Top 30 Fastest Growing Atlanta-based Startups

Over the last few years, Atlanta has become a breeding ground of countless successful startups. Capital investments in Atlanta-based startups have surged to $2.1billion. Forbes recognized the blooming tech ecosystem and mentioned that “Georgia state’s capital is the most-desirable upcoming tech epicenter.”

This indicates the entrepreneurial talent that local private and public schools are producing. Moreover, Atlanta is top-at the next-generation hub of the thriving tech ecosystem with unicorns looks like. 

In this blog, we have listed Atlanta’s top 30 tech startups that have been exponentially growing since its foundation. You better keep an eye out for it!

1. OneTrust

OneTrust is a widely used platform for privacy, security, and data governance solutions. It is known for serving more than 10,000 customers including big enterprises like Huawei, Allianz, Maersk, Oracle, etc. The immense trust of organizations in the technology platform lies in its achievements. It has won 150 patents and has built 500+ plugins. The platform also has an active worldwide community of 20,000 people across 125+ cities.

The services offered by OneTrust vary drastically according to the specific industry it serves. OneTrust offers security and privacy for – IT and legal teams, third-party risk solutions, GRC and risk compliance teams, marketing and media teams, etc.     

Industry: Cyber Security

Founded in: 2016

Website: https://www.onetrust.com/

Funding:  $920M

2. Flock Safety

This Atlanta-based startup leverages machine learning and IoT devices to eliminate crimes and protect privacy. This public safety operating system is operational across 1200+ cities. 

Flock Safety uses its technology to integrate with National Crime and Information Center (NCIC) to provide real-time alerts on vehicle license plates, stolen vehicles, missing persons, or any outstanding warrants. All this helps to manage the growing crime in metropolitan cities, making it safer. According to statistics shared by Flock Safety, their cloud-based software has managed to reduce the crime rate by 70%. 

Industry: IT Security

Founded in: 2017

Website: https://www.flocksafety.com/

Funding: $230.6M

3. Bakkt

A fintech startup that focuses on offering rewards and loyalty programs for its digital clients. The platform does it by leveraging blockchain technologies. Having expertise in cryptocurrency, Bakkt also helps its clients in aggregating their digital assets to liquify them for instant trade, transfer, and pay. Merchants associated with the Bakkt ecosystem enjoy a lower cost of payment acceptance and high customer engagement via a variety of redemption options. 

Industry: Blockchain

Founded in: 2018

Website: https://www.bakkt.com/

Funding: $482.5M

4. Carbice Corporation

Serving the electronics and energy industry, Carbice Corporation is an Atlanta-based startup that excels in delivering multi-functional material solutions. They have set the standard for performance and reliability while also being cost-effective. 

The company has 4 proprietary products namely – 

• Ice Pad (best in class thermal interface material)
• Space Pad (for space-specific applications)
• Contact Pad (for delivering exceptional durability)
• Heat Spreaders (for interface filling)

Industry: Electrical/Electronics manufacturing

Founded in: 2017

Website: http://carbice.com/

Funding:  $16.5M

5. Charityvest

If you are someone who invests in different charities, this organization can help you streamline the process. Charityvest offers a single account for all your tax-deductible charity contributions. The company makes it easy and simple to donate complex assets such as stock and crypto. Clarityvest feels proud of its immense success in assisting 6k+ donors to contribute more than $20M in charity.   

Industry: Finance

Founded in: 2019

Website: https://www.charityvest.org/

Funding: $4.6M

6. Popmenu

Popmenu assists restaurants with their online presence by providing services like SEO-friendly website design and automated remarketing tools, and more. However, the star attraction is its patented dynamic and interactive menu technology. Popmenu uses the already existing restaurant’s menu to create its more premium user interactive version that impels more customers into buying.. Leveraging the technology, Popmenu has assisted nearly 5000 restaurants to solidify their online presence.  

Industry: Food Services

Founded in: 2016

Website: https://get.popmenu.com/

Funding:  $87.1M

7. Grayshift

Grayshift provides law enforcers in the field of digital forensics using its proprietary GrayKey technology with a savvy way to process information to solve cases faster. Grayshift is a forensic focussed mobile device that allows the lawful extraction of encrypted data for solving cases faster.

