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3 years 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.

655
5 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.

545
4 years ago

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

525
5 years ago

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

510
2 years ago

A startup that helps people find local people with similar interests. It has about 25,000 users, and has been a part of several YC startups.

466
5 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”

463
4 years 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:

378
4 years 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.

335
5 years ago

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

332
4 years ago

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

316
3 years ago

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

286
5 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.

277
2 years ago

A mobile app that brings together all the people involved in running an event to make sure everyone is on the same page before it even happens. The aim is to help event producers make more money from their events.

264
5 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

257
5 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.

257
2 years ago

A company that wants to help people find the right providers for everything from babysitters to home services.

255
4 years 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.

252
4 years 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.

250
2 years ago

A startup that provides a “smart AI-powered, real-time investment advisor for everyday people”.

247
5 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.

246
4 years ago

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

245
4 years 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.

240
5 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.

237
4 years 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.

234
5 years ago

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

227
4 years ago

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

227
4 years ago

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

224
4 years 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.

224
2 years ago

An accounting app that helps small businesses prepare and file their own taxes. The startup is focused on people who have never had to file taxes before.

224
5 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.

222
2 years ago

A B2B company that helps companies create several different e-commerce storefronts so they can sell different products in different countries.

222
4 years 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.

220
4 years ago

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

219
4 years ago

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

218
5 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.

217
4 years 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.

217
4 years 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.

216
4 years 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.

213
4 years ago

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

208
4 years 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.

207
4 years ago

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

205
4 years ago

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

205
4 years 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.

203
4 years 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.

202
5 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

201
4 years 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.

201
4 years ago

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

199
4 years ago

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

196
5 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.

195
4 years ago

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

195
4 years ago

A 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.

194
4 years ago

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

192
4 years 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.

192
2 years ago

A startup that is building a video platform for musicians and labels. It’s a video production studio that’s contracted with several labels and artists including Snoop Dogg, Diddy, and David Guetta. It started as a YouTube channel, but is now a production company with the goal of helping artists make better videos.

192
4 years ago

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

190
4 years 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.

190
4 years ago

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

190
4 years ago

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

189
2 years ago

A software platform for managing, monitoring, and analyzing data for marketing research. It is working with brands like AT&T and Unilever.

187
5 years ago

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

186
5 years ago

The list, in reverse-chronological order.

184
4 years 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.

182
5 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

181
5 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

180
4 years 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.

180
4 years ago

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

180
3 years ago

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

180
5 years ago

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

179
5 years ago

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

179
4 years 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.

178
4 years 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.

177
4 years ago

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

176
4 years ago

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

175
4 years 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.

174
4 years 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.

174
3 years 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:

174
3 years ago

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

174
4 years ago

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

173
5 years ago

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

171
5 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.

171
4 years ago

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

171
5 years ago

A startup that sends you a new razor every month.

169
4 years ago

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

169
5 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.

168
3 years ago

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

168
5 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.

167
5 years ago

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

167
5 years ago

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

167
4 years 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.

167
3 years ago

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

167
4 years 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.

166
5 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

165
3 years 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.

165
4 years 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.

164
5 years ago

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

163
3 years ago

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

163
5 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.

161
4 years 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.

161
5 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.

160
5 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.

160
5 years ago

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

160
5 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.

160
5 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.

159
3 years ago

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

159
5 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.

158
4 years 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.

158
3 years ago

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

158
5 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

157
4 years ago

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

157
4 years 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.

157
3 years 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.

157
5 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

156
5 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.

156
5 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.

156
5 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.

155
5 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.

155
5 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.

154
5 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.

153
5 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.

153
5 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.

153
4 years 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.

153
5 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

152
5 years ago

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

152
5 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.

152
5 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.

152
3 years 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.

152
5 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.

151
5 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.

151
5 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.

151
5 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

150
5 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.

150
5 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.

150
5 years ago

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

150
5 years ago

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

150
3 years 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.

150
5 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.

149
5 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.

148
5 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.

148
5 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

148
5 years ago

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

148
3 years 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.

148
3 years 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.

148
5 years ago

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

147
5 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.

147
5 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.

147
5 years ago

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

147
5 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.

147
3 years 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.

147
5 years ago

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

146
5 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.”

146
5 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."

146
5 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.”

146
5 years ago

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

146
5 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.

146
2 years ago

This startup wants to make “kitchenware box” technology available to everyone. It is building a subscription-based smart kitchen network for scale-up companies, and such as it is not available in the UK yet is set to roll out in the US this summer.

146
5 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.

145
5 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.

145
5 years ago

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

144
5 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.

144
5 years ago

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

144
5 years ago

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

144
5 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.

144
5 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.

143
5 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

142
5 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.

142
5 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.

142
5 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.

142
5 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.

142
5 years ago

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

142
5 years ago

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

141
5 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.

141
5 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

140
5 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.

140
5 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.

140
5 years ago

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

140
5 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.

139
5 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.

139
5 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.

139
5 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.

139
3 years ago

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

139
5 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.

138
5 years ago

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

137
5 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.

137
5 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.

137
5 years ago

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

137
5 years ago

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

137
5 years ago

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

137
4 years 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.

136
4 years 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.

136
2 years ago

A team of 3 is building a camera that will track the movements of every user in order to help them improve their posture.

136
5 years ago

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

135
4 years 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.

135
5 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.

134
5 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

133
5 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.

133
5 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.

133
2 years ago

A digital platform that allows people to buy and sell used cars without ever having to meet in person. It’s already built out in 25 cities in the US.

133
5 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.

132
5 years ago

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

132
5 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.

132
5 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.

132
5 years ago

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

132
5 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.

131
5 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.

131
5 years ago

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

130
5 years ago

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

130
5 years ago

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

130
5 years ago

A platform for making custom beverages.

130
2 years ago

An online platform that allows users to claim their money, whenever they want, without having to go to the bank. The company wants to help people get access to their money whenever they want it, without going to the bank.

130
5 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.

129
5 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.

129
4 years 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.

129
3 years ago

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

129
2 years ago

A company that builds a “tech-powered assistant” for the fashion industry, enabling brands to manage their inventories and keep track of sales. It’s already partnered with brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, and Forever 21.

129
5 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.

128
5 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.

128
5 years ago

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

127
5 years ago

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

127
5 years ago

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

127
4 years 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.

127
3 years ago

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

127
5 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.

126
5 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.

126
4 years 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.

126
5 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.

125
5 years ago

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

125
5 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.

124
5 years ago

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

124
5 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.

124
5 years ago

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

124
2 years ago

A startup that lets you monitor your every step, activity, and calorie count using a wearable that syncs with a smartphone app. Users can also get coaching from a personal trainer, the idea being that this can be a helpful tool for people trying to lose weight or stay fit.

124
5 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.

123
5 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.

123
5 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.

123
5 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.

122
4 years ago

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

122
3 years 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.

122
3 years 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.

122
5 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.

121
5 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.

121
4 years 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.”

121
5 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.

120
5 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.

120
5 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.

119
5 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.

119
5 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.

119
4 years ago

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

119
5 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.

118
5 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.

118
2 years ago

The idea behind Crowdcast is to leverage the crowd to fund the covering of physical assets, like the building of a new college library or the refurbishment of an old factory.

118
5 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.

117
5 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.

117
5 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.

116
5 years ago

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

115
5 years ago

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

115
4 years ago

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

115
4 years 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.

115
5 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.)

114
4 years 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.

114
3 years ago

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

114
5 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.

113
5 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.

113
2 years ago

Think of the fridge as a low-cost way to store beer, wine, and other beverages without taking up too much space. The startup’s goal is to market it as a central food locker for homes and businesses.

113
5 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.

112
5 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.

112
5 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.

112
2 years ago

A startup that wants to make it possible for anyone to tap into the power of AI through an online API and the work of a machine learning community. The founders say they’re already working with several billion-dollar companies that use their API to run their entire data operations.

112
5 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.

111
5 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.

111
5 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.

111
5 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.

111
4 years 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.

111
3 years 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.

111
2 years ago

This startup is building a virtual assistant for people living in the suburbs that helps them organize the myriad of tasks they do every day.

111
5 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.

110
5 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.

110
5 years ago

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

110
5 years ago

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

110
4 years 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

110
4 years 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.

110
5 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.

109
4 years 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.

109
4 years 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.

109
4 years 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.

