2021 Best Tech Startups in Atlanta

September 3, 2020January 11, 2023 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Atlanta, Georgia. 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. Sharecare

Founded: 2010

Also honored in:

“Sharecare is the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place. The Sharecare platform provides each person – no matter where they are in their health journey – with a comprehensive and personalized health profile, where they can dynamically and easily connect to the information, evidence-based programs and health professionals they need to live their healthiest, happiest and most productive life. With award-winning and innovative frictionless technologies, scientifically validated clinical protocols and best-in-class coaching tools, Sharecare helps providers, employers and health plans effectively scale outcomes-based health and wellness solutions across their entire populations.”

2. OneTrust

Founded: 2016

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“OneTrust is the #1 fastest growing and most widely used technology platform to help organizations be more trusted, and operationalize privacy, security, data governance, and compliance programs. More than 6,000 customers use OneTrust to build integrated programs that comply with the CCPA, GDPR, LGPD, PDPA, ISO27001, and hundreds of the world’s privacy and security laws.

The OneTrust platform is backed by 100 patents and powered by the OneTrust Athena™ AI and robotic automation engine. Our offerings include:
The OneTrust platform is backed by 100 patents and powered by the OneTrust Athena™ AI and robotic automation engine.”

3. Pindrop

Founded: 2011

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“Pindrop® solutions are leading the way to the future of voice by establishing the standard for security, identity, and trust for every voice interaction. Pindrop solutions protect some of the biggest banks, insurers, and retailers in the world using patented technology that extracts an unrivaled amount of intelligence from every call encountered. Pindrop solutions help detect fraudsters and authenticate callers, reducing fraud and operational costs, while improving customer experience and protecting brand reputation. Pindrop solutions have been implemented in 8 of the top 10 US banks and 5 of the top 7 US life insurers. Additionally, 70% of Pindrop US customers are Fortune 500.”

4. Ionic Security

Founded: 2011

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“Ionic enables global businesses and government agencies to accelerate innovation by driving data protection across their organization, regardless of where they are in their journey to the cloud. Ionic Machina is the only enterprise-class data protection engine that delivers real-time data policy enforcement against a rich set of identity and data attributes backed by machine-scale key management, creating a system of record for unified and consistent execution. With over 2M licensed users in Fortune 100 companies and government agencies, the unique ecosystem relationships of Ionic dramatically accelerate cloud migration and multi-cloud deployments, creating value for enterprises in driving their overall security strategy.”

5. SalesLoft

Founded: 2011

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“SalesLoft, the leading sales engagement platform, transforms the way sellers engage with their customers by delivering a better selling experience.

Our sales engagement platform helps teams set and execute on a cadence of phone, email, and social communications to convert more target accounts into customer accounts. The platform equips sales leaders with new capabilities to test, learn and adapt to ensure their sales reps execute on the most effective selling process for their account-based approach. SalesLoft delivers access to an extensive ecosystem of 3rd party integrations allowing teams to perform all their sales engagement from a single platform.”

6. CallRail

Founded: 2011

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“Trusted by more than 75,000 companies and marketing agencies globally, CallRail provides call analytics to data driven marketers so they can improve customer acquisition. Delivering intuitive self-service software to businesses that care about phone calls, CallRail enables smart marketers to know what makes their phone ring. CallRail tracks phone calls from online and offline marketing campaigns (including PPC keywords), provides insight into which campaigns are working best, and records calls for lead qualification and coaching to increase call conversion rates.”

7. Greenlight Financial Technology

Founded: 2014

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“Greenlight makes a debit card for kids and a mobile app that empowers parents with convenient controls to safely manage family finances and create teachable moments around earning, spending, saving and giving. Greenlight is easier and more flexible than cash, with parental controls that allow families to manage exactly where, and how much their kids can spend.

The Greenlight team is 170 people strong and proudly based in Atlanta, GA. We’re sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, PTA presidents, fantasy football commissioners and volunteer dance teachers. We come from Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Hulu, Yahoo!, Cardlytics and Square, and we’re backed by Drive Capital, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, TTV Capital, Relay Ventures, NEA, Amazon, Ally Financial, SunTrust Bank and Synchrony Financial. We were picked for CB Insights’ Fintech 250. And we’re not stopping there.”

8. Vanco Payment Solutions

Founded: 2012

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“Vanco Payment Solutions offers specialized payment solutions across multiple industries, including faith-based organizations, nonprofits, and professional services companies. The company processes more than $13.1 billion in electronic payments annually for clients, providing administrative and user-friendly online, mobile, and batch payment methods, in addition to back office credit card, debit card, and ACH processing. Vanco Payment Solutions is headquartered in Atlanta, with an office location in Minneapolis.”

9. FullStory

Founded: 2014

“FullStory offers digital experience analytics, on-the-fly conversion funnels, advanced search capabilities, video-like replay of real user sessions, and robust debugging and developer tools—all while integrating with leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) products.

Founded in Atlanta by a team of former Googlers devoted to making products more user-friendly, FullStory officially launched in 2014.”

10. MacStadium

Founded: 2012

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“MacStadium is the Mac hosting authority with a reputation built on reliability and service. Thousands of companies choose MacStadium to deliver enterprise-class hosting infrastructure around the world. We understand that your business objectives are unique, and your hosting solution should be as well. At MacStadium we provide dedicated Apple-centric infrastructure as a service (IaaS) computing platforms and expertise, so you can focus on your business and leave the rest of the technology to us.”