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A startup that provides cleaning and maintenance for Airbnb properties
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2 years ago
The first YC-backed startup to reach unicorn status was Airbnb, in 2009. Airbnb was followed by Dropbox, Stripe, Uber, Instacart, and Wayfair.
215
1 year ago
Y Combinator has funded a wide variety of companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, and Reddit.
195
1 year ago
A platform for homes where homeowners can share tools and services, and get paid for doing so, similar to AirBnB.
175
1 year ago
A platform that allows users to store and manage their tiny home remotely. It’s like Airbnb for tiny homes.
171
1 year ago
A startup for people who want to rent out their living room, garage or basement space to Airbnb/VRBO/HomeAway-like home-sharing services in cities across the US.
170
2 years ago
A startup that allows people to rent their homes to Airbnb hosts on a per-night basis, charging a fee to those hosts.
158
2 years ago
This startup is looking to bring Airbnb-style home sharing to the US.
153
2 years ago
This authentication app is made for Airbnb and other service providers. It lets you use your phone to make a secure token to authenticate yourself to an app.
152
2 years ago
A company that builds the “Airbnb for internships”, connecting students with companies looking for summer interns. It’s a platform that allows both internships to be created and offers a marketplace for applications.
151
2 years ago
A software company that helps companies build new websites quickly and easily. It has helped companies like Kiva, IBM, and Airbnb build websites.
150
1 year ago
As of 2018, YC has graduated over 2,000 companies, including some of the most well-known startups in the world, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit, and Lyft.
146
2 years ago
A travel app that claims to be fully integrated with Airbnb. The startup’s founders say they’ve already been in talks with Airbnb about using their platform.
144
2 years ago
A startup that is building an alternative repository to Airbnb for people to find rentable resources This includes everything from homes to lawn mowers, from the startup’s own website
142
2 years ago
A startup that provides a service where you can rent a house on Airbnb and they’ll come clean it with their own cleaning crew before the next tenant arrives
140
2 years ago
Similar to Airbnb, this company aims to connect homeowners with travelers looking for places to stay.
140
2 years ago
A software company for building apps with Facebook Messenger. The startup has built apps for the likes of Unilever and Airbnb. It’s a platform for chat bots, and allows companies to build chat bots in minutes.
138
2 years ago
A take on the “room-sharing” model of Airbnb, Mio is a peer-to-peer marketplace connecting guests and hosts.
137
2 years ago
A startup that provides a service to help people with their immigration paperwork (basically lawyer) A startup that provides an alternative to Airbnb for people to rent out their homes (which they are not living in)
132
2 years ago
A startup that’s building a mobile app that lets you rent out your spare room on Airbnb.
131
2 years ago
A way for people to rent out their spare bedrooms and living rooms on Airbnb, or even to create an entire home on the platform.
131
2 years ago
There’s a lot of startups out there that are building tools to make our lives better, like TaskRabbit and Airbnb. But not so many that are building tools to make our lives worse.
131
2 years ago
A startup that allows you to create an “Airbnb for Food”, allowing you to find and discover local restaurants that also allow you to book tables in advance. The company says it has already helped to book a hundred tables in New York City.
130
2 years ago
"Idea 2.0 is a tool for entrepreneurs to help them learn about new technologies in the market and network together. It’s the Uber of technology conferences. The conference is in its second year and has had over 1,000 attendees and 300+ speakers from 45 countries. The conference’s format is based on the model of Airbnb, where the host gets to pick the guests. The guest list is highly curated and the speakers are handpicked by the company’s CEO. The conference has been very well received by attendees and has been named a Top 10 conference in the US in 2018.
129
2 years ago
A startup that helps you find the perfect Airbnb for your needs
128
2 years ago
A startup that offers a platform for digital nomads to rent out their homes in a peer-to-peer fashion. It’s in the early stages of development, but the founders say it will be “like Airbnb, but also a concierge service and protocol for renting out your home when you’re away”.
126
2 years ago
A startup that helps users book Airbnb-style rentals, which is still a very new industry in the U.S.
