2023 Best Tech Startups in Charleston

May 5, 2023 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Charleston, South Carolina. In doing our research, we considered several factors including but not limited to:

Revenue potential
Leadership team
Brand/product traction
Competitive landscape

Additionally, all companies must be independent (unacquired), privately owned, at most 10 years old, and have received at least one round of funding in order to qualify.

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1. PunchListUSA

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Founded: 2017

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“PunchListUSA is a real estate technology platform that makes home repairs, renovations, and lifecycle services hassle-free for homebuyers, sellers, real estate professionals, and institutional investors. We provide quick, accurate, and transparent online pricing, skilled tradesmen and women available on-demand, start-to-finish project coordination and management of every project, and a one-year warranty that stays with the home.”

2. AmplifiedAg

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Founded: 2018

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“AmplifiedAg, Inc.™ is a modern agriculture technology leader focused on empowering a scalable, resilient, and sustainable food supply and providing global populations with access to clean, fresh, and healthy produce. The company has developed the most advanced CEA platform, and engineers hydroponic vertical farms from refurbished shipping containers which are controlled and automated through its proprietary hardware and seed-to-market farm management software.

AmplifiedAg’s produce and indoor farming brand, Vertical Roots, is the largest hydroponic container farm in the world and currently sells its produce through more than 2,000 grocery stores and numerous food distributors across 13 states in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic.

In addition to powering its flagship brand Vertical Roots, AmplifiedAg provides holistic indoor farming solutions to sustainably grow and distribute food anywhere in the world.”

3. Uncommon Giving

Founded: 2018

Also honored in: 2022 Best Tech Startups in Scottsdale

“We’re Uncommon, the generosity company. A digital-first financial services company changing the way people give, invest and make an impact on the world.

Check out our growing online giving platform for individuals, companies and their employees at UncommonGiving.com.”

4. Questis

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Founded: 2013

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“Questis is a workforce financial empowerment company providing a complete personal finance solution that benefits people, employers, and advisors. We help businesses become life-changing employers by helping employees solve the root causes of financial stress. Our solution transforms people’s relationships with money by providing deep financial healing and an easy-to-follow path to financial empowerment. Our innovative solution meets people at the paycheck with solid behavioral science, personalized, predictive planning, real-person coaching, and a modern, friendly user experience. Learn more at myquestis.com.”

5. Gigpro

Founded: 2019

“Gigpro is a platform that connects experienced food and beverage workers with Hospitality businesses that need shifts filled on demand, for seasonal labor, or are looking for a modern-day recruitment tool.”

6. Vizbii Technologies (Morphii)

Vizbii Technologies (Morphii)

Founded: 2013

Also honored in: 2022 Best Tech Startups in Charleston

“At Vizbii, we’ve patented Morphii® technology to provide a better way for people to express themselves while doing the intangible–quantifying the qualitative. Morphii allows people to define their own experiences–efficiently and with unprecedented clarity–at global scale. Morphii is the X-Factor in capturing X-Data that can monetize your predictive strength with:

Authentic representation of the person’s actual experience
Efficiently capturing both type and intensity of experience
Minimizing bias in the data
Granting exponential predictive power with intensity”

7. Positional

Founded: 2023

“Over the last decade, our team has built and scaled content channels in some of the most competitive verticals (ex. insurance, personal loans, b2b SaaS). Today, we are building a toolset for content teams to scale their content channels faster and drive more traffic from organic search.”

8. ShiftNOW

Founded: 2022

“shiftNOW connects the hospitality industry with high-quality hourly shift workers. We provide a flexible solution to the hospitality industry’s toughest problem – talent. From one time, recurring, or trial-to-hire recruitment, our goal is to allow businesses a way to easily control how to resource their business while providing a fast and easy way for top talent to make money on their own terms.”

9. GoodUnited

Founded: 2014

Also honored in: 2022 Best Tech Startups in Charleston

“GoodUnited is a conversational messaging tool for social media fundraising that uses technology and human insight to help nonprofits acquire and activate supporters, build meaningful relationships at scale, and grow revenue in social channels.”

10. ChartJoy

Founded: 2021

“Chartjoy is a medical documentation solutions company focused on bringing joy to the medical charting process.”