Startup Tracker beta

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What’s a startup’s potential for growth and impact on its community — and how does that change over time?

Every year, Technical.ly reporters and editors publish a list of the most promising young startups in each of our core ecosystems. It’s become a coveted award that helps early-stage companies tell their stories.

What happens next? That’s what we’re tracking here.

The tracker assigns a RealLIST Score to each company, calculated via proprietary formula using data from industry-standard sources like Crunchbase and PitchBook, plus details from the US Patent & Trademark Office, the Technical.ly Innovation Index and more.

Just being on the list is a win: If a company is listed here, it was identified as high potential. Explore the table below to see the ranking for the hundreds of startups Technical.ly’s newsroom has highlighted over the past 5 years. Search the list by typing into the box (where it says “active”), use the buttons to filter by location or company status, or choose a column to sort the full list by that metric. To see more companies, use the arrows to view additional pages.

Please note! Launched in August 2025, this is our first version of this tool. Please send any feedback to info@technical.ly. Thank you.