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A startup that wants to sell insurance to people who own property, and who want to protect it in the event of a fire. The startup has already built a platform for homeowners to claim their coverage, but needs to raise $5 million to build out a back-end system and additional products.
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2 years ago
A startup that uses artificial intelligence to help prevent fraud in payments. It’s an API for banks and merchants to check if accounts are being used fraudulently.
324
1 year ago
Aspiring to be like Amazon, this startup wants to be the Amazon of the $3.5 trillion retail industry. They say they’re currently focused on a core product that will eventually be able to make recommendations for products to customers, and have already signed up a number of retailers.
278
1 year ago
A platform for organizing and sharing events, with a mobile app and desktop version.
275
1 year ago
This startup will help prevent people from losing their data due to hardware failure.
230
2 years ago
An AI for fraud prevention for banks.
203
1 year ago
A startup that wants to create an online-only community for teachers, and eventually other professionals.
200
1 year ago
A startup that lets people buy tickets to events that they can attend from their phone, and their friends can recommend. Ticketfly is focused on events like concerts, sporting events and live theater.
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9 months ago
Startup that wants to use AI and big data to help predict and prevent home fires.
196
1 year ago
A platform that lets people customize and sell their own tickets to events, with the potential to give artists more control over their work.
194
2 years ago
Custom holograms for marketing campaigns, allowing companies to create holograms of their logo or product that can be used for promotions, company events, or even as stickers to mark employees in the office
191
2 years ago
A mobile app that helps businesses track sales to prevent fraud.
179
1 year ago
A startup that helps you learn to code by making you build a simple tool that you eventually turn into a real product. The startup’s co-founder saw a need for the same kind of bootcamps in the area, and created the site to fill it.
171
2 years ago
The event took place on Friday, November 16th at 9:00 am at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.
169
1 year ago
A startup that offers one of the few ways to sell tickets to online conferences, and tickets to events in the past year, with a 2.8% take rate.
167
1 year ago
A tool for identifying and preventing fraudulent donations to political campaigns.
163
2 years ago
A startup that helps users find and connect with events near them. Since launching in May, the startup has seen over 2,000 new users join their platform.
161
2 years ago
An open-source web application for creating and managing virtual classrooms and events.
158
2 years ago
This startup’s goal is to prevent ad fraud. It uses a combination of machine learning, data mining, and crowdsourcing to help companies like Amazon and Google detect fraudulent activity on their platforms.
156
1 year ago
A startup that wants to help employers prevent employee fraud by allowing them to manage their work-from-home policy and budget via a mobile app.
155
2 years ago
A platform for people to register for events and discover events as they are happening
153
2 years ago
A company which helps brands and event planners create love letters to their fans, based on their feedback or engagement.
152
1 year ago
An AI-powered search engine that learns from your searches to create personalized content. It’s meant to serve as a search engine for all things like local events, weather, news, and sports, with a focus on the “people-centric” aspects of the internet.
152
2 years ago
A tool to create and manage offline events, like conferences.
151
2 years ago
A security startup that’s building a platform to automatically detect and prevent fraud in the payments industry.
151
2 years ago
A platform for buying and selling tickets to sporting events, concerts, and other live entertainment.
150
2 years ago
A tool for in-person recruiting events. The company claims to have 3,000 customers, including Y Combinator, and operates in over 50 countries.
150
2 years ago
A tool for managing an online student organization. It can be used to invite and manage members, track events, and make payments.
149
2 years ago
This is a B2B company that helps manage memberships for online event organizers.
149
1 year ago
A tool that allows you to purchase a ticket to a movie, museum, or sporting event at the last minute.
149
2 years ago
The startup helps users register for their own events online, connecting them with other users and event organizers in the process.
146
2 years ago
A social network for in-person events.
146
2 years ago
A startup that provides a custom-branded credit card for businesses. The startup is working with a handful of national merchants and aims to scale eventually.
146
2 years ago
A text message-based calendar that lets you schedule events and reminders, with a calendar interface. The app is available for iOS and Android
145
2 years ago
A startup that uses machine learning to help prevent check fraud.
144
1 year ago
A visual way to understand what your network of friends and contacts are doing, which the startup says will eventually include things like board games, sports, and other group activities.
144
2 years ago
A video streaming app that lets users watch live events like concerts and sporting events.
142
1 year ago
A startuplicant tracking platform for online job applications. The startup wants to scale to support large recruitment events like the YC Demo Day.
142
2 years ago
A startup that sends users curated lists of events in their area. It currently has 1.3 million monthly users, and works with “hundreds of thousands” of events/parties each month.
141
2 years ago
A digital marketplace for selling and buying event tickets. The company is currently in the midst of raising $500,000 in a seed round.
141
1 year ago
This startup is building a smart home device that automatically detects and prevents fires. The company is looking to raise $100,000.
140
2 years ago
A platform for forging relationships between people and businesses through technology and entertainment events.
139
1 year ago
A project management tool for non-profits, with a “social component” that helps them manage events and volunteers.
139
1 year ago
This startup offers a platform to help companies and organizations collaborate on content, from making public records to organizing conferences. Its founders describe it as a “LinkedIn for events”.
139
2 years ago
A search engine for esports. The startup is meant to help fans find events, follow players and teams, and share content.
138
2 years ago
A startup that makes it easy for small businesses to collect payments from their customers. The startup offers free accounts for small businesses and is looking to eventually offer a freemium model.
138
2 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.
138
2 years ago
A “smart” hospital bed that monitors patients and adjusts the temperature in response to their health concerns. It also tracks their movements to prevent falls.
137
2 years ago
A tool for meeting and event planners to help them build their own itineraries for conferences, meetups and other events.
135
2 years ago
A platform that helps retailers and brands create in-person or online events for their customers. Events include meetups, dinners, and dinners-with-entertainment. The startup has raised $288,000.
135
2 years ago
A startup working on a program to prevent water damage in homes.
134
2 years ago
A company that helps non-profits and charities raise money and manage all of their events.
134
2 years ago
A digital ticket seller for concerts, sports and other events.
134
2 years ago
A way to help people share their calendars with family and friends and collaborate on events. The company has already raised $2.5 million in seed funding.
133
2 years ago
A startup for buying and selling tickets to events. The startup is focused on events in the UK and Europe. They were formerly known as Ticket Vending.
133
2 years ago
A startup that is building a way to sell tickets to virtual events. Currently focused on ticketing for fitness events.
132
2 years ago
A platform that offers classified ads, event listings, and other business listings.
132
2 years ago
This company helps middle schoolers learn about social justice by teaching them about the history of slavery in the US, how it intersects with other historical events, and what we can do to fight it now.
132
2 years ago
A startup to take the guesswork out of buying tickets to events. It helps consumers find the cheapest ticket and compares deals from around the web, thus making the experience of buying tickets simple and convenient.
132
2 years ago
A system for managing and tracking IT systems for distributed teams, using an event-driven approach.
132
2 years ago
PlayIt is building a platform for streaming, gaming, and esports events, it’s a platform that allows users to create and manage tournaments in real time.
131
2 years ago
A company that helps employees with allergies prevent reactions to the things they eat, rather than just dealing with them after a reaction occurs.
131
2 years ago
This digital platform is for booking conferences, events, and meetings between companies. It aims to be a “Facebook for meetups” and has already raised $1 million.
131
1 year ago
This startup is building an iOS app that helps users find and book events that fit their interests.
131
2 years ago
A company that is trying to create an online marketplace for networking through networking events.
130
2 years ago
A platform for event organizers that wants to help them build a new type of event around their brand.
130
2 years ago
A tool to help predict and prevent the spread of malware, malware-related scams, and other malicious software.
130
1 year ago
A social network for Latin Americans in the US and Mexico that lets them connect, share photos, and discover events and activities related to their culture.
130
1 year ago
A platform for discovering and sharing events and locations, like concerts, festivals, and more.
130
2 years ago
A company that helps users find and book lodging for a unique event in a city. Right now, you can book a flight, but you can also book a hotel for a one-night stay or a week.
129
2 years ago
A way to monitor, measure and prevent “cybercrime”. The startup is currently being used by the United States Department of Defense to fight cybercrime.
129
2 years ago
A free mobile app that helps you find things to do in your neighborhood for free, offering nearby events, nearby restaurants, nearby bars, and more.
129
2 years ago
A solution to help people remember important dates and meetings. The startup is looking to help people automate reminders for the most important events in their lives.
129
2 years ago
A company founded by a team of Stanford and Berkeley researchers that uses AI to detect and prevent fraud. The software aims to detect when a person is trying to make a credit card purchase in a store and notify the appropriate employees, who can then stop the transaction.
129
2 years ago
An “organic social network” for concerts, sports, and events. It’s like Eventbrite for everything.
128
2 years ago
This startup wants to make it easier to sell tickets for events by allowing users to sell tickets to venues directly. Currently, the startup is only working with venues that have their own ticketing software, but in the future it hopes to work with event organizers as well.
128
2 years ago
A company that helps prevent data breaches. The startup’s software uses a “trusted data model” to protect data, and prevent hackers from accessing it.
