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2 years ago

A startup that helps the elderly and disabled to communicate with their family

997
1 year ago

An AI-powered voice device that allows people to communicate with their pets.

674
11 months ago

A messaging app that helps people in the UK and Europe communicate with those in the UK, Europe, or the rest of the world.

450
2 years ago

A startup that is building a platform for companies to better communicate with their customers

293
2 years ago

A private, secure messaging app that allows you to communicate with people who have already invited you.

269
2 years ago

A health care platform that aims to help doctors communicate with patients and their families in real time by providing a secure way to voice and video call.

234
2 years ago

A tool for real estate agents that helps them track and communicate with all the different people involved in a home buying process.

219
2 years ago

Speakeasy allows businesses to communicate with their customers via SMS, email, or other messaging software.

207
2 years ago

They want to build a platform where employers and freelance workers can “communicate, connect and collaborate”. They have raised $1.1M in seed funding as of September 2019.

196
2 years ago

A healthcare database platform that allows doctors to communicate with each other and share patient data.

192
2 years ago

A startup that helps track and connect people who want to apply for jobs in a specific city, and allows them to see the job openings, apply and schedule interviews, get feedback on their applications, and communicate with recruiters. Available in the San Francisco Bay Area.

189
2 years ago

A software platform that lets brands communicate with marketing departments around the world — making workflows easier and more cost-effective.

185
1 year ago

A startup that aims to help freelancers communicate and coordinate with clients.

177
2 years ago

A SaaS business that takes the pain out of talking to a doctor online, allowing patients to schedule appointments and communicate with their doctors 24/7.

173
2 years ago

A company that’s building a platform for group communication. It’s building a way to easily voice chat and share information with groups. It’s a product for big companies that want to communicate with internal teams, but it could also be used by small startups to communicate with teams.

167
2 years ago

A text-based messaging platform that serves as a go-to for employees and students to communicate with their employers and schools.

162
2 years ago

A SaaS company that offers a platform for managing employee benefits. It provides a software dashboard for insurance providers to compare health plans and find the best benefits to offer without having to communicate directly with consumers.

157
1 year ago

A new way to deliver medications to doctors. The startup makes it possible to communicate with physicians while they are on the go.

157
2 years ago

This startup is building an AI-powered tool that helps people communicate with their doctors, who can then respond with medical advice.

156
1 year ago

A “sales-as-a-service” tool that helps salespeople track leads and communicate with customers.

156
2 years ago

A startup that helps people with disabilities to communicate more easily

154
2 years ago

A platform for employees to communicate with each other, share files, and review client work. The company uses Slack as a communications platform, and has raised $1.5 million in funding to date.

153
1 year ago

A platform designed for the non-technical employee to communicate with their managers.

152
1 year ago

A delivery platform for restaurants that lets them track the progress of their orders and instantly communicate with customers.

152
2 years ago

A text-based chat service for healthcare providers, with the aim of making it easier for patients to get a doctor’s appointment and communicate with their care teams.

148
2 years ago

A Slack-like platform for business that helps businesses communicate and manage workflows.

147
2 years ago

A web-based platform for licensed landlords to manage tenant’s payments and communicate with them.

146
1 year ago

A new way to communicate with customers that helps stores create an experience similar to that of an in-person visit.

146
2 years ago

This startup is trying to help companies stop using Gmail as an inefficient way to communicate with customers and employees.

145
2 years ago

A web-based platform that helps users navigate and communicate with their healthcare providers.

144
2 years ago

A startup that aims to improve the quality of documents that doctors write for patients. The startup wants to make it easier for doctors to collaborate on and share their notes, with a mobile app for sharing patient information and an instant messaging channel for doctors to communicate with each other.

144
2 years ago

A tool for helping people collaborate and communicate via text, email, and phone. The startup’s product is a Slack chatbot that helps users talk about topics, track conversations, set reminders, and so forth.

143
2 years ago

A wearable device that tracks running and biking data and can communicate with a smartphone app. The startup wants to make it easy to get new workouts and track progress without having to purchase a wearable or smartphone apps.

143
2 years ago

A startup that looks to make it easier for people to communicate with their doctors. It’s a service for people who want to answer questions about their health without having to make an appointment.

142
2 years ago

This startup’s software makes it easier to communicate with people in the U.S. government and military in order to facilitate disaster relief.

141
1 year ago

A startup that helps people learn how to write resumes and cover letters, and how to communicate with potential employers.

141
1 year ago

A tool that connects people who are in the same neighborhood, giving them the ability to communicate, socialize, and share their location.

141
2 years ago

A technology that helps companies collaborate and communicate with one another. The startup is currently making $36,000 per month from two customers.

140
2 years ago

A company that helps banks with digital transformation. The startup wants to help banks develop their online presence by making it easier for them to communicate with customers.

140
1 year ago

A social network for elderly people to check in and view pictures of their friends and family. The startup has already helped its first customer, a family member, locate her father and communicate with him (via text) over the phone.

140
2 years ago

A startup that wants to sell real estate agents a software tool that helps them manage leads and communicate with the client

139
2 years ago

A dental software startup, which wants to help dentists and hygienists better communicate with patients.

139
2 years ago

A company that wants to help hospitals build better technology. It's building cloud software that allows nurses to prioritize patient care, use a shared calendar, communicate with doctors, and more.

138
2 years ago

A company that helps managers and employees to communicate effectively. It’s a private messaging app with a long list of partners that is easy to use and lets people stay in touch with coworkers.

138
2 years ago

A startup that wants to improve the way people communicate with the deaf. The company is building a translator that allows deaf people to communicate with their hearing peers in a variety of situations.

