Best High Tech Companies in Kentucky, United States
The 67 best High Tech companies in Kentucky, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Badger Technologies.
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 Kentucky
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Badger Technologies Provider of robotic soution for retail industry | $254M | 61 mo ago | 275 | Tim Rowland CEO | — | 2 patents Event experience analytics platform correlating user interaction data | — |
| 2 | Qdvision Provider of quantum dots based technology for displays | $83M | 150 mo ago | 14 | Jonathan S. Steckel Founder and Director of Materials | — | — | — |
| 3 | Puffer Finance Anti-slashing liquid staking protocol | $24M | 26 mo ago | 3 | Jason Vranek Co-Founder | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+11 | — | 2 launchs |
| 4 | BehaVR Provider of digital therapeutics solutions using virtual reality to address mental and behavioral health… | $23M | 42 mo ago | 54 | Aaron Gani Founder & CEO | — | 23 patents Digital/augmented reality platforms delivering CBT and exposure therapy for mental health | — |
| 5 | Virtual Peaker Provider of solutions for demand response and energy intelligence | $20M | 24 mo ago | 43 43 → 68 (+58%) | — | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+27 | 10 patents Real-time control and energy management for remote IoT/industrial devices | 2 job openings |
| 6 | Engi-Mat Develoepr of high-performance nanoparticles for multiple applications | $18M | 35 mo ago | 21 | Robert Schwerzel Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 7 | Talon Provides drone-based aerial data acquisition and analysis, and data management | $10M | 121 mo ago | 22 | Rod Dir CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | 7 patents Adjustable strap and fastening systems for wearable/portable devices and document handling | — |
| 8 | Neuronetrix Cognitive testing and analysis systems for neurological diseases | $9M | 100 mo ago | 5 | KC Fadem CEO | — | 62 patents Electrophysiological diagnostic devices integrating biomarkers for neuromuscular disorder testing | — |
| 9 | Smart Farm Farm monitoring system developer | $6M | 59 mo ago | 5 | Ryan Heringer Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 10 | GoodMaps Platform offering positioning solutions for indoor spaces | $5M | 17 mo ago | 27 27 → 33 (+22%) | Theresa Reno-Weber Chief Executive Officer | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+24 | 3 patents Indoor/indoor-outdoor user localization using sensor fusion and positioning algorithms | — |
| 11 | Stonestreet One Provides software solutions for Bluetooth wireless technology | $4M | 182 mo ago | 12 | Lucy Stonestreet Founder | — | — | — |
| 12 | Bluegrass Advanced Materials Antioxidant polymers based therapy for the treatment of oral mucositis | $4M | 14 mo ago | 2 | Thomas Dziubla Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 13 | Hummingbird Nano Manufacturer of microfluidic chips | $2M | 41 mo ago | 10 | Grant Stephens CEO | — | — | — |
| 14 | Seikowave 3D imaging solutions for energy industry | $1M | 70 mo ago | 19 | Shin Fukushige Co-Founder | — | 14 patents 3D structured-light imaging systems with motion tracking, thermal management, and optical alignment | — |
| 15 | Advanced Energy Materials Developer of nano-based battery components | $1M | 22 mo ago | 1 | Mahendra Sunkara Founder & CTO | — | — | — |
| 16 | MobileMedTek Mobile medical device | $1M | 123 mo ago | 10 | Bryan Ehret Founder & CFO | — | 11 patents Electrophysiological measurement devices and testing kits for medical diagnostics | — |
| 17 | Rove iQ Provider of interactive smart kiosks, digital directories, and wayfinding technology for various locations… | $547K | 105 mo ago | 14 | Peter Thelen CEO | Node.jsSvelteKitSvelte+8 | — | — |
| 18 | Innovative Therapeutix Developer of music-based feeding devices for children | $300K | 56 mo ago | — | Rebekah Gossom Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 19 | Thera Bracelet Sensor-driven wearable for enhancing performance | $280K | 98 mo ago | 2 | Kacie Neutz Co-Founder & COO | — | — | — |
| 20 | Advanced Manufacturer of 3D bioprinter | $186K | 94 mo ago | 18 | — | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+17 | 35 patents Uniformly doped multi‑element silicon crystal growth via advanced Czochralski processes | — |
| 21 | MailHaven Smart mailboxes for e-commerce delivery | $170K | 106 mo ago | 4 | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 High Tech companies in Kentucky
#1
Funding Raised · Lexington, Kentucky · founded 2013 · 2 employees$3.6Mraised▾
Bluegrass Advanced Materials is developing naturally derived antioxidant polymers for applications in various biotech industries. The company is currently developing an oral treatment for oral inflammation and ulceration (Oral Mucositis) associated with the adverse effects of chemo and radiation therapies.
- Apr 2025Grant (prize money)$1.2M
- Sep 2020Grant (prize money)$746.6K
- Sep 2017Grant (prize money)$169.3K
- Sep 2013Grant (prize money)$1.6M
#2
Series A · Louisville, Kentucky · founded 2019 · 27 employees$5.4Mraised▾
Platform offering positioning solutions for indoor spaces. It uses beacon, LiDAR and image recognition technology to provide maps of indoor spaces and solutions to manage and access them. It provides solutions to create maps and allows venues to control who can access what information about their space.
- Jan 2025Series A$6.7M
- May 2023Series A$3.3M
- Aug 2022Seed$3.5M
- Jan 2022Seed$1.4M
#3
Series A · Louisville, Kentucky · founded 2015 · 43 employees$19.8Mraised▾
Provider of solutions for demand response and energy intelligence. It integrates with (IoT)-based devices from third-party device manufacturers and connects to those devices through the device manufacturer's server, using secure server-to-server communication systems. It applies machine learning and real-time control to devices to reduce demand. It offers utilities the power to control demand and also provides data about consumption to the users. Additionally, provides mobile and web applications that can bring together smart device data and billing information to provide a one-stop customer engagement platform.
