructured data from customer conversation transcripts to provide actionable insights.

Robert LoCascio started LivePerson in 1995.Its headquarters are located in New York City, U.S. As of December 2020, it had 1,201 employees. It operates worldwide.

31. JW Player

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JW Player is a private company that created the same-named video player software. The player is used for embedding videos onto web pages. In addition, the business developed the video management software “JW Platform,” formerly known as “Bits On The Run.”

JW Player was founded in 2005 by Jeroen Wijering. Originally, it was developed as an open-source project but was later offered with a Creative Commons license for non-commercial use. Its headquarters are in New York City, New York, United States.

32. Giphy

Yes, it has something to do with GIFs! Giphy is an online database and search engine that lets users find and share short looping films with no sound that resemble animated GIF files.

It has a “conversational search,” as its founders call it, in which contents are introduced to users’ conversations via a search box located in their messaging apps.

Giphy was started in February 2013 by Alex Chung and Jace Cooke. When being launched the website solely functioned as a search engine for GIFs. Its headquarters are located at 416 West 13th Street, New York.

33. Sprinklr

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Ragy Thomas, a technology professional, founded Sprinklr in September 2009. It is a public software company that develops a SaaS customer experience management (CXM) platform. Sprinklr is also the name of the company’s software. The software includes features such as social experience core, content marketing, social media management, paid advertising, website management, and social listening functionalities.

The company has its headquarters in New York, U.S. The company has approximately 3245 employees.

34. UiPath

UiPath is a multinational software firm that develops robotic process automation (RPA) software. The company’s software analyzes user activity to automate repetitive front and back-office tasks. Some of the company鈥檚 products include RPA tools and Automation tools.

UiPath was founded in 2005 as DeskOver in Bucharest, Romania, by Romanian entrepreneurs Daniel Dines and Marius T卯rc膬. The company’s name was changed to UiPath in 2015. It is headquartered at One Vanderbilt Avenue, 60th Floor, New York, U.S.

35. Oracle

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Tech geeks are quite familiar with the Oracle database 鈥淥racle ERP鈥�. Oracle is a technology company that specializes in selling database software and technology, cloud-engineered systems, and enterprise software products. It is the third-largest software company in the world by revenue and market capitalization.

Oracle Company was formed in 1977 by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates under the name Software Development Labs (SDL). The company operates worldwide and has 143,000 employees, as of May 2022. It has offices in Midtown East, New York, U.S.