Companies with headquarters in Washington, DC

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States. It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States...

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x Carlyle Group

1987

The Carlyle Group is a global private equity investment firm, based in Washington, D.C., with more than $84.5 billion of equity capital under management, diversified over 64 different funds as of March 31, 2009. The firm operates four fund families,...

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x XM Satellite Radio

1988

XM Satellite Radio (XM) is one of two satellite radio (SDARS) services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Radio. It provides pay-for-service radio, analogous to cable television. Its service includes 73 different music channels,...

Radio station owner

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x International Resources Group

The International Resources Group is an international professional services firm that is a contractor to governments and international organizations, primarily in the Third World and crisis zones. Since its inception in 1978, IRG has completed over...

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x Federal National Mortgage Association

1938

The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) (NYSE: FNM), commonly known as Fannie Mae, is a stockholder-owned corporation chartered by Congress in 1968 as a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE), but founded in 1938 during the Great Depression....

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x Potomac Electric Power Company

The Potomac Electric Power Company (known as Pepco) is a public utility supplying electric power to the city of Washington, D.C., and to surrounding communities in Maryland. It has operated there since the 1920s. The company's trademarked slogan, as...

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x WorldSpace

1990

1worldspace (NASDAQ: WRSP) is a satellite radio network that provides service to over 170,000 subscribers in eastern and southern Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia with 96% coming from India.It is the first satellite radio network ever,...

Radio station owner

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Radio Service

x GEICO

Fort Worth

The Government Employees Insurance Company, usually known by the acronym GEICO, is an American auto insurance company. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway that as of 2007 provided coverage for more than 10 million motor vehicles...

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x PanAmSat

1984

The former PanAmSat Corporation founded in 1984 by Reynold (Rene) Anselmo, was a satellite service provider headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. It operated a fleet of communications satellites used by the entertainment industry, news agencies,...

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x Washington Post Company

The Washington Post Company (NYSE:WPO) is an American education and media company, best known for owning the newspaper it is named after, The Washington Post. The Company also owns Kaplan, Inc., a leading international provider of educational and...

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x Riggs Bank

1836

Riggs Bank was a Washington, D.C.-based commercial bank with branches located in the surrounding metropolitan area and offices around the world. For most of its history, it was the largest bank in the nation's capital. Riggs had been controlled by...

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x National Geographic Channel

National Geographic Channel, also commercially abbreviated as Nat Geo, is a subscription television channel that airs non-fiction television programs produced by the National Geographic Society. Like History and the Discovery Channel, the channel...

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x Federal Agricultural Mortgage

The Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, also known as Farmer Mac NYSE: AGM, is a stockholder-owned, publicly-traded company that was chartered by the United States federal government in 1988 to serve as a secondary market in agricultural...

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x Corporate Executive Board

1979

Washington

The Corporate Executive Board Company (CEB) is a commercial, for-profit, public firm that enables superior business outcomes by delivering authoritative data and tools, best practice research, and peer insight to the leaders of the world’s great...

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x Blackboard Inc.

Washington

Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB) is a software company based in Washington, D.C. Blackboard went public in June 2004. Blackboard Inc. was formed by the joining of two companies. CourseInfo LLC, founded by Daniel Cane and Stephen Gilfus, and Blackboard...

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x Blue State Digital

2004

Blue State Digital is a Washington, D.C.-based Internet strategy and technology firm. The company was founded in early 2004 by four former staffers of Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign: Clay A. Johnson, Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Joe Rospars, and...

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x Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

1945

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is a law firm founded in Dallas, Texas in 1945 by Robert Strauss and Richard Gump. The firm now numbers more than 900 attorneys and advisors in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Yale Law Women, the largest...

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x Jenner & Block

1914

Jenner & Block is a U.S. law firm with offices in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC. Over 450 attorneys serve a wide range of clients in corporate litigation, business transactions, and in the public sector. Jerold S. Solovy was the...

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x Danaher Corporation

1969

Washington

The Danaher Corporation NYSE: DHR, is a large global company headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. Its products are concentrated in the fields of design, manufacture, and marketing of industrial and consumer products. It operates in four...

