2025 Best Tech Startups in Hawaii

June 3, 2025 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Hawaii. 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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8. Avelo Labs

Founded: 2017

“Simply better scuba. Avelo redefines your dive experience through a system that provides training based on a diving philosophy that enables the use of significantly lighter equipment with unparalleled performance. Rediscover the freedom of scuba and extend your dive time with Avelo.”

7. Hohonu

Founded: 2020

Also honored in: 2024 Best Tech Startups in Hawaii

“Hohonu provides precision monitoring and forecasting to help communities prepare for and respond to flooding. It uses the latest technologies in hardware, software, and data science in order to deliver reliable and accessible water level data to its customers.

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” The same principles its team used in the restoration of an ancient Hawaiian fishpond in He’eia fishpond, located in Kane’ohe Bay on the island of O’ahu, can be used to help aid in humanity’s fight against climate change.”

6. Shifted Energy

Founded: 2016

Also honored in: 2024 Best Tech Startups in Hawaii

“Shifted Energy was formed in 2016 to focus on the integration of renewables through equitable transformation. We’ve developed, tested and perfected our patent pending solutions to help utilities throughout the world stabilize their grids while accelerating the integration of intermittent wind and solar power generation. Crucially, our platform engages hard-to-reach communities who can’t access rooftop solar by targeting renters. Shifted Energy provides the link between disparate populations, so we can all work together to build a sustainable future.

Shifted Energy supports utilities and consumers through the deployment of low-cost distributed energy resource control systems and monitoring, machine learning-based data analytics, aggregation, and dispatch optimization software.”

5. Turno

Founded: 2016

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“Turno solves cleaning for the short-term rental industry. Formerly TurnoverBnB, Turno helps vacation rental hosts and property management companies simplify and automate recurring property services like cleaning. STR operators schedule, find, manage, and pay for turnover services – all on one easy-to-use, reliable platform.

With separate mobile apps for hosts and cleaners, Turno syncs guest calendars from all major booking platforms and 20+ channel managers and property management systems. Offering 24/7 live customer support and available in six languages, features include auto scheduling, auto payment, in-app chat, and robust tools to improve efficiencies and ensure quality cleans every time.”

4. Reef.ai

Founded: 2021

Also honored in: 2024 Best Tech Startups in Hawaii

“Reef.ai is an AI-powered customer data, scoring, and recommendation platform. We transform customer data into NRR with AI-led customer scores optimized for specific revenue outcomes.

Reef leverages machine learning to deliver Outcome-Based Scoring, AI-led customer scores optimized for specific revenue outcomes.

Customer scoring isn’t about health, it’s about driving revenue outcomes. General health scores are a black box: inaccurate, hard to action, and lacking the data history to be effective. Outcome-based scores optimized for revenue outcomes like churn, downgrade, cross-sell, or upsell with renewal are clearly actionable and their impact on revenue can be measured.”

3. Terraformation

Founded: 2019

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“Restoring the world’s native forests to address climate change, renew biodiverse ecosystems, and support thriving communities. Reforest the future.”

2. Privateer

Founded: 2021

Also honored in: 2024 Best Tech Startups in Hawaii

“Creating global access to our orbital highways and preserving their potential for future generations. Because on Spaceship Earth, we are all crew.”

1. Onebrief

Founded: 2019

Also honored in: 2024 Best Tech Startups in Hawaii

“Onebrief unlocks superhuman military staffs. Currently live on NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS, the Onebrief platform drives faster decision cycles, enables collaboration at scale, and helps every staff section do more with less. Onebrief: Plan at the speed of war.”