The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in West Virginia. In doing our research, we considered several factors including but not limited to:

1. Revenue potential
2. Leadership team
3. Brand/product traction
4. 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. Core10

Founded: 2016

Also honored in:

• 2020 Best Tech Startups in Franklin (Tennessee)
• 2019 Best Tech Startups in Franklin (Tennessee)
• 2018 Best Tech Startups in West Virginia

“Nashville-based Core10, founded in 2016 and backed by FINTOP Capital, is a leading US-based provider of API Integration and SaaS implementation services to the fintech and financial services industry. Our 100% US-based development team is located in smaller US Hereshore® communities, including Huntington, West Virginia, and Martin, Tennessee, where we offer clients expert resources at a competitive rate. These Hereshore communities are selected because they produce highly educated developers in places with a significantly lower cost of living than the major US hubs and large cities.

Core10 aims to bring jobs back to the heartland by connecting Tennessee and West Virginia’s growing community of developers, implementation analysts, and quality assurance experts with the enterprises transforming the $20-billion fintech space on a global scale.”

2. Vocinity

Founded: 2018

“Vocinity provides a complete, contactless, conversational voice bot (cognitive agent) platform to the healthcare, retail, hospitality, and financial services markets. We replace legacy enterprise technology, manual data capture processes, and long hold times with “Alexa” or “Siri”-like interactions that deliver more economical, contextual, rich-media, voice-based engagements. Our scalable and secure solution can be deployed for use with phone systems, websites, mobile applications, digital signage, and QR codes.”

3. RealX Ventures

Founded: 2019

“We are a technology start-up focused on digitizing the process to better connect companies with the landowners that sell/lease their property rights for a host of uses (timber, cellular, mineral, solar, and wind).

We are a group of technologists and entrepreneurs who believe we can streamline these processes through technology and maximize the value to both the landowner and the companies providing our energy, communications and building resources.”