Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best Kentucky based Communities companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Communities industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Kentucky Communities Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Louisville Urban League
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The Louisville Urban League is a community service organization dedicated to the elimination of racism and its effects within the community.
Metro United Way
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Metro United Way works every day to lift our community by mobilizing people and maximizing our community’s resources to equity for all.
Peak Clean Energy
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Formed to help communities benefit from this new energy landscape
Flying Axes
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Flying Axes is an axe-throwing venue for team building, birthdays, bachelor/bachelorette parties, and divorce celebrations.
Ashland
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Ashland provides specialty chemical solutions to customers ranging from consumer to industrial market.
Brusheezy
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Brusheezy is the place to share your free Photoshop brushes and other Photoshop-related resources.
Newport Healthcare
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Newport Healthcare offers programs and a full continuum of care to individuals, families and communities with mental health concerns.
Marrow
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We bring brands to life with big ideas, unflinching creative, and people who give a damn.
Baptist Healthcare System
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Baptist Healthcare System is a Hospitals And Health Care.
Vita-Stat
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Vita-Stat is one of the original innovators of electronic medication, treatment, and care management solutions to optimize and error proof.
Altitude Trampoline Park
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recreation center, amusement park, trampoline park
Jackson Purchase Energy
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Jackson Purchase Energy is a electric cooperative that provides cost-effective electric service to farmers and ranchers.
TOYOTETSU North America
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TOYOTETSU North America is proud to be a community leader in launch of Kentucky FAME in the Cumberland Region and Greater Owensboro Region.
Farm Credit
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Farm Credit supports rural communities and agriculture with reliable, consistent credit and financial services.
Abound Credit Union
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Abound Credit Union is a not-for-profit financial cooperative that has been serving communities in Kentucky since 1950.
GTPlanet
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GTPlanet is an online source for news on racing games, racing eSports, and sim-racing hardware.
NorthKey Community Care
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Northkey Community Care specializes in the treatment services for mental health, intellectual disability and substance use disorders.
Studio Calico
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Online retailer of crafting supplies and user community
Dismas Charities
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Dismas Charities is a non-profit organization that committed to reducing victimization in communities by programs for offenders.
South Central Bank
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South Central Bank is a community bank serving businesses and people in Kentucky.
Pillar
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Pillar is a nonprofit organization that helps people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Louisville.
Greater Louisville
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Greater Louisville Inc – offers business development, professional networking, and offers small business a marketing platform.
Rehab Without Walls
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Rehab Without Walls specializes in helping people with rehabilitation needs.
Presbyterian Church USA
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Presbyterian Church USA is a religious institution and a church that provides Christians a place to worship and pray.
Opportunity for Work & Learning
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Opportunity for Work & Learning offers employment consulting, professional growth and vocational training services.
Northern Kentucky Cooperative for Educational Services
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Northern Kentucky Cooperative for Educational Services collaborates with schools for better quality education and overall growth of students
Florence School District One
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Florence School District One all district programs operate in compliance with the provision of Title VI, VII, IX, and civil rights laws.
Home of the Innocents
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Home of the Innocents is a non-profit organization that provides aquatic therapy, shelter placement, and healthcare services.
Bluegrass Area Development District
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Bluegrass Area Development District is the local government administration body that works for urban development, and Work First programs.
Barren River Area Development District
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Barren River Area Development District provides services to local units of government and the citizens.
Tom Sondergeld Plumbing
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Tom Sondergeld Plumbing has been offering plumbing services to the Louisville, KY community since 1999.
Django Girls
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Django Girls is a non-profit organization and a community.
Louisville Zoo
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Louisville Zoo, or the Louisville Zoological Garden, is a 134-acre zoo in Louisville.
LKLP Community Action Council
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LKLP Community Action Council offers health care, transportation, housing, and community support services.
Brandstetter Carroll
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Brandstetter Carroll provides architectural, engineering, and planning services.
Boys & Girls Haven
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Boys & Girls provides 24-hour residential treatment and ancillary supportive services for children and young adults .
Magnolia Springs Senior Living
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Magnolia Springs Senior Living provides assisted living, memory care, health, wellness, residences, and amenities services to elders.
Wild Accelerator
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WILD is an educational & community support org geared towards early stage and idea-stage, female entrepreneurs #WildAFFF
360care
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360care is an administrative services company that links senior care communities and ancillary providers.
American Association of Commercial Finance Brokers
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American Association of Commercial Finance Brokers is a trade association for commercial finance brokers and funding source partners.
Green River Area Development District
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Green River Area Development District offers social, health, community, transportation, economic and workforce development support services.
Pennyrile Allied Community Services
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PACS provides a variety of services, including Head Start, CETA programs, Manpower programs, Employment programs, and Aging programs.
