Eclipse Scheduling and CEO Tyler Herron Named to Tech:NYC Companies to Watch: Pride 2026
NEW YORK — June 25, 2026 — Eclipse Scheduling, the comprehensive interpreter and accessibility services management platform, today announced that Founder and CEO Tyler Herron has been named to Tech:NYC's Pride 2026 edition of Companies to Watch, spotlighting LGBTQ+ founders in New York City who are challenging the status quo and building the future of their industries.
Tech:NYC, the nonprofit member-based organization representing New York City's technology sector, selected Herron alongside three other founders for this annual feature, which highlights the growing impact of LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs on the city's tech and business ecosystem.
About the Recognition
The Pride 2026 edition of Companies to Watch arrives at a pivotal moment for LGBTQ+ entrepreneurship. According to a recent report cited by Tech:NYC, one in 14 new business owners last year identified as LGBTQ+, and LGBTQ+ founders are more likely than non-LGBTQ+ founders to cite community impact as a core motivation for starting their businesses.
"NYC is the epitome of language and culture, so after graduating from college I couldn't think of a better place to launch my interpreting career," Herron said in the feature. "What I didn't realize was that working in a city where so many LSPs are headquartered would give me a direct line of sight into their operational challenges — and that perspective is ultimately what inspired Eclipse Scheduling."
Why Eclipse Scheduling Stands Out
In the feature, Herron outlined the two core problems Eclipse solves for language service providers (LSPs):
Eliminating Operational Fragmentation
Most LSPs still coordinate interpreting and accessibility services across spreadsheets, email, and disconnected tools. Eclipse brings scheduling, linguist pairing, credential and compliance tracking, billing schedules, and provider pay tracking into one configurable system — replacing manual coordination that consumes coordinator time and introduces costly errors.
Elevating Service Quality Through Precision Matching
Legacy systems slow agencies down and lack the data needed to properly pair a linguist with a service consumer. Eclipse maintains the industry's most robust interpreter profiles alongside detailed consumer preference records, allowing coordinators to pinpoint the ideal linguist for a given service — not just someone who speaks the same language. In language services, the right match directly impacts service outcomes.
Measuring Impact
Eclipse measures customer ROI through faster fulfillment turnarounds, higher fulfillment rates, and efficiency gains across the entire organization. The clearest signal, Herron noted, is how many accounts a single employee can manage. When one coordinator can confidently handle more accounts and more bookings, the impact is felt across the entire P&L.
A Commitment to Community
The recognition also highlights Herron's perspective on how the broader tech ecosystem can better support LGBTQ+ founders. He emphasized the importance of mentorship, intentional funding, and co-founder matching resources — noting that only 0.5% of the $2.1 trillion in U.S. startup funding raised between 2000 and 2022 went to LGBTQ+ founders, despite research showing LGBTQ+ founders created 36% more jobs, 114% more patents, and 44% more exits.
"Knowing that Eclipse helps [LSPs] do their work more effectively is one of the most rewarding parts of my job," Herron said. "Many local and regional LSPs were started by linguists who made it their mission to improve language access in their own communities, and hearing about the work they do — interpreting for non-profits, NGOs, the UN — is a real privilege."
About Eclipse Scheduling
Eclipse Scheduling is a New York-based software company providing a comprehensive management platform for interpreting and accessibility services. Founded by career interpreters and LSP operators, Eclipse serves agencies and in-house language access teams across healthcare, legal, education, government, and corporate sectors. The platform offers 16+ integrated modules — including scheduling, on-demand, projects, billing, pay tracking, credentialing, onboarding, messaging, reporting, customer and provider portals, and mobile applications — under a single all-inclusive subscription.
Eclipse has been recognized in the 2026 Slator Language Industry Index as a Language Technology Platform (LTP) and has achieved SOC 2 Type II attestation for security, availability, and confidentiality.
About Tech:NYC
Tech:NYC is the nonprofit member-based organization representing New York City's technology sector. It works to attract talent and diverse businesses to the city, support the growth of the tech sector and its institutions, and advocate for policies that support innovation across the five boroughs.
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