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x Eurasia Group

1998

Eurasia Group is a global political risk consultancy, founded in 1998. Eurasia Group has offices in New York, Washington, London, and Tokyo; with about 100 full-time employees. The company also employs a network of 480 experts in 65 countries in...

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x Pepco Holdings

1998

Pepco Holdings, Inc. (PHI) is a holding company incorporated in February of 2001 for the purpose of effecting the acquisition of Conectiv Power Delivery by Potomac Electric Power Company (better known as "Pepco"). The acquisition was completed on...

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x Cogent Communications

1999

Cogent Communications is a multinational internet service provider whose network spans more than 30,000 miles and provides service in over 135 markets across 26+ countries. Cogent carries approximately 20 petabytes per day of Internet traffic and...

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x Intellibridge

Intellibridge was a strategic analysis firm in Washington DC, founded by David Rothkopf in 1999. Senior management at Intellibridge included former Clinton-era National Security Advisor Anthony Lake. Intellibridge's assets (including Homeland...

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x Allbritton Communications Company

The Allbritton Communications Company is a Washington, D.C.-area owner of television stations-all affiliated with ABC after signing an affiliation agreement in 1997. Allbritton launched The Politico, a political news website and newspaper on January...

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x C&P Telephone

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company, usually known as C&P; Telephone, was a d/b/a name for four of AT&T;'s, and after January 1, 1984, Bell Atlantic's Bell Operating Companies providing service to Washington, D.C., Maryland The companies included...

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x Harman International Industries

1980

Harman International Industries (NYSE: HAR) is an international audio and infotainment equipment company. The company designs, manufactures and markets audio and infotainment products for the car, the home, theatres and venues, as well as...

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x Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr

Boston

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, which also goes by the shorter market name WilmerHale, is an American law firm with twelve offices across the USA, Europe and Asia. It was created in 2004 through the merger of the Boston-based firm Hale...

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x Wiley Rein & Fielding

1983

Founded in 1983, Wiley Rein is a Washington, DC law firm that provides legal, transactional, regulatory and public policy counseling, while boasting a preeminent communications practice. The National Law Journal has noted the firm "represents as...

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x Peoples Drug

Peoples Drug was a chain of drug stores based in Washington, D.C. Peoples Drug was founded by Malcolm Gibbs in 1904, and by 1930 had 110 stores operating under Peoples Drugs, Days Drug, and Shearer Drug names. There were variations of the name, with...

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x Garfinckel's

Garfinckel's was a prominent department store chain based in Washington, D.C., that catered to a clientele of wealthy consumers. This retail mercantile business was founded in 1905, as Julius Garfinckel & Co. by Julius Garfinckel (1872-1936),...

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x Washington Gas

WGL Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: WGL), is a public utility holding company located in the United States that serves customers in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. The company's Washington Gas Light Company subsidiary distributes natural gas...

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x Revolution Health Group

Jul 2005

Revolution Health Group is a United States-based corporation founded in July 2005 by Steve Case, who previously co-founded America Online. Revolution Health’s stated mission is to change healthcare by giving people the tools, information and support...

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x National Public Radio

1970

National Public Radio (NPR) is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to 797 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage...

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x Grameen Foundation

1997

Grameen Foundation, founded as Grameen Foundation USA, is a global 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Washington DC that works to replicate the Grameen Bank microfinance model around the world through a global network of partner microfinance...

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x Red Zebra Broadcasting

2006

Red Zebra Broadcasting is a media company based in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The primary investors in Red Zebra are Daniel Snyder, better known as the owner of the Washington Redskins football franchise, and Dwight Schar, a...

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x Williams & Connolly

Williams & Connolly LLP is a prominent litigation firm based in Washington, D.C. The firm was founded by legendary trial lawyer Edward Bennett Williams, who left the partnership of D.C. firm Hogan & Hartson to launch his own litigation boutique....

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x Howrey LLP

1996

Howrey LLP is a global law firm. The firm practices antitrust, global litigation and intellectual property law. Howrey has more than 700 attorneys in 17 locations worldwide. The firm was founded as Howrey, Simon, Baker, & Murchison in July 1956 by...

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x The Gallup Organization

1969

The Gallup Organization provides a variety of management consulting, human resources and statistical research services. It has over 40 offices in 27 countries. World headquarters are in Washington, D.C.; operational headquarters are in Omaha,...

