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The founders of a $60,000 startup are creating a platform that gets people to help lend each other money at a rate of about 1% interest.

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2 years ago

A startup that wants to use technology to help retailers manage wasted food. The founders of the company say it’s a $200 billion industry that is growing.

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2 years ago

A shipping company that wants to help all companies make their deliveries faster and more reliable, working with a bunch of Fortune 500 companies. The founder has 30 years of experience in logistics.

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2 years ago

A social network for small-scale farmers. It’s a food network, which provides a way to connect farmers to consumers who want to buy their products. The startup was founded in May, and now has over a million members.

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4 years ago

The company was founded in 2013 in San Francisco, CA.

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3 years ago

Unexpected startup success, the founders say it has grown from $8 million in sales in Q1 2018 to $7 million in Q3 2018 and $7 million in Q4 2018.

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5 years ago

The company was founded by Ramy El Bannaoui and Chris Curtis, who had previously founded the company in 2007 and sold it in 2011.

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2 years ago

A team of three founders came up with an idea for a drone that uses satellites to locate and track lost or stolen drones.

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4 years ago

M-KOPA is a tool allowing developers to create their own specialized hardware. The founders say the company has sold $4M worth of hardware over the last two years, though they’ve only launched on Kickstarter today.

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5 years ago

A startup that’s building a crowdfunding platform for entrepreneurs. The company is working with the Stars Foundation, which helps invest in startups in developing countries, to create an online platform to help entrepreneurs raise funds.

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2 years ago

A startup for teaching robotics. The founders claim to have 10 employees, including some former Google employees.

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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.

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5 years ago

In the past year, there have been a few notable exits from Indian startups and their founders. Vani Kola, co-founder of Zomato, sold her company to local rival Swiggy for an estimated $50 million.

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2 years ago

A SaaS for small and medium-sized businesses. The company’s founder claims that the platform has saved them around $3 million in annual expenses by facilitating remote access and communication between employees.

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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.

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4 years ago

A payments company that offers a way for small businesses to pay for their own invoices. The founders say they’re aiming to replace “payroll” software.

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5 years ago

The founders of a startup that helps veterans and employers identify and hire each other.

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5 years ago

The company is building a platform for people to create and share videos of what they're building. The company's founder says that they've already sold their first video to a client.

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4 years ago

This SaaS company helps doctors and patients collaborate on medical records. The founders are also building a medical device to connect a patient’s vital signs to medical professionals.

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4 years ago

This year’s judges were Jason Ho, Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures; Kristi Puller, Founder, and CEO, Techstars; Bill Gaver, General Partner, 500 Startups; and Sanjay Dastoor, Founder, and CEO, InVenture Partners.

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2 years ago

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

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4 years ago

Founded in 2013, QuizUp is a trivia game where you compete against others for high scores. The startup has raised $1.5 million and is now making its way into Asia.

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4 years ago

A directory of the world’s best remote job sites, curated by the founders of Remote Year.

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4 years ago

The startup is a spin-off of a company called Hint, which was founded in 2015 to help people make better decisions about personal finance. The data can be used to help consumers identify opportunities for savings and investments, and Hint says one in three Americans don’t have enough money saved.

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4 years ago

Founded by a 16-year-old, this startup is a tool to help people use their insurance money to pay for health care.

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2 years ago

A platform for online education founded by a former high school teacher with the goal of helping students improve their knowledge and skills in areas like math, science, and computer science.

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5 years ago

The founders of this startup say they are “building the first truly global, blockchain-based, decentralized and transparent peer-to-peer marketplace for advertising.”

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4 years ago

A network for mobile phone users that connects them to legal services and legal professionals. The startup was founded in 2015 and is based in the UK.

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4 years ago

This startup has two co-founders, and they describe themselves as “…the first and only platform that helps [you] create and learn from inspiring and engaging content about personal finance, investing, and life.”

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3 years ago

A startup that acts as a broker for the sale of private homes and holiday rentals. Founded in 2016, it has 1,000+ customers in the UK.

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4 years ago

A software company that helps businesses and foundations manage their contributions to charitable causes. The company wants to be the “Yahoo of charity”.

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4 years ago

This startup offers a platform to help companies and organizations collaborate on content, from making public records to organizing conferences. Its founders describe it as a “LinkedIn for events”.

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3 years ago

A platform that makes it easier for customers to build their own websites. The startup, which was founded in June, wants to help companies, particularly small businesses, create their own websites without a developer.

