Ever Startup Ideas

11 months ago

A supply chain management tool for small businesses that manages everything from physical inventory to internal supply chains. The service is aimed at businesses with under 100 employees and is currently in private beta.

500

2 years ago

A browser extension that tracks the cost of your everyday items (fries, cup of coffee, etc.) over time and cross-references this data with the Starbucks menu. In addition to the main purpose of tracking your coffee expenses, the tool also allows users to find out if they are spending more than they should and how to cut back.

475

1 year ago

A fitness app for everyone, not just professional athletes. The app helps users track their daily activity and exercise goals.

461

2 years ago

Build a database of every tree in the world, using satellite imagery.

422

2 years ago

“Together, dreamers and doers can do more than ever before.” It’s a “startup for humanity” that wants to provide rapid solutions that “help change the world for the better”

408

2 years ago

A startup that wants to turn every conference room into a training room, and track fitness progress for employees.

299

1 year ago

The company offers a platform where you can order and deliver a meal from a restaurant you’ve never heard of before.

281

1 year ago

A startup that wants to make it easier for restaurants to find chefs. It says that 10,000 chefs are searching for jobs online every day.

251

2 years ago

A startup that aims to help people with severe anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues find the resources they need to get better

217

5 months ago

A marketing platform for small businesses looking to leverage social media and e-mail marketing to build their brand and drive ROI.

198

1 year ago

A company building a browser extension that adds web-based editing to Microsoft Word, enabling users to do everything from adding images to creating tables and charts.

192

1 year ago

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

190

1 year ago

A startup that uses AI to create images of everything from mountains to people's faces

188

1 year ago

Pitchbook, a media company that covers the venture industry, has released a list of the top Y Combinator companies to watch. It includes several companies from the summer batch, including the following:

188

2 years ago

A startup that sells a kit for people who want to do the things they have always wanted to do but never had the time to do

181

2 years ago

This startup wants to be the Netflix of dating. It wants to connect couples by matching them based on what they’re looking for in a partner. It also wants to keep track of everything couples do together.

174

1 year ago

A platform to help companies control and manage their entire supply chain. The company wants to aggregate data on every step in the supply chain, create a comprehensive map of it and manage it all from a single dashboard.

169

1 year ago

A startup that sends users a box of physical books for every month they sign up for.

169

2 years ago

A monthly subscription service that sends you an e-book on a topic you’ve selected every month. The company launched in December, and is signing up more than 50,000 new subscribers every month, the founder tells me.

167

2 years ago

It’s a lifestyle music service, where you can access your library from any device and listen to the music in whatever order you want. You can also pay for a subscription to get access to a wider library.

166

1 year ago

A food truck that turns every meal into a voucher, for use at any restaurant. The startup wants to make food more efficient, so that everyone can eat more.

162

1 year ago

This startup is building a new way to work that allows you to quickly create a virtual meeting room for your team (with audio, video, and other features) and then broadcast it to whoever is interested.

162

2 years ago

The startup is building a marketplace for social and environmental benefits that companies can offer to their customers. The idea is that companies can leverage these “social benefits” to boost the loyalty of customers who want to do the right thing.

161

2 years ago

The list, in reverse-chronological order.

159

1 year ago

A company that makes it easy to get started with your own mobile marketplace, selling everything from your couch to your prized mementos

157

2 years ago

A “social media productivity tool” that helps you get everything done by prioritizing tasks and scheduling them out.

154

2 years ago

This startup is building an automatic repair system for the Internet of Things, a term for everyday objects with sensors and connectivity.

153

1 year ago

A tool for restaurant owners and employees that helps them with the everyday tasks of running a restaurant. With the app, you can order takeout, track tips, and review your shift.

152

2 years ago

A loyalty app driven by a points system. Loyalty points can be earned and redeemed at over 3,000 retailers including Target, Best Buy, and Whole Foods. The startup says they are adding new retailers every week.

150

2 years ago

A startup for finding and “following” people you’ve met, using data from all your social networks and identifying the people you’ve never met.

149

1 year ago

The startup wants to build a “third-party insurance-for-everyone” platform that offers affordable health insurance. The startup has already built a network that serves around 200,000 people in the US and has raised $3.5 million.

149

2 years ago

A startup that provides a tool where people can subscribe to a service that sends them a box of 5-10 items every month

148

2 years ago

A startup that makes a product called “The Wig”, a wearable device that can tell you if you have a fever or not by reading your face

148

1 year ago

This startup wants to replace the traditional broker model with a commission-free, network-based system that brings together buyers and sellers. The startup says it already has several dozen clients.

148

2 years ago

A startup that has built a tool to help legal professionals create an agreement and execute it without ever leaving the browser.

147

1 year ago

An API that helps companies that are not Amazon Prime members see how much they spend on Prime every month.

147

2 years ago

A platform for managing your entire spend, tracking your bills, managing your expenses across different payment systems, managing your accounts, and making it easy to compare everything against each other.

144

1 year ago

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

144

2 years ago

A startup that sends you a new razor every month.

143

1 year ago

A supply chain management platform for restaurants and other food-related businesses. Growth is strong and the founders say they’re trying to make a dent in the $8.5 trillion food and beverage industry.

143

2 years ago

The startup is building a platform to record and store every single note an employee takes.

142

2 years ago

This is “a healthcare startup for the world’s largest democracy” – India. It aims to help patients get their prescriptions filled at the lowest prices possible, and is already working with several pharmaceutical companies in India for a $3 million revenue run rate.

142

2 years ago

A company whose goal is to bring better health to all people, leveraging emerging technologies to help people get more out of their health care.

141

2 years ago

A third-party insurance company that offers $0 monthly premiums to customers who pay in full every month.

141

2 years ago

This app helps users manage their time, organize tasks, and set goals. Users can track their hours, hours worked, and hours remaining, and be alerted to when they need to be at work. Users can also set goals, like working more or less, or getting more tasks done everyday.

140

1 year ago

A developer platform for building and managing software applications. The company is launching with one product, but plans to scale across several verticals.

140

2 years ago

If you own a home in the US, you can log into an app and see what the utilities are costing you in real time. However, the founders say that households throughout the world can benefit from a similar application.

139

1 year ago

The company wants to make negotiating harder than it already is by providing a simple, searchable interface for employees to search the market for best deals on everything from Amazon Prime subscriptions to a new suit.

139

1 year ago

A startup that does "reverse auction" for restaurant, bar, and retail seats. It charges a fee to the seller for the listing, and pays the buyer a percentage of the sale price.

138

1 year ago

A payments startup that helps merchants accept all major credit cards by charging them the same price. PayMill charges the merchant a flat 2.5% fee for every credit card transaction.

138

2 years ago

A Texas-based startup that provides a service that allows anyone to buy anything with Bitcoin, including buying everyday items.

137

2 years ago

A startup that provides a service where it sends you a box of healthy food every week and you can pick it up at a convenient location

136

2 years ago

An executive assistant that makes scheduling meetings, calls, and everything else easier.

136

2 years ago

A new service to help users find and manage tech tools, services, and gadgets they use every day.

136

2 years ago

A company that’s built a software platform to translate a user’s text into a computer-readable language. It’s already in use by several Fortune 500 companies.

134

2 years ago

A software company for building apps with Facebook Messenger. The startup has built apps for the likes of Unilever and Airbnb. It’s a platform for chat bots, and allows companies to build chat bots in minutes.

134

2 years ago

A startup that sells a $100 smart plug that does everything from controlling the lights in your home to allowing the owner to read text messages on their smartphone from anywhere.

134

2 years ago

A startup that’s building a tool to help companies create an online studio for virtual, remote teams. The startup wants to help companies have a team wherever they are. It’s a platform for companies without 3D graphics talent to create virtual environments and use them for video conferencing, live training, and more.

134

2 years ago

This is a photo sharing app that lets you send your friends a “snapshot” of whatever you’re looking at. The startup monetizes via selling advertisers the ability to target specific geographic areas or high-traffic areas.

133

2 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can pay a monthly fee and then they are assigned a personal assistant who helps them with whatever they need

132

2 years ago

This company is building a way to leverage the 50 million unclaimed American Express rewards cards that are sitting in a dormant state, unclaimed. The company wants to make it easier for companies to manage those rewards cards.

132

2 years ago

According to a report by TechCrunch, the San Francisco based coworking space, WeWork, is looking to raise another round of investments at a valuation of $8 billion. WeWork has been growing rapidly, and has been a major success in the US. However, the multi-billion-dollar valuation has not been met by the pace of growth, and many question how sustainable it will be.

132

1 year ago

A startup for small suppliers of everyday office supplies (like computer cables or paper clips) and small businesses to buy and sell them.

131

2 years ago

This list does not include every startup that has accepted into YC, but only the startups that have launched since the program started.

130

1 year ago

A startup that helps make your everyday tasks more efficient, such as scheduling a meeting, creating a shopping list, or tracking a package.

130

2 years ago

An all-purpose tool for both small and large businesses, for everything from invoicing to asset management. The business is currently doing $20M in annual sales.

129

2 years ago

A digital agency that helps companies manage their social media, PR, and digital marketing. The startup is aiming to tackle the gap between everyday businesses and the marketing departments that need to manage them.

129

2 years ago

InstaCart is a service that can move a consumer’s shopping cart from one website to another, or even to a competitor. That means customers can buy products from Amazon, Walmart, and other retailers without ever leaving the site.

129

2 years ago

A mobile app that allows customers to book services from home doctors. They’re also focusing on providing privacy for health services, by ensuring that the doctor never sees the patient’s name, phone number, or address. The company is currently working with a hospital in NY.

129

2 years ago

An “organic social network” for concerts, sports, and events. It’s like Eventbrite for everything.

128

2 years ago

A $30,000 investment in a machine that turns raw coffee beans into a beverage.

128

2 years ago

A startup that wants to help employers manage the ever-expanding amount of “digital content” they need to produce.

128

2 years ago

A startup that provides people with umbrellas that can expand in diameter if it starts to rain so they don't need to get an umbrella for every rainstorm

127

2 years ago

This is a platform for on-demand home services, like plumbers, electricians, and everything else.

127

2 years ago

A startup that helps Chinese companies grow overseas by leveraging the data on their Chinese customers to target them in the US

127

2 years ago

A single app that lets you manage all of your work, from payments to invoicing, to taxes, and everything in between.

