2021 Best Tech Startups in Georgia

February 11, 2021 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in 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. LendingPoint

Founded: 2014

“Atlanta-based LendingPoint, a leading fintech balance sheet lender, is committed to redefining who is able to access money at fair rates, and empowering consumers to build financial momentum. LendingPoint’s award-winning leadership team holds intellectual patents for unique modeling of data and credit scoring. Committed to customer-centered excellence, the company is a Better Business Bureau accredited company. Get to know us here on LinkedIn and at lendingpoint.com.”

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. Calendly

Founded: 2013

“At Calendly, we are excited about changing the way the world schedules. We are a profitable company, offering ample opportunities to accelerate your career. We’re obsessed with providing an elegant, delightful experience for our customers. This shapes how we develop, design, market and support. We work hard, move fast and pitch in across departments—and always make time to celebrate our accomplishments.

Join a diverse workforce, leading the way in scheduling automation.

Calendly, a powerful yet simple automated scheduling tool, takes the work out of connecting with others so you can accomplish more. Millions of users benefit from an enjoyable scheduling experience, more time to spend on top priorities and flexibility to accommodate individual users and large teams alike. Calendly works with Google, Office 365 and Outlook calendars and apps like Salesforce, Stripe, PayPal, Google Analytics, GoToMeeting and Zapier for a seamless user experience.”

4. Greenlight Financial Technology

Founded: 2014

Also honored in:

“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.”

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. 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.”

7. 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.”

8. 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.”

9. Grayshift

Founded: 2016

“Grayshift is the leading provider of mobile device digital forensics, specializing in access and extraction. Grayshift solutions are purpose-built to help law enforcement and government investigative agencies swiftly resolve critical investigations and ensure public safety. The company’s innovative GrayKey technology provides same-day access, complete control, and comprehensive data extraction from mobile devices. Designed and assembled in the United States, GrayKey is trusted 1000 agencies across more than 25 countries globally.”

10. Flock Safety

Founded: 2017

“We are the first public safety operating system empowering over 1000 cities to eliminate crime.

Our cameras and devices detect objective evidence, decode it with machine learning, and deliver it into the hands that stop crime.

Communities operating on Flock Safety reduce crime by up to 70%.”