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4 years ago

A company that provides software that helps small businesses to operate better, faster, and more efficiently. It’s a cloud-based service that helps small businesses staff sales, accounting, and other functions. The startup has raised over $4.6 million in funding, and found itself in the news recently for an employee lawsuit.

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4 years ago

The founders of this startup are trying to create a new kind of credit card that can be used across multiple merchants, instead of different cards for different merchants.

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4 years ago

Founders came up with an idea for an app that would help people discover good food and drink in their neighborhood and pay for it.

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4 years ago

A startup that helps you learn to code by making you build a simple tool that you eventually turn into a real product. The startup’s co-founder saw a need for the same kind of bootcamps in the area, and created the site to fill it.

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3 years ago

A startup that aims to bring the “sharing economy” to farmers, who are often left out of the vast majority of transactions related to food, be it restaurants or grocery stores. The founders say that since they can use shared resources, they can cut the cost of a farm by 75%.

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5 years ago

A startup that provides a service for helping people find a co-founder

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2 years ago

Meeple is a startup that uses a micro-lending platform to help small businesses and startups get financing. The startup, which was founded in April, currently has $5,000 in monthly recurring revenue and is looking to raise a seed round.

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4 years ago

Founded in 2014, this startup wants to help companies automate their purchasing of office supplies.

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4 years ago

A company that uses AI to help people understand their credit score. It’s founded by a former VP of risk at FICO, and has raised $40 million.

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4 years ago

The startup’s pitch is that “we help people save money by visiting restaurants that are good, but not the best.” The app now has 100,000 users in the UK, and its founders say they’ll be able to expand globally if their funding round meets its goal.

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4 years ago

A startup co-founded by Y Combinator alum Sam Altman, this is a social network where you can make friends with the people you meet through the app. Users pay for memberships and can then message and chat with others on the platform.

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4 years ago

A platform that helps people find the cheapest flight options. The company was founded in 2015 by Stanford grads Diego Lozano and David Smith.

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4 years ago

Founded in 2012 by Joshua Williams and Mark Wascura, the company develops and sells a platform that allows companies to build and manage their own travel and expense management platforms. Williams and Wascura began their careers as software engineers and spent 13 years at Oracle and HP respectively, before deciding to start the company in 2012. They raised $5 million in 2014 and $12 million in 2017.

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4 years ago

A developer’s toolkit that lets you build apps that work across all the major operating systems. The startup was founded by ex-Google employees.

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4 years ago

An email marketing tool that integrates with all of your favorite email clients. The startup’s founders say they’ve already closed $1.5 million in pre-launch investment.

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4 years ago

“The Motley Fool” is a U.S. financial and investing blog and website, founded in 1996.

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4 years ago

This startup, which was co-founded by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, wants to bring machine learning to the enterprise.

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5 years ago

A group of four-hour-old startups that are still around from Demo Day in June. The goal is to help early stage founders get funding and grow their businesses.

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5 years ago

A startup co-founded by a former Googler, Qwant is trying to recreate some of the magic of the Google search results page with a new, more visual UI. The startup is trying to compete with Google for the European market.

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4 years ago

A group of four co-founders who launched the software for digital assistants in February, who then later launched a hardware startup.

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3 years ago

The founder of this startup wants to do for video marketing what Spotify has done for music.

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4 years ago

A fixer-upper app, with a focus on home renovations. Founded by a pair of ex-Googlers, it allows users to record their repairs on a map to see how they match up with others.

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5 years ago

Business software for the home that allows homeowners to manage their utilities. The company’s founders say they’re targeting the $80 billion home and building automation space.

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5 years ago

A tool for distribution of food and groceries to people in need, in the form of a vehicle equipped with a fridge, a microwave, and a coffee machine, and that can travel down the street from a central hub. The startup’s founders are veterans of the American military.

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4 years ago

The Startup Genome is a resource for founders and investors. It covers early stage

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4 years ago

While this is a new company, the founders’ past experience and work on other startups and products and their location in São Paulo, Brazil, makes it an interesting choice.

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4 years ago

As startups have left their desks behind, founders have become increasingly worried about their physical whereabouts, and have invented apps to help. In the new book, “Fearless: How to Be Unafraid and Do Anything,” entrepreneurs and founders like Dave McClure, David Karp, and Adam D’Angelo share their stories of building their companies in secret, and how they’ve gained confidence and fearlessness.

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4 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for companies to build apps for their customers, by building an app store for developers to build apps for their customers. The startup’s founder tells us that he’s gotten 10,000 signups in 2 weeks.

