FIND THE RIGHT ST. LOUIS TECHNOLOGY EXPERTS
TechSTL helps organizations solve critical innovation challenges by connecting them with the top tech teams in St. Louis.
SUBMIT A CHALLENGE
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THE TECHSTL SOLUTIONS NETWORK
Tech is moving fast. Finding good help can’t slow you down.
Across the St. Louis region, organizations are facing urgent questions around AI adoption, cybersecurity, data security, system modernization, automation, software, and digital transformation. Most organizations know they need help, but many struggle finding the best local vendors to move quickly and address the most complex issues.
TechSTL now helps you solve that problem.
SAFELY ADOPT & INTEGRATE AI
PROTECT SENSITIVE DATA
TRAIN STAFF ON NEW TOOLS
MODERNIZE OUTDATED SYSTEMS
REDUCE CYBERSECURITY RISK
AUTOMATE & STREAMLINE MANUAL WORK
IMPROVE DECISION-MAKING & REPORTING
EVALUATE VENDORS, TOOLS OR PLATFORMS
HOW IT WORKS
Bring Us Your Problem. We’ll Show You Who Can Solve it.
SUBMIT A CHALLENGE
Complete a brief intake describing your organization, tech challenge, desired outcome, timeline, estimated budget, procurement requirements, current systems or vendors, and any data-security or confidentiality considerations.
TECHSTL EVALUATES PROJECT
Team reviews the submission for completeness, scope, urgency, and overall fit for the Solutions Network. When needed, we schedule a short follow-up conversation before preparing the opportunity for distribution.
QUALIFIED COMPANIES RESPOND
TechSTL shares the approved opportunity with relevant companies across its vetted Expert Network. Companies with the appropriate expertise, experience, capacity, and interest may submit their proposed solution.
BUYER REVIEWS & SELECTS
The buyer receives eligible submissions & decides which to contact, interview, invite to submit a full proposal, or advance into its procurement process. All further steps handled directly between buyer & companies.
UNPARALLED ACCESS, ACROSS CORE INDUSTRIES
Work alongside the top St. Louis multi-disciplinary tech operators
Aerospace, Defense + National Security
St. Louis’s concentration of Boeing defense operations, aerospace manufacturing, NGA capabilities, secure facilities, and national-security talent gives the region an unusually important role in building and protecting the systems on which the country depends.
Experienced St. Louis technology operators can support secure systems integration, digital engineering, simulation, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, data modernization, supply-chain resilience, and the rigorous compliance requirements associated with defense and national-security work.
Agriculture + Food Innovation
Anchored by the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the 39 North AgTech Innovation District, major agribusiness companies, and a legacy food and beverage manufacturing network, St. Louis is home to one of the world’s strongest concentrations of plant science, agricultural innovation, and consumer manufacturing networks in the world.
Regional technology companies are positioned to advance precision agriculture, sensor-enabled operations, crop and climate analytics, food safety, supply-chain traceability, production automation, and the data platforms needed to move discoveries from the lab into the field and marketplace.
Civic, Nonprofit + Philanthropy
St. Louis’s strong tradition of civic collaboration gives nonprofits, foundations, cultural institutions, associations, and community organizations an outsized role in addressing the region’s most complex challenges.
Mid-market technology firms can help these organizations strengthen donor and constituent systems, modernize grant management, measure impact, protect sensitive information, automate administrative work, and expand service capacity without requiring large internal technology teams.
Construction, Real Estate + Smart Cities
As St. Louis modernizes aging infrastructure while investing in new districts, facilities, transportation systems, and major developments, technology will directly shape the region’s next era of growth.
Regional providers bring expertise in construction-management platforms, building information modeling, geospatial tools, connected facilities, digital twins, project analytics, safety systems, smart-building technology, and lifecycle asset management.
Cybersecurity + Risk-Intensive
St. Louis’s concentration of defense, geospatial, healthcare, financial, infrastructure, and regulated organizations makes cybersecurity more than a technology specialty—it is a regional resilience and national-security imperative.
St. Louis technology companies bring deep experience in identity and access management, Zero Trust, cloud and operational technology security, vendor risk, compliance automation, incident readiness, data protection, and managed security for organizations where failure carries significant consequences.
Energy, Utilities + Infrastructure
St. Louis’s economy depends on complex energy, water, telecommunications, transportation, and public-service systems that must remain secure, reliable, and resilient.
Regional technology firms are positioned to support grid and network modernization, operational technology security, asset monitoring, field-service systems, predictive maintenance, outage response, data integration, and the intelligent infrastructure required for continued regional growth.
Financial Services, Fintech + Insurance
St. Louis pairs a deep banking, investment, insurance, and payments base with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and an emerging fintech venture ecosystem, creating a strong platform for innovation in money, risk, privacy, and financial infrastructure.
TechSTL’s mid-market companies are equipped to help financial organizations modernize payments, strengthen fraud and cyber defenses, automate compliance, improve risk intelligence, connect legacy systems, govern sensitive data, and deliver more seamless digital customer experiences.
Geospatial + Location Intelligence
With NGA St. Louis and a growing private-sector GEOINT community, St. Louis is building one of the world’s most strategically important geospatial innovation hubs.
TechSTL members offer specialized expertise in geospatial data engineering, cloud platforms, AI-assisted analysis, data fusion, digital twins, visualization, and secure location intelligence for projects spanning defense, infrastructure, transportation, agriculture, emergency response, and economic development.