126
1 year ago
AirBnb is launching in India, but more importantly, the startup is looking to grow its presence in other parts of Asia and even the Middle East.
126
2 years ago
This startup is a real estate marketplace for owners to rent out their properties for short-term stays, like Airbnb. They have over 25,000 properties on their platform.
125
2 years ago
A startup that brings the power of an “off-the-shelf” product like Uber or Airbnb to the small business owner. It makes the process of hosting, booking, and paying for a service as easy as booking a flight or an Uber.
125
1 year ago
A platform that helps people make money by sharing their home with Airbnb guests.
125
2 years ago
An on-demand marketplace for your home, pitched as a more effective, more satisfying alternative to Airbnb.
124
9 months ago
A company that helps companies with “employee engagement”. The idea is that by using its “engagement platform”, companies can find more engaged employees and more engaged customers, and it’s been used by companies like Airbnb, Stripe, and LinkedIn.
122
1 year ago
This startup wants to make it easier for people to create their own videos, with the goal of helping them share their stories with the world. The platform can be integrated into other services or used standalone, and has a number of corporate customers including the likes of Airbnb.
121
1 year ago
A Russian startup working on a decentralized version of Airbnb. The company gets paid for hosting travelers and then pays them in Dash.
117
2 years ago
A legal analytics startup that wants to help companies like Airbnb and Uber navigate regulations. The startup wants to provide data that would be required for an uber-like app to operate in a country.
116
2 years ago
A platform for small business owners to rent their property out. The company is a joint venture between a local business incubator and the co-founder of Airbnb.
115
2 years ago
A startup that provides a service for renting servers, using a model similar to Airbnb Users can rent a server by the hour, day, week, or month They rent out their unused servers, which helps keep them up to date, and clients get cheap hosting
114
2 years ago
A startup known as “The Human Body on Demand”, which aims to be the Airbnb of medical testing. The company is currently testing a system which allows you to get a blood test on-demand, with the possibility of charging for the service.
113
2 years ago
A company that wants to help people find a way to use a home like a hotel. People can rent out their home for a day, two weeks, or longer, with Airbnb-like booking options.
113
2 years ago
A tool for booking rooms, like Airbnb but for short stay hotels.
112
2 years ago
Jeeves is a service that lets people reserve rooms on Airbnb, post photos, and chat with hosts. It’s currently running in San Francisco and Los Angeles and has plans to expand to New York City, Chicago, and Washington, DC.
112
1 year ago
A meeting scheduling platform in the vein of Doodle. The startup is another one that’s building its service (and product) in the U.S. It’s already sold over $15 million worth of its services to companies like Airbnb, Airbnb, and Google.
110
2 years ago
A startup that lets guests book rooms and restaurants directly on Airbnb, without having to go through the service’s own reservations system.
109
2 years ago
A platform that helps local governments make decisions about vacant properties. It's similar to other services like Airbnb, but for rentals.
107
2 years ago
A startup for people who are hosts on Airbnb. The startup is looking to make it easier to manage multiple properties
106
2 years ago
The startup is building a traveler marketplace for South American cities. It’s a place where travelers can find roommates, book flights, and even share their rooms on AirBNB-like websites.
105
2 years ago
A company that’s building a mobile app to allow travelers to search for hotels and airbnb listings in cities they’re visiting.
105
10 months ago
A startup bringing a piece of the hotel-management world to the Airbnb world.
104
2 years ago
A tool for the hospitality industry to manage attendee profiles. One of the founders previously worked at Airbnb.
101
2 years ago
A tool that builds customizable online guides for listing services like Airbnb and Etsy.
99
2 years ago
Ideas is organized by YC staff and features the companies that have been accepted into the program. Past speakers include the founders of Airbnb, Stripe, and Reddit.
99
2 years ago
A real estate technology platform that is a hybrid of Homejoy and Airbnb, letting landlords rent out their properties on the platform.