109
4 years 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.

109
3 years 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.

109
5 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.

108
5 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.

108
5 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.

108
5 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.

108
5 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.

107
5 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.

107
4 years ago

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

107
5 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.

106
5 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.

106
5 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.

106
5 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.

106
4 years ago

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

106
5 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.

105
3 years 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.

105
3 years ago

A company that wants to make it easier for consumers to find affordable, vegan, certified organic food online, and has already signed on several retailers.

105
5 years ago

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

104
5 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.

104
4 years 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.

104
3 years ago

This startup is building an app that allows people to take pictures of things they find in everyday life, edit them to look like they are hand-drawn, and then sell the finished work on Etsy.

104
5 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.

103
5 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.

103
5 years ago

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

103
5 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.

103
4 years ago

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

103
3 years 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.

103
2 years ago

A startup that aims to disrupt the pharmacy space. The company wants to take the doctors out of the loop, allowing patients to see their doctors online, and making it easier than ever for patients to fill prescriptions.

103
5 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.

102
5 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.

102
4 years 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.

102
4 years 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.

102
4 years 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.

102
5 years ago

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

100
5 years ago

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

100
4 years 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.

100
4 years 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.

100
3 years 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.

100
3 years ago

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

99
4 years ago

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

98
2 years ago

New companies from Y Combinator are eligible to apply to participate in the next batch of startups. However, companies are not guaranteed to be accepted, and may be rejected for any number of reasons.

98
5 years ago

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

97
5 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.

97
4 years 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.

97
4 years 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.

97
5 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.

96
2 years ago

A startup that will let anyone who’s ever sold an item on Amazon understand whether the customer paid.

96
5 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.

95
4 years ago

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

95
4 years 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".

94
3 years 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.

94
4 years 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.

93
4 years ago

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

92
4 years 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.

92
4 years 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.

92
3 years 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.

92
2 years ago

A company that aims to make online shopping easier. The company is trying to become the “Amazon of apps” by offering everything from apps to games to music to software.

92
5 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.

90
5 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.

90
4 years ago

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

90
5 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.

89
4 years 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.

89
4 years 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.

89
4 years 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.

89
4 years 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.

89
3 years 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.

89
5 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.

88
4 years 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.

88
4 years 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.

88
4 years 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.

88
4 years 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.

88
3 years 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.

88
4 years 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.

87
4 years 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.

87
3 years ago

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

87
3 years 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.

86
5 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.

85
4 years 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.

85
4 years 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.

85
4 years 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.

85
3 years 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.

85
3 years ago

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

85
3 years 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.

85
4 years 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.

84
4 years ago

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

84
4 years 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.

84
3 years 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.

84
5 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.

83
4 years ago

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

83
4 years ago

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

83
4 years 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.

83
3 years ago

A startup that uses machine learning to predict what people will do next. The startup, which is based in Boston, is trying to leverage “pattern recognition” to predict the next move in a given situation.

83
4 years ago

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

82
4 years 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.

82
4 years 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.

82
3 years 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.

82
3 years ago

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

82
3 years 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.

82
4 years ago

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

81
4 years 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.

81
4 years ago

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

81
4 years ago

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

81
3 years ago

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

81
4 years 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.

80
4 years ago

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

80
4 years 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.

80
5 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.

79
4 years 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.

79
4 years 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.

79
4 years ago

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

79
3 years 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%.

79
3 years 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.

79
3 years 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.

79
4 years 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.

78
4 years ago

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

78
4 years ago

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

78
4 years ago

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

78
4 years 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."

78
4 years 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.

78
4 years 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.

78
3 years 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.

78
3 years 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.

78
3 years ago

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

78
5 years ago

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

77
4 years ago

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

77
4 years 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.

77
4 years ago

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

77
4 years 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.

77
4 years ago

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

77
4 years 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.

77
4 years 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.

77
4 years 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.

77
3 years ago

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

77
3 years 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.

77
3 years 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.

77
4 years 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.

76
4 years 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.

76
4 years 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.

76
4 years ago

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

76
4 years ago

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.

76
4 years 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.

76
3 years 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.

76
2 years ago

A tool to help salespeople manage the thousands of sales calls they make every week.

76
4 years ago

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

75
4 years ago

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

75
4 years 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.

75
4 years ago

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

75
4 years 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.

75
3 years ago

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

75
3 years ago

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

75
4 years 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.

74
4 years 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.

74
3 years 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.

74
3 years ago

Entertain people with a live video game which creates a new game every time people play.

74
3 years 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.

74
3 years ago

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

74
4 years 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.

73
4 years ago

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

73
4 years ago

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

73
4 years 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.

73
4 years ago

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

73
3 years ago

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

73
3 years 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.

73
3 years 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.

73
4 years 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.

72
4 years 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.

72
4 years 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.

72
4 years ago

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

72
4 years 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.

72
3 years ago

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

72
4 years ago

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

71
4 years 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.

71
4 years 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.

71
4 years ago

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

71
4 years 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.

71
4 years 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.

71
4 years 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.

71
4 years ago

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

71
4 years 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.

71
3 years ago

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

71
3 years ago

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

71
3 years ago

A digital platform for helping people plan and manage their retirement. The startup wants to be the Facebook for everyone from newborns to the elderly.

71
3 years 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.

71
2 years ago

A digital account for small businesses that has everything from invoices to purchases to expenses all in one place.

71
4 years 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.

70
4 years 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.

70
4 years ago

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

70
4 years 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.

70
3 years 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.

70
3 years ago

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

70
3 years ago

A company that helps retailers leverage their existing e-commerce platforms to compete with Amazon.

70
2 years ago

A daily news digest for high-schoolers that lets them mix and match a set of curated stories, and get it delivered to their cell phones every day. What’s unique about this startup is that it’s developed a way to let readers select which stories they want to read from the curated selection.

70
4 years 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.

69
4 years ago

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

69
4 years 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.

69
3 years 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.

69
3 years ago

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

69
3 years ago

A gateway for the domestic consumption of international foods and beverages

69
2 years ago

A consumer engagement platform for retailers that lets them leverage social media and push interesting content to customers.

69
4 years ago

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

68
4 years ago

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

68
4 years 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.

68
4 years ago

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

68
4 years ago

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

68
3 years ago

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

68
3 years 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.

68
3 years 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.

68
4 years ago

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

67
4 years 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.

67
4 years ago

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

67
4 years 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.

67
4 years 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.

67
3 years ago

A “reverse-merchant” that works as a payment processor for e-commerce.

67
3 years 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.

67
4 years 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.

66
4 years 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.

66
4 years 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.

66
4 years 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.

66
4 years 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.

66
4 years ago

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

66
4 years 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.

65
4 years 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.

65
4 years 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.

65
4 years ago

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

65
3 years ago

A real-time, state-of-the-art monitoring solution for critical industries such as nuclear, oil & gas, and pharmaceuticals. This is a startup that wants to monitor everything from boilers to turbines, from systems to submersibles.

65
3 years 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.

65
3 years ago

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

65
3 years ago

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

65
3 years 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.

65
3 years 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.

65
3 years 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.

65
3 years ago

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

65
2 years ago

A medical device that can detect and treat E. coli, the pathogen that causes over a quarter million cases of food poisoning in the US every year. The device can also be used to detect and treat urinary tract infections and other illnesses.

65
4 years ago

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

64
4 years 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.

64
4 years 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.

64
4 years 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.

64
3 years ago

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

64
3 years 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.

64
3 years 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.

64
4 years 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.

63
3 years ago

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

63
3 years ago

A startup that provides subscriptions for a “smart” kitchen in which everything on the market is connected to a central system. It’s working with a hardware manufacturer on a modular smart refrigerator that works with an app.

63
3 years ago

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

63
4 years 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.

62
4 years 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.

62
4 years 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.

62
4 years ago

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

62
3 years ago

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

62
3 years 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.

62
3 years 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.

62
3 years ago

A way to track the progress of project management and billing from the end user, helping them work out exactly how much time is being spent on their projects. It’s free for everyone to use.

62
3 years 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.

62
4 years 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.

61
4 years ago

The startup wants to build a tool that provides a “complete, real-time view of every process in your organization”.

61
3 years 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.

61
3 years ago

A company that helps to keep a record of everyday things like expenses, bills, and appointments

61
3 years ago

A platform for renting and selling cars, with an app that lets customers rate their cars and have them rented or sold in their own circles. The startup says it’s already working with several hundred auto dealerships.

