Startups

2019 Best Tech Startups in Boise

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

  1. Revenue potential
  2. Leadership team
  3. Brand/product traction
  4. 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. VisitPay

visitpay

Founded: 2010

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“VisitPay is the only patient financial engagement platform that simplifies the entire patient billing experience.

Through VisitPay, hospitals can create a seamless, singular point of interaction that radically reshapes the billing experience by providing greater transparency, choice and control to patients, all the while generating high yield.

Our mission: create Better Financial Relationships between health systems and their patients.”

2. Covr Financial Technologies

covr

Founded: 2013

Also honored in: 2018 Best Tech Startups in Boise

“Covr is a digital life insurance platform that makes it easy to protect what matters most: you and your family. Covr partners with financial institutions that share the belief that life insurance should be both simple and transparent. Through Covr’s technology, financial advisors and their customers can research and purchase affordable life insurance from well-known insurance companies without the hassles of the traditional process – all within a matter of minutes.”

3. Kno2

kno2

Founded: 2009

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“Kno2® is leading healthcare’s path to interoperability across every patient care setting. Kno2’s Interoperability as a Service™ turns on connectivity to millions of healthcare providers and the capability to send, receive, find, and use patient information with everyone. Kno2’s IaaS enables access to providers via cloud faxing, Direct secure messaging, patient information query (Carequality, CommonWell), patient care networks (Referrals, ACOs, HIEs) guided by connectivity assessments and analytics.”

4. Black Box VR

Black Box VR

Founded: 2016

Also honored in: 2018 Best Tech Startups in Idaho

“At Black Box VR, we are creating the world’s first virtual reality gym experience. You’ll step into a Black Box VR boutique gym and immerse yourself in a whole new way to get fit that will make you never want to visit an outdated gym again.

Virtual and augmented reality are the next major computing platforms. These technologies will revolutionize the way we work, play, and learn. Black Box VR will take advantage of these advances to finally fix fitness and end the daily struggle that millions of people go through to get the exercise that they need to achieve the body and health that they desire. Today, fitness is boring, confusing, and almost impossible to maintain for the vast majority of people that set out to get into shape.”

5. RetroLux

retrolux

Founded: 2012

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“RetroLux provides electrical distributors, utilities, and contractors with the most comprehensive and integrated mobile product supply chain logistics and energy efficiency software. Our program helps customers to reduce product and installation costs by over 20%, while streamlining utility rebate programs and providing a centralized project information database.”

6. Forsta

Forsta

Founded: 2016

“Forsta is a secure messaging system built solely with the business user in mind, utilizing both fixed and mobile networks. Forsta is designed to accelerate the speed and efficiency of how business is done, without compromising established security or compliance control standards for business communication. Features include next-generation end-to-end encrypted messaging, administered archiving and smart retrieval, and seamless usablity across web and mobile platforms.”

7. ULedger

uledger

Founded: 2015

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“Uledger serves as “Your Digital Witness”​, focused on bringing trust, certainty and transparency to digital communications and information.

Our mission is to provide digital solutions for our customers who require increasing levels of protection and trust in today’s regulated environment, via Blockchain technology. Our expertise in Blockchain dates back to 2011.

Specialties: Identity Verification, Cyber-Security Risk Tools, Smart Contracts, Data Redundancy, Ransom-Ware & Spear-Phishing Mitigation, Email Technology and Blockchain Technology.”

8. LeanLaw

LeanLaw

Founded: 2015

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“CREATED BY A PRACTICING LAWYER TO ENHANCE YOUR PRACTICE OF THE LAW.

Founded by a practicing attorney, LeanLaw™ enables lawyers in small firms to spend more time doing what they love–practice law–by dramatically increasing productivity and reducing admin and overhead. The result is happier clients, higher revenue, and greater career satisfaction.

LeanLaw™ Software is cloud-based, productivity software that organizes legal workflow and automates the capture of a lawyer’s daily digital footprint. This slashes time spent on non-billable–yet critical–tasks like tracking time, generating invoices, and managing emails and documents.”

9. Dental Innovations, Inc.

Dental Innovations, Inc.

Founded: 2016

“OUR STORY:
Dental Innovation was founded on providing next-generation video text technology to bridge the treatment recommendation knowledge gap between dentists and their patients. This technology was initially developed and implemented in Fortune 100 companies and our desire is to leverage it for smaller, niche markets – dental being the first.

OUR APPROACH:
Along with the technology, we brought together practicing dentists to choose initial platform content as well as providing editorial feedback on all originally produced content video.”

10. Talloo

talloo

Founded: 2015

Also honored in: 2018 Best Tech Startups in Boise

“Talloo is a community of business professionals, collaborating to accelerate local business growth. Call it old school or revolutionary, we’re using the Internet to get off the Internet. Our face-to-face referral and community groups make building a trusted network possible while our online social network keeps us connected in one community with local focus.”