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Sunday Night Highlight – Greater New Orleans Top Ten for African Americans and Women in Technology

GNO, Inc., along with Louisiana Economic Development and local partners, has been focusing for over a decade on diversifying the economy, including via the technology sector.
This effort has yielded a number of significant wins (recent examples below). We are particularly proud that a diverse range of residents have been able to take advantage of these high-paying jobs. Per the latest from data resource Lightcast, Greater New Orleans ranks:
- #3 in the USA for African Americans in tech jobs, per capita
- #7 in the USA for women in tech jobs, per capita
This success has been driven by a range of partnerships from our companies, two- and four-year universities, and non-profits – for example from Operation Spark, which provides an intensive, six-month training program for young adults to start careers as autonomous full-stack developers.
Recent examples of tech announcements in Greater New Orleans include:
- Big Fish Games, a Seattle-based mobile game developer, set up a New Orleans “talent hub” with 40 jobs at an average $80,000 salary
- Excella, a Washington, DC-based technology company, set up a New Orleans office, with 150 jobs at an average $144,000 salary
- Lucid, a New Orleans tech start up, sold to Swedish company Cint for $1.1 billion, and named Lucid founder Patrick Comer as Chairman
If you would like detail on our data, or more information about technology in Greater New Orleans – including the best-in-class 25% digital media incentive – please reach out.