61
3 years 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.

61
3 years 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.

61
3 years ago

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

61
2 years ago

In India’s most populous state, where the app is aimed, roughly 20,000 people die due to traffic accidents every year. It uses a combination of artificial intelligence and human intervention to monitor traffic conditions and send alerts to cars of bad driving, as well as send out a text that includes the name of the driver and a link to a video recorded by a camera attached to the car’s dashboard.

61
2 years ago

A software development company that helps businesses with software development, building everything from small custom apps to enterprise ERP systems.

61
4 years ago

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

60
4 years ago

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

60
4 years ago

A password management startup that helps people establish unique passwords for every website and app, and helps them remember them.

60
4 years 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.

60
4 years ago

 A company with a service that allows customers to purchase gift cards for their favorite retailers and then ship them to their loved ones for the holidays, making it easy for everyone.

60
3 years ago

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

60
3 years ago

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

60
3 years ago

A platform that helps parents manage their children’s everything from school and extracurricular activities to college visits and birthdays. The founders say they’ve launched a beta version of the platform that lets parents order and schedule activities, and set rules around cancelling and rescheduling. The founders also have a personal story about how their startup led them to discover their company’s mission.

60
3 years ago

SaaS for companies that internationalize their websites. It helps companies with everything from translation to the process of internationalizing their websites to the legal and regulatory implications of internationalizing their websites.

60
3 years ago

A tool that helps you get the best possible price on a plane ticket. The company is aiming to "make a commission on every transaction."

60
3 years ago

This is a meal delivery service. The startup is meant to bridge the gap between gourmet food and the everyday person, catering to families who don’t want to spend a lot of time preparing meals, but still want to eat well.

60
3 years 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.

60
3 years ago

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

59
3 years ago

This startup is working on software that helps legal professionals track their research — “research” is a term so broad it encompasses everything from reading court cases to scouring the internet for relevant information. The startup says it has $1 million in revenue.

59
3 years ago

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

59
3 years 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.

59
3 years ago

A company that wants to remove inefficiency from the supply chain by allowing everyone on a supply chain to manage inventory together. It’s currently focused on the hospitality industry, with its app launching in June.

59
3 years ago

This startup is building a concierge service for people who have a lot of contacts and would like something to delegate to every now and then.

59
3 years ago

A startup for desktop users that lets you use a button to share an email or link to Slack or Facebook or Twitter or whatever. It’s useful for copy-pasting text without cluttering your browser with the URL.

59
4 years 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.

58
4 years 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.

58
4 years ago

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

58
3 years ago

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

58
3 years ago

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

58
3 years 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”.

58
3 years ago

A dashboard for restaurants to monitor their food sales, accounting for everything from the inventory of ingredients to the hours that employees work.

58
3 years ago

The Startup Pitch Competition is held annually at Y Combinator. Since 2012, over 150 teams have participated in the competition, where a panel of judges evaluates every team's presentation. The top 20 teams participate in an on-stage interview with a panel of judges, after which two teams are selected to move on to the company presentation stage.

58
3 years ago

A tool that aggregates several different APIs into one.

58
4 years 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.

57
4 years 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.

57
3 years 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.

57
3 years ago

One-Tracker that connects to your iPhone and pairs to your Fitbit, etc. and keeps track of everything you do.

57
3 years ago

Launched in May, this startup wants to make it easier to manage and order a single-source supply chain of everything from merchandise to raw materials.

57
3 years ago

A way to create and manage a “journal of your life”. It’s a more basic service than others like Evernote and Google Keep, it just wants to help you get your thoughts down in a way that makes sense of them later on.

57
3 years ago

A decentralized insurance company that aims to make sure everyone gets paid for a good job – even if the person who did the work doesn’t work for the company that needs to cover it.

57
3 years ago

A tool for tracking the progress of your projects, with a “track everything” approach.

57
2 years ago

A tool for finding data on a map. The startup says it’s easier to find the right house (or car, or whatever) by using a map than by looking at a bunch of house listings that don’t match your criteria.

57
2 years ago

A video analytics tool that provides insights into every aspect of a video, including audience engagement, brand mentions, and more.

57
4 years ago

A B2B app that helps employers manage a supply chain, giving them a dashboard of everything from stock to data and displaying communication between different teams.

56
4 years 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.

56
3 years 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.

56
3 years ago

In the US, over 80% of food produced never ends up in a human stomach. The startup launched in early 2014, and is a food-tracking and -shipping platform for local farmers.

56
3 years ago

A self-driving construction vehicle that can detect objects and avoid them, and has the ability to drive in reverse.

56
3 years ago

A dating app for those who’ve never had sex, for those who haven’t in a while, for those with certain medical conditions, for those who don’t want to meet up with people they don’t know well. It’s currently in the pre-launch stage, with a new version launching in August.

56
3 years 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.

56
2 years ago

The company wants to make it easier for consumers to buy clothes online, especially from brands they've never heard of.

56
2 years ago

The company sends homeowners a notification whenever the valuation of their home drops, to help them get a good deal in a market that’s been red hot recently. The startup says it has saved more than 400 homeowners money in 2018.

56
2 years ago

EyeEm is a startup that wants to be the Kodak of photography. The company’s app aims to be the place you go to find great images of whatever you are looking for. The startup is also building a new generation of digital cameras and a film stock that allows people to turn their smartphone into a high-end camera.

56
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to replace your wallet with a digital payments card, with one card that works everywhere. They charge a fee for the card, and also receive a cut of the fees merchants pay for the transaction.

55
4 years ago

A startup that aims to bring the convenience of Evernote-like note taking to PowerPoint presentations.

55
4 years ago

A startup that’s trying to create a new way to crowdsource real estate listings by leveraging the real estate market’s existing data.

55
3 years ago

Maven built a platform to help companies choose the right furniture and decor items for their space. The startup is looking to build selection into every major furniture store and home improvement store in the country, but has just a few hundred customers.

55
3 years ago

A startup that wants to help you earn points and cash back rewards on your everyday expenses.

55
3 years ago

This startup is focused on helping teachers find the right school for their kids. The company says most parents are using apps like Zillow and Homeschool Planet to find their kids the right school. However, they point out that these apps have a lot of limitations, like not being able to help parents find everything from the school’s name to the school’s PTA or its approach to discipline.

55
3 years ago

The company says it is “building a decentralized sharing economy” that is “platform agnostic” and “anti-monopolistic”. The startup wants to build a platform that integrates the sharing economy into everyday life.

55
3 years ago

A company that makes the process of hiring remote contractors easier. The startup allows contractors to fill out a background check and get a credit check with their credit card, which they use to submit a request to work with a company of their choice. The startup takes a small percentage of the base payment and a percentage of the base payment as a fee whenever the request is approved.

55
4 years ago

A web app that helps people find joy in the everyday. You’ll be able to build a home page or blog, then use it to share content with friends, or invite others to join in.

54
3 years ago

A startup that’s trying to build a system for helping farmers get paid for their crops. The company says that for every 100 lbs of crops, farmers need to pay between $50 and $300 to intermediaries. In the future, it’s looking to automate the process of matching farmers to buyers, cutting out the middlemen.

54
3 years ago

A program that allows individuals to pay for the services of a licensed freelance designer, in advance. The startup takes care of everything from design to publishing on the web.

54
3 years ago

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

54
3 years ago

A smart, affordable, and easy-to-use healthcare service for the under-served in Africa. Their goal is to build infrastructure that is sustainable for the long-term with a focus on sustainability, and to make it affordable for everyone.

54
3 years ago

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

54
3 years ago

A software-as-a-service platform that helps companies create and manage their own digital campus directories. College Campus Connections is building its own platform to allow schools to create their own campus directories that they can leverage to recruit and more.

54
3 years ago

For people who are accustomed to checking their email every few minutes, this startup wants to help them build a habit of checking their email only once a day to see what’s new and respond to important messages.

54
3 years ago

Founded in 2017, this startup aims to help people with mental health issues sort their thoughts and writings. The app allows users to take screenshots from their notes and, in response to these notes, the app allows the user to write on top of the screenshot. It’s a tool that’s meant to help users articulate thoughts that they would never be able to articulate otherwise.

54
3 years ago

A platform that leverages machine learning and financial data from sources like US regulatory agencies to help investors narrow down their choices in the stock market.