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4 years ago

The startup is building a platform that allows developers to build apps that integrate with Amazon Echo. It’s a side project for the founders of the company.

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4 years ago

Recode is a project from Cheddar that provides video interviews with the founders of startups in the technology sector.

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3 years ago

A digital health startup that helps you manage your health, in real time. It is the only startup in the YC batch with a female founder.

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4 years ago

The most influential students in the YC community are the founders and co-founders of YC startups. These are founders that have gone on to found their own companies in the seven years since YC.

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5 years ago

"Authentic" is the name of an app that provides a secure, private and audited chat platform for businesses. The app allows users to create a private chat room for a group of up to ten people, with a group administrator who can add new members, delete or block members and monitor chat content. The company was founded by former Googler and Google Ventures partner Misha Chellam.

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4 years ago

A student loan refinancing startup that promises to reduce interest rates. It just closed a $10 million round, and its founders said they’re targeting 15% of student loan holders.

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3 years ago

The startup’s founders say they’re the first to offer a marketplace for like-minded people to share their unique skills and talents with each other.

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5 years ago

A tool to create a photo-realistic simulation of an office environment with a 3D avatar. Its founders say it’s the first 3D avatar platform that is both accessible and real-time.

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4 years ago

A startup that builds hardware startups. The founder, Jibran Salfi, built his first hardware startup at age 20, and has since been working at Nest Labs. He was the first employee at Nest Labs, and was part of the team that built the original Nest thermostat.

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4 years ago

An “Uber for dog walking”, which the founders say is “like the Uber of dog walking”. The company is planning to bridge the gap between the gig economy and the traditional dog-walking industry.

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3 years ago

• How the founders of two startups from opposite sides of the world are working together to solve the same problem of how to find and hire talented engineers in remote areas.

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3 years ago

A matchmaking app that lets you find people who need help with their hobbies, which is like a community of hobbyists and enthusiasts. Founded in March.

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5 years ago

A company focused on corporate software for the cannabis industry. The founders say they’ve already secured $2m in funding.

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3 years ago

A platform that helps people manage media content and make money on it. The company, which was founded in March, is a marketplace of videos, images, and other digital media that are monetized by users.

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5 years ago

Builds a retail website for selling products via Instagram. The startup’s founder says that the website is “the world’s first” to use the social platform to sell physical products online.

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5 years ago

This startup, which was founded in March, aims to make it easier to get and pay for health insurance. The startup’s goal is to save the US family health insurance market $300 billion.

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4 years ago

The startup, which was founded in March, is building a platform that helps users translate their spoken language into text.

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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.

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4 years ago

According to the 2017 Global Startup Ecosystem Report, there were over 2.4 million startup founders working in the United States.

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5 years ago

Startup founders are being more aggressive in the US, with a few companies in the last year getting VCs to fund them at seed or Series A-level, when they may have previously been too early.

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5 years ago

A marketing tool for crowdfunding platforms that helps founders and project managers track projects and keep track of fundraising progress.

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5 years ago

A solution for startup founders to find and hire technical talent.

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5 years ago

A startup that helps insurance companies manage their customer accounts and claims. Founded in May.

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5 years ago

Founders: Austin, Elsie. They are building a platform for Facebook data scientists to easily access data in the form of lakes, rivers, and mountain ranges, and make data-based decisions to improve their products.

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5 years ago

A tool for teachers to look for suppliers of the classroom supplies they need. The startup, which was founded in July, is building a list of suppliers that are listed on Amazon.

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5 years ago

A “big data” solution that helps food companies track their supply chain and predict how much food they’ll need to produce. The startup’s founders say they’ve already signed up over 500 clients, including Walmart, Nestle, and Cargill.

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5 years ago

This is a mobile application that helps entrepreneurs find, vet and manage teams. It was built by Y Combinator’s own team and is a set of tools that help founders navigate the startup ecosystem.

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4 years ago

A Tinder-like app for finding local businesses. Founded by two former Coinbase employees, it has a basic but growing user base.

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4 years ago

The founders want to build a way for people to monetize their work through a new, more transparent, and more scalable model.

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5 years ago

A startup that makes it easier for hotel guests to use their credit card on property. The company’s founders came up with the idea at a conference where the hotel they were staying at had a similar feature, and thought there was a better way to do it.

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4 years ago

A startup that helps people track the money they’re spending online, including all their subscriptions and subscriptions to services like Netflix. The startup’s co-founder said it’s been profitable in the past year.

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3 years ago

The Startup Grind is a podcast network that highlights the best stories in business, technology and startup news. The podcast is produced by TechCrunch, and features interviews with entrepreneurs, founders and investors.

