2021 Best Tech Startups in Rochester (New York)

October 26, 2020November 24, 2021 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Rochester, New York. 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. CloudCheckr

Founded: 2011

Also honored in:

“As organizations transform their business by leveraging the power of the cloud, they need total visibility, actionable intelligence, critical automation, and accountability across their cloud investments. To help manage, optimize and govern the cloud, the CloudCheckr platform generates a complete picture of their environment including billing details, multi-accounts, resources, configurations, permissions, changes, and more. From Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Microsoft Azure to Google Cloud, CloudCheckr turbo-charges your single or multi-cloud environments with a unified cost, security, inventory, utilization and automation solution to help be more efficient and secure at scale while saving money.”

2. Token

Founded: 2017

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“Token unifies the way you prove your identity – live free of keys, cards, badges and passwords.”

3. CEIPAL

Founded: 2015

Also honored in: 2020 Best Tech Startups in Rochester (New York)

“Ceipal Corp is a global leader in the Human Capital Management software industry. It is relied upon by various industry leading firms to drive their end-to-end recruitment cycle and HR operations. Headquartered in Rochester, New York, we have Global offices around the world. Ceipal is backed by prominent venture capitalists in North America, which is a further testimony to the value we add to the industry.”

4. Poseidon Systems

Founded: 2010

Also honored in: 2020 Best Tech Startups in Rochester (New York)

“Poseidon Systems, LLC is a leader in Industrial IoT fluid solutions, designing and manufacturing best-in-class fluid sensors. Through Poseidon Live (PSL), online monitoring software, Poseidon Systems is helping customers detect asset failures at the earliest possible point in time and prevent failures through identification of root causes before failure occurs. Through the world’s most advanced fluid quality sensor, operators are able to track fluid quality and estimate RUL, saving millions in fluid consumption and waste. Learn more at https://poseidonsys.com.”

5. Circle Optics, Inc.

Founded: 2017

Also honored in: 2020 Best Tech Startups in Rochester (New York)

“Circle Optics’ unique solution utilizes novel technology, protected by our intellectual property, to align fields of view and eliminate the issue of parallax. Our technology fuses the images at the level of the lenses, rendering a perfect 360° image instantaneously. We have successfully been awarded patents in the United States and other countries. Our extremely broad IP protects the method of aligning fields of view between adjoining polygonal lenses and therefore applies to all geometries and future product lines. Furthermore, we recently filed a provisional patent application around the optomechanical system which enables our method.”

6. EZaccessMD

Founded: 2016

Also honored in: 2020 Best Tech Startups in Rochester (New York)

“EZaccessMD is so much more than telemedicine. It’s truly moving healthcare for you and your employees. It’s more immediate with anytime in-home access to health professionals. More mobile with diagnostic testing and medical imaging that comes to patients wherever they are. And more freeing with no time wasted in waiting rooms, and no hidden costs to families. Benefit on top of benefit, care on top of care.

We are the only telehealth service with over 50% employee utilization. Services are offered to employer groups on a low cost, per employee per month subscription basis. Coverage extends to the employee, their spouse and dependents under the age of twenty-seven. EZaccessMD will ultimately lower utilization of traditional health care plans, which may allow premium negotiations. Self-insured businesses can immediately see savings that go straight to the bottom line. Call us to schedule a presentation or demo.”

7. Think Biosolution

Founded: 2016

“Think Biosolution is an original design manufacturer (ODM) and technology provider, building customised Remote Patient Monitoring platforms for Telehealth enterprises and Provider organizations.”

8. Inspire Care 360

Founded: 2017

Also honored in: 2020 Best Tech Startups in Rochester (New York)

“Full Service provider of back-office solutions to the Early Learning and Childcare industry. Reducing costs significantly, increasing buying power and giving the industry tools to sophisticate their operations to grow.”