137
2 years ago

A startup is creating a messaging platform for companies to communicate with their customers

135
2 years ago

A platform for families to connect and communicate with other families around the world.

135
1 year ago

 A mobile app for doctors and nurses to communicate and make appointments, but also to find and follow up on patients after they’ve seen a doctor.

135
2 years ago

The idea is to give companies a better way to communicate and collaborate with customers. The app is designed to make it easy for businesses to send sales-related messages to their entire customer base, employees, and partners.

133
2 years ago

A high-tech way to enable people to communicate with their doctors remotely. The company hopes to make that easier for everyone: patients, doctors, and caretakers.

131
2 years ago

TeleServ is building a service that helps people track and improve the speed of their insurance claim. The company offers a set of tools that let people track claims, check claims status, and communicate with service reps.

130
2 years ago

A group chat app that helps groups communicate, with video capabilities

130
1 year ago

A company that builds a platform that helps small businesses communicate with customers and suppliers via SMS or voice calls.

130
2 years ago

A startup working on a new communications protocol for decentralized networks. The company aims to build a network of devices that can communicate without relying on centralized servers.

129
2 years ago

A startup that helps people communicate with each other on the internet by allowing them to create and share photos, videos, and text messages.

129
2 years ago

A cloud-based platform that aims to help users communicate in real-time. The company’s pitch is that it’s like Slack, but for international teams.

126
2 years ago

This startup is building an interactive platform for teachers, parents, and students to communicate and collaborate.

126
2 years ago

A startup that provides remote workers with the tools to efficiently monitor, report, and communicate their team’s progress, with the goal of giving managers the ability to manage teams, with less need for face time. The company has raised $1.2 million in funding, and has customers in the UK, Canada, and Australia.

126
2 years ago

A product that allows you to draw on your smartphone so you can communicate with your friends in the same format as you do on the computer.

125
2 years ago

The company is centered around a new product called the “Activity Tracker”, which is actually a wristband with sensors that measure the wearer’s activity throughout the day. The wristband communicates with a phone that then records the data on the app. The data can then be synced with a HealthKit-enabled app for tracking progress.

123
1 year ago

Transnational startup that creates tools for small businesses and nonprofits to communicate in Korean. The company is working with a Korean NGO on the Korean-language version of Forecast.

123
1 year ago

This startup wants to help educators and parents quickly communicate what's going on with their kids, making it safer for them to do things like go to school or play in the park.

122
2 years ago

A medical service that connects doctors with patients online, and lets patients communicate with the doctors without the need for an in-person visit.

119
2 years ago

A startup that helps you communicate with your team remotely, whether it be a conversation, a live video call, or a collaborative whiteboard

119
2 years ago

Causes that want to communicate with people on Facebook and other social media platforms can now do so through a Facebook-style private messaging platform that will allow users to send and receive messages through a growing list of apps and services. The company says the community is growing rapidly and has over 200,000 members.

118
2 years ago

A secure messaging service for websites, allowing companies to communicate securely over the internet without having to worry about eavesdroppers. The startup has raised $9.5M in funding so far, with a $20M valuation.

118
1 year ago

A startup that’s building a chatbot for use on Slack, to help teams communicate with one another. They’re currently focused on developing a “conversational” experience.

118
10 months ago

A secure, encrypted messaging platform that allows businesses to communicate and collaborate securely.

118
2 years ago

A tool for recruiters to manage, organize, and communicate with candidates. The startup wants to help companies like LinkedIn and Zappos with their Hiring Processes.

116
2 years ago

This startup wants to help business owners communicate with customers in a private group in real time.

116
2 years ago

A platform where used car buyers can find, communicate, and negotiate deals with sellers.

116
10 months ago

This company is building a platform that aims to help small companies communicate and collaborate with each other via a virtual conference room.

116
8 months ago

A company that helps small businesses and social media marketers find and communicate with their ideal customers using a mobile app.

116
2 years ago

A project management tool that focuses on helping distributed teams communicate with one another.

115
2 years ago

“The company’s mission is to create a better way to communicate between employees and employers. They’ve built an app that allows companies to send out salary increases to employees in advance, which they say helps employees be more productive and be better at their jobs. They say their users have improved their productivity by 30% and received an average salary increase of 84%.”

115
2 years ago

A tool that helps companies source and communicate with local contractors.

114
2 years ago

A texting platform for groups of people to communicate efficiently. The startup wants to leverage its popularity in the soccer world to make the company a household name.

114
2 years ago

A startup that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help companies determine what the best way is to communicate with customers.

114
1 year ago

This startup is building a platform to help people who have given up their phones or are reluctant to give them up, to still communicate with loved ones, friends and coworkers. They’ve built a chatbot that allows people to send text messages and make calls to their friends without the phone.

114
4 months ago

A startup that uses blockchain to build a protocol for building smart cities. The startup is working on a system for making it easier for cities to communicate with each other, to reduce traffic and pollution, and to inform citizens about environmental conditions.

114
2 years ago

The startup offers a single, secure online platform for business to communicate with customers. It allows for quick, real-time communication to be channeled into a customer’s inbox.

112
8 months ago

A real-time chat bot that will link up with Slack to help teams better communicate and collaborate.

112
2 years ago

A SAAS product that helps organize and manage all of a person’s relationships. The startup wants to help people communicate with their friends and family more effectively.

111
2 years ago

A video chat solution for businesses that helps them communicate with their customers.

