Without fail, one of the first questions people ask about new startup is: “Are they for real?”

So we at Technical.ly made a list to help answer the big question, called the realLIST. It’s an annual ranking of the top 10 young startups in Brooklyn, with 10 more on the horizon to watch out for next year.

From covering the Brooklyn tech scene day in and day out, interviewing founders, reporting on raises, hirings, projects, trends and the rest, we have as firm a handle on the startups based here as anyone else does. The results come from some heavy spreadsheet use by Technical.ly editorial staff and not a trivial amount of back-and-forth and moving around. Below are the companies that impressed us, that we think are legit, and that we will keep particularly close tabs on as we progress through 2018.

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