127

1 year ago

A startup that connects companies with people who want to enter the service industry. The startup says they have $1 million in monthly revenue and have hired several staff since YC.

127

2 years ago

A startup that is building an alternative repository to Airbnb for people to find rentable resources This includes everything from homes to lawn mowers, from the startup’s own website

126

2 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier for employees to work remotely. The company is testing with small and medium sized businesses, and says it’ll be available for everyone in 2020

126

2 years ago

Lever provides a free, open source platform for all kinds of digital content including documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and even video. Lever is transforming the way people collaborate and learn.

126

2 years ago

A startup called eCredentials is building a connected ring that stores and connects to your medical records, and lets you keep track of changes and see a history of everything you’ve ever had done.

126

1 year ago

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

126

1 year ago

The startup is building a service that helps companies like consumer goods companies like L’Oreal, Unilever and Nestle create products that can be customized for local tastes. The startup works with companies to create their own version of the company’s product that is customized for the consumer by taking it to market.

126

2 years ago

As a person’s social circle expands, it gets harder to keep track of old and new friends. Fellow is a service that helps you keep track of everyone you know, and share them with others.

125

2 years ago

One of several startups that are building alternative work schedules that let people swap out their hours for the week. They all basically pair an employer with a local worker who can come in for extra hours in exchange for a small fee or a flat rate.

125

1 year ago

A productivity tool that helps you organize your “EBOOK” (everybody’s not always on Facebook) in a more efficient way, allowing you to set goals that are more effective and meaningful.

125

2 years ago

A startup that connects users with local experts to help with everything from home projects to personal finance.

124

2 years ago

A digital platform that provides what its founders call a “dynamic ‘recipe’—a step-by-step process that guides users through every step of the creative process from start to finish.”

124

2 years ago

A startup that wants to compete with the likes of Yelp and Uber with a streamlined, all-in-one platform for restaurants and small businesses. It’s a one-stop shop for everything from customer scheduling, to sales and marketing, to communication between staff and owners.

124

2 years ago

Artsy is building a peer-to-peer platform that leverages the best art curators and artists to help connect buyers with sellers and sellers with buyers. The startup is building an artist marketplace that allows artists to connect directly to buyers on the platform.

124

2 years ago

A company that wants to fund and manage the creation of new content in the form of online videos or podcasts. It is backed by former CNN president Jonathan Klein and has raised $7 million from investors and is already active in several markets, including the UK.

124

2 years ago

A company that lets you “quickly build out your own restaurant”, with a kit that includes everything you need to get going.

124

2 years ago

A tool for managing and growing your email list. If you ever wondered how to harvest your email list and use it to grow your business, Jato is an easy solution.

124

2 years ago

A platform that helps you make never-ending, premium video content for your YouTube channel. It allows creators to generate content and not worry about the ad revenue.

124

2 years ago

This company is a cloud-based loyalty program that rewards users for everyday purchases, like a cup of coffee or a movie ticket.

124

1 year ago

The startup wants to use machine learning to make sure everyone in the United States gets food stamps.

124

2 years ago

A platform that helps people find the right property for a vacation or retreat. The company is focused on creating a full-service vacation rental in every coastal rental market.

123

2 years ago

"We believe that the world’s 2.5 billion farmers deserve access to information they can trust. We believe that everyone deserves an opportunity to improve their lives. We believe that, in the long run, this is good for the planet."

123

2 years ago

A tool for organizations that want to manage their data. The founders say they’re working with several large companies.

123

2 years ago

Postmates for the well-to-do is a new startup that’s launching in Chicago in September looking to deliver food and beverage at a higher price point than its delivery competitors. It’s currently testing out its service in the area around Lincoln Park, Chicago.

123

2 years ago

A way to help fast food restaurants manage the waste they produce in their kitchens and on their premises. For every burger they’re able to cut, the startup is able to feed a human in need.

123

1 year ago

The startup is building a social network for people who love to cook, with an emphasis on making it a place where everyone can learn from each other’s cooking.

123

2 years ago

A company that helps automate supply chain processes for companies in the food and beverage industry. The startup’s software allows manufacturers to build a single, dynamic, supply chain plan, and it can adjust based on changes in demand and supply.

122

2 years ago

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

122

2 years ago

A startup that wants to build a platform for managing and organizing your entire digital life. It’s a way to keep things organized on all your devices, including a “calendar of everything” that can be accessed from any device.

122

2 years ago

In the past year, the startup has grown to have over 500 media outlets and over 1,000 reporters and editors, covering everything from sports to politics, and local to international. They’re aiming to grow that to 10,000 members and double the number of journalists that cover the news.

122

2 years ago

This is a startup that helps companies find and engage with influencers in their market. They have a few clients in the likes of Unilever, Samsung, and others.

122

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.

122

2 years ago

The company’s founders say they plan to push a “geo-federated” app to help people spend time virtually in a place they’ve never been.

121

2 years ago

This startup aims to make a hiring tool that is “instantly accessible and easy to use” that can “make every hire the right hire”. They have 1,000 happy customers and are profitable.

121

2 years ago

A job board for sales and marketing jobs, attracting 300,000 new jobs every month.

121

2 years ago

A mobile app that helps people track down the best restaurants nearby for whatever occasion they are looking to host.

121

2 years ago

We have been taught that investing is for the financially sophisticated. But SICAV’s goal is to make it simpler, more transparent and more accessible to people everywhere.

121

2 years ago

A simple app that lets you order a car from a ride-sharing company without ever leaving the app.

121

2 years ago

A startup that helps people track the progress of their projects; it wants to be the go-to app for everyone from athletes to artists.

120

2 years ago

A startup that makes a sensor that attaches to the outside of buildings and measures the humidity and temperature for every room. The startup is currently working with a handful of commercial buildings across New York City.

120

2 years ago

This “new era of vending machines” wants to help grocery stores sell beverages at a lower cost

120

2 years ago

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

120

2 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire someone to do grocery shopping for you but the twist is that they will only buy one of everything so you don’t have to worry about extra stuff taking up space in your fridge

119

2 years ago

“A new type of data marketplace, we are creating a marketplace where you can buy and sell your data. Everything from your browsing history to your location data, and from your health data to your social media data. We are building a data marketplace that enables you to monetize your data.”

119

2 years ago

A startup that is a virtual assistant app that tracks everything you need to do and reminds you of it throughout the day

118

2 years ago

This app is a replacement for spreadsheets. The app helps users manage every aspect of their finances, including contracts, invoices, and approvals. The startup offers a monthly subscription fee for the software and gives users a free trial period.

117

2 years ago

A tool to help people understand their finances, in the form of an app that takes a person’s income and expenses and tells them how much to spend each month. The startup is also building a tool to help people understand their credit scores, and is working with several credit scoring agencies.

117

2 years ago

A market research app that helps companies understand the wants and needs of their consumers better. It’s paid for by a company like SurveyGizmo or SurveyMonkey that charges a small fee every time a survey is completed.

117

2 years ago

The startup says it’s a better version of the traditional “pay-once-and-get-everything” package that’s popular with consumers, which works well for a lot of products but can be hard for more high-tech products.

117

1 year ago

A tool that helps shoppers find the best price for a product online, out of whatever retailers are offering at the moment. The startup is based in the U.K.

117

2 years ago

A startup that sells a service where they send you a text message every day with a new quote or thought to get you thinking

116

2 years ago

A startup that’s building a personal assistant for people across the world, and has conducted interviews with over 100 individuals for the role. The company wants to build a team that’s available 24/7 in every part of the world.

116

2 years ago

The co-founders of the company Seers are trying to undo the stigma of the “office dog”. They had their first pup, Mitzi, on the playground of Spotify's offices, and the company asked them to bring her to work. Now, she’s a dog who visits office visits from time to time to make sure that everyone is having a good time.

116

2 years ago

Amazon Alexa has invaded every household in the US. The company wants to make the device even more useful, by adding a voice-controlled interface for apps.

116

2 years ago

A tool that helps businesses track inventory for their e-commerce site, which is the dream of every store owner but impossible to do manually.

116

2 years ago

A platform for making custom beverages.

116

1 year ago

A platform that brings the strength of professional trading systems to the everyday investor.

116

2 years ago

A startup that is building out a system to help people invest in both the stock market and their own homes, with a goal of making investing affordable for everyone.

115

2 years ago

A place where you can find courses in the US on everything from wine to yoga to machine learning.

115

2 years ago

A startup that wants to make sure that every part of your company is on the same page.

115

2 years ago

Founded in 2015, Y Combinator is a Silicon Valley-based startup incubator and seed fund. Y Combinator has invested in several companies that have gone on to raise hundreds of millions of dollars. It has also had several companies drop out of its program.

114

2 years ago

A media company that provides videos for doctors on evidence-based medicine, and for patients on everything from how to take their diabetes medication to how to use a wheelchair.

114

1 year ago

A logistics platform for food-delivery services. The startup’s founders are now working with a number of food and beverage companies in the Bay Area, including Temescal Brewing.

114

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.

114

1 year ago

A startup where people can create and share their own videos to be used as a free marketing tool. The startup is working on a video series called Inside the Box, which follows a different startup every month as they grow.

114

1 year ago

Free-to-play game that’s essentially a “Neverwinter Nights” clone, allowing players to create their own character and craft their own story. Their goal is to allow players to create entirely unique experiences. The game will launch on Steam later this year.

114

2 years ago

A startup that helps brands leverage influencer marketing and endorsements using a platform that pairs up brands with influencers

113

1 year ago

Nimbix is a startup creating a platform for employees to give better feedback on their managers. The company is currently in talks with several companies to use its platform.

113

1 year ago

A tool to help people organize their to-do list, allowing them to see everything they need to do at a glance.

113

1 year ago

A startup for freelancers to offer their services, with everything from programming to writing.

113

2 years ago

A digital payment platform that allows consumers to pay with their accounts without ever entering a card number.

112

2 years ago

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

112

1 year ago

A startup that’s building a “frictionless” marketplace for buying and selling everything from cars to houses.

112

2 years ago

A tool for buyers to find sellers of certain items, like appliances or cars, and get a quote from several sellers at once.

111

2 years ago

A software company that helps companies with legal needs to manage everything from legal agreements to legal research.

