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Use the Inno Pages to search for and discover Charlotte's top startups. Filter by industry, funding, stage and size, or hit the ‘Inno Shuffle’ for a little dealer’s choice. Not seeing the startup you’re looking for? Add it via the button to the right.
Rent Ready
- Funding: $1M – $5M
- Headcount: 11 – 50
Rent Ready delivers an end-to-end make-ready service for apartment communities, eliminating frustration and the need for multiple vendors to complete a successful turn.
RumbleON
- Funding: $10M – $50M
- Stage: IPO | Public
RumbleOn is an online buyer and seller of vehicles that allows both consumers and dealers to Buy-Sell-Trade-Finance pre-owned motorcycles in an efficient, fast, transparent, and engaging experience.
Fullcube
- Funding: $1M – $5M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 11 – 50
We Believe Your Greatest New Revenue Lies In The Hands Of Your Existing Customers.
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Calvin’s Craft
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2020
Calvin's Craft manufactures eco-friendly dog products from upcycled ingredients. Our first product is a dog treat made from spent grain (a waste byproduct from breweries) that is packaged in aluminum cans and sold at breweries and beer/wine/liquor stores nationwide.
Kodexa
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Pre-Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2020
Kodexa changes the way businesses capture data hidden in complex documents. We provide a complete solution to enable them to leverage AI and ML as appropriate while providing a state-of-the-art document workbench and workflow for their teams.
Reflex Radio
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2018
Reflex Radio uses artificial intelligence to create music mixes that make you want to move. The mixes are strategically curated to excite and motivate the listener to push their workout to the next level. We focus on helping trainers do what they do best by focusing their clients!
PettyGigs Inc.
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Pre-Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2019
PettyGigs is a mobile-first peer-to-peer marketplace connecting freelancers with non-skilled short-term tasks and errands
PettyGigs Inc.
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Pre-Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2019
PettyGigs is a mobile-first peer-to-peer marketplace connecting freelancers with non-skilled short-term tasks and errands
Oxit
- Headcount: 51 – 100
- Year Founded: 2014
Oxit is on a mission to create meaningful and innovative IoT solutions that connect people, businesses, and communities for the better. Since 2014, the team at Oxit has transformed a visionary startup into a truly unique, result focused company into the field of IoT development and deployment.
Dynasty Events LLC
- Year Founded: 2021
Dynasty Events is a newly established event venue located in Charlotte, NC. This 1,200 sqft venue is ideal for corporate events, birthday parties, family gatherings, baby showers, bridal showers, graduation parties, and so much more!
Charlotte Networks
- Funding: Bootstrapped
- Stage: Bootstrapped
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2017
Charlotte Networks specializes in Cloud, Networking, and Cybersecurity. Our services include sales and support of Managed IT Services, Microsoft 365, Azure Cloud, Internet Service, VoIP Telephone Systems, Cybersecurity, Business Networks and Project Planning + Engineering.
Amicus.io
- Headcount: 11 – 50
- Year Founded: 2017
Amicus.io is an early stage fintech company that aligns the incentives of donors, financial institutions, corporations, and philanthropic organizations for charitable giving at scale. Its DAF 2.0 technology solution mobilizes charitable capital that is more inclusive, accessible, and impactful.
InstaffOut
- Funding: $0 – $100K
- Stage: Serie A
- Headcount: 11 – 50
- Year Founded: 2018
Instaffout is a trusted global staffing company specializing in deploying fully administered, dedicated development teams, helping IT companies to extend their engineering teams.
So-B
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 11 – 50
- Year Founded: 2019
So-B is an innovative, customer-committed, health and technology company aimed at solving America’s lip care needs and ending the humiliation, social stigma, and embarrassment of lip health. As a result, it has developed with proprietary technology “The World’s First Lip Health Gummy.”
Atomized
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2019
We're building a platform that manages your software and infrastructure deployments in your preferred cloud provider. It's kind of like Heroku if Heroku could build infrastructure in different cloud providers.
