2020 Best Tech Startups in Gainesville
The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Gainesville, Florida. 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. Feathr
Founded: 2012
Also honored in:
“Audience growth and monetization tools made exclusively for events and associations. Grow, engage, and monetize your audience. All with a personal touch.Headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, USA, Feathr has powered more than 1000 events worldwide to create personalized experiences for leading event organizers and associations including UBM, Emerald Expositions, CES, NAB, and many more.”
2. Admiral
Founded: 2015
Also honored in:
“Admiral’s Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) platform helps thousands of publishers worldwide grow 1st-party visitor relationships and revenue, via adblock recovery, paywalls, digital subscriptions, regwalls, email capture, social subscriptions, memberships, donations, privacy consent and more — all from a single tag. Digital publishers can size the revenue opportunity of stronger relationships for free, with signup at https://getadmiral.com.”
3. Shadow Health
Founded: 2011
Also honored in:
“Shadow Health is a multi disciplinary educational software developer of rich learning environments and Digital Clinical Experiences™(DCEs). Using the Shadow Health DCE, educators increase clinical efficiency giving them more time to focus on student achievement. Shadow Health develops these educational environments to address the critical issues facing our national and global health care systems – maintaining quality-of-care in the face of increasing provider shortages. We are positioned to reform the status quo of nursing education delivery by providing a digital, accurate, and in-depth clinical environment to practice diagnostic reasoning, communication, and procedural skills.”
4. BluAzu
Founded: 2014
Also honored in:
“BluAzu LLC has created and is marketing Scout, the groundbreaking new technology that provides real-time location & status tracking, with recording & alerts, 24/7 from anywhere in the world where mobile service exists. The Scout platform integrates GPS, cellular, accelerometer and Bluetooth technologies with other sensors into the smallest and most powerful tracking device available in the world today. Scout’s 24/7 cellular connectivity links the Scout device to the internet and to the user via the FindMyScout app on the user’s smartphone. BluAzu has launched Scout into multiple markets, including consumer use by parents & dog owners, and use as a vehicle anti-theft device for motorcycles & ATVs, and commercial uses in fleet tracking, delivery & freight and other other tracking applications.”
5. Altavian
Founded: 2011
Also honored in:
“Altavian designs and manufactures high quality drones to carry the best sensors into the toughest environments. Our drones feature modular systems to carry custom and integrated payloads to specialize any drone for any type of data. Our focus is on systems that collect data with the highest integrity and accuracy, augmenting data collection in the 21st century.
Founded in 2011, Altavian aircraft have flown thousands of missions in the environmental, mapping, and precision agriculture industries.”