54
3 years ago

A search engine, built on the idea that “if you can put a price on something, you can put a price on everything.”

54
2 years ago

A system for finding new job candidates in the span of a few hours by leveraging natural language processing and AI.

54
2 years ago

A startup that allows people to shop and pay for groceries without ever touching the food

54
2 years ago

A startup that lets people easily record every television show they watch.

54
3 years ago

A wearable that helps people with disabilities to perform everyday tasks like getting dressed and walking.

53
3 years ago

"Idea" is a weekly feature on The Verge's technology podcast, The Vergecast. Every week, we ask a question about a company or a topic at the intersection of technology and culture. You can listen to previous episodes here . You can read more about the show at our dedicated hub . You can reach us at [email protected]

53
3 years ago

A tool for B2B salespeople to do more of their work from the cloud. Cleverly is a tool for B2B salespeople to do more of their work from the cloud.

53
3 years ago

A platform that helps people get the most out of their social networks, by creating profiles with all the details they need, along with a quick and easy way to leverage their networks to get in touch with friends.

53
3 years ago

The company wants to create a new way for people to book travel, with the startup considering various uses for the tool. However, the company is not looking to develop a competing product to travel site Expedia.

53
3 years ago

Do you ever need to keep track of a growing number of logins, passwords, and other credentials for a number of services

53
3 years ago

A startup that helps people learn how to cook, with a focus on recipes that use ingredients they’ve never used before.

53
3 years ago

This startup wants to bring the same transparency that’s made credit scores a consumer product to the finance industry. Instead of having to go to your bank every time you want to see how your credit is doing, you can keep track online. The company is privately held.

53
3 years ago

A platform for tracking data collection and insights inside the workplace. People can track everything from traffic and attendance to the tech they use.

53
2 years ago

An investment management startup that creates a service for giving financial advice to everyday people.

53
2 years ago

The company says that their app is “the easiest way to find the best deals, find the best way to get there, and find everything you need all in one place.”

53
2 years ago

A startup that lets customers request an Uber or Lyft to pick them up from bars, bars that are around the corner, or wherever they are.

53
2 years ago

A seller of a prepackaged meal kit that includes everything you need to cook a meal on a weeknight.

53
5 years ago

Idea: A platform to bring great coffee to everyone, everywhere The startup is building a barista-grade coffee brewing system using the Nespresso capsule format The company says it has $8,500 in monthly recurring revenue

52
4 years ago

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

52
4 years ago

A B2B company that takes your legal documents and creates a single source of truth so you don’t have to keep updating multiple contracts every time.

52
4 years ago

A 3D printing service for businesses, customized for every business, with hundreds of products and designs in inventory, and a 3D printer in every office. It’s a “solution for businesses that have a need for customized, high-quality products.”

52
3 years ago

A startup that helps food and beverage companies best gauge the locations of their stores by sending out people (“ambassadors”) to engage with local people and businesses.

52
3 years ago

A company that wants to put a digital assistant in every room of your house. The company’s first product is an internet-connected thermostat.

52
3 years ago

A startup that wants to replace a library card with a card that works everywhere.

52
3 years ago

Freeform is a tool to help people get around the “digital divide” or the gap between people who use the internet and those who don’t. The app’s tagline is “For everyone who wants to use the internet but can’t”.

52
3 years ago

The startup’s goal is to change how we interact with the people around us, making every interaction more powerful and meaningful. The startup’s solution is a mobile app that lets you select the type of interaction you want with someone, such as them calling you, them sending you a text, or you sending a text to them. The startup is looking for users to test this new app.

52
2 years ago

A startup that wants to help everyone make the most of their company’s wellness program by making it easy for employees to track their health data.

52
2 years ago

Makes an app that helps you track the “karma points” of every person you’ve met.

52
4 years 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.

51
3 years ago

A startup that helps people maximize the use of their company’s assets, such as event spaces, meeting rooms, and the like. The startup is looking to help companies with everything from finding events to booking those events to workflow that would allow them to book the spaces themselves — and then taking a portion of the booking fees.

51
3 years ago

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

51
3 years ago

An online platform that helps small businesses connect with medical experts online to get advice on everything from baby names to medical history questions.

51
3 years ago

A loyalty card for your favorite local restaurants. Once you become a member, you get points on every purchase and redeem them for discounts or cash. Currently, you can only redeem them online.

51
3 years ago

In the past year, the largest B2B companies in America have been focusing on AI in the hopes of improving their products and services. AI can help companies with everything from sales to marketing and customer service.

51
3 years ago

A startup that helps companies in the supply chain manage inventories and track their items from end to end. The company is currently working with several large companies.

51
3 years ago

A platform that helps people purchase insurance through everyday life (like buying a flight, or a car, or a house)

51
3 years ago

A social media platform for people with disabilities (and their friends and family) to share their stories and interact with others online. Currently, the startup is in talks with several large universities and is looking for partners to help them set up a pilot program.

51
3 years ago

A company that makes a “digital scrapbook for your neighborhood” that lets you record and share everything that happens in a neighborhood, including notes, pictures, and videos.

51
3 years ago

A company that’s built a platform for mobile games to target audiences based on what they’ve been playing, whether it’s block building, racing, or whatever else.

51
4 years ago

This startup is building a digital toolkit to help employees in the US and abroad to manage everything from their payroll to benefits to taxes.

50
3 years ago

A platform that helps companies manage and organize the millions of documents that they deal with every day, and make it easier to search those documents.

50
3 years ago

Allows users to create and share content with their devices, leveraging the power of their domain.

50
3 years ago

A startup working to make it possible for everyone to consume a beef jerky product from the comfort of their own home.

50
2 years ago

A Marketplace where you can buy and sell everything from cars to houses to shoes in a way that is safe, transparent, and fair.

50
3 years ago

A startup that XMPP-based messaging system that leverages the power of a content-rich application to deliver individually tailored information to users.

49
3 years ago

 A hot dog startup focused on improving the beef supply chain using artificial intelligence and computer vision. The startup is building a “beef-improvement protocol,” designed to be a “clever self-learning system” that can identify the best cuts of meat.

49
3 years ago

In the early days of mobile, people didn’t have ways to reconnect with friends when they weren’t together. Now, with everyone having access to mobile data and voice, they can easily make phone calls with friends who are traveling and even call their friends’ phones.

49
3 years ago

This is a startup that’s using technology to simplify a process that plays out every day in retail: sending packages to a customer’s home. The startup is building a team of carriers that can send packages for businesses, in a process that can range from as simple as a drop-off to as complex as a package delivery.

49
3 years ago

This is a startup that wants to help the legal industry manage the ever-growing volume of litigation, and to do so by using AI technology to understand the law and churn out legal documents to customers.

49
3 years ago

A tool for fantasy sports enthusiasts and players that allows everyone to create a fantasy league and compete against other leagues.

49
2 years ago

A food delivery startup that is building a platform to enable food delivery through everyday foods. This is a startup with an interesting business model: instead of going after restaurants, the startup is focused on delivering to people’s homes.

49
2 years ago

A startup that wants to replace your everyday credit card with a card that accepts all the major types of payment — Apple Pay, PayPal, and all the rest — and a contactless mobile wallet.

49
2 years ago

A company that’s building a platform that allows a team of people to communicate and collaborate in real-time, rather than everyone having to be in the same room.

49
3 years ago

 A startup that wants to provide AI-powered software to help keep track of and manage your online content — which is probably a lot of things, but probably also doesn’t mean “the copyright for everything you’ve ever published”.

48
3 years ago

This company offers a service designed to help companies keep track of the millions of products they sell every year.

48
3 years ago

A web-based tool for making a custom board game that generates unique rules every time a game is played — like Chess did, but better. The startup is currently in stealth mode.

48
3 years ago

A way to make it easier for people to share their learning experiences with their friends (and possibly everyone) in a way that’s not just text, but also a video or audio.

48
2 years ago

A company that provides the first-ever mobile platform to help companies find and recruit the best people.

48
2 years ago

A chatbot that teaches foreign language students the basics of English by giving them practical everyday assistance.

48
3 years ago

A company that helps businesses leverage the power of their social networks to drive sales.

47
3 years ago

This app is designed to help people set up and manage their savings accounts. The startup counts several large retail chains as customers.

