Fair Startup Ideas

2 years ago

The first YC-backed startup to reach unicorn status was Airbnb, in 2009. Airbnb was followed by Dropbox, Stripe, Uber, Instacart, and Wayfair.

253

1 month ago

A cloud-based platform to build custom-branded retail kiosks for the likes of Walmart, Wayfair and IKEA.

208

3 years ago

A tool that helps people find specific flights, using data from travel agent websites. It’s a fairly simple concept but it will be interesting to see how they implement it as they try to become the Yelp for flights.

201

1 year ago

A startup that’s looking to build a platform that helps parents find the best activities for their kids, and pay them fairly.

170

1 month ago

This is an app that helps people beat the odds of death by helping them get their affairs in order.

162

3 years ago

This startup makes it easier for companies to decide if they are in compliance with the Fair Housing Act.

156

3 years ago

A startup that wants to “make the world a better place” by helping small farmers sell their crops for fair prices.

150

3 years ago

This startup lets employers create employee referral programs and sells the referral fees. The startup’s customers include companies like Wayfair, Zillow, and American Express.

149

3 years ago

A platform to find and book airfare and hotels. The company’s mission is to democratize travel with a transparent and fair marketplace.

141

3 years ago

A corporate-owned, decentralized, fair-trading platform with a ton of data and insights

136

3 years ago

A cloud-based video platform that allows video producers to sell their content in a transparent and fair way.

117

2 years ago

A platform that helps advertisers and agencies connect with creators to curate the most viral content. Content Studio is hoping to use blockchain to create a market for content and allow users to earn tokens for their contributions in a way that is transparent and fair.

117

2 years ago

A $50 million per year B2B startup that gathers data from credit card transactions, then matches the data to the person’s payment history to make sure they’re getting fair credit.

112

2 years ago

A startup that’s trying to make it easier to manage audit and compliance processes, as well as keep up with sanctions and other international affairs.

102

2 years ago

A startup that specializes in helping law firms manage their legal affairs, and create custom legal documents. A legal tech startup, it started with more than 250 legal professionals and is now raising a $10 million round led by Sequoia Capital.

97

2 years ago

A startup to help people sell their used clothing and get a fair price. The company has a partnership with a charity that helps needy people in India.

93

8 months ago

A team that aims to “democratize [the] buying and selling of art”. It wants to create a platform that is fair and easy to use.

90

2 years ago

A startup that uses data science to help companies find new talent. The Startup is currently working with the YC SaaS alum and YC Alumni Wayfair.

83

8 months ago

They want to build a platform that gives people a fair market valuation for their digital properties, in order to ensure that when they die their websites are still valuable and their social media connections are not lost.

75

1 year ago

This healthcare startup is building software to help doctors manage their patient care. It’s working with the Department of Veterans Affairs, which is using it to manage care for veterans.

73

9 months ago

A platform to help businesses track, monitor, and sell their employees’ video and audio recording usage, and set fair prices for usage. The startup is in closed beta with an early, working version, and is currently live in the Los Angeles area.

72

1 year ago

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

70

2 years ago

A startup for organic, fair trade or locally-sourced coffee beans. The startup is targeting the $1 billion coffee market in the US, and has raised a total of $1.1 million in funding.

67

8 months ago

The startup is building a platform that helps customers make sense of the vast amounts of data generated by companies like Wayfair and others.

67

1 year ago

The startup will use AI to match individuals with the right job or career match for them. The startup will also conduct “academic-style job fairs” for employers.

65

8 months ago

Challenge: “How can we create an ecosystem of 2nd-party sellers that is transparent, trustworthy, and fair” They want to help sellers build a “Guild” that is a network of customers, who share their data and pay vendors for a discounted rate. The startup aims to set up the first “Guild” for Amazon sellers.

65

1 year ago

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

64

1 year ago

Aimed at helping remote workers manage their time, work from anywhere, and be paid fairly for it. The startup is currently working with a large telecom company to make it easier for them to manage their time.

58

9 months ago

Farmers markets have a dedicated following of consumers and it’s a fairly small, but growing market. Andres Uribe and his co-founders are building a marketplace that allows farmers to sell directly to consumers. The company is currently in beta.

58

1 year ago

A startup that finds and shares parking garage spots for around $10 per month. It’s fairly basic and focused on downtown San Francisco.

56

1 year ago

This startup aims to transform the face of venture capital by making it more accessible, more transparent, and with more fairness to investors. The startup aims to provide investors with a better way to manage their portfolio, and better tools to manage their investments.

53

1 year ago

A way to create an accurate and fair credit score without much personal information.

52

1 year 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.

51

7 months ago

A company that builds software for building logistics supply chains. It’s a fairly traditional API for supply chain management.

48

1 year ago

This startup is building a tool that helps CEOs and CFOs keep up with their financial reports and to help them build a fair compensation system for their employees.