98
2 years ago
A “co-living” startup focused on the business side of student housing and aiming to become the Airbnb of college housing
98
2 years ago
The company is building a toolset for building and selling items on Airbnb. The company is already working with a few startups in Silicon Valley, and says they’ve raised $1.2M but aren’t disclosing their valuation or amount raised.
95
4 months ago
A real estate company for the Airbnb-hostile city of Amsterdam.
94
2 years ago
A new kind of Airbnb for flower deliveries. The company hopes to have 10,000 commercial partners by the end of the year.
93
1 year ago
A startup that advertises itself as “the Airbnb of villages.” The company is building a marketplace for rural villages in India, where villagers can rent out their rooms for short-term stays.
88
2 years ago
This startup wants to be the Airbnb of after-hours travel for dentists. Dentists can use the service to help students and interns for practice trips, and offer their own services to travelers looking for a dentist while on vacation.
85
1 year ago
A startup that helps people share their homes with others, acting as a kind of Airbnb for people to rent out their spaces.
84
1 year ago
Settle.me is a video hosting platform for Airbnb hosts, helping them tell and share their stories.
83
1 year ago
A tool for local SEO, which helps marketplaces like Etsy, Airbnb, and Shopify promote their products on the local level.
81
8 months ago
A startup that lets users more easily access Airbnb-style rooms in their own home, without having to go through vacation rentals.
81
4 months ago
This startup is building a tool for people who want to start their own Airbnb-like site to rent out their rooms. They’re targeting “micro-hosts” who want to supplement their income by renting out a spare room, kitchen, or patio space.
81
2 years ago
A tool that makes it easy for businesses to manage customer on-boarding and user experience. The product has been used by more than 300 companies, including Mozilla, Airbnb, and Groupon.
76
1 year ago
A startup that wants to be the Airbnb of car rental with an app that matches drivers to riders with specific car requirements. The business gives drivers a way to earn extra income without having to own a car.
75
1 year ago
This startup wants to be the Airbnb of the hotel industry. Its mission: to make corporate events a lot more social.
72
1 year ago
A startup that aims to be a kind of Airbnb for salespeople, connecting salespeople to sales leads and helping them find new clients.
71
4 months ago
The startup is building a mobile app for hiring and managing staff on the go — and customers include Bumble and Airbnb.
70
1 year ago
A platform that aims to capitalize on the power of the “frictionless” commerce that comes from services like Uber and Airbnb. The platform will allow consumers to use apps to order groceries, ride-sharing, or take-out, and the company will cover the cost of delivery.
69
1 year ago
A company that aims to be the Uber of Airbnbs by connecting people with shared interest and letting them share their dwelling with others who want to stay or need a place to stay.
69
1 year ago
Co-founders said they were inspired by the success of Airbnb but found themselves frustrated by the startup’s inability to deliver on its promises. Rival hotel booking site Hotels.com filed for an IPO in April 2016.
68
1 year ago
A startup that wants to be the Airbnb of bike rentals, connecting bike shops with bike rental companies, and helping people find the best bike for their needs.
68
1 year ago
A platform that connects young entrepreneurs with mentors and customers. The startup works with businesses in the creative sector, and has worked with other startups including Airbnb and Coinbase.
67
1 year ago
A startup that wants to automatically match people with the best Airbnb rentals for them.
65
1 year ago
A startup that wants to build a building management system to help buildings adapt to sharing economy demand. It monitors energy usage and billing, to help buildings adapt to the Airbnb-style short-term rental.
63
1 year ago
A startup that lets people earn money by helping their friends book trips. At present, the company has partnered with Airbnb and Kayak to help people book their own trips.
63
1 year ago
A startup that aims to make the process of selling on Airbnb easier, with a new product that automates tasks like collecting payments.
62
1 year ago
An online check-in and messaging system for travelers, like Airbnb.
61
1 year ago
A startup that’s building real estate tools for tour operators and hotels. The company is a spin-off of a similar service called AirBnB, and says the average hotel makes $500 a year on each room they manage.
