2021 Best Tech Startups in Lincoln

September 24, 2020February 17, 2023 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Lincoln, Nebraska. 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. opendorse

Founded: 2012

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“opendorse is the athlete marketing platform that helps the biggest brands in sports share content on social. Founded by two former major college athletes, opendorse was built seeking to make it easy for athletes and brands to work together to engage their fans.”

2. CompanyCam

Founded: 2015

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“CompanyCam is a photo solution that gives you a fully organized photo feed for your business. Now you can see and manage your jobs from anywhere.

CompanyCam was created by contractors for contractors. We know the headache that comes with phone call after phone call trying to nail down plans and keep everyone on the same page. It’s frustrating and time consuming and if we don’t have time for it, neither do you.

That’s why we created CompanyCam. You and your team can take unlimited photos—all of which are location and time-stamped, sent to the cloud, and stored securely—meaning you can access any project, anytime, anywhere.”

3. RealmFive

Founded: 2012

Also honored in: 2020 Best Tech Startups in Nebraska

“RealmFive offers the most installer-focused, easy-to-administer, and cost-effective wireless sensor Connectivity Platform in agriculture. RealmFive’s Platform combines robust, long-range, wireless hardware designed for difficult in-field environments with intuitive software for enabling its customers access to their data. The Company focuses its technologies in five market verticals: Agronomy, Irrigation, Livestock, Operations, and Inventory. RealmFive’s Connectivity Platform is scalable for installations containing one to many types and brands of sensors. If you are looking for an independent platform that can gather and aggregate data from existing or new sensors, look no further. Check out RealmFive Agriculture.”

4. Travefy

Founded: 2012

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“Travefy’s mission is to power the success of travel professionals. Our award-winning itinerary management and client communication tools help Travel Agents and professionals save time and impress clients.

Travefy powers thousands of travel businesses ranging from small, independent travel advisors to the largest travel agencies, consortia, and organizations. Travefy has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes among other publications and has won numerous industry honors including the Brand USA Marketing Innovation Award at Phocuswright and the 2017 ASTA Entrepreneur of the Year Award.”

5. Drone Amplified

Founded: 2017

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“Drones are changing how things are done across many industries today. IGNIS puts drones to work managing prescribed burns and monitoring fires.

In fact, we were the first to use this technology to ignite prescribed burns on private and federal lands. Now it is available to you.”

6. Elite Form

Founded: 2011

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“EliteForm creates integrated technologies that provide the next competitive edge in athletic performance, strength training, competition, and sports science. From motion capture technology used to measure athletic movement to motivational tools designed to improvement performance, EliteForm helps you understand more and get more from your athletes time in the weight room.”

7. Nobl

Founded: 2012

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“At Nobl, we’re passionate about building leading-edge rounding solutions that improve communication, workflow, and common processes for healthcare providers. Our applications combine evidence-based hourly and leader rounding practices with real-time technologies to improve clinical outcomes, enhance the patient experience, and revolutionize the way quality assurance is communicated in healthcare.

We believe that by empowering care providers with intelligent solutions, patients will have a superior experience and clinical outcomes. Together with our clients, we serve people in the common quest for better healthcare delivery.

At Nobl, we’re Empowering Care.”

8. Fourstarzz Media LLC

Founded: 2016

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“With the fall of traditional outbound marketing, influencer marketing is becoming one of the most effective ways to attract customers and clients.

The fourstarzz team is passionate about developing tools and services that empower brands and agencies to increase the efficiency of creating influencer-driven marketing campaigns.

Founded in 2016 Fourstarzz Media LLC is venture-funded and privately held.”

9. KPI Ninja Inc.

Founded: 2014

“KPI Ninja, a leader in healthcare analytics and performance improvement, is a healthcare technology and consulting company that accelerates the achievement of strategic goals through a better means of managing Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). KPI Ninja is one of the fastest growing healthcare analytics company in the Midwest region.

Founded in 2014, KPI Ninja’s mission is to improve the health of the communities. We do that by partnering with Health Information Exchange (HIE) companies, Health Systems, Critical Access Hospitals, Clinics, and Direct Primary Care (DPC) organizations. We also partner with other healthcare technology companies to build custom analytics applications to solve their data needs.”

10. Powderhook

Founded: 2013

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“Powderhook’s mission is ‘Access for All.’ That means access for new hunters, anglers and shooters; for parents and their children; for neighbors who haven’t been out in the field for years; and for you.

Powderhook works with the nation’s leading conservation organizations, retailers and manufacturers, bringing the industry together to solve some of its most important challenges.

Think of Powderhook like a localized message board, with a community of people looking to help each other out.”

11. Bulu Group

Founded: 2012

“Subscription Box Fulfillment and Specialty Services. Bulu creates private label Subscription Box solutions ranging from fulfillment to software solutions from small to big brands like Disney, Clorox and Buzzfeed. Created in 2011 and launched in 2012, and Pioneering the Subscription Box industry our flagship program Bulu Box was one of the first Subscription Boxes to the market, as Subscription Box #6. In 2016, Bulu created its “Turnkey Subscription Box Solutions” division to work with big brand companies on executing full or à la carte “Private Label Subscription Box Solutions™” Bulu is the Subscription Box Champion and industry authority working with partners to Win. Win. Win. Find more at www.bulugroup.com.”