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Bellevue-based data intelligence company Blueprint has taken home the top prize in 2024 Seattle Inno Madness.
In the final found, 16th-seeded Blueprint beat out Seattle-based Stack Moxie, a marketing tech company that was the No. 11 seed. Blueprint won 75% of the votes in the final round, compared with Stack Moxie's 25%.
Inno Madness is our friendly, bracket-style challenge where readers vote to advance companies based on one question: Whom would you invest in? The bracket was designed to shine a spotlight on 16 innovative, fast-growing local businesses. Seeding was determined by factors like funding, mission, business focus and company size. You can see a longer list of startups to keep tabs on here.
Blueprint was founded in 2013. The company helps clients make supply chain and customer decisions in real time, according to its website. Blueprint says its aim is to give clients a more granular look into their data and provide insights.
Blueprint works with clients in manufacturing, retail, financial services and life sciences. In addition to helping clients develop artificial intelligence, the company offers services in application development, analytics and strategy. Blueprint says it can help clients digitize business processes and minimize manual work.
Companies Blueprint says it has worked with include Expedia, Starbucks and T-Mobile.
You can see the full Inno Madness bracket below and a full list of the companies that competed. Thank you to all the readers who voted and to all the startups that made the competition successful.
Meet the companies
Icertis: Contract management company that helps clients manage contracts with employees, customers and suppliers
TerraPower: Nuclear power company co-founded by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates that is working on a thermal energy storage demonstration project
Swiftly: Startup that helps grocers and other retailers offer loyalty programs, digital coupons and mobile checkout
ProfoundBio: Biotech company developing a treatment aimed at ovarian and endometrial cancer
Umoja Biopharma: Company developing immunotherapies to help patients fight cancer with the body's natural defenses
Rhythms: Work software company designed to help teams handle their work cadences
Parse Biosciences: Startup that offers single-cell sequencing technology to allow researchers to better understand the biology of an individual cell
Opala: Health care data company focused on making data more accessible for providers and payers
Zensa: Tech consulting firm that helps its clients with cloud services
Electric Era: Electric vehicle charging startup that makes EV charging stations for use at gas stations, convenience stores and other retailers
Stack Moxie: Marketing tech company that helps clients find outages and bugs before they become major problems
Oleria: Cybersecurity company that makes security clearances within organizations more dynamic
WellSaid Labs: Voice-technology startup that allows clients to convert text to speech in one click
Interlune: Space resources startup that aims to extract helium-3 from the moon and bring it back to Earth
Cimba.ai: Artificial intelligence startup that helps clients make better use of company data
Blueprint: Data intelligence company that helps clients make supply chain and customer decisions in real time
