2024 Best Tech Startups in Alaska

December 2, 2024 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Alaska. 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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6. Prismatext

Founded: 2020

“Prismatext™ books make studying a foreign language as easy as reading. Each of our books contains over 250 words and phrases in a target language. Storytelling, repetition, and context make learning languages easier (and more fun!) than ever before.”

5. Kartorium

Founded: 2019

Also honored in: 2023 Best Tech Startups in Anchorage

“Kartorium is a 100% Alaska owned and operated software startup set on bringing the power of 3D technology to non-technical users in the industrial space. We’ve developed a web platform with which users can easily generate and share 3D interactive experiences that combine maps, 3D models, videos, images, and supplemental information; all configured and shared in the browser.”

4. Montis

Founded: 2022

“Montis Corporation provides highly accurate weather data by manufacturing and deploying hardware at airports, ski mountains, transportation logistics operations, and other remote locations. Montis Corporation provides their weather data to customers through its mobile application, online website, and API endpoint for direct integration into third-party systems.”

3. 60Hertz Energy

Founded: 2017

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“60Hertz is the first maintenance software purpose-built for Distributed Energy Resources.

60Hertz is a tech start-up work order management platform that unites monitoring with work orders to grow revenue by economizing work and increasing asset uptime. Our platform facilitates smart servicing for solar, BESS, microgrids, fleets of diesels, and more. 60Hertz enables maintenance personnel to achieve their full potential and assets their full useful life.”

2. Flyntlok

Founded: 2016

“Our system was designed in coordination with Craig Taylor Equipment, Alaska’s John Deere, Doosan, Stihl, and Bobcat dealer. Front to back business management software that puts you in control of your equipment dealership. Point of Sale, Purchase Orders, Work Orders, Rentals, Transportation Scheduling, Fleet Planning, Inventory Planning. Integrates real-time with Quickbooks Online for General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Payroll.

We are currently a small software company operating with the power of 200. Our first two customers have worked to develop the specifications and test the current software. Please see Craig Taylor Equipment as an example of a company using our Dealer Management Software and Airframes Alaska as an example of a company using our Manufacturing Resource Planning software.

Our company name comes from the flintlock firearm, an innovation so revolutionary for its time, that it stood as the main form of firearm for over 200 years. Flyntlok is also an homage to our favorite cartoon inventor, Flint Lockwood (get it?) from the movie, “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.””

1. Wind Talker Innovations

Founded: 2016

Also honored in:

“We revolutionize and re-imagine communication networks through integrations with equipment manufacturers. Osmosis® is a proprietary routing algorithm that produces a secure, unlimited mesh environment enabling devices with self-architecting and self-healing properties and supplying exponential data pathways between devices resulting in a more efficient and highly stable network. These pathways function off-grid as well enabling new opportunities for network communications.”