111

2 years ago

An enterprise software company that works with local governments and educations systems, pitching its product as “the one app for everything.”

111

2 years ago

A startup that provides a tool to help small businesses quickly launch their own mobile apps. The company says it’s currently working with 1,000 businesses and is currently in talks with several others.

110

2 years ago

A startup whose product is a secure private messaging app. In an environment where everyone is worried about their privacy, the startup wants to make messaging private and secure.

110

2 years ago

A mobile app that helps people find their friends and family in a community, and you can share what you’re doing with them in real time, without sharing everything.

110

1 year ago

A digital wallet for small business owners that keeps everything in one place and lets them create recurring billing and recurring payments.

110

1 year ago

A news app that leverages the power of a crowdsource. The app gives people the chance to help build a story by adding and aggregating information.

109

2 years ago

A platform that helps people “find and share the best deals” for everything from gym memberships to long-distance driving.

108

2 years ago

A tool to help people track their expenses on the web. It’s currently pre-beta, however.

108

2 years ago

A company that allows people to fly from city to city without ever having to catch a plane.

108

2 years ago

A company that aims to help companies track spending for every product they ship and identify opportunities to reduce costs.

107

2 years ago

A startup that helps people who don’t have access to a bank account get one for free. The startup has partnered with several major banks to allow customers to open accounts even without the usual documentation that banks require to authenticate.

107

1 year ago

A tool to help employers make sense of ever-growing mountains of data in HR.

107

2 years ago

This startup helps businesses accept payment in cryptocurrency through a platform that breaks up transactions into small, everyday transactions that are easier to process.

106

2 years ago

In addition, there are several other fast-growing startups that are also still working their way through the Crunchbase database, including:

106

2 years ago

A company that lets you use the internet to buy and sell everything from iced coffee to air mattresses to motorcycles.

106

2 years ago

A startup that sells a tool where you can have a virtual assistant send you a message or email whenever a specific set of keywords is mentioned on Twitter

105

2 years ago

A new take on digital advertising that seeks to take over the desktop space. The founders say it’s the first product that can put advertising on every desktop screen. It’s also intended to be a “frictionless” experience for users, removing the need to navigate multiple ad networks or pay for ads.

105

2 years ago

A startup that wants to take your credit card data and have it automatically pay your bills, so you never have to pay a late fee.

105

2 years ago

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

105

1 year ago

The startup does everything from selling pallet racks to making sure your Facebook is not blocked.

105

2 years ago

A platform that helps developers of internet of things devices get their software into the hands of end users. The startup is focused on the “Internet of Stuff”, or the internet of things — a technology that allows everyday items to be connected to the internet and have their state monitored.

104

1 year ago

A productivity tool that helps you organize the ever-growing amount of content you create. The startup builds a “knowledge base” of all your content in an easy-to-use interface.

104

2 years ago

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

103

2 years ago

A platform for artists to share their work, connect with fans and find gigs. It’s a storytelling platform, but what makes it unique is that it’s open to everyone.

103

1 year ago

In the spirit of the “Uber for X” model, a startup that aims to “turn every car into a self-driving vehicle” for ridesharing services.

103

2 years ago

A startup for short-term rentals of commercial space. The company is currently working with a number of US cities and is in talks with several others.

102

2 years ago

A social platform for a new generation of sports fans. The company wants to attract the casual sports fan who never watches their local teams on TV, but enjoys following them online. The startup is currently in YC Summer 2019.

102

2 years ago

A startup that makes it easier for restaurants to manage their supply chain through a single software tool. The startup is trying to take on the role of the general contractor, managing everything from inventory to ordering to delivery.

102

1 year ago

The startup holds a patent on a new type of printing process that uses a liquid to transfer the ink to the paper, eliminating many of the problems with traditional printing. The startup now wants to take that technology and apply it to the production of everything from paper to fabric.

102

1 year ago

This startup makes a device that measures skin temperature and runs the numbers to help a patient determine if they have a fever.

102

2 years ago

A complex, distributed system that turns your phone number into a digital identity. It aims to provide a digital identity for every person on the planet, allowing them to access online services.

101

2 years ago

A digital time machine, building on the seed money of $20 million in funding from investors. The company wants to get to the year 2045, “one hundred years from now” with every product, every service, and every interaction being digitally recorded and stored for posterity.

101

2 years ago

Inseego is building a tool to help people build and customize their own online shop, a platform to help builders show off their work. The company is working with several builders and has built a custom shop on Shopify for a client.

101

1 year ago

This company is building a way to add gender-neutral language to websites and applications. It’s a way to extend the gender-neutral language that’s already been created for things like vacation rentals or the LGBTQ community by defaulting to “them” whenever they’re not specified.

101

1 year ago

A startup that wants to make revenue from content by selling it to other companies, so that every time you watch a TV show on Netflix, you're contributing to the company's bottom line.

101

2 years ago

This is a new “virtual assistant” app that allows people to hire a personal assistant on demand. They handle everything from scheduling meetings to emails to helping with travel arrangements.

100

1 year ago

A desktop app for managing files. If you’ve ever tried to find a file on your Mac, you’ll probably agree that it’s a pain.

100

1 year ago

This app enables consumers to access over 50,000 books by reading on their mobile device. It’s meant to be a library of all the books a reader has ever read, and all the books they'd like to read.

100

2 months ago

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

100

2 years ago

Managed software to help HR professionals manage employee relationships. Works like a personal assistant, handles everything from HR processes to employee benefits. The startup has raised $1.25 million in seed funding from the likes of Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan.

99

2 years ago

America’s digital magazine is a digital magazine that is central to its mission is to cover the changing landscape of the media industry, and how technology is affecting it. Since February 2014, it has published a new issue every other Thursday and has a print-on-demand model, so subscribers receive their copy directly.

99

2 years ago

This free service lets customers track every step they take on their website. The company charges a fee for more advanced analytics, but the free version is very popular.

99

2 years ago

A company that makes it easier for developers to build apps for every device they can imagine: phone, tablet, tv, car, etc. The business is bootstrapped and has had a $1.3M in seed funding.

99

2 years ago

This health data startup aims to make it easier for people to track their fitness data, and leverage that data to improve their health and wellness.

99

2 years ago

A company that makes a device that lets you “reverse engineer” your phone to see what’s on the other side.

99

2 years ago

A SaaS platform for managing data that helps scientists and researchers conduct research. The startup helps scientists find the right resources, and connect to them in ways they never could before.

99

2 years ago

Nextbit wants to deliver Android in a way that lets you take your phone with you everywhere. It cuts down on background apps and syncs only the apps that you want to use with your phone. Available on Android and iOS.

99

2 years ago

A company that wants to build a service that lets you call up an Uber-like app whenever you need a ride anywhere. The service would give you options for the type of car to be used and then would let you track the car’s progress.

99

2 years ago

Record your thoughts, and then share them with anyone in the world without ever leaving your couch.

99

1 year ago

A way to find and book your Uber driver faster than ever.

99

1 year ago

A platform for sharing the messages and pictures people send between different devices. Users can share pictures or video on their Facebook, Instagram, or whatever account and have the files be instantly available on other devices.

99

2 years ago

A startup founded by Apple alum, which aims to make it easier for people to clean their devices. In exchange for every $10 the company makes, it donates $1 to environmental causes.

98

1 year ago

A tool for managing the chaos of information in a busy household. The app lets you track everyone’s schedules.

98

2 years ago

An HR platform for startups and solo founders, offering a way to track progress on team building goals, and check in on how everyone is doing day-to-day.

97

1 year ago

A way to make paying taxes easier, with a tool that lets you pay your taxes in a way that’s more efficient than the IRS’ online tools. The startup also wants to make the tax process more predictable and transparent by providing a taxpayer’s tax form for every state, and giving an estimate of what the liability is.

97

2 years ago

A free app that lets users create “Mystery Boxes” for their friends. The app helps you send your friends a message that includes a link to a product or experience you’ve never tried before. The recipient then has the option to try it out for free without having to buy it.

96

2 years ago

A startup that wants to create a unified messaging platform for every device in a person’s life.

96

2 years ago

A tool to help people create easily sharable images, using a simple drag-and-drop interface. Because of the way the attention economy works, every one of your images is worth more to someone else than to you.

96

2 years ago

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

95

2 years ago

A startup using AI to help companies and individuals find the best price for everything from auto insurance to life insurance.

95

2 years ago

(Note: This is an ongoing list, and I’m adding to it as soon as I hear about new startup pitches every week. I’ll keep updating when necessary.)

94

1 year ago

A way of organizing parts of your life in a way that makes sense, allowing you to “organize everything in one place, and all the right things are right where you need them.”

94

1 year ago

A new way for companies to manage their supply chain, including everything from specifying products and manufacturing processes to shopping for the best rates from suppliers.

94

1 year ago

A startup that wants to make it easy for every person to have a personal assistant.

94

10 months ago

A platform to help companies manage and track their safety and security needs, which can include everything from fire safety to accessibility standards.

94

2 years ago

A startup that works with the insurance industry to help streamline claims procedures, saving companies from having to send thousands of paper denial letters every year.

93

2 years ago

A mobile app that helps people find the best deals on local flights. The startup is already seeing 1,000 downloads every week and is expanding nationally with a $500,000 investment.

93

2 years ago

A tool that lets users make their own GIFs. The startup sees it as a new way of communicating online and wants to make it easy for everyone to create and share GIFs.

93

1 year ago

A health insurance, retirement planning, and investment platform. The company is building a full stack product, taking everything from claims to investment management out of a user’s hands.

93

2 years ago

A Y Combinator alum is building a system to help companies build their own enterprise-grade mobile apps, saving them from having to build everything themselves.

92

1 year ago

A subscription business that sends you a box of everything you need for a vacation, including items like wine, cheese, and a new toothbrush.

92

1 year ago

A platform for making custom-fit clothes. The startup wants to make clothes that are custom fit for every body, and not just one size.

92

1 year ago

A bank card that pays you for every ride you take on Uber and Lyft.

92

2 years ago

A startup that wants to create a universal code of conduct for employees, so that companies can be sure they’re following the same rules for everyone.

91

1 year ago

It’s a subscription based service that sends users a new piece of content every week.

91

2 years ago

The startup is working to create an interface for the entire world’s supply chains, creating a single, centralized map that can be used to track and manage everything from production to delivery.

