Inside DC’s $5B year: Here’s why local venture capitalists say the VC boom is here to stay

Professional development, employee resource groups and inclusive cultures can boost racial equity in tech. These organizational leaders and advocates share actionable steps to get there.

Coworking spaces offer the flexibility, low commitment and style that most traditional office spaces don't. Is that what's going to succeed amid — and after — the pandemic?

Against the backdrop of recent news about population losses, Technical.ly data show an increase in high-earning Black residents. They could be a spark for building neighborhood wealth.

Growth in tech is helping DC add wealth, but many BIPOC technologists are still getting left behind. When it comes to an equitable career ladder, it's about more than salary, these high earners say.

Delaware's Black population is the racial group with the most growth among high earners over the past decade. Beyond salaries, these experts point to entrepreneurship as the best means for building generational wealth — especially if it leads to investing in others' startups.

Pittsburgh has turned its tech prowess into wealth over the past decade. But data show that not all residents are sharing in the returns.

The pool of potential investors can tell us a lot about the health of local startups. Here's what the data say about who's a part of it in Philly.

Tech has made many richer. Through a Technical.ly data analysis and the start of an ongoing series, we look at what it means that at the same time, in many American cities, racial income inequality is worsening.

In Baltimore and Philadelphia, groups are organizing to support residents seeking the $50-a-month Emergency Broadband Benefit. Meet the digital navigators.

Pittsburgh was once the manufacturing capital of the world. Now, the city’s growing status as an AI and robotics hub is transforming the industry.

With the right strategy and resources, companies can support the development of future technologists from all backgrounds — or train them directly. Here are three big ways to boost racial equity in tech via skills training.

In the City of Bridges, presumptive mayor-elect Ed Gainey says a gap remains between the old and the new Pittsburgh, which leads to tension between communities. 

Whether you take a stance on combating racial equity and climate change or not, you are making a decision. And your workforce is listening.

The state had a base of companies with the right tools to act. Collaboration helped these products advance quickly. It's a lesson that could be applied going forward.

Millions of women — including many in Philadelphia — are leaving the workforce, cutting back their hours or contending with a nonexistent work-life balance amidst a pandemic. And we’ll likely feel the effects for years to come.

It’s something of a chicken-and-egg problem: How do you create a diverse tech ecosystem without a diverse tech ecosystem?

Experts from Johns Hopkins University break down the technology behind the leading vaccine candidates, trial results so far, and plans for distribution.

The U.S. prepared for foreign threats after 2016 but saw a new wave of misinformation originate at home this time around. Experts from UMBC's Center for Cybersecurity and Towson University weigh in on what's happening.

Starting in July, new business incorporations have surged nationwide — including so-called "high-propensity" applications in the mid-Atlantic. What's happening?

Twelve weeks, 12 Black and Latinx business owners' stories. Here's what we learned from our Wilmington Alliance partnership series.

While tech training organizations are shifting to meet students where they're at during the pandemic, questions remain as to what happens when underrepresented groups try to make progress in tech careers.

From 10 companies working inside 1100 Wicomico, efforts to make PPE and serve pandemic-related business needs make for a collective snapshot of a community during the pandemic.

"Our culture was never the building,” one chief people officer told us. “The culture is the team.”

With Congress negotiating another federal relief bill, it’s worth taking a moment to look at where the first 4.9 million loans went.

Technical.ly sister site Generocity rounded up perspectives from 18 leaders in the nonprofit and philanthropy sector on what they think needs to happen next — individually and collectively — to address longstanding structural inequities.

The nonpartisan nonprofit supports privacy-minded projects such as the Signal app — and its leadership was ransacked by a new Trump appointee last week. That's a problem for internet freedom, writes Kate Krauss.

"Policies designed to curb immigration end up hurting American workers and also inhibit American dominance in the global economy," writes D.C.-based digital agency head Khuram Zaman.

Hear from two diversity and cultural competency experts on long-term change and short-term starts on this episode of The TWIJ Show from Technical.ly.

After a weekend of social unrest, it's important to be reminded that white leaders must create the space for honest dialogue and action.

From cybersecurity in city government to broadband access, check out the responses to a questionnaire we sent the city's mayoral hopefuls.

Fair pay, ethical use of technology and less crunch time: Here's why technologists and game designers in the DMV region and beyond are organizing in solidarity.

Spending by local governments is quite different than the federal government. How the City of Philadelphia could confront a $650 million coronavirus-blamed deficit has lessons for all municipalities.

With the pandemic making tech access more important, efforts are rising to expand access to devices, internet connectivity and support. The Baltimore Digital Equity Coalition formed to coordinate the response work, and create new long-term initiatives.

Contrary to common perception, rates of new firm creation and small firm employment were both already trending down in the United States.

With $6.5 billion in loans from the federal small business program approved for Maryland companies, local business owners talk about receiving funding that's designed to keep employees getting paid.

It's the most challenging question in entrepreneurship. What is the adversity to overcome and what is a sign to move on? It's the focus of the second episode of Technical.ly's TWIJ Show.

The region's collective activity has already identified a name: the BioHealth Capital Region. Here's a look at how the mix of research centers, government institutions and companies form a foundation that's been bringing economic growth — and maybe a vaccine.

A local internet and policy expert weighs in on changes to the way people are using the web, current cybersecurity threats and how to protect your privacy during the health crisis.

On the benefits offered for joining a startup from its earliest days, from the perspective of mid-Atlantic founders and employees.

The 12-year-old software development company is looking to grow its team and will be moving into a totally redeveloped office space in Virginia's Albemarle County in the second quarter.

goPuff, the Callowhill-based on-demand delivery startup, reportedly got a $750 million investment from SoftBank. It may be the first billion-dollar company from Philly you've actually heard of. Here's why that matters.

When considering artificial intelligence and machine learning systems, humans must always be "the final decision-maker" — especially when used in the workplace, writes a University of Colorado Boulder-based computer science professor.

Is there room for less-skilled workers in one of Philadelphia's fastest-growing industries? Here's a look at programs for folks outside the traditional talent pipeline.

When we asked industry leaders, founders and funders, they often answered quickly: No. So what's needed to change that?

Yes. These are the whats and whys from a conversation with city leaders and urbanist Richard Florida ahead of an Election Day ballot question.

Technical.ly traveled to Albuquerque, N.M., to find what has worked — and what hasn't — in that city's approach to workforce development.