Government + Public Sector
Because the St. Louis metro spans two states, 15 counties, and a highly distributed network of municipalities and public agencies, technology is essential to making regional services more connected, secure, efficient, and accessible.
TechSTL’s experienced providers can help agencies modernize legacy systems, protect sensitive data, improve digital constituent services, connect departmental information, strengthen public-safety technology, and automate internal processes.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
St. Louis combines major health systems and medical schools with nationally significant strengths in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, neuroscience, biomanufacturing, and bioscience commercialization—giving the region a powerful path from research discovery to patient impact.
TechSTL’s mid-market companies bring experience across regulated healthcare and life-science environments, helping organizations modernize clinical and administrative workflows, strengthen cybersecurity, connect fragmented data, deploy responsible AI, improve patient access, and accelerate research and commercialization.
Higher Education, Research + Workforce Development
With a dense network of universities, colleges, technical schools, medical campuses, and research institutions, St. Louis has a powerful foundation for discovery, talent development, and workforce reinvention.
Local technology companies can support these institutions with cybersecurity, research-data infrastructure, cloud modernization, AI-enabled learning, student-success systems, enrollment technology, grant administration, and stronger connections between academic discovery and industry.
K–12 + Education
For St. Louis, K–12 education and workforce development are where the region’s future talent, digital readiness, economic mobility, and long-term competitiveness are built.
TechSTL members can help schools and workforce organizations navigate responsible AI, student-data privacy, cybersecurity, digital learning, credential management, employer alignment, administrative automation, and equitable access to technology-enabled careers.
Logistics, Mobility + Supply Chain
Located at the intersection of major rivers, rail systems, interstates, airports, and national freight corridors, St. Louis is one of the country’s most strategically connected multimodal logistics hubs.
Local technology companies bring practical experience in routing optimization, fleet intelligence, warehouse automation, real-time shipment visibility, predictive maintenance, geospatial systems, cybersecurity, and the analytics required to build faster and more resilient supply chains.
Manufacturing + Industrial Operations
St. Louis’s industrial legacy is evolving into a next-generation manufacturing advantage, supported by major capabilities in aerospace, defense, mobility, and advanced manufacturing.
TechSTL’s mid-market companies can help manufacturers connect operational and information technology, deploy robotics and automation, modernize ERP and production systems, strengthen industrial cybersecurity, and use predictive data to reduce downtime and increase output.
Media, Marketing + Creative Tech
St. Louis’s combination of national brands, professional sports, cultural institutions, media organizations, and creative agencies gives the region a distinctive platform for content, audience, and marketing innovation.
TechSTL members can help organizations implement generative AI responsibly, modernize content production, integrate marketing platforms, improve audience intelligence, personalize engagement, protect intellectual property, and measure performance across fragmented channels.
Professional, Technical + Business Services
St. Louis’s diversified economy and concentration of major employers create strong demand for the legal, accounting, engineering, consulting, staffing, and specialized firms that help every other sector operate and grow.
TechSTL’s mid-market companies can help professional firms deploy AI-assisted workflows, automate routine processes, modernize CRM and client portals, improve knowledge management, strengthen cybersecurity, and turn firmwide data into faster decisions and higher-value service.
Retail, Consumer + Hospitality
From nationally recognized consumer brands and major attractions to neighborhood retailers, restaurants, hotels, and service businesses, St. Louis offers a diverse testing ground for digital commerce and customer-experience innovation.
Local technology companies can modernize e-commerce, point-of-sale systems, payments, inventory, loyalty programs, customer analytics, personalization, workforce scheduling, and AI-enabled service across physical and digital channels.
Startups + Small Business
Supported by accelerators, entrepreneur-support organizations, universities, corporate partners, and a growing angel and venture community, St. Louis’s startup and small-business sector is an essential pipeline for new companies, jobs, technologies, and regional wealth.
TechSTL’s established technology firms can provide growing businesses with scalable cloud systems, digital commerce, CRM, workflow automation, data strategy, cybersecurity, AI adoption, and fractional technical leadership before rapid growth exposes costly infrastructure gaps.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Our mid-market companies are vetted, proven industry champions, with a wide range of technical specialties
Artificial Intelligence
AI strategy, staff training, adoption planning, governance, productivity, responsible use, tool evaluation, and implementation.
Cybersecurity + Data Security
Assessments, data security training, staff awareness, risk management, vendor security review, and compliance readiness.
Data + Analytics
Data strategy, governance, dashboards, business intelligence, reporting, data architecture, and analytics.
Software + Systems Integration
Custom software, CRM, ERP, APIs, internal tools, legacy system modernization, and workflow platforms.
Cloud + Infrastructure
Cloud migration, cloud security, managed IT, infrastructure modernization, DevOps, and IT operations.
Automation + Operational Efficiency
Workflow automation, process mapping, operational redesign, AI-enabled productivity, and internal tool development.
Digital Transformation
Technology roadmaps, digital strategy, vendor selection, change management, staff enablement, and service modernization.
Product + User Experience
Product strategy, UX/UI, customer journey mapping, digital experience, prototyping, and product development.
Specialized Industry Technology
Geospatial, fintech, health, gov’t, logistics, advanced manufacturing, edtech, civic tech, and compliance/risk technology.