128
2 years ago
A platform for running and publishing community-driven events, such as hackathons and meetups.
128
2 years ago
A data platform that helps detect, prevent, and mitigate fraud on all payments. It works with banks, Venmo, and Western Union.
128
2 years ago
A startup that lets users check into a space on Facebook, Twitter, or Foursquare to see photos and reviews of the space, and view events happening there.
128
2 years ago
An organization for entrepreneurs and start-ups in the New York area. The startup is building a digital community with a curated marketplace for mentors, events, and funding.
127
2 years ago
A platform that allows users to create and manage event pages on Facebook and Instagram.
127
2 years ago
A music and event ticketing startup that takes a commission on ticket sales.
127
2 years ago
A startup with a $50 million-plus funding round, which makes networking events and events for startups much easier – with a central platform for event organizers and attendees.
127
2 years ago
A platform for meeting planners and event organizers to book freelance talent for online event production.
126
2 years ago
The startup is building a platform for event hosts. The app is aimed at small to medium size events, and includes features like group chat and live streaming.
126
2 years ago
A tool for artists, record labels, and venues to find out how to better monetize their content, whether it’s a song, a TV show, or an event.
126
2 years ago
A company that makes systems for detecting and preventing fraudulent transactions and identity theft.
126
1 year ago
A startup for scheduling social events, with an “invite only” feature that makes it more exclusive than a public event.
125
2 years ago
A startup that wants to grow in the middle east and eventually offer a hub for those looking to find a doctor, dentist, or other healthcare professional in their area.
124
1 year ago
A startup that uses artificial intelligence to predict where a person will get dengue fever within 72 hours and suggests a preventive treatment to them.
124
2 years ago
A “social network for club members” that lets you save the best events in a club’s calendar for your friends to see.
123
2 years ago
A startup that helps people find events based on their interests. It currently has about 50,000 users.
123
2 years ago
A web-based service that allows people to create events for non-profits and make donations easier.
123
1 year ago
A tool that allows people to register for events, including those who are not currently able to attend. Like Meetup, it’s meant to help people find and attend events both in person and online.
123
1 year ago
An email service that integrates with existing systems like Outlook or Gmail, and automatically adds calendar events. The startup wants to make it easy to access information from multiple systems and apps.
123
2 years ago
A company that helps lawyers fight fraud and stop identity theft, as well as help businesses prevent tech support fraud and hacking.
122
1 year ago
This startup is producing the next generation of technologies that can detect and remove water in buildings to prevent mold, bacteria, and other harmful microbes from growing.
122
2 years ago
The following startups were all listed in the “premier” category at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, but didn’t make the final cut to the demo stage of the event.
121
2 years ago
A new type of event registration system, which is a hybrid of Google Apps and Eventbrite. The company’s founder says that while it currently is free, it will be a subscription model in the future. The startup was founded in June.
121
2 years ago
A personal concierge service that helps people book events
121
1 year ago
The startup helps companies coordinate meetings and events in a more efficient way with a mobile application that lets people request times to meet and itineraries for the meetings. It’s been used on over 7,000 events and 500 events per month.
121
1 year ago
A privacy-focused cryptocurrency that uses multiple layers of encryption to make transactions hard to trace. The company’s software prevents transactions from being saved to a public ledger.
121
2 years ago
A startup that helps developers build apps that can be shared, with a focus on grouping events together.
120
2 years ago
A product-as-a-service for companies to get more out of their event-planning software.
120
2 years ago
Helping small businesses create community-based, crowdsourced events that benefit all the attendees.
120
2 years ago
A platform that allows people to buy and sell tickets to live events, and then sell them at a discount.
120
2 years ago
A suite of tools to help schedule and track meetings and events
119
2 years ago
This startup is building a decentralized event planning platform
119
2 years ago
This is a platform for connecting people, events, and ideas. They connect people with the events they want, they create the events the people want, and they manage the events for the people.
118
2 years ago
A company that helps companies book tours and events at museums and galleries. The startup’s founders previously worked at the Louvre, and want to help them grow their business in the UK, US, and Canada.
118
2 years ago
A platform to simplify and enhance streaming for live music events.
118
2 years ago
This company is building a way to sell tickets to events. The startup works with event producers to book locations and pull together tickets.
117
2 years ago
A tool for creating event invitations and RSVPs. The startup allows users to create invites and RSVPs, offers a mobile app, and offers templates for various occasions.
117
2 years ago
A parking app that matches drivers with parking spaces based on availability, demand, and proximity to events. In this case, it’s a pop-up that shows up in the app when there’s a space available, whether that be in a lot or garage.
117
1 year ago
A startup that connects insurance companies to underwriters in the event of a claim, allowing everyone to focus on customer service while the underwriting process is handled.
117
1 year ago
A health service that allows users to monitor their health and share data, with plans to eventually tie in treatments, lifestyle changes, and other health information.
117
2 years ago
A startup that provides a service where you can sell tickets for events you can’t attend
116
2 years ago
What happens when you start going to boring networking events A startup that sells tickets to events in a non-standard format, taking the pain out of organizing and selling tickets.
116
10 months ago
A software solution to help people use their phones as a remote camera, which can be set to take photos when an event occurs, such as a baby crying or an alarm going off.
116
2 years ago
This startup is working on a new way to manage storage for in-home vaults, which it plans to eventually work with banks and other large financial institutions as well.
115
2 years ago
This company uses AI to help companies detect and prevent fraud.
115
2 years ago
This startup is looking to prevent the spread of the Zika virus and other mosquito borne illnesses by manufacturing naturally repellent sunscreen that users can apply to their skin.
115
2 years ago
A business that connects customers to local businesses and events.
114
2 years ago
A B2B company that helps companies create a network of suppliers and vendors based in other countries to help save their clients money and prevent fraud. The company is launching in the US to manage supply chains in the US, China, and Europe.
114
1 year ago
A search engine for the cannabis industry, focused on companies and events
114
2 years ago
A startup that wants to make it easy to manage virtual attendees for events, which are usually hard to track and often not included in the database. The startup is releasing a beta version of its software in mid-November.
113
2 years ago
A search engine for sales opportunities that pulls in data from the likes of LinkedIn and Eventbrite
113
2 years ago
The company helps athletes and teams figure out what to do next after winning a major sporting event.
113
1 year ago
A platform for people to get their credentials verified, backed by a “verified badge” for each user. The company wants to help people get into cool things, like coding bootcamps or startup events.
113
1 year ago
The 2018 edition of the Y Combinator Demo Day featured 41 startups in three different tracks: Hardware, Software, and Networking & Events. The startups were chosen from 5,000 applicants by Y Combinator.
113
2 years ago
Idea: A startup that helps utilities identify and prevent blackouts, utilizing machine learning and satellite imagery to predict when the grid will fail
112
2 years ago
A platform that helps recruiters find and schedule talent for in-person events. The startup wants to be the “LinkedIn for recruiters.”
112
2 years ago
A digital “wallet” for rideshare drivers (that’s UberX, Lyft, etc.) to pay expenses like deductibles, gas and maintenance. The digital wallet eventually will allow drivers to take rides anywhere and pay their expenses without having to have cash on hand.
112
2 years ago
This startup is building a photo-sharing app that helps users organize and share photos. It’s like Pinterest but for local events and places.
112
2 years ago
A startup that helps users organize their to-do list in a manner that’s most useful to them. It’s like a digital planner, but it also handles things like reminding you of deadlines and counting down the days until a big event.
112
2 years ago
A web-based platform that prevents employees from falling asleep at their desks.
112
2 years ago
An exclusive networking event for digital creatives.
112
2 years ago
A startup that lets you share blog posts, products, and events with your social network through SMS. It’s free, and as you write you get paid in cash, in dollars or in bitcoin.
112
1 year ago
An online platform that allows its users to “recover” digital media, including photos, music, and videos. The company aims to build a digital library that it will eventually license to other companies to allow them to use the recovered content.
112
1 year ago
A mobile app that lets businesses book their events and track reservations. The company has used its platform to book over $10M worth of events.
112
10 months ago
A startup that wants to help people plan year-round events and activities with friends, family, and co-workers.
112
2 years ago
An AI-driven (no more than 20 people) enterprise software company that is using “human intelligence” to predict and prevent customer churn.
111
2 years ago
A way for teachers to track and analyze student performance, which they hope will eventually become a standard curriculum in schools.
111
2 years ago
Hopper is a way for people to find, discover, and share local events.
111
1 year ago
A tool for event organizers to curate and manage data for their events
111
2 years ago
The event was sponsored by Submittable, and all conference participants received a free Submittable account.
110
2 years ago
A software company that aims to make video editing more accessible to the masses with its online editing suite, and eventually create an editing academy to teach people to edit.
110
2 years ago
A startup that provides a service that allows people to coordinate rides to and from events. The company says they have $15,000 in monthly recurring revenue, with a potential to hit $200,000 in revenue in 12 months.