90

2 years ago

A web-based service that aggregates and provides access to public data about real estate, letting people search for information and data about everything from price and listing inventory, to property tax rates and construction information.

90

2 years ago

A log analytics company that wants to turn the data from the billions of rides taken every day by its customers into actionable insights for its customers.

90

2 years ago

A credit card linked to your bank account, like a debit card with your bank’s approval. The card can be used everywhere the bank accepts credit cards. The startup has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from a single investor, Andreessen Horowitz.

90

2 years ago

Everyone has a friend or acquaintance that they’d like to loan money to, but they have no way to do so. MoneyBroker does just that, pairing people with other people in need of cash with those who have funds to give. The startup has already raised $2.5 million and is currently on-boarding more than 2,000 users a month.

89

2 years ago

A company to help online retailers in China tackle the country’s ever-present counterfeit goods problem. The startup offers services such as in-store analytics, product testing, and education.

89

1 year ago

A cloud-based platform that leverages crowdsourced content to improve translation services for businesses and organizations.

89

9 months ago

A startup that has started a program to make sure that every employee has a green light to leave their job and go on to another job. The idea is that it can be a good way to keep employees from jumping ship to a competitor.

89

2 years ago

A company that builds a platform for employees to apply for and manage their own benefits. The service started out as a way for employees to manage their health benefits, but it is now being used by employers to manage everything from work-from-home policies, to retirement plans, to tuition reimbursement.

88

2 years ago

A B2B company that aims to help B2B brands with marketing and sales by leveraging the power of B2B data and CRM technology. They have customers including Royal Bank of Canada and American Express.

88

2 years ago

If you ever needed to take a picture of your data, this is the app for you. The camera-based app allows you to take pictures of your data and export it to a spreadsheet.

88

2 years ago

A mobile app providing users with recommendations on where to eat in their city based on their location. The company says it processes over 20 million restaurant reviews every month.

88

2 years ago

A mobile app that creates “personalized news, alerts and recommendations for every user” — a sort of personalized news, or “Facebook for you”.

88

2 years ago

A communication and collaboration tool that compiles everything from your calendar into a single location. It’s meant to help an employee manage all their communication and project management needs.

88

7 months ago

A startup that provides digital wallets for everyday purchases that work across different markets.

88

2 years ago

A data-driven company that makes a program that helps people pay their utility bills every month. The startup is focused on helping customers keep their utility bills at a minimum.

87

2 years ago

While the idea of a self-driving car might look like far-fetched science fiction, the reality is that the technology is already at work on the roads of the United States and Europe. However, it is still too expensive for consumers to access. The startup, which is still in stealth, is working to make the technology accessible at a consumer level.

87

2 years ago

A way to track every action you take on your phone — from every app, to every game, to every message you send — and turn it into a data-driven game engine that lets you play games without the need for a giant library of content.

87

1 year ago

This startup is building a platform for brands and agencies to build and customize mobile games with the goal of making it easier for brands to leverage the power of mobile.

87

1 year ago

This startup is building an app that helps you browse and buy clothes in a world where it’s hard to find a style you like. At launch, the app will feature over 1,000 brands from across the world, but the plan is to expand to everything.

87

2 years ago

A software platform that helps companies leverage data from their existing CRM and marketing platforms to augment their marketing efforts.

86

2 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for people to share their experience of buying a home. The startup (now with $750,000 in funding) wants to leverage its existing platform to be a broker for homebuyers, selling the service to other realtors.

86

1 year ago

The company’s founders speak of a future where the internet of things (IoT) and the internet of everything (IoE) converge, allowing users to control the devices in their homes directly from their phones.

86

1 year ago

A clever way of connecting e-commerce orders to the physical goods they are for by using a “touch and pay” system. The startup’s system is built for vending machines, and it works in a similar way to Square or PayPal. The startup says it has closed $5 million in funding.

86

1 month 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.

86

1 month ago

A company that’s building an analytics dashboard for the cannabis industry that allows users to see everything from production data to sales figures.

86

2 years ago

Fusion is a real estate software company that allows real estate agents to list their listings online and receive notifications whenever a home is sold.

85

2 years ago

A startup that wants to turn the internet of things into a powerful business tool. The company, founded by former GE engineers, wants to build a platform that combines everyday objects into a platform that can help with manufacturing, distribution, and inventory management.

85

10 months ago

This is a platform that helps companies that want to start a business in a location they’re not in, find an employee in that place and work together remotely. They handle everything from recruiting to HR to employee pay, with the employee paid the same rate in their home country as the company is. The company is profitable, with $2M in recurring revenue and $1M in ARR and growing.

85

25 days ago

A “personal assistant“ that leverages AI to provide human-like responses on voice and text based messaging platforms.

85

2 years ago

Builds on the Chariot ride-hailing app for major cities in North America. The company says it’s adding more and more supply every day.

84

1 year ago

-Two-factor authentication, much like Google Authenticator, but for every service, including cloud-based software and device apps.

84

1 year ago

A machine learning startup that builds innovative software to help people learn and save money on everyday purchases.

84

1 year ago

A video chat product that allows you to call up a video, group chat, or voice call with friends from your phone whenever you want.

84

9 months ago

In the last year, we’ve seen the creation of several new VC-backed startups, many of which we expect to grow into companies worth $50 million or more in the next year. (A few are already there.) Here’s a look at some of the most promising:

84

2 years ago

A startup that’s building a personal assistant that helps you out organize your life. The platform aims to be the one assistant that does everything for you.

83

2 years ago

The world of finance is changing dramatically, and there’s a lot of confusion around how new technologies like fintech will impact financial services. Fintech can take the form of apps, startups, and platforms, or it can be composed of a mix of all three. Fintech is a catch-all term that can include everything from cryptocurrencies, to artificial intelligence, to machine learning, and more. Fintech startup solutions help companies navigate these changes.

83

1 year ago

A startup that helps employees stay protected with a phone app that sends alerts to their phone whenever there’s an important message from their employer.

83

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.

83

8 months ago

A new way to conduct meetings that lets everyone take notes, share them instantly and even collaborate with others.

83

7 months ago

A credit card that tracks expenses and awards points for every dollar spent.

83

2 months ago

This startup is building a platform for investors to make investment decisions on AI-powered portfolios. The company says that it wants to democratize AI investing, in order to make it more accessible to everyone.

83

1 year ago

A platform that allows teams to collaborate on their code without ever needing to leave Slack. The company has already raised $3 million in funding.

82

1 year ago

The startup delivers everything you need to get started with your brick-and-mortar store on Amazon.

82

1 year ago

A tech startup whose product is a home-based network of technicians that fixes your home’s issues or installs equipment. The company says that since it launched in early 2019 it has already had several million dollars worth of work.

82

2 years ago

People are tired of waiting on hold for customer service, so they’re putting their calls into a queue to be answered and retrieved. The startup is aiming to be the de facto customer service app for the next generation of companies, and says it’s already working with several major companies in the space.

81

2 years ago

A travel booking app for the US market that’s focused on building long-term relationships, rather than creating new reservations every time. It features a single price which is then split between their members.

81

1 year ago

VentureBeat has won several awards, including a 2015 Webby Award for Best Mobile App, and a 2016 Webby for Best Digital Business.

81

2 years ago

A platform that helps companies search for product concepts by leveraging their e-commerce data.

80

2 years ago

A tool for creating and sharing custom image files for social media. The startup is looking to make it easier than ever for brands to create and share the right promotional images.

80

2 years ago

A company that helps companies in developing countries get banking services. They’re currently in talks with several banks in India.

80

2 years ago

A remote control for your coffee machine, allowing you to brew the perfect cup every single time.

80

2 years ago

A startup that helps companies manage and track their supply chain with a software platform that creates “an inventory of everything”.

80

1 year ago

A way to buy and sell everything from a car to a house. They’re focused on the mom-and-pop home remodeling market in the US

79

1 year ago

"FastCo" lists the top startups in the world every year. The list is based on revenue, but also factors in the startup's presence on other "fast-growing" lists, including those published by "Forbes", "Inc." and "Forbes Europe".

79

1 year ago

A startup that offers a subscription service for small businesses that comes with a free package of everything you need in order to set up your business.

79

1 year ago

A shared grocery shopping service that lets you buy items for someone else at a discount, with a promise of never having to run out of things again.

79

1 year ago

A shopping service for large retailers that serves as a “digital concierge”, helping shoppers find everything they’re looking for, and ensures they get it, including delivery and returns.

79

2 years ago

A new app that aggregates everything from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube to allow you to find a specific song or video, plus the biggest trending songs and videos.

78

2 years ago

A tool for people to track and visualize their financial transactions. The startup is building the platform around the idea that people don’t want to track everything, but they want to track their finances.

78

2 years ago

A company that wants to change how people pay for electric vehicles. It’s currently working with several large corporations and making a name for itself in the space.

77

2 years ago

A startup that helps employers find and mobilize employees faster than ever. It’s a cloud platform for recruiting.

76

2 years ago

This August, TechCrunch reported that Instagram was in talks with Facebook to acquire the company for as much as $1 billion. Instagram, which was founded in 2010, is based in San Francisco, and is a popular photography app that has more than 300 million users around the world. It was acquired by Facebook in 2012, and Facebook has since used Instagram to promote its other products, including Instagram Stories, and advertisements. Instagram has been a big investment for Facebook, and many think it has been one of the company's most successful acquisitions. However, Instagram's popularity has led to a lot of negative press coverage about the user data that Facebook has access to.

76

8 months ago

A startup that wants to help online merchants and other businesses grow their audience through video. The company claims that it’s been able to acquire 1,000 new customers for its customers every month for the last four years.

76

1 month ago

Launched by former Googler Ricardo Baeza-Yates, who led Google’s mobilefirst, responsive web initiative, this startup is building a search engine for everyone, with a focus on helping users find great content from the world’s most trusted sources.

76

8 months ago

A company that takes photos of everything, then turns them into a library of product imagery that can be used to sell products online.

75

2 years ago

If you’re a regular user of Basecamp, you might like the new Slack integration that lets you do almost everything you can do in Basecamp using a Slack channel. The startup is building a Basecamp for the Slack crowd.