110
2 years ago

A three-year-old company building a real-time communication and collaboration platform for businesses and teams. It’s a tool that helps teams stay on the same page, and communicate as they work.

108
1 year ago

A startup where moms can use a mobile app to communicate with other moms in their area.

108
2 years ago

This business helps manage employee schedules, and allows companies to communicate with employees by voice or text message.

107
2 years ago

An employee app for Slack. It lets employees use Slack bots to communicate with each other.

107
1 year ago

The startup wants to use data science to help people more easily manage and communicate with their loved ones when they’re dealing with illness or injury. The startup is building a platform that combines data and artificial intelligence to help families stay in touch and communicate more effectively.

107
2 years ago

This is streamlining the process of managing employees in-person and remotely by making it much easier to communicate with employees, set up meetings, and review schedules. The company is currently piloting with large retailers, and plans to expand to other verticals in the future.

106
2 years ago

A San Francisco-based startup that’s helping teams communicate by answering questions and getting help from a system that understands what each person is working on.

104
1 year ago

A platform to help students communicate with professors and get feedback

103
2 years ago

A platform for insurers, doctors, hospitals, and patients to communicate data about a patient without having to go through a third party. The data is used to improve care and reduce costs, and it’s currently being used in the UK.

102
2 years ago

A company that makes software to help manage large group trips. It helps groups of people communicate itineraries and organize everything from hotel reservations to transportation to food.

101
2 years ago

Idea (n): A tool for operating systems to help them perform voice commands. It’s being built by a Y Combinator alum, and it’s meant to help people with disabilities to communicate more easily.

100
2 years ago

A digital assistant that helps users book doctors' appointments and communicate with doctors. The startup launched in May in the US, with plans to expand to the UK, India, and Mexico.

99
2 years ago

A startup that’s building a machine that can read your medical records, listen to your voice, and communicate with you in non-verbal ways.

99
2 years ago

A team of engineers are developing a product platform for software development and automation. Their first product is a small team of bots that let you instantly communicate with anyone on Slack, and they are also developing conversational AI tools to automate tasks.

99
2 years ago

A “real-time messaging application that enables people to communicate online in real-time”. They’re working with tech firms in the Washington DC area, and say they expect to expand beyond their current market by 2020.

98
2 years ago

This app is built to make it easy for business leaders to stay in touch with the people who make their businesses work, allowing executives to communicate with their teams via text.

98
10 months ago

A way for people to communicate and work together on files, even if they don’t have a common team.

98
2 years ago

A way to communicate with one another during the busy time of the year, around the holidays. The idea is to help brands and retailers better communicate and sell to their customers during the holiday season, and to provide a way to ensure that customers are happy and retailers get their money.

97
2 months ago

A mobile application for people with disabilities to communicate and interact with their doctors.

97
2 years ago

This startup is building a new tool for doctors to share patient information in a single place, allowing them to communicate with each other and with their patients in a way that they think works best for them.

96
1 year ago

A platform that helps people communicate with their loved ones who live abroad.

96
2 years ago

A cloud-based software platform for businesses to communicate and share data with their employees or customers.

95
1 year ago

A tool to help businesses manage both the financial, and human aspects of their businesses. Businesses can use the tool to manage their customer relationships, manage their revenue, and create and communicate with their teams.

95
2 months ago

A platform that allows mothers to talk to their babies from a distance, via voice and text. The startup is working on a new wearable device that can help babies learn languages, communicate, and even get distracted by their surroundings.

95
2 years ago

A web app for the blind to communicate with sighted people.

93
4 months ago

A startup for the medical community to communicate and collaborate in real-time.

92
2 years ago

A sensor embedded into a device that allows it to communicate with a connected phone and let the maker know if the device is being moved and where it’s being moved to. The sensor would also allow the maker some control over the device.

91
2 years ago

A platform that helps companies communicate better with customers, based on surveys, qualitative customer feedback and data.

91
2 years ago

A project management and collaboration platform for small businesses, which helps them document and share projects, track progress, and communicate with each other.

91
1 year ago

A B2B SaaS company that helps employees communicate with one another and receive pay, benefits and bonuses. It’s built for larger companies with at least 1,000 employees and requires a proprietary API for payment and payroll integration.

90
2 years ago

A platform that helps small business owners collaborate on projects and communicate with clients. The company has built a system that uses a “social network for online tasks” model.

88
2 years ago

A startup that aims to help couples communicate better about money, based on the four “R”s: Respect, Responsibility, Reserve, and Rethink.

88
2 years ago

A way to track and communicate with homeowner associations that manage common areas like pool, parking and landscaping. The startup has raised $40,000 in seed funding from angel investors.

86
2 years ago

A messaging app that eliminates the need for SMS text messages to communicate with a business in China. The startup wants to make calls and texts cheaper and faster, with a focus on reducing spam.

86
2 years ago

Provides a way to identify, and then communicate with, identified individuals who are in the process of going through a government program. The startup is currently in the process of raising funding.

86
2 years ago

A platform to help businesses communicate with their customers through a visual interface

85
1 year ago

A “tame” version of a chatbot, with the goal of making it easier to communicate with the company’s marketing team.

85
1 year ago

A company creating a platform for teachers to communicate to parents and students in a more effective way.

83
2 years ago

A tool that lets teams and companies develop and manage a smarter mobile app. The app can pick up on text messages that contain keywords related to the app’s sales and communicate with customers to upsell them and offer promotions.

82
3 months ago

Helps victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault by providing a way to communicate anonymously with a certified counselor and advocate.

82
2 years ago

A user-interactive tool to help local governments communicate with citizens about issues

81
1 year ago

A messaging app that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to communicate with your phone, and your phone communicate with your car, home, and office.

