The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Scottsdale, Arizona. 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. Looking for a badge to celebrate your awesome accomplishment? Find it here!

1. Centauri Health Solutions

Founded: 2014

“Centauri Health Solutions aims to attract and retain the industry’s top talent as we continue to create and deliver the most flexible and innovative tools in the market. Centauri reimagines and builds a healthcare system that makes a difference in the lives – and work – of those who count on it. We increase access to, and the delivery of, proper care by providing hosted software solutions, eligibility enrollment services, data-driven services, and data management designed specifically for risk adjustment and quality-based revenue programs.”

2. NantEnergy

Founded: 2008

“Changing Lives – NantEnergy has developed an energy storage platform that stores and delivers energy on demand at a cost point that transforms how the entire world generates, distributes, and consumes energy. NantEnergy improves energy security today with a 4, 8, 12, 24 hour and longer back up power solution to over 4 million people today.”

3. Trusona

Founded: 2015

Also honored in:

• 2018 Best Tech Startups in Scottsdale
• 2018 Best Tech Startups in Arizona

“Trusona is the leader in simply secure identity authentication. We developed the world’s first and only insured digital identity authentication solution and are leading a movement where there are no passwords to be created, remembered, stolen, or compromised. Where people are who they say they are – every time. Our solution takes a completely different approach. It is radically simple, and relies on patented technology that uses the unique nature of every interaction to assure the True Persona behind every digital interaction. Trusona. Simply Secured.”

4. Ryver

Founded: 2011

Also honored in: 2018 Best Tech Startups in Scottsdale

“Ryver (“river”) provides all of your team communications in one place: chats, posts, and files. Invite as many team members and guests as you need.”

5. STYR Labs Inc

Founded: 2014

“STYR Labs is an innovation company founded in 2014 on the idea that motion and nutrition are directly related to an individual’s health. The company has created a process of converting fitness data into nutritional advice by leveraging its mobile app that includes a database of 250,000 research articles, proprietary food logging technologies and gamification, and its own range of low cost IoT devices to create customized vitamins, proteins, electrolytes and meal replacement options. STYR Labs is headquartered in Scottsdale and the platform directly or through strategic relationships in 110 countries around the world.”

6. ClickIPO

Founded: 2011

“ClickIPO is the world’s first industry utility for optimizing retail distribution of IPO and Secondary Offerings. We’ve built a platform for Issuers, Underwriters, and Online Brokerages to leverage the benefits of broad retail distribution and gain access to a large liquidity pipe of buy and hold retail investors, across multiple online brokerages. Using the ClickIPO platform, Issuers can place shares in the hands of employees, partners, customers, and other stakeholders through our Directed Share Program (DSP). The ClickIPO app can be downloaded by any individual investors and connected to a supported brokerage partner to participate in public offerings – making retail distribution simple!”

7. Hypur

Founded: 2014

Also honored in: 2018 Best Tech Startups in Scottsdale

“Hypur is all about innovation with purpose. We saw gaps in the marketplace – gaps between increasing banking regulations and the legacy tools available to financial institutions to meet these regulations and provide banking services to businesses in the cash intensive industry. Our technology provides the tools needed to seize new opportunities in the marketplace, enabling financial institutions to grow and prosper in a changing world Hypur extends the reach of traditional banking systems, providing financial institutions with the technology they need to provide banking services to cash-intensive businesses. Bringing legitimate businesses and transactions back into the banking system makes it easier to spot those with bad intentions.”

8. Proof

Founded: 2015

“Proof is a unique analytics bridge that connects Marketing performance to Business impact and value. Our customers primarily are Finance, Operations and Marketing leaders, as well as management consultancies and agencies. Proof was built so that every person can better understand that impact of their actions and investments in light of the organization’s goals and objectives. In addition to a powerful suite of ROI analytics, Proof includes fully integrated data federation and data rights management, enabling rapid, secure data sharing and ROI-based analytics between teams of people and even different companies.”

9. ReplyBuy

Founded: 2012

Also honored in: 2018 Best Tech Startups in Scottsdale

“ReplyBuy is powering the next generation of sales, engagement & data for businesses using mobile messaging. ReplyBuy empowers businesses to harness the power of chat, AI, digital commerce and payments to start a conversation & instantly transact with their buyers from a single dashboard. As a first vertical, ReplyBuy was introduced within the sports market and has quickly been embraced by 121+ clients across the NBA, NFL, NHL along with major universities. From a sales and buyer conversion standpoint, it’s now starting to outperform traditional means such as email and social.”

10. CommLoan.com

Founded: 2014

“CommLoan is a commercial real estate lending marketplace that was established in 2014 with a mission to reduce the complexity of the commercial loan process and make it easy for borrowers to get access to the capital they need. To date, CommLoan has processed more than $700,000,000 in multifamily, office, industrial, and retail transactions for investors and commercial real estate brokers seeking loans ranging from $1 million to $15 million. CommLoan connects borrowers to hundreds of lenders and thousands of loan programs, all in one place.”