74

2 years ago

Cofounder of the company, a former financial industry analyst, began researching the fintech industry in 2017. She found a dearth of female founders in the space. In her startup’s pitch deck, she highlights several female founders as part of the company’s advisory board.

73

2 months ago

A startup that helps companies get better leverage out of their brands, especially on social media.

73

2 years ago

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

72

1 year ago

A business that seeks to create the next generation of data reporting for agencies, which are tasked with crunching the numbers on everything from city budgets to loan applications.

72

1 year ago

A startup that wants to build a decentralized banking system. The founders say that banks are creating systems that are too expensive and too clunky to be used, and that the market is underserved — especially by credit cards, which are used by everyone in the world, but for which there’s no good way to transfer money across borders.

72

1 year ago

A startup that aims to build a database of every person in American history, a database that would someday have a search engine that could find out, for example, where a person’s great-great-great-great-grandfather was born.

72

2 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for organizations to manage a portfolio of digital and physical assets. The startup wants to help companies manage everything from physical files to web assets to partner websites.

71

2 years ago

OpenTable was ranked the #1 startup in the category of “Food and Beverage” in the Inc. 5000 ranking of the fastest growing private companies in the US in 2018.

71

1 year ago

A platform for sharing, selling, and trading everything from cars to houses.

71

1 year ago

E-commerce site for America’s small towns, offering everything from electronics to home goods. The company is looking for more partners to grow the business.

70

2 years ago

A startup for people who want to donate their old home appliances, furniture, and other items for reuse. The startup says that in the US alone, more than 10 million items go unused in storage every year.

69

1 year ago

San Francisco-based startups, the city is famous for being “the capital of startups.” However, in recent years, the city has begun to lose its startup scene to other locales in the Bay Area, particularly Oakland, San Jose and San Francisco itself.

69

8 months ago

A startup that helps people pay bills with their phones. The startup is already working with several hospitals, but already has its first “acute care” customer.

69

7 months ago

A platform for the new, heavily-interconnected world of AI. The startup wants to allow artificial intelligence to leverage the data it’s constantly retrieving from the internet.

69

2 years ago

The startup aims to build a global network of systems integrators who can leverage its platform to help companies with other integrations, including those that require products to be manufactured overseas.

68

1 year ago

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

68

1 year ago

This startup is building a platform that allows filmmakers to work on productions that are in different stages of development, enabling them to make the most out of every moment in the cycle.

68

1 year ago

This startup makes a credit card without annual fees or a credit limit. Customers can pay as much or as little as they want each month and never be charged interest or fees.

67

1 year ago

A product that helps people better measure their credit score, with the goal of making credit accessible for everyone.

67

8 months ago

A company that offers a “one-stop shop” for companies to manage everything related to HR and payroll.

67

2 years ago

A company that helps food trucks get paid for food that was previously ordered but never delivered, taking the hassle out of money transfers and payments.

66

6 months ago

As it stands, nearly every startup has a website or a blog. This tool allows you to create a website or a blog for your company, product or idea. A tool to help you create a website, blog or app.

66

1 year ago

Everyone is doing it: Amazon, eBay, Walmart, then you have Home Depot and Lowe’s. But Meijer, a Midwest-based retailer that operates grocery stores and a number of other retail chains. Meijer is looking to use the e-commerce trend to stay ahead of its rivals and has begun selling products that haven’t been available in stores in the past, like wine and cheese.

65

11 months ago

A startup to help people make good financial decisions by presenting them with an income forecast for every month of a job and helping them see how much they need to save for retirement.

65

1 month ago

A company that builds software to help companies track the performance of their food and beverage teams, as well as their overall restaurant operations.

65

1 year ago

A P2P service that lets you borrow money from your friends to fix your car, fix your leaky roof, or do whatever you need to do.

64

1 year ago

A company that aims to be the “Google Maps” of the sharing economy — a place to look up and rent everything from homes to cars to storage units to vacation rentals.

64

1 year ago

A startup that’s looking to make a white paper for every financial transaction, enabling business and regulators to make sense of it all.

63

1 year ago

The founders have a vision of a world where everyone can pay rent or a mortgage, and have a constant stream of income without having to get a job.

63

1 year ago

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

63

1 year ago

A startup that helps companies track everything they’re spending on marketing, with a dashboard for key insights.

63

1 year ago

This startup does a reverse image search for a person or a company, and can tell you when a photo was taken, where it was taken, and the person or company who was in the photo.

62

8 months ago

In the next several years, traditional brick and mortar stores might start to be replaced by online shops, like Zara and H&M. But instead of going to an actual store and waiting in line, online shoppers can order and pick up products from home in mere minutes. Joy is building a way for online stores to connect with customers and handle inventory for them, giving shoppers with no employees the experience of shopping in person.

62

2 months ago

A software platform that helps SMB’s and teams in their B2B sales process by offering a seamless user experience, a centralized view of sales pipeline and appointment management. Everything is available in the cloud and is at the speed of a real-time CRM.

62

2 years ago

Idea: A home security system that leverages a camera that’s focused on the door to see when someone is coming in.

61

2 years ago

A video analytics company that can be used to track and improve everything from a salesperson’s performance to the effectiveness of a training program.

61

1 year ago

A way to leverage AI to perform custom formulas on data sources

61

1 year ago

A startup that wants to use machine learning to predict the next trends in fashion. The startup uses machine learning techniques to predict everything from what style will be popular next week to what brands will be the most popular in 3 years.

61

1 year ago

A startup that wants to reverse the trend of technology companies closing manufacturing facilities in the US, and instead bring manufacturing back to the US.

61

5 months ago

A food and beverage startup that wants to provide a way for restaurants to track and manage their inventory in a centralized database.

61

1 month ago

Unilever is using AI to make its detergents more environmentally friendly. The company is using artificial intelligence to predict how much detergent a person needs, based on their behavior and preferences.

61

1 month ago

A start-up that hires people to drive for Uber and Lyft, providing them with a $1,000 bonus for every 5 rides.

61

10 days ago

A tool for managing your email inbox that lets you move everything to a single place for easy archiving.

61

1 year ago

Telling people’s stories is great, but not every story is worth telling—at least, not all the time. This startup is trying to make it easy to tell your stories, but only when it’s a good idea.

60

1 year ago

A startup that allows you to keep track of your billable hours on every project.

60

1 year ago

A startup that’s building a platform that’ll enable you to give a speech, or even just share your thoughts with the world, without ever having to write something down.

60

11 months ago

A system that allows companies to build a “virtual sales force” of employees with specialized skills, which they can set as “on-demand” or “permanent”, in order to best leverage their talent.

60

2 years ago

A travel service that leverages machine intelligence to anticipate your needs better. It takes into account past similar trips and predicts your next trip in real-time.

59

1 year ago

A startup that wants to build a social credit system in China. They say that if you’re the type of person who might not be able to get a loan in China — like someone living in a rural village — then your credit score will be pretty low. The startup wants to build an online platform to expand the reach of credit scores to everyone.

59

1 year ago

In 2016, SVFI raised $3.6 million from several prominent investors, including Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, SV Angel, and Lux Capital.

59

1 year ago

Connects with a user’s Evernote account to create a pivot table, with a map or a list.

59

1 year ago

People in the US are getting older, but the cost of healthcare is rising faster than the CPI. This startup wants to make healthcare affordable for everyone by merging technology with universal healthcare.

59

1 year ago

A ‘productivity assistant’ that helps users get more done by connecting everything from email to calendars to files.

59

7 months ago

A company that sells a series of “smart” tables, with a companion app that lets you create and manage schedules, while allowing you to send out notifications to everyone in your group.

59

1 year ago

A company that helps users create and send virtual gifts to their friends and family, with a promise that it will never expire.

58

1 year ago

An online U.S. farm management tool that gives farmers access to real-time pricing information from their peers and the market to help them make better decisions on everything from crops to livestock.

58

1 year ago

A startup that’s creating a digital concierge service for everyday tasks. The company hopes to expand into household services, driving their business model with the same $1 per month fee they charge for their concierge service.

58

1 year ago

As of November 2017, Tastebuds was a top-2 startup in the food & beverage category on AngelList. Tastebuds is building a way to share tasting notes, recommendations, and experiences in a social network for restaurants.

58

1 year ago

A business that helps companies create and test new products. The startup takes the form of a virtual office that helps clients test new product ideas on everything from mobile apps to hardware.

58

11 months ago

Uptime is a software company that helps IT teams monitor and fix their network equipment. The startup takes a “no-cost, no-hassle” approach to fixing all kinds of problems, fixing everything from broken routers to server backups.

58

1 year ago

A B2B startup that aims to provide a B2B version of Slack, which would allow companies to create channels for everything from HR to marketing. The startup is currently only in the pilot stage.

57

1 year ago

A company that gives companies a platform to create marketing campaigns from a suite of resources they can leverage.

57

1 year ago

A tool that will help students learn how to code, using a code-based framework to teach everything from HTML to CSS to JavaScript.

57

1 year ago

A software for helping businesses monitor and control their energy use. The startup uses IoT technology to reduce energy use in businesses and ensure that every watt is used effectively.

56

1 year ago

A B2B startup that helps companies transfer money to emerging markets, by leveraging the global network of cash transfer organizations.

56

1 year ago

A company that makes a nearly-unbreakable, bendable charging cable. The company says they’ve seen their cables get dropped, stepped on, and run over multiple times by cars and trucks and they’ve never snapped or even bent.

56

2 months ago

A digital platform that brings the DIY spirit to everyday products.

56

2 months ago

A mobile-first, peer-to-peer lending platform. They say they’re working with some of the top 10 US banks and are adding more every week.

56

1 year ago

A startup that is offering a graphical way to explore the world’s most epic landscapes in 3D, including the Alps, Everest, and Kilimanjaro. It’s an easy-to-use 3D modeling platform that lets users build their own worlds, or explore places like Machu Picchu, the Great Wall of China, or the Falkland Islands.

55

1 year ago

This startup wants to let people pick up items from stores and drop them off at home, giving them a chance to earn extra cash without having to haul everything around themselves.

55

10 months ago

This company wants to build a platform where every household can be equipped with a low-cost device that can detect imminent threats like fires and carbon monoxide.

55

10 months ago

The startup will use its software to help companies track their employees’ time. It provides a real-time map of what everyone is doing, like seeing which employee is in a meeting with a client, which employee is checking in with a new client, and how much time they spent on each task.

