Following last week’s close of an $80 million funding round, Sonatype is looking to cement itself as a Maryland-based company that’s known around the world, said Bill Karpovich, the company’s SVP of strategy and corporate development.

It was already on its way before the funding round, and was among the companies we picked when considering the Columbia area’s top tech companies as part of the Technical.ly’s realLIST 2018. The 10-year-old company has grown to about 220 employees, with about one-third each at HQ, international offices and distributed around the U.S.

“We will continue to expand in each of those areas,” said Karpovich, who joined Sonatype last year from IBM.

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