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x Covington & Burling

1919

Covington & Burling LLP is an international law firm with offices in Beijing, Brussels, London, New York, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, San Diego, and Washington, DC. The firm advises multinational corporations on significant transactional,...

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x Woodward & Lothrop

1887

Woodward & Lothrop was a department store chain headquartered in Washington, D.C. Woodward & Lothrop was Washington, D.C.'s first department store, opening in 1887. Woodies, as it was often nicknamed, maintained stores in the Mid-Atlantic United...

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x KB Theatres

Washington

KB Theatres (a.k.a. KB Cinemas) was a Washington, D.C. area movie theatre chain that went out of business in January, 1994. Fred S. Kogod and Max Burka were the founders, and the K and B of the chains name. European immigrants, and brothers-in-law,...

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x Interface Media Group

1977

Interface Media Group, Inc. is a television, film and video production and post production company providing film, video and internet related production services in the Washington, D.C. area. Founded in 1977 Interface's production facilities occupy...

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x Generation Investment Management

2004

Generation Investment Management LLP (GIM) is a London-based investment management firm with an investment style that blends traditional equity research with a focus on sustainability factors, including social and environmental responsibility and...

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x Fierce, Isakowitz and Blalock

1978

Fierce, Isakowitz and Blalock is a Washington D.C. Republican government relations consulting firm. The firm represents a wide range of Fortune 500 clients and major trade associations. •American Forest & Paper Association •American Gaming...

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x Dow Lohnes

1918

Dow Lohnes (formerly Dow, Lohnes & Albertson) is a Washington D.C. -based law firm with more than 160 attorneys between their Washington and Atlanta offices. Fayette B. Dow began the full-service practice in 1918 and was joined by Horace L. Lohnes...

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x Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement

2002

The Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement (IDEA) is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that seeks to improve how technology can help people learn and create. Established in 1998 and incorporated in 2002, IDEA has works on projects to enrich...

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x InPhonic

1999

InPhonic Inc was an American company which sold wireless services and devices online, both through its own electronic commerce sites and through private labeled websites it created and managed for online retailers. InPhonic was founded by David A....

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x Calibre Energy

2005

Calibre Energy, Inc. (Pink Sheets: CABE) is a Washington, D.C.-based natural gas and oil exploration company. Most of their operations are in Texas but Calibre was the first U.S. company with oil drilling operations in Iraq following the Iraq War...

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x FINCA International

1984

The Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA International) is a non-profit, microfinance organization, founded by John Hatch in 1984. Sometimes referred to as the "World Bank for the Poor" and a "poverty vaccine for the planet",...

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x Voxiva

2001

New York City

Voxiva has developed an internet and phone based communication system that allows rural health care workers to enter a patient's symptoms or condition into an online database by calling it in, providing officials with immediate information on the...

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x Dischord Records

1980

Washington

Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in the independent punk music of the D.C.-area music scene. The label is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded Dischord in 1980 to release Minor...

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x Mesa Dynamics

2003

Mesa Dynamics, LLC is a privately held software development company specializing in innovative applications that bridge the desktop and the web. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

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x GridPoint

2003

GridPoint, Inc., a leading clean tech company, is the pioneer of an innovative smart grid platform to benefit electric utilities, consumers and the environment. GridPoint SmartGrid Platform™ offers an intelligent network that integrates energy...

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x GlobalGiving

GlobalGiving is a marketplace for goodness - where you can browse ways to help others around the world, pick the ones you are most passionate about, and give to the solution. GlobalGiving connects people like you with great projects you might...

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x Kaiser Associates

1981

Kaiser Associates is a boutique strategy consulting firm based in Washington, DC and London, England, with offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Cape Town, South Africa, Toronto, Canada and, as of March 2008, Hong Kong. The firm was founded in 1981 as a...

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x Abigail Adams National Bancorp, Inc.

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x Allied Capital Corporation

1958

Allied Capital (NYSE: ALD) is a private equity investment firm and mezzanine capital lender providing debt and equity capital for leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and restructurings of established businesses. Allied operates as a Business Development...

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x Varsity Group Inc

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