Ohio’s tech scene is building momentum. From robots that weld and airplanes designed for ultra-short runways to technology that protects sensitive data and helps patients keep their health coverage, these companies are tackling problems that reach far beyond state lines.
The companies on this list are all focused on putting technology to work in practical ways, whether that means supporting small businesses, improving healthcare, strengthening cybersecurity, or bringing advanced manufacturing jobs back to Ohio.
Top Companies to Watch in Columbus
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo, one of the country’s largest financial institutions, continues to invest in technology, talent, and the communities it serves. In 2026, Wells Fargo Technology Banking expanded its banker workforce, adding relationship managers across major tech hubs including Boston, New York, San Francisco, Austin, Denver, and Chicago. The company also reported strong Q2 2026 results, with revenue up 9% year over year to $22.6 billion and net income increasing 17% to $6.4 billion.
And that momentum is extending to the employee experience. Wells Fargo’s Well Life approach includes professional development, health and financial wellness resources, caregiver support, career mobility opportunities, and 16 hours of paid volunteer time each year.
The company is also putting its resources behind broader economic opportunity. Wells Fargo recently provided approximately $280 million in grants, while employees contributed more than 800,000 volunteer hours to nonprofits and local communities. Its Open for Business Fund has supported more than 336,000 small businesses and helped create or retain more than 461,000 jobs.
With continued investment in its workforce, strong business momentum, and a sizable commitment to community impact, Wells Fargo is using its scale to create opportunities for employees, customers, small businesses, and communities across the country.
Path Robotics
Path Robotics builds physical AI that lets robots weld autonomously, helping manufacturers keep up with demand amid a shortage of skilled welders. In April 2026, the company launched Rove, a mobile welding system that pairs its Obsidian AI model with a four-legged robot to bring automation to the work instead of requiring every job to happen inside a fixed robotic cell.
Path's technology is also moving into major shipbuilding operations. The company signed an agreement with Huntington Ingalls Industries(HII), the U.S. Navy's largest shipbuilder, worth up to $600 million over seven years. The agreement calls for Path to engineer shipbuilding automation in Columbus for HII's yards, supporting production of aircraft carriers, submarines, destroyers, and unmanned vessels. The deal will support continued investment in Path's facilities and workforce.
RWX
Software teams spend a surprising amount of time waiting for their tools to finish building and testing code. RWX makes that process faster, with cloud infrastructure designed for both human developers and AI coding agents. Its container builder can reduce Docker image build times by up to 10x, helping engineering teams spend less time waiting and more time shipping software.
RWX is also an anchor of Columbus’s growing startup community. In April 2026, it became the first company to lease a Scaleup Suite at Rev1’s new downtown innovation hub. In June, it expanded its partnership with OH.io, becoming OH.io’s first Columbus-based partner, with go-to-market support provided on a revenue-share model rather than for equity.
PSI
For more than 34 years, PSI has built its reputation on a simple mission: Serve. Solve. Deliver. The minority-owned firm provides technology consulting and staffing across IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, AI and machine learning, software development, and business intelligence, for clients including Ohio State University, Wendy’s, and AEP.
Over the past year, PSI has continued to expand its services and its ability to build and manage large technology teams. Its work with Columbus City Schools has grown to include up to 60 field technicians and technical leaders supporting the entire district. PSI also invests in workforce development and pathways for diverse and emerging talent, and its team supports organizations including the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, TechServe Alliance, COSI, Mid-Ohio Food Collective, and Ronald McDonald House Charities.
Top Companies to Watch in Cleveland
CHAMP Titles
Buying or selling a car comes with enough paperwork. CHAMP Titles simplifies one of the most cumbersome parts of vehicle ownership — titles and registrations. Its software replaces the legacy, paper-based systems still used by many state motor vehicle agencies, and it also serves auto dealers, fleets, and insurance carriers.
Since its founding in 2018, CHAMP has processed tens of millions of transactions, and its platforms are now available to more than 35 million Americans. At the close of 2025, CHAMP raised $55 million, its largest round to date, led by ORIX Corporation USA with Point72 Ventures and W. R. Berkley participating. The round brings its total funding to more than $100 million and will fuel expansion to more states, including Illinois and Louisiana.
Eagle Wireless
Eagle Wireless makes cellular modules that serve both the Internet of Things (IoT) and automotive markets. The company describes itself as the only Western manufacturer serving both sectors.
Eagle began production in Ohio in July 2025 and is expanding beyond modules into full-device manufacturing. The move gives customers a domestic option as the industry transitions from 4G to 5G and looks for more secure, reliable supply chains.
In February 2026, Eagle raised a $30 million Series B co-led by Asymmetric Capital Partners and The O.H.I.O. Fund, bringing its total capital to $44 million. The company expects its module business to generate more than $100 million in committed run-rate revenue within the next year. With manufacturing, research and development, and connected-device technology all part of its business, Eagle is actively hiring across multiple roles and disciplines for people interested in hardware, telecommunications, and more.