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5 years ago

A secure, automated email-based system for handling sensitive transactions. They’ve built a tool that uses the public keys of people’s email accounts to take payments and even file taxes. The founders tell us they have $6 million in funding from participants in Y Combinator and have received an undisclosed amount of seed funding from YC.

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5 years ago

This startup is building a self-learning platform to help teach people the fundamentals of coding. The startup’s founders say that the product they have built is already powering over 20,000 students in 300 schools.

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3 years ago

The big promise of this startup is a way to make your company’s data more usable. The founders say they can help companies get their data out of spreadsheets and into a platform they can actually use.

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3 years ago

A digital platform that allows companies to pay medical bills in monthly installments. The startup, which was founded in August, wants to make medical bills more affordable for patients.

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5 years ago

A last-mile delivery service for restaurants. The startup's founders say food deliveries are a $21 billion market and it's growing 15-20% per year.

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5 years ago

Cofounder Alex Zabludowicz co-founded this fintech company with his brother, Alex. It wants to make payments faster, cheaper, and more secure, with a focus on the developing world.

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5 years ago

The Startup Genome is a biannual report on the state of entrepreneurship. It is produced by a team of researchers from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. The report is based on interviews with founders about their businesses, the challenges they face, and their plans for the future. The report is intended to give entrepreneurs, investors, and other stakeholders a comprehensive overview of the startup ecosystem in a particular country, and to help predict trends between countries.

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5 years ago

A bank account that the founders say is “like a personal investment account with 100x the transparency of other accounts and no fees.” The account is meant to be a savings account for small businesses or freelancers.

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5 years ago

A travel app that claims to be fully integrated with Airbnb. The startup’s founders say they’ve already been in talks with Airbnb about using their platform.

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4 years ago

The company is building a platform for managing citizen dialog on local issues. The cofounders say that more than $6 billion is spent on lobbying each year, and the platform would make it easier for citizens to have their voices heard in government.

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5 years ago

A software company that creates an API for a network of processors and license holders to manage payments in real-time. The startup was founded by two former executives of Adyen, a global payment processing company.

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5 years ago

The annual list is compiled by a group of judges, including founders and investors such as Paul Graham, Michael Arrington, Fred Wilson, and others.

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4 years ago

The company’s founders have been called "the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs of the Indian startup scene" by a reporter in Quartz.

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5 years ago

From the founders of digital agency All Day I Dream About Food, a platform aimed at helping restaurants and chefs improve food quality and service.

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5 years ago

A startup that’s building a tool to help schools estimate their energy costs. The startup’s founders say they want to make it easier for schools to measure and manage their energy costs, but they also want to make it easier for them to implement energy saving measures.

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4 years ago

This startup is building a digital bank account in India. The founders say it’s a simpler, cheaper alternative to the physical ATM cards found in most cities.

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4 years ago

A startup that provides customers with the ability to pay bills, bank transfers, and other expenses with their mobile phones. The company’s founders say they’ve already signed up 300,000 users and are working to expand their service to other countries.

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3 years ago

A pitch from a pair of former YC founders, who say they’re using self-driving cars to help Detroit’s homeless.

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5 years ago

A startup that wants to help people in Latin America track their expenses and grow their credit score The company’s founders say that after launching in early august, they’re already working with over 3,000 retail accounts

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5 years ago

Builds high-end VR content for the fashion industry. The startup, which was founded in May, wants to rapidly iterate on a VR experience before its peers.

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5 years ago

A platform that allows developers to take their app and run it via IP. It's aimed at mobile apps, but its founders say it can run desktop programs too.

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5 years ago

A platform that enables people to interact with their favorite brands through video. The startup’s founders say they have 40,000+ customers for the product.

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5 years ago

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

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4 years ago

The founders of an AI-powered dating app want to use their product as a platform for investors to invest in AI startups.

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4 years ago

A startup that wants to help banks with payments in Peru. The startup's co-founder says they have more than 1,000 business accounts as of September.

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3 years ago

This startup is building a “social streaming” feed that allows users to track how others are watching videos or articles on their social media profiles. The founders say this is a way for brands to see how their content is being consumed without having to ask for permission.

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5 years ago

Another company built by former Quid co-founders, this one is building a suite of tools to make it easier for women to own businesses in emerging markets.

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5 years ago

The startup was founded in May with the goal of making banking more accessible in the US.

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5 years ago

A tool that helps small businesses connect with customers. The company’s founders say that the company’s users have saved over $500,000 by using the tool.

