On a sunny Saturday afternoon, the kind of temperate fall day that usually calls for a lounge in the park, high school seniors Jenny Li and Violet Killy were crouched over laptops in the fluorescent-lit library at Bronx High School of Science, writing code. The two 17-year-olds were building […]
Keith Klain didn’t set out to improve employee diversity in the tech sector, and he wasn’t looking in the South Bronx. His IT consulting firm, Doran Jones, used to call the Financial District home. Now its unassuming glass door faces a hot dog factory and a reliable rumble of […]
If he had his way, Joswell Valdez would work out of the borough that inspired his startup company. Growing up in the Bronx, Valdez knew many immigrants who regularly sent money to family members back home. So Valdez created sync.cr, a mobile app that allows users to make bitcoin payments […]