Design Startup Ideas

5 years ago

A startup that sells clothes designed by students of fashion schools

2,370

5 years ago

A tool for employee onboarding, designed to put employees through a process to get them up and running at their new job.

908

3 years ago

A team of designers that makes beautiful things for the world.

746

2 years ago

Building a tool to help engineers visualize the design of a product.

579

2 years ago

A SaaS that helps you design and personalize your own clothes.

535

4 years ago

A way to help people learn how to create and design products online

487

3 years ago

A platform that helps designers collaborate on projects and publish their work online. The startup is currently in a beta phase, and has built a large audience that has helped it refine its design process.

393

4 years ago

A platform designed to help people and companies save and invest together.

392

3 years ago

An online platform that helps individuals design and sell products made of wood.

386

2 years ago

A company that teaches people the art of designing and building simple products.

370

5 years ago

Grow is building a set of tools for restaurants, enabling them to manage their menus, design their menus, and automate their ordering and delivery processes.

353

5 years ago

A company that sells modular home accessories designed to make building a home more efficient.

300

5 years ago

A social network built for black professionals. It’s a version of Facebook for black professionals that’s designed for different demographics, with features like a photo gallery and a newsfeed that’s tuned for black users.

294

5 years ago

A company that’s a Slack alternative, designed to be more intuitive and user friendly.

268

2 years ago

The startup is building a P2P mobile payments platform for mobile commerce. The product is called Mobypay, and it’s designed to help shoppers buy physical goods off the street using a smartphone.

263

4 years ago

A company that helps small businesses find tech talent, with a focus on recruiting developers and designers in cities where they are based.

261

5 years ago

A platform that allows designers to sell their work without having to learn code

258

4 years ago

A product designed to help farmers manage all their farm data.

256

5 years ago

A company that designs, manufactures, and sells wireless sensors that can be used to detect motion, temperature, and moisture in homes and offices.

255

5 years ago

In January 2018, Instagram launched IGTV, an app designed to let people watch longer videos.

252

5 years ago

A startup that offers a highly customisable, easy-to-use platform for designing employee relocation packages

251

3 years ago

The startup is developing a new version of the Nest Protect smoke detector that’s specifically designed to be safe and helpful for people with kids.

250

4 years ago

A software platform that helps connect retailers with ecommerce platform designers and developers.

236

4 years ago

A billing service for B2B companies that’s designed to be simple, easy to use, and inexpensive.

234

2 years ago

Founded in 2011, with offices in Venice, San Francisco, and New York, Seed&Click is a global online marketplace for art. They offer art and design services from artists around the world. The platform was built specifically for art and design professionals who need a safe, secure and professional environment to advertise their skills to the world.

233

4 years ago

A visual product design tool that helps users create their own Web/mobile apps in minutes.

231

4 years ago

A wristband that tracks sleep and activity, and is designed to help people with sleep apnea.

231

4 years ago

A platform that connects builders and homeowners, allowing for customized and unique designs.

228

5 years ago

A platform designed to help people find the right therapist, based on their specific needs. The company is working with a social network of therapists to provide the feature to their users.

227

4 years ago

A startup that provides a “digital home” where someone can design and build a custom home online, and then have it shipped to them. The startup creates a 3D model of the house, and then puts it into a CAD program, which allows them to directly see the design, and put in every detail.

227

3 years ago

A credit card designed for use in the developing world that charges low interest rates and has lower transaction fees.

226

2 years ago

A startup building a tool for people to track their time. The time tracking tool is designed to help people get value from their time.

226

2 years ago

The app is designed to help community centers run classes in their building. It’s meant to be situated next to their front desk, and can be used to create a schedule and notify people in the building of what’s happening.

223

5 years ago

A product management platform for agencies, developers, and designers that helps companies plan, identify, prioritize, and integrate features for their software applications.

219

4 years ago

A meeting scheduling tool designed to make it as easy as possible for meetings to be scheduled.

218

2 years ago

A design studio for offices and retail. The startup wants to create a stylish, personalized workspace for each employee, which can be installed in under 15 minutes.

216

4 years ago

A visual programming language designed for chip design, intended to allow engineers to quickly prototype and visualize their designs.

215

2 years ago

A digital wearable designed to help those with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) manage their symptoms.

214

4 years ago

A startup that provides professional services for marketing, design, and technology to brands that want to set up their own online storefronts.

212

4 years ago

An enterprise-focused Slack alternative, with focus on teams that need to collaborate. The company has also been expanding into other areas like marketing, design, engineering, and other business functions.

212

2 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses and brands create custom, one-of-a-kind products for customers. The Product Design team has built a consumer brand identity and packaging for a range of products, from coffee to power tools.

211

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service to help people design their home

210

4 years ago

A free, open-source portfolio app for designers.

209

4 years ago

A startup that sells 1,000s of unique designs for mugs, t-shirts and other merchandise. The startup sells items with quirky names or humorous messages (e.g. “Widow Maker” and “Snooze Button”) to help businesses stand out.

209

4 years ago

A digital platform for designers to sell their work to customers, with most of the revenue coming from a subscription model.

208

5 years ago

A platform for helping people design and build virtual reality experiences. The startup is focusing on the gaming side, but says they’re open to partnering with other verticals as well.

207

4 years ago

A free SaaS service to help build a brand. Independent artists can use the app to generate custom content to promote their work, and publishers can use it to sell books and merchandise. The app is designed to be simple and intuitive.

207

4 years ago

A digital communications company based in New York City. Their software is designed to help companies interact with their employees via phone, email, or chat.

207

3 years ago

A “self-serve” platform that enables developers to build out their own bitmap font, so they can quickly build out a new font without needing to hire a designer.

207

4 years ago

A design and data platform for the modern retail market. The startup has raised $11 million to date and has signed up 1,200 customers.

206

4 years ago

A content marketing service for fashion brands; it helps designers and retailers create custom content to promote their brands and products.

206

4 years ago

A startup designed to help freelancers manage their invoices, track their payments, and automatically do taxes.

206

4 years ago

A team management app for the engineering and design teams at a SaaS company.

204

5 years ago

This startup’s algorithm is designed to find and cancel fraudulent payments, automatically. It’s free for merchants to use, and they’re aiming to partner with processors and banks.

201

2 years ago

A platform for businesses to buy and sell on a marketplace, which accepts cryptocurrency and is designed to protect buyers and sellers from fraud. The company says it already has a $1 million annual recurring revenue run rate.

199

4 years ago

A Skype-like video calling app for group chats, designed for small teams.

198

3 years ago

A full-stack design tool meant to help designers build responsive websites quickly and efficiently.

197

4 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for small businesses to use a centralized accounting system to keep track of their finances. Redbooth is designed to be a tool for small businesses that don’t have an accounting department and may not have even started keeping track of their finances yet.

196

5 years ago

A startup that offers a service for designing employee relocation packages for companies who are moving employees

195

4 years ago

A small team of developers and designers are building a simple, yet comprehensive, social network for everyone.

195

4 years ago

A 3D printing service for hardware engineers and product designers.

195

4 years ago

A startup that wants to build a platform that allows companies to create online courses in minutes and distribute them to email lists or social media. They currently have one client with a course on web design that had over 1,000 people sign up for it.

195

5 years ago

A personal robot designed to help people with mobility impairments, with a goal to help them live more independently and improve daily living.

194

4 years ago

A startup that designs and sells products with a focus on materials that are more durable and environmentally friendly.

194

5 years ago

A platform for managing and sharing your home’s interior design.

192

4 years ago

A tool that allows a team of people to quickly design a simple website from a master template.

192

4 years ago

This is a system for delivering healthcare services to remote regions. The mobile app helps healthcare providers manage their clinics, and the system is designed to help them hire and retain staff.

191

4 years ago

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

191

4 years ago

A startup for freelance work that connects project managers with developers, designers, and marketers.

190

3 years ago

A personalized learning platform where you can design your own learning plan, and get feedback from a coach.

188

5 years ago

A design studio with a focus on the traveling millennial market

184

3 years ago

A startup that helps freelancers make money doing freelance design work.

184

5 years ago

A platform designed to help car dealers make the most of their inventory, and lower inventory turnover.

183

4 years ago

A cloud-based tool designed to help people manage their money more efficiently in ways that might not be obvious.

183

5 years ago

A platform designed for individuals and small businesses that helps them manage their finances.

181

3 years ago

A financial wellness platform that is designed to help people take control of their finances, instead of leaving it to a broker.

181

5 years ago

A tool that allows people to create their own 3D models of objects and designs and have them printed on a 3D printer.

180

4 years ago

A platform for creative people to collaborate, post, and publish designs, images, and video.

180

4 years ago

A tool designed to help small businesses with the accounting and tax process.

179

5 years ago

On-demand laundry, dry cleaning, and dry-cleaning pickup service designed to make urban living easier.

178

5 years ago

A SaaS developer platform that helps teams develop better software using tools like code reviews, design reviews, and prototyping

178

4 years ago

A platform that connects freelance developers with clients. Customers are able to upload their code snippets, and designers are able to login to review code, set budgets, and see the background of the developer.

178

3 years ago

A startup for people to make their own merchandise from 3D printed designs. The company is already selling ready-made items, and says it plans to collect 1 million designs by the end of 2018.

178

4 years ago

A startup that combines the design of the old-school board game Exploding Kittens with the appeal of the game Cards Against Humanity. The startup is a co-op game made up of feline felines that explode when they get hit.

177

3 years ago

A startup that designs and manufactures 3D printed electronics, working with companies like Google, LG and Samsung.

175

5 years ago

An AI-driven platform that comes with a team of data scientists, software engineers, and designers, and which wants to help companies find talent in India.

174

4 years ago

A SaaS company that helps clothing designers with their marketing and sales process, unlike current fashion marketplaces which typically drive high traffic to designers' e-commerce websites.

174

5 years ago

A startup for the sale of used cars, which is designed to be faster, cheaper, and easier than dealerships.

172

4 years ago

The startup wants to build a platform for artificial intelligence developers and designers.

172

5 years ago

A collaborative digital design tool for creative entrepreneurs.

171

5 years ago

A social network for people interested in mechanical engineering, allowing people to find jobs, learn about new developments, and get connected with engineers and designers.

171

5 years ago

A platform that allows people to rent out spare bedrooms and/or spare bedrooms with other household members. It’s designed to help people earn additional income from their homes while also giving their families the chance to stay in their homes in times of need.

170

5 years ago

A company that helps designers create custom-made leather goods for clients.

169

4 years ago

Software that is designed to make it easier to use the state's Department of Motor Vehicles

169

5 years ago

A startup that’s building a tool that automatically designs and builds ecommerce stores for you

168

5 years ago

A company that makes it easier to create, manage, and scale sales data. The platform is designed for sales teams to collect data about their clients, and make it available to others in the company.

168

5 years ago

A job board for freelancers, or people who work on their own terms, with a focus on design and marketing work.

168

4 years ago

A “unique” digital, on-demand product design service for clients.

168

5 years ago

A company that helps its customers build their own hardware. Once they have the specs for the product, they can create a 3D design, and get it printed at Shapeways at a fraction of the cost of other companies that do the same thing.

167

4 years ago

A platform that allows users to share their ideas, design concepts or even start working on a project to get feedback from other users.

167

5 years ago

A startup that connects freelance designers with companies who need branding work done

166

5 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easy to find, hire, and work with freelance designers and developers.

166

4 years ago

A digital storefront for artists and designers to sell their own artwork and designs.

166

4 years ago

An API that can be used to integrate web and mobile applications with the API and create a single platform. The API is designed to help enterprise and developers build applications with a central hub that can be accessed from multiple devices.

166

3 years ago

A platform for remote workers, providing a series of tools designed to help companies manage work-life balance.

166

5 years ago

A social network for engineers, designed to compete with Stack Exchange and Quora.

165

5 years ago

API developer that provides an easy way to create a custom API for a company or organization, as well as an API that can be used by other companies. The company's software is designed for startups, but could be applied to other business settings.

165

5 years ago

A company that will help you create the perfect visual resume, with a template that’s designed to fit any job you might apply for.

165

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire a professional to draw up the design you’re looking for and then they

164

5 years ago

A New York-based startup that claims to be the first in the world to offer a virtual reality-based storytelling course designed for the music industry.

164

5 years ago

A design company that will produce handwritten letters and postcards for customers, and send them to customers via mail.

164

5 years ago

A hardware startup that’s building a new type of computer that’s designed to be secure, power efficient, and small enough to fit on a keychain.

164

5 years ago

A group of designers who create custom UI/UX mockups for companies, turning their ideas into real product or website designs.

163

5 years ago

A tool that automates some of the manual steps involved in running a company. It’s designed to help companies like restaurants and hotels manage expenses.

163

5 years ago

An idea that would let anyone be a coder or designer for local versions of the web. Google is interested.

163

5 years ago

A wireless charger that’s designed to make it easier for people who have to hold their phone to their ear.

163

4 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for companies to build websites on the open source Angular platform, including visual design and templates. Atlassian is the startup's first customer.

163

5 years ago

A company that helps businesses adopt a Salesforce-like platform designed to help them sell more efficiently.

162

4 years ago

A web design and development company that helps companies build their own websites and manage their existing ones.

161

5 years ago

A system that helps connect people across the world who are interested in doing freelance work, such as writing, editing, and design. The startup was founded in March and is looking to raise seed funding.

160

5 years ago

A digital wallet that’s designed to serve the needs of women in China. Currently, the platform does not offer features that are common in the US, such as peer-to-peer payments, a feature that is required in China for transactions to be legal.

160

4 years ago

A startup that wants to give people the same ability to browse and shop for food that they have in the US. It’s designed specifically for Indian consumers who don’t have a bank account.

160

4 years ago

A startup that does digital marketing for small businesses, including photography, web design, and marketing.

160

5 years ago

A startup that pairs freelance designers with clients to create logos, websites, and more

159

5 years ago

A company that designs a system that helps a company’s employees be more productive, allowing them to perform more tasks, get work done more quickly, and be more efficient.

159

5 years ago

A market research platform for fashion designers that serves as a central database for pricing, trends, and quality.

159

5 years ago

A software platform for publishing academic papers and hosting conferences, designed for scientists, researchers, and students.

159

5 years ago

A travel concierge platform that serves travelers who want to visit the same places. It is designed to connect travelers with similar interests and save money by helping them make a booking at the same time.

158

5 years ago

A company building an app to help companies manage the design process and the production of their marketing materials. It’s using the product to help customers with their design process, like deciding which typeface to use or what color palette to use, and providing it to them as a product.

158

5 years ago

Blockchain capital management for SMBs, designed to help them access capital from banks.

157

4 years ago

A product that helps users plan their grocery trips without the use of a computer. It’s designed to help walk people through their selections and make sure they don’t forget to pick up something they need.

157

3 years ago

A company that helps with the design of data models and the development of data visualizations, which can be used in a variety of different ways.

157

5 years ago

The idea is to redefine the way people think of and approach real estate as a place to live. The company plans to use marketing, design, and data to help people make smarter choices about their homes.

156

5 years ago

Designing new, custom-made furniture for the home. The startup is working with builders and architects to create bespoke furnishings for the home.

156

5 years ago

A platform for the design and manufacture of solar cells. The startup wants to make solar cells more accessible for people in the developing world, with a focus on the Middle East.

156

5 years ago

A tool designed to bring transparency to the loan origination process, helping to prevent fraud, identify the best loan products, and save lenders money.

156

5 years ago

A web design consultancy focused on helping companies get their websites and business up to speed.

156

4 years ago

This startup promises to bring a more human element to AI-based design. Their app takes the complexity of designing AI and makes it simple by using the color wheel to explain how a particular neural network works.

156

5 years ago

An AI-powered chatbot that will guide buyers through the home buying process, with an interface that is designed to make the experience very similar to that of a real agent. The startup believes that this will lead to a significant increase in home sales.

155

4 years ago

A tool to help people quit smoking. The startup’s product, Patch, is designed to help people quit smoking through animations and imagery that help them break their habit. It’s designed to be used alongside other cessation products.

155

3 years ago

This startup wants to be the “Uber of co-working spaces”, using a model that blends coworking spaces with traditional offices. The company offers a furniture-less workspace with a dedicated desk and lockable storage, designed to help companies get the most value out of their new space.

155

5 years ago

A visual design platform for brands & agencies that allows designers to see the visual impact of their designs before they hit production.

154

5 years ago

This is a chatbot that’s designed to help you work remotely. It’s currently working with one client in the US, but the company plans to expand to Europe in the coming months.

154

4 years ago

A tech platform for tech people. The startup’s tech tools are designed to be intuitive, so tech people can use tech without being techy.

154

5 years ago

A way to hook up with a freelance designer for in-house design, build a site, and then manage it all from one app. The company says it has $6 million in funding and has been profitable since 2014.

153

5 years ago

A design space for Italian designers, fitting their aesthetic and culture into a marketplace that will be a global one.

153

5 years ago

A product management, design, and development studio that builds products people want.

153

5 years ago

A startup that wants to build a “green” power plant designed to burn trash. They want to build sustainable power plants, using waste as fuel, and keeping energy costs low.

153

5 years ago

This startup aims to make it easier for artists to design, print, and ship their own physical, limited edition pieces.

153

4 years ago

Social networking for the LGBT+ community, with a focus on design and social media. It’s for people in the LGBTQ+ community and their allies.

153

3 years ago

A digital calendar for your business, that keeps you connected with the expected arrival dates for customers and suppliers, as well as design deadlines.

153

5 years ago

A startup that helps people learn Chinese through video content that is designed to be slower paced, allowing for a more natural experience.

152

5 years ago

A software-as-a-service platform for banks, designed to provide a consistent and comprehensive experience for users and businesses.

152

5 years ago

A startup that is building a tool to help apparel designers find the right factories.

152

5 years ago

The startup’s service allows users to create custom-designed and branded debit cards to be used at millions of locations in the US, UK, Canada, France, and Australia. It also does global spending and cross-border payments for businesses that need it.

152

3 years ago

A tool for freelance designers, sellers, and sellers of goods. The startup sends quotes through email automatically and allows for tracking of invoices and payments.

152

5 years ago

A startup for freelance designers and developers, helping them find the right job for them, and helping clients find the right freelancer.

151

5 years ago

A software company designed to make college affordable by allowing students to pay for it with credit.

151

5 years ago

This startup is building a new way to access and use the world’s most popular programming languages. The company is now working with Google on its Material Design language team.

151

5 years ago

A new way of doing customer service that’s designed to be more personal and efficient than the call center model.

151

5 years ago

A company that helps people make their own clothes, using a design platform that puts together collections of patterns, fabrics, and accessories.

151

5 years ago

A platform that allows businesses to streamline the design, procurement, and delivery of their supplies.

151

4 years ago

Walnut Ventures is building a digital banking alternative that is designed to be a bank for the unbanked.

151

2 years ago

A healthcare AI platform designed to help doctors with surgery decisions.

151

5 years ago

A startup that sells a tool for creating videos that are designed to be shown on screens in public

150

5 years ago

A product designed to make it easier for employees to take short vacations

150

5 years ago

A tool for software designers to create new apps in minutes instead of days.

150

5 years ago

A bulletproof pool-table cover for pool tables, which is designed to protect the table from balls.

150

3 years ago

An online platform that helps users design and print their own customised T-shirts and sells them at a discount.

150

3 years ago

A startup for sales and services to help small businesses with their marketing and sales needs, including design, digital marketing, and advertising.

150

5 years ago

The startup is working on a new type of mobile banking that’s mobile-first, and designed to provide easy access to traditional banking services like check deposits, bill pay, and direct deposit.

149

5 years ago

A software that helps users create and manage their online portfolios. The software is powered by a sophisticated algorithm that helps users design a portfolio that is SEO-friendly and engaging.

149

5 years ago

A company that’s created a new platform for managing teams and projects — a tool designed to help teams stay organized and on top of their work.

149

5 years ago

A collaboration platform for interior designers to access other designers’ portfolios.

149

4 years ago

Bringing the consumer’s head into the product design process by using 3D printing.

149

5 years ago

A design agency that connects design talent with brands, allowing it to bring out the best in each other.

148

5 years ago

An enterprise application designed to help companies manage the spread of malware and security threats. The startup is built on a platform that provides IT teams with a single view of all of the company’s security threats, allowing them to prioritize and control those threats without wasting time.

148

5 years ago

This enterprise software company is designing a SaaS app for running a large manufacturing facility. The company is currently in a pilot with a large manufacturer in the US.

148

5 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.

148

5 years ago

This app for restaurant managers lets them manage their restaurant’s food costs. The app is designed for restaurants with a large number of employees and several kitchens, and helps them track costs and improve efficiency.

148

5 years ago

A new kind of recruiting site that’s much more personalized. It’s designed to be a social recruiting platform, but with a focus on “the right person for the right job”.

148

4 years ago

A startup that claims to make it easier to convert your product ideas into real products. The company takes your idea, converts it into a product design, and then orders the parts they need to turn it into a real product.