The associated software for GravKey offers both Android and iOS support. It also offers full control over the evidence chain of custody so that the inadmissibility of evidence could never happen. 

Industry: Forensics

Founded in: 2016

Website: https://www.grayshift.com/

Funding: $94M

8. Kobiton

Kobiton is an affordable mobile testing platform that offers both manual and automated testing on real devices, cloud or on-premises. Headquartered in Atlanta, their cloud centers are SOC2, SOC3, and HIPAA compliant for secure data storage and transfers. Kobiton offers scriptless test automation to cut down the mundane hours of repetitive tests. Using its scriptless test automation, you can make automation testing more accessible and scalable. 

Industry: QA Testing

Founded in: 2016

Website: https://kobiton.com/

Funding: $34.2M

9. Reibus International

Reibus International leverages technology to solve supply chain issues. Whether you are a buyer or seller in the industrial metal market, you can use the services offered by Reibus to completely digitalize the process. 

Its B2B e-commerce platform offers tons of features like – data and analytics, insights, automations, live negotiations, QC checklist, productivity automation, and many more. The company boasts immense success in dealing with over 38k Kg metal transactions with a lead time of just 2 days. 

Industry: Ecommerce

Founded in: 2018

Website: https://reibus.com/

Funding: $26.7M

10. Hudson MX

Headquartered in both Atlanta and New York, Hudson MX is an advertising software startup that is changing the face of the media industry. The company empowers buyers, agencies, and media partners to create value while reducing their operational costs in the media buying process. 

This complex challenge is addressed by Hudson’s trademark MX Platform. The platform offers a full suite of solutions for media buying and accounting. Skipping the traditional old-fashioned workflow, the MX platform offers your team to decide the workflow that best suits them and customize accordingly. 

Industry: Advertising and Media

Founded in: 2016

Website: https://www.hudsonmx.com/

Funding: $73.5M

11. Company name – Steady

The Steady app was created to help people increase their income. The app offers a personalized earning insight to help you regulate your finances better. Believing in the thought “a little extra cash can go a long way”, the app offers income boosters to their members when they need it the most. 

The app also offers a portal to connect with like-minded people and community-exclusive real data that drives increased earnings. To date, the company has helped its customers in earning approx $5M cash incentives and helped members by $4M emergency cash grants.

Industry: Finance

Founded in: 2017

Website: https://steadyapp.com/

Funding: $29.7M

12. PadSplit

Many daily wagers work hard to meet their ends. PadSplit helps them become financially independent by leveraging modern-day technology to provide house-sharing services. This Atlanta-based community of 55 people has decades of experience working with real-estate and NGOs to empower their members. They offer both furnished and unfurnished rooms with free basic amenities. 

A PadSplit membership allows you to pay your rent on a weekly basis. The influence PadSplit has made on society can be seen via its member’s stories and experiences. 

Industry: Real-Estate

Founded in: 2017

Website: https://www.padsplit.com/

Funding: $14.7M

13. Greenwood Bank

To help with money circulation amongst the minority community, Andrew Young and Micheal Render in 2020 have created the company known as Greenwood Bank. Headquartered in Atlanta, this is essentially a digital mobile banking experience that is extremely community-specific. 

In terms of security, the company assures mobile deposits at FDIC-insured banks. The mobile banking experience offers tons of features like Apple and Android pay, digital savings, peer-to-peer transfers, community reinvestments, etc. The relatively new community of Greenwood Bank is growing exponentially with 500,000+ peers active already.

Industry: Banking and Finance

Founded in: 2020

Website: https://bankgreenwood.com/about/

Funding: $43M

14. Bitcoin Depot

Bitcoin Depot helps its customers in streamlining their cryptocurrency transactions. The company offers its users the feasibility of buying and selling Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Etherium from hundreds of locations across the US. 

Bitcoin Depot wallet app also enables its users to buy crypto online and offline. The app is readily available on both Android and iOS platforms. The app comes with essential features like asset exchanges, ATM locators, and multi-asset management.

Industry: Blockchain

Founded in: 2016

Website: https://bitcoindepot.com/

Funding: No information

15. Codoxo

Every year, billions of dollars are lost to fraud in the healthcare industry. To curb this menace, Codoxo brings AI into the picture to build a Forensic AI platform that helps in identifying and preventing potential fraudulent activities. Leveraging AI the company has solved claims worth close to 1 billion and reduced false claims up to 93%. 