47
3 years ago

This startup is building a platform for retailers to sell the same product from multiple websites and channels. The startup provides a single codebase for the product, leveraging APIs to make the product compatible across multiple channels.

47
3 years ago

A startup that will send you a gift every time you get a new follower. The startup is already working with more than 50 influencers.

47
3 years ago

“We’re developing the first-ever video platform that lets you create and monetize 360-degree video content.”

47
3 years ago

This startup wants to help make sure your brand is on every device with a GPS in the world. PerfectSeat is building a way to track people's movements by using GPS and then using that information to target consumers. It’s aiming to replace companies like Nielsen with a product that monitors digital media.

47
3 years ago

A startup that is building an online game for kids, originally built for kids with cancer, now for kids with cancer everywhere. The startup is currently taking preorders for the game, which is currently in development.

47
2 years ago

A startup focused on the smart home market in China. The company has a team of 25 engineers and is building a smart hub that connects everything in the home to the internet. They’re aiming to be the Amazon of the smart home in China.

47
2 years ago

A “do-it-yourself” subscription service that lets users swap their phone for a new one every year.

47
2 years ago

 This startup is pitching it as “a master calendar that combines all your appointments and events into one place and then lets you share them with everyone”.

47
5 years ago

Idea: A platform for getting the most out of your coffee. The startup offers three products: a coffee subscription service, a coffee maker that brews a single cup at a time, and a French press. Their subscription service offers 12 different types of coffee every month.

46
3 years ago

This startup simplifies the process of renting a storage unit by using a mobile app to find a storage unit near a user, and track it as it’s moved. The company gets paid for every month that a storage unit is rented.

46
3 years ago

This startup is building a “super-tiny, super-fast electronic sensor” that can take a pulse every 1/100 horsepower and that can be placed on a vehicle to optimize efficiency.

46
3 years ago

This startup is building a digital identity system for businesses to use to track and manage employees, including everything from payroll to vacation to insurance.

46
3 years ago

The startup wants to help home owners create a single platform for all their home insurance needs, which would then be paid by whichever insurer they choose. The startup wants to help consumers easily understand their home insurance policy and get quotes.

46
2 years ago

The company claims that "the app offers a great way to find and book a rental home near you, but it is missing a few important features to make sure everyone who needs a rental home, no matter how big or small, can find it easily."

46
5 years ago

Idea: A soft-keyboard for mobile devices. The startup says their product is meant to make it easier to type on touch screens, leveraging a 3D-touch feature that allows users to press in harder on their mobile phones.

45
3 years ago

A bi-weekly newsletter for entrepreneurs and businesses, written by a former business journalist. The newsletter is free and comes out the first and 15th of every month.

45
3 years ago

Firms in the US and UK use the startup’s search tool to find a lawyer who can speak their language and culture, and then the firm handles everything from the initial attorney review to the closing.

45
3 years ago

The company has over 100,000 users who are saving over $100,000 every year.

45
3 years ago

This company is building a digital store that lets people buy, sell, and trade everything from cars to real estate — all from the comfort of their home.

45
3 years ago

A startup for everything from equipment rentals, to office supplies and services.

45
2 years ago

This startup is developing a way to deploy software at the speed of telecom. The company wants to make it so that your phone can update itself whenever you upgrade your phone, rather than having to wait for your provider’s OS to update and then waiting for the app to be updated.

45
2 years ago

A platform that helps marketers leverage their data to figure out what type of content to create for different types of audiences.

45
3 years ago

Build an online marketplace for people to buy used cars from other people. It’s a massive market with 30 million cars sitting in people’s garages every year, according to the founders.

44
3 years ago

A company that improves the efficiency and accuracy of patient care by leveraging AI and machine learning to improve the accuracy of doctors’ decisions.

44
2 years ago

A platform that helps retailers and wholesalers connect with consumers through social media. The startup’s goal is to create a “reverse-product search engine” that allows consumers to find products based on their likes and dislikes.

44
2 years ago

This startup helps customers track their usage and compare it against other people. The startup sees itself as a way to “force everyone to be more energy efficient.”

44
2 years ago

A software platform that helps beverage companies keep track of their inventory. The startup wants to help beverage companies with product maintenance, sales, and shipment.

44
3 years ago

The startup’s founders say they’ve had to raise over $14,000 to fund their efforts so far. The team is focused on creating a single management platform that can manage every aspect of a business, from HR to marketing to accounting to sales, and it’s already in private beta.

43
3 years ago

Personal finance knowledge app that lets people get paid to answer questions. The startup wants to make a tool that leverages the large number of people who have accumulated money to answer personal finance questions.

43
3 years ago

A skiing app. The company is building a system that syncs all of your devices, and helps you manage everything in one place. You can schedule lessons and find a ski lift, and have all your gear in one place.

43
2 years ago

The first-ever open-source, modular, offline, self-contained, intelligent, self-service, smart, and fast cash deposit machine.

43
2 years ago

A tool for building a “smart virtual assistant” that leveraging AI to make recommendations on anything from the best times to post to a particular social media platform to the ideal products to purchase based on your own personal buying habits.

43
2 years ago

A tool that helps remove the financial burden of the world's poorest when they make a purchase. The startup is leveraging a network of mobile money operators, such as M-Pesa, to help people move money for goods.

43
5 years ago

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

42
3 years ago

A digital financial advisor that serves as a personal financial advisor, personal banker, and a private banker. The startup wants to leverage the internet to help people make good personal financial decisions and manage their savings, investment portfolios, and retirement.

42
3 years ago

A logistics company for food and beverage businesses, which provides delivery and warehousing services for small businesses. The company wants to grow business in the United States.

42
3 years ago

A way to help people with low-income find services that can help them with everything from their medical debt to their housing needs.

42
2 years ago

A startup that helps companies run meetings online, where everyone can collaborate and get the updates they need.

42
2 years ago

A startup that helps people find and book home cleaning jobs, leveraging the power of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.

42
2 years ago

A visual record of your Instagram stories, allowing you to view all the posts you’ve ever made in one place and rate each one.

42
2 years ago

Education is expensive, and not everyone is ready to go back to school. So this startup wants to help people find their perfect fit for the future, whether it be a new career or a new city.

42
2 years ago

A startup that helps people with disabilities learn how to do everyday tasks, such as switching on lights, opening a door, etc.

42
3 years ago

A startup that builds and distributes modular, affordable drones for everyone.

41
3 years ago

A one-stop shop for managing all your mobile payments, from credit cards to loyalty cards and everything in between. It allows users to view their transactions and instantly set up recurring ones.

41
2 years ago

A dashboard for your AWS infrastructure and billing that lets you see what’s happening in your systems, including a visual graph of everything that’s running, who’s consuming what, and where the costs are going.

41
5 years ago

Idea: Tushycom is a subscription service that sends you a fresh toilet seat every month

40
3 years ago

A platform that helps people discover, research and buy everyday items from a single app.

40
2 years ago

Accurate, real-time analytics on the selling, distribution, and consumption of everything in a warehouse.

40
2 years ago

A utility for managing employees’ work hours. If you’ve ever had to stand in line at your boss’s office to get sub-par hours that are still more than what you’re currently working, you know how boring it can be.

40
2 years ago

Businesses can leverage the platform to get customers’ thoughts and feedback as a way to improve the customer experience.

40
2 years ago

This startup wants to build a small-scale production environment for food and beverage companies, allowing them to test new products in small batches and develop them at a faster pace. The startup wants to create an “industrial kitchen” for $500-$1,000.

40
3 years ago

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

39
3 years ago

A mobile platform for recruiting and retaining talent. WeWork has thousands of desks and thousands of teams around the world. The company lets companies rent these desks, which they can customize and use however they want.

39
2 years ago

A mobile (Android) app that runs on its own server, and runs on any device — be it a phone or a tablet. It’s meant to help keep track of locations, people and things, acting as a simple game of “everyone places a marker on a map”.

39
2 years ago

A company that aims to “connect every attendee to every other attendee".

39
2 years ago

A team of New York-based developers and designers are building a platform that they say will allow everyone to create a website easily.

39
2 years ago

"Philadelphia Tech News" is a weekly digital newsletter that covers the startup scene in Philadelphia and the greater Delaware Valley. The newsletter is published every Wednesday at noon.