81
2 years ago

Ira is a tool that helps people manage and communicate with their business partners and suppliers. The business development team can use the platform to find and get to know new partners, and the sales team can help handle communication, relationships, and resources, all in one place.

80
2 years ago

A startup that aims to connect the world through the Internet of Things at a global scale. It aims to use the Internet of Things to enable the connected devices in homes and businesses to communicate with each other and the world while offering new services for consumers.

79
1 year ago

A messenger for businesses that allows them to communicate with customers, employees, and partners through integrated messaging tools.

79
8 months ago

A health care startup that will make it easier for patients to communicate with their doctors. The startup says it has the software to support the HIPAA rules that require doctors to create documents like HIPAA-compliant patient forms for patients to fill out, rather than having to rely on the patient to fill out the forms themselves.

79
2 years ago

A crowdsourced platform for mail-order brides that lets them communicate with potential suitors.

78
1 year ago

A company that helps brands communicate with their customers in a more personal way. The startup wants to make a “human social media network” that works in a more organic way, where you can reach people with specific interests without the need for any kind of targeting.

78
4 months ago

A web-based scheduling software tool that allows organizations to share their schedules with users. Employees can sign in, view their schedules, and communicate.

77
2 years ago

A startup that has developed a virtual assistant to help with scheduling and communicating with employees. The company is focusing on companies that have a lot of employees and need to communicate with them frequently.

76
1 year ago

A utility for "smart" homes from the makers of Nest, Dropcam and Honeywell. Eko is a new company that aims to bring more automation to everything from thermostats to security cameras. The company started with a thermostat that can be programmed through an app and communicate with a connected garage door, but it’s now also trying to develop a home security system that will stop someone by recognizing their face and sending a message to their phone.

75
1 year ago

This startup is building an automated, scalable social network that lets employees communicate, share files, and work together.

75
1 year ago

A platform that helps bike shops and bike riders easily communicate and do business with each other.

75
4 months ago

A platform that helps buyers and sellers stay in touch with each other, with a marketplace for sales, a chat area for buyers, and an area for sellers to communicate with each other.

74
2 years ago

A sales collaboration platform that helps companies with salespeople communicate better, run more profitable sales meetings, and close more deals.

73
1 year ago

A decentralized email provider that connects users to the people they need to communicate with

73
1 year ago

A simple, flexible, and scalable platform to help companies manage operations and communicate with customers.

72
5 months ago

A security startup that’s building a new way to communicate with friends and family about their health, as well as a healthful way to communicate about health.

72
4 months ago

A messaging app that lets you communicate with AI powered assistants.

72
1 year ago

A startup that lets you easily communicate with other people. It allows users to easily share their location or message other people on the same journey, and lets them easily save that data for future use.

71
1 year ago

A startup for students and parents, and a way for students and parents to communicate and share information with each other.

71
1 year ago

Helping safety regulators and emergency responders communicate with each other.

70
1 year ago

A platform for companies to communicate with their clients in a way that’s “smarter, more personal, and consistent.”

69
7 months ago

A platform to help kids with autism communicate and socialize. They’re starting with one app: a picture-based app that uses facial recognition to identify autism traits and lets the user caption or draw over images.

69
1 year ago

A startup that makes it easier to communicate with doctors remotely. Doctors can chat with patients via a smartphone or the web, and can see what prescriptions they’ve already written and what they’re working on right now.

68
1 year ago

A startup that helps people in the US, Mexico, and Canada communicate in local languages.

68
1 year ago

A startup that is creating a free, encrypted messaging app for journalists and human rights workers who need to communicate while under threat.

68
1 year ago

A startup that helps local businesses communicate with their customers by providing a shared inbox and contact list. A startup for small businesses that wants to bring in new customers.

68
1 year ago

A cloud-based tool for doctors to manage patient data and communicate with patients. The startup wants to give data doctors to make them more efficient.

68
1 year ago

A tool for businesses to manage their social media presence and communicate with customers via social media.

67
1 year ago

A tool for nonprofits to raise money for their projects with “a fast, simple and effective way to communicate with potential donors.”

67
10 months ago

A tool for solving problems for people who can’t communicate with doctors.

67
4 months ago

A way for companies to communicate with multiple departments (engineering, procurement, etc.) without having to send emails back and forth. The startup wants to automate a lot of the work that’s currently done by hand.

67
1 year ago

A tech startup that was founded in 2017 and already has a working product, which they say is a “way for people to find, follow, and communicate with the brands they love”

66
4 months ago

A messaging app for young people, trying to eliminate the need for a smartphone in order to communicate.

66
1 year ago

A startup that wants to use a “traffic light intelligence” system to help people drive and communicate safely.

65
1 year ago

A new kind of air traffic controller that lets pilots and air traffic controllers communicate directly with each other, rather than using an emergency service.

65
1 year ago

A project created by YC alum Eric Migicovsky, it’s a device that can measure your physical activity and communicate with your smartphone.

64
1 year ago

A Y Combinator company that wants to use AI to help deaf people communicate. It has built an app that relies on a smartphone’s built-in camera to help users correctly place and identify objects and facial features.

64
1 year ago

An all-in-one platform that allows users to communicate through video and text and share their location and other information.

64
8 months ago

Building a dedicated platform for medical professionals to communicate and share their expertise with each other.

64
1 year ago

An artificial intelligence-based solution that helps doctors schedule patients, prioritize cases, and communicate with other providers. It can also pull patient data from other providers, like lab results or insurance status.