110
2 years ago
The idea of this startup is to fill the void that the daily news leaves out. By aggregating and creating content from the hundreds of sources they partner with, they aim to provide a complete picture of the news events happening around the world.
109
2 years ago
A platform for event planning, created by the same team that built Eventbrite
109
2 years ago
A complete package for in-person recruiting events. When you schedule an event, you can mark candidates’ interests on a map, create a class schedule with break times, and then send that info to candidates in a text message.
108
2 years ago
Data is siloed across different departments at a company, preventing anyone from understanding how their company stacks up against the competition. This startup is building a map of various types of data within a company, allowing users to search across multiple data sets at once.
108
2 years ago
A startup that makes it easier for people to search for events. They have over 50,000 active events listed on their site, and are focusing on events in the B2B space.
108
2 years ago
A platform for creating social connections around events, which is currently a popular form of entertainment. The startup wants to help users curate real-world events and build a community around them.
108
2 years ago
A booking app for millennials, featuring curated events from a local partner.
108
2 years ago
A tool to help event producers manage their social media posts, customer service, and other communications. It’s an ad-free, content-focused social media management tool with 15,000 paying customers.
107
2 years ago
A search and discovery app for event producers.
107
2 years ago
This startup is developing an online platform for community members to receive and manage community and event information.
107
2 years ago
A platform that helps people create “e-vites” for any event. The company’s founders have approached companies like Slack and Apple about integrating the company’s service into their products.
107
2 years ago
A video sharing app for events and conferences. Following a seed round, it’s been acquired by Live Nation’s Blink.
106
2 years ago
An online community for people to share stories, notes, and events.
106
1 year ago
The startup is building a platform for event organizers to build their own branded events. It’s aiming to help organizers build a “social network of events” that start conversations.
106
1 year ago
A set of business-focused events for women. The company wants to start with a small group of founders in the SF Bay Area.
106
1 year ago
A platform that lets you explore the world’s top events, including tickets, business deals, and travel itineraries.
106
1 year ago
A system for buying and selling tickets for events that don’t take place on a traditional schedule, such as concerts, theatre performances, and sports.
106
2 years ago
A platform for the entertainment industry to showcase talent, with a focus on both live events and social media stars. The company is looking to build out a 20,000-person network for talent.
105
1 year ago
The startup uses digital technology to help prevent fraud in the food supply chain, essentially helping to prevent food poisoning in a way that’s less intrusive than the E. coli outbreak that occurred in the fall.
105
1 year ago
A startup that lets people buy tickets to events with a text or a web interface.
105
2 years ago
An API for businesses to coordinate in-person events with scheduling software.
104
1 year ago
This startup is building a system that allows people to buy and sell tickets for events of any scale, with the ultimate goal of building an all-in-one ticketing platform for events.
104
1 year ago
A health insurance platform that focuses on preventive care and wellness.
104
2 years ago
A news network for gay men and their allies, including news, events and lifestyle coverage.
103
2 years ago
A company that helps tech companies prevent and integrate compliance with GDPR
101
1 year ago
A startup that helps hotels in Europe and the Middle East book rooms for corporate events with Fintech companies, using their own websites, without the need for a native reservation system.
100
1 year ago
A smartphone that can be used to track the physical movements and location of a user in the event of a medical emergency.
100
2 years ago
A startup that lets you create a schedule of classes and events for the school year for a particular student.
99
2 years ago
A startup for event and concert tickets.
99
1 year ago
A library of community and networking events for professionals in the creative and technology industries, including conference and meetup planning, networking and events
98
1 year ago
This startup is building an AI-driven, image-matching tool for marketers. At first, it’d be used to build ad campaigns, but it’d eventually be used to improve content creation and moderation.
98
2 years ago
A startup trying to make the creation of a new app as simple as asking a friend to help you. The idea is that creative people will be more likely to give their own time free to help others who may need it, and the startup hopes to eventually help with getting new users on their apps.
97
2 years ago
A tool for keeping track of and improving the quality of speaker trainings and events.
97
2 years ago
A software that helps provide continuity to companies in the event of a natural disaster or power outage
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2 years ago
A platform for businesses to pitch their services to event organizers, while also making it easier to manage them.
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1 year ago
A SaaS platform used by companies to automate and manage their recruiting and event planning.
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2 months ago
A platform that matches people with seats for events, allowing them to sell tickets without having to sell seats themselves.
97
2 years ago
A tool to help connect people with annual physicals and prevent illness
96
2 years ago
This startup wants to improve the impact of school-based violence prevention programs.
96
2 years ago
A company that brings down the cost of guest-listing events, from $20 for a single ticket to $20 for a guest list, to $5 for a guest list.
96
2 years ago
A platform for bringing together all the parts of an event — from venue, to catering, to security, to entertainment — into a centralized dashboard.
96
1 year ago
A startup for the sale of tickets to live sporting events, including NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB
96
1 year ago
A live-streaming app for the same kinds of things that Livestream does, except for video and the focus is on live events such as concerts and conferences.
96
1 year ago
A startup that helps restaurants, caterers, and event planners book their events online. The startup wants to make it easier for event planners to get the most booked events.
96
2 years ago
A coworking space that hosts entrepreneurs for meetings. They are hosting a series of events and are looking for members.
95
2 years ago
A startup that builds communities around local events and share content.
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2 years ago
This startup is building an app that helps people plan their next moves in the event of a natural disaster.
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1 year ago
A startup building a platform that allows users to buy and sell tickets to live events. They’re looking to create a system that’s easier to use and more scalable.
95
2 years ago
A new way of coordinating and selling tickets for events. The company’s product is less a ticketing platform and more a toolset for event organizers to use.
94
2 years ago
This startup is building a tool that helps school districts keep track of their IT budgets and prevent fraud and misuse.
94
2 months ago
A startup that helps freelancers find clients for their services. It also plans to eventually help businesses find employees through its website.
94
1 year ago
This event was sponsored by Edelman Digital.
93
7 months ago
A company that helps make recruitment easier for event planners
93
2 months ago
The company is building an API for tracking and predicting weather and climate events in real-time. The API is built on top of Google’s cloud and uses real-time data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
93
2 years ago
A phone app for sending automated text messages to people who are at an event. Great when a speaker gives an update to a crowd and they are lost for a moment, and also great for sending reminders about things like a doctor’s appointment.
92
2 years ago
A SaaS-based application for meeting and event planning that includes an online calendar, interactive maps, and invitations.
92
1 year ago
A tool for people to share their connections to people, events, and locations, with a focus on travel.
92
2 years ago
A platform that allows small business owners to create and market coupons to their customers. The platform is growing in popularity for in-person coupon-based events.
91
2 years ago
A new startup helping small businesses like grocers, restaurants, and events get new customers. They say they’ve already generated over $1,000 in revenue from 5 customers.
91
2 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.
91
1 year ago
The startup is building an app for helping meet-up groups book and pay for events.
91
2 months ago
This is a startup that gives people the ability to hire a freelance videographer to film events
91
2 years ago
A startup that connects women to special events and activities around the world, such as virtual tours, culinary classes, and pop-up shops. Women can choose from a list of events and activities and be notified when they’re ready for them.
90
2 years ago
The Startup Grind Philly Meetup is a group of local entrepreneurs, investors, and other startup enthusiasts who regularly gather to talk about entrepreneurship, funding, and startups in Philadelphia. The event is organized by a variety of organizations including the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, The Foundry and the Philadelphia Technology Alliance.
89
2 years ago
A startup that helps people buy inexpensive, discounted tickets to live music, theater, and sporting events. The new company’s founding team is from Ticketfly, a platform that brings together event tickets and other forms of entertainment.
89
2 years ago
A startup that helps you find the best deals on events and tickets by analyzing past purchases
88
2 years ago
A platform for event organisers to sell tickets to tickets for their events, with the typical markup going to the organisers.
88
2 years ago
A startup that connects event planners to vendors to help them get the most for their money.
88
2 months ago
A team of four that wants to build a tool for booking and organizing small group events.
88
2 years ago
A mobile platform that allows people to provide information about local events, or to check-in to events. The company has been in stealth for a year, and was recently accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2019 class.
87
6 months ago
A social network that helps people with disabilities share photos, videos and events with those without. It’s a self-contained platform that helps those with disabilities get social media posts and content out to the world.
87
2 months ago
A social media scheduling platform, again aimed at small businesses, that helps them manage everything from social events, to meetings, to marketing, to sales.
87
2 years ago
A startup that helps small businesses by organising and managing all their local events, from local meetups to trade shows.
86
1 year ago
A platform that allows users to create events and sell tickets online, now in the third round of funding.
86
2 years ago
A platform that helps companies host events, with a large focus on live events. It has a marketplace through which businesses can advertise their events, custom event tickets, and sell tickets to the public. Three big clients include LinkedIn, Twitter, and Visa.
85
2 years ago
Allows users to create a “smarter” calendar, with a focus on things like highlighting “no shows”, removing “redundant” events, etc.
85
2 months ago
A SaaS platform that helps companies create and run conferences, events, and meetings in a scalable way.
