2020 Best Tech Startups in Bellevue

January 26, 2020October 26, 2023 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Bellevue, Washington. 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. OfferUp

Founded: 2011

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“OfferUp is changing how people buy and sell locally by making it as easy as taking and sharing a photo from your phone. We are not just about connecting buyers and sellers; we are about creating a simple and safe marketplace that changes people’s lives. We are a rapidly growing team in Seattle looking to bring on more passionate, motivated, and curious people who want to be a part of our fast growing marketplace.”

2. Auth0

Founded: 2013

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“Auth0, a global leader in Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS), provides thousands of enterprise customers with a Universal Identity Platform for their web, mobile, IoT, and internal applications. Its extensible platform seamlessly authenticates and secures more than 1.5B logins per month, making it loved by developers and trusted by global enterprises. The company’s U.S. headquarters in Bellevue, WA, and additional offices in Buenos Aires, London, Tokyo, and Sydney, support its customers that are located in 70+ countries.”

3. YI Technology

Founded: 2014

Also honored in: 2019 Best Tech Startups in Bellevue

“YI Technology is the leading provider of advanced video, imaging and computer vision technologies. We are inspired by a singular, bold vision of a future powered by widespread and intelligent video technology, where smart cameras and computer vision will make people’s lives safer, richer and more fun. We are passionately dedicated to our mission of making the most sophisticated, ground-breaking and complex innovations in the belief that our products will be useful for everyone from industry professionals to amateur photographers.”

4. Zenoti

Founded: 2010

Also honored in: 2019 Best Tech Startups in Bellevue

“Zenoti provides an all-in-one, cloud-based software solution for the spa, salon and med spa industry. The Zenoti platform is engineered for reliability and scale, harnessing the power of enterprise-level technology for businesses of all sizes.

Zenoti powers thousands of spas and salons in over 50 countries. Zenoti allows users to seamlessly manage every aspect of the business in a comprehensive mobile solution: online appointment bookings, POS, CRM, employee management, inventory management, built-in marketing programs and more. Zenoti helps clients streamline their systems and reduce costs, while simultaneously improving customer retention and spending.”

5. BaishanCloud

Founded: 2015

“BaishanCloud is a cloud data service provider focused on data life cycle management. With a strong emphasis on data interaction and exchange, Baishan’s product suite is comprised of cloud delivery, cloud security, and cloud API management. Leveraging its loosely-coupled cloud delivery network, Baishan’s platform fulfills the data-transmission, data-security, and data-governance needs of Internet and enterprise customers.

Since Baishan’s inception, growth across all facets has been very fast. Baishan’s innovative cloud products have achieved considerable traction in the marketplace due to unparalleled performance throughout China and Asia. Already a trusted preferred provider of cloud data services in China, Baishan has a rapidly growing customer base both domestically and internationally.”

6. iSpot.tv

Founded: 2012

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“iSpot.tv is the leader in real-time TV ad data and analytics. The attention and conversion analytics company measures TV ad activity at scale and directly from 7.3+ million smart TV screens. The proprietary platform measures TV ad impressions in a digital-like manner across linear (national & local), OTT, VOD and DVR environments and across all operators and zip codes.

iSpot’s attention analytics measure viewer retention and tune-out while ads are playing on the screen. Every ad’s attention is measured and benchmarked against industry standards and over time to quickly detect creative wear.”

7. Dragonchain Foundation

Founded: 2017

Also honored in: 2019 Best Tech Startups in Bellevue

“Dragonchain is a technology leader in the blockchain space, with security and scalability at the forefront of its operations. We are proudly U.S.-based and part of one of the most technologically rich communities in the country. We help companies break into blockchain faster, without forcing them to change their existing IT infrastructure. As a Blockchain as a Service provider built by seasoned members of the tech industry, Dragonchain understands the needs of enterprises and is designed to handle prevalent issues in several industries.”

8. Mylio

Founded: 2012

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“Mylio is the ultimate Memory Organizer. It makes it simple and fun to manage a lifetime of photos, videos, and documents, and carry all of them with you, on any device, at any time.

Mylio gathers your digital memories from all their scattered locations, then helps you find, view, sort, edit, protect, and share them. Any change to any file gets updated on every device, no cloud or internet connection necessary. Amazing.”

9. Ally

Founded: 2017

“Ally is a Strategic Goal-Planning & Execution Management software that enables businesses like Slack, Remitly, Plaid, Teleperformance and UrbanClap to operate with the organizational alignment, agility, focus and transparency they need to match the fast pace needs of their evolving markets.

Ally is based on the OKR framework which is a operating model for running agile teams/businesses and that has been made famous by Google and other industry leaders.”

10. vCita

Founded: 2010

“vCita is a compact, quick-smart app that keeps you fully connected to your business, whenever and wherever you are working from.

With vCita, you can track and perform all your daily tasks, from the “first hello” to the last invoice: Charge and collect payments, invite clients to book you online, create branded invoices and quotes, send SMS appointment reminders – all in a few simple clicks, from one single app.”