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4 years ago

A company that wants to help members of the LGBTQ community and other minorities get affordable health insurance. HealthForceOne has been in the market for almost a year, with a client list that includes the New York City Department of Health and the LGBT Center.

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4 years ago

This year’s judges were Jason Ho, Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures; Kristi Puller, Founder, and CEO, Techstars; Bill Gaver, General Partner, 500 Startups; and Sanjay Dastoor, Founder, and CEO, InVenture Partners.

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4 years ago

This startup is building an Android app that lets you record and edit your own voiceovers for podcasts.

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4 years ago

A startup that says it helps marketers target their Facebook ads by machine learning. The startup’s CEO says everyone is already familiar with the concept of machine learning, but the way it’s implemented in Facebook ads is confusing and not very effective.

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4 years ago

This startup, which was co-founded by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, wants to bring machine learning to the enterprise.

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3 years ago

A CEO of a software company in the Middle East told me that while he liked the idea of Hinge, one of the things missing was a way to easily find matches outside of New York, Toronto and LA. Hinge wants to be the place to find matches where you aren’t a celebrity.

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3 years ago

A startup that helps CEOs and CFOs to leverage the skills of their employees, especially their human resources. The company focuses on HR software.

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5 years ago

CEO of the startup is a former Google engineer that says they are “building a better way to do recruiting”

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5 years ago

A venture for helping people find and book cheap flights on both domestic and international flights. The startup is a spin-off of co-founder and CEO Zachary Mider’s previous startup, which is also focused on domestic flights.

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5 years ago

Sunlight is an app that allows media companies to schedule video to go out live on their website with a single click. Sunlight’s CEO says that the app has already helped his company grow by up to 30%.

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5 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.

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3 years ago

The former CEO of a company called “Nexus”, which was acquired in 2016, wanted to build an app that would allow you to book a taxi through your phone in the same way you book a flight.

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5 years ago

A platform for making lists and reminders. The startup is led by the former CEO of a company called Reminders, which was acquired by Google in 2010.

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5 years ago

A startup that wants to make the “banking process” easy for millennials. The CEO says that half of millennials don’t have checking accounts, and another third don’t have credit cards. They want to do for banking what Mint did for personal finance.

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5 years ago

A project management platform: “Many small businesses are managing their projects themselves,” said CEO Ben. “We want to help them have access to the same data and value proposition that large companies have.”

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5 years ago

The CEO of this startup started out as a professional taxi driver and quickly realized that there was no way for him to know how to maximize his taxi revenue. He set out to solve the problem and came up with a solution. As a result, he says, “I’m making a lot more money than the taxi drivers in Bangkok, and they’re never going to tell me how to make more money.”

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2 years ago

A startup that allows a person to record voiceover or screencast video calls from any device, and then upload it to a website where others can see and comment.

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5 years ago

The company’s goal is to be the most socially responsible fashion platform on the web. “We’re like the Etsy for buying sustainable products,” says CEO Rami.

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5 years ago

A startup that’s building a C++ library that allows hardware designs to be shared on GitHub. The company’s CEO says that the concept is similar to the Arduino open source hardware platform.

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5 years ago

building a tool to help small businesses manage their paper files, like sales invoices, in a way that’s really convenient for everyone. The startup’s CEO says that they’ve already sold their product to three big companies.

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5 years ago

A tool for CEOs to talk to their employees, and give them access to a variety of tools to help them work.

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5 years ago

CEO and co-founder, Josh, is a self-proclaimed "Serial Entrepreneur." He's built startups in the past five years, including a few that were acquired by larger tech companies.

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5 years ago

The soft-spoken CEO of Young Living believes that as the industry gains more attention, it will lose the stigma it once had — and that “the stigma will fall like a rock”.

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4 years ago

A start-up that wants to replace the messy and outdated process of filling out tax forms with a website that will do the whole job for you. Taxcobo’s CEO says his company can save you 10 hours of work a year, or about $1,000, and its employees are former tax professionals.

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5 years ago

A tool for users to get feedback on projects. The startup was founded by serial entrepreneur and former CEO of Upwork.