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5 years ago

Founded in 2017, this startup makes a “computerized basketball training program” that’s meant to help athletes improve their shooting.

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5 years ago

A mobile app that helps people make better decisions about their health. The startup’s founder says they are on track for $1 million in revenue in 2019.

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5 years ago

A new type of event registration system, which is a hybrid of Google Apps and Eventbrite. The company’s founder says that while it currently is free, it will be a subscription model in the future. The startup was founded in June.

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5 years ago

Media startups are often built on the back of a single product, such as Skype or YouTube. The company’s founders say its technology can help companies figure out whether a new product is worth the investment.

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5 years ago

Founded in 2015, Flyfree is an SEO agency based in London. They provide digital marketing services and run their own SEO training academy.

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5 years ago

A crowdfunding platform that aims to help entrepreneurs pitch their projects on a more intimate level. It’s a tool to help founders speak directly to the crowd without the need for a large team of people. It’s currently in private beta.

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5 years ago

A video platform that chooses the best pieces of footage from a video to create a GIF. The startup, which was founded in May 2014, says it has been offering GIFs for free since last year.

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5 years ago

A health-maintenance company for the elderly, focusing on their social needs. The company’s founder and president, Alejandro Ortiz, said that for many older people, social engagement often goes missing, making it harder for them to stay healthy.

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5 years ago

Chargeback is an online platform that helps users dispute utility bills. It’s a B2B startup catering to utility companies. The founders hope to build a worldwide network of users.

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5 years ago

A startup that’s building an online platform for people who want to build and sell their own custom iPhone cases. The startup’s founders say that about 1% of the cases sold in the US are custom-made, and a handful of startups have tried to build their own platform for selling such cases, without much success.

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5 years ago

A pitch system that allows businesses to send out videos to potential customers. The startup, which was founded in August, is looking to attract businesses with a $5 per month price point.

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5 years ago

Alluvium is a company that makes artificial intelligence software for image recognition. The founders say it’s better than other tools because it was built from the ground up to work with the way humans think, rather than the way machines work.

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5 years ago

A new company that wants to help people in need, particularly those who can't afford to buy an iPhone. The founders say that for a typical customer, "you'd have to work about 30 years to pay off a plan that costs $350."

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5 years ago

A startup that wants to make open-source software for 3D printers. The founders are tech veterans who have built digital fabrication tools before.

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3 years ago

Founders of this two-person startup are the former founders of the startup that made the popular budgeting app Due.

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5 years ago

A translator that translates the voice of a user's phone into text. The startup, which was founded in May, says that a lot of the time people are talking to themselves, and that voice-to-text software works great but is hard to use.

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3 years ago

A customer service app called "Helpful" that allows customers to get help 24/7. The startup was founded by a former product manager at Google and Square.

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5 years ago

A startup that helps people find the best deal on a car insurance policy. The founders say they’ve already signed up 20,000 users and have been accepted to Y Combinator.

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5 years ago

A tool for creating tools. The startup’s founders say they’re building a tool that allows users to distribute GitHub tools, like their own GitHub for Excel, by other users.

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5 years ago

A venture for helping people find and book cheap flights on both domestic and international flights. The startup is a spin-off of co-founder and CEO Zachary Mider’s previous startup, which is also focused on domestic flights.

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5 years ago

A platform where users can create virtual islands for multiplayer gaming. It launched in 2014, with the founders saying that it’s on track to reach $1.5 million in annual revenue.

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5 years ago

The founders say that their product is “the best place to get the news, weather, and video you want.”

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5 years ago

A micro-loan startup that helps small businesses get loans to cover inventory. The company, which was founded in May, says it has already closed $1.5 million.

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5 years ago

Giving Demo Day startups advice can only go so far. So Y Combinator does a bit more to help startups. YC has created a forum for startup founders to share information and advice with one another. They also host “Ask-Me-Anything” sessions for founders to talk about their companies.

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5 years ago

A company founded by a team of Stanford and Berkeley researchers that uses AI to detect and prevent fraud. The software aims to detect when a person is trying to make a credit card purchase in a store and notify the appropriate employees, who can then stop the transaction.

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5 years ago

This company’s founders were previously in the gaming industry, and want to help make that industry more inclusive. The startup is building a platform to help game developers with user acquisition and retention by building in features for “people of color, women, and LGBTQ people.”

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5 years ago

This company wants to teach people how to be a good entrepreneur. The company’s founder is Anand Rajaraman, who ran a business development and strategy practice at Amazon and Google for more than a decade.

