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
- Local employees: 2,500
- Location: 100 East Davie St.
- HQ size: 366,000 sqft
- FunFact: You can buy a literal red hat from the company’s Cool Stuff Store .
Bandwidth
- Employees: 772
- Location: 900 Main Campus Dr.
- HQ size: 20-30,000 sqft
- FunFact: Bandwidth already has plans to build a much bigger HQ building, located near Blue Ridge Rd . by 2023.
Advance Auto Parts
- Local employees: 700
- Location: 4006 Market at North Hills St.
- HQ size: 218,000 sqft
- FunFact: CEO Tom Greco was named Triangle Business Journal’s 2019 Business Person of the Year.
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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