46

9 months ago

"Philadelphia is a hotbed of tech startups, with more than its fair share of innovators. But with so many talented people hitting the streets, it can be hard to distinguish the real innovators from the pretenders." - Philadelphia Magazine

46

5 months ago

Hitting the $1 million to $2 million mark in funding over the course of 12 months is fairly rare for a startup. But it’s true in the world of payday loans. Money Mart has managed to do it for the past two years. They’re a next-generation bank that offers storefronts, mobile apps and online banking as well as traditional loans. They’re growing in Canada, the UK and the US.

44

10 months ago

Zendrive is building an app to help businesses track employees’ mileage, mileage reimbursement, and mileage payments. Its pitch is that the average American drives 22,000 miles per year. It’s a familiar enterprise solution, but the startup wants to help track employees’ mileage and make sure it’s fair.

40

1 year ago

"We are a company that believes that people should be paid fairly, but we also believe that they should be able to save a little money to be able to afford that," said CEO and co-founder Chris Harvey. "We’re creating this technology that allows people to be able to save a little bit of money in the form of a small credit for the time that they are working."

39

6 months ago

Civic is a startup that wants to create a digital identity system for a digital world. It’s building a system that helps people build a meaningful digital identity, something that can be verified and trusted. The startup is working with the US military, the US Department of Housing, and the US Department of Veterans Affairs.

38

1 year ago

Software that helps startups manage their legal affairs. The startup offers a legal and compliance-focused platform that helps startups manage their legal affairs.

37

1 year ago

A broker that connects companies looking to buy or sell manufacturing equipment and helps them find the right equipment at a fair price.

36

26 days ago

A startup that wants to help freelance designers in India get a fair day rate from clients.

35

10 months ago

A mobile-first, cloud-based system for managing patient records and care. They built on the backend of a similar system for doctors, and are now in a pilot with the Veterans Affairs Office of Patient Centered Care and Outcomes, and the Department of Defense to help improve the quality of patient care.

34

6 months ago

A startup for books for kids to buy and borrow. The company wants to get beyond the traditional book fair by making it a place where kids can buy, sell and borrow.

34

4 months ago

As the world’s largest online furniture retailer, Wayfair has open data on over 80 million pieces of furniture products. The startup wants to make it easier to access and analyze this data by making it accessible through APIs.

34

1 month ago

A software company that wants to use AI to help businesses more effectively manage their legal affairs. The startup wants to help companies like law firms and banks manage and analyze their legal documents.

33

17 days ago

A home for long term care clients to manage their affairs with doctors, nurses, and caregivers. The company aims to make it as easy as possible for clients to manage their care, and expects to make a profit in the first year of operations.

24

9 months ago

An earlier version of the startup, called Viglink, helped websites with affiliate links generate revenue. It was acquired by the company Pagefair in September. Viglink is now a separate company, and Pagefair has changed how it charges for the affiliate marketplace. It’s also trying to make it easier for advertisers to buy links directly from publishers.

22

4 months ago

A decentralized platform for the sharing economy to connect people and transact, using blockchain technology to create trust and a system that is fair for both parties

22

3 months ago

A company to build software for the online casino industry, which is currently dominated by a few giant companies like Betfair and 888. The startup wants to build a platform that allows players to bet on games across different sites.

21

3 months ago

They’re building a digital version of a traditional career fair that’s much more interactive, personal, and engaging.

16

3 months ago

A tool that helps brands understand what their sales reps are talking about in social media. The startup says their product is the same thing that recruiters use to track what’s happening at a job fair, but it can also be used to track what employees are saying on social media.

16

2 days ago

A software platform for doctors that helps them communicate with patients and organize their patient data. It’s a fairly typical medical software startup.

16

3 years ago

Idea: A mobile app for legal services, to help people manage the details of their legal affairs online, without the need to go to a lawyer’s office.

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Fair Startup Ideas

The first YC-backed startup to reach unicorn status was Airbnb, in 2009. Airbnb was followed by Dropbox, Stripe, Uber, Instacart, and Wayfair.

A cloud-based platform to build custom-branded retail kiosks for the likes of Walmart, Wayfair and IKEA.

A tool that helps people find specific flights, using data from travel agent websites. It’s a fairly simple concept but it will be interesting to see how they implement it as they try to become the Yelp for flights.

A startup that’s looking to build a platform that helps parents find the best activities for their kids, and pay them fairly.

This is an app that helps people beat the odds of death by helping them get their affairs in order.

This startup makes it easier for companies to decide if they are in compliance with the Fair Housing Act.

A startup that wants to “make the world a better place” by helping small farmers sell their crops for fair prices.

This startup lets employers create employee referral programs and sells the referral fees. The startup’s customers include companies like Wayfair, Zillow, and American Express.