Harlan County Community Action Agency
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Harlan County Community Action Agency is a non-profit organization that offers various programs for the purpose of eliminating poverty.
Park DuValle Community Health Center
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Park DuValle Community Health Center is a community health center offers patient care,along with insurance and medicare.
99.1 FM WJMM
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WJMM-FM is a Christian radio station based in Lexington, Kentucky serving all of Central Kentucky.
A Cup of Common Wealth
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Embrace community. Serve others. Create culture.
re|solution
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re|solution provides comprehensive revenue cycle services to rural and community hospitals
Laurel Senior Living Communities
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Laurel Senior Living Communities is a retirement and assisted living facility company.
Audubon Area
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Audubon Area is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating and managing housing, self-sufficiency, and social service programs.
Mayfair Village
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Mayfair Village is a senior living retirement community in Lexington.
Rural Technology Fund
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The rural technology fund is a non-profit that supports computer science educations through donations to rural schools and scholarships.
E-Nation
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E-Nation is a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging leaders to realize their life’s purpose and vision.
Kre8now Makerspace
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Kre8now Makerspace is a community workshop, business incubator, and a gathering point for Makers, Inventors, Artists, Engineers, Designers.
Signet Federal Credit Union
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Signet Federal Credit Union is a non-profit finance company that offers financial health, wellness and banking services.
Community Action of Southern Kentucky
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Community Action of Southern Kentucky engages in community services by offering children and senior care support facilities.
Transforming Jail Ministries
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Transforming Jail Ministries is a non-profit organization offering ecumenical-Christian and interfaith ministry services.
Lincoln Foundation
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Lincoln Foundation is a non-profitable organization that helps to remove education barriers.
Ellis & Badenhausen
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Ellis & Badenhausen provides orthopedic services for the Louisville community.
SimpleCove
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SimpleCove is a community for creators and makers to share handicraft wooden products.
Info+
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Info+ provides document scanning, microforms scanning, and archival services.
Transitions
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Transitions is a drug rehabilitation, immediate care, and residential treatment center.
Somerset Rural Electric Cooperative
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Somerset Rural Electric Cooperative is a nonprofit organization that provides necessary utility services for the communities.
Louisville Independent Business Alliance
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Louisville Independent Business Alliance is a non-profit organization that seeks to unite and promote locally-owned, independent businesses.
Smiley Pete Publishing
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Smiley Pete Publishing is a community publication company that publishes news articles and other tabloid articles.
CEDA
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CEDA assists with job creation, child care, affordable housing, water and wastewater systems, community centers, and downtown renewal.
Reach of Louisville
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Reach of Louisville is a community living support organization that provides host homes, day training, and related support services.
Kentucky living
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Kentucky Living magazine is published to improve the quality of life for a community of people .
Big Sandy Area Development District
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Big Sandy Area Development District provides elder care, transportation planning, community, and economic development services.
RYB Communications
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RYB Communications is metalworking’s premiere communications agency.
Golf Ledger
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Golf Ledger is a community for golf enthusiasts to share, discover, and discuss the most interesting golf-related links from around the web.
United Way-Paducah-Mccracken
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United Way of Paducah-McCracken County improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community to advance the common good.
Kenton County Public Library
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KY Public Library System serving its community by offering education.
Anderson Public Library
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Anderson Public Library offers a variety of books, movies, digital media, classes, clubs, special events, and meeting rooms for everyone.
Hopkinsville Elevator
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Hopkinsville Elevator provides agricultural operations.
CASA of Lexington
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CASA of Lexington is a non-profit organisation that provides child lives and thrives in a safe, caring and permanent home.
Venture Connectors
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The Venture Connectors is an incorporated, not-for-profit organization.
Campbell Crossing
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Campbell Crossing is a privatized housing community that builds homes and offers amenities for military families.
The Gheens Foundation
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The Gheens Foundation improves the quality of life for all citizens and institutions of metropolitan louisville.
Kentucky Science Center
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Kentucky Science Center is advancing a science literacy campaign to encourage people of all ages to explore science in everyday life.
Barbourville Utility
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Barbourville Utility serves businesses and residential homes with water, wastewater, cable television and fiber internet services.
KentuckyCoders
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KentuckyCoders is an initiative that seeks to help accelerate awareness of the accessibility of coding applied in innovative technologies.
Mopedarmy.com
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The Moped army is an organization of moped enthusiasts, centered on the organization’s website which serves and spread of moped culture.
Ashland Alliance
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Ashland Alliance is a non-profit organization that offers regional economic development services.
Office of Technology Transfer
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The OTT is a division of the Office of the Executive Vice-President for Research and Innovation.
MissionsHub
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MissionsHub is a community project in that developers in long term can achieve more than the organization’s mission to share their story.
Institute for Research on Labor & Employment
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Institute for Research on Labor & Employment, University of California, Berkeley.
