2021 Best Tech Startups in North Dakota

April 2, 2021September 22, 2023 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in North Dakota. 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. Bushel

Founded: 2011

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“Bushel™ enables clear and simple business for grain facilities and their growers. Through integrating into a grain facility’s accounting system, Bushel provides growers with instant access to scale tickets, contracts, prepaids, commodity balances, cash bids, and market information through grain facility-branded apps. To date, 1,200+ grain receiving locations are active on the platform, which enables farming operations across the U.S. to utilize Bushel-powered mobile applications.”

2. BWR Innovations

Founded: 2018

“Blue Water Resolute (BWR) Innovations identified the need to do things a little different and to not only think outside the box, but to remove the box all together. Our team is comprised of seasoned and accomplished professionals, creating innovative products for unmatched performance, reliability, and cost of operation. Our meritocracy approach provides a positive, powerful culture, making BWR a great place to work.”

3. CoSchedule

Founded: 2013

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“CoSchedule is the only way to organize your marketing in one place. As a family of agile marketing products, CoSchedule serves more than 7,000+ customers worldwide, helping you stay focused, deliver projects on time, and keep your entire marketing team happy. As one of the top 15 leading software providers on the Inc. 5000 list and recognized in Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for Content Marketing Platforms, CoSchedule is the fastest-growing solution for mid-market and enterprise companies seeking a unified marketing platform.”

4. Botlink

Founded: 2014

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“Botlink is a cloud-based operations platform that links drones to industry in real time. Our platform allows users to capture, process and deliver aerial imagery anywhere, including into existing business software. We give teams the ability to make time-sensitive and collaborative decisions, even while a drone is still airborne.

Botlink also provides automated drone control and safety features such as airspace alerts, manned aircraft avoidance and weather advisories, allowing operators to remain safe and compliant with complex flight regulations.

We are an experienced team of military and professional pilots, software developers, electrical engineers and business professionals on a mission to give our users the actionable data they need to make safe, effective and efficient decisions from any location.”

5. FarmQA

Founded: 2015

Also honored in: 2021 Best Tech Startups in Fargo

“FarmQA allows farmers to manage what they can measure by offering sensors, communication devices and a cloud based suite of integrated capabilities which together provide manufacturing level automation and quality control to large agricultural operations around the globe.

FarmQA partners with best in class venture backed new ag, animal, and food technology companies to provide a full suite of tools to large integrated operations, bringing the key information the farm manager needs into a dashboard to optimize yield, cost, and quality.”