61
9 months ago
A startup that’s building a hybrid of Uber and Airbnb, a peer-to-peer hotel booking platform. The startup is building a mobile app that allows users to find, book and manage private rooms, in addition to a marketplace for services.
58
4 months ago
The company wants to be the Airbnb of Brooklyn, where you can rent out your bedroom or your couch while you’re traveling.
58
1 year ago
A platform for renting and selling goods on Airbnb, with tools to help hosts manage their listings and reduce costs.
57
1 year ago
A startup similar to Airbnb but for hosting companies
57
4 months ago
A platform for playing games on the web by using a webcam to see the player’s face. The startup wants to be the Airbnb for games.
57
3 months ago
A tool for getting your hotel room on Airbnb or other vacation rental sites.
57
3 months ago
A startup that allows users to rent out their cars, bikes, and boats and earn money in the process. In the US, there are a million people who use Airbnb-like services to rent out their homes each month.
56
1 year ago
Certainly not a startup, but a company that builds tools to help big companies like Spotify, AirBnB, and Netflix build better web products
55
1 year ago
A loyalty app which gives users points towards services they want through surveys, and then rewards them with discounts at other services. The startup, which has been around for over a year, is working with over 100 brands, including Airbnb, Amazon, and Lyft.
53
1 year ago
A company that allows people to rent out their homes, providing revenue to homeowners and also serving as a revenue stream for Airbnb-like hosts.
53
9 months ago
A startup that wants to bring the Airbnb business model to the stay-at-home domestic help market
53
2 months ago
A startup that provides loans to people in high-paying jobs through platforms, such as Airbnb.
53
1 year ago
This company is building a platform that connects real estate agents with short-term rentals, making it easier for agents to make money. The startup's founders are both previous Airbnb employees.
52
1 year ago
A payment and lending platform for the sharing economy, including Airbnb and Uber. It allows people to borrow money and pay for things like ridesharing and home sharing, with some flexibility over the conditions of the loan.
52
3 months ago
A bunch of people want to build a better Airbnb. Airy is building an open-sourced platform that helps travelers find and book places to stay on the platform, making it easier and quicker to book a place to stay.
51
9 months ago
Building an app that allows users to rent out their homes on Airbnb (or other portal) while earning extra money on the side, with the extra money going towards their mortgage.
50
9 months ago
Another application for the “copy on demand” model proposed by the likes of Airbnb and Uber.
50
1 year ago
A recent engineering graduate who landed his first job at Airbnb after dropping out of college. He’s building a startup that helps homeowners manage the process of selling their homes after leaving their landlords. Clients work with Clew to clean out their homes, give professional photos, publish their listing online, and receive bids.
48
3 months ago
A tool to create and manage your own custom version of Airbnb.
47
3 months ago
A company that makes a mobile app specifically for mobile-first companies like Airbnb and Uber.
47
1 year ago
A company that makes a looping video meant to be watched from the user’s couch. They’ve raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from investors including Airbnb and Airbnb co-founder, Brian Chesky.
46
1 year ago
This startup aims to become the Airbnb for Healthcare. The company wants to help patients manage their healthcare costs and make healthcare more affordable by allowing people to share their medical expenses with other patients.
46
10 months ago
This startup is building an “airbnb for student housing”, allowing students to rent out their apartments to other students.
46
1 year ago
A platform that lets customers easily book appointments with a service provider. The startup’s clients include Airbnb, Lyft, Uber and Seamless.
45
7 months ago
A startup that’s essentially Airbnb for VR. They allow users to host virtual tours of their homes and events in VR.
45
1 year ago
A platform that helps small businesses get into marketplaces like Airbnb and Airbnb for Business. The startup says it has already signed up over 100 companies.
43
1 year ago
A tool that allows people to connect their Airbnb reservations to their Uber ride.
43
2 months ago
The company is building a free and open-source software that allows anyone to create their own decentralized marketplaces. They hope to help fix some of the problems that have plagued other decentralized marketplaces like AirBnB, the most well-known Dapp.
