Boston’s tech industry is a scene on the rise. Between ambitious hiring goals, collaborative people-first cultures and exciting tech news, the city has plenty going on.
In 2021, Boston was ranked in fifth place by Startup Genome’s Global Startup Ecosystem Report, a study that looks at 280 ecosystems and 3 million startups around the world using quantitative and qualitative assessments. Scored on a range of different factors, the Boston area received particularly high recognition for its overall startup performance, funding, connectedness, market reach and talent.
This month, Built In is highlighting four industry leaders across Boston who are making waves with their big growth plans and groundbreaking technology. The best part? They’re all hiring!
What they do: Founded in 2011, Chewy is an e-commerce company focused on transforming how pet parents and partners shop. Driven by product innovation and customer service, the company prides itself on an easy-to-use platform and personalized experiences.
Perks for pets: On brand for an animal-focused company, employees at Chewy enjoy a pet-friendly office and a range of pet-related perks. From “paw-ternity” leave for new pup parents to pet insurance and employee discounts on products, the company ensures their employees’ furry friends always feel welcome.
Hiring goals: With 235 open roles, Chewy has big growth plans for the near future. The company is currently hiring across the dev and engineering, data and analytics, operations, product, finance and marketing departments.
What they do: Skillsoft is an edtech platform focused on corporate learning through training courses, books and videos across a wide range of topics. With 7,000 Fortune 1000 companies utilizing the organization’s tools in some capacity, Skillsoft offers digital solutions in the areas of tech and development, leadership and business, compliance and talent management.
Focused on diversity: In September, Built In sat down with Skillsoft General Manager Rashim Mogha to discuss the company’s vision for DEI. “I want to treat our diversity and inclusion initiative not as a program that sits on one side of an organization, but as something that is mainstream in everything that we do,” she said. “Diversity is not about what experts tell us, it’s about real stories and how people feel.”
In the news: In March, Skillsoft announced that it received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorization for its next generation learning platform, Skillsoft Percipio. This means that Percipio will be added to the federal government’s online portal of approved cloud service offerings and benefit from FedRAMP’s comprehensive security authorization.
What they do: Abacus Insights is a data management platform enabling healthcare organizations to organize and exchange data from disparate sources and formats. The company provides a flexible, efficient and secure way for healthcare companies to uncover differentiated insights through data exchange.
Meaningful work: In February, Built In caught up with Abacus Insights Chief Architect Ali Benamara to talk about his role in the healthcare tech company. “My passion for my work is driven by the large-scale, impactful problem-solving I do each day,” he said. “I enjoy working with healthcare and technology experts who are supportive and constantly teaching me new things.”
Community focused: As well as offering volunteer opportunities to community-minded employees, Abacus Insights partners with The Wonderfund, a non-profit focused on providing comfort and dignity to children in traumatic situations and enriching childhoods that have been impacted by abuse and neglect.
What they do: Founded in 2018 by Turing Award-winning cryptographer Silvio Micali, Algorand is a foundational, payments-focused blockchain network working to solve scalability issues in cryptocurrency. The company’s decentralized infrastructure offers interoperability and capacity for an inclusive, frictionless and secure future of finance.
Future impacts: In December, Built in spoke to Algorand Head of Engineering Gary Malouf about current tech trends and their impacts. “Algorand is investing heavily in ensuring all of the necessary building blocks are there to make decentralized financial applications as secure, reliable and easy to use as possible,” he said. “Decentralized technology is on its way to impacting all of our lives beyond the extent that smartphones, social media and streaming video have this century.”
Notable perks: Algorand employees enjoy a range of benefits including monthly snack deliveries when working from home, access to online course libraries, fitness reimbursements and parental support programs. An unlimited vacation policy, paid sick days and paid holidays also help to ensure employees are able to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
