In 2009, Dylan Thuras and Joshua Foer founded Atlas Obscura as a passion project, aiming to create a collaborative, online form of a travel book. Since then, the project has morphed into a comprehensive digital atlas of the world’s most wondrous and unusual places, touting headlines such as “The enigmatic art of America’s secret societies” and “Why there’s no such thing as a Brooklyn accent.”
Melio launched out of stealth mode over the fall, and says its monthly active users grew by more than 2,000 percent in 2020. Now, the company is hiring, with more than a dozen open tech positions at its NYC office.
The first five months of 2016 has brought sizable funding to the city, with investors backing a number of New York-based startups in the form of financing rounds. Here are some of the top companies hiring right now that have received funding this year.
