2021 Best Tech Startups in Wisconsin

February 2, 2021December 3, 2022 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Wisconsin. 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. Fetch Rewards

Founded: 2013

Also honored in:

“Fetch Rewards is a mobile shopping platform that rewards shoppers for buying the brands they love. The Fetch Rewards app gives users the easiest way to save on everyday purchases by simply scanning their receipt. For our brand partners, the platform allows them to understand a 360 degree view of shopping habits, and to meaningfully reward a customer’s individual loyalty.”

2. Redox

Founded: 2014

Also honored in:

“Healthcare organizations and technology vendors connect to Redox once, then authorize what data they send to and receive from partners through a centralized hub. Redox’s cloud-based platform is vendor and standards agnostic and enables the secure and efficient exchange of healthcare data. This approach eradicates the need for point-to-point integrations and accelerates the discovery, adoption, and distribution of patient and provider-facing technology solutions. With hundreds of healthcare organizations and technology vendors exchanging data today, Redox represents the largest interoperable network in healthcare.”

3. Techniplas Digital

Founded: 2017

“Techniplas combines exponential technologies with decades of manufacturing expertise to deliver cognitive connected products and services for a cleaner, lighter, more personal world.

For more information, please visit www.techniplas.com.”

4. Understory

Founded: 2012

Also honored in:

“Climate-vulnerable businesses around the world rely on Understory’s parametric insurance for financial protection from hail and frost damage.”

5. HealthMyne

Founded: 2013

Also honored in:

“The HealthMyne Quantitative Imaging Decision Support (QIDS)® software platform and its Rapid Precise Metrics (RPM)™ functionality transform multiple clinical decision support workflows by combining quantitative imaging metrics with relevant patient information. These workflows include: automatic tumor staging*, RT dose overlays, specialized patient-centric reporting, cancer screening programs, incidental findings management, clinical trials process streamlining, and precision medicine initiatives. All of these gains advance the Point of Care Oncology mission to detect cancer as early as possible, enhancing the probability of treating it successfully and meeting the goals of delivering consistent, high-quality care in line with the Quadruple Aim.”

6. Ionic

Founded: 2012

Also honored in:

“Ionic makes it easy for entrepreneurs and enterprises to build high performance apps that look and feel beautiful on any platform or device. The Ionic Framework is the #1 adopted cross-platform development framework in the world, with a vibrant community of more than 5 million developers in over 200 countries. Ionic’s open source Framework and developer-friendly tools and services power some of the best-known brands on earth, from highly successful consumer apps like Sworkit, Untappd and MarketWatch, to mission-critical apps supporting Nationwide and NASA.”

7. PegEx

Founded: 2012

Also honored in:

“PegEx is the only platform to eliminate the complex risk of hazardous waste removal and offer a turnkey solution to generators, haulers and disposal sites.”

8. Kiio

Founded: 2011

Also honored in:

“Kiio is a digital therapeutics company focused on changing the paradigm for musculoskeletal care. Evidence-based, personalized, and consumer-centric, Kiio for Low Back Pain significantly reduces pain, opioid use, and medical costs, leading to improved quality of life for the individual and improved productivity and lower cost for the employer and health plan. Kiio works with both health plans and employers, providing a cost-effective, easy-to-implement solution tailored to the needs of our partners.”

9. Rentable

Founded: 2011

Also honored in:

“Rentable is a rapidly growing, venture-backed startup with the mission of creating a new, better way to find apartments.

For the millions of renters who have used Rentable to find their next home, our hyperlocal, extensive library of apartments finally makes apartment hunting intuitive and easy.

And for the thousands of property managers nationwide that use Rentable to reach renters, we make finding qualified, interested renters frictionless and modern.

The future of rentals is virtual, and so is ours.”

10. EnsoData

Founded: 2015

Also honored in: 2021 Best Tech Startups in Madison

“EnsoData provides software-as-a-service (SaaS) that enables the discovery, identification, and actionable reporting of critical to understand patterns and trends in health data.

EnsoData’s technology unlocks the vast wealth of clinical expertise lying dormant in archived data; by their leveraging big data and analytics engine, EnsoData enables software to automatically perform complex and time consuming data interpretation previously left to clinicians. Their first product, EnsoSleep, uses big data and advanced algorithms to automate the scoring of sleep studies.”