Mobiquity, a Boston-based mobile software company that expanded to Gainesville in May, recently announced it will expand by upping its office space and number of employees locally.
The company will jump from a 1,700-square-feet location to 4,000 square feet in the Innovation Square community by the end of the year.
It will also hire 30 more employees in the next few months.
It will double the workforce, as the Gainesville office currently employs 28, according to a news release.
“There are a lot of people ready to do very big things in Gainesville,” Daniel Cohen, development director at Mobiquity, said in a statement. “It feels great to be a part of building a thriving tech community here in Gainesville.”
Mobiquity is working with local property developer and manager Trimark Properties to facilitate these expansions in office space.
Josh Steppling, Trimark Properties commercial marketing and communications director, said Trimark has worked with Mobiquity to renovate the space in the new building the company is moving into.
Bryce Sperling, a 20-year-old UF computer science engineering junior, said new tech companies like Mobiquity joining the Gainesville community provides a great opportunity to students.
“Now, they have somewhere where right when they leave school, they have an automatic in,” he said.
Steppling also said Mobiquity is in the process of developing training programs with UF and other local organizations.
More information will be available in the months to come, he said.
A version of this story ran on page 8 on 11/6/2013 under the headline "Innovation Square company plans to double office space, workers"