38
2 years ago

The founders of this startup have been working in the tech industry for decades, however they have had no success starting companies. Some of their friends on LinkedIn have noticed that they have a lot of business cards and they don’t have a company. They wanted to build a company that helps other entrepreneurs — not just friends and family — to get off the ground.

38
2 years ago

 A company that helps improve software quality by giving testers access to a full simulator of their app, allowing them to run every possible scenario and find bugs earlier.

38
2 years ago

A startup that uses data from the phones of everyday people to identify the most dangerous cities in the world.

37
2 years ago

A London-based startup building an app that brings a digital version of the concierge service to everyone’s phone.

37
2 years ago

An “Evernote for work”, which, in its own pitch, claims to be the world’s most used digital tool for work.

37
2 years ago

This startup, dubbed “the Uber for food”, is focused on helping people coordinate food deliveries from restaurants. The startup is currently focused on delivery in New York City, but it has ambitious plans to expand to nearly every US city.

37
2 years ago

BitMEX is the first regulated Bitcoin exchange in the world, offering a trading platform for professional traders to trade Bitcoins with leverage. BitMEX hopes to be a catalyst for Bitcoin’s rise to prominence, with hopes to increase institutional investment in the market.

37
2 years ago

A chatbot that lets you search for and book hotels without ever leaving the app, and then chat with your hotel stay to get a better experience.

37
2 years ago

This startup is building an AI for scheduling meetings. The idea is to allow people to get a better idea of when and where they’re needed by using AI. The company wants to build an AI that can visualize data from everyone in a meeting, and immediately show people when they’re needed.

36
2 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses track a wide variety of metrics, from their business to employees. They currently have several clients inside the pet industry.

36
2 years ago

A platform for planning and budgeting, with a twist: it’s a web app, so you can access it from any device or browser. The startup’s platform, however, relies on a tool that lets you import your finances, and then you can set up budgets based on that data. It’s only been live for a few weeks, but the startup says it’s already been downloaded by over 200 people.

36
2 years ago

In a world where millions of people browse the web every day, the average person spends less than 20 minutes on the internet every week.

36
2 years ago

A digital wallet for everyday purchases and a peer-to-peer payment system.

36
5 years ago

A startup that gives people a platform to post everything from their trip to the grocery store and how they spent their money

35
2 years ago

Why do people buy a car from someone they’ve never talked to before BizBox aims to be a communications tool between car dealers and consumers, with a marketplace for sellers. There’s a lot of money to be made in this, and BizBox has already launched a product for the German market.

35
2 years ago

A company that makes smart pens that can record everything you write and draw. The pen is an integrated camera, microphone, and speaker. A company press release described it as “the world’s first smart pen that enables you to capture the world around you.”

35
2 years ago

 A startup that uses AI to hyper-personalize pitches, allowing companies to target more precise audiences than ever before.

35
2 years ago

Hackable street light that lets people monitor it from their phone. The startup says they’ve had several businesses in the San Francisco area interested in a prototype.

35
2 years ago

Another “automate everything” idea, this one for the legal sector. A startup that will work with law firms to automatically fill out, track and file legal documents.

35
3 years ago

A company that aims to help manufacturers develop and customize their own customizable product and packaging designs. The company is building a platform to do the design work, while the customer is able to create their own design and change it however they want without the hassle of contracting with a third party.

34
3 years ago

The startup builds tools to help shoppers make better decisions when buying everyday items. The tool will be used on a smartphone app, with options to allow users to see how a certain item performs over the course of a year, or compare the cost of a branded product to its generic alternative.

34
2 years ago

A platform that allows users to easily share their personal travel plans via a website or Slack. The startup wants to take the guesswork out of travel planning, and provide a check-in system that benefits everyone in the group.

34
2 years ago

A startup that’s working on a messaging platform that uses the best of Whatsapp but also leverages AI and machine learning to “automate communication between humans and machines.”

34
2 years ago

This is a subscription service that sends their users a barcode for every product they purchase, which they scan at the checkout to get discounts on that product. They claim their model has the potential to save shoppers up to $1,000 a year.

34
2 years ago

A company that builds tools for the insurance industry. The company hopes to build everything from a single platform to help insurers develop and manage customer relationships to a marketplace for claims.

34
2 years ago

A mobile-first exchange app meant to help people find and buy durable goods by leveraging social data.

34
3 years ago

A digital health service that helps manage chronic disease, including diabetes and asthma, in the same way that a bank helps manage everyday expenses. A digital health service helps manage chronic disease, including diabetes and asthma, in the same way that a bank helps manage everyday expenses.

33
3 years ago

The startup is building an AI-powered tool that helps small businesses sell online, with a focus on e-commerce. They’re currently targeting the travel, food and beverage, and education sectors.

33
3 years ago

 A travel rewards system for frequent fliers, allowing them to get points for every flight and redeem them for things like vacation packages.

33
2 years ago

A tool that allows users to easily find and research everything they need to know about a company, including a range of data points (financial, social, legal, and more).

33
3 years ago

A collaborative space for people to draw and talk about their ideas. It has been used for everything from brainstorming to solving engineering problems.

32
2 years ago

A company that helps people sell their homes without ever leaving their homes. The startup built an app that allows buyers to see not only houses for sale, but also videos from the sellers.

32
2 years ago

A digital assistant that leverages algorithms to predict behavior to help people plan out their lives. The startup wants to use data to predict the likelihood of when people will get married, have a baby, fall into debt, lose their job, or get divorced.

32
2 years ago

“We’re going to make the world’s best conference,” says Jeff Weiss, the startup’s founder. “It will be the biggest and most amazing conference you’ve ever been to.”

32
2 years ago

 A startup that wants to help home-buyers and sellers get more cash from their homes quickly. It’s a sort of reverse mortgage, but it’s a tiny bit more complicated. The company is looking to launch in the summer in the US.

32
2 years ago

A U.S.-based company that will send you your car loan payment book, fixed rate, every month.

32
3 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses build their own branded credit card readers by leveraging off the popularity of the card readers they offer.

31
2 years ago

A startup that helps people to incorporate in the UK. The company’s founders say there are around 100,000 new companies incorporated in the UK every year, but there’s no good way to keep track of them. So they launched a platform that lets people keep track of their companies’ incorporation histories in one place.

31
2 years ago

A startup with a physical sensor that detects a host of toxic substances in the air. The system can provide real time information to health professionals on the severity of an event, and can help them figure out where to deploy response teams.

31
2 years ago

Y Combinator is a group of investors who invest in companies with ideas they think have “big market potential.” YC is based out of Mountain View, and focuses on everything from mobile/web startups to medical-tech startups.

31
2 years ago

This startup is building a loyalty rewards platform for the cannabis industry. The company already has several customers in the cannabis industry, including the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board.

30
2 years ago

A digital assistant for the self-employed. The startup wants to put a digital assistant in your pocket. The assistant can handle everything from booking appointments to making calls.

30
2 years ago

This app’s founders want to encourage people to be more aware of the types of products they use on a daily basis. It’s a bit like DoNotPay, but for things you use every day.

30
2 years ago

A platform allowing people to grant others access to their email, calendars, contacts, and calendars. The founders call the product “the most social e-mail service you’ve ever seen.”

30
5 years ago

A startup that lets people buy and sell homes with cryptocurrencies, says it’s already working with several real estate agents to list properties for sale with Bitcoin

29
2 years ago

Acme is building a community for people who want to learn about and put their money into cryptocurrencies. The company’s founder says it’s “built for the everyday investor,” and that it is “the first to offer the option to trade cryptocurrencies directly from a bank account.”

29
2 years ago

A reverse auction that takes into account the interests of both buyer and seller.

29
2 years ago

This startup wants to make it easy to find deals on everything from Airbnb to discount coupons. The app looks for discounts from different companies and incorporates them into a single product.

29
2 years ago

A snack delivery service for kids, that pairs with an app to order snacks from a local grocery store. The startup is working with several grocery chains across the country and has signed on over 3,000 local grocery stores.

29
2 years ago

Paving the way for a new, more efficient way to manage the world’s supply and demand of natural resources. It helps companies like Shell and Unilever track the amount of oil or water they’re using, and what it costs.

28
2 years ago

Unmetric is basically a dating app for inventors. The founders say that over a quarter of patents are never licensed, and that a large majority of inventors are single. Unmetric wants to help connect inventors with others who may be interested in licensing or collaborating on an idea.