148

5 years ago

A “native” mobile app designed with the multiscreen experience in mind.

147

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a tool to help automate the creation of quotes and invoices via text message. The tool is designed to be used by small business owners and freelancers and would work best with a smartphone, but any text-capable device can be used.

147

3 years ago

A design agency that helps small business owners build their brands with branding and social media. The company also offers a new kind of consultancy, called Brand Branding, that helps clients build their presence on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest.

147

3 years ago

What sounds like a feedback app for designers, but it’s actually an app that helps people manage the paper work involved in starting a business.

147

5 years ago

A way for the user to design and customize his or her own Lego creation.

146

5 years ago

A startup that helps teams design and build apps to bring a business idea to life.

146

5 years ago

A podcast network with a focus on “unscripted” storytelling, by people who are not professional journalists. It’s designed to free creative people from the pressure of telling stories they’ve been told to tell.

146

5 years ago

A digital marketing agency that handles client projects, from design to implementation.

145

5 years ago

This startup is building a website that allows anyone to instantly and securely order a custom-made suit from a fabric designer.

145

5 years ago

The company's app is designed to help consumers monitor the health of their finances, including credit scores, debt and income. The application, which is in beta, is available for Android and Apple iOS smartphones.

145

5 years ago

You want to find someone to build you a website, but “the whole process of finding someone to build a website is so cumbersome”. You want to do the hiring, but you’re not a developer and you’re not a designer, so you need a tool that gives you a few options for each step. That’s what the startup is building.

145

5 years ago

A startup that provides a set of tools for designers to create their own custom-designed clothes. The company uses a 3D printer to produce knit fabrics.

145

5 years ago

Real Democracy is a platform for elections, designed to make voting more accessible while improving the quality of elections.

144

5 years ago

The platform is building a toolkit for designers to build custom user interfaces for their mobile apps.

144

5 years ago

A group of entrepreneurs working to redesign the dating app from the ground up.

144

5 years ago

A design company building a more sustainable way to build better building

144

3 years ago

A college student product design team working to build an app that will “make life easier for international students” by making it easier to navigate the visa process in the U.S.

144

3 years ago

A product-development toolkit for fashion designers. The company’s built a digital design studio to help fashion designers and brands bring their products to life.

144

5 years ago

This startup is building an app that helps people design their own personalized delivery drones. The drones will be powered by the startup’s own solar-powered drone charging technology.

143

5 years ago

The startup’s goal is to help users achieve a more “authentic” online presence. They’re building software that allows users to design their own avatars, choosing from a variety of “personas”, which can be used on other platforms, like Facebook, Twitter, or other social networks.

143

5 years ago

A company that wants to help you use the power of the cloud to create and design things.

143

3 years ago

A software platform that makes it easier for fashion designers to collaborate with multiple brands. The company is already live in New York and San Francisco, and is working to launch in a handful of other cities in the next year.

143

5 years ago

A content management system built on a social media platform, designed for agencies, PR professionals and creative entrepreneurs

142

5 years ago

A micro-app that helps teachers (and students) create and share lessons online. Zoono is currently in private beta, and is designed to help you teach, review, and grade lessons more efficiently by providing a single platform.

142

5 years ago

A startup for a variety of creative professionals, including photographers, graphic designers, videographers, animators, and other creative types.

142

5 years ago

Idea:This is a startup that’s building a Slack app that allows users to collaborate on the design of their physical spaces. The startup has close to 50 employees in the United States and Australia, with plans to expand to the UK and other European countries.

142

5 years ago

A tool for hiring contractors and interior designers

142

5 years ago

A platform for designing and sharing potential learning paths. The startup is building a digital pedagogy tool and learning platform.

142

5 years ago

A company that helps people hunt for and find the right home for them. The B2B business takes a more detailed look into the details of a home’s design and location, while the B2C service takes a more granular approach to the home’s amenities and location.

142

5 years ago

Build a platform for web designers to work with designers and engineers to build websites that are responsive to mobile devices.

142

5 years ago

A tool for companies to execute marketing campaigns in an automated fashion, with the ability to tell the marketing department what to do and what to ignore when it comes to email program design. Idea is also originally a software company, but now a marketing software company.

141

5 years ago

A tool designed to help small- and medium-sized businesses get their online through a series of video interviews.

141

5 years ago

A SaaS-based email marketing tool with an emphasis on design. The startup’s founders have raised nearly $500,000 in seed funding, including from Y Combinator, and have been named as YC’s top-ranked summer 2019 company.

141

5 years ago

A no-code app which allows users to take a photo, upload it, and have it designed with a scratch-off code. The designs can be made by users for free or paid via subscription.

141

5 years ago

A design studio that helps companies create engaging, unique, and user-friendly websites. They have a portfolio of clients, including Liberty Mutual, and are looking to expand their market.

141

5 years ago

A digital credit card designed to help people pay for things by charging a small amount each time they use it.

141

5 years ago

A brand new CRM product from Capital One, which boasts a product team of two people. The product is designed to help small businesses manage their customer relationship management, with a focus on helping businesses handle financial transactions and invoicing.

140

5 years ago

An AI tool that helps teams design their next product. The startup’s first product is the “customer journey” creation tool. It aims to speed up the product design process by automating the creation of user journeys.

140

3 years ago

This platform is designed to make it easier for first-time landlords to find, negotiate, and manage rental properties. The startup says that it is already processing over $3 million in lease agreements with landlords in the Bay area.

140

5 years ago

A digital drawer that provides a digital photo frame, calendar, diary, and address book. It’s designed for the elderly and visually impaired.

139

5 years ago

The App Factory is building a platform to build, distribute, and manage applications from a team of developers and designers. It’s a mix of Slack, Trello, and Jira.

139

5 years ago

A company that makes custom-designed pens that attach to a USB thumb drive. The startup looks to disrupt the $1.3 billion market for replacement pens.

139

3 years ago

A society in which each member has a designated “tax” that they pay to the community. The startup is focused on the personal tax, but says the societal tax is an interesting place to start.

139

3 years ago

One of the first building tools to be powered by code and designed to last a lifetime. The company builds furniture from wood, metal, and concrete using woodworking robots.

139

5 years ago

The startup helps B2B companies sell their wares to retailers in the US. The service works for companies that design, manufacture or market goods for retail.

138

5 years ago

This startup wants to help retailers with the design and engineering of their retail spaces, looking to automate interior design and other parts of shopping experience through easy-to-use software.

138

5 years ago

An internal startup within Forte to create a series of products for the company. They wanted a brand that was fun and modern, but not too distracting for customers. The new app was designed to be a reward for people who were servicing Forte’s customers.

138

5 years ago

This is a licensing and digital asset management platform for photographers and designers.

138

5 years ago

A game a la “Whack-a-mole” that’s designed to help people get out of their own way. It’s designed to help people get past their own limitations to help them focus on the things that matter most in their lives.

138

5 years ago

A company that helps small businesses create marketing collateral without using their own design team

138

5 years ago

This company is building a more efficient way to design and build websites. The startup wants to make it easier for people to create websites with a more feature-rich platform.

138

5 years ago

This company is working on a game that is played with a custom-designed physics engine.

138

4 years ago

This startup is building a mobile platform for remote workers. The platform is designed to make it easy for remote workers to manage their work process and be more productive.

138

3 years ago

A free site and app designed to help college students save money. The site and app is designed to help students save money by finding deals, saving money on textbooks and other things, and building a list of things they need to buy.

138

5 years ago

A platform that helps small businesses design and manage user-generated online profiles and meta data for their products.

137

5 years ago

A tool for creating quick and easy surveys on your phone. The startup is designed for survey creators, but anyone can use it. It offers a mobile-first platform that lets users create surveys and send them immediately to users, and then open the survey link in another app on their phone.

137

5 years ago

A tool for designers and developers to build games from scratch.

137

5 years ago

An AI system for decision-making, designed to work hand-in-hand with human decision-makers.

136

5 years ago

A digital platform that allows users to build and share images and designs with other users. The company is working with a number of brands, including Walmart and Target, to boost their presence on social media.

136

5 years ago

A cloud-based phone system for companies. It’s designed to be a suite of tools that works with the other tools the company already has in place, including a phone, PBX and computer system.

136

5 years ago

A platform to recruit and hire remote developers and designers from any location in the world.

136

5 years ago

A startup for freelance designers and developers to find jobs and request work. According to the company, they have a response rate of 90%.

135

5 years ago

Business cards for people who are too busy for a traditional design

135

5 years ago

This company, which is now a subsidiary of software giant IBM, is trying to make enterprise software simpler for smaller organizations. They have a new product called “Navigator”, which is designed to help organizations of all sizes (from a startup with 3 people to a Fortune 100 company) navigate the complex technology stack they have today.

135

5 years ago

A tool that helps companies hire designers and brand managers based on their performance on design-related projects rather than their resume.

135

5 years ago

This app is designed to help users learn to drive new vehicles and learn in a way that’s more visual and less boring.

135

3 years ago

A startup where designers and entrepreneurs can connect, share ideas, and collaborate on projects.

135

2 years ago

A startup that builds processing equipment for fish farms using a modular design.

135

5 years ago

A social-media platform for contractors, designed for organizations with a small project or need.

134

5 years ago

A startup for connecting freelance designers with clients. There are around 5 million professional designers in the US, and they’re frequently hired through agencies or by the hour. The startup is building a marketplace where designers can post their work, which clients can browse and hire.

134

5 years ago

A software company that helps creative teams work faster by way of music and sound design.

134

5 years ago

“A personal assistant for the last mile: an AI-powered tool that serves the last mile of travel needs of both humans and machines.” The startup, which was founded in May, seeks to take on the likes of Uber and Lyft with a new platform designed for last-mile travel.

133

5 years ago

A platform that connects freelancers and enterprises with digital labor, including web designers and content producers.

133

4 years ago

A chatbot that integrates with your email and helps you manage your inbox. The chatbot is designed to be able to answer questions about email and work.

133

3 years ago

A tool designed to help kids learn to code and hone their skills. The company is in the early stages of building a curriculum for middle schoolers.

133

3 years ago

Helps professionals in the art and design industry sell their work online.

133

5 years ago

This startup is building a platform that allows users to book tattoos online. The platform will allow clients to view their tattoos in 3D and choose designs, colors and sizes.

132

5 years ago

A startup that pairs up its product design expertise with a developer to build a custom mobile app. It takes a few days and the startup will provide a working prototype.

132

5 years ago

A new kind of social networking platform that gives users their own personal “safe space” within the network. The site is focused on being a safe place for people to express themselves, and is designed to be a safe space for people of all types, but especially for those who are marginalized.

132

5 years ago

A group of engineers is building a Cloud-based service that wants to help companies with internal and external security. It’s designed for companies to manage their security operations and provide a single place for customers to get in touch with their security teams.

132

3 years ago

A company that produces what it describes as a “cross between a startup and a university”, designed to provide a platform for the next generation of American startups.

132

5 years ago

A startup that helps people create and sell custom clothing through a web browser without having to design the entire garment from scratch. Loom wants to help consumers sell their clothing as a service — it’s essentially an Uber for fashion.

131

5 years ago

An analytics platform for blue-chip companies. Redpulse is designed to help companies understand their customers and find them relevant information.

131

5 years ago

A set of design patterns and functions that helps teams organize their product.

131

5 years ago

This is an in-house survey tool for customer feedback. It’s designed to help companies gather feedback from their own employees to help them improve their products.

131

5 years ago

A $100 credit card designed for students who want to pay down debt.

131

5 years ago

A tool for creating virtual reality experiences that lets VR creators focus on the design rather than the implementation.

131

5 years ago

A tool for designers to get more out of their creative process, by letting them “mix, match, and remix” colors and patterns in their Photoshop library in order to create new looks.

131

5 years ago

A Chrome extension that turns any website into a mobile app shop. Employs a “re-imagined” version of Google’s well-known design language.

130

5 years ago

A startup that uses a “digital designer” to help small businesses build websites. The startup’s model is to wake up early in the morning and design a website for a small business owner and have it ready to go by that evening.

130

5 years ago

A B2B company that designs and builds prototypes for production companies.

130

5 years ago

A tool for making mockups of websites, to make it easier for designers and developers to collaborate.

130

5 years ago

A startup that lets people order a custom-designed paper or canvas print of their daily life.

129

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.

129

5 years ago

A startup for freelance designers, meant to help them find work, keep track of their clients and spend less time doing administrative tasks.

129

5 years ago

A lot of companies are selling mobile phone cases with custom designs, but Nines offers custom design and production of phone cases, which will be sold in retail stores.

129

4 years ago

A web-based product-design platform that helps companies design their products directly from their product teams.

129

3 years ago

A startup that helps people build websites from scratch and also helps web designers and developers find clients.

129

3 years ago

This is a service that helps real estate agents create online marketing materials without the need for design.

129

5 years ago

A startup that helps people to design, build and test their prototypes online Users will be able to share their prototypes with friends or partners

128

5 years ago

A personal assistant for NYC apartment dwellers, designed to help apartment dwellers get their mail, make and respond to calls, and do their laundry.

128

5 years ago

A digital marketplace for freelance designers. The startup’s founders want to build a marketplace that helps businesses and designers work together on projects.

128

5 years ago

A tool for optimizing product designs for ease of manufacturing.

128

5 years ago

A company that helps startups access tools and templates for Design Thinking.

128

3 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easy for small and medium-sized businesses to sell insurance for employees. The software is designed for companies to create policies for employees and automatically apply them to their payroll accounts.

128

2 years ago

A tool to help people evaluate their risk of getting back together with their exes. It’s designed to be very simple to use, with a single question. The app also has a few social aspects to it that help users keep track of how they’re feeling, and to see other users’ risk assessments.

128

5 years ago

This service is designed to connect with people via social networks, offering a way to create a profile, get access to documents and get in touch with people. The app supports Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Gmail.

127

5 years ago

A startup that wants to bring digital design tools for clothing to the masses. Clothe is a service that helps customers create a unique design for a single item of clothing using a photo, or from a library of templates. Users can design items like dresses for $19, or can also sell items they’ve designed on Clothe. The startup says they’re targeting the women’s fashion industry, which is worth $500 billion in the US alone.

127

5 years ago

A Toronto-based startup that wants to unify and improve the sales process with a sales platform that’s designed to help salespeople find sales opportunities, identify opportunities, and close deals.

127

4 years ago

A platform designed to help small businesses with specialized needs, such as farming, travel, or restaurants.

127

4 years ago

A platform for the design and creation of websites. The startup wants to use its tools to make it easier for small businesses to take advantage of WordPress’s features, and create a platform that’s especially well suited for a variety of small businesses.

127

5 years ago

A platform that helps people design and manage their own websites and apps, including social media apps, online stores, and email.

126

5 years ago

Designed to help clients define and measure their social impact, Consequence is a software company helping nonprofits and for-profits better track their impact. It helps clients measure the effectiveness of their programs and measure employees’ impact, too. The company has a $10 million Series A, with $1 million raised in its first round of VC funding.

126

5 years ago

A single platform to help companies understand and engage with their customers, and act on that data. The startup is testing out a platform designed to serve the needs of small-to-medium-size companies, and then help them scale as they grow.

126

5 years ago

These three startups are designing software for financial institutions and insurers to make it easier for them to help their customers.

126

5 years ago

A software startup that aims to make it easier for companies to create surveys online. The startup is building a survey tool that’s designed to work with software like SurveyMonkey and SurveyGizmo, and is already running its own free online survey service.

126

5 years ago

A “uniquely-designed” home security system that’s supposed to be “very simple to install and use”. Its price is low, and it’s meant for smaller homes.

126

5 years ago

A platform that connects software developers, designers and marketers with companies who want to release a product or service.

126

5 years ago

A startup that offers ad-free and censored content, designed for countries with strict internet censorship regimes.

126

4 years ago

This startup is building a professional marketplace for graphic designers and other creative professionals

126

2 years ago

An on-demand marketplace for building and installing custom websites, based on a SaaS-like model. The startup provides design services from top designers with a focus on building sites customized to you.

126

5 years ago

A platform for software developers to be able to build and test mobile apps and websites with ease. In a press release, the company said that its technology was “designed to reduce the time and cost of development for mobile applications.”

125

5 years ago

A product design studio that helps brands create more appealing products. They’re currently focused on a few brands, but plan to branch out.

125

5 years ago

A fix for the “gig economy”, offering a comprehensive insurance package for independent workers. Their product is designed for the future and will work for any independent worker, anywhere in the world.

125

5 years ago

A toolset for managing the design process of a single website, allowing multiple designers to work on a single site together

125

4 years ago

Blackbox is building a user dashboard for the design and operations of data centers, taking a “security first” approach to the process.

125

5 years ago

This startup aims to overhaul the way employees are evaluated and compensated in the workplace. It’s designed to eliminate the “rat race” and create a better environment for those who want to work hard and see their contributions recognized.

124

5 years ago

A tool with a very simple interface that can help designers create landing pages, sales pages, or purchase pages. The company says they’ve already seen 40,000 clicks on their landing pages.

124

5 years ago

A cloud-based service designed to help teams manage their data and ensure compliance.

124

5 years ago

What it is: A chatbot that lets people find and hire freelance specialists. The platform aims to work with a wide variety of professionals, including interior designers, virtual assistants, and even personal trainers.

124

5 years ago

A tool for designers that helps them quickly create mockups of their work, and allows them to embed other relevant apps, like their website’s login screen, directly into the mockup.

124

5 years ago

A platform that provides a way for designers to build HTML5 websites with no coding knowledge.

124

5 years ago

A company that offers product-design services to local businesses.

123

5 years ago

A cryptocurrency wallet with a brand-new design.

122

5 years ago

This startup is building a way for teams to share and vote on designs and UI elements before a company puts money into getting it into production.

122

5 years ago

A tool for data wrangling for the human sciences. It’s designed for students and professors (and not just for those in computer science,) and is looking to build a community around the product.

121

5 years ago

Koku is a tool for people to build their own subscription-based service. Koku is meant to be a one-stop shop for all of a person’s subscription needs, with a toolset designed for ease of use. The startup is a Y Combinator company, and has over 200,000 users and is profitable.

121

5 years ago

A company that designs and produces tech-enabled wearables that allow users to connect with their body and health data

121

5 years ago

The company is building a tool for veterans, designed to make the process of applying for benefits easier.

120

3 years ago

A group of online freelancers that helps people find various gigs online, including design, marketing, and writing.

120

5 years ago

A tool designed to help remove the complexity of planning and managing your next vacation

119

5 years ago

A startup that helps people focus on the most important part of a project: the design.

119

5 years ago

A recruiting platform for tech-related positions, which they say is “designed for professionals with a track record of building technology-driven products”.

119

4 years ago

A tool to make it easier for freelance designers to create more consistent work.

119

3 years ago

This tool is designed to help content creators get their work out there, from uploading their videos to managing the performance of their ads.

119

2 years ago

A tool for better-than-average (BTAG) hiring, designed for companies with less than 50 employees.

119

5 years ago

A platform to help users and businesses build and share digital products with a team of developers, designers, and marketers.

118

5 years ago

A startup that wants to help designers build out physical prototypes for their apps, giving them a way to interact with features and functionality of their designs with a few clicks

118

5 years ago

A platform that connects freelance graphic designers with businesses who want to create logos and other graphics.

118

5 years ago

A community of freelance designers with an emphasis on high-end products like furniture, ready-to-wear, and toys.

118

5 years ago

An online marketplace for making and selling custom-made products using 3D printing. The startup is building a one-stop shop for all 3D design, 3D printing, and 3D scanning needs.

117

5 years ago

A shop where you can buy custom-designed fashion. It comes from a team that worked on the biggest startups in the fashion industry, including Rachel Zoe, Rag & Bone, and Tory Burch.

117

5 years ago

A company that designs and manufactures 3D printed medical devices. The startup wants to build a device that helps the blind navigate and helps the visually impaired to see better. It’s working with an area hospital and hopes to have a product out this year.

117

4 years ago

A startup that’s developing an app that allows users to crowdsource design work in real time. As the company says, “the platform is set up in a way that allows site visitors to create a profile, to rate designs, and to leave feedback on the designs of other site visitors. The power of the platform comes from the fact that it’s powered by a community of designers that are incentivized to be helpful.”

117

3 years ago

A software company that helps companies design payroll and HR software. Recently acquired by Paychex.

117

5 years ago

A team of designers and engineers building a digital prototype for a custom-built laser cutter. The team is building the product as a way to fund the research of a laser cutter they hope to build themselves.

116

5 years ago

A new version of the popular private messaging app for Android, to be released in early 2018. It will have new features and a re-designed interface, and will allow people to purchase and download stickers and other content from the company’s partners.

116

4 years ago

A platform for crowd-sourcing ideas and designs, where users can create mockups of their idea and give it to others to vote on.

116

3 years ago

This startup is building an app that helps people design and manage their home automation system (cameras, lights, etc.) from their phone or desktop computer. It basically acts as a way to manage and control smart home devices from a smartphone.