Bustld
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2016
Bustld is an online wedding marketplace that matches engaged couples and wedding vendors utilizing a proprietary matching algorithm. It is also the parent company of LoveStream, a one-way HD streaming platform built for weddings and special events.
TechWorks Gaston
- Year Founded: 2019
TechWorks is an entrepreneurial hub located in Belmont, NC, designed to create economic opportunity for businesses and residents in Gaston County. It’s a place for serious entrepreneurs to collaborate and scale their business in a location that supports them for long-term success and innovation.
ETHIX360
- Funding: $1M – $5M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 11 – 50
- Year Founded: 2016
ETHIX360 provides employee communication and case management software for issues related to corporate ethics, code of conduct, fraud, bribery, and workplace violence.
Prept
- Funding: $0 – $100K
- Stage: Bootstrapped
- Headcount: 11 – 50
- Year Founded: 2020
Prept is the only accessible concierge service for personalized styling and beauty help at your fingertips. Our goal is to help you feel beautiful, confident, and perfectly Prept for all of life’s moments.
Prept
- Funding: $0 – $100K
- Stage: Bootstrapped
- Headcount: 11 – 50
- Year Founded: 2020
Prept is the only accessible concierge service for personalized styling and beauty help at your fingertips. Our goal is to help you feel beautiful, confident, and perfectly Prept for all of life’s moments.
Time Captis Inc.
- Funding: Bootstrapped
- Stage: Bootstrapped
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 4
Time Captis is a productivity app on the SaaS model. The app which is available on the web, iOS and Android, helps users to manage their contacts, calendar, to-dos and notes. With Pro subscription, you can share, collaborate and communicate among your team.
ashogi
- Year Founded: 2020
aShoGi connects businesses with one another. From pharma and electronics to consumer goods and industrial products, our market covers virtually every industry out there. Our marketplace features over 500 products, patents, and innovations at all stages of commercialization.
Redocd (by DreamLeader)
- Funding: Bootstrapped
- Stage: Pre-Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2018
Redocd is the next-gen knowledge management solution. No more Editing & Publishing pages. Redocd is online-application focused, making sharing online links as easier as sharing any file from your desktop. Whether you're working on a mockup in Sketch, a RFP in Office365 or sharing a Google Sheet, R
Bundle
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2018
Anonymous mortgage shopping. Other mortgage shopping sites sell your phone number. We Don't. Shop rates, stay anonymous, and save time.
Frontline
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Pre-Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2020
Frontline helps organizations build secure cloud infrastructure in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. We eliminate the painstaking process of hardening cloud environments that take days/weeks to complete. Frontline is trusted by known brands including Betterment, Cisco, Facebook, Hashicorp, Samsung, SAP.
Wrk
- Funding: Bootstrapped
- Stage: Bootstrapped
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2018
Wrk is a hiring platform that provides an affordable way for small businesses to get a handle on their hiring process—a seamless set of features to create custom job posts and application forms, manage incoming candidates, and document the entire journey.
BatteryXchange
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2019
BatteryXchange is a rental app that allows users to rent on-demand portable batteries from a smart kiosk machine to keep people connected to things that matter to them most.
MIOS Health
- Funding: $1M – $5M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2019
We help people with pre-Alzheimer's Disease not develop Alzheimer's Disease. We deliver personalized, full-service Functional Medicine and lifestyle programs to people through a technology-enabled platform and guide them to the results they want.
GarbageGears.com
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Bootstrapped
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2018
SAAS company for SMB size waste collection providers (garbage collection). One-stop application for billing, customer communication, routing, and collection. Low barrier to entry for providers to harness systems to empower their business to grow so they can focus on gaining new customers.
GateStaff
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2017
GateStaff offers time & attendance software for workforce management. Our customers use our solutions for scheduling, check-in’s, and event management.
Biteline
- Stage: Serie A
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2016
Biteline connects dental professionals to temporary or permanent jobs in their area. Whether you’re a seeker or poster, we make finding gigs easier so you can spend more time caring for patients. Sign up now to join a growing community, quickly find positions that match your credentials or needs, an
Lotto Edge
- Funding: Bootstrapped
- Stage: Bootstrapped
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2018
Lotto Edge is a data analytics company focusing on lottery scratch off tickets. We analyze every scratch game, every prize, every day and provide current prize and odds information to players to help me make better ticket buying decisions.
