Best High Tech Companies in Cincinnati, United States
The 52 best High Tech companies in Cincinnati, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Workhorse Group.
Our analysis of 306 High Tech companies
$95.7b in tracked funding; 95% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best High Tech companies in Cincinnati
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3DKitbash 3D-printable toys, models, and test kits for home 3D printers | — | — | — | 2012 | Brian Robinson Co-Founder | Cart FunctionalityShopifyVisa+23 | — | — |
| 2 | Advrtas Developer of an AR-based advertising platform | — | — | — | 2016 | Robert Bruza Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 3 | Alpha Telehealth Telehealth solutions for elderly care | — | — | — | 2012 | Jose Luis Chavez CEO | — | — | — |
| 4 | AluChem Manufacturer of specialty alumina products including tabular, calcined, reactive, and polishing | — | — | 288 | 1978 | Ron Bell Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+15 | — | — |
| 5 | capsule Uncover the stories you walk past everyday | — | — | 2 | 2015 | — | — | 5 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | — |
| 6 | CloudSense Provider of a cloud-based water and environmental monitoring solution | — | — | — | 2013 | Stephen West Founder | — | — | — |
| 7 | Contact CI Developer haptic systems for VR units | — | — | 10 | 2014 | — | — | 32 patents Advanced asynchronous communication flow control and routing for intelligent networks | — |
| 8 | Convergys Provider of cloud based contact center and experience management platform | — | — | 137 | 1998 | Andrea Ayers President & CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 High Tech companies in Cincinnati
#1
Public · Cincinnati, Ohio · founded 2007 · 298 employees$518.8Mraised▾
Manufacturer of electric vehicles and related components for transportation solutions. The company focuses on designing and producing electric vehicles. It also provides components that support electric transportation. The business model centers on delivering sustainable and efficient vehicle options.
- Jan 2025Post IPO$3.5M
- Oct 2020Post IPO$200M
- Jun 2020Post IPO$70M
- Nov 2019Post IPO$41M
#2
Funding Raised · Cincinnati, Ohio · founded 2024$200Kraised▾
No-code content creation platform. It caters to scientist training applications and does not require code.
- Mar 2026Grant (prize money)$200K
#3
Acquired · Cincinnati, Ohio · founded 2015 · 37 employees$25.2Mraised▾
Provides a cloud-based platform for IOT application development. It provides device-based connectivity through its available tools and libraries using open industry standards like MQTT and REST and supports a variety of hardware. Its platform comes with a dashboard to create an application, connect a device, and create a workflow. The functionality provided by it includes device management, real-time data collection and visualization, and reactions.
- Oct 2023Series B$10M
- Jun 2020Conventional Debt$4.2M
- Nov 2018Series A$4.3M
- Feb 2018Series A$5.2M
#4
Series A · Cincinnati, Ohio · founded 2013 · 42 employees$29.6Mraised▾
Offers connected smart packing solutions for supply chain industries. It provides digitalized packaging solutions with RFID tags for supply chain tracking and inventory management. It provides protection against counterfeit and builds brand loyalty, prevents grey market activities and tracks goods, manages promotions remotely, and monitors shelf stock in real-time. It uses NFC, AR, and IR technologies for packing and production management.
- Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$318.4K
- May 2022Series A$20M
- 2019Seed$9.6M
#5
Series B · Cincinnati, Ohio · founded 2015 · 50 employees$86Mraised▾
Physna LLC is a company that provides IP protection software for 3D printers. Physna stands for Physical and DNA. They claim that each physical object has typical properties like DNA in humans and their software can identify these properties in physical objects, thereby creating unique database entries for each 3D product. The software prevents printing of illegal objects. It detects faulty equipment and maintains strict quality control.