116

5 years ago

An analytics tool for product managers to track user engagement with their products. The company wants to make it easy to track user behavior and design.

115

5 years ago

A platform that allows brands to design packages for retailers to sell. The company wants to be a one-stop shop for e-commerce fulfillment.

115

5 years ago

A platform for the self-employed that automates their payroll process, so they can spend more time doing what they love. It’s a great story about how an app is designed to solve an employee’s problem, but can also be built with their customers in mind.

115

5 years ago

A platform designed to help startups with the process of finding and hiring talent.

115

4 years ago

a global digital health company. The company’s platform is designed to convert health data into insights that can be used to improve health outcomes.

115

4 years ago

A startup that’s designing a better way to consume, share, and store video.

115

5 years ago

Canvas is a new type of digital canvas for creating digital objects. Users can create a design or pattern using images and use it as a template for an object. It has four different types of canvas with different features, and the startup says it will be releasing another in the future.

114

5 years ago

A SaaS platform designed for creating medallions for luxury cars.

114

5 years ago

An automated way for companies to build their own mobile applications. The startup’s founders say that it allows companies to create applications without having to hire developers or design them from scratch.

114

4 years ago

This company is building an electric scooter that’s “designed for high traffic areas”.

114

2 years ago

The company’s industrial design team has created a line of home products to integrate tech into the home. The company has a few products on Kickstarter, including a smart plug and a thermostat.

114

5 years ago

A company that makes and sells polyurethane shoes, the shoes are designed for comfort and durability.

113

5 years ago

A tool that lets software developers build mobile apps without writing code. You’ll create your app design and then the software does the rest.

113

5 years ago

The company is creating a new model for live-streaming video, designed for companies and clients to create live broadcasts at their own pace.

113

5 years ago

A social network designed to help people make friends with those from different cultures, which works as a matchmaking service for travelers.

113

5 years ago

This startup is building an online platform for freelance designers to find clients and charge clients for their services.

113

4 years ago

This startup is trying to make web design a “safer” profession by lowering the drop out rate.

113

2 years ago

A company that helps people in the creative industry track and manage their time in real-time. It’s similar to time-tracking apps like Asana, but it’s designed for creatives.

113

5 years ago

A tool helps auto manufacturers create highly efficient car designs. It can review thousands of designs, pick out ones that are more efficient, and make suggestions to manufacturers to try.

112

5 years ago

This company is designing a tool for healthcare professionals to make it easier to manage and track patients’ health information.

112

3 years ago

A blockchain-based payments platform built on a protocol called Tango, designed to enable micropayments.

112

3 years ago

A company that’s designed to help with data transfer as you switch between different devices.

112

3 years ago

A tool for “product managers and designers to make design decisions, collaborate and grow their ideas”. It’s meant to combine user feedback with a team’s existing knowledge to make the most informed design choices.

112

5 years ago

Help large companies save money on marketing campaigns by letting them create their own micro-websites on the Shopify platform, with custom-designed pages and a store location.

111

5 years ago

A startup for freelance designers that takes sticker prices and eliminates the middleman.

111

5 years ago

A company that sells custom-made T-shirts for its customers, and has partnered with a number of companies like Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and Tapatalk to offer exclusive designs.

111

5 years ago

A product designed to make it easier for small businesses to buy products online. It’s currently a free product, with plans starting at $10 per month.

111

5 years ago

A company that wants to help underpaid fashion designers have control over their intellectual property.

111

5 years ago

This startup is building an app that helps creative professionals manage their network, including connecting them with designers and engineers.

111

5 years ago

A startup that helps designers and developers build custom plugins for their sites.

111

4 years ago

A platform that provides a sophisticated, scalable, and easy-to-use business intelligence platform designed for businesses of all types.

111

4 years ago

A software platform that allows IT to design and develop, then automate the whole process.

111

5 years ago

A platform to help people learn to code, design and build websites, and mobile apps.

110

5 years ago

A platform designed to allow small businesses to have more control over their data, allowing them to better manage their brand, and better target their customers.

110

5 years ago

A team of digital marketing and design professionals to help companies create video content for social media, website, email, and any other product-related content.

110

5 years ago

A tool to help people make and sell their own physical products online, particularly since they’ve already gone through the work of designing them.

110

4 years ago

A company that builds an app to help companies manage the design and build of their websites, including features like site-wide updates.

110

5 years ago

A dashboard for enterprise organizations to better understand the impact of their products, and how to make them better. It’s a tool designed to help people understand how to build stronger products, and how to change their products to help them make more money.

109

4 years ago

Clink is a marketplace app designed to help people find a ride from destination to destination in a more efficient, inexpensive manner.

109

4 years ago

A healthcare company that has designed a device to use a smartphone’s camera to detect tumors

109

3 years ago

A company that has created a device designed to keep people active under the guise of being a “gym ball.” The startup is currently focused on helping people age 65 or older maintain their fitness level, and the founders say they’ve sold over a thousand of the devices so far.

109

2 years ago

A startup that helps you make your desk a more organized workspace, and is designed to aid you in work and personal productivity.

109

5 years ago

A video conferencing platform that’s powered by the cloud and designed to work on all devices. It’s already integrated with Slack, allowing customers to schedule meetings from anywhere and get notifications when they’re available.

108

4 years ago

A way to build a crowd-sourced marketplace of the best designers.

108

4 years ago

A company that conducts “design-thinking” workshops to help people with design-based problems and challenges.

108

3 years ago

A social network that hopes to attract the same sort of younger users that have been flocking to Yik Yak, but with a more conventional design.

108

5 years ago

Founded by a former Google executive, the company is looking to bring AI to the design business. The startup’s first product is a tool that helps designers prototype a product with a drawing tool.

107

5 years ago

A one-stop shop for designer brands to offer their products through a subscription box service. It costs $35 monthly, with a commitment of 3 months.

107

5 years ago

A startup focused on virtual reality and augmented reality wants to make it easier to create and share 3D models on the web, allowing designers to upload their 3D models into its platform for sharing and collaboration.

107

4 years ago

A tool that helps designers build widgets and apps for e-commerce platforms.

107

4 years ago

A platform for hiring freelance developers and designers.

107

3 years ago

A platform for “premium” investment products that is designed to appeal to accredited investors. It currently has about 1,200 members.

107

5 years ago

This startup aims to help companies build custom-designed tools for internal use with a simple, visual UI.

106

5 years ago

A company developing a wireless, easy-to-install smart lock for houses. The product is designed to work with both traditional deadbolts and smart locks.

106

5 years ago

Builds a “design-as-code” tool for product development.

106

5 years ago

A tool designed for insurance adjusters to manage claims and automate the process of getting a home inspection.

106

4 years ago

A platform for storing and sharing user-generated content, designed for use with Twitch and YouTube.

106

4 years ago

ASR is a digital investment platform, which is designed to give investors the chance to buy, sell, and trade digital assets.

106

3 years ago

A platform for “designing, developing, and testing artificial intelligence applications”.

106

2 years ago

A startup that helps companies implement digital strategy and design. Their focus is on design firms and agencies. They’re also working on a physical product

106

5 years ago

A platform that documents the human factors that go into the design of things, like adding a button for “Delete’ and a “Save” button to a plastic toothbrush. The startup is currently working with startups and designers to build out its product.

105

5 years ago

The company is developing an AI platform that uses machine learning to provide on-demand video content for brands. The platform is designed to help marketers better understand their customers and find opportunities to engage them.

105

5 years ago

This app is designed for people with mobility issues to schedule and manage their indoor activities. The startup wants to bring technology to a new market of people with mobility issues.

105

4 years ago

A mobile app that helps people understand their personal relationships with debt. The app is designed to help people understand their relationship with debt and make decisions about how to manage it.

105

4 years ago

A company that makes a tool that helps small businesses hire full-time help, with help in categories like marketing, communications, sales, and design.

104

4 years ago

A digital platform for training and mentorship, founded by user-experience designers. A platform to foster a community of designers, technical writers, and marketers who share their expertise.

104

4 years ago

A company that’s building a tool for hiring freelance web designers across the U.S.

104

3 years ago

A tool for product managers and designers that allows for easy creation of mockups for products within Basecamp.

104

5 years ago

A startup that’s developing a software platform that lets retailers design and sell customized products, like clothes and accessories, and then sell them via social media marketing.

103

5 years ago

A SaaS that helps merchants personalize their customer experience in the checkout process. The startup wants to design a checkout experience that's “like using a personal stylist”.

103

4 years ago

A computer science degree designed for people in the large, growing Indian market for “robotics, artificial intelligence, and computer vision”, with a built-in partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

103

4 years ago

An online marketplace for high-quality furniture and design objects, which helps buyers and sellers find each other.

103

2 years ago

A digital currency that’s managed by a foundation, with a coin that the foundation claims “is designed to resist inflation and to be stable in value”.

103

5 years ago

What’s the future of retail A startup that helps retailers visualize, optimize, and design their stores using the latest AI and machine learning technologies.

102

5 years ago

Shopping cart software designed for retailers who don’t have a large inventory. It’s targeted at mom-and-pop shops. The startup is in the early stages of building out its business.

102

3 years ago

A product that allows consumers to collect and share their life’s moments in the form of text, audio, video, and pictures. The company claims they’re the first company to blend AI-driven software, powerful hardware, and mobile-friendly design to create a stand-alone action camera, the Zing Camera.

102

5 years ago

A group of technology companies that are building a “novel” way for companies to track the progress of their products through the design process.

101

5 years ago

This is an app that aims to help people understand their credit score and how it can affect their future. “The app provides a user-friendly credit score calculator that is designed to give you a quick and easy understanding of your score. The calculator gives you a score based on your credit history and helps you understand how your credit score is calculated, how it will change, and what it means to you,” the company says.

101

5 years ago

A platform that aims to make it easier to design and manage digital product and content experiences. An open-source platform that allows anyone to design a product and provide the necessary feedback to friends and followers. The startup is seeking to build on the work of other Open Platforms like Brave, or Pivotal, or Path.

101

5 years ago

A platform for curating and distributing mobile games. The startup is focused on games that are designed for touchscreens, though they reference other platforms, such as Facebook’s Messenger and Apple’s iMessage.

101

5 years ago

A coworking space that offers a space to network and work, and the tools to help organize the work that’s done there. It’s designed to be a place for entrepreneurs and freelancers to meet up, work together, and eventually launch their own companies.

101

5 years ago

A startup in the fitness-tracking space that’s giving people an app that provides them with on-demand workouts. The startup is selling workouts that are already designed by a group of experts, for $12 a piece.

101

5 years ago

A startup that is building a smart home system for the elderly. The system is designed for seniors who need assistance with tasks like opening doors and turning lights on and off.

101

4 years ago

A social network for mobile app developers. The startup wants to make it easy for developers to create and design their apps.

101

4 years ago

New startup that generates and sells 3D models of buildings for architects and designers to use.

101

3 years ago

An Ethereum-based blockchain based on a new design that allows for faster, cheaper, and more secure transactions.

101

2 years ago

A wearables company that builds a new kind of sensor that’s designed to be unobtrusive, durable, and low-cost.

101

5 years ago

A tool that helps designers and agencies collaborate remotely, building it into an all-in-one app for managing tasks and assets, helping them build cohesive teams.

100

5 years ago

A new kind of e-banking system for Latin America, which is designed to improve the experience of active bank customers. The company plans to launch in Brazil in the next few months and expand thereafter.

100

5 years ago

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, this startup is building an online marketplace for freelance designers to get paid for their work.

100

5 years ago

A startup that will make it easier for companies to take their vacation time. Founders say it’s designed to be a more affordable alternative to the likes of Voyageur, which charges $50 for the service and $99 per person.

100

5 years ago

A two-sided marketplace for ads, designed specifically for blockchain and cryptocurrencies, and backed by Y Combinator. The platform will allow publishers and advertisers to sell digital advertising at an auction, then use smart contracts to facilitate payment.

100

4 years ago

A company that takes your design, draws it on a screen, and then 3D prints it.

100

4 years ago

A digital platform designed to help low-income families gain access to credit.

100

4 years ago

A virtual assistant for small businesses, designed to be a one-stop shop for multiple tasks that employees might need.

100

3 years ago

A startup that provides services to product managers and designers. Its software helps design groups collaborate on visual assets and share them easily.

100

3 years ago

A tool that lets users design their own QR codes, one of the most popular QR codes on earth.

100

5 years ago

A platform for employees to organize themselves. It’s designed to be a personal space for workers, like Yammer. It’s free for teams of up to 10 employees, and starts at $10 per month per user.

99

5 years ago

A startup designed for real estate agents to help customers find the right home, with real estate agents in the background.

99

5 years ago

A startup that makes a 3D printer designed for makers that’s affordable for schools and other startups. It also offers a crowdfunding platform for projects that need a 3D printer.

99

5 years ago

A company that lets companies test new products on real users. It aims to be a “Uber for product trials”, allowing companies to have an in-house lab and focus on product design rather than testing. It currently has over 50 customers, and has raised a $3.1 million seed round.

99

4 years ago

A software-as-a-service platform that allows companies to send automated payments to contractors, freelancers and consultants. Work Hub is designed to help B2B companies with the complexity of payment processing.

99

4 years ago

A company that gives businesses a way to buy and receive custom work from people around the world. It’s selling the ability to have a new logo, website, or app design delivered in 15 minutes.

99

4 years ago

A tool for producers of creative content, like filmmakers, photographers, and designers, to record their creative process.

99

3 years ago

Technology used by designers to make designs faster, more accurate, and more reliable.

99

3 years ago

A tool for employees to manage their own health care expenses. Their system is designed to make it easy for employees to share their medical information with their employer, manage all of their health care expenses in one place, and receive an invoice for their expenses.

99

3 years ago

The startup’s flagship product is a game designed to teach children about the importance of saving money and investing.

99

5 years ago

A platform for educators to receive classroom feedback easily. The platform is designed to be an extension of the teacher’s phone, allowing them to receive instant feedback from the classroom.

98

5 years ago

This London-based startup is trying to change the way that people think about cryptocurrency. The platform is designed to help people purchase and trade in cryptocurrencies while providing an environment for detailed analysis of the cryptocurrency market.

98

4 years ago

This startup is building a tool that lets a user take photos, add lines, and then a designer can come in and polish the design.

98

4 years ago

A startup that lets you make custom designs for e-commerce products, with automation and inventory management tools.

98

5 years ago

A team of three that has designed a product to bring the ability to see, access and manage all your digital assets in one place.

97

5 years ago

A Google-designed browser that makes everything on the web searchable.

97

5 years ago

A platform for hiring remote engineers and designers, with a focus on software engineers and designers.

97

5 years ago

A online marketplace for graphic designers and freelancers offering creative services and access to a community of experts.

97

4 years ago

A platform to let consumers connect with the right people and businesses for their needs, and then to take advantage of the discounts and services that are available. The startup is building a "social commerce" platform, designed to make “bid-for-deals” a thing that users want and businesses want.

97

3 years ago

A healthy food delivery service, currently operating in New York City. The founders describe their service as more of a meal service than a food truck, with meals prepared and delivered to customers, who can choose to pick it up at a designated spot or have it delivered to their home.

97

2 years ago

A 10-day immersive program for creatives, artists and designers.

97

5 years ago

This startup is building a digital asset manager for publishers, designed to help them manage their catalogue of books in a centralized, digital format.

96

4 years ago

A computer-aided design app with an emphasis on the “2D” side of things. The startup is looking to do two things: first, it’s trying to “democratize” design, a notoriously expensive and time-intensive process, by helping people do their own designs. Secondly, it takes some of the things people do on their own and turns them into a “compelling product”.

96

4 years ago

A startup for freelance designers and developers

96

4 years ago

A SaaS platform that allows users to create videos for their businesses. The platform makes it easy for businesses to design, edit, and publish their videos.

96

3 years ago

A startup for buying and selling used stuff. Buyer beware: there are scams out there, but you can also buy high-end designer items for $2.50.

96

5 years ago

The startup is building a library for designers and developers to share designs, and is looking to sell the designs for businesses to use.

95

4 years ago

This is a company that has done a lot of research on the best way to get a message across to people in different places. They decided that one of the best ways was to create a system that is both language and location-agnostic, and designed to be culturally sensitive. They’ve put that system to work for a variety of companies, including a hotel chain, a coffee company, and a plastic surgery center.

95

4 years ago

This startup designs and builds a line of “smart” showerheads that the founders say lets users control the temperature and pressure of the water through a smartphone app.

95

3 years ago

A digital wallet for headphones, designed to allow users to store credit cards and loyalty cards in the headphones, and then use them in-store or online.

95

3 years ago

A company that helps small businesses get online. It provides website and mobile app design, marketing, and hosting for a one-time fee that includes a year of maintenance.

95

5 years ago

This blockchain-based protocol enables the creation of new digital assets that can be traded on a peer-to-peer basis. It is designed to support the issuance of new assets and the transfer of value between existing assets, and can be used to provide financial access to unbanked individuals.

94

4 years ago

A tool for paying contractors on a monthly basis, designed to be simple and easy to use for small businesses.

94

4 years ago

A crowdsourced design tool that uses user feedback to iterate on the design of a product.

94

4 years ago

This company wants to help companies get more involved in the design and development of their products. They’ve built a platform that helps customers build and build their product.

94

3 years ago

A tool that helps you shoot video and make GIFs. The design is simple and the tool allows you to record yourself and make GIFs of what you’re saying.

94

3 years ago

Works with experts in the field in order to build a “cloud-based platform” for surveying and designing software.

94

5 years ago

A startup that’s working to bring mobile-first design to the web. The company’s founder says that on desktop, responsive websites are too complex and hard to work with. On mobile, the opposite is true: sites are too simple and often hard to use. Sway is working to change that with a product that uses all the same features on mobile as it does on desktop.

93

5 years ago

A company that hopes to bring a new type of wireless router to market with a design that makes it easy to keep up with mobile devices and handle more traffic.

93

4 years ago

This startup is building AI software that helps people find and rent the best fitting home for their needs. It’s designed to help people find homes, and it’s working with real estate agents and real buyers to launch the product.

93

4 years ago

A designer’s app for creating custom, on-trend, responsive, personalized and customisable websites.

93

3 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for brands to share their logo, designs, messages, and videos across social media and digital platforms.

93

3 years ago

A startup that’s developing an AI-based machine learning platform for financial services that is “designed to help financial institutions to deliver the best customer experiences”.

93

2 years ago

A social app designed for moms to coordinate childcare with other moms.

93

2 years ago

A startup for creating and automating web development workflows, including web design.

93

4 years ago

A tool with a simple design that helps organizations and software developers build and manage their websites. It’s focused on small-to-medium businesses.

92

4 years ago

A tool that helps users create their own custom-built fonts with the company’s custom font editor. The startup aims to remove the need to have a designer build fonts for an application or website by allowing users to build their own instead.

92

4 years ago

A studio based in Australia that wants to use its expertise in motion design to help brands create new products, both physical and digital.

92

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.

92

4 years ago

A company that helps artists and designers build and manage their online presences and businesses.

92

4 years ago

A startup that helps you design your home by giving you access to 3D models, walkthroughs, and virtual tours of homes on the market.

92

3 years ago

Vibes is a design service that helps businesses make more polished websites.

92

3 years ago

About a dozen startups are working on a shared infrastructure to help companies reduce their energy bills. Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU) is designed to help companies cut their energy bills by 30%.

92

4 years ago

"Mashape’s mission is to help small businesses grow and scale. Mashape has developed a suite of tools that allow small businesses to manage their businesses from a central platform. This can be anything from scheduling a meeting to processing invoices. Using Mashape, small businesses can focus on running their business and not their IT. Mashape’s platform is designed to be easy to use and free for small businesses."

91

4 years ago

This startup is building an online marketplace for building and selling custom-designed 3D printed products. The company has raised over $1m so far, and has its own 3D printer.

91

4 years ago

The startup founded by a former General Electric executive, wants to use AI and a custom-designed nanotechnology solution to make drinking water taste better.

91

4 years ago

A business-to-business marketplace connecting companies with professional designers for work on copy, imagery, logos, websites, and branding.

91

4 years ago

A community of “bouts”, designed to help people get in shape.

91

4 years ago

A tool that enables design teams to build websites and apps without worrying about the backend.

91

4 years ago

A web service that helps people design and sell websites, with a side business providing the visual design

91

3 years ago

A VR toolkit for architects and designers, meant to help them visualize their ideas with 3D models. The company is also building a $250,000 grant for the most promising VR startups.

91

3 years ago

If you are a designer and you have a need for a certain type of item or product, you could write about it on the site, and others can purchase it.

91

3 years ago

A digital insurance platform that’s designed to simplify the process of companies buying insurance for their employees and contractors.

91

3 years ago

A social network designed to encourage female leaders in the technology field.

91

2 years ago

This startup is building a platform to help companies scale their sales without hiring more salespeople. They’ve designed their platform to be a more efficient alternative to hiring more salespeople.