63
9 months ago

A tool that helps teams communicate, with the goal of eliminating the “silly drama” and friction that come with team communication.

63
1 year ago

A platform that allows clients to have their attorneys communicate with their doctors to get answers to medical questions.

62
1 year ago

Planner-as-a-Service is a SaaS product that helps clients organize their PAs. Clients can use it to book their PAs, track their PAs, and communicate with their PAs.

62
1 year ago

A tool for building lightweight IoT devices that communicate securely with the internet via IFTTT.

62
8 months ago

A pitch for a bunch of startups to start a Slack-like platform for freelancers that would allow them to communicate with each other and with clients.

62
1 year ago

A medical transcription app designed to help doctors communicate more effectively with patients.

61
1 year ago

A platform for homebuilders to communicate with their customers, allowing them to update price guides and send out newsletters.

61
1 year ago

A startup that gives users the ability to communicate via text and voice

61
1 year ago

A B2B startup that helps “co-workers” communicate in writing instead of phone calls.

61
1 year ago

A debt collection and negotiation software for businesses, enabling them to manage their collections, automate debt payments and communicate with customers.

61
4 months ago

OnTap is building a way for people to communicate with and give directions to each other in real time. The startup, which was founded in August, is building a communication platform for people who want to share their location with friends and family, offering them a choice of several different ways to do so.

61
1 year ago

The startup wants to make it easier for people to use the internet to connect and communicate with each other. The company's software helps people through a series of steps to find, communicate and keep in touch with others by finding them in their address books and social networks, like Facebook and LinkedIn.

60
2 months ago

A new way to securely communicate with family and friends through text, phone calls, video calls, and group chats

60
1 year ago

A tool that helps you communicate with people who are deaf/hard of hearing.

58
1 year ago

A platform for sending text messages to employees from their smartphones, without the need to call. The app lets businesses communicate with their employees and strictly enforce company rules.

57
1 year ago

A product manager for a small team of product managers, to help them communicate and organize tasks. The app is meant to be a management tool for a team of around 10.

57
1 year ago

A patient-facing app that lets doctors and nurses communicate by text or video with a patient, and then view a summary of the conversation.

57
1 year ago

A visual scheduling tool that helps teams communicate their priorities.

57
1 year ago

This is a business that provides third-party software and services that allow businesses to connect and communicate with each other, and is backed by the venture capital firm General Catalyst.

57
1 year ago

A startup that’s developing a self-driving electric vehicle for the cost of a $1,000 taxicab. It’s a smart car that communicates via Bluetooth, offers a variety of car-related services, and can be controlled through an app.

57
10 months ago

This startup is working to teach people how to better communicate with each other.

57
9 months ago

Twelve months ago, the founders of this startup were trying to find a better way to communicate with their patients. Today they’re launching a digital health platform that lets providers manage patient records, schedule appointments, and communicate with patients.

57
1 month ago

A messaging app for the deaf and hard of hearing that makes it possible for deaf people to get phone calls, video calls, and video chats. In May 2019 the company launched a product that lets deaf people hear their friends through a device to communicate.

57
1 year ago

Insight is a “socially conscious marketplace”, with the goal of connecting people to good causes. Platforms include an online donation service, a marketplace where people can buy and sell things that help a cause, and a marketplace where people can communicate with the causes they support.

55
1 year ago

A medical startup that helps patients book appointments and more easily communicate with doctors and nurses.

55
1 year ago

An in-app messaging app for professionals that allows them to communicate in private with clients in real time.

55
1 year ago

A new way to communicate in foreign languages, with a built-in translator. The product, called Translator, is being pitched as an easy way to communicate with people from other countries, offering a voice and text translation service.

55
1 year ago

This startup is building an automated sales tool that helps you find your most profitable deals, track their progress and communicate with vendors. The startup has two customers so far, but plans to launch in the San Francisco Bay Area in Q3.

55
1 year ago

A way to get someone’s attention through a wearable device, such as a bracelet. The startup wants to make it easier for fashion designers to communicate with their customers.

55
3 months ago

A web application that lets doctors and patients communicate via videoconferencing.

55
1 year ago

A way to reduce costs and improve reliability for businesses using a device that uses radio to communicate with handheld devices and computers. The startup works with companies like Blackberry, Samsung, and Microsoft.

54
1 year ago

A startup that allows users to “communicate verbally” with employees in other countries, offering a way to have a phone call with a colleague, even if they’re not in the same office.

54
1 year ago

A software company building a video chat app for service providers. The app is for service providers to communicate with each other about services in a chat-based environment.

54
3 months ago

A marketing startup that helps brands reach their customers on their terms. The company provides messaging and other marketing tools, as well as a platform called Rx2 that helps brands leverage data, chat bots and more to communicate with their customers.

54
1 year ago

A tool that helps employees collaborate around a project, with a focus on saving time and being more efficient. It also provides a way to communicate with customers and sales.

53
1 year ago

The startup aims to help communicate science more effectively, helping researchers and professors to communicate their findings easier and more concisely, and helping people learn more about the sciences.

52
1 year ago

A team of researchers is working on a product to help deaf people communicate better.

52
1 year ago

A company that aims to make corporate communications more efficient and less paper-heavy, giving employees the ability to communicate with their teams in a visual, shareable manner in real time.

52
1 year ago

A startup for remote teams to communicate and collaborate, allowing them to access virtual spaces and tools for the workplace.

52
1 year ago

A startup building a platform for professional athletes to communicate, collaborate, and monetize their brand.