28
2 years ago

A startup that’s focused on making online education more interactive. Its service, called ReadyBuddy, allows students to receive personalized feedback from their instructors for every lesson. It works by having a group of students take a quiz up front, and then having their instructor review it.

28
2 years ago

 A platform to help restaurants, hotels and others manage several booking systems, including Google's.

28
2 years ago

A patient-centered roadmap for treatment plans, with a personalized doctor visit for every step of the way.

28
2 years ago

A platform that helps salespeople leverage social signals to increase conversions.

28
2 years ago

A platform that allows users to pay for their own personal assistants. The assistants can be used for everything from shopping lists to scheduling to doing the dishes.

28
2 years ago

A healthcare startup that wants to be the Amazon of healthcare, which would be a massive undertaking. It aims to build a “hospital” that can deliver everything from labs to surgeries to nutrition to radiology.

28
2 years ago

The startup wants to connect all of the different collections of data about a person into a single platform, which will let them see everything, from their genetic information to their social connections.

27
2 years ago

The brainchild of two former Google executives, Eventbrite is a SaaS platform for selling tickets online. The company’s financials are not disclosed, but its users say they have thousands of events every day.

27
2 years ago

A company that helps artists sell their work online. The startup is in talks with several art galleries to help them sell art online.

27
2 years ago

A platform to connect freelancers and employees with on-demand services. Freelancers get paid every time they complete a contract, and employees get paid every time they complete a task.

27
2 years ago

A way to manage, organize and track your everyday to do list. It’s free to download and uses the new Apple Watch to add tasks to your day.

27
2 years ago

Zestimate is a reverse engineering and toolmaker of home valuations. The startup has built a database of home values going back to 1985 which it says is the most comprehensive of any company. Zestimate also provides automated valuation reports and a reverse mortgage calculator.

27
2 years ago

This startup helps people manage their online presence at several social platforms. The startup uses AI to pull in relevant notifications from different sites and surfaces them in an efficient way.

26
2 years ago

A sports shoe subscription service, with models that ship every three months.

26
2 years ago

A SaaS startup that helps brands leverage influencers for product placement and marketing.

26
2 years ago

A startup that helps companies make sense of the data in their financial transaction transactions and make better decisions. It’s been used to help Walmart save $10 million every year.

26
2 years ago

Nevergo is building a way for people to put their keys and other valuables in a “smart locker” that’s accessible through an app, so that if they’re at home but forget their keys, they can get them back.

25
2 years ago

A startup that is building a “sharing economy” platform for sharing everything from housewares to cars. The company has a large focus on the sharing economy in the US, but has plans to expand into international markets. It’s also starting to look at logistics and shipping.

25
2 years ago

"BarkBox is a monthly subscription service that sends a box of healthy, organic treats to your pup's door every month. BarkBox ships their treats to you in a box that's specifically made for dogs. BarkBox provides a healthy alternative to commercial treats and treats dog owners by themselves"

25
2 years ago

A platform for managing the entire life cycle of content, leveraging the massive amounts of data around content and the tools and expertise that come with it. The company is in the process of obtaining the necessary licenses to operate in the EU.

25
2 years ago

A company that wants to manage all financial transactions for the companies it works with. It aims for the startup to be able to handle everything from payroll to invoices, and eventually wants to introduce new services like tax services.

25
2 years ago

A tool for managing book publishing that works like a personal assistant, and helps authors with everything from marketing to accounting.

25
2 years ago

A non-profit focused on using technology to create food that’s both healthy and affordable for everyone.

25
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that makes it easy for US consumers to buy Mexican avocados. The company is doing this by helping consumers order avocados online, then providing a service that ships the avocados to them from Mexico, taking care of taxes and other details. It’s already working with several large grocery chains, including Costco.

24
2 years ago

This is a tool for monitor recruiting events, helping to track attendees, and make sure everything is running smoothly.

24
2 years ago

“A real-time management platform that helps companies better monitor and respond to everything from child care to custodial services.”

24
2 years ago

An AI-powered “automatic” therapy machine. It claims its machine is “unlike anything that has ever been built before” and can automate the process of curing cancer.

24
2 years ago

A startup that is building an AI-based system that automatically detects and reverses “missteps” on an investment portfolio. They say the startup is able to detect and correct for a handful of common mistakes 80% of the time, and that it doesn’t require any human involvement.

24
2 years ago

A company building a new kind of payment card that builds on the mobile wallet paradigm that exists today. The company is building a card that can hold all of your bank card data. Instead of having to manually enter your 12-digit number every time you use the card, the card will be able to pull up your recent transactions and automatically pull in your bank card number.

24
2 years ago

This app is designed for parents to save young kids from pulling all their toys out of box and putting everything back in the box.

24
2 years ago

A light-weight monitoring solution that is designed to be easy to install and manage. They will do everything from monitoring and alerting, to configuration and operation of the system.

24
2 years ago

A startup that lets people upload their tax documents and get an estimate of how much money they are likely to owe, all without ever visiting a tax office.

23
2 years ago

A digital board game company that’s partnering with Unilever to develop a game for kids, playing off of the company’s brands.

23
2 years ago

A crowdsourced model for hiring world-class experts, which they are leveraging to help companies outsource knowledge work.

23
2 years ago

A global business conference and expo that brings together entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals who work in every aspect of the startup and early-stage business ecosystem. One of its founders is an investment banker and the other is a PayPal alum.

23
2 years ago

A startup that helps people with medical bills, allowing them to create a profile on the site, and then get a quote based on a set of conditions they set (i.e. pre-existing conditions) that can apply to whatever health plan they’re in.

22
2 years ago

A platform that allows clients to manage their internet of things (IoT) devices via a mobile app. Cleverly enough, the startup’s competitors include other companies trying to solve the same problem.

22
2 years ago

A startup that builds a tool to aggregate and analyze data on a specific industry for a specific purpose. The founders say they built the company with the intention they’d raise a round of funding to grow the team, but they never found a buyer.

22
2 years ago

This startup is building a real-time translation layer for companies that want to build applications that work across different languages. They’re building a platform that helps developers translate their applications into any language, so that the experience is exactly the same for people everywhere.

22
2 years ago

A startup that lets users set up notifications for their favorite brands, so they never miss a sale. The app is currently only available for Android but plans to expand to iOS as well. The startup says that it’s already built out a team of top-tier talent, and the company expects to raise $1 million in its Y Combinator class.

21
2 years ago

A company that wants to improve the way people manage their health care by leveraging the power of technology. The startup wants to connect the dots between medical records, medications, and lifestyle data in a way that allows patients to manage their health with a greater level of personalization.

21
2 years ago

A security startup that leverages machine learning to keep users safe from data breaches. The startup has a security product of its own, but also works with companies to provide a security solution for their own products, and to keep the products secure from hacks.

20
2 years ago

Fishbowl Scientists is a startup that helps companies like Coca-Cola or Unilever track consumers’ uses of their products through their smartphones. The company tracks consumers’ behavior in their homes, their cars, and in public spaces, using sensors and apps.

20
2 years ago

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

20
2 years ago

A startup for doctors to share patient information and get paid for it. The founders built the app after realizing that patients usually don’t have access to all their medical records and that doctors often don’t have time to get everything together to send it to them. Dr. G is growing quickly.

20
2 years ago

A “reverse crowdfunding” platform that makes it easy for startups to raise funds by selling shares in their company.

20
2 years ago

A startup for online classes that teaches everything from coding to baking.

20
2 years ago

A mobile app that lets you find the cheapest gas station in your area, with prices updated every 30 seconds. The startup is based in New York, and is currently in beta testing.

20
2 years ago

A startup that is building a database of all the items ever produced in the world, using a theory that companies should be able to search the database to understand where to find the right-sized parts to build something.

20
2 years ago

A real-time team messaging app, where teams can chat with a real person, in real time, without ever leaving their work.

19
2 years ago

A startup that connects the world’s biggest economies to span their trade, enabling everyone to do business with everyone.

19
2 years ago

In April 2017, Facebook announced a $1 billion investment in virtual reality company Oculus, with the vision for the two platforms to work together. However, the companies have since been involved in a dispute over the acquisition of Oculus, and subsequently, the sale of their VR software to Microsoft. In 2018, Facebook lost a motion for a summary judgement of fair trade and in June 2018, a jury found Oculus had a binding contract with Facebook.

