2024 Best Tech Startups in Alabama

May 13, 2024 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Alabama. 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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10. QuantHUB

Founded: 2018

Also honored in:

“Operating at its full digital potential could add at least $2 trillion to the US GDP. The catch…

AI Has a People Problem

According to IBM/Burning Glass, there are more openings for analytics talent than there are data professionals in existence! Beyond that, the World Economic Forum estimates the average enterprise employee needs 101 days of upskilling to meet workforce skill demands by 2023.

Technology is driving our world into the digital revolution, but people are getting left behind. QuantHub starts at the root with developing data literacy skills in education with k-12 students and branches outward, helping companies develop their strongest asset in this revolution: their people. We provide an efficient yet rigorous vetting platform for hiring data professionals and a modern, in the flow of work, learning platform focused on both AI skills for analytics teams and data literacy skills for the entire enterprise.”

9. Performance Drone Works

Founded: 2019

“Strategic UAS capabilities, now organic and scalable to the tactical level unit.”

8. Freedom Games

Founded: 2020

Also honored in: 2023 Best Tech Startups in Alabama

“Launched in 2020, Freedom Games was founded by Donovan Duncan and Ben Robinson, both industry veterans in video games and media. Lifelong gamers, they built Freedom Games with a single vision: to provide support to independent developers where it was most needed and help them bring unique games to life.

Freedom Games is built on the idea of partnership. We are here to support developers by getting their game in front of new players, and we’re here to help players by bringing awesome gaming experiences to life.

Staffed by a team of avid gamers with collective decades of games industry experience, Freedom Games is here to help developers make their games a reality for players around the world.”

7. HData

Founded: 2020

Also honored in:

“HData is a Techstars-backed startup company delivering automated compliance and instant business intelligence to the U.S. regulated energy industry. More information at https://www.hdata.us/.

HData’s clients supply leading RegTech and Legal Tech solutions that make regulatory and legal processes easier, cheaper, and simpler; HData understands the demand. HData’s principal is Hudson Hollister, who previously founded the Data Coalition and helped to craft key government data reforms such as the DATA Act of 2014. HData is steered with guidance from a Board of Advisors whose members represent the nation’s leading expertise in applying data technologies to the public sector.”

6. Acclinate

Founded: 2020

Also honored in: 2023 Best Tech Startups in Alabama

“Our vision is health equity through inclusive research. We help pharmaceutical companies and healthcare organizations access and engage communities of color so research is more inclusive.”

5. Fleetzero

Founded: 2021

Also honored in: 2023 Best Tech Startups in Alabama

“Fleetzero is building battery-electric ships to decarbonize ocean freight for less than it costs today!”

4. Tombigbee Communications

Founded: 2017

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“Tombigbee Communications, a subsidiary of Tombigbee Electric Cooperative, provides a world-class, high-performance fiber optic network across northwest Alabama. Tombigbee Communications promotes connectivity and increased quality of life through affordable access to freedom FIBER, its ultra-high-speed broadband internet and Voice over IP (VoIP)services.”

3. Immediate

Founded: 2018

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“Immediate helps businesses recruit, engage, and retain employees by providing a financial wellness solution that delivers on-demand access to earned wages.

Our solution provides employees with on-demand access to their earned wages through integrations with major payroll providers.

Employees utilize their existing time tracking management software, which updates Immediate in real-time of hours worked and wages earned. Earnings can then be efficiently transferred with the click of a button to a bank account or loadable debit card.

Immediate allows employees to smooth out the peaks and valleys of a bi-weekly pay cycle by creating more consistent streams of income, breaking cycles of debt, and reducing the need for predatory alternative lending sources.”

2. HighFive Healthcare

Founded: 2018

“You’re already on top of your game; we’re just helping you raise the bar.

We bring 60+ years of healthcare chops and a squad that pushes the limits. From billing to marketing, compliance to maintenance, we’re the swiss army knife of healthcare management and an entirely new level of collaboration.

Our partnership contract is simple: Take care of your patients and we’ll handle the rest.”

1. Landing

Founded: 2019

Also honored in: 2023 Best Tech Startups in Alabama

“Landing is reinventing the rental process through a membership program that offers access to flexible leases with no deposits. With premium furnished apartments and local concierge in 375+ U.S. cities, you can live on your terms with Landing.

Landing has revolutionized the rental process from beginning to end by offering fully furnished, flexible-lease apartments for the new generation of renters. With Landing, you never again have to navigate between apartments and locations alone.

Our streamlined platform provides access to tens of thousands of furnished apartments across the U.S., and our member benefits allow more flexibility with fewer compromises. Members can book an apartment in minutes entirely through our app (even use a credit card) and be ready to move to a new place in a matter of days.

Our goal is to help people explore more, live on their terms, and make sure they feel at home wherever they go.”