91

5 years ago

A digital assistant that helps you manage your personal, family, and professional life. It’s a skinnable interface that can be used by any age, and is designed with a focus on helping people “navigate their lives without distractions.”

90

4 years ago

A freelance freelance marketplace for designers and developers.

90

3 years ago

Designed to help companies discover and select potential new hires, the startup uses machine learning to predict if a job candidate will fit into a company culture.

90

2 years ago

A company that aims to improve the design of the physical world by creating a digital blueprint of the world that enables anyone to 3D print anything.

90

4 years ago

This API lets designers create and embed online maps and maps inside their apps.

89

4 years ago

A social network for fashion industry buyers, which creates a central location where buyers can find and interact with designers for fashion shows and trade shows.

89

2 years ago

An employee-benefit platform that helps companies, employees and HR professionals design plans that can be sent electronically to the plan.

89

5 years ago

A platform for brands to run e-commerce experiments in which they test new products, store designs and other experiments.

88

4 years ago

An online marketplace for freelancers to buy and sell services (web design, photo editing, etc.)

88

4 years ago

A low-cost, high-speed, high-capacity network for manufacturing. Each hub is designed to be small, modular, and scalable.

88

5 years ago

A startup that is building a digital assistant meant to help employees. The tool is designed to help employees collaborate as a team, and allows workers to have their own virtual assistants that can answer questions, plan a day’s work, and more.

87

4 years ago

A platform that allows a designer to prototype digital products for brands before the actual design is done

87

4 years ago

The California-based company, which previously had raised $16 million, is selling custom-designed power banks, which are basically portable chargers for smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other devices. The company is selling them through its website but is also looking to partner with retailers to sell them in their brick-and-mortar stores.

87

4 years ago

A platform that helps designers collaborate with multiple people on one project

87

4 years ago

A company that builds and operates data centers for other companies. One of the big challenges in server design is making sure they don’t get too hot, which can lead to more energy consumption. The startup is building a new type of data center that’s made for hot environments.

87

3 years ago

Fusing data and design to help you manage your life easier.

87

4 years ago

The startup is looking to build a “messaging platform for restaurants” designed to simplify restaurant communication. The platform would allow customers to share photos of their meals with each other, and track the progress of those meals through their restaurants.

86

4 years ago

A startup designed for salespeople to sync sales calls with their sales history, history of sales calls with their customer, and push out daily reports.

86

4 years ago

The startup is designing and selling a wearable device that tracks one’s hydration and heart rate to help athletes get a better exercise plan.

86

3 years ago

This is a marketplace for connecting and hiring freelance designers.

86

3 years ago

A startup for freelance developers and designers who can provide a full suite of services to their clients.

86

3 years ago

A dating app for the elderly, for the first time giving older adults a way to look for love in their own neighborhood. The app is designed to be easy for the elderly and disabled to use, and have a handy feature that lets them order from their favorite restaurant.

86

5 years ago

Fledgling startup that wants to let you design your own custom robotics projects through a simple drag-and-drop interface. The company is hoping to make it so that a person can build a robot with just a few minutes of work.

85

4 years ago

A student loan management app, designed to make the process of paying off student loans simpler.

85

4 years ago

A platform that helps hospitals and labs design and manage patient schedules. They’re looking to bring together patients, doctors, and other healthcare professionals to improve care.

85

4 years ago

A startup that helps manufacturers of air fresheners, air purifiers, and air purifying devices scale their operations. The startup creates software that automates the design of these products for overseas manufacturers, allowing them to keep costs down.

85

4 years ago

A startup that allows businesses to hire freelance graphic designers from their Slack channels, who can pull from a pool of designers on demand.

85

4 years ago

A group of 3 engineers and a graphic designer, Capital’s goal is to disrupt the legal sector of the marketplace by providing a full service

85

3 years ago

A startup for building and selling virtual furniture. The company is building a website for people to host their own furniture designs, see how they’d look in real life, and then order it to be built.

85

3 years ago

A company that helps small and medium sized businesses develop and launch new products by introducing them to a network of mentors, design resources, and developers.

85

3 years ago

A startup designed to help recruiters find job candidates that meet the needs of their clients by keeping track of people they already know and have in their network.

85

3 years ago

A software platform designed to enable retailers to drive more sales and make more money.

85

4 years ago

A “a mobile app for anyone who wants to become an artist”, designed for “artists who have previously been turned down by art schools” to help them learn to draw.

84

4 years ago

A mobile app designed to allow teachers to pair student collaboration tools with social media.

84

4 years ago

This startup is building a tool that designates specific parts of an app as “core”, “intermediate”, or “non-core”, which helps developers prioritize work and makes it easier to switch to a different language.

84

4 years ago

A software platform that helps you collect all of the information on your apps, and design a software solution that works best for your business.

84

4 years ago

The idea is that a user builds a profile of pre-made designs for their logo that they can then sell or share with other users who can purchase them. The startup is focused on the design industry, and allows you to buy and sell your own designs.

84

4 years ago

A business that provides custom-designed shirts to customers by local artists, using Kickstarter to fund production.

84

4 years ago

A custom-built security system to protect mobile devices, with a team of designers and engineers that build the actual hardware and software. The startup is staffed by former Google employees and was spun out from Google to focus on security.

84

4 years ago

A platform that allows people to test out and share their own designs, called Viva Labs. The startup calls it “Uber for manufacturing” and is already helping people test their ideas out at the Maker Fair in New York City.

84

4 years ago

The world’s first ad-free news app, designed to be a more ethical and trustworthy alternative to services like Facebook, Google and Twitter.

84

3 years ago

A tool meant to help recruiters find new talent in the engineering and product design fields.

84

3 years ago

An industrial robotics platform that wants to help manufacturers quickly and cost-effectively design and build their own autonomous robots.

84

4 years ago

A product design platform for retailers in the MENA region. The company wants to build a tool that helps offline retailers to design and launch their own online stores.

83

4 years ago

An online marketplace for creative professionals. The company focuses on product photography, videography, and design.

83

4 years ago

An online marketplace for digital products and services, and a social platform for artists and designers to sell their work.

83

4 years ago

A platform that allows anyone to build a website, designed to save cost and time for startups.

83

4 years ago

A company that wants to sell tools used for computer-aided design.

83

4 years ago

Designing clothing for the fashion industry, providing a way to create and share designs with customers.

83

4 years ago

A tool for graphic designers and animators to create animations with a single click.

83

3 years ago

This company is designing a credit card machine that works with a phone.

83

3 years ago

An e-commerce platform that helps merchants design and promote their own physical stores.

83

5 years ago

Idea: this is a design tool to help businesses automate and streamline their customer support processes

82

5 years ago

A digital personal assistant for busy professionals, based on a design process based on the 11-step real-life process companies go through when hiring a new employee.

82

4 years ago

A toolkit for managers to help them understand and talk about the problems that their employees are having. The toolkit is designed to help managers understand their employees better and fix problems faster.

82

4 years ago

A platform that connects companies with designers and agencies to find and hire freelance designers.

82

4 years ago

A way to find a developer. The startup wants to go beyond the current market for freelance developers, bringing together people with product and design expertise to do work for clients.

82

4 years ago

A team of engineers and a design team at a startup in China who want to grow their business into a larger team and a larger product.

82

3 years ago

A company that builds lab-grown diamonds. The company says it’s already working with top jewelry designers.

82

5 years ago

A platform for building and tracking periodic projects that require regular maintenance and updates, like website redesigns, software updates, or videos.

81

4 years ago

A startup that helps companies provide “full-stack” support for their products, from product design and development through sales and support.

81

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easy to make furniture with 3D printing. A woodworker or designer can go to their website and select a model, upload their CAD files, and in just a few hours they’ll get a 3D-printed version of their design.

81

4 years ago

A wireless charger, designed to work on any flat surface, for any phone.

81

4 years ago

A company that helps companies track and manage health and safety in the workplace. The startup is designed to be cheap, cheap, cheap.

81

4 years ago

“Echo” is a new retail platform that allows customers to buy goods from a selection of over 1,000 brands, with a selection of goods from 70,000 product designers. In addition to a platform for customers to search for things to buy, Echo also offers a sales channel for retailers.

81

4 years ago

A CTO of a small company of 3 people, looking to hire an artist or designer or developer.

81

4 years ago

A company that wants to provide a platform to use design in healthcare. It’s a “new generation” of design tools that makes the practice more efficient and accessible. The company is currently focused on the US market.

81

4 years ago

Designed for dinnertime conversations, the app allows users to see what their friends are talking about and brings some of Facebook’s features to dinner table discussions.

81

4 years ago

A developer and designer for building web apps for the smart home market.

81

4 years ago

This startup is building a national database of design professionals. Designers have a habit of being underpaid, and brands are often unaware of who they should hire. The startup is creating a national database of qualified design professionals, and after a year of beta, is planning to expand to other professions.

81

3 years ago

A decentralized exchange for cryptocurrencies that’s designed to be easier to use than current services.

81

3 years ago

A platform that allows users to design and build their own virtualized world, including 3-D building tools, scripting, and mesh networking.

81

3 years ago

A startup for online courses to teach skills like coding, design, and writing.

81

2 years ago

A toolset for marketers and web designers to create Facebook ads, and a platform for companies to manage all those ads.

81

4 years ago

The startup is using app design and marketing startups to build an app that helps investors find value in publicly traded companies.

80

4 years ago

A product development and design company for small-to-medium-sized businesses, with a focus on beauty brands

80

4 years ago

A startup that sells software designed to integrate with the human resources and benefits management software of large employers.

80

4 years ago

A platform that connects employers with web designers and developers who can help them build websites and mobile apps.

79

4 years ago

A tool for designers to create interactive visualizations in a fraction of the time it would take with traditional software.

79

4 years ago

LendingClub is a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending company that aims to cut out the middleman lending market by allowing borrowers to connect with each other directly. The company’s P2P model is based on an algorithm designed to match borrowers with lenders. P2P loans were responsible for $2.7 billion in loans in 2017.

79

4 years ago

A personalized credit card design. The startup helps users pick a card design, receive it in the mail, and start using it.

79

4 years ago

A company that makes a product called a “pill stop” which is a pill dispenser for people with bad backs, designed to make it easier to take pills by placing them in a container instead of a cup.

79

4 years ago

A user-friendly app designed to help hire employees. Filmed interviews have gone viral.

79

3 years ago

A patent-pending open source script to “attract, engage, and retain” employees, aimed at businesses large and small. The script asks applicants to design a custom experience, from an attractive user interface to how to react to job opportunities.

79

3 years ago

A system for security officers to track and optimize their interactions with visitors. It’s designed for institutions, like schools, but could work for any company with a lot of visitors.

79

2 years ago

A company that makes custom-made logo clothing. The startup wants to make it easier for companies to hire their own bespoke designers.

79

2 years ago

This startup is designing a better way to judge the quality of a school by looking at the quality of the faculty.

79

4 years ago

A product designed for students and young professionals, where one can send a request for a meeting, and the other can respond with a time and place. The company was founded in March, and is working on a handful of deals in Silicon Valley for the product.

78

4 years ago

3D printers designed specifically to work with medical devices.

78

4 years ago

A startup that designs and manufactures a line of fitness equipment for women, including a weight loss belt, a ball of resistance, and even a workout glove that makes you feel like a superhero.

78

4 years ago

A credit reporting platform designed to make it easier for borrowers to understand their credit scores and learn from their spending. It was built by a team of three grad students from MIT and TWC Labs, and was launched in July.

78

4 years ago

A remote management service that allows businesses to manage employees and clients with a single dashboard. It’s designed for medium to large businesses with over 100 employees.

78

4 years ago

The startup is developing a global network of “Barista of the Future” in 20 countries where them will be a barista in a coffee shop, and they earn a living wage. The program is designed to provide baristas with the skills they need to run their own business, and to help them start their own locations.

78

4 years ago

This startup is hard at work building a new way for people to make money on their phone, with a focus on mobile-first design for apps

78

4 years ago

A platform for people to hire freelance services like web designers, writers, and developers (known as “talents”) within the company and outside of it.

78

4 years ago

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

77

4 years ago

A CNC milling machine for 3D printing that has a heated build plate, a 3D printer kit, and a software program for designing and controlling the machine directly from your computer.

77

4 years ago

A startup that allows people with intellectual property rights to more easily sell their designs to manufacturers.

77

4 years ago

A platform for meal-kit delivery designed to eliminate the “kitchen limbo” where people lose track of how much is left in the fridge and need to go buy more. It streamlines the process of sending the meal components to the client, then doing the cooking for the client and keeping track of when it needs to be delivered.

77

4 years ago

An interior design app that lets users share with others their dream home in 3D.

77

4 years ago

This is a startup that helps design products for their specific needs, rather than trying to use “one-size-fits-all” approach.

77

4 years ago

A full-stack mobile app for local businesses with a focus on food and drink, designed for city living.

77

4 years ago

A platform that allows companies to run their own inventory management system, designed to be more user-friendly than the current options.

77

4 years ago

A location-based social network designed to help users find, connect, and transact with local businesses.

77

4 years ago

For designers, this is an all-in-one program that allows you to create and screen print shirts, mugs and more.

77

4 years ago

This startup wants to help developers focus more on their code by providing them with a design, development, and testing resource.

77

3 years ago

A startup designed to “empower” women in India to take control of their health.

77

3 years ago

A tool designed to help HR departments manage new employee onboarding.

77

3 years ago

A platform that enables restaurants to quickly and easily build their own website. The company says their software saves restaurants an average of $2,000 annually in web design and development costs.

77

5 years ago

A business designed to help musicians market their music and manage it across the web. It’s a unique approach, but the founders say that they’re already working with over 150 artists.

76

5 years ago

A tool that allows employees to track and collaborate on projects. The company says the average person wastes nearly an hour each day on email, so it’s designed to help people get more done.

76

4 years ago

This startup is building an app that sends a smart message to your employer when you leave your desk. It’s designed to remind companies of their hiring rules, but it could also be useful for workers to avoid calling out sick.

76

4 years ago

A startup for multi-family buildings that aims to optimize energy usage through a more intelligent management of energy usage. The startup started in 2018 and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Fast Company Design.

76

4 years ago

This startup aims to to bring a more curated experience to a site like Etsy by helping customers discover and buy items from designers based on their style and personal taste, rather than browsing a wide array of products.

76

4 years ago

A digital payment platform designed to allow any company to accept payments on their website.

76

4 years ago

A platform for managing medical records, bills, and diagnostics. A SaaS platform designed for medical providers.

76

4 years ago

A set of tools for improving the efficiency of supply chain operations that are designed to work across multiple industries, not just automotive.

76

4 years ago

A platform for selling pre-owned designer goods, creating a marketplace for buying and selling designer goods and selling pre-owned designer goods online.

76

4 years ago

A messaging platform to facilitate in-person meetings between people who never actually met before. It’s designed to streamline the matchmaking process by connecting people with similar interests, and to make it more efficient for those who like meeting in-person.

76

4 years ago

This app is designed to help you organize your favorite shows, so you don’t miss an episode or be constantly reminded of a series you haven’t watched in a while.

76

3 years ago

A software platform designed to enable data scientists and AI experts to run real-time experiments.

76

3 years ago

A network of young designers who use their own personal resources to make a product that can be sold online. The company offers a “design-to-order” service for consumers, who can choose from a number of product options, including customization of colors, fabrics, and packaging.

76

2 years ago

This startup aims to make it easier to ship products by making it easier to build something on a 3D printer, selling kit tools designed to make assembly and fabrication of complex products simple and easy.

76

2 years ago

A college prep and career prep program for kids in high school designed to help them find internships or jobs.

76

4 years ago

A platform designed to help businesses manage employees via integrations with other popular workplace tools like Slack, Asana, and Confluence. It also offers 30+ support agents to help businesses with problems.

75

4 years ago

A custom cryptocurrency that’s being built by a former Coinbase employee. The startup is building a cryptocurrency for which no mining is required – a codebase that’s designed to be more decentralized.

75

4 years ago

A startup that makes accurate, high-resolution 3D models of the things in the world. The company charges designers and architects in-person visits in which they can see prototypes in person and get one-on-one feedback.

75

4 years ago

A startup that builds printers that are designed to look like plants, with wood grain and other organic details.

75

4 years ago

An all-in-one headphone that’s designed to be both high-quality and cheap.

75

4 years ago

A fashion tech startup that connects fashion designers with brands looking to work with them.

75

4 years ago

A chatbot designed to answer all of your questions about how to reduce your carbon footprint, which they want to do by partnering with your utility company.

75

4 years ago

An organic fertilizer app designed to help farmers track their production and make accurate decisions based on their crop yields.

75

4 years ago

A software developer that works with companies to help them design and build self-service sales and lead management systems. The startup, which launched in 2018, has 150 clients.

75

4 years ago

A startup for companies to manage the design, development and maintenance of their websites.

75

4 years ago

A company that helps companies manage the design and production of their videos. Video creation is a $200 billion global industry and the startup wants to help companies in getting more creative and efficient.

75

4 years ago

A startup for hiring and finding freelance writers, designed to let people focus on content.

75

4 years ago

A web-based tool that connects customers with freelance professionals for a variety of tasks, ranging from website development to graphic design to transcription.

74

4 years ago

A group of professional marketers and designers with a background in creative agencies and marketing startups.

74

4 years ago

A startup focused on designing better medical devices for uteruses, ovaries, and other organs.

74

4 years ago

A cross-border payment platform designed to give merchants a chance to sell their goods to customers in other countries.

74

4 years ago

Notememe is a tool for public speaking that is designed to help you remember what you talked about. It’s a visual, like a PowerPoint, with the slides you’ve spoken on organized into the order you’ve spoken.

74

4 years ago

A paid subscription service for people looking to take their homes to the next level, with plans starting at $399. They want to create a “designer” lifestyle for people that want to buy a house but don’t want to do a lot of the hard work.

74

4 years ago

A tool for designing and building websites.

74

3 years ago

The startup is building a way to bridge the gap between the design community and the maker community

74

3 years ago

A community of freelance product designers who can help launch a new product or company.

74

3 years ago

A daily newsletter for doctors, designed to deliver the most important health news, features and trends every morning.

74

3 years ago

A platform aimed at helping people design, build, and manage software as a service.

74

4 years ago

The startup is building an open-source library of all the design patterns, languages, and paradigms that make up the internet. This will serve as a foundation for the internet of things.

73

4 years ago

An influencer marketing platform for advertisers, designed to help them work with social media stars to influence the purchase decisions of millions of consumers

73

4 years ago

This app is designed to help people earn one-on-one time with a live mental health counselor. As opposed to getting a video chat with a counselor, users can book a session face-to-face with a counselor via a live video call.

73

4 years ago

A mobile app designed for people with mental and physical disabilities to find and book quality care in their communities. The platform allows caregivers to set their own rates and specify their own specialties.

73

3 years ago

A catalog of inspiration for interior designers, architects, and artists.

73

3 years ago

A business service for freelance designers that allows them to access a library of high quality photos, fonts and templates for their clients.

73

3 years ago

This startup aims to make it easier for people to buy high-quality, custom-designed and custom-made wedding rings. The company wants to disrupt the traditional diamond industry and take a day-to-day approach to helping couples design their rings.

73

3 years ago

A kind of fridge designed to take notes and leave them for the future.

73

3 years ago

A community of designers creating bespoke jewelry

73

4 years ago

This startup is building a chatbot that can help you map out your home renovation or design project. It's available in English and Spanish.

72

4 years ago

A company that focuses on product design and the design of physical products.

72

4 years ago

A way to build video games with a minimalist interface, aiming to give designers and programmers a more productive way to develop games.

72

4 years ago

A “financial services for the modern age” platform for the US that’s “designed to meet the needs of the emerging millennial generation”.

72

4 years ago

“We're building an AI-driven platform to help enterprises define, design, and implement their digital transformation initiatives. We want to make digital transformation easy and accessible to everyone.”

72

3 years ago

A company that sells a subscription app designed to help people control and manage their finances.

72

3 years ago

A "customer engagement platform", which is a bit like Klout, but using social media and real-time data to help companies design better customer experiences.

72

4 years ago

A DIY office design platform for architects, builders, and designers.

71

4 years ago

A messaging and referral app designed for healthcare and medical professionals. It’s a sort of Yelp for the healthcare industry, helping patients find nearby doctors and other medical services.

71

4 years ago

A group of engineers and designers developing a scanner and mobile app to make it easier for people to find parking and ticket free spots.

71

4 years ago

This app helps you find your way to the nearest Venue, which is a building that’s designed to be a hub for startups.

71

4 years ago

An on-demand app for freelance freelance designers.

71

4 years ago

The company thinks it can make a better drink cooler than any other, with a unique design and proprietary formulation.

71

4 years ago

A custom-designed social media application for fashion brands.

71

3 years ago

A tool for communicating with people in remote areas, designed for disaster relief and humanitarian work.