A platform to find and book airfare and hotels. The company’s mission is to democratize travel with a transparent and fair marketplace.

A corporate-owned, decentralized, fair-trading platform with a ton of data and insights

A cloud-based video platform that allows video producers to sell their content in a transparent and fair way.

A platform that helps advertisers and agencies connect with creators to curate the most viral content. Content Studio is hoping to use blockchain to create a market for content and allow users to earn tokens for their contributions in a way that is transparent and fair.

A $50 million per year B2B startup that gathers data from credit card transactions, then matches the data to the person’s payment history to make sure they’re getting fair credit.

A startup that’s trying to make it easier to manage audit and compliance processes, as well as keep up with sanctions and other international affairs.

A startup that specializes in helping law firms manage their legal affairs, and create custom legal documents. A legal tech startup, it started with more than 250 legal professionals and is now raising a $10 million round led by Sequoia Capital.

A startup to help people sell their used clothing and get a fair price. The company has a partnership with a charity that helps needy people in India.

A team that aims to “democratize [the] buying and selling of art”. It wants to create a platform that is fair and easy to use.

A startup that uses data science to help companies find new talent. The Startup is currently working with the YC SaaS alum and YC Alumni Wayfair.

They want to build a platform that gives people a fair market valuation for their digital properties, in order to ensure that when they die their websites are still valuable and their social media connections are not lost.

This healthcare startup is building software to help doctors manage their patient care. It’s working with the Department of Veterans Affairs, which is using it to manage care for veterans.

A platform to help businesses track, monitor, and sell their employees’ video and audio recording usage, and set fair prices for usage. The startup is in closed beta with an early, working version, and is currently live in the Los Angeles area.

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

A startup for organic, fair trade or locally-sourced coffee beans. The startup is targeting the $1 billion coffee market in the US, and has raised a total of $1.1 million in funding.

The startup is building a platform that helps customers make sense of the vast amounts of data generated by companies like Wayfair and others.

The startup will use AI to match individuals with the right job or career match for them. The startup will also conduct “academic-style job fairs” for employers.

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.

Aimed at helping remote workers manage their time, work from anywhere, and be paid fairly for it. The startup is currently working with a large telecom company to make it easier for them to manage their time.

Farmers markets have a dedicated following of consumers and it’s a fairly small, but growing market. Andres Uribe and his co-founders are building a marketplace that allows farmers to sell directly to consumers. The company is currently in beta.

A startup that finds and shares parking garage spots for around $10 per month. It’s fairly basic and focused on downtown San Francisco.

This startup aims to transform the face of venture capital by making it more accessible, more transparent, and with more fairness to investors. The startup aims to provide investors with a better way to manage their portfolio, and better tools to manage their investments.

A way to create an accurate and fair credit score without much personal information.

A company that builds software for building logistics supply chains. It’s a fairly traditional API for supply chain management.

This startup is building a tool that helps CEOs and CFOs keep up with their financial reports and to help them build a fair compensation system for their employees.

"Philadelphia is a hotbed of tech startups, with more than its fair share of innovators. But with so many talented people hitting the streets, it can be hard to distinguish the real innovators from the pretenders." - Philadelphia Magazine

Software that helps startups manage their legal affairs. The startup offers a legal and compliance-focused platform that helps startups manage their legal affairs.

A broker that connects companies looking to buy or sell manufacturing equipment and helps them find the right equipment at a fair price.

A startup that wants to help freelance designers in India get a fair day rate from clients.

A startup for books for kids to buy and borrow. The company wants to get beyond the traditional book fair by making it a place where kids can buy, sell and borrow.

As the world’s largest online furniture retailer, Wayfair has open data on over 80 million pieces of furniture products. The startup wants to make it easier to access and analyze this data by making it accessible through APIs.

A software company that wants to use AI to help businesses more effectively manage their legal affairs. The startup wants to help companies like law firms and banks manage and analyze their legal documents.

A home for long term care clients to manage their affairs with doctors, nurses, and caregivers. The company aims to make it as easy as possible for clients to manage their care, and expects to make a profit in the first year of operations.

A decentralized platform for the sharing economy to connect people and transact, using blockchain technology to create trust and a system that is fair for both parties

A company to build software for the online casino industry, which is currently dominated by a few giant companies like Betfair and 888. The startup wants to build a platform that allows players to bet on games across different sites.

They’re building a digital version of a traditional career fair that’s much more interactive, personal, and engaging.

A tool that helps brands understand what their sales reps are talking about in social media. The startup says their product is the same thing that recruiters use to track what’s happening at a job fair, but it can also be used to track what employees are saying on social media.

A software platform for doctors that helps them communicate with patients and organize their patient data. It’s a fairly typical medical software startup.

Idea: A mobile app for legal services, to help people manage the details of their legal affairs online, without the need to go to a lawyer’s office.