3. T-CETRA
Industry: fintech
Location: Columbus
Open Jobs: software engineering
There are over 84 million underbanked individuals in the U.S. These are folks who don’t have bank accounts or don’t have access to traditional banking. That’s about 25% of the population who are cash preferred. Meaning, they don’t have a credit card. As society rapidly moves forward digitally, what happens to the people who don’t have a credit card? Or even high-speed internet? They get left behind.
That is why T-CETRA is on a mission to bridge the digital divide.
“The underbanked have a very difficult time accessing the same products and services as their banked peers. This digital divide is creating 2 groups: the digital ‘haves’ and the digital ‘have nots,’” said T-CETRA co-founder and CEO Abdul Akel.
Since its founding in 2007, T-CETRA has emerged as a leader in the prepaid wireless technology space, and continues to grow beyond. T-CETRA’s payments platform, VIDAPAY, turns cash payments into cashless transactions. This technology has helped the Columbus tech company expand into transportation, government, healthcare and nonprofit verticals.
4. BrandXR
Industry: augmented reality
Location: Remote
Open Jobs: UI engineers, content
Founded in Ann Arbor and hiring remotely, BrandXR is a no-code augmented reality platform. Their technology is used by all kinds of organizations to teach, entertain, improve shopping experiences, or do research.
Recently, BrandXR teamed up with scientists at the University of California, Davis to launch an AR campaign on Instagram that highlights how climate change is affecting the snowpack at Lake Tahoe.
Last summer, BrandXR partnered with Electrifly to present the Detroit Augmented Reality Mural Festival.
5. GreenLancer
Industry: renewable energy
Location: Detroit, Remote
Open Jobs: account managers, sales, marketing
Founded in Detroit and hiring remotely, GreenLancer is an online project management platform that provides solar, telecom, and EV Charging Infrastructure design, permitting, and engineering solutions to solar installers, roofers, homebuilders, home improvement contractors, financiers, solar distributors, and telecom installers.
GreenLancer's mission essentially is to accelerate the adoption of renewable energies.
To date, GreenLancer has served more than 5,000 solar installers on over 150,000 projects, and deployed more than $1.8 billion in commercial and residential solar nationwide. And they are just getting started.
6. Provide
Industry: fintech
Location: Columbus, Remote
Open Jobs: software engineering, finance, customer success
Provide, a people-first fintech company, is a digital finance company built specifically for healthcare practice owners, primarily dentists and veterinarians. Its tech-enabled, streamlined financing helps aspiring practice owners start or buy a practice, and current owners expand, remodel, relocate, or refinance. It aims to help healthcare providers realize financial independence and improve the industry’s standard of care.
For Provide, it's all about helping healthcare providers achieve their practice ownership dreams.
7. Trustpage
Industry: security
Location: Remote
Open Jobs: software engineering, marketing, product, sales
Founded in Detroit and hiring remotely, Trustpage is a rising startup on a mission to change the way the world looks at trust in software.
Almost all of the world’s data passes through companies, and the software tools we rely on in our daily lives have become the biggest target for crime we've ever known. In fact, cybercrime is predicted to cost the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. Now it’s more important than ever before that companies ensure they build safe, secure, and compliant software.
Trustpage has set out to help companies launch dynamic Trust Centers. This helps companies turn security from a hurdle into a competitive advantage by giving their prospects and customers a place to get their questions answered, securely request and share docs, and collaborate on full AI-assisted security reviews.
8. Red Ventures
Industry: media
Location: Detroit, Charlotte Area, Detroit
Open Jobs: software engineering, product, marketing
Headquartered just south of Charlotte, NC with offices around the world, Red Ventures owns and operates more than 30 trusted brands, including Healthline, CNET, Bankrate, Lonely Planet, and Best Colleges. With over 4,500 employees and more readers than BuzzFeed or Vox, Red Ventures is the media giant you’ve never heard of helping people navigate life's tough decisions.
After the near-death experience of co-founder Ric Elias, Ric was determined to remake his life. He founded a pair of nonprofits that give opportunities to those in need: Golden Door Scholars, a college scholarship program for undocumented immigrants, and Road to Hire. His mission to do good carried over into his company, Red Ventures. And what Red Ventures does hinges on a basic premise: connecting with readers by providing trusted information relevant to their lives — whether that's helping them navigate buying a car, finding a doctor, or discovering new places to travel.
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