2022 Best Tech Startups in Santa Fe

May 23, 2022September 15, 2023 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 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. Descartes Labs

Founded: 2014

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“Descartes Labs is a technology company that automates the analysis of geospatial data to help organizations answer key questions about the physical world. Through our SaaS platform, we enable the analysis of earth observation data at scale, providing services and solutions across commodity sourcing and forecasting, resource exploration, and climate resilience, while also supporting diverse federal government efforts to gather, analyze, and provide actionable insights from geospatial data. Descartes Labs has over 120 employees and is headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico.”

2. Bright Path Labs

Founded: 2017

“Rapid drug development and patented advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing company providing essential medicines through scalable domestic API production. Making medicine faster, greener, safer in the U.S.

Bright Path Laboratories (BPL) is positioned to immediately fill gaps in the drug supply chain in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and other medicine shortages.

We have the infrastructure and technical capacity for the agile research and development of advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing that is scalable, that helps us train a future workforce for research and is able to support Federal agencies to rapidly address drug shortages.

Americans should never be dependent on another country for life-saving medicines or key ingredients to make them.”

3. BabyQuip

Founded: 2016

“BabyQuip, as seen on Shark Tank, is the leading baby gear rental and cleaning service, in over 600 US and Canadian locations. We help families by renting and delivering baby gear while they’re away and cleaning their baby gear while they’re home! As a multi-sided marketplace, the BabyQuip platform enables on-the-ground Quality Providers to build a solid business. Parents and Grandparents love our service because of our high hospitality and cleanliness standards.

BabyQuip Quality Providers benefit from: liability insurance, an active and collaborative community, ongoing training on safety and cleanliness as well as entrepreneurship, and leads generated from both online advertising and distribution partnerships with VRBO and Destination by Hyatt among others. Quality Providers’ average monthly earnings exceed those of most other gig economy opportunities.

We are now the national brand in baby gear rentals and cleaning, and believe that there is a multi-billion dollar opportunity to consolidate and grow the category and build our brand with Millennial parents.”

4. Fetch.com

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Founded: 2014

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“Fetch.com is a concierge company that delivers anything and everything from thousands of local businesses including restaurants, cafes, liquor stores, food trucks, grocery stores, convenience stores, drug stores, flower shops, dry cleaners, hardware and office supplies.”

5. Solstar Space Company

Founded: 2017

“Solstar Space is the leading commercial space-based connectivity company pioneering the use of persistent communications services for all types of on-orbit assets including satellites, space stations, launch vehicles, and more. We provide an internet connection between spacecraft and payload managers, satellite operators, and enable orbital and suborbital communications for crewed missions.

Our fast, reliable services, space-tested routers, Wi-Fi access points, and hotspots, and satellite space communicators and data relays are being developed to deliver on-orbit persistent connectivity and are supported by 24/7 customer care. These assets are installed on satellites and spacecraft prior to launch to keep crew, spacecraft, and Earth-based satellite operations teams connected.

Solstar is a mobile satellite services (MSS) company founded to provide commercial Internet Protocol (IP) data, local Wi-Fi, and voice communications services for astronauts and things in space. Solstar’s modern space-to-ground communications services use existing and emerging commercial satellite constellation networks. Meaning, Solstar does not need to launch its own satellite constellation and we leverage $billions of satellite networks paid for by others. This makes sense since Solstar and its heritage companies have established suppliers and professionals built over the past 22 years.”

6. TARTLE

Founded: 2017

“TARTLE™ is a global data marketplace.

Governments, Universities, Corporations, and all organizations alike will now have the ability to access the global source data using TARTLE™’s one of a kind global exchange platform. The web portal offers unparalleled access to digital identities across the world.”

7. SciVista

SciVista

Founded: 2018

Also honored in:

“SciVista Introduces: SummitVR™

SummitVR™ puts you ahead of your competition. Our software platform provides an integration solution for businesses looking to expand upon their current workflow so that they can gain better data insights and design approaches that are not possible with current 3D workflows.

SummitVR™ is not replacing your workflow, it’s making it better by providing improved iterative design approaches, immersive environments, data at scale and in context, as well as providing collaboration so you can meet with colleagues and share data easily.”

8. Circa

Founded: 2016

“Circa enables marketing and sales teams to work as one on events, everywhere and every way their customers gather.”