IQExit™ Named 2026 NC TECH “Top Tech Startups to Watch”

IQExit is a data intelligence company pioneering Exit Readiness Intelligence™ (ERI), a new category of intelligence that brings business owner exit intent into view long before a formal sale or succession process begins. An estimated $14 trillion in business owner wealth is expected to change hands over the next decade. Most owners spend two or three decades building and running their businesses, yet often compress the decision to sell into the final months. IQExit changes that timeline by identifying early signals of a business owner's intent to sell, well before a formal exit process begins.

For business owners, that means an early, data-backed understanding of their Indicative Value Range and overall exit readiness, giving them greater visibility into where they stand and more time to make informed decisions. For banks and financial advisers, it means an opportunity to be first in the room, equipped with a CEO-relevant reason to open a conversation years before a formal exit or succession process begins. That early insight enables advisers to engage clients proactively, support their preparation, and strengthen relationships that might otherwise be disrupted by a business sale. It also creates opportunities for banks to preserve loan and deposit relationships and for wealth advisers to grow assets under management.

IQExit sits earlier in the process, providing intelligence that helps business owners and their advisers make better-informed decisions about exit readiness, timing, and next steps, long before a deal is on the table.

“For over 20 years, NC TECH has celebrated companies, organizations and individuals for outstanding achievement at the NC TECH Awards. As a Top Tech Startup to Watch this year, IQExit has distinguished itself as one of the state’s innovative and emergent leaders,” said Michelle Calton, NC TECH’s Interim CEO.

“We’re honored to be recognized by NC TECH, and we share this recognition with the banks, wealth advisers, and CPAs who believed in what we were building,” said Tully Ryan, CEO of IQExit Inc. “They didn’t need us to tell them this problem existed. They were already having these conversations with clients, but lacked the structured, forward-looking intelligence to support them. Their willingness to trust us early and recognize the value of that intelligence is a big part of why we’re here today.”

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IQExit™ is a data intelligence company pioneering Exit Readiness Intelligence™ (ERI), a new category of intelligence that brings business owner exit intent into view long before a formal sale or succession process begins. Its technology provides business owners with an early, data-backed understanding of their Indicative Value Range and exit readiness, giving them greater visibility into where they stand and more time to make informed decisions. For banks, wealth advisers, and CPAs, IQExit provides actionable intelligence to initiate timely, CEO-relevant conversations, strengthen client relationships, and identify opportunities to preserve lending and deposit relationships and grow assets under management. IQExit is based in Wilmington, North Carolina.