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5 years ago

This is a startup that wants to make it easier for people to make products in multiple languages. It currently offers a single language editor, aimed at creating text-based localizations for a single language, and plans to launch a tool for generating voiceover scripts.

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5 years ago

A technology company that creates “smart” thermostats for home and business use, allowing homeowners to control their thermostats via their smartphone. The company is led by CEO and founder Rajat Pahuja, who previously built a business in India called Shubh Loans that went “very profitable,” according to Pahuja.

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5 years ago

A startup for hiring refurbished items. The company’s CEO, who is also CEO of a shipping company, has been refurbishing old shipping containers and reselling them on the site. The company has raised $1.5 million in funding.

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5 years ago

A platform that makes it easier to sell and ship products online. CEO Jairaj Habbal has raised $100,000 in seed funding and says he wants the company to be the eBay of the e-commerce world.

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3 years ago

A messaging app that allows users to interact in real-time with voice, video and text. The company launched in 2014, but is now pivoting to private messaging, said co-founder and CEO, who has a background in robotics and robotics technology.

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4 years ago

A platform for renting kidney donors. The company’s CEO says it has signed up over 100 patients and has started to offer discounted rates to those that pre-order and complete the process first.

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3 years ago

A company that provides real-time GPS mapping for construction projects. Founder/CEO Sreenivasan has worked at companies such as Mapbox and Mapzen, and was the founding CEO of the open source platform OpenStreetMap.

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4 years ago

A web-based service for buying and selling designer clothes and accessories on the web. The company’s CEO says the site has grown to 2.5 million monthly users and $20 million in annual revenue.

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4 years ago

A dating platform for men seeking women, with a heavy emphasis on education. The company has already raised $1.4M after announcing the startup in December, with investors including former CEO of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman.

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4 years ago

Imagine you’re a CEO who wants to maximize your company’s profits. One way to do it is to accept credit cards, but most companies struggle to get the rates they want. Debit-on-demand startup Debitize lets companies accept credit cards and debit cards on demand.

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3 years ago

The company is looking for a new CEO to help it grow beyond its current 2,000-customer base. The CEO had a bumpy time at the helm and the company hasn’t grown much since he arrived.

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4 years ago

The engineers behind this startup are using a “data-driven” approach to build a better email marketing platform. The company’s CEO says that email marketing is better than ever.

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4 years ago

The CEO of the company is a veteran of the automotive industry, and the startup is building a platform to help auto dealers use technology to help them better serve their customers.

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3 years ago

Startups that fit into multiple categories, where founders have multiple roles — co-founder, CEO, CTO and CIO, or just the founder and CTO — are a bit more common today, but still rare. The challenge is that it can be difficult to measure how much of the company’s sales and profit go to the founder. Here’s a partial list of startups that fit into that category:

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4 years ago

A platform for developing video games and other digital content. They're hiring a CEO to grow the company and have plans to expand from the Bay to LA, New York and beyond.

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4 years ago

A platform for selling books in the Philippines, in the same way that Amazon does for books in the US. The startup’s investors include Facebook’s David Marcus, CEO of Coinbase Brian Armstrong, and the co-founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman.

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3 years ago

A 3D scanner for making 3D models of things, like building prototypes or product packaging. The startup is backed by the CEO of Makerbot.

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4 years ago

The startup is focused on the online dating industry, which is, according to CEO Ryan Feit, “one of the most archaic industries in tech.”

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3 years ago

"Interview with the CEO of an emerging startup" - https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2015/09/12/interview-with-the-ceo-of-an-emerging-startup/

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4 years ago

What is it: An AI-powered HR tech company, with the CEO saying it’s “the future of HR tech.”

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4 years ago

Co-founded by former CEO of Appjo, a startup that made a product to help people write and manage their to-do’s online.

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2 years ago

A CEO for a startup that’s changing the way people work.

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4 years ago

A platform for online shoppers to compare prices from different stores. The company’s CEO says they have a large database of IP addresses from all over the world. The startup helps people find the lowest prices on products they’re looking for.

