This company with an office in Syracuse has some openings:
https://www.density.io/
https://jobs.lever.co/density?location=Syracuse%2C%20NY
A portion of a recent article about the company...
How 6 coffee lovers grew their Syracuse people-counting company into a $1B ‘unicorn’
"Syracuse, N.Y. -- Seven years ago, a group of impatient coffee lovers in Syracuse thought it would be cool to know when there was a line at their favorite downtown coffee shop, Cafe Kubal.
Even more, they wanted to know when the line wasn’t there.
“It was and continues to be one of our favorite places to get our caffeine fix and we would go there religiously,” said Steven VonDeak, one of the six founders of Density Inc. “And sometimes we would get there and we would be first in line and sometimes there’d be 10 people ahead of us. The whole idea at that point was really simple. We just wanted to know how busy the coffee shop was before we put on our winter gear and walked there.”
That impatience in line led VonDeak, Andrew Farah, Robert Grazioli, Jordan Messina, Ben Redfield and Brian Weinreich. to ultimately found Density at The Tech Garden, a downtown business incubator, in 2014. The idea, back then, was to design sensors that could track in real time the number of people going in and out of a retail business. Over time, they began to focus more on measuring how many people were in any space.
And seven years later, the rapidly growing startup is being valued by investors at $1 billion. That makes it the Tech Garden’s first Silicon Valley-like “unicorn,” a label shared by successful new economy businesses such as Airbnb.
Density offers companies an analytics platform for measuring and optimizing workplace usage. Last month, it secured $125 million in funding led by existing investor Kleiner Perkins.
Altogether, Density has secured more than $225 million in funding since its founding, bringing its present valuation to $1.05 billion, according to the company.
That makes it the Tech Garden’s first unicorn, a term coined by venture capitalist Aileen Lee in 2013 to describe what at that time was an exceedingly rare achievement -- a privately held startup valued at over $1 billion.
Jeff Fuchsberg, vice president of innovation and entrepreneurship at CenterState CEO, said Density’s achievement will help bring attention to the Tech Garden, which was created by the economic development organization in 2004 to help young technology companies grow in Syracuse.
“They’re role models,” he said. “They’re visible. You can see that it can happen here.”
Lead investors determined the valuation based on their analysis of what the startup’s stock would be worth if the company went public.
Startup unicorns are not as rare as they once were. But there are still just 925 of them worldwide, according to CB Insights. Two of the most notable? Facebook and Google.
Though lines at their favorite coffee shop provided the inspiration for the company’s founding, Density’s founders soon found that the best market for their product was not coffee shops. It was office buildings.
The company has seen it greatest growth since the coronavirus pandemic began in 2020. At first, customers saw it as a way to measure the number of people in their buildings, an important thing to know because of occupancy limits set by state and local governments to limit the spread of Covid-19."
Also..."Density’s customers include leading Fortune 500 companies and high-growth ventures like Okta, Uber and Shopify, across 32 countries. In total, its customers manage more than 1.25 billion square feet of commercial real estate worldwide, according to the company.
“We’re primarily selling to organizations that have a lot of space,” said VonDeak, a Syracuse University Law School graduate."
and "In June, Density acquired Nashi, a company that has developed a system for managing and reserving workspaces. In November, it announced it has acquired Helix, a company that creates 3D digital twins of buildings. VonDeak said Helix’s technology will allow Density to more quickly determine the best places to install its sensors.
Density employs 200 people, a 300% gain since the beginning of 2021, and expects to double its workforce over the next 12 months, according to VonDeak. Its manufacturing center at the Tech Garden, where it assembles all the sensors it sells, employs 30 people -- double what it employed at the start of the pandemic.
The company also has offices in San Francisco, a technology center, and New York City, where many of its customers are. Many employees work remotely. But VonDeak said the company plans to keep its presence in the city where it got its start and expand its workforce at the Tech Garden even more.
“Syracuse has been really good for us,” he said. “We’ve achieved a lot of success in Syracuse.”
Source:
https://www.syracuse.com/business/20...b-unicorn.html
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