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5 years ago

Two founders left YC to build a $10 per month service to help food delivery services become more cost effective and more like an on-demand service. It’s available in a few cities in the US, and it’s simple: a “geofenced” area with a few delivery zones that are cheaper than a full city block.

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5 years ago

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

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5 years ago

A partnership between the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to educate and promote conservation of marine life through the sale of marine fish.

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5 years ago

A company that helps restaurants deliver delivery right to customers’ doorsteps. The founders say they have over 200 restaurants, including Shake Shack, that they’re working with

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5 years ago

A venture capital firm that invests only in female founders, focusing on early-stage companies that focus on women’s health.

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5 years ago

A startup that’s building an end-to-end GPS-based tracking app to help college students stay safe when they’re out on the town. The founders say that they’re already working with a number of colleges on their app, and that it’s been saving students from dangerous situations.

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5 years ago

The Startup Grind podcast is a weekly podcast about entrepreneurship, hosted by founders of SBJ’s own portfolio companies.

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5 years ago

A company that provides software to help people make money while they sleep. The company has raised $2.6 million from a number of investors, including the founder of Origo.

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5 years ago

The startup’s founders say that since launching a year ago, they’ve had over 6,000 paying customers.

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5 years ago

The founders of this startup are building a device to help you identify the origin of your food. It can be used to eliminate food fraud, and help the world’s poorest populations.

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3 years ago

A startup that helps people find roommates. It’s currently only in San Francisco, but the founders hope to expand to other cities.

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2 years ago

This startup makes it easy for teams to track and manage their expenses. The startup’s co-founder says that she runs a tight household and she uses the app to keep track of different expenses for her family.

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5 years ago

A project at the University of California, Berkeley that uses machine learning to classify and identify patterns found in images.

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5 years ago

A startup for startups looking to grow internationally. It’s a more self-serve approach than other startups, but the founders believe that they can provide the best service for a given price.

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3 years ago

A platform that helps companies grow their salesforce. Founded in September 2017, in the first week it managed to close over $1.7 million in deals.

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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.”

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5 years ago

Gives entrepreneurs and startups easy access to the hardware they need to build and run their business. Founded by a former Microsoft engineer, the company has raised $2.5M and is launching in beta today.

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5 years ago

A tool that helps you find the best interest rates for your credit card. The startup says they have more than 1,000 users and are growing by 100 users a month. The founders say they’ve raised $1.3 million in funding from angel investors.

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3 years ago

A startup building a peer-to-peer voice over IP (VoIP) app that lets you call anyone in the world on the same app, even over mobile. The founders said they’ve already signed up over 35,000 users, who can call each other for free.

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5 years ago

The company was founded by former Google engineers, with the goal of creating a “Google for humans” where people can find information about products and services without having to search through a million different sites.

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5 years ago

This startup, which was founded in 2013, is building a tool for marketers to schedule Facebook ad campaigns.

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5 years ago

A company that provides a toolkit for self-storage facilities to manage their inventory. The startup was developed by former YC founders.

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5 years ago

An online platform for sharing and selling small tools like screwdrivers, wrenches, and other DIY goods. The company’s founders say they want to make it easy for people to find and sell their tools, and the startup is planning to add more categories and tools in the future.

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4 years ago

A startup that uses machine learning to help brands find the right person for the job. They claim to have found just the right person for 1,900 positions, including jobs at Uber and Goldman Sachs.

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4 years ago

A startup that wants to use AI to create a more natural color palette in fashion. The company’s founder says that the color palette industry is “a $20 billion market, and it has been a very low touch market.”

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2 years ago

A company that makes tiny speakers that play music through a smartphone. The company’s speakers are marketed as powerful enough to be used as a main speaker in a home, but can also be used to amplify the noise in a crowded space like a concert or a conference. The startup was founded in October 2017.

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5 years ago

A startup that offers a platform for digital nomads to rent out their homes in a peer-to-peer fashion. It’s in the early stages of development, but the founders say it will be “like Airbnb, but also a concierge service and protocol for renting out your home when you’re away”.

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5 years ago

Allows teachers to create lesson plans for their students, and customize them to their unique needs. The founders are hoping to recruit teachers to be the company’s first customers.

144

5 years ago

A platform for photography that lets users sell photos against their copyright. The startup’s co-founder, Jake Sion, says it started as an homage to the Instagram addiction many have to sharing their photos.

144

5 years ago

The founder of a company that re-skins the Windows operating system has launched a company that wants to make it possible to put Windows 10 on your phone.