The AI platform offers the healthcare industry a one-stop solution for handling payment, clinical reports, forensic analysis, etc. to facilitate the prevention of fraudulent cases. 

Industry: Healthcare

Founded in: 2016

Website: https://www.codoxo.com/

Funding: $9.4M

16. Project Verte

Project Verte is a cloud-based e-commerce platform that helps brands grow scalably by unifying their sales channel and optimizing shipping and fulfillment. For offering a single destination for sales, the company offers more than 100+ integrations. It also features a SaaS-based warehouse management system for end-to-end product traceability. This minimizes the backslash to its users from accidentally taking backorders more than they can handle. 

Industry: E-commerce

Founded in: 2017

Website: https://projectverte.com/

Funding: $62M

17. ClickDimensions

The company aims at simplifying the life of marketers by offering them a single unified marketing, analytics and services platform. The platform natively built with Microsoft Dynamics gained immense popularity back in 2019. Apart from the marketing platform, ClickDimensions offers marketing automation and intelligent dashboards solutions for its clients. With 3700 active customers and partners across 76 countries, ClickDimensions surely has a global presence that’s needed to be successful in the near future. 

Industry: Marketing Automation

Founded in: 2010

Website: https://clickdimensions.com/

Funding:  $550k

18. CapWay

Capway is a digital mobile bank committed to building a transparent banking platform. The company is known for creating financial opportunities for its users. The mobile platform is accessible both on Android and iOS. 

Opening an account with CapWay comes with many benefits like – access to hard cash using a debit card, peer-to-peer transfers, no overdraft and minimum balance fees, no hidden costs, etc. The mobile platform also offers a transactional tracking feature for checking cleared and pending transactions withdrawals and deposits, tracking income and expenses, etc. 

Industry: Mobile Banking

Founded in: 2017

Website: https://capway.com/

Funding: $145k

19. Ramble

The company has recently been acquired by Terminus. The platform offers a chat experience for personalized conversations to improve your inbound sales retention rates. It creates a seamless experience by connecting you to  audiences in just a single click. The platform automatically connects visitor data and triggers sales automation. You can also manually build your own account list and run orchestrated ABM campaigns.

Industry: IT

Founded in: 2019

Website: https://terminus.com/chat-experiences/

Funding: No Information

20. TQIntelligence

TQIntelligence is known for transforming the behavioral healthcare services of at-risk youth with the help of AI and voice recognition technology. TQIntelligence helps therapists stay organized and informed about patients by providing them with quantitative and objective measuring tools to make more informed decisions. 

Their clarity AI allows therapists to target and help high-risk patients as soon as possible. In terms of security, clarity AI is using Google’s cloud healthcare API that is strictly HIPAA compliant for the safety of patient data. 

Industry: Healthcare

Founded in: 2016

Website: https://www.tqintelligence.com/

Funding: No information

21. Grayscale Labs

Grayscale is a texting and automation tool designed for modern hiring teams. The purpose of coming up with a grayscale platform is to offer single tab work for all the hiring needs. By leveraging the grayscale app, one can easily text candidates directly within HRIS. The platform features communication via automated messages to create a white-glove candidate experience.

Industry: Hospitality

Founded in: 2018

Website: https://grayscaleapp.com/

Funding: $3.3M

22. Slope Software

The company is targeted to offer a smarter and easier way to manage actuary’s financial models. They offer asset/liability management, cash flow testing, performance valuation, etc., all via only a web browser. 

This SaaS-based platform allows maintenance of multiple blocks of business independently whereas presenting a unified view for the same. It comes with integrated dashboards and reporting tools that make it easier to calculate Stochastic Reserve as well as Deterministic Exclusion Test Ratios. 

Industry: Finance

Founded in: 2016

Website: https://slopesoftware.com/

Funding: $3.1M

23. Streaming Global

Streaming global provides technology solutions for on-demand streaming services. They excel in addressing the primary problems in the streaming industry –  latency, cost, and reliability. Global streaming consumption grew up to 3.9 billion hours during the pandemic. 