51
1 year ago

The startup is building a platform that behaves like a combination of a group messaging app, a social network and a social graph. The app is designed to help groups of friends or co-workers communicate and share information, and is targeted for business use.

51
11 months ago

A company that’s developing technology to help people with disabilities who rely on electrical assistive devices to communicate with technology. Essentially, the startups is building a sensor that is easily connected to a computer, and when someone presses the button, the computer responds.

51
11 months ago

A software company that builds tools for teams to communicate, share feedback, and make decisions.

51
4 months ago

Bebop is building a platform for booking a DJ in a hotel. Users can use the app to find and book DJs in a nearby city and then communicate with them directly. The startup is building a brand and community around this, with the goal of helping users book DJs and parties at hotels.

51
1 year ago

This startup is creating a network to help pharmacies communicate with patients in real-time.

50
11 months ago

A smartwatch app that lets you tell Siri you're on your way to work and get traffic updates along the way. The startup is building a smartwatch app that allows users to communicate with Siri and receive traffic updates. The startup also wants to integrate with Uber and Lyft.

50
1 year ago

Young people will be able to use blockchain to help them share data and communicate.

49
11 months ago

 A text-to-speech app that converts text from your email into spoken words, making it easier to communicate through email.

49
10 months ago

An online tool for doctors that helps them track their medical bill payments and communicate with patients.

49
8 months ago

A communications platform for doctors and patients, allowing them to communicate after hours via email and SMS.

49
8 months ago

A private messaging app for professionals, who, according to the company, are “too busy” to communicate with clients via Skype, email, or phone calls.

49
1 year ago

A new way of thinking about the internet of things — that it’s not just about smart devices. The company is building a platform that allows devices to communicate with one another and make sense of the data they’re collecting on the internet of things.

48
1 year ago

A mobile app that lets the elderly communicate with doctors and caregivers, while also taking medication.

48
1 year ago

A web-based digital messenger for companies, that can be used to communicate with employees anywhere, anytime. "We want to make it so that you can start using it on your phone and take it with you when you travel."

48
1 year ago

A tool that helps e-commerce businesses connect to their social media accounts on Facebook and Twitter, to allow customers to communicate with them via posting comments on their Facebook and Twitter pages.

48
11 months ago

This is a service for designers, who have to put up with clients who don’t understand what they’re trying to say, who use technical jargon and who don’t really grasp how to communicate a message. So, they’re building a platform to help designers communicate more effectively.

48
4 months ago

A messaging app that lets you use any text-based chat service (Facebook, WhatsApp, SMS) to communicate with family and friends. It’s targeting the immigrant community, hoping to help them communicate across borders.

48
3 months ago

A content sharing app that lets you manage different spaces and people, and communicate with them.

48
2 months ago

A customer service chat bot for businesses. It’s meant to help companies communicate with their customers, as well as keep track of customer inquiries. It’s currently focused on helping companies pay their monthly bills.

48
1 year ago

A sales and marketing automation tool that gives salespeople a way to communicate with customers through email, chat, phone and social media. The company is also building a better CRM and lead management system.

47
1 year ago

This startup is creating a digital life preserver for small businesses that is a free, encrypted way for the business to communicate with their customers.

47
6 months ago

The startup is building a “social network of things” that aims to help people with disabilities to communicate.

47
3 months ago

Helps teams who haven’t met in person to communicate via video, using a combination of Amazon’s S3 storage and Google Hangouts.

47
2 months ago

A tool to help families with autism and their caregivers better understand how to communicate with their children.

47
2 months ago

A startup that helps people with spinal cord injuries receive a second way to communicate with the outside world. When users are able to communicate through a device, they’re able to send $15 to a researcher in the US, who uses the money to purchase a device to make the communication possible.

47
1 year ago

A company that’s building software to help doctors communicate better with their patients, by getting the doctor’s notes into their chart.

46
1 year ago

“a mobile software application that enables users to create, manage and share their virtual avatar, and communicate with others through text, voice and video”.

46
1 month ago

The startup is building a mobile app (iOS and Android) that lets you scan and then communicate with your smartphone screen, to use your phone’s camera as a scanner.

46
1 year ago

Think of it as a version of Slack for people who work from home, with tools to make it easier to track expenses and communicate with family.

45
1 year ago

A company that aims to create a clearer way to work with small businesses by developing an online platform that helps them connect, communicate and manage. It’s working with over 1,000 small businesses in the U.S. and is moving into other countries.

45
10 months ago

A startup that allows users to schedule, coordinate and communicate with others on a shared calendar.

45
10 months ago

A platform for small business owners to communicate in real-time with other small businesses for things like inventory, deliveries, and maintenance.

45
6 months ago

A venture-backed startup that helps new companies get their name out into digital. It allows founders to create customized branded websites and blogs, and gives them tools to help them effectively communicate with their community.

45
1 year ago

A messaging and collaboration app for small businesses. The startup is building a messaging platform for small business owners. They want to help small business owners communicate, collaborate and improve their businesses.

44
1 year ago

A messaging app for over-60s that helps them communicate with their families. The company is currently in a YC Demo Day.

44
11 months ago

A tech-enabled financial advisor, allowing customers to communicate with their advisor via email, text, chat, and phone. The startup is a spin-out from the University of Texas and is currently focused on the US market.

44
7 months ago

Globalbox, a company that aims to reinvent the way that businesses communicate with their customers.

44
6 months ago

A way for landlords to communicate with their tenants via text message.

44
1 year ago

This startup has apparently built a real-time, social network for your dog, or at least a way for you to communicate with your dog. The service is called Peek, and it’s a new way to get a pet’s attention and celebrate with them.