Folio Photonics
AI needs data. Lots of it. And keeping that data accessible for decades without consuming enormous amounts of energy is becoming a big challenge for businesses. Folio Photonics is reinventing optical storage for the AI era. Built on technology from Case Western Reserve University, its multi-layer optical discs are designed to store enterprise archives and AI datasets for 50 to 100 years while using more than 90% less energy than the tape and hard drive systems that dominate the market today. In June 2026, Folio closed an $8 million Series A co-led by Material Impact and The O.H.I.O. Fund, with JumpStart Ventures, Refinery Ventures and JobsOhio Ventures participating.
Folio plans to acquire a facility in Solon and automate its production process, from chemical synthesis through disc fabrication. Early-adopter units are targeted for late 2027, with technology hiring expected across Ohio as the company scales.
Graici
Graici uses AI to help people keep the health coverage they are eligible for, while giving states and health plans more reliable information to work with. Its Adaptive Data Wallets bring together health, economic, and personal information to automate Medicaid renewals and redeterminations. The goal is to reduce the paperwork that can cause eligible people to lose coverage and make it easier for organizations to verify the information they need.
In February 2026, Graici raised a $7.5 million Series A led by Santé Ventures to automate renewals to prevent eligible people from losing coverage; aggregate health, economic, and personal data for verification; and reduce friction with verified intelligence to state government and health plans.
MediView XR
MediView XR gives physicians a new way to see inside the body during minimally invasive procedures. Its XR90 system fuses CT and ultrasound imaging into a 3D augmented-reality view displayed through a headset, overlaying a patient’s anatomy right where the physician is working.
In 2023, XR90 became the first augmented-reality device cleared by the FDA to combine live imaging with 3D visualization, and MediView partnered with GE HealthCare on the world’s first augmented-reality interventional suite. The company raised $24 million in October 2025, and in August 2026, Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital completed the first procedure in Florida using XR90: a liver biopsy performed without ionizing radiation.
SCATR Corp.
Data can be encrypted and still be vulnerable while it's moving between systems. SCATR Corp. focuses on that part of the security problem, building technology designed to protect information in transit. Its Zero Trust Transit platform splits network traffic and sends it across randomized paths to make it harder for adversaries to intercept data now and decrypt it later as quantum computing advances.
Founded by professionals from the Department of Defense, intelligence community, and cryptology fields, SCATR has been deployed in more than 50 operational environments across six continents. In April 2026, the company raised a $12.6 million Series A led by First In. The funding will support expansion into supply chain, logistics, financial services, energy, healthcare, and telecommunications, as well as plans to grow its team.
Splash Financial
Student loans, personal loans, and home equity lines of credit all come with different rates, terms, and lenders. Splash Financial helps borrowers compare their options through an AI-powered lending marketplace that connects people with banks and credit unions.
The platform has processed more than $6 billion in loans and recently expanded into home equity lines of credit, adding another option for consumers looking to manage their finances.
In September 2025, Splash raised more than $70 million in a Series C led by Grand Oaks Capital, with participation from First Tech Federal Credit Union, Curql Collective, and The O.H.I.O. Fund. The round brought its total equity funding to more than $135 million and will support expansion of its lending partner network.
Top Companies to Watch in Dayton
Niobium
What if a computer could analyze sensitive information without ever seeing the unencrypted data? That's the promise of fully homomorphic encryption, the technology at the center of Niobium’s work. The company builds chips designed to let computers process data while it remains encrypted. That could make it possible to run AI models and analytics on sensitive information without exposing the underlying data, including in a future where quantum computing creates new security challenges.
In December 2025, Niobium raised more than $23 million in an oversubscribed round, with new investors including Analog Devices’ venture arm, Korea Development Bank, and JobsOhio Ventures.
Niobium has had a busy 2026: it launched The Fog, an encrypted cloud platform for private AI and data processing, opened a developer partner program, and released open-source encryption tools for developers. Its accelerator chip is also advancing toward production with SEMIFIVE and Samsung Foundry.
Electra
Electra is building the EL9 Ultra Short, a nine-passenger hybrid-electric airplane that can take off and land in as little as 150 feet, making regional travel easier, more affordable, and more sustainable. In July 2026, the company announced an $850 million production facility at AirPark Ohio in Springfield that is expected to bring 1,975 jobs to the region. At full build-out, the plant will be able to produce up to 800 aircraft per year.
Electra already has more than 2,200 letters of intent from over 60 customers, and it raised a $115 million Series B in 2025 with strategic backing from Lockheed Martin Ventures, Honeywell, and Safran. Springfield’s mayor called it the kind of jobs the city had lost over decades and is now bringing back.
Top Company to Watch in Cincinnati
Pantomath
Pantomath is an AI-powered data operations platform that keeps enterprise data pipelines running reliably. Its platform includes autonomous "Data Reliability Engineer" agents that detect, diagnose, and resolve data incidents. Rather than simply alerting a team when something goes wrong, the software is designed to take action. For WEX, one of the Fortune 500 companies using Pantomath, teams now resolve data issues in minutes instead of hours or days.
Pantomath raised a $30 million Series B led by General Catalyst in 2025, and in January 2026, Snowflake Ventures announced an investment in the company alongside deeper integrations with Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud. The combination of AI agents, enterprise data infrastructure, and partnerships with major technology platforms puts Pantomath in a growing field focused on making data operations more reliable and less manual.