71

3 years ago

A tool for helping people build websites — a CSS-based site builder that’s easy for non-designers to use.

71

4 years ago

A team of three full stack engineers, two graphics designers, and a marketing lead, Capital’s goal is to disrupt the legal sector of the marketplace by providing a full service legal shop. Capital is a firm that represents individuals and small businesses in a variety of legal matters. The team is currently focusing on the representation of individuals, but also does work for small businesses.

70

4 years ago

A project management software company, focused on improving the workflows of design teams.

70

4 years ago

A cloud-based project management platform for designers and developers, through which they can view client feedback, manage workflows and streamline operations.

70

4 years ago

A tool that lets you design a concept car and see how it would look in real life

70

4 years ago

A group of designers and developers building a basic platform to help people create and share drawings and designs, similar to how Shapes is used to share images. It is currently in private beta, with a public launch scheduled in Q1 2015.

70

4 years ago

Creates custom-designed, interactive and high-quality mobile apps for brands and agencies to manage, create and distribute content via their own proprietary technology.

70

4 years ago

The app is designed to help parents create a “structure for their day” as well as to make sure their child is doing well at school.

70

4 years ago

A web-based software for designing, managing and hosting a web-based training program for employees. It makes it easy for companies to develop, host and share training programs

70

4 years ago

A tool designed to help people in industries that have a lot of social media engagement (like travel) track and measure their social media statistics.

70

4 years 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.

70

3 years ago

A machine learning tool that helps designers hire faster. The startup has been built over the last year and is still in beta. They say they have hundreds of customers, including the Washington Post and Major League Soccer.

70

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help companies design and implement distributed ledger solutions for their business

70

3 years ago

This startup is designed to help people become better at generating ideas. It’s a software platform that builds a list of random words and phrases, then works to match them to ideas in your head. The startup says it’s working with a client that has over 1,000 different words that it uses to generate ideas.

70

4 years ago

A startup for meeting new people and finding friends. The app is designed to make it easier for people to make new friends, and to find people with similar interests.

69

4 years ago

A startup for designers and developers to buy and sell development services in bulk.

69

4 years ago

A company that aims to help people and companies plan sales and sales presentations online. They're currently working on a product for sales managers who want to be more strategic about sales by designing sales presentations ahead of time.

69

4 years ago

Tired of setting up a ton of services on your new Mac ScreenGuru is a startup that enables Mac users to have a single login for all their apps, which aren’t designed to be set up separately. It’s a new way to think about how you use a Mac.

69

4 years ago

a Pinterest-like social network for interior designers, with users being able to share photos of their work and sell it within the app

69

4 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for designers to create products that are printed and shipped to the customer’s home.

69

4 years ago

A hardware wallet for bitcoin. A recent redesign has brought in some features that were previously only available for the Ledger.

69

4 years ago

A credit card designed to help people who don’t qualify for the best cards.

69

3 years ago

A company that’s trying to help people build websites using the WordPress platform and theme them with their own designs, letting them sell their own products from the website.

69

3 years ago

The startup was started by a group of ex-IKEA designers and engineers after they saw the retail giant’s ability to sell furniture online cut into their ability to sell products. It’s available in the US and UK markets, with plans to expand to other countries soon.

69

3 years ago

A platform for recruiting external developers and designers, with a focus on turning work out quickly without the time and costs of traditional recruiting processes.

69

3 years ago

A quick and easy way to design and share interactive charts, illustrations and infographics. Started as a side project in 2012, and expanded its focus to interactivity in 2017.

69

3 years ago

A mobile app for the people who design, build and maintain the world’s communication networks, from the ground up. It’s meant to give them a better way to plan, build, and operate networks around the world.

69

3 years ago

A CMS that allows teams to maintain their content in a more consistent manner, but also helps companies more easily share content and data across their team, from the design teams to the marketing teams.

69

4 years ago

A smartphone that’s meant to be an all-in-one computer, with an operating system that’s focused on productivity and responsive design.

68

4 years ago

A decentralized network of health and medical devices that can connect to each other to streamline health data gathering and data sharing. The network is designed to be a completely decentralized, non-profit network, and is currently in talks with the NHS.

68

4 years ago

The product of the Design Accelerator, this startup is building a tool to help people visualize their finances.

68

4 years ago

A platform that connects the architecture of the web with the design of the apps that run on it.

68

4 years ago

This company is building a platform where small businesses can design custom retail experiences for their customers. The startup lets you design a retail experience from scratch and have it printed on a piece of paper.

68

4 years ago

Designing and building a new way for people to connect over virtual reality.

68

4 years ago

A startup that provides a platform for design thinking workshops. The company wants to help teams come up with creative solutions to problems.

68

4 years ago

This app is a tool for people with social anxiety, designed to help them manage their anxiety. Past users have said that the app helps them work through their anxiety and to become more social.

68

3 years ago

A startup that lets users create and share 3D models of physical objects, with a focus on architecture and design.

68

3 years ago

A business platform designed for one-person businesses that helps to automate tasks, manage finances and make people more productive.

68

3 years ago

A company that makes a software platform to help customers make their own custom clothing, with designs that can be 3D printed.

68

3 years ago

InVision is a platform and API for building digital mockups of products where members can collaborate and share designs, interact with others, and collaborate on projects. The startup is a cross between Slack and Microsoft Flow.

68

3 years ago

A platform designed to help small businesses get organized. The startup aims to help small businesses save time and money while tracking expenses.

68

3 years ago

A company that has created a new type of self-driving car that is designed to be used in crowded areas, mainly at malls and retail stores.

68

3 years ago

A new type of electronic device to help farmers stay in touch with their fields. The device is designed to allow farmers to monitor water levels, temperatures and other data in real time.

68

4 years ago

A startup for creative workers, including photographers, videographers, and designers. It’s a bit like Upwork but without the middle man — and is looking to expand nationally.

67

4 years ago

A card that allows people to pay at any merchant that accepts Visa or MasterCard. The startup is working with the IMF to design the card with the goal of replacing cash in countries with local currency.

67

4 years ago

A startup that enables the design of 3D printed prosthetics. The company wants to provide 3D printing for prosthetics as a service, by offering it as a service, and partnering with 3D printing machines to print them.

67

4 years ago

A web-based tool for web designers

67

4 years ago

A tool for designers to understand how to use their designs across different devices, with the visualizability of a tool like Photoshop.

67

4 years ago

The startup wants to help companies build custom landing pages and email marketing campaigns for their businesses. It offers a custom design tool, email design templates, and analytics for each campaign.

67

4 years ago

A startup that helps people set up mailboxes in their homes. It’s currently in beta and is building an API for customers to build their own services using the company’s design.

67

4 years ago

Making it possible for designers to create and secure online shopping carts for retailers.

67

4 years ago

A startup for finding and buying used cars, designed to be a hybrid of Craigslist and Carvana.

67

3 years ago

A SaaS product that helps companies with the design, development and deployment of custom algorithms

67

3 years ago

A company that teaches people how to make their own clothes, and prints the patterns over 3D printing software. The startup is building a new system for independent fashion designers to sell their designs via the internet without the need for a sewing machine.

67

3 years ago

A visual collaboration platform for apps that want to support the design of their interfaces.

67

2 years ago

A social network designed specifically for the medical industry by a medical student.

67

4 years ago

A platform that connects you to a network of freelance designers and developers to create a product for you. The company also works with your team to provide you with a product roadmap and a recommended development timeline.

66

4 years ago

An online clothing retailer that’s already built an online store for its own clothing line. They’re looking to expand their product line with new designers and consumers, who can find their products in the app.

66

4 years ago

A company that provides on-demand web design and development services for small and medium sized businesses. They say their tool is affordable for businesses and their customers.

66

4 years ago

A web analytics tool designed for mobile apps. Not only does it help developers track users, it also makes it easier to build a good mobile experience.

66

4 years ago

A tool designed to help companies manage their debt, with the service claiming to have helped customers save $12 billion since 2011.

66

4 years ago

A startup designed to help people organize and manage their personal finances at all different stages of life.

66

4 years ago

Startup is building a product that allows companies to manage a large number of project teams, like design teams, engineering teams, and sales and marketing teams, all in one place. The company currently has 25 employees.

66

4 years ago

A platform designed to bring the best local restaurants to your door in cities across the US. The startup charges restaurants a fee for each meal ordered, with the idea that the startup will eventually partner with restaurants at an increased rate of the fee, expanding their reach and the number of meals delivered.

66

4 years ago

is a complete digital design and development platform for startups. The platform is expected to make it easy for companies to build and launch products.

66

3 years ago

Furnish is a $53,000 per year subscription for a master suite in a new house. The startup is building a marketplace for interior design services with the help of Y Combinator.

66

3 years ago

A product design company that builds products for companies like Kickstarter, Yahoo and Walmart. They’re a hardware startup, and focus on the products they build.

66

3 years ago

A platform designed to help people create a digital voice of steel and steel-on-steel records.

66

3 years ago

A workout program that uses an algorithm to analyze your movements to determine what’s most effective for you. The company uses the data to create custom workouts, designed with the user in mind and designed to help them lose weight or improve their overall health.

66

3 years ago

When you need help with a color scheme, you might ask your mom. Mom’s Color is a color matching app that helps people find the perfect hues by asking them how they feel about the color. It’s designed to be used by people who are colorblind or otherwise struggle to match colors.

66

3 years ago

A $100 credit card for food services in the US. It’s designed to help those who work in the food industry feed their families on low wages.

66

3 years ago

The startup is designing a tool that helps restaurants and other food service businesses do reviews and feedback management in one place

66

4 years ago

A web-based service designed to make it easier for nonprofits to raise money. It charges a nominal annual fee for the service.

65

4 years ago

A 3D modeling platform for the design community

65

4 years ago

A design and development studio that says it’s “a team of designers, engineers and startups” that helps “build and manage large scale web apps”. It’s interesting to see a startup that’s taking on the very same tasks that larger companies have historically outsourced to larger consulting firms like Accenture or PwC.

65

4 years ago

A startup that sells a plan integrating engineering teams with the design team, managing the product and its entire life cycle, and automating many processes.

65

4 years ago

A tool for designers to create and manage their own product and marketplace collections. The startup is planning on using the site to sell goods from international markets.

65

4 years ago

A startup that helps companies create and manage their own internal community platforms. It’s meant to be a hub for employees to share ideas and collaborate, but it’s designed to also be a repository for company culture.

65

4 years ago

A SaaS platform for e-commerce website that gives users the ability to create calls to action, create and manage CTA templates, and design and manage a page layout.

65

4 years ago

A company that creates custom-designed, pre-packaged, monthly subscription boxes of healthy snacks. The boxes are meant to be tasty, portable, and affordable, but also good for you. Customers can customize their boxes with additional ingredients, and can track their consumption on a website. The boxes are available on subscription, as well as individually.

65

3 years ago

This startup is building a “smart” bike that can tell you how many calories you’ve burned and how far you’ve ridden. The device is designed to help people get fit, and is a spinoff of the company’s original product, a smart wristband that used to measure blood oxygen levels.

65

3 years 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.

65

3 years ago

A product design and engineering tool for web and mobile apps.

65

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a way for designers to collaborate easily and quickly on a wide variety of projects.

65

2 years ago

A product that helps designers test interactive prototypes for real users.

65

2 years ago

A SaaS platform designed to help companies keep track of expenses and have a plan for future expenses.

65

2 years ago

A company that helps web developers and designers by sending them digital files that they can use to create websites for clients.

65

4 years ago

The startup, which launched in December, is building an API that allows companies to design their own “gunmetal” color palettes for their apps. The startup wants to deliver a service that allows designers to create color palettes through a set of “gunmetal” swatches.

64

4 years ago

A wearable device designed for women to track sleep. The founders say their design and concept is inspired by the experience of their own mothers, and specifically the struggles they had with sleep disorders.

64

4 years ago

A software company that helps people make decisions on whether to hire a freelance designer or designer agency.

64

4 years 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.

64

3 years ago

A platform that allows people to create and sell training videos in the same way they can create and sell online courses. The startup is looking to start by offering training videos on basic coding and design to supplement college classes.

64

3 years ago

A platform for freelance designers, where designers can create their own jobs and manage the proposals and clients that come through their site.

64

3 years ago

A company that sells custom-designed furniture for startups

64

3 years ago

A startup that designs hardware and software for building autonomous vehicles

64

3 years ago

A startup that connects a team of freelance designers, developers and designers with a small business needing help on a project.

64

3 years ago

A business that helps to hire, manage and pay designers who are looking to leave their job

64

5 years ago

Idea: A startup designed to help people in India pay their taxes online. The company charges one-time fees for setting up a company in India, and then charges users $1 per month to file their taxes.

63

4 years ago

A meeting scheduler for small businesses. It’s designed to be easy to use for simple scheduling, and free for five people. The founders say that they’ve got customers in the Bay area, and plans to expand to the East Coast in the next year.

63

4 years ago

The startup has developed an app that helps people find independent contractors for tasks like writing, editing, or graphic design.

63

4 years ago

The team at Fuzzy is building a team management platform that’s designed to help more than just HR and finance departments — they say they’re building it for anyone that manages teams.

63

4 years ago

A digital assistant for the elderly, designed to better help older adults live life and become more independent. The startup wants to integrate a concierge service with a robotic companion.

63

4 years ago

A tool for users to “design better apps”. The app essentially does the same thing as a prototyping tool, but for app design. It essentially lets you create a mock-up of your app in a design app, then export it to an actual app to use.

63

4 years ago

This company is designing an app that allows people to make their own items of clothing and sell them to consumers on the app. The startup also wants to move into the fashion space itself.

63

4 years ago

A tool that will allow non-profits to raise money for their causes by pre-selling branded merchandise, starting with a fundraiser for the American Red Cross. Customers purchase pieces of a t-shirt or hoody and design their own text and images, which they can then have printed and shipped. The proceeds of their sale will go directly to the American Red Cross.

63

3 years ago

A virtual assistant that serves as an HR manager for small companies in the US. The company is hiring across its teams, from customer success and sales to engineering, product and design.

63

3 years ago

A mobile payments and loyalty program designed to help small businesses run their businesses more effectively and efficiently. The platform is open to all merchants, not just those in particular industries. It’s currently only in its beta stage.

63

3 years ago

A team of students from the University of California at Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz came up with a game that’s meant to help improve emotional intelligence and emotional resilience for kids. The game is designed to be engaging and fun, but still help kids develop their emotions and thinking skills.

63

3 years ago

A startup that provides a platform to help web designers and developers build websites, with a focus on building single page apps.

63

3 years ago

A tool for making fashion and lifestyle designs more accessible to the visually impaired. It’s designed to be a sort of digital notepad, allowing users to record and share their ideas, or “riffs” as they call them.

63

3 years ago

A platform that connects brands with freelance marketers and designers in order to get marketing and design done faster and more efficiently.

63

3 years ago

A small-business lender that offers flexible loans, designed for individuals with $20,000 to $150,000 in assets.

63

3 years ago

A startup that designs and manufactures electric bikes and scooters to be used on public transit systems.

63

3 years ago

This startup is building a collaborative platform for building websites and apps that can be edited by multiple designers and developers simultaneously.

63

3 years ago

A platform that provides the ability to create and manage custom surveys, without the need for designers or developers.

63

4 years ago

A tool for building and scaling events for schools, sporting events and similar. It’s built on top of the same chat and to-do list features of Slack, but is designed to be more scalable.

62

3 years ago

A subscription-based email platform. The startup wants to be like Trunk Club, but for businesses. The idea is to offer businesses a selection of designers that can create emails for them. Crafted, for example, can make an email for a customer service rep that looks like an internal email, or for a designer that looks like an email from a designer.

62

3 years ago

A new operating system that’s designed to make it easier for first-time smartphone users to get started. It’s currently focused on creating an intuitive, visual, and simple user interface, with the goal of eventually unifying third-party apps onto the platform.

62

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help small companies like restaurants and other local businesses get a leg up in the e-commerce race by providing tools to help them design and market their own products.

62

3 years ago

A product design company that helps companies create and launch products. The startup has a built-in digital product studio.

62

3 years ago

Built on the blockchain and designed to provide users with a decentralized, secure, and transparent reputation system.

62

2 years ago

A young design studio that makes products based on Kickstarter campaigns.

62

4 years ago

A platform designed to help independent musicians, record labels, and music supervisors build digital distribution platforms. It hosts collectives, which are essentially websites for independent bands, allowing artists to share their music, playlists, and receive royalties.

61

4 years ago

A company that is building a voice assistant for the blind, which is meant to be easier to use than others. “We are designing a system that makes it easier for blind people to navigate their homes, speak to their family and friends, and learn more about the world around them.”

61

4 years ago

Dyson is a British vacuum cleaner manufacturer that has been in business since the 1950s. The company is known for its trademark bladeless vacuum cleaners and high-end design.

61

3 years ago

A suite of tools to make it easy to design real estate, with tools for visualizing interior spaces, displaying floor plans, and marketing content.

61

3 years ago

A tool designed to help restaurant employees track and manage tips. The startup builds a CRM for the restaurant employees that helps them manage and track tips and better understand their customers.

61

3 years ago

A Slack-like messaging app that is designed to be collaborative, not competitive. The app is meant to be a collaborative workspace for employees working on projects.

61

3 years ago

A startup for professional services like web design.

61

3 years ago

A new app that lets you customize your iPhone by mixing and matching different color and case designs.

61

4 years ago

A mobile, mobile-first bank designed to handle all of a customer's financial needs from a single app.

60

4 years ago

A tool to help makers design and prototype their products, based on feedback from a user community

60

4 years ago

A 3D design tool for printable circuit boards.

60

4 years ago

A company that makes a connective tissue designed to be placed on a baby’s mouth to help them chew.

60

4 years ago

An open-source platform for building real-time visualizations of big data. The team is built almost entirely with engineers and designers.

60

3 years ago

A platform for freelance designers to get paid for their designs. Designers can create a portfolio and sell projects via the platform, which is free for the first 3 projects.

60

3 years ago

Making it easier for companies to create and manage employee benefits programs. Built on top of the Forza platform, it’s designed to be more than a simple HR platform.

60

3 years ago

A designer and developer for scrapbooking tools

60

3 years ago

A virtual assistant that’s designed to understand the nuances of a particular business or industry and help customers find the right product or service.

60

2 years ago

Which is a free collaborative designer platform.

60

2 years ago

A platform for designers to easily create 3D digital models.

60

4 years ago

The startup’s product is a one-step process for exporting data from a patient’s electronic health record. It’s designed to be both easy to use and integrate with existing software.

59

4 years ago

A startup that offers a bundle of tools designed to help you sell your products or services

59

4 years ago

A visual development tool for brands and agencies, allowing them to visually build mockups and test out designs before moving them to the website.

59

3 years ago

A tool that helps design stores based on real-world data.

59

3 years ago

A chatbot designed to help with the problem of translation between English and Japanese.

59

3 years ago

A creative agency that helps provide branding, design and marketing services for startups.

59

3 years ago

A startup for managing and securing employee benefits that’s designed to help companies use technology to give their employees some control over their benefits.

59

3 years ago

A suite of apps designed to help people with autism “manage emotions, manage relationships, and understand the world around them.”

59

3 years ago

A tool for designing, testing, and building software. Intellijel is building a development environment that’s easy to learn, and that’s easy to tweak and customize. The company is a small (15 people) startup based in Portland, Oregon.

59

2 years ago

A platform designed to make it easier to develop apps for wearables and connected devices, including mobiles and tablets.

59

4 years ago

A platform that allows consumers to design and sell their own products through the use of 3D printing, and allows retailers to create custom made-to-order products.

58

3 years ago

A company building a programmable, modular “smart” house. The company is currently building a smart-grid home in Portland, Oregon, and designed to be highly energy efficient and modular. The idea is that by building this type of home, the owner can install or upgrade the systems as she sees fit.

58

3 years ago

A digital product design studio that can help you create new features and ideas for your products.

58

3 years ago

A tool that helps companies with product design, with an emphasis on designing for the web.

58

3 years ago

A machine that prints out your designs, like a 3-D printer, but for essentially any object, meaning you could print out a phone case, mug, or shirt. The machines, which look like a 3-D printer, are rolling out in the US and will be in the UK by the end of the year.

58

3 years ago

A computer-aided design program that engineers can use to build 3D-printed devices.

58

3 years ago

A tool for helping small businesses upgrade their websites. The company is building a CMS that helps small businesses increase engagement and conversions, while also saving money on web design.

58

3 years ago

A company that builds on-demand physical and digital spaces designed to help people recover from life-changing events.

58

2 years ago

A startup that brings the entire process of building a website from design to production into a single digital process.

58

2 years ago

A startup that’s building an app to help people make better financial decisions. The app is designed to make it easier to manage your money, provide a stream of financial updates, and provide tools for managing your assets.

58

2 years ago

A startup that helps businesses get their products to market faster by offering a one-stop shop from design to product development to manufacturing.

