2020 Best Tech Startups in New Mexico

March 26, 2020December 5, 2022 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in New Mexico. 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. Descartes Labs

Founded: 2014

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“Descartes Labs is a predictive intelligence company that makes a data-agnostic platform for performing global-scale analyses unbound by computing limitations. Descartes Labs is building the world’s largest and most diverse data refinery – to bring together all of the data, all of the time. Our supercomputer in the cloud and modeling platform for complex global systems, predict supply and demand factors to give our customers a unique decision advantage so they can move with speed, efficiency, and certainty. Descartes Labs is headquartered in Santa Fe, N.M., and has offices in New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Denver, and Los Alamos, N.M.”

2. Lavu

Founded: 2010

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“Lavu Inc. was formed around the idea of using technology to create products that improve the lives of small business owners. Our cloud-based iPad point of sale system offers all the functionality of a traditional system, with all the customizability and flexibility modern technology provides.

We also care about the quality of our employee’s lives. If Lavu sounds like a good match for your business or as an employer, please visit our website.”

3. Fetch

Founded: 2014

“Fetch delivers anything and everything from hundreds of local businesses including restaurants, cafes, liquor stores, food trucks, grocery stores, convenience stores, drug stores, flower shops, dry cleaners, hardware and office supplies.”

4. BabyPage

Founded: 2015

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“BabyPage is an online platform and app that makes it fun and easy for parents to capture and track their children’s milestones. BabyPage prompts parents with questions dictated by the age of the child and time of year, and our natural language algorithm auto-creates content, making it easy to capture every stage of childhood. Parents capture milestones, growth, travel, and more within their BabyPage dashboard, and they can combine any of that content into a printed book. BabyPage Light is free and BabyPage Plus is a premium version paid via subscription.”

5. SciVista

Founded: 2018

“View and share your data in Virtual Reality.

Easier Collaboration. More Powerful Insights.

The current state of data sharing is cludgy, lossy, and important ideas get lost in translation.

SciVista’s Virtual room sharing means data scientists can share their ideas in real-time.

Full immersion in Virtual Reality enables insights into your data. Break out of the 2D screen.”

6. CheckUp & Choices

Founded: 2015

“CheckUp & Choices is a pioneer and leader in the field of digital therapeutics—the use of digital health programs and tools to effect behavior change. Co-founded in 2015 by Reid K Hester, Ph.D., CheckUp & Choices develops, tests, implements, and disseminates digital programs that help individuals and organizations realize their potential by reducing alcohol and drug problems. CheckUp & Choices incorporates decades of evidence-based clinical expertise developed by Dr. Hester and his team. The digital resource is based on motivational and cognitive behavioral interventions that have been validated in eight randomized clinical trials funded by competitive grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). CheckUp & Choices implements and disseminates its programs utilizing a state-of-the art, convenient and accessible digital platform that provides verifiable health benefits for thousands of individuals who have successfully used the program to increase their motivation and ability to modify both their drinking and drug use. CheckUp & Choices continues to optimize its existing digital programs while also conducting new research to maximize impact, and so help more of the millions of Americans struggling with substance misuse.”

7. AddMi

Founded: 2016

Also honored in: 2020 Best Tech Startups in Albuquerque

“Addmi is an app for connecting with your local community instantly. Being that is a businesses or people it will be fast and easy. There is no need to have a business card or loyalty card etc anymore. With addmi, your life is simplify, you can connect with people with one click and do nothing to claim any deals or coupon from businesses.

Whether you’re going to event, meeting or just walking by businesses, there’s an addmi for every occasion. addmi can be use anywhere in the worldwide—download the app and connect with people and business near you today!”