2023 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in San Antonio, Texas. 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. Plus One Robotics
Founded: 2016
Also honored in:
- 2022 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
- 2021 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
- 2020 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
“Plus One supports the mission of ‘always-on’ logistics. We mitigate the persistent shortage of manual labor and allow your personnel to flow from monotonous tasks to higher value work.
Through the implementation of high performance manipulators with advanced vision capabilities, Plus One robots bridge the gap between steady state volume and surge.
Plus One’s novel approach to human/robot collaboration and Supervised Autonomy ensures the systems are scalable, flexible, and fault tolerant.”
2. Blue Duck Scooters
Founded: 2018
Also honored in:
- 2022 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
- 2021 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
- 2020 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
“Blue Duck Scooters is a dockless eScooter company based in San Antonio, TX. The company provides a quick, fun, and economically sustainable mode of transportation in urban centers. Ducks are green, rechargeable, electrically driven alternatives that provide a valuable rideshare option. Ducks are a convenient mode of transportation in areas where traditional vehicle traffic is limited. Users can access a Blue Duck Scooter by downloading the free Blue Duck app; Ducks are rented at a rate of $1 to unlock and $0.25 per minute.”
3. Dura Software
Founded: 2018
Also honored in: 2022 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
“We are specialists in hyper-niche software products that fit narrow but mission-critical use cases for business customers. We buy software products from owners wanting to pursue their next project to operate with no intention to sell. Sellers know we’ll protect their employees, customers and reputation.”
4. Merge EDU
Founded: 2014
Also honored in:
- 2022 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
- 2021 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
- 2020 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
- 2019 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
- 2018 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
“Merge let’s you hold and interact with digital 3D objects and travel anywhere virtually, enabling a fun and engaging new way to experience the world.”
5. Renu Robotics
Founded: 2018
“Renu Robots is automating operations and maintenance for the solar industry. We develop and produce products that mow, spray, clean, and inspect solar panels for utility-scale solar.”
6. CyberFortress
Founded: 2018
Also honored in: 2021 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
“CyberFortress is a global company that makes it simple to fully back up and rapidly recover all lost or stolen data to prevent damage and disruption to organizations of all sizes.
Data is stored in secure, geo-redundant facilities, and our suite of solutions enables our data recovery specialists to create a custom, comprehensive solution for each customer.
Whenever a customer needs data recovery, they receive live, personalized support from a credentialed specialist, every hour of every day of the year.”
7. Parlevel Systems
Founded: 2012
Also honored in:
- 2022 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
- 2021 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
- 2020 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
- 2019 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
- 2018 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
“Based in San Antonio, Parlevel Systems is the top-to-bottom provider of innovative vending technology tools for the food and beverage industries, including vending, micro market, and coffee, tea, water, and other delivery service providers. Founded by successful vending and technology professionals, Parlevel is dedicated to delivering an array of powerful yet easy-to-use technology solutions that empower operators with enhanced control and accountability of their business anywhere, anytime, and from any device. Parlevel utilizes a dedicated customer and technical support team to ensure seamless implementation and a transformative return on investment. For more information on Parlevel Systems please visit parlevelsystems.com.”
8. Transect
Founded: 2016
Also honored in: 2022 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
“Transect is an envirotech SaaS company providing automated environmental compliance solutions for the built world. Transect Vision helps our customers find their next perfect project site. Transect Reports identify environmental risks, explain the regulations and permits relevant to those risks, and provide site-specific insight on recommendations and timelines to move projects forward.”
9. Enflux
Founded: 2015
Also honored in: 2021 Best Tech Startups in San Antonio
“Every program faces the same reality: a massive amount of data that needs to be accessible and actionable. Enflux does just that! We automate the flow of assessment data leading to increased consistency, communication, collaboration, and transparency.
Enflux integrates and analyzes your data from admissions, surveys, licensing exams, testing software, and your Curriculum Map to provide an accessible view of overall program performance down to the individual student level. We display data on secure, intuitive online dashboards to empower effortless programmatic assessment and accreditation compliance.
The Enflux solution covers all of your accreditation data sources with dashboards that reflect public, university, and student-level data. The Enflux solution leverages all of your Curriculum Map data with dashboards on Curriculum Effectiveness, Curriculum Gap Analysis, Categories per Item, Student Performance, Assessment Effectiveness, and Academic Advising.”
10. Audazzio
Founded: 2018
“AUDAZZIO’S Live QR™ technology leverages ultrasonic, data-encoded sound waves to instantly create valuable second-screen opportunities on viewer phones and tablets, with benefits for broadcasters, sponsors, and consumers alike.”
Great article about San Antonio! Love working at a start up out west in San Diego!
Have any of them turned a profit ?