85
2 years ago
A Slack-like platform for event organizers, aimed at providing better analytics for event organizers than they can get with the other existing services.
84
1 year ago
A company that builds a way to observe and track the movement of people in real time through a smartphone application. It’s a way to keep celebrities safe at festivals and other events. The founders say they’ve already been approached by several celebrities to use their product.
84
10 months ago
An email service that automatically scans your inbox for any wedding or event related emails and sends the relevant information to your other contacts, so that they can plan accordingly.
84
2 months ago
A company providing a platform for crowdfunding of events, from concerts and conferences to art shows, performances and classes.
84
2 years ago
Startup Grind is a global community that aims to connect entrepreneurs and their startups with like-minded people, resources, and events in order to accelerate their growth. Startup Grind Philly is one of the first chapters based in the United States.
83
2 years ago
OurLive is a startup that wants to become a series of live events that you sign up for and can attend virtually.
83
2 years ago
Celery is a social networking tool for startups and entrepreneurs, created in 2014. It was originally called “Hootsuite for startups” but changed its name in 2016. Celery allows users to plan, track and share information with their community, or network. It also includes a suite of tools for scheduling events and offers a marketplace for connected service providers.
83
2 years ago
Business management for independent professionals, such as photographers, videographers, and event organizers. The startup provides tools for managing work obligations, expenses, and income, as well as coordinating and scheduling.
83
2 years ago
A startup creating a new patent system for the fashion industry, similar to how patents work on music. It wants to prevent knock-offs, but also be used by brands for protection of their business models.
83
2 years ago
A platform that brings the power of social media to event promotion. The startup helps event organizers manage their social accounts, invite people to the event, and encourage them to talk about their experience on social platforms.
83
9 months ago
An artificial intelligence platform that can be used to help predict and prevent the spread of diseases.
83
1 year ago
A startup that uses AI to predict your health, using a mix of data from your medical history and the future to predict your risk for a variety of age-related illnesses. The company wants to use data to provide “preventative care” to people with chronic illnesses.
82
2 years ago
A network of “hackers” that help companies detect and prevent data breaches.
81
2 years ago
A suite of tools to help prevent workplace stress. The company offers a virtual office, a health coach and a network of wellness experts to ensure employees are staying on track.
81
2 years ago
A startup that wants to bring the conversation around current events to the next three billion online users.
81
1 year ago
A platform that curates and tracks news and events relevant to a company or industry, with a focus on India.
81
9 months ago
A bid management tool for the hospitality industry to help hotels, event venues and attractions manage their bids to attract customers.
81
2 months ago
Ticket sales for anime conventions and concerts, with a focus on anime conventions. The startup works with publishers and artists to build events, and has already hosted events at Anime Expo, Tokyo’s Anime Digital Expo, and Anime Boston.
81
1 year ago
A company that sells ‘smart’ access cards for venues/events, allowing guests to swipe their cards, turn on an app, and receive push notifications of things like door status and food and drink orders.
80
1 year ago
A ticketing system for events, such as conferences and sporting events
80
9 months ago
A platform for events to use the blockchain to generate buzz and sell tickets. The startup saw early success in New York City, but they’re looking to expand nationally.
80
9 months ago
A company that helps event organizers and media companies do video interviews on site. VidCon has a large social media following and is known for its early dibs on new media trends.
80
2 months ago
A digital ticketing platform for live events, selling tickets directly to attendees and making it easier for fans to purchase tickets and manage transactions.
80
1 year ago
A tool that helps with all aspects of booking training and events. It helps you find venues, speakers, and attendees, and generates an end-to-end proposal for pricing and payment.
79
1 year ago
A company that does data collection for nonprofit events. The company is going to help nonprofits run better, faster, and cheaper events through a better toolset.
79
1 year ago
A tool to help event organizers attract more attendees and better manage their finances, with features like real-time ticket sales, revenue data, and expense reports.
79
10 months ago
A data science startup that provides tools and services to detect and prevent fraud.
79
7 months ago
A tool for selling tickets to events, where both the buyer and seller can reap the benefits of ticketing technology.
79
1 year ago
A way to create social experiences around events.
78
2 years ago
A mission-based social platform for millennials to discover events based on their interests, follow the ones nearby, and make connections with people in their social networks.
77
2 years ago
A system that prevents people without credit scores from opening bank accounts, thereby eliminating the risk of fraud and identity theft.
77
1 year ago
Winners of the first annual Venture Challenge will get a $1,000 cash prize. The event is being held at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
77
2 years ago
A platform for event planning, a marketing platform for events and marketing, and a video marketing tool for events.
76
2 years ago
A platform for people to place bets on their favorite sporting events
76
1 year ago
A startup that helps users remember and visualize things like their childhood, their favorite foods, and the time of day. The app is like a visual scrapbook and helps users keep track of important memories and events.
76
1 year ago
A "daily deal" marketplace where customers can buy discount tickets to concerts or other entertainment events.
75
1 year ago
A micro-insurance platform for the Southeast Asian market that wants to make sure that medical expenses, trips, and other events are covered.
75
1 year ago
A startup for booking and paying for events, including ticketing and payment processing, with a focus on the B2B space.
75
2 years ago
A startup that wants to take on the role of the concierge, with a live human who can help you book a ride on Uber, book a hotel, or find an event.
74
1 year ago
A company that offers an AI-based process for fraud prevention during the financial transactions process.
74
6 months ago
A mobile application that can be used to get a QR code for your friend's email address in the event of an emergency. The startup is the first commercially available app for getting an email in an emergency.
74
2 years ago
A digital platform that serves as a booking platform for hotel rooms and event spaces.
73
1 year ago
A blockchain startup that aims to bring “fraud” detection to the supply chain, preventing “shady retailers” from selling counterfeit goods.
73
1 year ago
A Y Combinator alum that allows you to visualize the traffic you get from events you’re attending
73
1 year ago
A free service that helps entrepreneurs organize events and meetings
73
2 years ago
A tool that helps prevent cybercrime and spam by flagging suspicious emails.
72
1 year ago
A startup that allows for a smarter way to select or customize an outfit for a formal event.
72
1 year ago
This startup is building a toolset for identifying fake news and hoaxes on the web. It’s a service for news organizations, who can use it to filter out fake news stories and prevent them from appearing on their site.
71
2 years ago
A tool for social entrepreneurs that tracks fundraising milestones and goals, preventing over-promising.
70
2 months ago
The Startup Battlefield has also been judged by the number of companies that have been funded by YC alumni, who are the most successful of the Y Combinator alumni. In the first year of the event, Y Combinator provided around $240,000 in funding to the winning companies in the Battlefield. In later years, that number has climbed to around $700,000.
70
1 year ago
The startup is building its own 2-way messaging service for local groups in the U.S., which it says will help groups organize their events and events organizers get in touch with people.
69
8 months ago
A product that helps people with chronic pain by suggesting medicines that are complementary to other treatments, preventing them from having to stop their treatment unnecessarily.
69
2 months ago
This platform helps hoteliers better manage their event bookings, and has a mobile app that allows guests to rate their experiences.
69
1 year ago
A startup that is building an insider-trading app that has a “whisper mode” that alerts the entire network when an event is happening. It’s working with clients like JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.
68
1 year ago
A streaming video platform for live sports events
68
1 year ago
A startup that allows people to schedule or “book” housing for future events. The startup lets users find available apartments, book them, and pay for them ahead of time.
68
1 year ago
A free online calendar that syncs across all devices. It’s a digital alternative to paper calendars, and uses a scoring system to keep track of upcoming events.
68
2 months ago
A product-marketing platform and software as a service (SaaS) for event organizers and brands. The company has had 15,000 events in its portfolio, reaching 8million people.
68
2 years ago
Startups with a focus on the small business market are a regular feature of Y Combinator, and this one is a real game-changer. EnviroFinder collects data from multiple sources and makes it easy for businesses to see how they rank in their local market, then take that information and “re-market” it to their customers on websites they’ve built. The idea is to help entrepreneurs win at the local level in a way that doesn’t rely on expensive and time-consuming in-person events.
67
1 year ago
A digital ticketing and event management platform, catering to events of all sizes from small meetups to large concerts.
67
1 year ago
A startup that’s creating a new way to arrange catering for events. The company is building a platform that makes it easier for event planners to book caterers and decorators in most major cities.
67
1 year ago
A real-time data visualization platform that lets you build a dashboard to monitor a whole bunch of different metrics or events. This allows companies to monitor or forecast various metrics for their business.
67
1 year ago
A platform that lets you create event tickets without having to deal with printing, mailing, or shipping.
67
11 months ago
A platform for publicisng events, aimed at booking them at the lowest possible price.
67
7 months ago
A comprehensive technology solution that supports the delivery of video content, from broadcast to pre-recorded video to live event video. The startup provides production services, and is another YC alum.
67
6 months ago
In July, the Brazilian government canceled a $500 million investment in Uber. In response, Uber Brazil has been building a team of 150 to prepare for its eventual return to the country.
67
1 year ago
This startup is building a universal tool for “real time fraud prevention” for businesses in the UK.
