Built In NYC’s 8 Featured Companies are Growing Strong This Month

October is one of the best times to be in New York. Tourist season has ended, cooler temperatures have started to creep in — and local tech businesses are gearing up for growth into 2025.

While New Yorkers are lining up to see the new musical The Notebook or the runaway hit Oh, Mary!, businesses are lining up new milestones to expand their teams and customer bases. Along with a wave of open roles, Built In New York’s featured companies of the month are announcing new partnerships, new integrations that introduce modern technology to thousands of new users, people-focused cultural initiatives and more.

For fans of the Big Apple and tech alike, Built In NYC has compiled the latest on what these stand-out companies are up to this October. 

 

What Tapestry does: Tapestry is a global textiles and fashion organization that includes the brands Kate Spade, Coach and Stuart Weitzman.

A workplace employees return to: Recently, Built In NYC spoke with a boomerang employee who had returned to working at Tapestry after changes in her previous role pushed her to find another alternative. Work-life balance, a strong team work ethic, a diverse team and opportunities for mentorship were some of the main reasons she returned.

 

What Spring Health does: Spring Health is a mental health care and insurance solution that helps businesses provide mental health care to employees.

Open roles at Spring Health: Spring Health is hiring for a large number of roles for remote and New York-area professionals. Roles range from entry- to director-level positions across the organization, including engineering, revenue and mental health care roles.

 

What Schrödinger does: Schrödinger offers enterprise software solutions for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and materials science research, including a predictive computational platform for scientific research.

Making research technology accessible: Recently, Emory University announced a unification of Schrödinger’s site license across its campus, enabling campuswide access to Schrödinger’s computational chemistry tools. The unification allows approximately 3,000 researchers with the university to leverage the cutting-edge software.

 

What Movable Ink does: Movable Ink provides software that empowers marketers with scalable, omnichannel personalization through data activation and AI decision-making.

A people-centric approach to sales: At Movable Ink, focusing on people and relationship-building is a central revenue strategy — and how the team thinks about their office culture. In a conversation with Built In NYC, Movable Ink’s Strategic Account Director of AI  Lauren Preskenis noted that the company also takes a people-first approach to company culture, underlining collaboration and community for its hybrid office.

 

What Chapter does: Chapter helps simplify the Medicare process by providing advising services for enrolling in, working with and getting the most value out of Medicare.

Open roles at Chapter: Chapter is hiring for several roles for New York-area and remote applicants. Current open positions span contract and full-time work for early-career to senior-level positions and range from growth and marketing to Medicare advisory roles.

 

What Flourish Does: Flourish provides resources and tools to help advisors manage their investment portfolios.

Optimizing for easier growth: Flourish recently launched a new integration with Salesforce, making it easier for members to send clients streamlined invitations to the platform and improving data visibility for Flourish users.

 

What Utility does: Utility builds and launches custom websites and mobile applications for its customers.

Open roles at Utility: Utility is currently hiring for several remote and hybrid positions in the NYC area. The open positions range from mid-career to senior-level roles in engineering, product management, design and product strategy.

 

What Enigma does: Enigma provides data services to help businesses keep track of their overall identity and financial performance.

Bringing better data to a new platform: Earlier in 2024, Enigma joined the NayaOne Tech Marketplace, connecting Enigma’s smart data tools to NayaOne’s customer base. Financial institutions are now able to access Enigma alongside other new technologies on the NayaOne platform.