2023 Best Tech Startups in Vermont
The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Vermont. 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. BETA Technologies
Founded: 2017
Also honored in: 2022 Best Tech Startups in Vermont
“BETA Technologies is creating an electric transportation ecosystem that’s safe, reliable and sustainable. A relentlessly focused team is building an extensive charging infrastructure and ALIA, the world’s most technologically advanced electric vertical aircraft (EVA).
BETA’s platform and products are strikingly simple. Prioritization of safety and a pragmatic approach to certification drive elegant redundancy, appropriate diversity of implementation and simplicity of control. ALIA’s fixed-pitch propellers and centrally located batteries make it an inherently stable aircraft that is safe to fly and easy to maneuver.”
2. Benchmark Space Systems
Founded: 2017
Also honored in:
“Benchmark Space Systems is focused on providing the most cost-effective propulsion solution for your Small Satellite mission needs, from simple orbit adjustments to high-agility maneuvers. Our patented and proprietary innovations have been specifically designed to improve safety and capability for spacecraft ranging from 3U through ESPA class.”
3. Resonant Link
Founded: 2017
Also honored in: 2022 Best Tech Startups in Vermont
“Resonant Link’s team of world-class engineers, scientists, operators, and innovators delivers 5x faster and highly-efficient wireless power for applications big to small, from massive industrial trucks to medical devices smaller than a fingernail. Resonant Link is anchored by offices in South Burlington, VT, Zurich, CH, and Boston, MA, and has amassed double-digit customers in healthcare, electric vehicles, and consumer electronics. With backing from top investors and government agencies, Resonant Link is poised to continue its exponential growth and lead the movement to electrify work, logistics, transportation, and patient care to help people, businesses, and the planet thrive.”
4. THINKMD
Founded: 2014
Also honored in:
- 2023 Best Tech Startups in Burlington (Vermont)
- 2022 Best Tech Startups in Vermont
- 2022 Best Tech Startups in Burlington (Vermont)
- 2021 Best Tech Startups in Vermont
- 2020 Best Tech Startups in Vermont
- 2020 Best Tech Startups in Burlington (Vermont)
- 2019 Best Tech Startups in Vermont
“THINKMD is a global healthcare innovation company. We develop solutions that expand quality healthcare coverage for everyone, anywhere in the world. Initially founded by two pediatricians, our team now includes expertise ranging from software, public health, international business, and data analytics. Every day we work to leverage world-class technology to increase healthcare capacity, evolve healthcare delivery, and collect and analyze critical public health data that will improve clinical outcomes, surveillance, and healthcare management globally.”
5. OhMD
Founded: 2014
Also honored in:
- 2022 Best Tech Startups in Burlington (Vermont)
- 2020 Best Tech Startups in Vermont
- 2020 Best Tech Startups in Burlington (Vermont)
“OhMD is a modern healthcare communication platform for clinical care coordination and patient communication. OhMD enables HIPAA compliant texting and and improved patient experience by leveraging technology that patients are already using. Healthcare providers can increase patient engagement exponentially while improving patient satisfaction and the overall health of their patient population.”
6. Biocogniv
Founded: 2019
Also honored in: 2022 Best Tech Startups in Vermont
“Recent advances in artificial intelligence have enabled a new generation of companies and products that are poised to change healthcare forever. From drug discovery to early disease detection, AI is shaping a future where care is personalized, preemptive, and affordable.
Biocogniv enables a key part of this future by combining laboratory medicine, state-of-the-art AI, and evidence-based acute care, to reduce preventable hospital deaths, morbidities, and cost of care.”
7. InSpace
Founded: 2020
Also honored in:
- 2023 Best Tech Startups in Burlington (Vermont)
- 2022 Best Tech Startups in Vermont
- 2022 Best Tech Startups in Burlington (Vermont)
“InSpace is a lightweight virtual communication platform with a smart proximity based audio interface that allows participants to mingle around the space and participate in multiple conversations at the same time, just like in physical spaces. Visual cues indicate where people are and how engaged they are in each conversation.
InSpace empowers people to be in charge of their virtual meeting experience unlike Zoom squares. Participants can work in different parts of the space and exchange information by moving near and far from each other.”
8. SOOS
Founded: 2020
“SOOS is the affordable, easy-to-integrate Software Composition Analysis and Dynamic Application Security Testing solution for your whole team. Scan your open source software for vulnerabilities, control the introduction of new dependencies, exclude unwanted license-types, generate SBOMs, and fill out your compliance worksheets with confidence–all for one low monthly price.”
9. Mamava
Founded: 2013
Also honored in:
- 2023 Best Tech Startups in Burlington (Vermont)
- 2022 Best Tech Startups in Vermont
- 2022 Best Tech Startups in Burlington (Vermont)
- 2021 Best Tech Startups in Vermont
“Mamava designs freestanding lactation pods for breastfeeding parents at work and on the go.
Mamava is the leading expert in lactation space design. Mamava celebrates and supports the 21st-century breastfeeding mama on-the-go with freestanding lactation pods, a mobile locator app, and an engaged digital community.
Our mission is to create a healthier society through a changed cultural perception of pumping and nursing that affords every woman the opportunity to nurse her child regardless of her circumstances. Mamava is mama-owned, made in America, and a proud member of the B Corp community. A category creator, Mamava is working to ensure breastfeeding is a right for all mothers, and just not a privilege for the few.
Federal, state, and municipal laws protect a breastfeeding mother’s right to pump at work in a non-bathroom space. Mamava’s freestanding, turnkey lactation pods are an easy way to come into compliance with lactation accommodation laws. Learn more about our lactation space product line and how we can help you support breastfeeding moms.”
10. FRIKINtech
Founded: 2017
Also honored in: 2021 Best Tech Startups in Vermont
“Sell more cars with the brain-child of uber-successful car people who joined forces to evolve, and drastically improve, the way we interact with shoppers online and in the showroom.
- We are not car sales people who got fired for doing a crappy job and skulked over to the vendor side to make a quick dime.
- We are not Silicon Valley snobs who didn’t like their car buying experience and think they’re going to change an industry.
- We are not concerned with awards and accolades.
- We are not chasing shiny objects or shiny people.
We are FRIKINtech, and we make shit happen.”