66
1 year ago
A tool to help nonprofits create their own call-to-action campaigns, by turning their event pages into a call-to-action page.
66
1 year ago
An online business that provides a way to search for and buy tickets to international festivals and events. The startup’s app helps users discover which festivals are coming to their city and allows them to see the line-up and buy tickets before the event.
66
5 months ago
A B2B software company that focuses on all things event management.
66
2 months ago
A list of smartphone apps that offer free or discounted parking spots, and will eventually allow users to select parking spots on their own.
66
1 year ago
A startup that let’s you know what's on your calendar and help you prioritize, and keeps track of events and activities you've already committed to.
65
2 years ago
Idea: A startup that helps you to search for nearby events, and also provides a link to the ticketing page. It’s similar to Eventbrite, but focuses on local events.
64
1 year ago
This startup wants to be the Airbnb of the hotel industry. Its mission: to make corporate events a lot more social.
64
1 year ago
A platform that helps the 500,000 companies around the world with their live events. It helps them find, book and pay for speaking engagements, build an event calendar, and create a speaker’s profile for their attendees.
64
1 year ago
The startup makes it easier for brands to connect with their customers via websites, mobile sites, apps, and in-person events.
64
2 months ago
It’s a way to organize a group of people around an idea, goal or cause. The company’s first use case is organizing meetups and events.
64
1 year ago
A platform that allows users to host their own events online, using a mix of location-based technology to lure attendees and social media to attract attendees.
63
1 year ago
A place for people to find events that work for them. You’ll see a map of the city and nearest parks. You can also add events to a “todo list” and have the map and todo list sync up.
63
1 year ago
A startup that is building an "enterprise-grade" Bitcoin wallet for enterprises. They hope to eventually provide enterprise-ready tools for other blockchains, as well.
63
1 year ago
A startup that helps users register for local events, including concerts, art shows, meetups, and sports games. The startup is growing quickly, with over 30,000 events registered in the past year.
63
1 year ago
A startup that texts college students details about upcoming events, based on their interests.
63
1 year ago
A tool that lets users share their photos and stories from a digital experience on a social network. It’s a way to create a digital scrapbook from a trip or event. It’s been used by celebrities like Pamela Anderson and Jack Black, with a team of four people.
63
2 months ago
A mobile app that allows users to create and customize their own protection orders in the event of domestic violence, to help victims seek protection.
63
1 year ago
A platform that helps small businesses grow by offering training and advice from experts, an event calendar, and a marketplace of services from other small businesses.
62
1 year ago
An events calendar and mobile app for small-business owners to manage their events.
62
1 year ago
A startup that helps users organize their calendars, including reminding them about things, creating to-do lists, and setting up events
62
1 year ago
A platform for businesses to sell and share content that’s been prepared for a conference or event. The startup focuses on the event marketing, rather than sales, side of events.
61
1 year ago
A staffing event management platform and mobile app
61
1 year ago
A startup that lets people book flights, hotels, and events. The startup is building a technology platform that allows people to book flights, hotels, and events together, without the overhead of setting up each separate booking through a separate web form.
61
1 year ago
A tool for planning events with a group of people in mind, similar to a calendar but for smaller groups. The startup is looking to partner with Indian companies that organize team events.
61
2 months ago
A company that provides a new method for selling tickets to shows, concerts, and other events.
61
1 month ago
A company that offers a “hospitality suite” for event organizers, including ticketing, event registration, venue management, and event advertising.
61
1 year ago
A startup that lets companies conduct discovery events and get feedback from a target market in just a few weeks.
60
1 year ago
The startup is building a platform for developers to create tools that help identify and prevent fraud for both consumers and businesses.
60
1 year ago
A startup has built a technology to predict and prevent stock market crashes. The company wants to use its technology to manage the flow of capital into financial markets.
60
1 year ago
A startup that helps bring startup culture to India. They want to help India’s startups grow by providing a hub for community and events. They’re planning to have a physical location in India.
60
1 year ago
Ink is a platform for live events, with a focus on music. Users are able to create and manage their events within one platform and then broadcast these events to the world. Ink also offers a community feature, where users can share content with each other. The company raised $12.5 million, with 23,000 users in 50 countries, and is backed by Lightspeed and Greycroft.
60
1 year ago
A social networking app for people who want to keep track of a series of events or a series of people.
60
1 year ago
A platform that acts as a social network for people to organize and attend events in real life, in the same way Snapchat does for people in their digital social network.
60
1 year ago
A platform which aims to cut the cost of organizing and managing events by making it easy to book riders and vendors, and to collect payments.
60
1 year ago
A way to sell tickets to events by creating a system that allows event organizers to manage their tickets, ticket sellers to manage their sales, and ticket buyers to manage their transactions.
60
11 months ago
A platform for selling and distributing tickets for arts and cultural events in the US and Canada.
60
2 months ago
A startup that hopes to help people build better online dating profiles. It’s building a service that will do the work for you and make your profile personalized, similar to how Groupon, LivingSocial and other startups have done for offline events.
60
18 days ago
An AI assistant intended to help drivers find parking spaces, alert them to nearby events, and even do the driving for them.
60
1 year ago
A ticketing and event ticketing software company. The startup wants to build a platform for events to sell tickets online, as well as a way to sell tickets at non-traditional venues like bars and gyms.
59
1 year ago
A tool that helps companies manage their risk in the event of an injury to a key employee. It estimates the impact of the absence of a key employee and provides advice on what to do.
59
1 year ago
A tool that optimizes how companies plan for customer acquisitions and events
59
1 year ago
The idea is that this is a kind of online “buddy system” that helps people get out of the house and out into the real world. The startup has an event calendar and a forum for users to share what they’re up to.
59
1 year ago
The startup is building a platform for online communities of interest. Currently, it’s a way for people to find events and share recommendations for friends, but it can be applied to other categories like sports, music, movies, etc.
59
6 months ago
A way for people to verify their identity and prevent fraud by checking their identity against a government database, such as a driver's license or passport.
59
2 months ago
This startup helps people create their own products from a single web portal and then sells them online and via in-person events. It currently has over 1,000 users and is planning to launch in the EU in the fall.
59
1 year ago
A tool that helps schools schedule their special events. The idea is simple: it’s a calendar for schools, which students can access to find out about upcoming events.
58
1 year ago
DesiRad is a college group for Indian students in the US that makes it easier to find events and connect with others in the local community.
58
1 year ago
A startup to help people get a mental health checkup by a clinical psychologist after a significant life event, such as a breakup.
58
1 year ago
A social network for women looking to connect with other women to chat, find jobs, and plan events.
58
1 year ago
A web-based marketplace for the sale of used goods. The startup wants to expand into the US and eventually worldwide.
58
1 year ago
A startup that’s building a way to help people book and get tickets to concerts, sporting events, or other events.
57
1 year ago
A platform for hiring people to speak at events. The startup uses its own software, which allows companies to advertise their events, and then lets people apply to speak. The startup says it has already reached $1 million in recurring revenue.
57
1 year ago
A company that helps event organizers organize their events, including venue booking, logistics, and payments.
57
1 year ago
Pitchbook presents two popular pitch events: the "Pitch It" event and the "Pitch It" event.
57
1 year ago
A platform for selling tickets for concerts and sporting events, using a mobile app.
57
1 year ago
A startup for the sales of all kinds of used goods. The startup is hosting weekly events to help people sell goods directly to buyers.
57
11 months ago
A company that uses machine learning to discover and prevent fraudulent users from taking advantage of traditional banking systems.
57
11 months ago
A new way to book weddings and events.
57
1 year ago
A platform to help you find the right products, services, and people to help you plan your wedding and other special events, while also providing you with access to a network of trusted professionals.
56
3 months ago
A device that prevents waste and helps the patient manage their medications
56
1 month ago
A company that rents out space in its facilities in San Francisco and New York to companies who want to host events. The startup recently secured $1.1M in seed money to expand to a larger space in NYC.
56
2 years ago
Embrace is a team of scientists that are working on a way to detect and prevent heart attacks. They’re focused on developing a blood test that can detect a heart attack before it happens so that doctors can treat and prevent it. The startup has raised $84,000 in seed funding.
55
1 year ago
A community building platform that allows communities to create events and provide a calendar interface for their users. It’s similar to events.io in that it helps communities organize events rather than building them from scratch.
55
1 year ago
The company is building an AI that predicts and prevents disease.
55
1 month ago
A startup that’s building a global infrastructure that takes photos and videos at protests and uses them to report on the events.
55
1 year ago
This is a way for people to show up at an event (like a conference) and automatically get access to the speaker’s slides and notes.
54
1 year ago
A company that helps businesses organize their gifts and offers for clients, as well as events and employee recognition, to save everyone time and money.
54
1 year ago
A community-based streaming platform that allows users to host live events from their homes that you can view from the website or mobile app.
54
1 year ago
A ticket management platform that allows artists to manage their tickets on the platform, and sell them to the public. The startup is using AI to help promote artist events, and currently has about $25,000 in revenue.
