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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