2025 Best Tech Startups in Vermont

June 28, 2025 thetechtribune

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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10. Fluency

Founded: 2017

Also honored in:

“Fluency is the first and only digital advertising operating system for organizations that manage complex paid media portfolios.

As the only solution that combines purpose-built Robotic Process Automation for Advertising with secure and integrated AI, Fluency eliminates repetitive and time-consuming tasks and enables precision execution.

The result drives groundbreaking scalability, time savings, operational efficiency, and profitability for the agencies and brands we serve.”

9. AskFora

Founded: 2018

“AskFora is an AI powered skills platform for professional upskilling. We believe that effective learning from expert insights helps you do better work with people you know. We’ve built a system that delivers expert-backed learning paths tailored to your specific career goals.

We understand the limitations of generic online courses. Whether you’re looking to advance in your current role or explore a new field, AskFora helps you define your learning objectives and guides you through curated tutorials designed by experts in your professional network. Our approach focuses on efficient and effective learning through personalized instruction.

AskFora leverages the collective knowledge of experts in your network to create relevant and impactful learning materials. You can explore learning paths by skill, experience, or industry, gaining access to the insights of leading professionals. We also provide tools to help you manage your professional network, including reminders of past interactions and shared connections.”

8. AutoPylot

Founded: 2021

“Helping safely scale the use of drones by creating the easiest way for pilots to create, track, and manage their missions. AutoPylot has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as a UAS Service Supplier of LAANC (Low Altitude Authorization and Notification Capability).

With AutoPylot’s mobile app, drone operators can effortlessly identify which areas require an airspace authorization and which locations should be avoided. The app’s user-friendly design and intuitive interface make it easy to use, even for those new to drone operations.”

7. Widewail

Founded: 2018

Also honored in:

“Widewail helps businesses of all shapes and sizes manage their online reputation. Through its full suite of powerful review management products and services, Widewail helps thousands of businesses engage with their customers, increase online visibility, and grow their business.”

6. CashorTrade

Founded: 2017

Also honored in: 2024 Best Tech Startups in Vermont

“CashorTrade.org is a face value ticket trading platform with nearly a half million members who are from every state in the nation and from 25 countries. With rising conflict in the ticket industry involving scalping, exorbitant fees, corporate monopolies, CashorTrade.org has been an oasis community where members support one another while encouraging members to buy, sell, and trade tickets for face value and avoid scalping. It is the only ticketing platform where members can sell for free, has the lowest cost tickets and the lowest fees, provides full protection, and allows members to communicate and make friends. #embracetheface”

5. Wildlife Imaging Systems

Founded: 2019

Also honored in: 2024 Best Tech Startups in Vermont

“Wildlife Imaging Systems provides advanced computer vision and machine learning solutions to the wildlife research community, from field-ready video capture hardware to advanced video processing algorithms. We believe that there is incredible potential for video to provide better data to help wildlife biologist, but the main barrier is the complexity.

The first place we are focusing is to eliminate any conflict between wind and solar energy deployment and wildlife, smoothing the path to a world powered by renewables. This rapid deployment of renewables is needed to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change on wildlife species all around the globe. This would create a virtuous cycle of saving local wildlife from renewable energy’s impacts while benefiting global wildlife at the same time by increasing renewable energy generation. The better we are at saving local species, the more impact we can have on saving global species.”

4. FRIKINtech

Founded: 2017

Also honored in:

“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.”

3. Resonant Link Medical

Founded: 2017

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“Resonant Link Medical provides fast, safe, and convenient wireless power for medical devices that go on or inside the body to help people get well, stay well, and stay well wherever they are.

Resonant Link Medical’s proprietary innovations replace traditional power methods that can cause harm, like cords that run through the body, recharging that requires people to sit still for hours, and surgeries to replace depleted batteries. More than 40 different types of medical devices have been designed with its 5x faster and easy to use wireless power, including ventricular assist devices, neurostimulators, brain computer interfaces, and diagnostic devices.”

2. Benchmark Space Systems

Founded: 2017

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“Benchmark Space Systems is a full life cycle in-space mobility provider, delivering products and partnerships from mission planning through decommission. Founded in 2017 to develop green propulsion technologies and bring flexible integrated solutions to the market, the team’s rapid growth and focus on the accessibility and sustainability of a democratized space domain has resulted in a product lineup of turn-key propulsion systems for 3U cubesat through ESPA and OTV class spacecraft in LEO, GEO, and beyond.

Benchmark’s patented and proprietary innovations, including flight-proven systems, focus on eliminating customer pain-points and increasing asset value for unparalleled ROI. To explore how Benchmark can help improve your mission, from rapid orbit insertion to advanced RPO (Rendezvous and Proximity Operations).”

1. BETA Technologies

Founded: 2017

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“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.”