58

3 years ago

A company that sells handcrafted greeting cards in a variety of designs and styles. The startup is one of the few that has the ability to make all of its designs from scratch, and its founders say that it has a very loyal customer base.

57

3 years ago

A platform that manages the creation and distribution of custom-designed digital media.

57

3 years ago

The startup wants to build a service that lets companies get the most out of their sales people. In its current iteration, the service is just like a CRM tool, but it’s designed for sales people. It’s already used by dozens of companies, including the likes of Booking.com and Expedia.

57

3 years ago

OpenIDEO is a platform to crowdsourcing ideas providing a place to design and create products, apps and websites.

57

3 years ago

A tool for web designers that makes adding CSS and JavaScript to the web super easy, letting them focus on their designs instead of code.

57

3 years ago

A new type of “digital twin” for buildings, created by MIT and designed to help engineers troubleshoot, repair, and modernize existing buildings. The company aims to make it easier for engineers and architects to use 3d models of buildings to plan and design them.

57

2 years ago

A collaboration tool for engineers and designers. It’s a way to easily share files, arrange work sessions, and schedule calls. It’s currently being used by 60 companies, and they’re seeking seed funding.

57

2 years ago

A tool for doing split testing on apps and websites, helping users test their copy and design.

57

4 years ago

An open-source, community-driven distributed ledger system that’s designed to enable companies to cut down on large amounts of paperwork and paperwork fraud.

56

3 years ago

This startup is looking to bring the same capabilities to designing and building desktop UI’s that we have seen in mobile apps. The company says it can design and deliver a UI in under a day and has already delivered over 200 UI’s for companies like Google and Facebook.

56

3 years ago

An e-commerce platform that features custom-built construction hardware stores, and an iOS app to help contractors and designers manage their projects.

56

3 years ago

A platform for making your own custom-designed products. The startup wants to build a platform that allows you to make things you need, where you need them.

56

3 years ago

A design company with a focus on the intersection of urban spaces, design systems, and digital platforms. The goal is to create spaces that can be entirely designed online, in real-time and at scale.

56

3 years ago

A company that builds software for businesses to design, manage and execute security tests.

56

3 years ago

JukePop is a startup that was launched in June 2019, designed to make video games more accessible. It’s an Android app that transforms smartphones into TV controllers.

56

3 years ago

This app is designed to help high school students organize their free time to find things to do, meet friends and plan their after-school activities. It’s B2B, with a small school setting where it tries to help teachers create a network of students with similar interests to help them plan their after-school schedules.

56

3 years ago

“A company that helps businesses build their own private label brands”, which includes access to a library of branded products, design templates, branding services and a brand management platform.

56

3 years ago

The startup provides a platform for people to design apps that allows users to draw on the screen, taking advantage of the fact that they’re drawing with a touch screen.

56

3 years ago

A team of people who help companies and agencies design, build and launch new businesses

56

3 years ago

A platform that creates visual marketplace for 3D designs

56

3 years ago

These guys are building a system to create interactive city guides for businesses, with a focus on architecture, design, food and drink, and fashion.

56

3 years ago

This startup is building a consumer-grade 3D printer, the first in the consumer space to use stereolithography. The company is using its own designs to make the first consumer-grade 3D printer to use stereolithography, a process that builds one object from multiple smaller ones.

56

4 years ago

A graphic design startup that makes it easy for brands to design and share branded content across multiple platforms.

55

4 years ago

The startup is working on a platform that allows customers to design, produce, and print custom cards with 3D printers. The cards can be used as gift cards, business cards, or personal cards. The company is working with a few customers like Shopify and Microsoft, for whom the cards are used for employee rewards.

55

3 years ago

Designed for buyers of consumer electronics, this product helps users compare prices across hundreds of online retailers. The software scans thousands of consumer product listings from over 30,000 online retailers from all over the world. The company says it is already being used by over 1 million shoppers in the U.S.

55

3 years ago

A platform for selling and buying custom made furniture. With the startup, homeowners can design and order furniture by uploading a 3D file or by choosing from over 1,000 furniture designs from other users.

55

3 years ago

"Crisp is a startup that makes it easy for online shoppers to access and buy the latest designer looks at a fraction of the price, with a guaranteed delivery date, within the UK"

55

3 years ago

A startup that helps people design marketing campaigns, much like the “Superbowl of social media” - Travail.

55

3 years ago

A new way to “sell your house faster and easier”. The startup is offering a complete online house-selling service that includes photos and videos, docs, design, and marketing.

55

3 years ago

An educational app for teens, designed to help them learn and practice their English language. The first release of the app, with 11,000 users, is aimed at high school students, most of whom are 14 and 15 years old.

55

3 years ago

A $1 million satellite that is designed to help companies like Google and Yahoo create and operate high-resolution imagery in space.

55

3 years ago

The startup wants to let users design, build and grow their own maps, using an iPhone and a simple interface.

55

3 years ago

A startup for organizing and tracking your “earthly possessions” with a modern minimalist design. The company wants to make a tool that helps you organize your thoughts and your stuff.

55

2 years ago

"a collaborative research platform for advanced manufacturing tech", which is building a “virtual 3D environment and virtual manufacturing environment where engineers can design, simulate, and simulate and design.”

55

4 years ago

The platform is designed to help businesses get more information on the health of their employees. It’s an online portal where employers can upload their employee data and employees can upload their own.

54

3 years ago

A startup that helps development teams implement user-friendly design feedback loops and collaboration tools into their development process.

54

3 years ago

An “app store for apps” designed for businesses.

54

3 years ago

A program that allows individuals to pay for the services of a licensed freelance designer, in advance. The startup takes care of everything from design to publishing on the web.

54

3 years ago

A company that uses AI and machine learning to help retail designers and store managers create the best apparel and home décor in the world.

54

3 years ago

A system that helps municipalities identify and monitor fraud from public utilities and utilities in their area. It’s designed to help governments cut costs and provide transparency.

54

3 years ago

A luxury marketplace that pairs designers with makers who want to make limited edition products.

54

3 years ago

An ad hoc tool for hiring freelance designers, using the startup’s proprietary algorithm to make sure you’re not overpaying.

54

3 years ago

A platform that aggregates a network of freelance designers and connects them to clients. The startup says it’s currently on track to earn $100,000 in revenue in 2016.

54

3 years ago

A mobile app that allows customers to buy and sell unused airline tickets through a peer-to-peer marketplace. It’s designed to make booking travel easy for the masses.

54

3 years ago

A B2B company that helps companies take their on-demand services to the next level. It’s a service that helps companies plan, design, and build the services for their business.

54

3 years ago

A data scientist platform for building and managing machine learning models. A bit like H2O, AMI Data Science is designed to make it easy for the average data scientist to build and manage models.

54

3 years ago

A way for people to set up their own eCommerce sites and sell products that they’ve made themselves. The app is designed to be easy to set up, with a drag & drop interface that lets you set up your product listings and pricing.

54

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help organizations manage data in the cloud by making it easy to design, deploy and manage private and hybrid clouds.

54

3 years ago

This startup wants to help restaurants integrate digital ordering into their workflow. It’s designed to change the whole process by giving orders and payment information to the restaurant.

54

3 years ago

This startup provides a platform for people to set up small-scale financial services, like a savings account, that are designed to be simple and easy to use.

54

2 years ago

A SaaS product that is designed to help small businesses collect data and manage the customer lifecycle. The startup wants to help small business owners sell more products and services.

54

5 years ago

A startup that sells clothes designed by students of fashion schools and helps them get exposure and eventually graduate from design school

53

3 years ago

A product design company that helps clients get the right people on the right product at the right time, and then helps them manage and measure the results.

53

3 years ago

A community of designers and engineers building new products on top of the Internet of Things, with a community of 150,000 monthly users.

53

3 years ago

A “product design management” tool that helps streamline studio operations for designers.

53

3 years ago

A tool for digital architects to help them design and plan their customer’s branded systems.

53

3 years ago

This startup is aiming to make it easier to say yes, by offering a platform that helps companies design small-scale but meaningful customer engagement programs.

53

3 years ago

A company building a system to help people pay their bills quickly and securely. It's a software system that lets you log into a web portal and pay your bills automatically. It's designed to help people pay their bills quickly and securely.

53

3 years ago

The startup is building a complete container shipping solution, using technology that was originally designed to support a mine-to-rail system in the mining industry. The startup plans to use this technology to build an end-to-end solution for shipping all international goods, from the moment products are picked up from manufacturers to the moment they reach the customer.

53

3 years ago

A new kind of mobile travel app, designed to help travelers find the best prices on local activities like cooking classes, yoga classes, and more.

53

3 years ago

A way to connect people to their favorite brands and products, whether it’s a local, mass-market food item, or a designer handbag.

53

3 years ago

A startup that makes it easier to hire contractors. The startup makes it easy to say, “I want to hire a designer to do this,” and they can find one who typically works for a few hours for free.

53

3 years ago

A platform designed to help couples find the right matchmaking site and match with other couples looking for the same thing.

53

3 years ago

A “smart grocery store”, a place where you can buy groceries using a card that’s linked to your membership, and then pay for them using cash or a card of your choice. The checkout process is designed to be more efficient than the one you’d get at a traditional grocery store, with the goal being to get your groceries home faster.

53

3 years ago

A company that makes a fertilizer for indoor plants. The company’s founders say that the product was designed specifically to save plants from the toxic chemicals in common houseplants, without over-stimulating them.

53

3 years ago

A company that helps businesses get a leg up in the hiring process by creating interface design mockups.

53

3 years ago

A crowdsourced platform that helps companies hire designers, where anyone can submit designs and the most popular ones get selected.

53

2 years ago

A startup designed to help small businesses accept payments from the cloud, or from a customer’s cell phone.

53

5 years ago

A startup that is a marketplace for furniture that is designed by students of architecture school

52

4 years ago

A startup that wants to use AI to help companies understand and predict human emotion, potentially improving the way they advertise, design products, and market their services and products.

52

4 years ago

A 3D printing service for businesses, customized for every business, with hundreds of products and designs in inventory, and a 3D printer in every office. It’s a “solution for businesses that have a need for customized, high-quality products.”

52

3 years ago

A startup designed to help users cope with the day-to-day stresses of modern life.

52

3 years ago

A startup that wants to design and manufacture open source 3D printers for schools and home workshops.

52

3 years ago

A video delivery platform for video creators. Through the platform, you can upload and share videos, embed videos, and embed audio. The platform is designed to encourage sharing of all types of video, be it a cat video or a corporate video.

52

3 years ago

"Crisp’s aim is to help people who are on a budget buy designer looks at a fraction of the price"

52

3 years ago

A social network designed for people on a budget, who know they’re unlikely to find another apartment at the last minute.

52

3 years ago

The company’s platform is designed to be a system for managing the steps of a hiring process for small businesses.

52

3 years ago

A platform designed to help developers and business users build, test and deploy applications in a more efficient manner.

52

3 years ago

A startup that helps companies make their own custom t-shirts, with designs that can be bought for a flat fee and then shipped out to customers.

52

2 years ago

A cloud service for small businesses looking to create custom branding. The startup is looking to help companies quickly design and launch their own websites.

52

2 years ago

A group of friends who met through an online dating site have created a version of a “Fitness-First” dating app, designed to help people find someone with similar body types and goals.

52

2 years ago

A replacement for Google Docs, with the same functionality but a more innovative design.

52

4 years ago

A global money transfer service designed for developing countries. The startup wants to make it easier for people to send money to family members back home, and for startups to test new products in markets that have a lot of pent up demand.

51

4 years ago

A tool that helps companies manage the risks involved with a pool of people working remotely. It’s designed to help companies manage the risks involved with a pool of people working remotely.

51

3 years ago

A startup that helps businesses, designers and developers see their product imagery at scale. The startup helps large companies see their product images at scale by creating a visual database.

51

3 years ago

A platform that helps fashion brands find emerging designers and helps them take their designs from “somewhere in the world” to “some place in the world”.

51

3 years ago

A browser-based ad network, designed for publishers who don’t have time to manage their own ads.

51

3 years ago

A startup that aims to be the Apple Store for the design world. Its goal is to provide design assistance to small businesses, including working on projects like a website, logo, or stationery set.

51

3 years ago

A crowdsourcing startup that provides access to a network of freelance graphic designers for companies, who then work on a per-hour basis to create graphics, web content, and logos for companies.

51

3 years ago

A social network for people with autism. The app is designed to help people with autism find other people with the same diagnosis, offering an interactive forum for people to ask questions and find advice.

51

3 years ago

an online tool that helps companies build, test, and export designs to be printed. The startup has been around since 2016 and has been used by over 75 companies.

51

3 years ago

A tool for managing employees’ social profiles, designed for companies to manage their employees’ outside of work lives.

51

3 years ago

A startup that provides a platform to build out and manage a variety of marketing campaigns, ranging from email marketing to web design.

51

3 years ago

A visual content editing app for designers and artists that lets you create collages from images, text, and other layers.

51

2 years ago

A program that lets you pay for your cable or Internet bill, and even set up recurring payments, with a minimum amount each month. The app is designed to be as simple as possible to use, with only a few buttons.

51

2 years ago

A startup that helps women find and buy designer clothing and accessories at a discount. The startup’s founder says she’s already working with some of the biggest brands in the world.

51

4 years ago

A startup focused on building and designing a digital twin of a physical product. The team is creating an AI that can scan a product and predict what changes it needs to make to reach its objectives, and then build that change into the product.

50

3 years ago

A mirrorless camera and lens manufacturer that’s starting with a line of Sony-branded products that are designed to work with the company’s in-house SLR lens system.

50

3 years ago

A tool for combatting software development and design errors, such as typos, bugs and broken images. The startup is building a visual environment where users can search and browse for design issues and then collaborate with others.

50

3 years ago

A 3D design app for online advertising, available in beta

50

3 years ago

A company that wants to bring real estate into the cloud, redesigning the way we do things like list homes for sale and track listings.

50

3 years ago

A lending platform designed to help consumers with bad credit get loans by using data from credit references and credit reports to gauge whether applicants are likely to pay back their loans.

50

3 years ago

A social network designed to help people find and connect with companies that are hiring remote workers.

50

3 years ago

A startup for large-scale design work, with a “Netflix for design”. Unlike DesignMint, which focuses more on small-scale design work, Designhive sells more expensive, large-scale work.

50

2 years ago

The startup’s app is designed to help people with sensitive information, like medical records or banking information, share it with trusted family members.

50

2 years ago

A software product that helps online retailers manage and report their inventory. It’s designed to be the next generation of an increasingly successful product from a similar business.

50

2 years ago

A platform that aims to connect customers and online sellers on eBay, Walmart and Amazon. The aim is to create frictionless commerce where people can find products that are designed to fit their lifestyle and home.

50

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that provides feedback on your website’s design

49

4 years ago

The startup is building a tool to help small businesses hire local contractors. It’s designed to automatically negotiate prices with contractors. The idea is that if you’re a contractor that needs to do a job in Tampa, you don’t want to drive to Jacksonville to get a bid, and if a company in Tampa needs to do a job, they don’t want to drive to Jacksonville to get a bid.

49

4 years ago

A startup for freelance designers who want to find clients. The startup currently has over 1,000 designers registered and has brought on $520 in revenue in the last month.

49

3 years ago

A software company built to help engineers and designers build and test software faster.

49

3 years ago

A hot dog startup focused on improving the beef supply chain using artificial intelligence and computer vision. The startup is building a “beef-improvement protocol,” designed to be a “clever self-learning system” that can identify the best cuts of meat.

49

3 years ago

A startup that aims to bring retail and commerce to the masses by making the user experience designed with sight and sound in mind. The startup is working towards building a retail experience that’s designed to be more immediate and immersive than the stuff we’re used to today.

49

3 years ago

A Marketplace for freelance designers, where designers can post their designs, and then have them built by artisans in the marketplace.

49

3 years ago

A custom-designed physical keyboard for small mobile devices (like smartphones and laptops).

49

3 years ago

A tool for designers to create their own widgets for things like Slack and Trello.

49

3 years ago

A decentralized protocol for automated machine learning, designed to be scalable and perform well on mobile devices.

49

2 years ago

A product that automates the creation of animated GIFs. The startup is building a tool that will help designers create animated GIFs without having to use a tool like Photoshop.

49

2 years ago

CineSynth is building a tool for the film industry that allows animators to create a computer-generated character from scratch, using an animation program. The app is designed to give animators and 3D modelers the ability to create characters and sets themselves without using a third party.

49

5 years ago

Idea: A place for people to share their work and receive feedback from other designers

48

4 years ago

A health insurance startup that says it will allow people to design their own health plans without the help of a health insurance agent.

48

3 years ago

A company that wants to put the “benevolent” in “artificial intelligence”: its robots are designed to help people work and live in the world in a more humane way.

48

3 years ago

A platform that makes it easy to share and discover the best of the best in photo-editing, design and motion graphics.

48

3 years ago

Designed to help people search for and filter out the noise in the current news cycle, Signal Spotlight is a quick way for people to get the gist of what’s happening.

48

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.

48

3 years ago

A financial planning app for investors who want to track their investments. The app is free for individual investors, and is designed to help people save money, get better returns, and make better decisions.

48

3 years ago

A company that sells modular, inexpensive, and durable solar panels, designed to be used in developing countries.

48

3 years ago

This company offers a service designed to help companies keep track of the millions of products they sell every year.

48

3 years ago

A new digital currency that’s designed to help people and businesses in developing countries. The digital currency is designed to be more stable than Bitcoin and with a lower transaction fee.

48

3 years ago

An international team of finance and business experts that helps companies design and launch a business plan.

48

3 years ago

This startup wants to help teams of designers and developers collaborate on projects via a web and mobile app.

48

3 years ago

A software platform that helps businesses build their own e-commerce websites for their own brands. Fincube is a subscription service that offers a store manager with a community of designers, developers, and marketers to build a site.

48

3 years ago

A tool for building PowerPoint presentations that uses the latest design and content tools, including CSS3 and HTML5.

48

3 years ago

A solution that helps companies design and build new apps by automating their entire process. The company says it’s used by companies like Pinterest and Box, and counts Stripe as a customer.

48

3 years ago

A platform that helps people find coaches or trainers, while also helping them coach or train others. The platform is designed to enable a person to use their expertise to help others.

48

2 years ago

This startup wants to help homebuilders design and build smart houses, and is building an open-source platform to do so.

48

2 years ago

A collaboration software for designers and developers to share and collaborate on design files and code.

48

3 years ago

An introduction to the world of cryptocurrencies designed for non-techie business people looking to get involved in crypto.

47

3 years ago

A platform that helps people hire and manage freelance designers, developers, and other professionals.

47

3 years ago

This app is designed to help people set up and manage their savings accounts. The startup counts several large retail chains as customers.

47

3 years ago

A design agency that helps brands create mobile apps

47

3 years ago

A startup that allows you to easily find freelance designers. Currently the most popular design marketplace in the UK.

47

2 years ago

A platform that helps contractors, designers and architects manage projects more efficiently.

47

3 years ago

Yupi is an app-based ordering system designed to replace the need to call in an order or visit a restaurant. The startup is building an app that allows customers to order food, and the app will call the chef and place the order, which gets then sent directly to the kitchen. The chef can also text back and tell the app when they’re done with their orders.

46

3 years ago

An online marketplace that connects businesses to freelance designers and developers to create custom designs and then deliver them through a marketplace.

46

3 years ago

Looking to “redesign the healthcare system,” Nide is building a new way for patients to use digital tools to organize records and make appointments.

46

3 years ago

A platform that helps design teams collaborate remotely by streamlining the process of creating or revising templates or documents.

46

3 years ago

A 3D modeling tool for UI/UX designers, who can create immersive 3D models to help visualize their ideas.

46

3 years ago

This company designs and builds special equipment for the oil and gas industry. It also has a couple of projects in the works to create customized equipment for other industries.

46

3 years ago

A digital marketing platform that aims to make digital marketing more transparent, and more personal. The company’s API is designed to help digital marketers be more efficient with their marketing.

46

2 years ago

A startup designed to allow people to get their driver’s licenses at any time, anywhere.

46

2 years ago

A tool that helps web designers create interactive websites. The startup is building a product that will help designers more easily pick out an interactive component.

46

2 years ago

A new, decentralized identity verification system designed to work on mobile devices and in developing markets.

46

5 years ago

Idea: A way to see the world through the eyes of a designer

45

3 years ago

A tool for helping developers and designers build interactive videos. It’s meant to be used alongside Adobe’s popular suite of video editing tools.

45

3 years ago

They’re building a version of Slack designed for the legal profession. They want to use a combination of machine learning and chatbots to help lawyers access the documents necessary for their cases.

45

3 years ago

A new way for mobile wallets to interact with payments at the point of sale. Coop’s solution is designed to help merchants securely accept mobile wallet payments while reducing the fraud they might face through the use of fingerprints to authenticate users.

45

3 years ago

A startup that creates travel guides on how to get around the world by car, bicycle, or on foot, designed to help travelers get better acquainted with the local culture and environment.