144

5 years ago

An algorithmic startup that is a marketplace for job board ads, allowing companies to target their job search to a specific demographic. The company’s founders say they’ve raised $1.6 million in a round led by Greycroft Partners.

144

5 years ago

A company that aims to build a web-based, third-party curator for Amazon. The startup’s founder says that by offering a third-party curator of Amazon, a company can take advantage of the huge inventory of products that Amazon offers and cut out the middleman.

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5 years ago

Workers at companies like Google and Apple can get paid to do their job. The startup, which was founded in April, wants to make work day-to-day easier by integrating those jobs into payroll and HR, letting people switch jobs and be paid for the work they’re doing.

143

5 years ago

Tech that helps build companies in the US that are startups in other countries. The startup’s founders say that over $500 million is being raised in new funds in the US, but only $10 million is being raised in these other countries.

143

5 years ago

A platform that helps companies organize their email, Slack, and other messaging systems. The startup’s founders say it can save companies 5% to 30% on their monthly email costs, and that it’s used by companies like MercadoLibre, Zappos, and Expedia.

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3 years ago

A tool to help small businesses access business loans. The company’s founders claim that they have already signed up 450 companies in a week, and plan to grow to over 10,000 by the end of the year.

143

3 years ago

The founders are looking for a big bank to partner with them on a new service that uses artificial intelligence to help people take better care of themselves.

143

5 years ago

A startup that uses an IoT platform to automatically manage the delivery of goods in the same way that Amazon and Uber do. Founded in early 2019, they’re currently in talks with logistics companies in the US, Canada and Mexico.

142

5 years ago

Founded by two former McKinsey consultants, Talent App is a startup that helps companies find the best candidates for roles using ATS technology. Talent App is a membership-based service that includes features like a powerful candidate analytics tool, a job board, and insights into candidate behavior.

142

5 years ago

This company, which was co-founded by a former engineer at Google, is building a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help companies manage employee perks, like free software, free lunches, and more.

142

5 years ago

A market research and recruiting tool for the beauty industry. The startup’s founders say they have already worked with brands like Revlon and L’Oréal.

142

5 years ago

A company founded by ex-Googlers that offers a platform for sharing and selling real-time video. The company is also working to provide tools for live video streaming.

141

5 years ago

A startup that helps students and parents collect donations for their college education. The startup, which was founded in September, has raised $35,000 to date.

141

5 years ago

A platform that helps small businesses buy and sell excess inventory. The startup’s founder says that they have over 15,000 businesses using the platform and over $1 million of inventory moving through the system.

141

5 years ago

is a new startup that wants to help HR departments keep track of employee performance. The company has raised $7 million in Series A funding from investors like Accel, Founders Co-op, The Battery Ventures, and others.

141

5 years ago

Cofound.it is a platform for fundraising, with a $50 million fund to invest in startups. It has already distributed over $40 million to startups.

141

5 years ago

A startup that aims to replace a broken “payroll processing system” that hurts small businesses. The company was founded in September.

141

5 years ago

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

141

4 years ago

A company that helps people live longer, healthier lives by providing health tech to doctors. The startup’s founders say they’ve already raised $7.5 million, with plans to launch in early 2018.

141

3 years ago

A startup that helps with recruitment. Founders have a hard time finding good developers to hire and have had to spend hours sifting through LinkedIn profiles, applying to jobs, and then waiting for responses.

141

5 years ago

The founders of this company hope to make it easier for people to book professional services online, allowing them to book a haircut from a stylist or a plumber from a service rep.

140

5 years ago

A platform that connects people looking to go back to school with students willing to help each other out with things like homework, tutoring, and test prep. The founders say they’ve already helped more than 6,000 students fill out their applications and get into the class of their dreams.

140

5 years ago

A platform for connecting friends in real life with people they want to meet. The startup was founded by a former college roommate.

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

4 years ago

The founders walked away from their jobs in the technology industry to focus on food, and built a tech app that makes it easier and cheaper for restaurants to source from local farmers.

140

5 years ago

A crowd-funded project to bring the benefits of underfloor heating and cooling to the underdeveloped world. The startup’s founders came up with the concept for a client-focused project as a way to combine the technology with other humanitarian efforts.

139

5 years ago

A platform for professional book authors who want to sell their books through Amazon. The startup’s founders say they’re working on integrations with other retailers like iTunes and Google Play and are making it easier for authors to sell their books to readers.

139

5 years ago

What’s a startup to do when they’ve secured $500,000 in funding and they don’t know what to build Unity is a tool that helps founders go from idea to prototype to product, all in a matter of weeks.