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4 years ago

The founder of this startup is the CEO of a successful full-service SEO consultancy. The startup aims to take the SEO knowledge he used to build his practice and apply it to online marketing.

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3 years ago

After 10 years at Microsoft, where she was on the engineering side of the company's Azure cloud computing platform, and launching and running teams, Nadella helped build up the company's IoT and AI platforms, and then transitioned to the CEO role.

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4 years ago

A B2B SaaS startup focused on helping companies find, manage and automate their supply chain. The company is led by former McKinsey consultant and CEO, who previously started and sold several companies.

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3 years ago

AdAstra is a startup that uses AI to help retailers create advertising campaigns. The company is headquartered in Singapore and is led by CEO Shaun Hee.

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4 years ago

In this business, the CEO says, “we are working with a small group of partners and we are finding that it is almost impossible to get a loan from a bank.” The startup uses its own software to help companies quickly verify their ability to repay a loan.

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4 years ago

A management platform for connecting sales reps with clients, currently only available in the UK. The company’s co-founder was previously the CEO of the UK’s largest recruitment search engine.

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3 years ago

A workflow tool for teams — helping to “increase the average person’s effectiveness by 20%,” in cofounder and CEO Russ Jones’ words.

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4 years ago

Not only does this startup make a cheap, disposable pen that works like a ballpoint, its CEO is also a pen manufacturer. The startup sells its pens for $5, and are made in China similar to Apple products.

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3 years ago 1 views

A SaaS startup that helps engineers collaborate on projects using a chat-based tool. The company’s CEO, Ryan Kavanagh, says that it’s already paying off.

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3 years ago

The startup’s CEO, Jessy Toh, is a former product manager at Google, and she’s been working on the startup’s data-driven sales software, which is supposed to help sales reps manage their pipelines.

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4 years ago

A workflow management platform for surgeons and medical anesthesiologists. The company’s investors include former CEOs of Amazon, eBay, and Google.

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3 years ago

The Philadelphia Business Journal also has a weekly feature called "Philadelphia Startup Spotlight", which highlights Philly startups. It highlights the company's most recent news and trends, and interviews the CEO.

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3 years ago

A company that wants to take the average project manager and make them into a CEO.

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4 years ago

In 2015, when asked about the app, founder and CEO of Asana, Dustin Moskovitz, said, "...it's not like you would have to go through and check every single piece of content on Facebook. It's not that hard to check if it's a link to a website. ... But we can't be 100% sure that the link is safe. And you want a social network that's not going to take you down."

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4 years ago

A startup that uses facial recognition to help customers find, review, and purchase products online. Founded by the former CEO of UBER.

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3 years ago

Adaptive Path is a management consultancy that advises startups on how to organize around a CEO. The firm advises companies on how to hire CEOs, how to measure performance, how to address issues like burnout, how to handle conflicts and how to create a culture of transparency.

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3 years ago

The company’s co-founder and CEO, Ryan Williams, previously co-founded an online ticket co-op and a ticketing software company.

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2 years ago

A database for sharing and tracking the inventory of physical products, like books, videotapes, and other media. It’s CEO says it’s like the Google Docs of physical products.

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3 years ago

The company’s CEO, Will Clark, is a former member of the U.S. Air Force and a former personal trainer, and the company’s co-founders are also experienced entrepreneurs. The company, which launched in 2013, is looking to address a major issue in the fitness industry: it’s difficult, expensive, and time-consuming to get fit.

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3 years ago

This CEO and CTO duo are building a virtual assistant to help companies build and scale virtual assistants.

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2 years ago

A wearable that measures blood pressure and heart rate at a user's fingertips. The startup’s co-founder and CEO is a former Apple employee with a Ph.D from Harvard; they’re looking to raise $100,000 on Kickstarter.

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2 years ago

A tool to help people who are blind or visually impaired find their way around the world. The startup’s CEO, who is blind, says that her son was lost in a mall and was able to use the startup’s product to find his way home.

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3 years ago

A tool for CEOs and CFOs to quickly create their own financial statements for key metrics.