54
1 year ago
A platform that enables users to buy and sell tickets for events. The startup wants to make it easy to sell tickets for acts like musicians, DJs, comedians, etc.
54
1 year ago
An online subscription service that helps members identify and obtain the best seats for live sporting events.
54
11 months ago
This startup is helping people make money from their car data, by selling information about the cars users drive, like car-related events and gas purchases.
54
10 months ago
A company that helps conferences and events grow by providing an online booking system for its attendees.
54
8 months ago
A platform for creating and managing events for artists. The idea is to bring all the different parts of the artist’s life under one roof.
54
2 years ago
A platform that helps groups of people share information about the same thing, like an event, like a protest, like a job opportunity.
53
1 year ago
A business that helps companies sell and buy tickets to events.
53
1 year ago
A company that wants to help corporations with payments for conferences, events, and other recurring payments.
53
1 year ago
A platform for managing your life with a CRM, contacts, calendar events, and tasks.
53
1 year ago
A cloud-based tool to prevent nursing home abuse by monitoring patient activity and alerting nursing homes if a resident is being abused.
53
1 year ago
A blockchain-powered two-factor authentication provider that claims to prevent phishing, improve user security, and reduce fraud.
53
1 year ago
A personalized health and wellness platform, giving people a new way to learn about their own health and fix the issues that prevent them from achieving their goals.
53
11 months ago
The startup wants to make it easier to buy and sell tickets to events, particularly sporting events.
53
2 months ago
A platform for hosting and managing community events, allowing event organizers to sell tickets and even hold a raffle.
53
1 year ago
A startup that helps you automatically back up your data in the cloud, in the event that the cloud infrastructure wipes out your files.
52
1 year ago
A startup for crowdfunding tickets for shows, movies, and other live events.
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1 year ago
Invites people to organize an event on its platform.
52
1 year ago
A startup that is building a service that will allow people to use their own credit cards to buy tickets to events.
52
1 year ago
A startup that wants to help you run in-person events with “social networking” technology. The company wants to help you plan and sell events, so you don’t have to.
52
1 year ago
A solution that helps companies manage their guest-list and check-in processes and prevent mistakes.
51
1 year ago
A preventive healthcare startup that wants to use AI to help doctors manage patients’ conditions before they get sick.
51
1 year ago
A startup that allows users to buy into conferences and events and pay in bulk if they want a discount.
51
1 year ago
An in-person recruiting company that pulls in employees from other companies to attend an in-person recruiting event, where they can meet with company leaders face-to-face.
51
11 months ago
A real-time news app that helps users stay informed about the latest news and events related to their favorite sports teams.
51
6 months ago
A startup that wants to “break the tyranny of email”. It’s a group messaging tool that allows you to create groups, memberships, and events tied to a single email address.
51
1 year ago
A startup that allows users to connect their email with their social media accounts. The company wants to provide email notifications to users based on social media events.
50
1 year ago
A social network that connects people based on an interest in getting involved in local community events. For instance, if you’re interested in helping to organize a neighborhood watch program, you can connect with people in your neighborhood who are interested in getting involved.
50
11 months ago
A startup that’s creating an “of-the-moment coupon” marketplace. The startup wants to build a marketplace that allows users to buy and sell coupons that are valid for events happening that day, and then print them out at home.
50
9 months ago
A company that connects people with events around the world in the hopes that their events will reach more people
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8 months ago
In 2011, TechCrunch announced the first Startup Battlefield in San Francisco, and the event has grown to become a major tech event for entrepreneurs and investors. This year, TechCrunch is launching two Startup Battlefield events in the San Francisco Bay Area and one in Los Angeles.
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5 months ago
A startup that wants to build a platform for people to buy and sell tickets to sporting events and concerts. They’re already working with the University of Michigan's Big House in Ann Arbor.
50
1 year ago
A platform that helps event planners plan and organize events. The startup wants to build a platform that helps event planners to seamlessly coordinate with all their vendors, from venues to caterers.
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1 year ago
A startup that lets people create profiles, connect with each other, and search for events in their city.
49
8 months ago
A software platform for identifying and preventing fraud on the Web, including identity theft.
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7 months ago
A platform for events and conferences, with a focus on the social aspects of attending events.
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7 months ago
The startup wants to use machine learning to help medical device companies tackle and prevent errors in medication dosing.
49
1 year ago
In 2014, Y Combinator’s summer program accepted 14 companies, with four eventually being launched as companies. In 2015, Y Combinator saw 20% more applicants than 2014, with the startups 35% more likely to succeed. In 2016, the number of companies accepted has been set at 14 by Y Combinator.
48
1 year ago
The startup wants to be the first to bring a product to market that helps prevent boil water advisories by automatically alerting people about problems in their water supply.
48
1 year ago
A company that helps monitor and prevent Medicare fraud.
48
1 year ago
A tool for answering questions about events from multiple sources.
48
11 months 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.
48
11 months ago
A digital alternative to the gym membership that offers fitness classes and events tailored to the individual.
48
8 months ago
A dynamic pricing platform for events. The platform lets event organizers set their prices for different time slots and locations, and lets event-goers buy tickets on demand.
48
17 days ago
A tool that helps manage structured data for events, targeting conferences and other events.
48
1 year ago
A platform for breaking down supply chain data to help companies find labor, physical labor. The company is looking to target manufacturers, who it says are the only group that is currently prevented from putting labor into their own supply chain data.
47
11 months ago
A platform that can help customers find and book home cleaning services, with a focus on cleaning and other domestic services. The company plans to eventually expand it to help them find other services, like babysitting and pet care.
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8 months ago
A place for groups of people to schedule and pay for events.
47
1 year ago
A startup that connects people who want to host an event with people who want to host an event. The startup has a staff of 20 and is based in San Francisco.
46
1 year ago
A startup that allows consumers to buy airline tickets as easily as they buy concert tickets or other events.
46
1 year ago
Working with a lab in Italy, this startup is developing a service to prevent the spread of dengue fever.
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1 year ago
SaaS for event planners, that helps them plan, promote, and manage their events.
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1 year 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.
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11 months ago
A platform that helps companies run meetings, trainings, and events. They’re working with over 200 organizations and have 10,000 paid users and 1 million free users.
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11 months ago
This startup is building a platform to make it easy for online businesses to manage their customer support, and make it easier for their customers to get a hold of them in the event of a problem.
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10 months ago
A way to buy and sell tickets for local events, like movie nights and concerts.
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7 months ago
A platform that makes it easy for others to build on top of it, eventually leading to a platform that can be built on by many others.
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1 year ago
A startup that will help you find events for a specific date, location, or time period. It helps you find events for a specific date, location, or time period.
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1 year ago
A visual calendar that lets you view data from your company, including upcoming events, meetings, and tasks, all in a single place. The startup’s app seems like a mashup of Google Calendar and Trello.
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1 year ago
A SaaS platform for meeting planners to manage their calendars and find new clients. The company includes a scheduling algorithm that uses algorithms to help organizers find attendees who want to meet with them. The company aims to be used in large firms and events.
45
11 months ago
A software-as-a-service platform that analyzes large-scale data streams to predict and prevent fraud.
45
10 months ago
A startup that provides a way to buy and sell tickets to concerts and sporting events. The company plans on expanding its ticket site to include more than just music in the future.
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9 months ago
A digital assistant, currently focused on helping entrepreneurs plan events and prioritize tasks.
45
18 days ago
A startup that helps you track down and co-host a movie or event with others, using a set of APIs. The startup has launched in 4 countries and is looking to expand.
45
1 year ago
A SaaS platform that helps user groups grow by empowering them to manage all of their conference or event logistics.
44
1 year ago
A company that sells solutions for hosting and running private events, with a particular focus on weddings and parties.
44
1 year ago
A product that provides a service that helps hotels and other organizations create, manage and deliver a single, centralized event and event registration platform, with a focus on the hospitality industry.
44
1 year ago
A business intelligence platform that helps companies uncover trends and data that can help predict and prevent fraud, with a focus on the e-commerce space.
44
1 year ago
Pivotal Labs is an investment firm that invests in and incubates startups. They also host a series of events, including the Pivotal Summit and Pivotal Labs Convergence.
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11 months ago
A startup that takes the hassle out of buying and selling used cars. The startup, which is currently in private beta, wants to expand in the US, UK, and Australia, and then eventually Europe.
44
7 months ago
A tool for booking and tracking events such as English classes, chef’s classes, and yoga classes.
44
7 months ago
A startup that lets people buy tickets to live music and other events without having to set up an account with the venue.
44
7 months ago
A startup for watching sports and other live events, with a focus on baseball. For example, MLB.TV provides you with access to the home team's uniform and logo, game schedules, and game stats.
44
7 months ago
A tool for managing and organizing events, from planning to cash flow. The startup claims to be able to help event planners with business planning, a CRM tool, and a way to help your event generate cash.
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4 months ago
A product team building a tool to help companies launch their own events.
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1 month ago
A web and mobile platform for event attendees to connect and book events directly with the event organizer. The company has plans to launch in a dozen cities in the next couple years.