41
11 months ago
In an effort to better understand the impact of its product, Yext is conducting real-time behavioral tracking tests of its software and the effects of it being installed on the web. Yext already has a number of users and revenue from companies like Airbnb, Pinterest, and Yelp.
40
10 months ago
This “Airbnb for Doctors” is letting people rent out their homes and apartments for temporary medical offices.
40
8 months ago
A collaboration platform for teams used at companies like Facebook, Uber, and Airbnb. The company’s founder left his last job at Uber to work on the startup full-time.
40
8 months ago
A chatbot for finding, booking and paying for an Airbnb stay. The startup developed a chatbot that can do all of that.
40
5 months ago
This startup is building a marketplace for people to sell their data. They say that their product is already in use by companies like Airbnb and Airbnb is already getting some value from the product.
40
11 months ago
A startup that helps people manage their own data by bringing together a range of disparate sources, like Facebook, Twitter, and Fitbit. It’s working with companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, Spotify, and Square.
39
10 months ago
A mobile app that helps hoteliers list their rooms directly on Airbnb.com without the need to host their own website.
38
5 months ago
A way to manage your Airbnb listing from your phone
38
8 months ago
A version of Airbnb for restaurants. The startup offers a way for restaurants to set up a listing and accept reservations, and to group reservations into a calendar of events to manage.
37
7 months ago
The startup will bring Airbnb-style rentals to the B2B, letting landlords advertise and manage properties all through a centralized site.
37
6 months ago
This startup is working on a social network for group-living. It’s similar to AirBnB for housing, with a focus on making it easy for families to share living space.
36
3 months ago
A startup provider for short-term rentals. The startup is taking a page out of the AirBnB playbook to provide a service for renting out unused space to travelers.
35
2 years ago
A startup that helps people find affordable housing and makes money by charging rent (like airbnb does)
34
5 months ago
A startup that wants to build a marketplace for travel companies to compete against the likes of Airbnb and vacation rental sites like VRBO.
34
6 months ago
This is a startup that lets people rent out their homes in a similar fashion to Airbnb. The startup’s CEO, Will Yang, was recently named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list of rising young entrepreneurs.
33
7 months ago
The idea is to be the Airbnb for airships and to make it easier for people to book and manage them.
31
7 months ago
A startup that helps customers rent out their places on Airbnb. The startup has already partnered with 50 properties in New York and San Francisco, and is looking to expand in other markets as well.
31
7 months ago
A new app from Airbnb that allows users to find and rent out apartments from other Airbnb hosts. The idea is that users can make money sharing their space with others.
28
10 months ago
A startup that makes it easy to manage and share expenses between friends and families in the same way that Airbnb allows people to rent out their homes directly to each other.
27
2 years ago
A startup that provides a service where people can book a room to stay in for a night like AirBnb but instead of an entire house it’s just a room
26
2 months ago
This is a startup that wants to help hotel guests and Airbnb hosts with a workaround for Airbnb’s cancellation policy. When a contract is canceled, Airbnb transfers the money to the guest, but the guest doesn’t have the contractual right to it.
25
1 month ago
A meeting booking app for private events like birthday parties, weddings, and other events. The startup wants to become the “Airbnb for events” or the “Yelp for events”.
24
20 days ago
This startup takes a page from the Airbnb playbook, allowing people to rent out their extra space in their homes as an option to earn money, as well as living space. It’s currently dealing with issues regarding the legality of this model in the UK.
23
5 months ago
A platform that allows users to build communities, which they describe as platforms that act as a hub where users can share content and other people can discover and engage with it. Built on the same infrastructure as Airbnb, they can connect to other platforms like Zazzle, Vimeo and Etsy.
22
19 days ago
A startup that aims to be the Airbnb of dog walking. DogVacay is a marketplace that matches walkers and dog owners.
22
22 days ago
This is an app that helps people navigate their flights. It’s being used by the likes of Uber and AirBNB to route users to the right airports, showing them departure times and flight numbers.
19
2 years ago
Idea: A startup that wants to be the “Airbnb of cars”. It’s an inventory management app that helps car rental agencies manage their fleet.
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