DealCloud, Inc. (an InTapp Company)
- Stage: Acquired
- Year Founded: 2011
DealCloud is the preeminent CRM, deal management and business development software for principal investing and M&A advisory professionals. DealCloud is headquartered in Charlotte with offices in New York, San Francisco, and London.
Velocity Technology Solutions
- Funding: $10M – $50M
- Stage: Serie A
- Headcount: 501 – 5,000
"Velocity Technology Solutions empowers businesses with exceptional application flexibility, choice and performance inside of our fully-protected public, hybrid, or private cloud."
Value Innovation Technologies
- Funding: $1M – $5M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 11 – 50
Tresata
- Funding: $50M – $100M
- Stage: Private Equity
- Headcount: 11 – 50
Tresata is a big data company delivering tailored customer intelligence solutions for a variety of clients and industries.
Tradier
- Funding: $5M – $10M
- Headcount: 11 – 50
Tradier is a REST-based, open, and secure API for investors, advisors, and traders.
ThreatSwitch
- Funding: $1M – $5M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 11 – 50
ThreatSwitch's enterprise software helps companies adapt to rapidly changing security rules and regulations.
TheraDoc
- Funding: $10M – $50M
- Stage: Acquired
- Headcount: 51 – 100
Clinical and technology expertise to navigate constant change.
T1 Visions
- Funding: $5M – $10M
- Stage: Serie B
- Headcount: 11 – 50
Visual collaboration solutions for meeting rooms and active learning environments.
Stratifyd
- Funding: $10M – $50M
- Stage: Serie B
- Headcount: 51 – 100
Stratifyd's AI-powered platform analyzes, categorizes, and visualizes omni-channel customer feedback in real time.
SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES
- Funding: $10M – $50M
- Headcount: 51 – 100
Source Technologies is a leading hardware manufacturer, software developer, and integrator of self-service kiosk and MICR check printing solutions. Our mission is to ensure collaborative success with our customers and partners to enable a business transformation vision from a true customer-centric perspective.
SmartSky Networks
- Funding: $200M – $500M
- Headcount: 11 – 50
SmartSky Networks develops 4G air-to-ground broadband connectivity and communication systems.
SkoolAide
- Funding: $0 – $100K
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
SkoolAide helps you set goals and earn rewards for doing well in school!
Skipper
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 11 – 50
Professional dog walkers you can trust.
Sitehands
- Funding: $10M – $50M
- Stage: Serie A
- Headcount: 101 – 500
Sitehands leverage innovative technology to set the new standard for IT field services delivery. What does this mean? It means better outcomes for companies around the globe and more opportunity for the local Sitehands providers around them.
Share Good
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Seed
Share Good is a technology partner for cities, foundations and community organizations who want to increase civic engagement. Our community platform brings local nonprofits together in one place and offers simple and creative ways for people to engage with them.
Sales Performance International
- Funding: $10M – $50M
- Headcount: 51 – 100
We give leading global companies a competitive selling edge that drives measurable growth by transforming HOW they sell. Our unique integration of world-class curriculum, performance technology, and expert services creates a continuous improvement system for enterprise sales organizations.
RumbleON
- Funding: $10M – $50M
- Stage: IPO | Public
RumbleOn is an online buyer and seller of vehicles that allows both consumers and dealers to Buy-Sell-Trade-Finance pre-owned motorcycles in an efficient, fast, transparent, and engaging experience.
Rent Ready
- Funding: $1M – $5M
- Headcount: 11 – 50
Rent Ready delivers an end-to-end make-ready service for apartment communities, eliminating frustration and the need for multiple vendors to complete a successful turn.
RapidOps
- Funding: $10M – $50M
- Headcount: 51 – 100
We create market leading digital products, experiences & platforms that transform businesses.
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