Each year, South Carolina Research Authority, a public, nonprofit corporation that works to fuel the state’s innovation economy, welcomes a variety of startups as member companies. Every member company receives access to coaching, access to experts in SCRA’s Resource Partner Network, eligibility to apply for grant funding and consideration for investment from SCRA’s investment affiliate, SC Launch Inc.
For this list, SCRA has provided information on the 10 Upstate-area startups it has accepted as new member companies, as of Aug. 19.
| Company | Acceptance | Town/City | Employees | Mission | Grants |
| CarbonCents | June 2022 | Walhalla | 3 | Provides solutions to organizations to collect, measure and evaluate energy costs and emissions. | $25,000 |
| Fire Gator LLC | April 2022 | Greenwood | 3 | Specializes in automatic fire suppression systems to protect from brake, wheel hub and in-cabin fires for buses and other large vehicles. | $25,000 |
| Bottle Titan | February 2022 | Greenville | 1 | An IoT technology company providing environmental and geolocation shipment-tracking data for quality control within the wine, liquor and beer industries. | $75,000 |
| Checkeeper | February 2022 | Greenville | 7 | Financial technology product that facilitates easier business-to-business payments. | $50,000 |
| Rymedi | January 2022 | Greenville | 22 | Offers a digital platform that manages disease testing and vaccine administration. | N/A |
| Victory Exofibres | December 2021 | Greenville | 2 | Produces super-efficient exosome-isolation kits that enable more efficient medical diagnostic testing. | $24,000 |
| Offeroo | November 2021 | Greenville | 3 | Online service helps buyers make offers on off-market real estate and acquire rights-of-first-refusal on off-market real estate. | $25,000 |
| Ruffian Software | November 2021 | Mauldin | 4 | Solves the privileged account management problem that managed service providers face. | $25,000 |
| Bricolage Dynamics | October 2021 | Liberty | 4 | Residential glass recycling service that turns glass into sand. | $25,000 |
| SafeHelipad | April 2022 | Greenville | 4 | Provides computerized vertical aviation infrastructure management for persistent digital management of vertical aviation infrastructure in the air medical, oil and gas, drone unmanned aircraft, contract air carrier, and military/government/emergency management sectors. | $25,000 |