55

7 months ago

A building-materials startup that delivers everything you need to build a house

55

2 months ago

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

55

1 year ago

A tool for scheduling remote work sessions. The startup hopes to be a one-stop shop for remote work scheduling, helping companies and remote workers find dates and times that work for everyone.

54

1 year ago

A startup that connects “everything in your life, from your fitness tracker to your fitness coach,” according to the website.

54

10 months ago

Evernote says it is building “a new type of tool” that lets you automate tasks like tracking donations, managing media, and keeping track of important people.

54

9 months ago

A startup that leverages machine learning to help people who have anxiety and depression more easily know how to cope with their condition. It’s meant to be a self-help tool.

54

8 days ago

The Chief Executive of an Israeli company meets with Israeli startups for six months every year. He’s also been on a mission to improve Israel’s startup ecosystem and recruit more startups to Israel.

54

1 year ago

A health care startup that creates a doctor-patient relationship before a doctor is ever contacted.

53

1 year ago

An AI-based startup that lets you listen to your favorite songs without any advertising. However, the company has not yet launched any products or services.

53

1 year ago

“We’re a real estate tech company that helps real estate professionals get paid.” The startup wants to help people lease out their homes and get paid — and make sure everything is done in compliance — all in real time with a mobile app.

53

1 year ago

A 3D printing service for businesses, which promises to bundle all the 3D printing services together so customers can find everything they might need under one roof. The 3D printing startup, which was founded in September 2018, is based in Silicon Valley.

53

1 year ago

A small startup that’s trying to make everyone’s meal a little bit healthier.

53

1 year ago

A company that lets you tag the notes you take on your computer by voice. It’s a product of a collaboration between the founders of the video editing app Snagit and the note-taking app Evernote.

53

11 months ago

A company that helps users manage their money using a mobile app. The app does this by sending alerts to users whenever certain things with their accounts change, such as when a payment is made.

53

1 year ago

Blockchain-based invoice financing for startups, which uses smart contracts to allow companies to leverage their own cash flow to finance new acquisitions.

52

1 year ago

A system for tracking every aspect of a person’s fitness, including sleep, hydration and more.

52

1 year ago

A digital platform that helps companies with everything from marketing to sales, with a view to helping it evolve into a full-service marketing agency.

52

1 year ago

A startup that aims to “make it easier for everyone in the world to have a home internet connection” with a hardware product that plugs into an electrical outlet.

52

1 year ago

A platform for small businesses to sell and manufacture goods, with a focus on food and beverages.

52

1 year ago

The app claims to have built the “first-ever AI bot to talk to your landlord”.

52

1 year ago

This list is not a comprehensive list of every startup in the region. We have excluded startups focused on a single vertical in a city, startups founded in a certain part of the world, and startups that are only based in one city.

52

1 year ago

A startup that provides a digital assistant to help with the everyday tasks on your to-do list. It helps you organize your schedule, pay bills, plan your meals, and even get personalized recommendations for restaurants.

52

1 year ago

A company that helps TV networks "create and monetize their own exclusive shows, even without a network, by giving advertisers the ability to sponsor and advertise wherever their programming appears."

52

1 year ago

The startup is building an “Uber-for-airport-bookings” that aims to make booking flights easier than ever. It’s first product is an iOS app that lets you book rooms at hotels through your phone without the hassle of having to book offline.

52

4 months ago

An idea from a co-founder, the startup is a tool to make software development easier for the non-technical people on a team, which often includes everyone from customer support to marketers to sales.

52

1 month ago

A video service that uses the same system as YouNow to let every creator get paid for their live broadcasts.

52

1 year ago

A startup that helps retailers manage the “last-mile” of their business, selling anything from everyday items to large appliances.

51

1 year ago

A social network for the “smart, social, and stylish” user, built on the premise that everyone has a story to tell and that people will share that story if they’re beautiful.

51

1 year ago

A video platform that aims to bring the immediacy of Twitter to video. Users can receive notifications whenever someone tweets about them, and can share their own videos back to Twitter.

51

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.

51

1 year ago

A health app that lets users track everything from their fitness to their moods

51

1 year ago

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

51

1 year ago

A company that helps companies like Unilever, Nestle, and PepsiCo in Brazil track their shipments to make their supply chains more efficient.

51

11 months ago

This is a “notary” app that combines a notary, a photo scanner, and a blockchain for improved security. The app leverages existing QR technology to give notaries a faster, more secure way to verify documents.

51

7 months ago

A startup that guarantees that every customer that walks in the door is spoken to by a human. Does this solve a real problem, or just create a job that no one wants It certainly sounds like an absurdly good idea, which is why we’re giving it the “idea” tag.

51

1 month ago

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

51

16 days ago

A tool for managing multiple organizations with a single account. "Everything listed above, but for business."

51

1 year ago

A startup that makes it easy to pay for things through your phone, leveraging the phone’s GPS, camera, etc.

50

1 year ago

A startup that helps companies leverage their data and connect it to their own internal data to automate and streamline processes.

50

1 year ago

This startup wants to make sure you never miss a call from your boss or a client again. The startup’s app lets you see when someone’s calling you on your phone with a “call waiting” feature, and make it easy to connect with them.

50

1 year ago

A startup that helps governments issue tax-exempt bonds in an environmentally friendly way. The company uses blockchain technology to track everything from who owns the land to who owns the building to who owns the certificates.

50

1 year ago

A way for people to chat and share photos on their Android phones without ever having to leave their apps. It’s a chat app that’s always on and can be used with a 3G or LTE connection.

50

3 months ago

A software suite for managing and managing employee communications and instant messaging (IM) for companies. It can centralize customer service and communications, allow for intelligent routing and scheduling, and keep everything within the same app.

50

12 days ago

Riders are able to opt into a premium service that provides drivers with a car, insurance and savings on every ride. The idea is to create a community of drivers and riders that share in the cost of car ownership.

50

1 year ago

The startup offers a tool for companies to make their own custom, branded products, using a 3D printer and a factory in China. The company has partnered with Unilever, United Parcel Service, and Chipotle among others.

49

1 year ago

A product that brings together the capabilities of a CRM, CRO, and CRM software, with CRO capabilities that help companies track and optimize everything from sales and marketing to customer service and operations.

49

1 year ago

This startup helps companies ensure that the customers they’re losing never come back.

49

1 year ago

As part of the BizCloud startups program, this company’s idea is a simple spreadsheet that makes it easy for people to organize their business ideas in a way that benefits everyone.

49

1 year ago

A software-as-a-service platform for building and training AI models. Their software is used by the likes of Google, Facebook, and General Electric and their training services are used by companies like Unilever and Disney.

49

1 year ago

An investigation tool that helps healthcare facilities track the cause and severity of infections, and ultimately reduce the number of patients going to the hospital.

49

1 year ago

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

49

1 year ago

A new way for universities to leverage their name brand in their recruiting, using algorithms to pair it with their students’ grades and other information.

49

1 year ago

A way for anyone to build an app for their network of friends. Everyone can build the exact app they want, from the look and feel, to the functionality, and get it out to the world.

49

11 months ago

A startup that turns everyday objects into impulse buys, with a home decorator-like service for shopping and buying things you don’t need but want.

49

10 months ago

This startup helps companies keep track of their employees’ health insurance needs. The startup takes a commission of every claim paid, which it says is roughly 25%.

49

8 months ago

The startup helps retailers and brands promote their product by leveraging their customer data.

49

1 month ago

A startup taking the existing Evernote API and creating a service that lets people share notes in other apps.

49

13 days ago

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

49

1 year ago

Ever the entrepreneur, Aaron Hinkley (of 25% Happier fame) co-founded a new startup, Arana, with his wife. It’s an online platform focused on promoting and discussing the benefits of meditation in a way that’s accessible to everyone.

48

1 year ago

A company that helps companies set up and manage their physical and virtual offices, and handles everything from room and board to mail and maintenance.

48

1 year ago

This startup helps companies manage the traffic at their physical stores, including everything from displays to staffing.

48

1 year ago

A startup that helps farmers get more out of their sales. The founders say 80% of farmers they work with have never used a website before.

48

1 year ago

A startup based in New York City that aims to kill the email inbox forever by creating a tool that allows users to “scan and organize” their email inbox, creating an “out of sight out of mind” mentality that could help people focus on the most important things.

48

1 year ago

In addition to everything on this list, there were also a handful of other companies that were pitched that I didn’t write about.

48

1 year ago

A real estate startup that’s been around for several years, but is just getting press this year

48

5 months ago

A startup that aims to put on a conference for everyone for $1.

48

1 month ago

The company’s pitch: “You have no idea how much time and money you're wasting every month with your gym membership.”

48

1 year ago

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

47

1 year ago

An iOS app by the founders of the popular Evernote business note-taking app that allows users to write and save notes on their phones.

47

1 year ago

A company that wants to make sure it’s getting a fair deal on everything it buys online, such as groceries, airline tickets, and more.

47

1 year ago

A $2.5 billion a year market for the healthcare industry to move from paper to digital, but the current player, a paper based system, is not scalable. This startup is building a digital system that promises to get patients faster, cheaper, and more secure information for everything from appointments to lab results.

47

1 year ago

Helping people collaborate more easily via a mobile application and web app. The company is developing an AI-driven productivity tool that leverages the user’s location, time and day to automatically arrange meetings and tasks.

47

8 months ago

A company that’s building a toolset for developing mobile skills. The company wants to use machine learning to make sure that every mobile skill is customized for the user.

47

1 year ago

A startup that helps busy executives get the most out of their time, with an emphasis on prioritizing tasks based on their leverage.

46

1 year ago

“A new way to get into the market,” according to the founders. It’s a mobile app that lets people instantly buy everything they need to get started selling on Amazon.

46

1 year ago

A payment system for your subscription to a streaming service. They charge the same amount every month but are reimbursed for specific services based on how much content you watch.

46

1 year ago

This startup wants to help the millions of people who have a credit card but aren’t the type of person who checks their balance every day. It wants to be the place where you pay your credit card bill and track your spending trends.

46

1 year ago

A payments app that allows users to make a payment without ever leaving the app. The company says they are working on a native solution for Android.