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3 years ago

This startup is building a tool that helps CEOs and CFOs keep up with their financial reports and to help them build a fair compensation system for their employees.

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3 years ago 1 views

A tool to help developers build their own hardware. The startup’s CEO is an ex-Apple exec who says he’s building hardware for “everyman.”

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3 years ago

This startup is building a tool to help companies find and vet their next CEO through crowdsourcing.

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3 years ago

A software developer’s startup is building an online platform that helps developers have greater visibility into their projects. The company’s CEO says it solves the problem of having to constantly check in on progress of each project.

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3 years ago

“We’re building a tool for the people who don’t think they can learn to code,” says founder and CEO Jonah Liebman. The company, which was founded in January, wants to help coders make their job easier.

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3 years ago

The Center for Humane Technology was an initiative started by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who was a founding organizer. The center's mission is to research and devise ways in which technology can be used to help people, with a particular focus on children, refugees, and the disabled.

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2 years ago

A platform that uses AI to help recruiters find candidates. Founded by the former CEO of Glassdoor, the company is aiming to be a highly-targeted alternative to traditional job boards.

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3 years ago

Redefining the way the world looks at enterprise IT. As the founder puts it, "We're building a new kind of company where there's no hierarchy, no CTO, no CEO, everything is built from the bottom up."

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3 years ago

CEO Kevin Fong founded the company with a mission to build a menswear brand that would make well-made suits at a low cost. The startup is looking to disrupt the menswear industry by offering a more accessible product and a more accessible price point.

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3 years ago

The startup’s CEO says the goal of the startup is to make the “secure-by-design” process of buying cryptocurrency easy.

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3 years ago

A company that wants to bring a more collaborative, flexible alternative to Slack. The company’s CEO is focused on the project so deeply that he’s been known to send his employees to work from the kitchen while they’re cooking, getting all of their orders out and done.

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2 years ago 1 views

A startup that engages users in helping develop online tools. It’s trying to hire a CEO to help grow the company.

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3 years 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.

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3 years ago

A platform that helps users buy and sell secondhand goods, the product of a collaboration between serial entrepreneur and the cofounder of Urban Outfitters. The CEO says the company has 3,000 users, and is profitable.

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3 years ago

The CEO of the company is a former tech executive at Facebook who says their product lets small businesses easily create email marketing campaigns. They’re building a product for small businesses to send out email marketing campaigns.

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3 years ago

A company that provides professional, non-intrusive security service to protect privileged accounts. It’s a B2B business, with the CEO saying that it’s difficult to get security services for large companies. HotPass was started by former CIA and NSA employees to provide more secure alternatives to encryption.

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3 years ago

A platform for scheduling remote workers with a focus on on-demand workforce management. Currently focused on the US, with plans to expand internationally. They’re looking for a US-based CEO.

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3 years ago

The CEO of the company said that their three co-founders thought of the idea as a “wish-list”. They wanted to help people find the right car for their lifestyle, so they built out the tool to give car buyers a breakdown of the total cost of buying the car and the monthly cost of ownership.

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2 years ago 1 views

A banking app for the socially conscious. The app allows users to donate to charity, the company’s CEO says, and the donations go to a central fund.

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2 years ago

A startup that helps parents track their children’s daily progress through a phone app. “Parents can snap pictures of their children in the morning, at lunch and after school to capture milestones such as the first steps, first words, first hair cut,” CEO Michael Foust told VentureBeat.

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3 years ago

"We are a company that believes that people should be paid fairly, but we also believe that they should be able to save a little money to be able to afford that," said CEO and co-founder Chris Harvey. "We’re creating this technology that allows people to be able to save a little bit of money in the form of a small credit for the time that they are working."

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2 years ago

A cloud-based platform that helps healthcare organizations (hospitals, clinics, and doctors offices) reduce medical errors and improve patient safety at the point of care. CEO Justin Miller, former CTO of Radiology at Stanford Medicine, and CTO and co-founder of Machine Intelligence Watson, which was acquired by IBM.

