2025 Best Tech Startups in Wisconsin

March 28, 2025 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Wisconsin. 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. SpotHopper

Founded: 2015

Also honored in:

“SpotHopper is the industry leader in restaurant marketing. We’ve helped 1000’s of restaurants across 50+ markets drive more revenue from their online marketing, while cutting cost and saving time.”

9. DataChat

Founded: 2017

Also honored in:

“DataChat is a no-code, generative AI analytics platform that enables business users and domain experts to ask natural language questions of the data they already have access to, regardless of technical background or experience.

DataChat focuses on iterative analytics, allowing users to refine questions and reshape data, making data insights accessible to non-technical users without requiring coding knowledge.”

8. EnsoData

Founded: 2015

Also honored in:

“EnsoData uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to unlock more rapid, accurate, and affordable diagnoses of the biggest threats to human health.

Over the past eight years, EnsoData has pioneered the clinical use and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology in sleep medicine (and healthcare more broadly) to solve large-scale problems at the heart of diagnosis and treatment decision-making.

EnsoData’s primary solution, EnsoSleep, was cleared by the FDA in 2017 to provide diagnostic analysis of in-lab sleep studies. EnsoSleep received expanded FDA clearance in 2021 to score and analyze home sleep studies, to add a viewing, editing, and reporting platform, and to record and output a total sleep time measurement.”

7. Bend Health

Founded: 2021

Also honored in:

“Bend Health, Inc. is a national provider of pediatric mental health for kids, teens, young adults, and their families. We believe whole family mental health starts with a strong foundation of resilience to cope with whatever life blows your way. Our peer-reviewed results demonstrate that more than 80% of members enrolled in Bend feel better within 60 to 90 days.

We are revolutionizing the treatment of mental health conditions for kids and teens through a novel data-driven technology platform and evidence-based collaborative care model that enables the first scalable and integrated care solution in mental health. Through coaching, therapy and reduced time to evaluation and treatment by licensed pediatric psychiatry experts, our approach achieves better outcomes and results in happier, healthier kids and teens, while ensuring stigma, cost, and logistics are no longer barriers to care.”

6. RAIC Labs

Founded: 2019

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“Quickly derive insights from large, unlabeled geospatial, video, and image datasets without time-intensive human labeling or pre-built models.

Rapid Automatic Image Categorization (RAIC) is an unbiased tool that meets users’ ever-changing analytic demands for their perpetually evolving datasets, in an unrivaled timeline.

RAIC enables users to find and classify anything in minutes, not months, without labeled data. Simply provide a single example object image and RAIC will find similar objects in your unlabeled dataset and return contextually-related results. You can then improve the AI by identifying the best results through an intuitive human nudge tool. From there, you can run inference jobs and turn results into insights using dashboarding tools or existing analytics platforms.”

5. Sift Healthcare

Founded: 2017

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“Sift equips healthcare providers and revenue cycle managers with a complete payments analytics platform making it easy to visualize and understand payment trends, prioritize RCM workflows and accelerate cash flow.

Sift improves data clarity and optimizes the financial performance of the entire revenue cycle continuum. Meaningful insights help reduce denials, increase patient payments, maximize reimbursements and reduce time and cost to collect.”

4. VEDA

Founded: 2015

Also honored in: 2022 Best Tech Startups in Washington, D.C.

“What happens when a political entrepreneur and astronomer share the same vision? Innovation.

At Veda, we’re on a mission to accelerate patients’ ability to access the care they need, reduce financial loss in the healthcare system, and create efficiencies that drive healthcare innovation. Our founders are motivated by a belief that the tools to make a better world are being developed right now by talented scientists around the globe, and we can harness those tools to solve the problems impacting people every day.

We empower young and talented researchers to focus their efforts on creating products that lead to better health outcomes and access to care for patients, while encouraging their natural desire to experiment and discover.”

3. Asto CT

Founded: 2016

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“Asto CT was founded on the principle of offering safe, high-quality fan-beam imaging to improve quality of life for horses and ensure peace of mind for their owners. We are pioneering the use of cutting-edge robotics in combination with medical computed tomography (CT) to provide state-of-the-art screening. Our mission is to improve diagnosis and treatment of conditions of the distal limb and diseases of the head and neck in horses.”

2. Coterie Insurance

Founded: 2018

Also honored in:

“Coterie Insurance puts insurance agents and brokers first, delivering instant business insurance across the United States.

Coterie uses a partnership-based approach to help insurance professionals unlock untapped revenue in the small commercial space.

With an innovative quoting platform that delivers accurate pricing and bindable quotes in less than one minute, Coterie is making small business insurance effortless.”

1. Elephas

Founded: 2020

Also honored in:

“Elephas is developing a platform to predict response to immunotherapy. Our unique approach uses patient tumors and protects the live, native tumor microenvironment enabling characterization of individual response to immunotherapies.”