Project Management Software for Technology Startups in Minneapolis
For early-stage Minneapolis startups, including those building in or near health and medical devices, that need one place for the board, the hours and the decisions at a price that works for five people.
- 14-day full-access trial
- No card required
- 7-day refund on paid plans
Writing things down before you have anyone to do it
A startup building for health or medical devices, an industry the Twin Cities area is widely known for, usually has to keep records earlier than other startups. An investor's diligence, a hospital pilot or a future regulatory submission may all ask what was decided, why, and when it changed. Five people rarely have time to keep a separate record of that.
The answer is to keep the record where the work already happens. ShipSprint's wiki sits next to the board, with page history, and any sentence on a page can become a task. A decision written in Monday's notes becomes Tuesday's ticket without being copied anywhere, and the page shows what it said before someone edited it.
ShipSprint is a project tool, not a quality management system. If your product needs formal design controls, you'll still need a system built for that; this one keeps the plan, the backlog and the reasoning in order around it.
What's free, and what you'd pay for
The Free plan is core boards only: up to 5 users and 2 projects, every project template and community support, for as long as you like. That's enough for founders to run a product backlog and a hiring board.
Time tracking, timesheets, GitHub integration, capacity planning and AI assistant access start on Team, at ₹299 per user per month or ₹2,899 per year, for up to 40 users and 100 projects. Business, at ₹599 per user per month or ₹6,499 per year, adds delivery forecasts, scorecards, the owner command center and Monday digest, the audit log, sign-in with Google or Microsoft and priority support.
Every new workspace starts with 14 days of the full Business plan and a sample project, no card. If nobody upgrades, it carries on at the free tier and nothing is deleted. Any paid charge is refunded in full within 7 days if you change your mind.
Which part of ShipSprint matters at each stage
Engineering, HR, marketing and operations templates are on one subscription, so the tool grows with the company instead of being replaced.
A backlog, a WIP-limited board and a wiki for the decisions you'll be asked about later, on core boards at no cost.
On Team, GitHub branches move cards and merged pull requests close them, and five-second time logs sit next to each finished task.
Candidate pipelines and onboarding checklists from the HR templates, so a new starter's first week has an owner.
On Business, forecasts from measured velocity show whether the next milestone is realistic, and the Monday digest gives founders a status picture without a meeting.
A full JSON export of the workspace is available on every plan.
Small team, US calendar
With five people, one person's week off is a fifth of the company. On Team and up, capacity planning counts approved leave and out-of-office, so a milestone promised to an investor or a pilot site is planned around Thanksgiving week in late November, Independence Day on 4 July and the end-of-December holidays, not discovered to clash with them.
The "my day" screen keeps each person on today's items, with a one-tap time log and an "I'm blocked" button that pulls in whoever can help. There's no activity tracking, screenshots or keystroke logging.
Signing up from Minneapolis: what to know first
Who you're buying from. ShipSprint is made by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India. There's no office or local entity in the US. Support is by email and in-app chat.
Time zones. IST is 11 hours 30 minutes ahead of Minneapolis in winter and 10 hours 30 minutes ahead in summer. Questions sent in your evening reach us in our morning, and replies usually come the same Indian working day.
Billing. You pay per seat in Indian rupees through Razorpay, converted to dollars by your bank. How sales or use tax applies to a service bought from abroad is one for your accountant.
Data protection. There's no single federal privacy law in the US; state laws, such as California's CCPA and Minnesota's consumer data privacy law, apply alongside sector rules like HIPAA for health data. If a pilot involves patient data, keep it out of the project tool, and check the sub-processor list and the security overview against your obligations and any pilot agreement.
Questions from Minneapolis startups
No. Core boards for up to 5 users and 2 projects have no time limit. Time tracking and GitHub start on Team.
No. The 14-day Business trial loads a sample project and asks for no card. Afterwards the workspace continues on Free unless you upgrade.
No. Engineering, HR, marketing and operations each have templates on the same subscription, whatever the product.
No. The company is in Hyderabad, India, and supports customers remotely.
Yes. Team is ₹2,899 per user per year and Business ₹6,499. See the pricing page.
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- 7-day refund on paid plans
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