2022 Best Tech Startups in Georgia

June 15, 2022March 16, 2024 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Georgia. 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. LendingPoint

LendingPoint

Founded: 2014

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“LendingPoint is a financial technology platform that provides financing origination solutions for its ecommerce and point of sale partners, its lending institutions and to consumers. The company’s fraud prevention, risk and asset management algorithms are used to create financing opportunities across the credit spectrum. Its LendingPoint Merchant Solutions platform provides ecommerce platforms, merchants and other service providers fully integrated, one-stop buy now, pay later financing solutions to convert more customers. Get to know us here on LinkedIn and at lendingpoint.com.”

2. OneTrust

OneTrust

Founded: 2016

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“As society redefines risk and opportunity, OneTrust empowers tomorrow’s leaders to succeed through trust and impact with the Trust Intelligence Platform. The market-defining Trust Intelligence Platform from OneTrust connects privacy, GRC, ethics, and ESG teams, data, and processes, so all companies can collaborate seamlessly and put trust at the center of their operations and culture by unlocking their value and potential to thrive by doing what’s good for people and the planet.”

3. Greenlight Financial Technology

Greenlight Financial Technology

Founded: 2014

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“Greenlight is a debit card and money app for families. Our mission is to shine a light on the world of money for families and empower parents to raise financially-smart kids.

Millions of parents and kids use Greenlight to earn, save, spend wisely, give and invest. Parents can set flexible spend controls, manage chores, automate allowances and invest for their kids’ futures.

The Greenlight team calls Atlanta home, but we have team members across the country. We’re pet enthusiasts, PTA presidents, fantasy football champs, kickball-mates and volunteer dance teachers. We’re backed by Drive Capital, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, TTV Capital, Relay Ventures, NEA, Amazon, Ally Financial, SunTrust Bank and Synchrony Financial. We were picked for CB Insights’ Fintech 250.”

4. Flock Safety

Flock Safety

Founded: 2017

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“We are the first public safety operating system empowering thousands of cities to eliminate crime.

Our cameras and devices detect objective evidence, decode it with machine learning, and deliver it into the hands that stop crime.

Communities operating on Flock Safety reduce crime by up to 70%.”

5. Calendly

Calendly

Founded: 2013

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“At Calendly, we are excited about changing the way the world schedules. We are a profitable company, offering ample opportunities to accelerate your career. We’re obsessed with providing an elegant, delightful experience for our customers. This shapes how we develop, design, market and support. We work hard, move fast and pitch in across departments—and always make time to celebrate our accomplishments.

Join a diverse workforce, leading the way in scheduling automation.

Calendly, a powerful yet simple automated scheduling platform, takes the work out of connecting with others so you can accomplish more. Millions of users benefit from an enjoyable scheduling experience, more time to spend on top priorities and flexibility to accommodate individual users and large teams alike. Calendly works with Google, Office 365 and Outlook calendars and apps like Salesforce, Stripe, PayPal, Google Analytics, GoToMeeting and Zapier for a seamless user experience.”

6. Stord

Founded: 2015

Also honored in: 2022 Best Tech Startups in Atlanta

“Stord is on a mission to make supply chain a competitive advantage for our customers.

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the heart of Atlanta’s vibrant tech community, Stord is pioneering Cloud Supply Chain. Cloud Supply Chain is the convergence of the digital and physical elements of logistics. With Stord, businesses can build, expand, and optimize their physical supply chain operations across freight, warehousing, and fulfillment, with the speed, flexibility, and ease of modern cloud software.

With a single integration, businesses achieve end-to-end visibility into their whole supply chains from a single dashboard and gain access to Stord’s hybrid network of operated facilities and hundreds of premier-partner warehouses, fulfillment centers, and carriers.”

7. GreyOrange

Founded: 2011

“GreyOrange is a global technology company unifying AI-driven software and mobile robotics to modernize order fulfillment and optimize warehouse operations in real time. The GreyOrange fulfillment platform is the only fully integrated software and robots solution that uses advanced fulfillment science to instantaneously evaluate order data and compose the best decisions in real time to efficiently orchestrate people, processes and robots. The result is a fast, agile and precisely tuned operation equipped to perpetually meet the what-when-where expectations of today’s retail consumer.

At GreyOrange, our experts help organizations master fulfillment in the Age of Immediacy so they keep promises, capture more revenue, save money on fulfillment and improve the work experience for warehouse employees. GreyOrange is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia has core operations in the United States, Europe, India, and Japan.”

8. DC BLOX

DC BLOX

Founded: 2014

Also honored in: 2022 Best Tech Startups in Atlanta

“The data center industry is changing. The explosive growth of data, applications, devices, and content are stretching the capacity of IT and network infrastructure. IT departments are being challenged to effectively deliver more information and services to their customers, efficiently scale their systems, and protect their business’s data, all while keeping a cap on budgets.

DC BLOX addresses these problems by building Tier 3 data centers in growing under served markets in the Southeastern United States, connecting them with a high-speed optical network, and hosting cloud services to enable area businesses to effectively serve their local customers, efficiently scale their infrastructure, and ensure business continuity.

DC BLOX data centers are currently located in Atlanta, GA, Chattanooga, TN, Huntsville, AL, Birmingham, AL, Greenville, SC, which is currently under construction & High Point, NC, which is in the planning stages.”

9. Pindrop

Founded: 2011

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“Pindrop® solutions are leading the way to the future of voice by establishing the standard for security, identity, and trust for every voice interaction. Pindrop solutions protect some of the biggest banks, insurers, and retailers in the world using patented technology that extracts an unrivaled amount of intelligence from every call encountered. Pindrop solutions help detect fraudsters and authenticate callers, reducing fraud and operational costs, while improving customer experience and protecting brand reputation. Pindrop solutions have been implemented in 8 of the top 10 US banks and 5 of the top 7 US life insurers. Additionally, 70% of Pindrop US customers are Fortune 500.

Pindrop, a privately held company, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, was founded in 2011 and is venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Citi Ventures, Felicis Ventures, CapitalG, GV, and IVP. For more information, please visit pindrop.com.”

10. FullStory

FullStory

Founded: 2014

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“FullStory offers digital experience intelligence, on-the-fly conversion funnels, advanced search capabilities, video-like replay of real user sessions, and robust debugging and developer tools—all while integrating with leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) products.

Founded in Atlanta by a team of former Googlers devoted to making products more user-friendly, FullStory officially launched in 2014. FullStory is proud to serve best-in-class organizations like Peloton, Rocket Mortgage, Forbes, JetBlue, Hyatt, Fortive, and more.

FullStory is honored to have been recognized as a great place to work and has been included on Forbes’ List of America’s Top Startup Employers, Wealthfront’s Career Launching Companies List, and LinkedIn’s Top US Startups List.”