To cope up with increased demand and eliminate the operational issues, Streaming Global came up with a dynamic, software-defined agile pipeline. Changing the conventional pipeline offered unmatched benefits like lower media processing overhead, direct cloud storage, 60% cost reduction, hybrid ad insertion, etc. 

Industry: Streaming

Founded in: 2016

Website: https://streaming.global/

Funding: $10M

24.  Evident

Evident is an Atlanta-based end-to-end COI verification and insurance fulfillment solution. Being end-to-end, it eliminates the risk of handing the confidential information over to third-party fulfillment providers. The software solution provided by Evident enables transparency into insured compliances. Users can also leverage the software for audit trails and reports for corporate insurance savings.

Industry: Insurance

Founded in: 2016

Website: https://www.evidentid.com/

Funding: $28.8M

25. Goodr

Goodr helps restaurants and hotels to manage their surplus food and converts them back to savings for the company. Every year, the US wastes close to 72 billion pounds of edible food. Goodr decided to offer technological solutions for this to help the local communities. 

Although the company is not a non-profit organization, they support a massive non-profit network. The company’s SaaS service helps its users track the impact they create on their organization and community via managing their surplus food.

Industry: Food

Founded in: 2017

Website: https://www.goodr.co/

Funding: $4.1M

26. BoxLock

The company BoxLock offers technology solutions to secure unattended delivery. It uses both hardware and software technologies to make the supply chain more efficient. The hardware interface consists of a rugged smart lock with an integrated barcode scanner with the flexibility of real-time asset tracking. On the software end, BoxLock offers a robust suite of audit logs, inventory management, and monitoring tools for the fleet.

Industry: Supply chain

Founded in: 2017

Website: https://www.getboxlock.com/

Funding: $5.3M

27. Motivo

Motivo is on the mission to address the issue of therapists having access to a limited pool of supervisors for the completion of their mandatory supervision hours. With the rise of telehealth, the healthcare system is being lenient and allowing clinical supervision hours via video conferencing. Motivo offers a HIPAA-compliant platform that connects new therapists with experienced clinical supervisors for an easier licensure process.

Industry: Healthcare

Founded in: 2017

Website: https://motivohealth.com/

Funding: $2.2M

28. Rialtic

To omit the complexity in the healthcare payment system, Rialtic developed an open marketplace for accurate payments in healthcare. The platform built with next-generation technology aims at reducing the administrative burden and improving the entire healthcare system. 

It also offers best-in-class(SSO) security with robust admin controls. The platform takes pride in its completely customizable solution to build custom policies, exclusions, exemptions, etc. from the ground up. The whole platform is also fully scalable.

Industry: Healthcare

Founded in: 2020

Website: https://www.rialtic.io/

Funding: $15M

29. Supersapiens

This newly formed Atlanta-based sports technology company delivers real-time energy management systems. The company offers a powerful data analytics app that connects with the libre sense sports biosensor to give you real-time data about your glucose levels in the body. The analytics keep you informed whether your glucose level is adequate for having your regular workout sessions. Athletes and workout enthusiasts can leverage it to push themselves to perform better than usual. 

Industry: Healthcare

Founded in: 2019

Website: https://www.supersapiens.com/en-EN/

Funding: $13.5M

30. OXOS Medical

To ease up the radiologic diagnostics, OXOS Medical came up with the world’s first handheld dynamic digital radiographic instrument known as Micro C. The device is capable of capturing high-resolution x-ray images of any anatomy from shoulder to the fingers and knee to the toes. 

Every Micro-C device is cloud-connected for ready on-demand access from anywhere in the world. As compared with the traditional x-ray devices, Micro-C is more portable, easy to use, and less harmful in terms of radiation exposure.  

Industry: Healthcare

Founded in: 2016

Website: https://oxos.com/

Funding: $10.9M

Over the past 5 years, Atlanta has emerged as a startup hub with innovative solutions offered in all the different industrial sectors. With more investors gluing their eyes on upcoming startups, these numbers are sure to grow. 

In this mammoth article, we attempted to deliver the very best and innovative solutions that Atlanta-based startups have to offer. If you are someone who has the brains to be an entrepreneur and is looking forward to building their own startup, Simform can be the muscle to shape your business ideas by being your ideal tech partner. We’re an award-winning software development company in Atlanta, so get in touch with us today.