2022 Best Tech Startups in Charlotte

August 13, 2021 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Charlotte, North Carolina. 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. Prescient

Founded: 2013

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“Prescient’s digital design-build system is an efficient, collaborative, turnkey approach used to design and build multi-unit housing and hotel structures.

Created to revolutionize the multi-family construction industry, Prescient uses the power of technology to link the discrete disciplines of architectural design, engineering, manufacturing and assembly. Through its proprietary digital thread, Prescient is reducing time, costs and risks across the entire development, construction and operating value chain.”

2. Printful

Founded: 2013

“Printful is an on-demand printing and warehousing company that helps brands scale their businesses without inventory risks. Our customers include ecommerce entrepreneurs with hundreds of orders per year as well as global brands that need tens of thousands of orders fulfilled every month. We fulfill and ship custom clothing, accessories, and home & living items on demand, which means each item is made only when someone orders it.

With over $50.3 million invested in equipment, we use industry-leading tech to fulfill more than 1 million items every month. We have 8 fulfillment centers in the USA, Canada, Europe, and Mexico, and partner facilities in Japan, Australia, and Brazil.”

3. Airwavz Solutions

Founded: 2013

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“Airwavz Solutions is a telecommunications infrastructure company serving both the commercial real estate industry and the major wireless carriers by providing innovative in-building wireless solutions. Airwavz designs, installs, owns and operates wireless infrastructure inside commercial office and hospitality buildings in dense metropolitan areas, ensuring building tenants and guests receive exceptional cellular service while also ensuring wireless carriers can improve coverage and increase capacity throughout their networks. Commercial real estate owners should expect higher rent and an improved vacancy rate, while wireless carriers enjoy a higher performing network in places people congregate for work every day. It’s what we call Building Mobility®. To learn more visit www.airwavz.com.

Airwavz’ mission is to be the go-to provider of smart, sustainable wireless solutions for real estate owners and mobile companies. We help our customers provide seamless, high-speed connectivity to their tenants and customers, conveniently and affordably. By creating an in-building, wireless infrastructure that meets the customer’s unique needs and goals, we empower them to better serve their tenants/customers with less hassle and a bigger profit margin. Our mission is to offer low-cost and dependable solutions that make us a household name in our industry and an automatic, first choice for prospective customers.”

4. Tresata

Founded: 2011

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“Tresata monetizes big data with incredibly smart software to crunch all your internal data and all your (rapidly exploding) social data at the intersection of which lies value that delivers an unfair competitive advantage.

We always do it with game changing technologies and only if it can solve some really big problems. All towards a rather simple goal, to crunch all your data to help you make better decisions for your customers.”

5. Stratifyd

Founded: 2015

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“Stratifyd is designed to equip business leaders worldwide with deep intellectual business insights in minutes instead of months. With the launch of Stratifyd Platform 2015, we are beginning to achieve this reality. Stratifyd Platform is an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) powered Data Analytics platform that analyzes and visualizes complex unstructured and structured data sets. The platform is built on our patented algorithms that leverage Machine Learning(ML) and Natural Language Processing(NLP) for any businesses.”

6. Payzer

Founded: 2014

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“Payzer is the All-In-One Financial Tool offering Mobile & Online Payments, Automatic Payment Plans, Instant Financing, and a whole lot more!

Payzer’s mobile app and cloud-based platform allows customers to accept credit cards, debit cards, and electronic checks in the field or at the office. Using your mobile app or pc, provide instant financing options in seconds and close more sales. Payzer can even help you control purchases by issuing Payzer debit cards to your employees and subcontractors. You can instantly transfer money to their cards, automatically track company purchases, and zero the balance when they’re done.”

7. Clear Markets

Founded: 2012

“Clear Markets is a leading innovator, developer, and operator of electronic marketplaces and trading technologies. The company has built electronic and hybrid-electronic trading systems for complex fixed income derivatives in the world’s major financial centers.

The Clear Markets management team includes respected pioneers in the development of the interest rate swap market. Their work has earned them a thorough understanding of legal and regulatory history for swaps policy and the transition from voice to electronic trading.”

8. Troy Medicare

Founded: 2018

“Troy Medicare is a $0/month Medicare Advantage plan with $0 copays for generic medications at independent pharmacies.

After seeing how big insurance companies treat seniors, physicians, and pharmacies, we had to build Troy Medicare, a data-driven Medicare Advantage company that treats people right.”

9. Anduin

Founded: 2020

“AI for an easier, faster, smarter work-to-cash cycle.

At Anduin, we help accounting firms fix their billing process, speed up their cash flow, and delight their clients (without replacing their PM system).

Our Intelligence-Based Billing™ solution automates and improves time-consuming back-office finance processes such as invoice prep, collections, and payments, and liberates high-value partners and staff to focus on delivering value to clients.”

10. Rent Ready

Founded: 2014

“Rent Ready is a rapidly growing services platform that uses technology to help coordinate the process of getting vacant apartment homes ready to rent (“turn”). Built to eliminate the frustration of typical apartment turns, Rent Ready utilizes a proprietary logistics platform to connect communities to skilled professionals. Rent Ready is transforming the apartment turn process across the nation.”