45

3 years ago

A tool that logs, tracks, and categorizes the work of designers, writers, and other creative types. Screenhero is a tool that takes the pain out of tracking time spent on projects and organizing it.

45

3 years ago

A startup that lets people share what they’re reading, presenting or watching. It’s designed to be a one-stop shop for content discovery.

45

2 years ago

A startup offering more than 100,000 free and customizable designs of cars, trucks and boats to help people customize the look of their vehicles.

45

2 years ago

A company that aims to create a more affordable, user-friendly and general purpose wireless sensor platform. The platform, which is in early stages, is designed to be as flexible as possible so that it can be used in a variety of ways.

45

2 years ago

A startup for 3D printing designs. The startup capitalizes on the advertising and marketing revenue that 3D printers generate, allowing people to design and sell their own products.

45

2 years ago

A data collection and analysis platform designed for small businesses to do market research. Users submit data via a chatbot, and the company analyzes the data to find trends, discover new markets, and predict future behavior.

45

2 years ago

This startup is building an online shop that sells and ships pre-made products from designers around the world.

45

3 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for companies to develop and distribute their own apps, without the need to hire an app developer. The startup is a platform that connects app developers with freelancers and other companies who can help with things like development, marketing and design.

44

3 years ago

Propel is an online marketplace for freelancers looking to find jobs, with an emphasis on design and digital marketing.

44

3 years ago

A content management system for journalists and other writers, designed to make their writing process more efficient.

44

2 years ago

A company that designs and sells a line of handcrafted leather wallets and accessories.

44

2 years ago

A software platform that allows you to receive a payment in one currency and spend it in another. It’s designed to enable instant international money transfers.

44

2 years ago

A social network for remote workers, designed to help them better collaborate on projects.

44

2 years ago

A startup that wants to help freelance designers in India get a fair day rate from clients.

44

5 years ago

Idea: A tool for building serverless applications, but with a twist: it’s designed to make it easier to write serverless applications that are also APIs

43

3 years ago

"A first-of-its-kind platform for artists and brands to discover, collaborate, and create designs and products. Designers and brands have full control over the creative process, from conception to completion."

43

5 years ago

Idea: Design-first API for non-developers

42

3 years ago

A platform that will make it easier for businesses to hire freelance designers, web developers, and more.

42

3 years ago

Building a web-based business management tool for web designers. Designers are always looking for new ways to manage clients and projects, and this startup is building a tool that will allow them to create business cards, invoices and booking forms easily.

42

3 years ago

An online platform that helps employers manage their employees. It’s designed to help companies manage their employees more effectively with the goal of increasing loyalty, retention and productivity.

42

2 years ago

This startup is building an AI assistant for digital marketing teams, designed to automate routine tasks that can’t be automated like creating landing pages and social media posts.

42

2 years ago

The startup is building a new kind of warehouse, with a modular design that can be shipped in pieces and assembled in the field with just a few tools.

42

3 years ago

A London-based startup that’s building a new kind of currency that is designed with the goal of being able to be used globally (currently in beta). The company is working with Mastercard to implement a new type of currency that can be used anywhere in the world.

41

3 years ago

The company’s name is a nod to the famous science fiction book and movie, “Neuromancer”. It’s a security app that’s designed to help you organize passwords into a single tool.

41

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a cryptocurrency that’s designed to be used on the internet and not just in a few select countries.

41

3 years ago

Bridges.io is a startup trying to help companies design and build bots that can do simple tasks like booking hotel rooms.

41

2 years ago

A startup that helps designers create e-commerce sites using the type of visual design tool that exists in the early days of the iPhone.

41

2 years ago

A company that builds a system for managing the “full life cycle” of a product, from design to shipping to storing in a warehouse.

41

2 years ago

A design company that makes accessories for women and men that are designed to look good and be functional.

41

2 years ago

UX engineering firm that helps companies design and build user-friendly software.

41

5 years ago

Idea: An online marketplace of products made by independent designers. Designers can keep 90% of sales, or have the option to partner with the startup for a 40% revenue share. The startup also aims to make the discovery process easier by curating the top items from each designer.

40

3 years ago

A $100 wearable computer designed to help the visually impaired see at night. The idea is that it’s supposed to work both as a watch and a headset.

40

2 years ago

A tool for designing and managing digital campaigns, including analytics, messaging, and other tools

40

2 years ago

Fitness tracking for babies. The app is designed to help parents use the baby’s movements to push the app’s LED lights, which glow red or green depending on how active the baby is. The app is designed to help parents use the baby’s movements to push the app’s LED lights, which glow red or green depending on how active the baby is.

40

2 years ago

A company that’s building an open source self-driving platform. The platform is designed to be modular, so that it’s easy for developers to build different self-driving solutions around it.

40

2 years ago

A tool to help employees track and improve their use of the time they spend at work. The app is designed for businesses that are already using a time tracker, but no longer want to maintain their own.

40

2 years ago

An “experience” platform designed to make flight delays more transparent and communication with airlines more efficient.

40

2 years ago

This is a “challenge” platform for companies to get together and solve design problems.

39

2 years ago

A new way to use an iPhone designed to help teachers and students collaborate on the same lesson plan. It’s a place to get notes and content, with the ability to share assignments and track progress.

39

2 years ago

A smart contract designed to help retail investors manage their funds across different institutions.

39

2 years ago

A team of New York-based developers and designers are building a platform that they say will allow everyone to create a website easily.

39

2 years ago

A web-based tax preparation tool for freelance professionals, including designers, writers, photographers, etc.

39

5 years ago

Idea: This company has created a coffee substitute made from cassava root. It’s designed to be a water-soluble powder, and aims to be a healthier alternative to sugar-laden coffee.

38

3 years ago

A tool designed to help people share their videos with family and friends, with a focus on re-creating/enhancing memories

38

2 years ago

A smart-home-as-a-service startup that’s building a platform for developers and designers to build smart home products and share them with other users.

38

2 years ago

A designer and developer of hardware and software for the automotive industry.

38

2 years ago

A device designed to help monitor and manage air quality in hospitals. The startup built an open source design and is currently selling the hardware.

38

2 years ago

A startup designed to help companies in the transportation industry keep track of driver hours.

38

2 years ago

A productivity tool for designers, helping them keep track of projects and communicate with clients. It’s “like Slack, but for designers”.

38

5 years ago

Idea: An online marketplace for buying and selling 3D-printed objects. The startup aims to be a marketplace for a new generation of makers, with a platform to bring together designers, engineers, and 3D-printers. They currently have 500 open-ended jobs, and a $1k average order size.

37

3 years ago

It’s a design firm that takes a humanist approach to product. It’s clients include the New York Times, News Corp, and the New York City Department of Education. Clients include the New York City Department of Education and the New York City Department of Education

37

2 years ago

A team of designers and developers who have made an iPad app, which helps users visualize their goals, visualize the future or visualize scenarios, essentially.

37

2 years ago

A startup that aggregates thousands of art, design, and manufacturing job listings into a single portal to help people find the right job for them.

37

2 years ago

This startup is building a “self-driving” elevator system, which is designed to transport people from the first floor to the second floor of any building.

37

2 years ago

a design-driven product design studio that specializes in modernizing the user experience of mobile apps.

37

2 years ago

A company that creates and sells furniture for storage. The startup has a design-focused vision, saying it’s all about “simplifying clutter.”

37

3 years ago

A startup designed to help companies with their payroll, HR and insurance needs.

36

2 years ago

A platform that gives designers and the people who work with them a way to collaborate and get their work to market faster.

36

2 years ago

The startup is building a mobile app that connects users with non-traditional job applicants who also have relevant skills like graphic design, marketing, and accounting, crowdsourcing the labor of these potential employees in exchange for a small fee.

36

2 years ago

A company that turns any old jacket or shirt into a custom-designed garment.

36

2 years ago

A collaborative platform for companies and startups to build products and services, using a community of designers, developers, and other experts to build on top of their work.

36

2 years ago

A mobile arcade game designed to teach kids about the history of the United States. The startup launched a Kickstarter in July that it failed to reach its goal of $250k.

36

2 years ago

Product management platform that aims to help companies manage the entire product cycle, including ideation, requirements, design, development, and testing.

36

5 years ago

A startup for freelance designers. The startup has plans to expand to include a wider variety of creative services including programming, video and audio production and web design.

35

2 years ago

This software is designed to help companies manage their customers’ data, using big data and AI to predict customer behavior and find new customers.

35

2 years ago

This is an engineering-focused startup that wants to build a software solution that lets people design their own hardware. The idea is that you can create a design, get a quote for the cost of the materials, and then purchase the parts online. The computer chip and board are then assembled at a local store to create the finished product.

35

2 years ago

A digital fitness planner, with an app that takes into account goals, exercise history, and more to design a workout plan.

35

5 years ago

Idea: A desktop software platform that helps companies design and build enterprise apps. The startup’s first customer is a large construction company, and it’s currently building a SaaS product that helps developers quickly build enterprise apps.

34

3 years ago

A company that aims to help manufacturers develop and customize their own customizable product and packaging designs. The company is building a platform to do the design work, while the customer is able to create their own design and change it however they want without the hassle of contracting with a third party.

34

3 years ago

A team of developers and designers are building a new platform that enables developers and businesses to quickly set up and use live webcams.

34

3 years ago

Is a tool meant to help teams build apps and websites faster and easier, with a focus on the design and user experience.

33

2 years ago

A consumer lending startup designed for giving people access to money, without having to pay a fee and without going through a lengthy credit check.

33

2 years ago

A platform for crowdfunding and hosting design competitions. They’ve been around for a few years, offering a way for people to connect with designers and get their work seen.

33

2 years ago

A digital home for designers, builders, and engineers.

33

2 years ago

A group of “tech entrepreneurs, designers, and thinkers” who want to build a better way to pay for things. The startup is building tools that are more frictionless and transparent, letting users pay with their preferred currency and get a receipt in the mail.

33

2 years ago

A new way to pay for parking or tolls through your smartphone. The app lets you scan your license plate, and is designed to be scan-free.

33

2 years ago

An e-commerce marketplace for designer jeans. The startup wants to create a one-stop shop for consumers to buy jeans and have them sent to their home or office.

33

2 years ago

The company is building a smartphone app that helps people learn to play an instrument. It’s designed to be simple and effective.

33

2 years ago

A water purification system designed to help eliminate the risks of drinking from a contaminated source.

33

2 years ago

Small tasks platform that allows small businesses to outsource work of all types, from design to development to marketing to legal.

33

2 years ago

A startup that wants to use AI to make Apple’s Siri more natural. The startup’s AI bot is designed to learn from continuous interactions with humans and develop natural conversations.

33

2 years ago

A clean and simple free-to-use web app designed to help you track your credit score/fico score and other financial information.

33

2 years ago

A team of software engineers and designers that helps people collaborate on design projects. The company wants to help designers and product teams collaborate on projects.

32

2 years ago

A company that allows employees to access product managers, design, and engineers for advice on new ideas or product development.

32

2 years ago

A tool for the design of data storage systems, like cloud storage systems. The startup helps users create cloud storage systems from scratch

32

2 years ago

A product design and development marketplace

32

2 years ago

A digital assistant that is designed to help parents make better choices about their kids’ health and education.

32

2 years ago

A functionality-packed app for tracking your fitness routine. The app is a combination of technology and human interaction. It’s designed to be simple and effective.

32

2 years ago

A tool that helps small business owners convert their designs into physical products like apparel and accessories

32

2 years ago

A company that claims to help employees design and manage their career and growth more easily. They’re a branch of Bizible, a startup that provides human resources to companies.

32

2 years ago

A company that makes it easier for employers to attract and retain skilled designers, engineers, and other tech workers.

32

2 years ago

A home goods marketplace that connects brands with interior designers

32

2 years ago

The team behind this startup is currently building a “personas engine” that aims to deliver a more natural-language approach to user onboarding and user-experience design. The system has already been used to beta test Facebook and Google, as well as Babel, a virtual assistance service.

32

5 years ago

Idea: A startup for the creative community to buy and sell design content from the world’s best designers

31

3 years ago

A tool for managing and organizing data in CRM systems. It’s designed to make it easier to manage different customer types and to make it easier for companies to use analytics to improve customer satisfaction.

31

2 years ago

A company that helps retailers develop color palettes that are easier to pull off on the web. Their color wheel tool helps designers and merchandisers design color schemes that don’t clash with one another but still look good on screen and in print.

31

2 years ago

A chat bot that’s designed to help people with their mental health. The startup claims to be the first to provide a mental health chatbot that’s designed to operate in a similar way to a messaging app like WhatsApp. Instead of opening an app, people can text the bot with their symptoms and get a response.

31

2 years ago

A credit card for the unbanked, designed to lower fees and help people get credit through high-risk loans.

31

2 years ago

A software development service that helps companies build mobile apps and websites, with a focus on product designers.

31

2 years ago

A piece of software that helps companies in the fashion industry collaborate on designs.

31

2 years ago

A Japanese architecture and design firm that helps architects develop websites.

31

2 years ago

A risk management platform for the food industry, designed to make it easier to track and manage food safety.

31

2 years ago

A faster, simpler way to manage your 3D printer, allowing users to create 3D designs from a phone or web browser and download the resulting files.

31

2 years ago

A startup that has created a tool that allows brands to design and finance a social media campaign.

31

2 years ago

A tool for optimizing the design of websites, based on a technique called Page-Per-View, a technique that’s long been used in the TV industry.

31

2 years ago

The company sells a tool that allows people to design their own clothes using a 3D printer.

31

2 years ago

A “visual marketplace” for visual design, featuring over 100,000 design assets from designers around the world.

31

5 years ago

A platform to help people and businesses spend less time managing their money and more time on things they enjoy. The startup provides money management tools that are designed to be easy to use and interpret.

30

2 years ago

Co-working space for freelancers, located in New York City. The space is designed to encourage collaboration, with desks scattered around the common areas and a large kitchen. Red Kettle says it’s already hosted over 150 startups, and is currently looking to expand.

30

2 years ago

A company that started out with a basic web design and development package, now building a suite of mobile apps.

30

2 years ago

A personal finance service for teens and young adults, designed to combat student loan debt.

30

2 years ago

A visual editor for gradients and gradients, allowing designers to manipulate and build out gradients.

30

2 years ago

A health insurance marketplace where you can compare different plans. It’s designed to be more transparent than other options.

30

2 years ago

An ecommerce platform focused on the furniture industry, made for designers and retailers to sell their products online.

30

2 years ago

A cloud-based tool that translates any source of text into any other source of text, designed to be used by international teams to collaborate. The startup aims to be the “Google Translate of text,” with further verticals planned.

30

2 years ago

B2B startup that provides web design services for small businesses. The startup helps small businesses create a custom, easily navigable website for their customers.

30

2 years ago

This video game startup is headed by former Telltale Games employees. It has a game in the works that serves as a “digital board game”, and has a playable demo that lets players design their own board game.

30

2 years ago

A startup that wants to help restaurants design and produce their own menus in advance. The company has the backing of some investors including Google’s Eric Schmidt. It has a US office and plans to launch in the future.

29

2 years ago

This is a visual design tool for data-driven decision making. A data scientist can visualize data from different sources in a single dashboard to identify trends and gain insights.

29

2 years ago

A cloud-based platform that helps photographers, interior designers and other creative professionals collaborate in real time. It is a new platform from a company that has been in business for 18 years. Founded in February, it already works with more than 15 top creative professionals in New York City and plans to open for business in the third quarter.

29

2 years ago

A startup that wants to use artificial intelligence to help companies like IBM and Samsung understand how to design better consumer products.

29

2 years ago

A SaaS for enterprise companies to manage the entire software lifecycle, including design, project management, and deployment. The startup is focused on the enterprise space.

29

2 years ago

This startup builds a platform to help companies understand the data they’re collecting through social media. The platform is designed to help companies understand the behaviors of their users, and the data they’re sharing.

29

2 years ago

A community of developers and designers creating mobile and web apps for the food industry, from grocery stores to restaurants, with a particular focus on food safety and quality.

29

2 years ago

A platform for online sales of designer handbags, fine jewelry, apparel, and other items.

29

2 years ago

A lightweight smartwatch with a unique battery design, which can be recharged quickly and effectively.

29

2 years ago

A team of architects and designers who are trying to change the way people design and build homes.

29

2 years ago

A company that helps people design and build websites and apps while offering a platform and online tools for others to build apps on top of

29

2 years ago

A digital tool designed to help small businesses manage the entire process of getting a loan, from researching the best loan terms, to getting the application submitted to the lender.

29

2 years ago

A technology and design company that helps people plan, design and manage events. They’re also building an app to help event hosts fulfill their obligations.

28

2 years ago

A visual product management system connecting customers with the best design team for their needs.

28

2 years ago

An online accounting service for small businesses, designed to make accounting easier and more efficient.

28

2 years ago

A platform to help fashion designers build products that have 3D printing built-in, instead of relying on 3D printing as an add-on.

28

2 years ago

This startup is building a visual toolset for designers to share and collaborate on their designs

28

2 years ago

If you’re a freelance designer, you’re probably looking to sell your work to people who need it. Designers on Upwork are looking to sell their designs to companies in order to get paid.

28

2 years ago

A neural network platform designed for the financial sector that analyzes and processes millions of transactions and documents.

28

2 years ago

A platform for freelance designers, allowing them to earn money for their work, like the Google AdSense program. The startup’s co-founder said he’d be open to working with startups.

28

2 years ago

An email management system for the United States Army, designed for the iPhone. The Army is using the app to communicate with foreign armies and to train its own soldiers.

28

2 years ago

A company that uses AI and machine learning to provide people with the tools that help them design their own 3D printed prosthetic limbs.

27

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.

27

2 years ago

A design agency that helps organizations improve their brand by developing digital experiences and services. They offer a suite of digital products including music streaming, a content marketing platform, and an employee engagement suite.

27

2 years ago

A startup that helps improve the design of your website by letting users have a conversation with their designer.

27

2 years ago

A digital assistant for doctors, designed to help them take digitals notes while they’re seeing patients. The startup’s co-founder says they’ve already built an app and are looking to scale.

27

2 years ago

A startup that wants to help the fashion industry by giving fashion designers a way to create, store and share their designs in real time.

27

2 years ago

This startup is building a tool for organizations to design their own custom branded credit card.

27

2 years ago

A tool for building webpages that look like they’ve been designed by a professional.

27

2 years ago

A digital assistant for teachers, designed to help them manage student progress, grade and calendars.

27

2 years ago

A ride-sharing company designed for small businesses who want to be able to take a group of employees or clients to a meeting, on very short notice.

26

2 years ago

A “creative marketplace” for designers, developers, and entrepreneurs, that’ll help them find talent from producers to creatives. Currently a team of 5.

26

2 years ago

In early 2019, Softbank acquired a majority stake in the startup. It’s a software company that helps designers produce high-quality mockups for mobile apps.

26

2 years ago

An artificial intelligence-powered enterprise social network designed to help people track social media conversations around their products.

26

2 years ago

A new kind of insurance designed for distributed networks.

26

2 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses get more transparent about their finances and efficiency with its software, which is designed to help businesses get better at managing their cash flow.

26

2 years ago

A new app, designed to help physicians scrupulously track and code their care, with a focus on diabetes management. And Help the Doctor is the company that is building it.

26

2 years ago

A startup that allows users to print 3D designs from a 3D printer.

26

2 years ago

A platform that is designed to help companies accelerate their innovation strategy by working with a community of over 100,000 advisors and experts.

26

2 years ago

A SaaS platform that helps fashion designers collaborate faster and more efficiently by allowing them to connect their models with their customers.

25

2 years ago

A software platform that helps mobile teams with their remote work. The tool helps team workflows and is designed to work on iOS, Android, or desktop.

25

2 years ago

This startup is on a mission to make the web more friendly for designers and developers alike. It wants to help developers and designers produce better websites, apps and games.

25

2 years ago

A startup that is building a marketplace to help brands find and hire the best freelance UX/UI designers on the planet.

25

2 years ago

A startup that is building a 3D printer designed to be used by disabled people. It’s also trying to solve the “other” market problem that 3D printers are expensive and hard for non-disabled people to use.

25

2 years ago

A digital assistant for book publishers that is designed to “engage readers as they read”. This is a big goal for the startup, which has been trying to build a platform for readers to interact with books and books to interact with readers.

25

2 years ago

A startup that helps design firms and creative teams collaborate on projects — and the tools to make it happen.

25

2 years ago

A platform designed for building and publishing 3D content, supporting content creators, and customers, in a format that can be embedded and used in web, mobile and VR.

25

2 years ago

The MAKE Awards are an annual event that celebrates the best of the makers community. This awards ceremony is a celebration of makers’ achievements in hardware, design, software,

25

2 years ago

A company that designs and builds tools for bio-security, including the ability to scan barcodes to track food and pharmaceutical products.

25

2 years ago

A tool for people who want to build a company from the ground up, selling products they design and make themselves.