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29 days ago
This is a platform for people to sell and buy tickets for physical events. The company is building an API that allows anyone to sell their tickets through the app, and has sold $2.5 million worth of tickets in the last year.
44
1 year ago
The Y Combinator events also hosted a number of side events with non-YC startups, including a Startup Battlefield event that featured startups from other incubators. As with the main event, startup pitches were split into teams of 4-5 people, which was organized by Y Combinator, the incubator, and the startup. The teams would then have the chance to pitch their businesses to a panel of judges.
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8 months ago
A startup for items that are in high demand, like event tickets, that makes it easier for people to buy and sell their tickets. They’ve carved out 50% of the tickets sold to date.
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1 year ago
This startup is building an app that lets people create their own unique events, which they can then invite their friends to, similar to how it works on Facebook.
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9 months ago
A web-based platform for selling and buying tickets to your favorite baseball, football, basketball, or hockey teams, with a goal of making it easier to get tickets to events.
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8 months ago
A “digital concierge” for finding and booking event tickets
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9 months ago
A tool for selling tickets for events, with a built-in ticket-buying tool and a way to share them across social media. The startup has a $1 million seed round, and has sold $5 million worth of tickets.
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7 months ago
Swing is a service that helps people find events for the community, like a wedding or a trivia night.
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6 months ago
An online tool that helps journalists find accurate and reliable information about current events without sifting through tweets, Facebook posts, and other unreliable sources.
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1 month ago
A web-based tool for scheduling and tracking meetings. The startup is focused on the hospitality industry and wants to help companies and event planners better manage meetings across a variety of areas like food, entertainment, and travel.
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19 days ago
A startup that helps mental health professionals and patients connect over the web. The app is focused on treatment, but it hopes to eventually do some administrative functions as well.
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16 days ago
A platform for booking events, with a marketplace and mobile app that lets event planners book the venue and then sell the ticket.
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1 year 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.
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1 year ago
A machine learning-based chatbot that offers live chat session support and will eventually be able to chat with customers via social media platforms like Facebook.
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10 months ago
Another way to sell tickets to virtual events, with a focus on the health and fitness market
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8 months ago
A “crowdsourcing platform for the creative industry.” Their goal is to eventually make creative collaboration easier, using some of the same tools as Kickstarter.
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8 months ago
As the name suggests, this is a group of people who want to help you find your best friends in college. The company is targeting colleges right now, but will eventually expand to the rest of the world.
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5 months ago
A startup that’s essentially Airbnb for VR. They allow users to host virtual tours of their homes and events in VR.
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3 months ago
A software to help anti-doping bodies manage their information. The startup is building a dashboard that lets anti-doping bodies monitor and track events in real time.
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2 months ago
BizVine is a platform that connects businesses with existing events. It’s used to connect events like the Startup Weekend to their organizers.
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1 month ago
A Y Combinator alum, Cityzen is building a marketplace for events that boasts a 90% conversion rate. The company is also looking to offer a web-based event-planning platform, with a focus on making events easy to organize.
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2 years ago
A startup that sells clothes designed by students of fashion schools and helps them get exposure and eventually graduate from design school
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1 year ago
A platform for buying and selling tickets to theater, concerts, sporting events and conferences. The company wants to make the ticket-buying process simple and to keep the tickets’ value as high as possible.
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9 months ago
A SaaS company that helps customers optimize their returns and prevent fraud.
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9 months ago
A company that wants to help event planners create and manage event registries using a web-based tool.
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9 months ago
“A product that helps you to find events that matter to you.”
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8 months ago
An email service that lets users better select recipients and prevent spam.
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6 months ago
An event-driven service that allows users to create and share their own content directly to your website. It’s a tool that helps you build content, then share it with your audience to drive traffic to your site.
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4 months ago
A co-working space in Hong Kong with office spaces, event space, and coworking services.
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27 days ago
This startup is developing an AI-driven, machine learning-based system that uses data from users’ social media profiles to match them with their ideal matches in a market where black swan events like the US election created a shortage of marriageable men.
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20 days ago
A free app that enables you to stay up to date on the latest news, sports and other events in the Philippines.
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1 year ago
This is what happens when the team behind Meetup, the platform for organizing local events, turns their attention towards the more consumer-focused side of the world. It’s a platform that helps merchants sell directly to their customers and serves as a hub for sales, marketing, and support.
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10 months ago
A video-sharing platform that was created to help people find out what’s happening in their communities, and to help them promote events and news.
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10 months ago
An organization that helps people who are the victims of domestic violence to get the help they need to prevent future events.
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10 months ago
CoSchedule is an online tool for event organizers that allows for better time management for the organization. The site offers an online calendar and a social network for the organizer.
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9 months ago
A company that builds and sells a device “that helps prevent errors and bottlenecks in manufacturing and distribution.”
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9 months ago
Meetup and Eventbrite bought competitor Meetup, so this startup is looking to serve the same purpose for events.
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7 months ago
A startup for parents to organize a school year for their kids, by adding events, keeping track of their progress, and more
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6 months ago
This startup wants to make your shopping experience smarter by tracking what you’re looking at and what you’re buying. It’s based on a lightweight shopping cart, but has plans to eventually build out a more robust recommendation engine.
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6 months ago
A startup that builds on the idea of a home-owner’s insurance policy, but with a focus on preventing fraud.
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24 days ago
A startup that promises to deliver the “cheapest tickets in the city” for all events, from concerts to movie screenings. The startup has made its money off selling tickets to events that would have been sold out.
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14 days ago
A social network for women in the US and India that helps young women find the role models they want, speak to them, organize group events and share stories.
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1 year ago
A digital ledger for e-commerce transactions. The team works on the idea that all of the blockchain apps that have emerged in the last few years will eventually intertwine.
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11 months ago
You can also check out the Startup Chile startup event page for more information about upcoming events and startup gatherings.
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10 months ago
A general purpose computer based on a Raspberry Pi. The startup wants to build a timeline of events that plays back while exporting to a computer.
37
10 months ago
This is a startup that builds software to help companies and governments manage health care. The company claims that it’s cheaper than traditional health care and prevents a lot of errors.
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9 months ago
A decentralized car sharing network that connects customers with vetted, vetted, and vetted drivers. The network can help in the event of an Uber or Lyft outage, and the company has 10,000 drivers and 5,000 customers in the United States.
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9 months ago
The first annual Startup Battlefield took place in 2016, and was hosted by the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive festival. The event brought together over 60 startups from across the United States and around the world.
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8 months ago
A tool for making it easier to book conferences and events online, with a focus on the B2B space.
37
8 months ago
A startup that wants to make it easy for customers to leave reviews and recommendations for events, apps, and other products, allowing for more transparency and trust for those retailers and companies.
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7 months ago
A tool for building mobile apps that integrates with iOS’s Address Book. It’s working on integrating with other apps to let you see profile pictures, and eventually on making profiles a real-time system for figuring out who’s around.
37
7 months ago
A company that helps prevent fraudulent charges by sending text messages to customers when they’re about to make a payment.
37
6 months ago
A search engine for local events like concerts and festivals that shows you how to get there
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5 months ago
A company that builds on-demand physical and digital spaces designed to help people recover from life-changing events.
37
5 months ago
This is a platform for tracking the health of your physical assets. It plugs into existing electronic health records and helps diagnose problems and make proactive recommendations to prevent them.
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4 months ago
A startup that makes it easier for businesses to take customer feedback, create customer events and share customer engagement.
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3 months ago
A tool for setting up emergency events for the homeless, their friends, and supporters. The startup uses a mapped interface to organize people and events, and then helps organize logistics like phone calls, note taking, and transportation.
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9 months ago
A digital platform that helps companies manage their cash flow. The startup has built a platform that can help companies manage cash flow with their suppliers, so they can get paid on time and prevent overages.
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8 months ago
A tool that helps you schedule your time, send reminders, and scan through your email to find the important events and tasks you need to do.
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3 months ago
A tool to help companies fundraise more effectively, including structured events where key people pitch to funders.
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1 month ago
A startup that’s bringing a new type of insurance to the real estate industry. The startup is building a platform that will allow people to insure their homes in the event of a fire.
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10 months ago
A startup that aims to offer a new way for restaurant and entertainment venues to charge an app-based membership system that allows customers to buy tickets to in-demand events at lower prices than tickets would be otherwise. The startup is currently building a test platform for the Los Angeles concert industry.
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9 months ago
A company that helps clients find and book talent for their events. The startup is focused on helping event planners find the best talent for their needs, rather than simply finding talent for hire.
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6 months ago
This B2B company is helping the hospitality industry track the organization of a room, project or event.
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6 months ago
A sort of LinkedIn meets Facebook for event planning. The startup uses messaging and gamification to help people plan events, and then sends them reminders when it’s time to sign up.
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3 months ago
A Hong Kong-based startup that aims to bring in-person recruitment events online.
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2 months ago
The startup has a platform to help groups of people organise events through booking software, a Facebook-like to-do list, and a website to book tickets. The founders are also building an event organiser machine learning engine, which they plan to use to help them build a better booking engine.