43
10 months ago

A tool for healthcare workers to communicate with each other in real-time, helping them coordinate and save costs.

43
10 months ago

A startup that makes employees happier through a platform that incentivizes work, rewards employees for site visits, encourages sharing of ideas, and allows managers to communicate directly with their employees.

43
3 months ago

 A messaging app for the health industry. The startup is building a tool that allows health care workers to better communicate with patients, from doctors to nurses.

43
1 year ago

A tool for users to communicate with each other without the need for a public forum or a message board. It’s a website where users can share a file and a message, and the messages are encrypted and deleted from the system after they have been read.

42
9 months ago

A mobile Android app that makes it easier for people with special needs to find appropriate care for their conditions and communicate with their caregivers.

42
2 months ago

A startup that wants to use digital media to help those who work in the public sector communicate more effectively.

42
1 year ago

Notion is building a platform that allows medical devices to communicate with one another and make data transfer faster and cheaper.

41
11 months ago

The startup wants to use artificial intelligence to create a platform that will allow people to easily create data visualizations of all the data and data points they have stored in the world, then use those to communicate with their customers.

41
7 months ago

A startup for working parents to manage their routines and communicate with kids.

41
1 year ago

A platform that helps companies find the best people for jobs in their industry, and then helps them to find candidates and communicate with them.

40
9 months ago

A startup that wants to change the way dental professionals communicate — by giving them a shared, secure messaging platform where they can communicate confidentially.

40
3 months ago

A startup that wants to make it easier for clients to collaborate and communicate with their lawyers, giving them a better way to communicate and get legal questions answered.

40
1 year ago

A startup that wants to help employees better communicate with their coworkers. The company provides a chat-like platform for employees to communicate with each other.

39
1 year ago

A company that provides a mobile device that allows healthcare workers to connect and communicate with patients in real time via text, video, and audio.

39
11 months ago

A startup that wants to help the more than 60,000 people who work on Amazon’s warehouses communicate with one another.

39
10 months ago

This startup is creating an API that allows insurance companies to communicate with their customers via SMS. It allows them to communicate important information like when to renew, and links back to the website.

39
10 months ago

The first set of software tools and tech to help people communicate with people who have dementia.

39
7 months ago

The startup aims to help teams communicate with each other during a shared, distributed, or remote project. Viable has closed a $1.6 million Series A.

39
5 months ago

A new take on the “smart smoke detector”, replacing the old-fashioned smoke detector with a smoke-detection light that can communicate with a smartphone app.

39
1 year ago

 A new device for people with Parkinson’s disease that uses magnetism to communicate with sensors to help identify and treat the disease.

38
11 months ago

The startup is working on “instant messaging for cars”, allowing drivers to communicate with passengers and each other.

38
9 months ago

A tool for sharing data between doctors, especially in a group practice setting. It’s a tool for doctors to share patient data electronically, and is focused on revamping the way that doctors communicate with their peers.

38
5 months ago

A startup that is building a platform to help people connect and communicate with their friends and family who are in other countries.

38
3 months ago

A startup that helps small businesses communicate with customers, which is good for them and also good for the customers.

38
1 year ago

A video chat tool to help people communicate with dementia patients and their caregivers.

37
6 months ago

A company that helps employees and managers communicate with each other through text messages. It’s a mobile application that ties into a company’s existing communication system to send and receive messages, and also syncs with a company’s calendar and contacts.

37
7 months ago

A software company aimed at the auto industry, building a platform to help auto manufacturers and dealerships communicate with each other on the same platform.

36
6 months ago

This startup is building a platform for the medical industry to communicate with each other. The company has processed about $20,000 in medical records for cancer patients, who often can’t afford to travel to a specialist to see a doctor.

36
1 year ago

A startup that helps companies communicate with their supply chain to reduce costs by streamlining the process of managing product deliveries.

35
9 months ago

A platform to help doctors communicate with patients, allowing patients to communicate with a doctor via video and text, and also allowing doctors to communicate with each other. The startup has year two of a $250,000 grant from Y Combinator.

35
7 months ago

A messaging app for the elderly that aims to help them communicate with their children

35
6 months ago

A communication platform for family caregivers to communicate with those who need help.

35
3 months ago

This startup is building a way for people to quickly and easily send encrypted messages with any messaging app. The startup is targeting the social media and dating industries, but is also looking to create a way for journalists to securely communicate with sources.

35
7 months ago

A social network for organizations that helps them better communicate, manage and track their projects and the impact they’ve had. Built on top of a powerful AI engine that can monitor, predict, and maximize the effectiveness of a company’s output.

34
7 months ago

A health tech company that makes a voice-activated smart scale that can communicate with a connected smartphone app to track weight, body fat, and trends over time. The startup is looking to raise $2.5m in seed funding.

34
7 months ago

A startup that helps insurance agents and brokers communicate and sell policies.

33
3 months ago

A tool that’s meant to help small businesses communicate with their customers via email. The app is aimed at restaurants, stores, and other small businesses.

33
7 months ago

SaaS company that provides customer service representatives with a way to communicate with customers who call the company’s 800 number via text message and email.

32
7 months ago

A new way to communicate, where users can communicate through a single interface to different social networks. The idea is to create a way for users to communicate with each other, but for conversations to be public.

32
6 months ago

A B2B company that helps companies manage vendors, suppliers, and customers, helping them communicate and collaborate more.

32
3 months ago

This is an app that helps people with Alzheimer’s or other cognitive impairments communicate with loved ones.

