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5 companies headquartered in Raleigh, NC

Sculpture of a bright pink dinosaur

Photo courtesy of Pendo

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SAS

Raleigh is known for drawing in startups and companies due to the city’s close proximity to multiple major research universities producing top talent + low costs of living in the area.

The offices of the top companies headquartered here are known to house some over-the-top features — including ping pong tables, local cold brew on tap, and a giant pink dinosaur sculpture. (Looking at you, Pendo.)

Take a deeper look at 5 of the biggest Raleigh-based companies here:

Pendo

  • Employees: 547
  • Location: 150 Fayetteville St. (Though a new HQ is coming soon.)
  • HQ size: 2.5 floors of the tower
  • FunFact: Pendo names its conference rooms after southern foods, so employees meet each other for board meetings in places the Cole Slaw room.

Red Hat

Bandwidth

Advance Auto Parts

SAS

  • Local employees: 5,567
  • Location: 100 SAS Campus Dr., Cary (While it’s not technically Raleigh, SAS has an entire campus, and Cary has a little more room for that.)
  • HQ size: 900-acre campus with several buildings
  • FunFact: SAS’s campus has walking trails, solar panels, and an indoor pool.

Photos below courtesy of Pendo.

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