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5 years ago

Idea: A new kind of ecommerce platform for physical goods, where every product page has a video embedded. The company calls itself “a new kind of ecommerce platform for physical goods, where every product page has a video embedded.” Users can watch videos to hear the story behind the product, or if they want, can touch the screen and hear the video narrated by a voiceover.

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3 years ago

A tool for CFOs, CEOs and controllers to manage a company’s cash flow and payables. The startup looks to compete with tools like Citrix’s Acctiva and QuickBooks’ Xero.

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3 years ago

A company building a “personal concierge” app that connects people with the professional services they need. The CEO says the app is built with a focus on the “a la carte” experience, not the “the-big-package-of-everything” experience.

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3 years ago

A data analytics and reporting platform for health care providers, with a focus on the emergency departments of hospitals. The startup wants to help solve the problem of “beds full of patients who have no one to talk to about their condition,” according to CEO Ken Dang.

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3 years ago

A “credit score for people” that CEO says will help the company’s users understand how they’re impacting their credit.

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps retail businesses create personalized images and videos for their products. The company’s CEO says that the startup’s technology has already been used to create over 3,000 videos, and the startup has generated $50,000 in revenue so far.

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2 years ago

This startup is building a digital assistant for construction companies to help them better manage their projects. The startup is named after the company’s CEO, who grew up in a construction family.

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2 years ago

Based in San Francisco, this startup is building a platform that will help major brands create their own apps, according to CEO Joe Lonsdale. It allows brands to create their own apps that look and feel like their own, and it also makes money by selling the apps to consumers.

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2 years ago

A startup that handles all the administrative tasks of running a nonprofit. The founder, Gaurav Mehlawat, works for the non-profit, acts as the company’s CEO, and is also the COO.

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2 years ago

A platform that enables investors and developers to get access to private data from private companies. The company’s CEO is a former lawyer and the Chief Data Officer, having worked at companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter.

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2 years ago

This is a service that helps users find and book cosmetic services with the help of a doctors’ assistant. The company is based in San Francisco and is owned by Dan Doctoroff, the former CEO of Business Insider.

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2 years ago

A startup that wants to help people make their own custom-designed eyeglasses. The company’s CEO said in an interview that glasses are one of the most expensive purchases that people make in their lifetime and that he wants to help people customize their look.

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2 years ago

Ashley Thayer, founder and CEO of the company, wrote that this product "aims to take the friction out of booking a rental and allows renters and landlords to book and pay for their rental experiences through a mobile app."

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2 years ago

The CEO of Vatika, a startup that helps people buy and sell their cars, says that the average person spends $1,000 to sell or buy a car and that a lot of car-sellers have no idea what they’re doing. Vatika wants to help them with that by building a platform that helps with everything from pricing and calculating taxes to paperwork and arranging title transfers.

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2 years ago

A company that offers an API that allows customers of its software to take a photo of a receipt and it’ll scan the bar code to find the item, then show the item’s price on the screen. The startup’s CEO says the company has sold $30,000 worth of software since the beginning of the year.

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2 years ago

"The world’s first free, no-cost, no-commitment, user-friendly, no-nonsense, no-hassle platform for finding and hiring top talent, managers, executives and CEOs for your business."

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2 years ago

A startup that’s building a magnetic-levitation train capable of speeds of 200 miles per hour. The company’s CEO says that it’s necessary to “address the mobility problems of all the world’s cities”.

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2 years ago

Today’s employers often don’t want or need employees who are technically savvy, but rely heavily on software. CEO Joel Maron wants to make it easier for these companies to hire developers.

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2 years ago

This is a Christian-based network that seeks to help find housing for young adults. It’s led by a CEO who formerly worked at Habitat for Humanity and the Salvation Army.

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4 days ago

A platform that turns everyday photos into interactive 3D family albums, letting users add voiceovers, timelines, and AR experiences to relive memories with grandkids.

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21 days ago

A platform that uses AI to generate personalized wedding vows and speeches from couples' shared photos, texts, and stories, delivered as polished scripts or voiceovers.

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