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Carbon Five

Carbon Five

West Monroe Acquires Carbon Five to Continue Growing Digital Product Development Solutions

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 1 — Today, West Monroe announced it has acquired Carbon Five, a national product management, digital design, and software engineering firm. The acquisition is part of West Monroe’s strategy to expand its end-to-end digital services in response to unprecedented market demand and comes on the heels of acquiring Verys, a 200-person product development

Sesh Carbon Five Communicator Awards
Nancy Samahito

Nancy Samahito

Sesh Mobile App Wins Two Communicator Awards

We’re excited to be celebrating two additional award wins with Sesh, a mental healthcare service and Carbon Five client. The 27th annual Communicator Awards has recognized the Sesh and Carbon Five team for excellence in “Mobile Apps – Health and Fitness” and “Best User Interface” categories.  The Communicator Awards is an annual competition honoring the

Nancy Samahito

Nancy Samahito

Webby Awards Honors Sesh Mobile App

We’re thrilled to share that Sesh, mental healthcare service and Carbon Five client, has been announced as a 2021 Webby Awards honoree. The Sesh mobile app was recognized for excellence in the Apps and Software – Health and Fitness category.  The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the internet. The Webbys

Carbon Five

Carbon Five

Carbon Five Sponsors Tech Inclusion 2020: The Next Wave of Leadership

We’re excited to announce our sponsorship of Tech Inclusion: The Next Wave of Leadership, an all-virtual conference in 2020, hosted by Change Catalyst on October 13-15.

Carbon Five

Carbon Five

Carbon Five Partners with Techstars NYC to Mentor Next Generation Entrepreneurs

We’re excited to announce our 2019 partnership with Techstars NYC today. Since 2017, Carbon Five has run workshops and directly mentored dozens of startups and first time entrepreneurs at the Techstars programs in Atlanta, Seattle and NYC.

Rudy Jahchan

Rudy Jahchan

Proposals and Processes in Your Professional Life – Carbon Five Santa Monica Talk Night October 19th

Another month, another talk night in Santa Monica! This month’s talks on October 19th cover the softer skills of a professional’s life such participating in conferences and running processes before they run into the ground. First, we are happy to have engineer and advocate Carina Zona! She’s in town to speak at the SCNA conference

Rudy Jahchan

Rudy Jahchan

Services and Serverless – Carbon Five LA Talk Night August 17th

The micro-services push is on with developers writing simpler applications that interact with each other. But how do you deploy these services? Manage versions and discoverability? Learn two approaches from our August 17th Talk Night speakers as they cover using Docker or going completely server-less with Amazon Web Services’ Lambda! First we’ll have Samuel Chow,

Rudy Jahchan

Rudy Jahchan

Design by Listening Inside and Out – Carbon Five LA Talk Night July 20th

Designing good UX is an iterative process that begins and ends with the same core action; listening. But who do we listen to and how? As the speakers of our July 20th design themed Talk Night will demonstrate, you listen to everyone! Whether they’re the person you believe your product is for or your fellow

Brandy Davis-Balsamo

Brandy Davis-Balsamo

Fintech Startups Continue Wall Street Transformation

Back in 2008, I moved from Paris to New York City right as the Big Apple was in a Big Mess. I remember walking past a live air studio as a visibly flustered newscaster gestured erratically in front of an Armageddon-esque stock screen. And, I recall witnessing Barclays ascent on Lehman Brothers, encircling the iconic

Rudy Jahchan

Rudy Jahchan

Oct 21st 2015 Talk Night at Carbon Five LA – Getting Back to (Developing) the Future

October 21st, 2015. A day historic before it ever happened. For those of you who don’t know why STOP READING THIS POST AND GO WATCH BACK TO THE FUTURE II. Go on, we’ll wait. Back? You’re welcome. As you now know, October 21st, 2015 is when everyhero Marty McFly is due to arrive. To celebrate,