46

1 year ago

This is a software platform that helps real estate agents and landlords manage their properties. The startup is already operating in several markets, with plans to expand globally.

46

1 year ago

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

46

10 months ago

A tool that helps improve your photography by showing you how you look in each and every frame.

46

9 months ago

A platform for government to better manage and track the federal student loans that students take out every year.

46

7 months ago

“Imagine a world where you could pay your favorite artists directly, whenever you wanted to.”

46

2 months ago

A startup developing a new robotic material called “micro-cystalline diamond” that it says is 30 times stronger than steel and 10 times stronger than the current strongest ceramics. It’s super-strong and low-density, so it could be used for everything from an aircraft wing to an electric car battery.

46

2 months ago

An AI-powered microlearning platform that helps companies learn more about their employees by leveraging the company’s Salesforce data. it’s currently in private beta with 10 companies.

46

6 days ago

The startup aims to create a network of talking AI bots that can be used to enhance communications for everyone from teenagers to seniors to the disabled.

46

1 year ago

Empowering developers to build custom mobile apps. The company wants to make mobile apps simple, like the mobile websites that everyone else is building.

45

1 year ago

A “feeling thermometer” for everyone, to help people know when someone is feeling backed into a corner

45

1 year ago

Working with a lab in Italy, this startup is developing a service to prevent the spread of dengue fever.

45

1 year ago

Opendoor is a software company that wants to become the Amazon of home rentals. The company acts as a broker between homeowners and short-term renters. It’s made several large investments in recent years, including $117 million in new capital in November 2018.

45

1 year ago

An AI-powered platform that improves the performance of software development teams by helping them more efficiently access, manage and leverage data.

45

11 months ago

A startup pitching a way to help companies reduce their energy usage by automatically adjusting the temperature in their buildings. They currently have several contracts with Fortune 500 companies.

45

7 months ago

A startup that’s building a one-stop shop for small businesses that spans several different verticals, including payroll, accounting and consulting.

45

7 months ago

A startup that helps students in college and grad school build better resumes by having them share everything from their job board activity to how many hours they’re spending on side projects.

45

5 months ago

We're looking to invest in a very well-known brand in the same space, so that we can leverage the brand equity to build our business. We're looking for high-growth startups in the space.

45

3 months ago

This startup is building a tool for restaurants to allow customers to order food and drinks without ever talking to a waiter or waitress, and without giving out their phone number.

45

1 month ago

Freshly is an online marketplace for “gourmet inventory” that sells artisanal produce and other goods, some of it organic. Customers can buy everything from vitamins to artisanal cheese.

45

1 year ago

A startup that wants to help low-income families get discounts on everything from healthcare to higher education.

44

1 year ago

A company that claims to build “the best pitch deck you’ve ever read” for startups and entrepreneurs.

44

1 year ago

A simple way to keep track of your bills, from groceries to utilities, or to calculate monthly payments by combining several bills.

44

10 months ago

The startup offers a new way to take notes in your browser. It’s a note adding service, but consumers can also use it for collaborative taking of notes. The startup is also working on a new version of its app that’s a bit like Evernote, but for webpages and notes.

44

8 months ago

A bike sharing startup that aims to make bike sharing accessible to everyone

44

8 months ago

This startup’s goal is to make sure that every home in America has a smoke detector, and for them it’s about saving lives.

44

8 months ago

A mobile app that helps people track the money they spend on groceries, and helps everyone save money on groceries.

44

7 months ago

The company is building a platform for companies to review and share their work with others, with the goal of ensuring that everyone is on the same page.

44

1 year ago

An email marketing startup helping small businesses gain new customers. The startup sends customers a free sample for every high-value email they send.

43

1 year ago

A startup that wants to make AI more accessible to everyone. The company is building an interface that helps non-experts get started with AI and learn the basics of machine learning.

43

1 year ago

A startup with a piece of technology that keeps track of every step in a certain process. The technology has been used in a number of industries, including pharmaceuticals, and helps companies track products and processes in real time.

43

1 year ago

A platform that lets retailers choose which products they want to sell, curate them on the Amazon-like site, and then set the pricing, shipping, and other options. The idea is to help retailers manage their supply chain, rather than having to manage every item by hand.

43

1 year ago

A system meant to help employees manage their health insurance. This includes everything from a smartphone app to help people navigate the process to a website for people to compare single-pay service options.

43

11 months ago

Leveraging the power of blockchain to build a decentralized global payment system.

43

11 months ago

A daily e-newsletter for journalists that sends out a story every day, with a new one every weekday. The company says it’s already signed up 1,000 journalists from all over the world.

43

10 months ago

This startup is a distribution platform for home goods. They are currently working with partnerships with several brands, including Royal Caribbean and Quintessentially.

43

7 months ago

A startup that delivers alcohol to people’s homes whenever they want it.

43

6 months ago

This startup is building a system for businesses to pay employees in cryptocurrency. Employees can then use the cryptocurrency for everyday purchases.

43

4 months ago

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/20/18241456/credit-card-debit-card-data-transactions-business-data-security-cybersecurity

43

1 year ago

A startup that helps organizations run and monitor their internal communications. The startup aims to help organizations automate their internal communication, which could be leveraging tools like Slack, Yammer, or even email, to run processes like alerts and promotions.

42

1 year ago

A software company that wants to help people learn Mandarin. It uses online games to make a language accessible to everyone.

42

9 months ago

Combining a solar-powered, connected scale and a coffee roaster to make a perfect coffee every time.

42

8 months ago

A startup that’s building an AI camera to replace the human one that’s on every camera.

42

6 months ago

A startup that makes it easy to get the right healthcare services, without the hassle of traveling to a separate clinic every time.

42

4 months ago

A gateway for the domestic consumption of international foods and beverages

42

4 months ago

A software company that helps companies audit their supply-chains. The company’s founders say the startup has already helped clients like Target, Procter & Gamble, and DHL to save on several hundred millions in inventory.

42

1 year ago

A startup founded by several ex-Adobe employees to develop a creative suite for mobile and tablet devices. It has raised $26 million in funding.

41

1 year ago

A way to make sure that everyone who needs medical treatment receives it, regardless of where they live. It’s currently in its seed round with $75,000 in funding.

41

11 months ago

The startup has brought real-time banking to the Philippines. It allows users to set up a fixed amount of money to spend per day, and then debits that account whenever it has enough in reserve.

41

9 months ago

A company that helps big companies get their employees to be more data-driven. They’re working with several large companies in Boston to help their teams focus on more data-driven decision making.

41

8 months ago

A startup that helps whitepapers go viral by building a social network around them. WhiteHat Hacker has already had a 100,000 users sign up to its platform, and plans to release an app that lets a user make a white paper available to everyone they share a public email address with.

41

8 months ago

Plastic Flooring Everywhere, a startup that is building a modular plastic flooring platform.

41

5 months ago

A company that provides a mobile app that helps people in the hospitality industry, from bartenders to waiters and bartenders, get paid for every drink they sell.

41

4 months ago

A startup that has built a platform that enables companies to create mobile apps. The founders are veterans of a number of mobile startups, including several that have been acquired by Facebook.

41

1 year ago

A platform that helps restaurants connect with customers who have left reviews. The startup is using the software to help restaurants improve their management software, which is used for everything from ordering to inventory to ordering takeout.

40

1 year ago

A platform that leverages a “social network” of local restaurants to help you find what’s nearby with a “localist” approach.

40

11 months ago

A product that helps people who want to drop out of college after their first year. They say there are over 2 million students who drop out every year, and most of them can’t afford to go back to school after their first semester.

40

11 months ago

A text-based chat app for the blind and visually impaired that leverages voice search and voice-to-text.

40

7 months ago

This startup wants to be Amazon for medical equipment. It will help medical device companies automate manufacturing, build online stores and sell online, and then leverage its existing distribution network to take these products from a warehouse to a customer’s doorstep.

40

6 months ago

Flock is a rewards app where people get a dollar for every product they review.

40

5 months ago

A “startup founded on the belief that everyone, regardless of their race or religion, should have a fair and equal opportunity to achieve success and wealth”. The founders say that their business is founded on a bottom-up, local and accessible model that would allow communities to help themselves. The company will start by focusing on the South and the Midwest as their first markets.

40

1 month ago

A video category that covers everything from how to make it to an office, how to get started in a new career, or how to get a new job.

40

1 year ago

Leveraging AI to automate the process of crunching numbers to optimize an investment portfolio

39

1 year ago

A system that brings together everything from a company’s website, social accounts, emails, past financial records, etc. under one place.

39

9 months ago

A digital platform for sending resumes and interviewing, by leveraging LinkedIn’s network.

39

9 months ago

A company that specializes in helping businesses take advantage of the billions of dollars being spent on advertising every year.

39

9 months ago

A product for online learning platforms, like Coursera and Udacity, that connects every student and tutor face to face. It aims to simplify the e-learning experience for beginners and help students avoid the “ beginner’s paradox”.

39

8 months ago

A SaaS product for companies to have “one-click access to everything that a business needs to run”, including finance, accounting, HR, payroll, and software development.

39

7 months ago

A platform that helps Filipino workers find employment overseas with a $1,000 bonus for every new employee.

39

6 months ago

A startup that helps people find their perfect wedding band. The team has hired several wedding consultants over the past year, and has partnered with a jeweler in India to help find one.

39

1 month ago

This startup is building a tool that allows B2B software companies to manage their accounts and invoices. It’s a time-saving tool that allows small companies to consolidate everything into one place.

39

1 month ago

A startup that buys and sells real estate, leveraging digital to make those transactions faster and easier to execute.

39

1 year ago

A startup that’s building a new paradigm for enterprise workflows. The idea is to focus on a single task, like a file, and deliver it to everyone on the team, rather than having everyone email the same file to themselves, which is a slow and inefficient way to manage it.

38

1 year ago

A company that wants to build an artificial intelligence-powered assistant for the home that can help with many everyday tasks like making a reservation, paying bills, and buying things online. The startup is based in San Francisco.

38

11 months ago

A digital distribution outlet for products like electronics and games. The company wants to solve the problem of everyone having their own individual accounts and payment methods, with a shared account and single payment method.

38

7 months ago

Car rental startups and startups creating rental cars are both big businesses. However, a number of issues are creating friction between them. Tagr is a startup created to help renters and car rental companies work together, using their combined data to better serve consumers.