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22 days ago
A ticketing app for events, and a way for event organizers to sell tickets online.
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5 days ago
A meetup app that helps small groups and groups of friends to organize events.
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10 months ago
Grovo is building a platform for event organizers, to help them organize and promote events with their attendees. Grovo charges organizers a monthly fee for each event, and aims to make money by helping hosts and attendees to share data on who bought tickets and how much, so the company can segment sales and get more commissions.
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7 months ago
PRPS is building a platform that aggregates data from AI and machine learning and converts it into a visual format that humans can use to predict and prevent failures of things like cars, factories, and the like.
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4 months ago
A way to create a “digital diary” for people to record life events and thoughts.
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3 months ago
A company building an application for iPhone and Android that helps users prevent identity theft, by sending alerts and notifications to users when their personal information is used to make a purchase, and even to notify users when their information is being used without their consent.
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11 months ago
A startup that helps people find and book conferences and events, and helps them get discounts by offering them an affiliate program.
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9 months ago
A platform for companies to sell tickets to events like conferences and workshops, with a focus on educational programming.
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9 months ago
The 2018 edition of the event took place on March 16, 2018, in Austin, Texas.
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5 months ago
A web-based platform for finding a sales associate for a specific task, whether it’s an exhibition, an event, or a store installation.
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5 months ago
A startup that helps you discover and book concerts, local events and activities, and more, without incurring charges.
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3 months ago
A platform for event planning, with a focus on the corporate world. The startup, which was founded in May, has a focus on teams and their needs, with the app allowing them to create events, view reports, and track attendance.
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8 days ago
Intersemi is building a security system for trucks, which uses blockchain technology to prevent tampering.
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6 days ago
A startup that provides an over-the-counter device that acts as a pharmacy, with Internet connectivity and a user-friendly interface. It’s meant to be easy to use, preventing people from having to go to the doctor.
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2 years ago
The event featured the first TechCrunch XR (extended reality) Hackathon in which teams built VR and AR experiences using HTC Vive and Facebook’s Oculus Rift VR headset. The event also featured a Startup Alley in which the most promising startups from the 2019 program showcased themselves to investors, mentors and press.
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9 months ago
This company aims to deliver a “superconcierge” service that helps people with things like travel, events, and other tasks.
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6 months ago
The Y Combinator “demo day” event is a major launchpad for program companies. It takes place in January each year at Y Combinator's offices in Mountain View, with companies pitching their ideas. The event is open to the public and takes place on-site.
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5 months ago
A platform for people to “know” about their friends and family, for those looking for events, people to know about, or anything else. The company uses algorithms to scan your social media profile and help you know if your family or friends are safe or in danger.
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5 months ago
A social network for people who want to make and share photos at the same time. The startup says it has already hosted over 1 million photo-based social events.
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27 days ago
A platform that helps event planners and developers manage travel, lodging and event expenses.
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10 months ago
This is a platform for event tickets, offering the ability to sell tickets for parties and events that later convert into a Facebook group.
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9 months ago
This is a service for selling cheap tickets to events, it’s a cheaper alternative to Stubhub.
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8 months ago
A medical device that makes a doughnut-shaped balloon around a person’s finger, helping to prevent blood clots. The device is currently in Phase 1 clinical trials.
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6 months ago
A software company that builds software for running events, and helps event organizers save money and time by automating certain parts of their job.
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5 months ago
A version of Airbnb for restaurants. The startup offers a way for restaurants to set up a listing and accept reservations, and to group reservations into a calendar of events to manage.
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5 months ago
A company that provides a new type of security software that works like a lock (that you can't physically lock yourself out of). The idea is that it prevents people from editing their own content, and also helps to prevent fraud.
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2 months ago
A digital portfolio that lets creatives show off events and projects, and lets others see what you’ve worked on.
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10 months ago
A cloud-based tool for handling the creation and management of community events. The company is currently in beta for a handful of cities, including Pittsburgh.
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7 months ago
An interactive video dating app that lets you create your own personal events and search through the profiles of others.
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5 months ago
A tool for planning and coordinating a conference, conference call, or meeting. It allows you to invite attendees to the event, schedule times for the event, and manage speaker and panelists.
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5 months ago
A live-streaming platform for covering major events and political campaigns.
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8 months ago
A startup that’s trying to collect and analyze data on an algorithmically-generated “human genome”, with the goal of eventually using it to improve medicine.
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7 months ago
CollaborateLive is a platform for video conferencing and screen sharing that allows businesses to conduct video interviews with customers and prospects. It’s also a way for startups to hold virtual events, with one-hour slots available for $15.
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6 months ago
This startup is building a decentralized, open-source content distribution network where people can contribute video and photos from events and then share them throughout social media and the web
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5 months ago
A business that creates live streaming video platforms for dog shows, and other events.
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4 months ago
A startup that connects groups of friends to meet up, this startup wants to help people organize and plan their events.
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3 months ago
A personal assistant that helps a person with daily tasks and also integrates with their calendar to remind them of upcoming events.
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2 months ago
A startup for event planners, meaning that instead of organizers having to find venues, they can say “I’m hiring for this event” and then have a venue finder come to the organizer and match them with the best space.
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29 days ago
A startup that lets you easily browse and find tickets for events in your area, such as comedy clubs and concerts, and then purchase them online.
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9 months ago
A search and discovery engine for events and activities, with a focus on helping event organizers connect with people in their area, utilizing local recommendations.
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4 months ago
A web platform that lets people find out if their friends are coming to their local events as a way to get them to get more involved in the event.
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4 months ago
A platform for people to buy and sell tickets for events. They already have tens of thousands of tickets on their site.
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3 months ago
A Boston-based startup that’s building a way to store and organize restaurant and event reviews so that they can be accessed at anytime, anywhere.
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10 months ago
This is a platform that allows people to build a custom social network with a wide range of different types of users, like families, groups, or people of a particular interest, like the board game Risk. Eventually there will be a “universal” platform that allows people to build a custom social network, which will be valuable because custom social networks can grow faster.
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6 months ago
A startup that tracks the data that can be used to predict future events based on historical data. The startups founders say they have already proven the accuracy of the Georgia Tool Company’s algorithm that predicts earthquakes by looking at past earthquake data.
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6 months ago
A digital, real-time view of your sales pipeline. The startup lets you set up sales events, track leads, and visualize how sales are progressing.
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4 months ago
A team that’s built a technology platform for live streaming events, built on top of a large database of what’s called a “Super Fan Database”. The Super Fan Database is a database of people who are the most loyal to a brand or organization. The application allows for organizers to use the database to reach out to users and incentivize them to attend an event.
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4 months ago
A platform for planning and managing events, including music festivals, conferences, and conferences.
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1 month ago
A crowdsourced database of data and events. The company’s founders say that the database is “most trusted data source” in the US.
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8 months ago
A startup that is building a global marketplace for people who want to run their own events, from yoga and meditation retreats to conferences and training sessions. The startup wants to provide local organizers with tools to conduct more events.
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4 months ago
An on-demand marketplace for renting out commercial kitchen equipment for wedding catering, events, and other use.
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28 days ago
A startup that makes it easier for fans to discover, buy and share tickets to live music events. It’s an SaaS app that is used by the likes of Grizzly Bear, Fleet Foxes, and Dead & Company.
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7 days ago
This startup is building a tool to help lawyers draft documents and agreements in a way that’s clear and concise, but also in a way that’s legally precise. The founders created their own law school in 2014 and now run the firm as a for-profit business, but they plan to eventually make the tool available to all lawyers.
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5 days ago
A general meeting-planning tool that allows people to schedule and manage events, including setting reminders and tracking the progress of each attendee.
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2 years ago
Idea: Make the business of event planning less of a hassle
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2 years ago
A startup for meeting planners and event services. A software company that helps companies manage their capital, cash, and expense budgets. A SaaS company that provides companies with an easy way to predict how much inventory they will need to order. An online marketplace that connects hotel merchants, small businesses, and other groups with the company’s hotel partners. A solution for real-estate brokers to manage and share MLS data securely.
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10 months ago
A startup that helps people maximize the use of their company’s assets, such as event spaces, meeting rooms, and the like. The startup is looking to help companies with everything from finding events to booking those events to workflow that would allow them to book the spaces themselves — and then taking a portion of the booking fees.
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6 months ago
A startup that offers a membership service that allows users to get access to premium content and events from exclusive publishers. The service allows members to get one-to-one meetings with publishers, which they then can discuss their needs and preferences with the publisher.
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4 months ago
A platform that helps event producers like promoters and event organizers with selling tickets and managing events.
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3 months ago
A company that sells premium “experience sharing” tickets for concerts, sporting events, and other live entertainment. The company takes a percentage of the ticket price, and helps augment the experience with extra services like food, drinks, and other extras.
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3 months ago
A startup that wants to be the place where people buy and sell physical products. It’s currently having trouble finding a funding partner to eventually take it public.
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5 months ago
A startup that allows people to book concerts and events. They are working on building a platform that can be used on mobile devices and applications.
