2024 Best Tech Startups in Georgia

February 3, 2024 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Georgia. 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. LendingPoint

LendingPoint

Founded: 2014

Also honored in:

“LendingPoint is a financial technology platform that provides financing solutions to a wide range of customers, including e-commerce and point-of-sale partners, lending institutions, and consumers. The company’s proprietary fraud prevention, risk, and asset management algorithms are used to create financing opportunities across the credit spectrum.

LendingPoint’s Merchant Solutions platform provides e-commerce platforms, merchants, and other service providers with fully integrated, one-stop buy now, pay later financing solutions. These solutions can help businesses convert more customers and improve their bottom line.”

2. OneTrust

OneTrust

Founded: 2016

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“OneTrust is the trust intelligence cloud platform organizations use to transform trust from an abstract concept into a measurable competitive advantage.

Organizations globally use OneTrust to enable the responsible use of data while protecting the privacy rights of individuals, implement and report on their cyber security program, make their social impact goals a reality, and create a speak up culture of trust.

More than 14,000 customers use OneTrust’s technology, including half of the Global 2,000. OneTrust currently ranks #24 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list of top private cloud companies in the world and employs over 2,000 people in regions across North America, South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia.”

3. Greenlight

Greenlight Financial Technology

Founded: 2014

Also honored in:

“Greenlight is a debit card and money app for families. Our mission is to shine a light on the world of money for families and empower parents to raise financially-smart kids.

Millions of parents and kids use Greenlight to earn, save, spend wisely, give, and invest. Parents can set flexible spend controls, manage chores, automate allowances, and invest for their kids’ futures.

The Greenlight team calls Atlanta home, but we have team members across the country. We’re pet enthusiasts, PTA presidents, fantasy football champs, kickball-mates, and volunteer dance teachers. We’re backed by Drive Capital, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, TTV Capital, Relay Ventures, NEA, Amazon, Ally Financial, SunTrust Bank, and Synchrony Financial. We were picked for CB Insights’ Fintech 250.”

4. Flock Safety

Flock Safety

Founded: 2017

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“We are the first public safety operating system empowering thousands of cities to eliminate crime.

Our cameras and devices detect objective evidence, decode it with machine learning, and deliver it into the hands that stop crime.

Communities operating on Flock Safety reduce crime by up to 70%.”

5. Accelerant

Accelerant

Founded: 2018

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“Accelerant is a data-driven risk exchange connecting specialty insurance underwriters with risk capital providers. Founded in 2018 by a group of longtime insurance industry executives and technology experts, our vision is to rebuild the way risk is exchanged – so that it works better, for everyone.

For the underwriters we call Members, we deliver a full service offering that includes insights and analytics, distribution management, operational resources, and stable underwriting capacity. Our approach frees our Members to focus on profitable underwriting while growing their businesses. Our portfolio presents attractive, validated, and diversified source of specialty insurance premium to our risk capital provider partners.”

6. Stord

Stord

Founded: 2015

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“Stord is a leading provider of omnichannel fulfillment services and technology—including fulfillment, warehousing, and transportation, complemented by OMS and WMS software—for high-volume mid-market and enterprise brands. Stord’s mission is to make brands’ supply chains their competitive advantage.

With Stord, brands are able to sell more, save money, and reduce headaches: fast shipping, reliable delivery promises, and access to more channels drive revenue growth; our economy of scale and software optimize the cost of every order; and our end-to-end solution keeps teams streamlined and focused on building their businesses and boosting customer satisfaction.

Hundreds of DTC and B2B companies like Athletic Greens, Native, Tula, American Giant, Branded, and Thrasio use Stord to make their supply chains a competitive advantage. Stord is headquartered in Atlanta and backed by leading investors including Kleiner Perkins, Franklin Templeton, Founders Fund, and Salesforce Ventures.”

7. DC BLOX

DC BLOX

Founded: 2014

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“The data center industry is changing. The explosive growth of data, applications, devices, and content are stretching the capacity of IT and network infrastructure. IT departments are being challenged to effectively deliver more information and services to their customers, efficiently scale their systems, and protect their business’s data, all while keeping a cap on budgets.

DC BLOX addresses these problems by building Tier 3 data centers in growing underserved markets in the Southeastern United States, connecting them with a high-speed optical network, and hosting cloud services to enable area businesses to effectively serve their local customers, efficiently scale their infrastructure, and ensure business continuity.

DC BLOX data centers are currently located in Atlanta, GA, Chattanooga, TN, Huntsville, AL, Birmingham, AL, Greenville, SC, High Point, NC, which is in the planning stages, and Myrtle Beach, which is currently under construction.”

8. FullStory

FullStory

Founded: 2014

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“FullStory’s digital experience intelligence (DXI) platform empowers businesses to deliver the best digital experiences across their websites and apps. Teams from product and engineering to marketing and customer support use FullStory to save time and money, innovate confidently, and ultimately grow revenue. Built on a patented DX Data Engine, FullStory transforms previously unnoticed, unstructured, and unindexed information into actionable DXI. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, with regional teams in London, Hamburg, Sydney, and Singapore.”

9. Terminus

Terminus

Founded: 2014

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“Terminus was founded in 2014 out of a need to empower marketers to drive revenue impact with true account-based marketing. As the ABM category creators, we are passionate about revitalizing the role of marketing as a revenue engine. Terminus is the ABM platform choice of 1,000+ marketing leaders globally who are in the relentless pursuit of outperformance.”

10. Hermeus

Founded: 2018

“Hermeus is a startup developing hypersonic aircraft to radically accelerate air travel. At Mach 5, more than twice the speed of the supersonic Concorde, passengers will be able to cross the Atlantic in 90 minutes. On the path to hypersonic passenger aircraft, Hermeus is partnering with government agencies including the US Air Force and NASA to develop a series of autonomous aircraft that derisk the technology and solve urgent national security challenges.

These products provide the data and confidence necessary to certify, produce, operate, and maintain safe and comfortable commercial aircraft. Hypersonic aircraft have the potential to create trillions of dollars of new global economic growth per year, unlocking significant resources that can be utilized to solve the world’s greatest problems.”