25

2 years ago

A platform for web developers to find a designer, and for designers to find a developer

25

2 years ago

A tool for creating and sharing customized designs for shoes, from leather to yarn.

24

2 years ago

A platform for connecting designers and developers in a way that allows teams to move faster with more shared resources.

24

2 years ago

This app is designed for parents to save young kids from pulling all their toys out of box and putting everything back in the box.

24

2 years ago

A “supercharged mobile development platform” for high-growth startups. The platform is designed to help startups grow from a few dozen or few hundred employees into thousands.

24

2 years ago

A light-weight monitoring solution that is designed to be easy to install and manage. They will do everything from monitoring and alerting, to configuration and operation of the system.

24

2 years ago

A 1500 square foot, affordable home design studio, along with an online catalog of affordably designed homes. In addition to the online catalog, they also publish a monthly print magazine.

24

2 years ago

A platform that helps cities decide if they should consider converting a given stretch of road into a bike lane, or reconfiguring a street as a bus lane with parking or a designated bike lane.

23

2 years ago

A B2B startup that allows grocery stores to design packages and ship to customers faster, with fewer errors. The startup currently has a deal with a major grocery chain.

23

2 years ago

A company that wants to make it easier for non-tech companies to design and sell their products and services on their platform. The startup already has a listing of more than 200 companies that’ve used their platform.

23

2 years ago

RideScheduler is a ridesharing platform for drivers and riders with a mobile app designed for the traveling businessperson. They’re targeting Uber and Lyft drivers and riders, as well as travelers who have a car but need to rent a car one-time for a trip.

23

2 years ago

A startup that hopes to generate electricity from waste materials. It’s first product is a portable generator that converts waste into energy through a catalytic reaction. The generator is designed to be used in the home, in the field, and in developing countries.

23

2 years ago

There’s a lot of work being done by third-party developers to analyze and extract insights from customer data, but the challenge is that the data is often messy and inconsistent. Because of this, it can be hard to know how to use the data for good. Uniq is designing and building a data platform that will make it easier for brands to extract value from customer data and truly understand it.

23

2 years ago

A business that provides professional services, including web design, and software development for startups.

23

2 years ago

A platform designed to help individuals and businesses find and hire contractors.

23

2 years ago

A “shortcut method for tackling problems”. It’s designed to help developers get to the root of a problem quickly.

23

2 years ago

The Foundry is a marketplace for creative professionals in the U.S. based in New York City. The company was founded in 2014 by three creatives, including a digital design director at Condé Nast. The company’s flagship product is a marketplace for creative professionals.

23

2 years ago

This product is designed to help people massage their muscles with light to help reduce pain and increase blood flow. It is the first product of its kind that uses a new kind of light therapy called near-infrared laser therapy. Cofounders Ryan and David Berger, both of whom have had shoulder problems, were the original inspirations for the product.

22

2 years ago

A home renovation app that crowdsources design decisions, turning them into experiences.

22

2 years ago

A design and engineering platform aimed at helping companies work more efficiently. The company uses machine learning to help users visualize and visualize their projects, and then use that visualization to make decisions.

22

2 years ago

Building a visual recognition app for brands to use for their packaging materials and packaging design.

22

2 years ago

A platform for the sale and distribution of designer clothing. The startup is in the beta phase.

22

2 years ago

A software company that removes the friction of watching a video on Facebook, YouTube or even just your phone. It’s designed to make it easier to consume video content.

22

2 years ago

An AI-powered product designer, with a focus on 3D printing. The company wants to help designers and engineers with their 3D designs and build it in a way that’s easier to use than alternatives like Meshmixer and 3D printing software.

22

2 years ago

This startup is building a mobile messaging app for the fashion industry, with a focus on finding new designers and helping them upload their designs and get feedback.

22

5 years ago

Idea: A platform that allows people to create digital portfolios for their work. The startup wants to help designers and artists build personal brands.

21

2 years ago

A company building a CDE for self-driving cars, which is designed to interact with the car’s computer systems, including sensors, to control the car.

21

2 years ago

A smart contract platform for sellers and buyers of real estate, designed to streamline transactions, cut costs and reduce risk. They have $1.3 million in funding to date.

21

2 years ago

An iPad app that helps you create and share 3D-printable designs.

21

2 years ago

A company that wants to make software that helps the fashion industry design and track fashion trends.

21

2 years ago

A team of designers and developers who want to create a new kind of collaborative pricing tool for restaurant owners. Restaurateurs can invite their customers to participate in a party to get a group discount. The team is also working on the food delivery side of things, having recently released a marketplace.

21

2 years ago

A company that enables merchants to connect their apps to their website without having to design their own website.

21

2 years ago

A platform for online events, designed to cut down on long distance travel and make it easier for event organizers to communicate with attendees.

21

2 years ago

A startup that helps you organize and track your expenses, from the food you eat to the things you buy. The app is designed to be an alternative to using spreadsheets, and is currently in beta.

21

2 years ago

The startup wants to build a system to help in the “automated design of human analogs”, aka creating a digital clone of a human being.

20

2 years ago

A tool for designing and building websites that uses machine learning to automate the creation of multiple dynamic pages that work together to create the experience you want, without the need to code.

20

2 years ago

A branding and design agency that helps agencies and brands develop stronger, more effective marketing.

20

2 years ago

A tool for managing supply chains, designed to take over as the go-to SaaS for this.

20

2 years ago

WannaCry ransomware was spread through a Windows vulnerability, and GuaveFix is a desktop application that detects malware and is designed to protect users from future attacks.

20

2 years ago

A tool for employees to check their biological data and manage their health goals. This app is designed to help employees stay motivated to take better care of themselves, and their employers to improve productivity and employee health.

19

2 years ago

This startup is building a product designed to help people manage the pain of chronic headaches. They use an algorithm to gauge when to take multiple doses of a medication and what the optimal dosing is, when to take it during the day and what to do if they don’t have a migraine.

19

2 years ago

This is a shared-office startup that’s trying to democratize the experience of working at an office. They’re trying to build out a centralized office space that can host up to 200 people in a building, with a design that makes it feel less like a corporate space.

19

2 years ago

A platform designed to help retailers automate logistics and fulfillment processes. The startup has $2.5M in funding from investors including Accel Partners and Fidelity.

19

2 years ago

A digital agency that helps companies design and build their websites, helping them reach their audience. They’re also helping clients who want to grow their business with a better experience.

19

2 years ago

A team of 3 UX designers who want to use the concept of “pre-orders” to build an app for people who want to create a “pre-order” for their social media profiles, effectively pre-selling themselves to brands.

19

2 years ago

This is a financial management app for the self-employed, also using the Stripe API. It’s designed to be a transparent tool for connecting with financial institutions and other third parties.

19

2 years ago

The startup helps designers prototype ideas, and is also in the business of creating websites and landing pages. The company’s founders say 40% of their business is with YC companies, and that they are expecting a $1 million revenue run rate by the end of the year.

19

2 years ago

A platform that helps businesses manage their physical space by providing the tools and technology needed to design and furnish off-site workspaces.

18

2 years ago

Airboard is a startup that wants to design an electric skateboard that can go up to 20 miles on a single charge and has a top speed of 60 mph. The startup is currently looking for funding.

18

2 years ago

A product design software that can take any set of PowerPoint slides, or even plain text, and create a website with a click.

18

2 years ago

Hint is a cloud-based platform for designing and communicating ideas. It’s a platform for organizing and sharing ideas that can scale to any size team.

18

2 years ago

A platform designed to crowdsource for and process passive income for content creators.

18

2 years ago

A product designed to help small businesses (especially restaurants) easily manage their social media presence. The startup aims to make micro-businesses more social by “automating the process of posting to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram,” built to help spread word of mouth.

18

2 years ago

A startup that helps consumers create a “digital will,” which are online forms that allow people to plan for their end-of-life care, and which are designed to be more human and more efficient than the legal documents that are currently required.

18

2 years ago

A social media platform designed for grocery stores that helps them find customers and communicate with them.

18

2 years ago

A tool to help manufacturers automate the creation of device schematics and 3D models, using CAD software. The company wants to help manufacturers save time and money when designing and manufacturing their products.

18

2 years ago

A startup that wants to build a platform for automating the design of gadgets. It’s aiming to disrupt the 3D printing industry, which is already well on its way to becoming a mature market.

17

2 years ago

A platform for building and selling custom IoT devices. The startup is launching a new product that’s a single-board computer that runs Linux and is designed for the IoT market.

17

2 years ago

A product for corporate partners of Google Apps, designed to help them administer their domain names. The startup is already working with 100 customers.

17

2 years ago

This is an “innovation platform” for people to design and build hardware products. So far, they’ve shipped over 300 products.

17

2 years ago

A startup that sells student-designed backpacks from high schools in Asia. Parents can order them and have the backpacks shipped to their homes, or they can order them directly from the website.

17

2 years ago

A digital platform that allows companies to custom-design and manage the application of traditional social and cultural practices. The company's platform offers customized guides for various sociological purposes, such as marriage, death, and education.

16

2 years ago

A startup that wants to solve the problem of the boom in digital-native startups and the difficulty of finding and retaining staff. The startup’s founders say they’ve hired more than a dozen developers, designers, and customer success managers.

16

2 years ago

A platform that makes it easy for musicians to perform live and make money from non-music-related creative works. The platform is designed to offer short gigs, with the ability to allow artists to earn money from other creative endeavors.

16

2 years ago

This company is working on design software that helps people create and share their own custom clothing, furniture, and other items, and sell them on a platform.

16

2 years ago

Notify’s team of engineers and designers believe that the best way to communicate with someone is not to call or text them. This is why the company built Notify, an app that allows people to email each other without the use of their phone numbers.

16

5 years ago

Idea: A startup designed to help businesses with their strategy, marketing, and organization. It’s currently free to use.

15

2 years ago

A white label marketplace for selling and renting out custom-made custom shirts, using a customer-designed template.

15

2 years ago

A company that makes virtual reality headsets designed for kids.

15

2 years ago

A platform that helps companies buy and sell third-party data. Designed specifically for businesses that don’t have or can’t manage data themselves, the platform is meant to aggregate data and provide visualizations of it.

15

2 years ago

This is a startup that’s designing a better way to manage your food delivery. Instead of having to call an operator to place an order, the startup’s technology will let you order hot food from an app.

15

2 years ago

This build-it-yourself startup is looking to build a toolset that helps small businesses design and install their own 3D printed parts. Their vision is to make 3D printing easy and affordable for small businesses.

15

2 years ago

A system that allows companies to securely transfer money between themselves. It’s designed to give banks a new way to reach out to their customers. The company charges a commission of 1% (or 0.30 cents per transaction) on all transfers.

15

2 years ago

A platform that helps retailers build a personalized store experience for every customer. It offers a suite of tools for optimizing store layout and merchandising, including a tool for scanning products and automatically matching them to the store’s design.

15

2 years ago

This is a new type of computer chip that’s about the size of a postage stamp. It’s designed to fit in a single transistor and can be printed on a standard inkjet printer.

15

2 years ago

This company is building a new way to pay bills online. It’s designed to streamline the process of paying for services, but it’s still in a beta phase.

14

2 years ago

A web-based sales platform for retail brands. It’s designed to let retailers sell products to customers without having to manage inventory themselves.

14

2 years ago

A 3D printer that allows users to design and print customized prosthetics.

14

2 years ago

Zabiba is a messenger that has been designed with the Arabic market in mind, and is open source and free.

13

2 years ago

A free online tool that helps break down costs for consultants, freelancers, and designers. It’s offered as a subscription service and has around 15,000 users.

13

2 years ago

A startup that helps you make your own custom-designed, high-quality photobooks

13

2 years ago

A design firm that creates high-end, custom, custom-made, custom-designed websites, landing pages, email campaigns, etc.

13

2 years ago

An e-commerce site for sunglasses, designed to be like Warby Parker. The startup sells one of the most popular styles of sunglasses by Oakley and offers a few of its own.

13

2 years ago

A startup that allows users to make a print-on-demand book and then ship it to a physical location. The service is designed for professionals, who can share their work and find people who want their content.

12

2 years ago

A tool that helps designers find solutions to problems they have. They’re also looking for solutions to problems they’ve been having to deal with.

12

2 years ago

A multi-purpose product, designed to be a coffee table but also a standing desk.

12

2 years ago

Innovation Center: A startup that allows people to share their stories about technology, design and innovation.

11

2 years ago

A platform that helps companies with their HR needs, which is the first human resource software designed specifically for enterprise.

11

2 years ago

A tool designed to help employees who have been laid off by their companies find new jobs.

11

2 years ago

A payroll system that’s designed for companies to integrate with their employee self-service platforms. It offers a quick, pay-as-you-go payroll solution that’s also highly customizable.

11

2 years ago

A startup that helps companies avoid the cost and hassle of having to hire professional developers to handle basic UI and UX design work. Users can create and manage their own designs from their own computers, and the company says it can complete the work in just 5 days.

10

5 years ago

Idea: A platform that makes it easy for interior designers to manage projects and clients. Users of the software say it’s saving them up to 6 hours per week.

9

5 years ago

Idea: A startup for finding designers/developers/analysts/etc for long term projects. It’s meant to be similar to Upwork, but less saturated and more curated.

9

5 years ago

Idea: A ‘gig economy’ labor marketplace for graphic designers. The startup says it’s growing 1,000% month-over-month, and has already sold $3,000 a week in design work.

8

5 years ago

Idea: A startup for businesses to post projects and invite freelancers to bid on them. The platform has a rating system designed to weed out fraud, and also offers a job board to connect with freelancers.

8

5 years ago

Idea: A way for developers and designers to collaborate on design projects, the way they used to, with the added ability to generate a GitHub-ready invoice at the end.

8

5 years ago

A startup that is a service for businesses to hire young people from poor countries to do web design and website maintenance

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that’s built a quick-and-dirty tool for people who are creating a business plan, designed to help them connect the dots and make sure their numbers are solid.

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service that helps people find a plumber or an electrician or a mason or a painter or an interior designer

-1

5 years ago

A startup that’s built a suite of tools to help companies design their own products. The startup says it’s received $2.5 million

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5 years ago

A startup that makes a custom-designed and usable 3D printer

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A startup that sells clothes designed by students of fashion schools

A tool for employee onboarding, designed to put employees through a process to get them up and running at their new job.

A team of designers that makes beautiful things for the world.

Building a tool to help engineers visualize the design of a product.

A SaaS that helps you design and personalize your own clothes.

A way to help people learn how to create and design products online

A platform that helps designers collaborate on projects and publish their work online. The startup is currently in a beta phase, and has built a large audience that has helped it refine its design process.

A platform designed to help people and companies save and invest together.

An online platform that helps individuals design and sell products made of wood.

A company that teaches people the art of designing and building simple products.

Grow is building a set of tools for restaurants, enabling them to manage their menus, design their menus, and automate their ordering and delivery processes.

A company that sells modular home accessories designed to make building a home more efficient.

A social network built for black professionals. It’s a version of Facebook for black professionals that’s designed for different demographics, with features like a photo gallery and a newsfeed that’s tuned for black users.

A company that’s a Slack alternative, designed to be more intuitive and user friendly.

The startup is building a P2P mobile payments platform for mobile commerce. The product is called Mobypay, and it’s designed to help shoppers buy physical goods off the street using a smartphone.

A company that helps small businesses find tech talent, with a focus on recruiting developers and designers in cities where they are based.

A platform that allows designers to sell their work without having to learn code

A product designed to help farmers manage all their farm data.

A company that designs, manufactures, and sells wireless sensors that can be used to detect motion, temperature, and moisture in homes and offices.

In January 2018, Instagram launched IGTV, an app designed to let people watch longer videos.

A startup that offers a highly customisable, easy-to-use platform for designing employee relocation packages

The startup is developing a new version of the Nest Protect smoke detector that’s specifically designed to be safe and helpful for people with kids.

A software platform that helps connect retailers with ecommerce platform designers and developers.

A billing service for B2B companies that’s designed to be simple, easy to use, and inexpensive.

A visual product design tool that helps users create their own Web/mobile apps in minutes.

A wristband that tracks sleep and activity, and is designed to help people with sleep apnea.

A platform that connects builders and homeowners, allowing for customized and unique designs.

A platform designed to help people find the right therapist, based on their specific needs. The company is working with a social network of therapists to provide the feature to their users.

A startup that provides a “digital home” where someone can design and build a custom home online, and then have it shipped to them. The startup creates a 3D model of the house, and then puts it into a CAD program, which allows them to directly see the design, and put in every detail.

A credit card designed for use in the developing world that charges low interest rates and has lower transaction fees.

A startup building a tool for people to track their time. The time tracking tool is designed to help people get value from their time.

The app is designed to help community centers run classes in their building. It’s meant to be situated next to their front desk, and can be used to create a schedule and notify people in the building of what’s happening.

A product management platform for agencies, developers, and designers that helps companies plan, identify, prioritize, and integrate features for their software applications.

A meeting scheduling tool designed to make it as easy as possible for meetings to be scheduled.

A design studio for offices and retail. The startup wants to create a stylish, personalized workspace for each employee, which can be installed in under 15 minutes.

A visual programming language designed for chip design, intended to allow engineers to quickly prototype and visualize their designs.

A digital wearable designed to help those with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) manage their symptoms.

A startup that provides professional services for marketing, design, and technology to brands that want to set up their own online storefronts.

An enterprise-focused Slack alternative, with focus on teams that need to collaborate. The company has also been expanding into other areas like marketing, design, engineering, and other business functions.

A startup that helps small businesses and brands create custom, one-of-a-kind products for customers. The Product Design team has built a consumer brand identity and packaging for a range of products, from coffee to power tools.

A startup that provides a service to help people design their home

A free, open-source portfolio app for designers.

A startup that sells 1,000s of unique designs for mugs, t-shirts and other merchandise. The startup sells items with quirky names or humorous messages (e.g. “Widow Maker” and “Snooze Button”) to help businesses stand out.

A digital platform for designers to sell their work to customers, with most of the revenue coming from a subscription model.

A platform for helping people design and build virtual reality experiences. The startup is focusing on the gaming side, but says they’re open to partnering with other verticals as well.

A free SaaS service to help build a brand. Independent artists can use the app to generate custom content to promote their work, and publishers can use it to sell books and merchandise. The app is designed to be simple and intuitive.

A digital communications company based in New York City. Their software is designed to help companies interact with their employees via phone, email, or chat.

A “self-serve” platform that enables developers to build out their own bitmap font, so they can quickly build out a new font without needing to hire a designer.

A design and data platform for the modern retail market. The startup has raised $11 million to date and has signed up 1,200 customers.

A content marketing service for fashion brands; it helps designers and retailers create custom content to promote their brands and products.

A startup designed to help freelancers manage their invoices, track their payments, and automatically do taxes.

A team management app for the engineering and design teams at a SaaS company.

This startup’s algorithm is designed to find and cancel fraudulent payments, automatically. It’s free for merchants to use, and they’re aiming to partner with processors and banks.

A platform for businesses to buy and sell on a marketplace, which accepts cryptocurrency and is designed to protect buyers and sellers from fraud. The company says it already has a $1 million annual recurring revenue run rate.

A Skype-like video calling app for group chats, designed for small teams.

A full-stack design tool meant to help designers build responsive websites quickly and efficiently.

A startup that makes it easy for small businesses to use a centralized accounting system to keep track of their finances. Redbooth is designed to be a tool for small businesses that don’t have an accounting department and may not have even started keeping track of their finances yet.

A startup that offers a service for designing employee relocation packages for companies who are moving employees

A small team of developers and designers are building a simple, yet comprehensive, social network for everyone.

A 3D printing service for hardware engineers and product designers.

A startup that wants to build a platform that allows companies to create online courses in minutes and distribute them to email lists or social media. They currently have one client with a course on web design that had over 1,000 people sign up for it.

A personal robot designed to help people with mobility impairments, with a goal to help them live more independently and improve daily living.

A startup that designs and sells products with a focus on materials that are more durable and environmentally friendly.

A platform for managing and sharing your home’s interior design.

A tool that allows a team of people to quickly design a simple website from a master template.

This is a system for delivering healthcare services to remote regions. The mobile app helps healthcare providers manage their clinics, and the system is designed to help them hire and retain staff.

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

A startup for freelance work that connects project managers with developers, designers, and marketers.

A personalized learning platform where you can design your own learning plan, and get feedback from a coach.

A design studio with a focus on the traveling millennial market

A startup that helps freelancers make money doing freelance design work.

A platform designed to help car dealers make the most of their inventory, and lower inventory turnover.

A cloud-based tool designed to help people manage their money more efficiently in ways that might not be obvious.

A platform designed for individuals and small businesses that helps them manage their finances.

A financial wellness platform that is designed to help people take control of their finances, instead of leaving it to a broker.

A tool that allows people to create their own 3D models of objects and designs and have them printed on a 3D printer.

A platform for creative people to collaborate, post, and publish designs, images, and video.