2021 Best Tech Startups in Gainesville

November 20, 2020January 11, 2022 thetechtribune

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:

“Feathr is a comprehensive marketing toolkit built specifically for the needs of events and associations. Our lineup of proven marketing tools like Ads, Invites, and Conversations work together to help you easily do your best marketing and grow your events.

Today more than 1500 event organizers and associations like UBM, Emerald Expositions, CES, and NAB use Feathr to market to more than a 100,000,000 of their customers.”

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. MYOLYN

Founded: 2013

“MYOLYN is a medical device company that develops technologies that provide people with paralysis and muscle weakness unprecedented benefits in health, mobility, and independence.

Using unique expertise in robotics, controls, and FES (functional electrical stimulation), MYOLYN designs and distributes the MyoCycle, a line of specially-designed activity-based therapy systems for people overcoming spinal cord injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and other neurological disorders.

The MyoCycle Home is an in-home therapy device designed specifically for home use. The MyoCycle Home’s affordability and ease-of-use are making home FES cycling practical and accessible for the first time.”

4. ClaimFound

Founded: 2017

“ClaimFound makes software to automate financial processes and link people with opportunities they would not have knowledge or access to otherwise.

Our mission is to help the financial wellbeing of average Americans by putting actual money in his or her pockets.

We’re doing this by returning more than $70 billion in unclaimed money owed to the American public through the only centralized platform in the country that lets individuals find, retrieve, and monitor unclaimed money.”

5. SpectApp

Founded: 2016

“We are a Florida-based corporation that helps individuals grow, track, and communicate their leadership and interpersonal skills. Our core product – SpectApp (Spect means to look, to see, to show) – is Fitbit® tracking meets LinkedIn®: Users can track, monitor, & socially share their professional growth progress and leadership activity. User activity profiles alongside trackable credentials like diplomas, certificates, and transcripts will showcase the whole person. The SpectApp value proposition is that leadership and human capital are quantifiable factors that can be identified, improved, and developed.”

6. Altavian

Founded: 2011

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“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.”