- Jul 2021Series B$56M
- Jan 2021Series B$20M
- Aug 2019Series A$6.9M
#6
Seed · Cincinnati, Ohio · founded 2013 · 8 employees$4.6Mraised▾
Sense Diagnostics is a medical device company that develops a non-invasive, disposable device that continuously monitors brain activity primarily in the intensive care unit. Sense Diagnostics uses very low power radio waves to non-invasively detect changes in the amount and location of blood in the brain. The low power RF can detect acute hemorrhage, brain swelling, or seizure. The device consists of three parts: (1) an antenna array, (2) the driving electronics for the array, and (3) a spectrum analyzer coupled with a computer that analyzes the EM signals and detects changes in brain status. It alerts doctors of the growing problems in the brain much sooner than other procedures available.
- Nov 2023Seed$1.1M
- Aug 2021Grant (prize money)$2.4M
- Nov 2020Conventional Debt$545K
- Sep 2019Seed$2.3M
#7
Seed · Cincinnati, Ohio · founded 2021 · 8 employees$2.8Mraised▾
Cloud and AI based platform offering appointment scheduling application. It provides a scheduling assistant to assist users in setting up meetings. It offers messaging apps like email and Slack to organize group meetings. Features of the platform include scheduling automation for outbound and CRM workflows, scheduling sentiment analysis, personalization, automated reminders, and more.
- Apr 2024Seed$2.8M
#8
Series C · Cincinnati, Ohio · founded 2012 · 40 employees$16.4Mraised▾
LISNR provides an ultrasonic data-over-sound technology. Offers an ultrasonic proximity platform that is used to transmit micro-communications & information between devices using sound between devices on standard speakers and microphones. Offers LISNR Point for 1:1 ultrasonic data transfer & authentication (SDK) between devices to facilitate a contactless transaction between a client && host device within ~1ft & under, LISNR Zone for data transfer & authentication featuring concurrent transmissions, LISNR Radius for long range ultrasonic data transfer (SDK) between devices greater than 10ft and Acceptance Device for transmission leveraging multiple speakers & microphone for performance. Is available in a subscription-based pricing model. Clients include AT&T, Ticketmaster, Land Rover, Heineken, Live Nation, and more.
- Mar 2022Series C—
- Nov 2020Series C—
- Dec 2019Series C—
- Nov 2019Series C—
#9
Deadpooled · Cincinnati, Ohio · founded 2021 · 33 employees$12.8Mraised▾
Operator of an online platform providing slot and casino games. The platform offers various slot games, live casino options, and arcade-style games. It also features scheduled maintenance notifications and provides customer support.
- Nov 2021Seed$12.8M
- Jan 2021Seed$1.8M
#10
Deadpooled · Cincinnati, Ohio · founded 2013 · 56 employees$15.5Mraised▾
Developer of wearable electronic wearable systems to sweat biomarkers. The company develops non-invasive, disposable, and electronic patches for remote, and quantitative medication monitoring through sweat human sweat. Also, it has applications ranging from opioid compliance to precision dosing of narrow therapeutic index drugs in oncology and organ transplant.
- Oct 2019Series B$1.9M
- Jun 2019Conventional Debt$621.9K
- Jul 2018Series B$6.6M
- Jul 2017Conventional Debt$861.5K
#11
Seed · Cincinnati, Ohio · founded 2018 · 13 employees$2.2Mraised▾
AI-driven solutions to inspect and manage sewer networks. It also provides a cloud-based platform to store, view, and inspect all data from sewer inspections. Its product includes a rapid large diameter sewer inspection system and a rapid vertical inspection system.
- Jun 2023Seed$2.2M
#12
Series A · Cincinnati, Ohio · founded 2008 · 14 employees$4.2Mraised▾
Manufacturer of lightweight, conductive, multi-functional materials using carbon nanotubes. It offers products for aircraft, rotorcraft, aerial vehicles, satellites, and missiles under its brand name. The product line includes black-body calibration, flexible heating, and lightning strike protection.
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- University of Cincinnati17
- University of Cincinnati Medical Center1
- Cincinnati Museum Center1
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