19
2 years ago

A technology for building chatbots. The startup wants to build one that’s accessible to everyone and can be used in any messaging app.

18
2 years ago

A free hackathon-style event that happens every other week in downtown NYC, with talks from startups as well.

18
2 years ago

This digital bank account aims to help startups get money faster, seeing as many startups don’t have a bank account, but have everything on credit cards.

17
2 years ago

A startup that wants to help companies better manage their workforce. It’s currently negotiating with several Fortune 500 companies.

17
2 years ago

A company that helps guide people through the process of starting their own business, offering advice on everything from the best way to market their product to how to structure their business' finances.

17
2 years ago

A startup that uses predictive algorithms to help companies figure out how to best leverage data to profit from it.

17
2 years ago

A credit card that works like PayPal, but with a twist — instead of charging a flat fee, the company earns a little every month off of customers’ purchases.

16
2 years ago

A startup looking to build an e-commerce platform for the cannabis industry. The company is working to build a virtual marketplace where consumers can purchase everything from cannabis accessories to bongs.

16
2 years ago

A tool for learning how to code. Long ago, I started with a text editor, and then I got frustrated with the complexity of the code I was writing. So I decided to try out Vim and I’ve been using it ever since. Vim has taught me a lot about how to write good code. It’s a good tool to start out with.

16
2 years ago

This startup aims to make shopping online much less of a hassle. Like a kind of Google Shopping for physical goods, it allows you to see what your favorite stores have in stock, and make online purchases of those products without ever having to go to the store.

16
2 years ago

A mobile analytics tool that tracks the same set of data for everyone, so the company can create a single report for their team to use.

16
2 years ago

A workplace solution for the hospitality industry, allowing employers to provide food, beverages, and overall perks to their employees.

16
2 years ago

A mobile phone app that seeks to make it easier to remember everything you need to do in a day. The app helps users to remember to do tasks that are more likely to be forgotten if not reminded.

16
2 years ago

A platform to connect and leverage people across the world to work together on projects, without them having to physically meet each other.

16
5 years ago

A startup that turns your home into a smart home, lets you monitor and control everything from your phone

15
2 years ago

A startup that wants to help everyone from small businesses all the way up to large companies recruit and hire the best talent.

15
2 years ago

This startup is building a digital platform for sharing pictures of food. The startup wants to make food photography simple and accessible for everyone.

15
2 years ago

A platform that allows people to create a “relationship” with a virtual assistant. The startup offers a platform for people to do everything from scheduling to getting groceries.

15
2 years ago

A digital, crowdsourced directory of everything in the world, from government documents to digital files

15
2 years ago

A platform that helps retailers build a personalized store experience for every customer. It offers a suite of tools for optimizing store layout and merchandising, including a tool for scanning products and automatically matching them to the store’s design.

15
2 years ago

Every year, one in three Americans will experience a mental health issue. Form is currently working on building a self-help platform that guides people through the process to understand their mental health issues and set up a treatment plan.

15
2 years ago

A startup that aims to be the AirBnB for homes. The company says it’s already in talks with several companies, including a major hotel chain.

15
2 years ago

A company that helps build and scale products for organizations under a budget by leveraging a “bespoke” approach.

14
2 years ago

A new way of measuring student learning which better captures everything that happens in a classroom, which helps schools develop better strategies for teaching.

14
2 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses manage their expenses by allowing them to create a single “expense report” for everything they buy.

14
2 years ago

A “personal assistant that helps you make your life easier”, providing you with an assistant-like service. You can ask it things like “how to find a good restaurant near me” or “how to get home safely” and it will help you with everything you need.

14
2 years ago

A team of MIT students is building a system that predicts the likelihood that someone will commit a crime or make an error based on their behavior over the last several years.

14
2 years ago

A company that makes the first-ever hardware-embedded video game controller for the Nintendo Switch.

13
2 years ago

A video platform that leverages the relationship between brands and performers.

13
2 years ago

The startup wants to make it possible to create a single digital identity for everyone on the planet, and is building software to do it.

13
2 years ago

A startup that helps users with their personal finances, managing everything from budgeting to investment

13
2 years ago

Menlo, a startup founded by Rackspace Chairman Graham Weston, wants to replace your current laptop with a subscription-based model, which would allow you to pay $15 per month for a new computer, and get a new one every few years. Menlo is now moving into physical data centers to build out its business.

13
2 years ago

This is a platform that allows file storage and sharing on a network, with the intention of creating a network that is decentralized, like the internet, and accessible to everyone.

13
2 years ago

A social network for creative teams, allowing you to see what everyone else is working on and to comment on their work.

12
2 years ago

A company that makes a platform for software companies to build mobile apps. The company also wants to build a “product for the everyman”, a “one-click camera”.

11
2 years ago

A platform for reporting on and sharing employee feedback. The idea is to help companies build a better workplace culture by leveraging employee feedback.

11
2 years ago

A startup that is building the first-ever open source fitness app. The app will include things like an online store, a fitness tracker, and a mobile app.

11
2 years ago

A platform that manages all of the money in your life. The app tracks every transaction, and offers a user interface to stay on top of all the money in your life.

11
2 years ago

Fintech startups have been using personal finance apps to do things like invest in mutual funds and manage their portfolios. Traditionally, however, these apps have been more focused on creating a more “personal” experience. One startup, however, is building an app that can help users manage their credit cards.

10
2 years ago

The work of a company is never done. That’s why the company is building a “startup” that provides assistance in the next steps after an app launches.

10
5 years ago

Idea: A voice-activated “interface for the real world”, like a “JARVIS for the physical world”. The founders say it currently “works with every major cloud provider”, and that they’re looking to partner with companies that need the technology to build in-house platforms.

9
2 years ago

A way to manage and track every part of your business, from invoicing to payments, inventory and customer records.

9
2 years ago

ThermoTec has a product that makes it easy to collect and analyze thermal images from security cameras, which it says will be useful for everything from assessing damage to a building to identifying suspects.

9
2 years ago

A company that wants to be the Amazon of electronic accessories. It offers a one-stop shop for everything from home electronics to car audio. The startup has been running a profitable business for years, but is now growing rapidly and expanding its market into the European market.

8
5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can upload pictures of their children and then the pictures are put into a video and sent to them every week or month

5
5 years ago

Idea: Every week, the startup sends people a bag of clothes that they’ve selected based on an algorithm that takes into account their preferences and the weather

5
5 years ago

A startup that provides a service for people to have a list of companies they’ve applied to sent to them every month so they can follow up

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5 years ago

A startup that sells a subscription box service where you get a box of random items every month

-1
5 years ago

A startup that sells a book where you can find a recipe for every possible food you can imagine

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5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can post a free ad for your lost pet and it gets sent out to everyone in your

-1
5 years ago

A startup that provides a service for picking up groceries for you at a certain time every week

-1
5 years ago

A startup that provides a service for people who are going through a divorce They do everything for you, including finding your next partner

-1
5 years ago

A startup that helps people who are working remotely find a co-working space that has everything they need

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5 years ago

Idea: Personalized, affordable health insurance for every American

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5 years ago

Idea: A new consumer-focused mobile payments app to replace credit cards The company aims to reduce friction by letting users buy things with their phone instead of having to pull out their wallet They want to replace everyone’s credit card information The startup has processed over $1MM in payments

-1
5 years ago

Idea: Software that helps digital agencies manage the billing process, making sure every team member gets paid on time and bills are clear

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A way to track the usage and performance of digital ads The startup has already sold several $15,000 contracts

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A company building zero-knowledge privacy VPN/proxy for web browsing Everyone from individuals to companies can use it to access the Internet privately and securely

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A system for getting analytics data on the customer service experience of customers. The startup says that their analytics platform is already used by several large companies, including GEICO and FanDuel.

-1
5 years ago

A “subscription commerce” platform for selling art. The startup charges $5 per month for 3 paintings, which subscribers receive in the mail every month.

-1
5 years ago

A startup that helps online businesses sell merchandise through Walmart. Their pitch is that it costs $5 on Walmart to sell every $100 of merchandise, while on Amazon it’s $20/100.

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that is building an internet for everything. Blockstack wants to create a platform that allows apps to work on any device without requiring a centralized server.

-1
5 years ago

A startup to buy and sell used cars, with a focus on providing a safe and easy way for folks to manage everything involved in the process. The startup wants to make it easy to sell a car without involving a third party.

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