As the city reopens and masks start to come off, it’s becoming fairly common to hear that “New York City is back” in full swing. But for many of the tech companies that never slowed down throughout a year of uncertainty, a more appropriate response might be “we never left.”
From at-home fitness and financing solutions to healthcare benefits, tech organizations have been hard at work adapting their products to make more sense for their users in a post COVID-19 world. Teams have also been looking for ways to grow internally, whether through impressive tech stacks, exciting funding partnerships, or hiring more top talent to accomplish even bigger projects.
Built In NYC took a deeper look into three local companies with big things on the horizon. Ready for something new? So are they.
What they do: At-home fitness solutions are on the rise, and Ergatta wants to be a part of this growing trend. The company develops indoor rowing machines designed to easily fit into people’s living rooms.
Employee buzz: “Ergatta is an open company – openly transparent, open to new ideas, open to life challenges and open to the growth of its employees,” Software Engineer Gary Coleman previously told Built In. “Every person I work with is open to my need for growth, understanding and encouragement. I’ve been able to express my own desires for exploration and learning and have gotten projects based on those.”
In the news: In late April 2021, Ergatta announced that it closed on a $30 million Series A led by Advance Venture Partners. With at-home fitness becoming a permanent household practice, the company aims to stand out from other services by “feeling like a competitive sport.”
What they do: E-commerce company Bread provides consumers with the flexibility of point-of-sale financing options to spread out their payments to merchants over time.
Insider insight: “We’ve built a new QA team from scratch, onboarding a new QA lead and five new QA engineers — and we are still hiring,” Director of Engineering Christina Kung previously told Built In. “This rapid growth reminds us to take communication seriously.”
Tech toolbox: Go and React as primary languages; Postgres, Redis, gRPC, and S3; AWS orchestrated using Chef, Terraform and CI/CD pipelines; a Kubernetes cluster called “Bakery” and more.
What they do: Vericred provides APIs and data sets that create data infrastructure between health insurance carriers and employee benefits.
Employee buzz: “I was hired as a data analyst but was given the opportunity to transition to an engineering role,” Senior Software Engineer Luke Romeo previously told Built In. “Over time, I’ve taken a bigger role in projects and am now on the platform team where I’ve led projects including increasing observability and implementing new microservices.”
Now hiring: Vericred currently has open roles for a data operations coordinator, software engineer, account manager, director of product marketing and more.