31
18 days ago

A startup that aims to improve the experience for users of OpenTable by creating a more private way for restaurants to communicate with guests.

31
6 months ago

A startup to help companies communicate with employees, customers, and partners.

30
2 months ago

A visual language that helps communicate complex ideas. It’s an attempt to make the scientific process easier to digest.

30
7 months ago

A platform for connecting a business’s entire workforce to its customers online, so that customers can find, communicate with and engage with employees through their social networks.

29
7 months ago

Closed-door meetings are a big part of how businesses communicate, but they can be inefficient, or even make communication harder. Fusic is an app which allows teams to use a shared whiteboard to brainstorm ideas and plan, with the idea that faster ideas can arrive at the right times, and lead to better decisions.

29
6 months ago

A startup that enables employees to build their own private Slack channel. It’s a Slack channel for employees to communicate internally, with features like real-time chat, file sharing, and video conferencing.

28
15 days ago

A platform for teams to communicate with one another, regardless of geography.

28
9 months ago

A platform that helps small businesses build their online customer bases and make it easy to communicate with customers.

27
8 months ago

A startup that’s building a messaging system for the agricultural industry. It’s meant to help farmers communicate with each other and the larger agricultural industry, and the startup is currently testing its product in California.

27
1 month ago

An email marketing service that helps businesses communicate with customers without having to open their email inbox. The startup says they have $12,000 in monthly revenue, counting YC as one of its customers.

27
1 month ago

A startup that helps people create and communicate through “challenges” (think game shows)

27
8 months ago

This startup is building a social network for people in the legal industry. Its platform provides law firms with a way to communicate with clients and other law firms, as well as a way for clients to communicate with law firms about their cases.

26
5 months ago

A way for people to communicate with dementia patients in the US, allowing caregivers to communicate with patients' families.

26
15 days ago

A company that wants to help A.I. applications communicate with human users by giving them a voice through chatbots.

26
1 month ago

Helping the Indian Railways communicate with customers online in order to get the right ticket for them.

25
5 months ago

A digital team and communication platform for construction companies. It’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform allows construction teams to communicate, collaborate and share information to save money and increase productivity.

24
2 years ago

A platform for the construction industry that helps contractors communicate and source and track materials

23
1 month ago

A platform that unifies a bunch of tools and apps so merchants can communicate with customers and other retailers from one place.

22
1 month ago

A San Francisco-based company that uses AI to detect emotions and build emotion models of users. Its app potentially helps its clients better communicate with customers. It currently has about 10,000 users.

22
6 months ago

A platform that helps co-workers communicate and learn through “collaborative conversations”.

21
6 months ago

A startup that helps develop a company’s “brand voice”, which is how different companies communicate about the same thing. The startup’s founders say they’ve already built a brand voice for 10 clients.

21
6 months ago

A platform that helps users organize and share their life events in the context of a narrative that’s then read by others. The company wants to help people better communicate their lives to their friends, family and others.

20
5 months ago

A tool that helps to communicate between teams, an information sharing platform that allows users to get real-time feedback and respond to it as a team.

20
1 month ago

A company that helps people who are on the autism spectrum communicate their needs more effectively. It’s a SaaS platform that helps people, who often have difficulty expressing themselves, to communicate their needs.

20
1 month ago

A digital tool that helps doctors communicate with patients, both in person and over the phone

20
5 days ago

This startup wants to make it easier for people to communicate and share knowledge about local government.

19
1 month ago

A platform for sharing and tracking the progress of college work. The startup is starting with a free version that includes a gradebook and a plan for parents to communicate with their kids.

18
29 days ago

A network that helps small businesses reach their customers. It uses a combination of social media, email and text to communicate with customers, and is currently focused on the UK.

17
9 days ago

A company that provides a “secure and seamless way for people to communicate” through a mobile messaging app and web portal.

17
8 days ago

A tool for the home improvement industry to help contractors and suppliers communicate with one another to complete projects on time and on budget. The company says it can cut up to 30% off projects.

16
8 days ago

A platform that allows corporations to securely communicate with their employees and contractors outside of company networks.

15
11 days ago

A startup that enables companies to communicate with customers on their terms, including the ability to send and schedule messages, tickets, and make payments.

13
13 days ago

 The company aims to connect vendors with businesses, with a focus on factories in China, and to help foreign businesses get cheaper products from China. Their service, for example, aims to help companies rather than individual consumers get cheaper products from factories, helping manufacturers to get better prices for their goods and to communicate.

12
2 years ago

A software company that makes it easy for small businesses to communicate with in-house employees and contractors.

10
1 day ago

A mobile app that helps doctors and patients communicate better, and helps patients with their prescriptions. The company has a partnership with Walmart and is working with a bunch of other companies.

3
2 years ago

Idea: A social network for employers and employees to communicate

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2 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps people go into business together Say you have a friend that's a lawyer and another that's an engineer A collaboration tool could help them communicate, share files and bill clients more smoothly The company is currently bootstrapped, and has a 10-person team

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2 years ago

Idea: A startup that makes it easy for parents and educators to communicate with people that care for children, like babysitters or nannies

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2 years ago

Idea: A platform for B2B businesses to communicate more effectively with their clients

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2 years ago

Idea: A team messaging platform for remote teams. The startup wants to help remote companies and teams coordinate and communicate more easily.

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2 years ago

Idea: A startup that’s building a professional development platform for teachers, with a focus on helping them find and communicate with other teachers they can learn from.

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2 years ago

Idea: A company that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses communicate with their customers. It is currently working with a large client that has over $2 billion in revenue, and plans to launch its first product in the next few months.

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