- Jun 2024Conventional Debt$11.3M
- Feb 2022Series A$16.6M
- Apr 2021Seed$2M
- Mar 2021Conventional Debt$1.1M
#4
Series A · Kentucky · founded 2022 · 3 employees$24.1Mraised▾
Anti-slashing liquid staking protocol. It facilitates at-home staking via the bond requirement of ETH. It enables users to stake cryptocurrency and earn yields on the same.
- Apr 2024Series A$18M
- Jan 2024Seed—
- Aug 2023Seed$5.5M
- Jun 2022Seed$650K
#5
Series D · Nicholasville, Kentucky · founded 2017 · 275 employees$254.3Mraised▾
Provider of robotic soution for retail industry. It offers fully autonomous robot with store integration, maintenance, and analytics software. The robot is in the form of a moving tower equipped with sensors, it is developed for the grocery retail environment to address out-of-stock, planogram compliance, price integrity, audit and compliance issues. It is equipped with rotating lidar, depth-sensing cameras, navigation sensors and more.
- May 2021Series D$254.3M
#6
Seed · Louisville, Kentucky · founded 2010 · 1 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Developer of nano-based battery components. It provides technology for lithium-ion batteries as an anode material. It improved safety, stability and high cycle life, and rapid changeability properties, making it the best solution for Electric Vehicle applications.
- Aug 2024Seed$1.3M
- Oct 2014Grant (prize money)$891.7K
- Jan 2013Grant (prize money)$180K
- Nov 2010Grant (prize money)$180K
#7
Funding Raised · Lexington, Kentucky · founded 1994 · 21 employees$18.3Mraised▾
Develoepr of high-performance nanoparticles for multiple applications. It provides users with the developer and manufacturer of nano engineered materials, with an extensive record of technical innovation.
- Jul 2023Grant (prize money)$1.3M
- Jun 2021Grant (prize money)$194.9K
- Jul 2019Grant (prize money)$195.2K
- Jul 2018Grant (prize money)$2.2M
#8
Series B · Elizabethtown, Kentucky · founded 2016 · 54 employees$23.5Mraised▾
Provider of digital therapeutics solutions using virtual reality to address mental and behavioral health challenges. The platform aims to educate, motivate, and activate healthy behavior, leveraging the psychological and neurological power of VR to improve mental and physical well-being.
- Dec 2022Series B$13M
- May 2021Grant (prize money)$2.8M
- Dec 2020Series A$7.2M
- Jul 2018Seed$500K
#9
Deadpooled · Lexington, Kentucky · founded 2004 · 14 employees$83Mraised▾
Developer of nanotechnology-based display and lighting products designed to improve the color quality of TVs and other displays. The company's nanotechnology-based display and lighting products uses light-emitting properties of quantum dots, enabling customers to have a vivid viewing experience.
#10
Seed · Nicholasville, Kentucky · founded 2013 · 5 employees$5.5Mraised▾
Smart Farm is a Nicholasville Kentucky based smart farming company, Company website claims that it provides farmers valuable, real-time, actionable information regarding the status of equipment and crops. Smart Farm’s large area 900 MHz wireless network and its intuitive, analytics-based user interface allow farmers to remotely monitor and analyze soil conditions. In parallel, farmers can monitor and control field-based equipment, such as irrigation pumps and grain silos.
- Jul 2021Seed$50K
- Mar 2020Seed$831.8K
- Nov 2018Seed$1.3M
- Mar 2018Seed$1.1M
#11
Seed · Lexington, Kentucky · founded 2012 · 10 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Hummingbird Nano's does manufacturing technology creates microfluidics. Its specifications mentioned are geometry, flexibility, clarity, speed, and volume.
- Jan 2023Seed$450K
- Mar 2020Seed$925K
- Jun 2018Seed$1M
- Jan 2016Grant (prize money)$1.4M
#12
Acquired · West Point, Kentucky · founded 2015 · 22 employees$10.5Mraised▾
Talon Aerolytics is an end-to-end aerial data company that offers drone-based aerial data acquisition, and data analysis. It uses third-party UAVs for its data-gathering flights. It performs analysis on the data using a proprietary solution. It develops a proprietary cloud-based platform called NEST that enables customers to access the raw data, point clouds, etc. and perform analysis on their own as well. Talon also builds Talonview - a live video transmission platform for drones to transmit data during its flight.
- May 2016Series A$10.5M
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How research on Semiconductors is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Semiconductors — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 8,739 United States-affiliated papers.
- Georgia Institute of Technology489
- IMEC343
- Intel325
- Purdue University West Lafayette218
- Industrial Technology Research Institute177
- Photonics56→121
- Photonic integrated circuit49→81
- Artificial neural network3→29
- Detector25→48
- Scalability53→73
- Photonics45→59
- Artificial neural network2→14
- Rapid single flux quantum2→12
- Detector20→29
- Image sensor2→11
- Photonics10→28
- Hardware security module6→13
- Thermal10→16
- Automotive industry2→8
- Photonic integrated circuit9→14
Where semiconductors is researched across United States
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing semiconductors patents in the United States
United States semiconductors patent filing is cooling — 112,775 filings from 8,000 assignees (2016–2025), led by IBM, Applied Materials, Intel; annual filings 11572→7675.
- IBM19691
- Applied Materials13119
- Intel11689
- Micron Technology10011
- Texas Instruments4804
- LAM RES4667
- Sandisk Technologies3051
- Qualcomm2897
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