38

3 months ago

By taking a person’s smartphone and putting a radio in the headphone jack, Forever’s app turns the phone into a walkie talkie, sending and receiving messages to and from other users. After launching in June, the startup has collected 100,000 users.

38

8 days ago

A platform that helps small service providers with everything from practice management to payroll, invoicing, and banking services.

38

1 year ago

A distributed computing platform that helps businesses automate tasks they do every day.

37

1 year ago

A payment platform for shared bicycles. The bike sharing startup is focused on supporting bike-sharing startups, helping them with everything from pricing to marketing to customer service. It’s described as similar to the software they create for Uber, allowing bike-sharing companies to have a single dashboard to manage everything.

37

10 months ago

A startup that helps people set up and manage their retirement accounts, with a goal of saving everyone in their 20s and 30s $100,000 over the course of their working lifetime.

37

10 months ago

A crowdfunding platform for artworks, allowing backers to acquire and sell works in a market that is currently severely underserved.

37

4 months ago

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/1/16002240/microsoft-microsoft-facebook-downstream-apps-mobile-marketing

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2 months ago

A startup meant to build out a cross-border payment system using Alibaba’s payment network. It’s currently an internal startup at Alibaba, but the founders have been in contact with several other companies interested in incorporating their technology.

37

1 month ago

One of my personal favorites. An automated tool to send you a guaranteed raise every year no matter what. The basic subscription is $25 a year, which you pay back in monthly installments. The subscription is good for a limited time, so you can take it on and off whenever you want.

37

8 days ago

The startup’s starting point is that online dating is difficult for introverts. Introverts, however, are 25% more likely to find love online, and Intro.me wants to help them do just that.

37

1 year ago

Platform for sending and receiving invoices, payments and bills, making sure you never miss a payment or payment deadline again.

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A supply chain management tool for small businesses that manages everything from physical inventory to internal supply chains. The service is aimed at businesses with under 100 employees and is currently in private beta.

A fitness app for everyone, not just professional athletes. The app helps users track their daily activity and exercise goals.

Build a database of every tree in the world, using satellite imagery.

“Together, dreamers and doers can do more than ever before.” It’s a “startup for humanity” that wants to provide rapid solutions that “help change the world for the better”

A startup that wants to turn every conference room into a training room, and track fitness progress for employees.

The company offers a platform where you can order and deliver a meal from a restaurant you’ve never heard of before.

A startup that wants to make it easier for restaurants to find chefs. It says that 10,000 chefs are searching for jobs online every day.

A startup that aims to help people with severe anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues find the resources they need to get better

A marketing platform for small businesses looking to leverage social media and e-mail marketing to build their brand and drive ROI.

A company building a browser extension that adds web-based editing to Microsoft Word, enabling users to do everything from adding images to creating tables and charts.

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

A startup that uses AI to create images of everything from mountains to people's faces

Pitchbook, a media company that covers the venture industry, has released a list of the top Y Combinator companies to watch. It includes several companies from the summer batch, including the following:

A startup that sells a kit for people who want to do the things they have always wanted to do but never had the time to do

This startup wants to be the Netflix of dating. It wants to connect couples by matching them based on what they’re looking for in a partner. It also wants to keep track of everything couples do together.

A platform to help companies control and manage their entire supply chain. The company wants to aggregate data on every step in the supply chain, create a comprehensive map of it and manage it all from a single dashboard.

A startup that sends users a box of physical books for every month they sign up for.

A monthly subscription service that sends you an e-book on a topic you’ve selected every month. The company launched in December, and is signing up more than 50,000 new subscribers every month, the founder tells me.

It’s a lifestyle music service, where you can access your library from any device and listen to the music in whatever order you want. You can also pay for a subscription to get access to a wider library.

A food truck that turns every meal into a voucher, for use at any restaurant. The startup wants to make food more efficient, so that everyone can eat more.

This startup is building a new way to work that allows you to quickly create a virtual meeting room for your team (with audio, video, and other features) and then broadcast it to whoever is interested.

The startup is building a marketplace for social and environmental benefits that companies can offer to their customers. The idea is that companies can leverage these “social benefits” to boost the loyalty of customers who want to do the right thing.

The list, in reverse-chronological order.

A company that makes it easy to get started with your own mobile marketplace, selling everything from your couch to your prized mementos

A “social media productivity tool” that helps you get everything done by prioritizing tasks and scheduling them out.

This startup is building an automatic repair system for the Internet of Things, a term for everyday objects with sensors and connectivity.

A tool for restaurant owners and employees that helps them with the everyday tasks of running a restaurant. With the app, you can order takeout, track tips, and review your shift.

A loyalty app driven by a points system. Loyalty points can be earned and redeemed at over 3,000 retailers including Target, Best Buy, and Whole Foods. The startup says they are adding new retailers every week.

A startup for finding and “following” people you’ve met, using data from all your social networks and identifying the people you’ve never met.

The startup wants to build a “third-party insurance-for-everyone” platform that offers affordable health insurance. The startup has already built a network that serves around 200,000 people in the US and has raised $3.5 million.

A startup that provides a tool where people can subscribe to a service that sends them a box of 5-10 items every month

A startup that makes a product called “The Wig”, a wearable device that can tell you if you have a fever or not by reading your face

This startup wants to replace the traditional broker model with a commission-free, network-based system that brings together buyers and sellers. The startup says it already has several dozen clients.

A startup that has built a tool to help legal professionals create an agreement and execute it without ever leaving the browser.

An API that helps companies that are not Amazon Prime members see how much they spend on Prime every month.

A platform for managing your entire spend, tracking your bills, managing your expenses across different payment systems, managing your accounts, and making it easy to compare everything against each other.

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

A startup that sends you a new razor every month.

A supply chain management platform for restaurants and other food-related businesses. Growth is strong and the founders say they’re trying to make a dent in the $8.5 trillion food and beverage industry.

The startup is building a platform to record and store every single note an employee takes.

This is “a healthcare startup for the world’s largest democracy” – India. It aims to help patients get their prescriptions filled at the lowest prices possible, and is already working with several pharmaceutical companies in India for a $3 million revenue run rate.

A company whose goal is to bring better health to all people, leveraging emerging technologies to help people get more out of their health care.

A third-party insurance company that offers $0 monthly premiums to customers who pay in full every month.

This app helps users manage their time, organize tasks, and set goals. Users can track their hours, hours worked, and hours remaining, and be alerted to when they need to be at work. Users can also set goals, like working more or less, or getting more tasks done everyday.

A developer platform for building and managing software applications. The company is launching with one product, but plans to scale across several verticals.

If you own a home in the US, you can log into an app and see what the utilities are costing you in real time. However, the founders say that households throughout the world can benefit from a similar application.

The company wants to make negotiating harder than it already is by providing a simple, searchable interface for employees to search the market for best deals on everything from Amazon Prime subscriptions to a new suit.

A startup that does "reverse auction" for restaurant, bar, and retail seats. It charges a fee to the seller for the listing, and pays the buyer a percentage of the sale price.

A payments startup that helps merchants accept all major credit cards by charging them the same price. PayMill charges the merchant a flat 2.5% fee for every credit card transaction.

A Texas-based startup that provides a service that allows anyone to buy anything with Bitcoin, including buying everyday items.

A startup that provides a service where it sends you a box of healthy food every week and you can pick it up at a convenient location

An executive assistant that makes scheduling meetings, calls, and everything else easier.

A new service to help users find and manage tech tools, services, and gadgets they use every day.

A company that’s built a software platform to translate a user’s text into a computer-readable language. It’s already in use by several Fortune 500 companies.

A software company for building apps with Facebook Messenger. The startup has built apps for the likes of Unilever and Airbnb. It’s a platform for chat bots, and allows companies to build chat bots in minutes.

A startup that sells a $100 smart plug that does everything from controlling the lights in your home to allowing the owner to read text messages on their smartphone from anywhere.

This is a photo sharing app that lets you send your friends a “snapshot” of whatever you’re looking at. The startup monetizes via selling advertisers the ability to target specific geographic areas or high-traffic areas.

A startup that provides a service where people can pay a monthly fee and then they are assigned a personal assistant who helps them with whatever they need

This company is building a way to leverage the 50 million unclaimed American Express rewards cards that are sitting in a dormant state, unclaimed. The company wants to make it easier for companies to manage those rewards cards.

A startup for small suppliers of everyday office supplies (like computer cables or paper clips) and small businesses to buy and sell them.

This list does not include every startup that has accepted into YC, but only the startups that have launched since the program started.

A startup that helps make your everyday tasks more efficient, such as scheduling a meeting, creating a shopping list, or tracking a package.

An all-purpose tool for both small and large businesses, for everything from invoicing to asset management. The business is currently doing $20M in annual sales.

A digital agency that helps companies manage their social media, PR, and digital marketing. The startup is aiming to tackle the gap between everyday businesses and the marketing departments that need to manage them.

InstaCart is a service that can move a consumer’s shopping cart from one website to another, or even to a competitor. That means customers can buy products from Amazon, Walmart, and other retailers without ever leaving the site.

A mobile app that allows customers to book services from home doctors. They’re also focusing on providing privacy for health services, by ensuring that the doctor never sees the patient’s name, phone number, or address. The company is currently working with a hospital in NY.

An “organic social network” for concerts, sports, and events. It’s like Eventbrite for everything.

A $30,000 investment in a machine that turns raw coffee beans into a beverage.

A startup that wants to help employers manage the ever-expanding amount of “digital content” they need to produce.

A startup that provides people with umbrellas that can expand in diameter if it starts to rain so they don't need to get an umbrella for every rainstorm

This is a platform for on-demand home services, like plumbers, electricians, and everything else.

A startup that helps Chinese companies grow overseas by leveraging the data on their Chinese customers to target them in the US

A single app that lets you manage all of your work, from payments to invoicing, to taxes, and everything in between.

A startup that connects companies with people who want to enter the service industry. The startup says they have $1 million in monthly revenue and have hired several staff since YC.

A startup that is building an alternative repository to Airbnb for people to find rentable resources This includes everything from homes to lawn mowers, from the startup’s own website

A startup that wants to make it easier for employees to work remotely. The company is testing with small and medium sized businesses, and says it’ll be available for everyone in 2020

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