139

5 years ago

A new startup that wants to provide a way for investors to connect with companies in the early stages of development, with a focus on B2B companies. The founder said it has around $24 million in funding so far, and has already worked with companies like TaskRabbit, Instacart, and Stripe.

139

4 years ago

The startup is building a platform for companies to manage and track their insurance agents and sales reps. The founders say they have partnerships with over 200 insurance carriers.

139

3 years ago

A startup that makes smart contracts more usable by creating a visual editor, the startup’s founders say, a way to visually build out the functionality of a smart contract instead of just a programming language.

139

5 years ago

A startup that builds custom devices for businesses, such as a GPS-powered shelf for a refrigerator to keep track of stock, or a phone-controlled washing machine. It has raised $4.2 million in investments since it was founded in September.

138

5 years ago

A platform for small business owners to rent their property out. The company is a joint venture between a local business incubator and the co-founder of Airbnb.

138

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 marketing software service for small and medium-sized companies. The company’s founders say they’re seeing a huge demand for the service from companies after a number of competitors have fallen by the wayside.

137

5 years ago

The idea: A mobile phone that can be powered by your body movement, rather than by a battery. The goal is for the device to be small enough to fit in your pocket, but powerful enough to run a full computer. The company was founded in May 2016 by two ex-Apple engineers.

137

5 years ago

An online platform that allows people to rent out their homes while they travel. The company’s founders say that the business is growing rapidly.

137

5 years ago

Founders: Marta, Ryan. The two want to build a tech hub for the Latin American startup community. They want to give startups discounted office space, mentorship, and access to capital.

136

5 years ago

A startup that offers a service to organize a team of employees. The startup’s team members are former YC founders, and they say they have over 1,000 customers.

136

5 years ago

A company that helps companies book tours and events at museums and galleries. The startup’s founders previously worked at the Louvre, and want to help them grow their business in the UK, US, and Canada.

136

5 years ago

A mobile app that allows users to easily send and receive money. The startup was founded in July and is focused on working with local banks in the US. It aims to get users to use the app to send money directly to their local bank accounts or other people’s bank accounts.

136

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

5 years ago

A platform for customers to customize the fit and feel of their clothing, the startup was founded in October of 2018 and has an iOS app that launched in November of 2018

135

5 years ago

A student-driven airline that’s been in operation for less than a month. Its founders are trying to get the airline off the ground by asking students to fund the startup, but now they’re asking for $25,000 to accelerate growth.

135

5 years ago

A startup for on-demand car services in Singapore. The startup’s founder says he’s been offering the service with Uber for the past year and says it’s a $1 billion market in Singapore.

134

5 years ago

A customer support and engagement platform for businesses aimed at the Millennial generation. The startup is focused on helping companies improve customer support and engagement, but its founders say it can be used across the board.

134

5 years ago

A mobile app that connects people looking to buy a new home with a realtor who can help them get an offer in writing. The founders say they’re already working with over 100 companies in real estate, including Robinsons Homes and Landmark.

134

5 years ago

A tool for managing campaign budgets, tracking spending, and analyzing success. The startup was founded in March and raised $2.5 million from Y Combinator.

134

5 years ago

A startup that allows people to create their own news organizations Some of the investors on this startup include the Knight Foundation and the Google News Initiative

133

5 years ago

This startup is building a platform that connects landlord’s with tenants in need of a place to live and gives them a credit score. The startup’s founders say that there are already over $90 billion worth of real estate assets currently sitting idle.

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.

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5 years ago

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

133

5 years ago

An automated subscription service that promises to send you a box of the best things it finds on the internet for you — and it’s free. It’s based on a Reddit post from early January in which the founder said he was “unemployed and bored” while on a trip.

133

5 years ago

The company, founded by two former Facebook engineers, is building a way to take existing and upcoming blockchains and enable them to be built and used easily across different platforms.

133

5 years ago

A startup that helps companies manage their supply chains by automatically matching products in inventory to orders. The founders have raised $1M in seed funding, with plans to expand to Europe.

133

5 years ago

A company that helps companies deal with the challenge of web sales. It was founded by the former chief executive of Gilt Groupe, an e-commerce fashion company.

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 search engine for things that have been read. The company’s co-founder was a former search engine developer who was frustrated with the state of the industry.

132

5 years ago

A platform that connects users to the right data and people to do the right work for them. The company’s founders say the tool will help companies build and scale their business more efficiently.

132

3 years ago

A platform that allows people to book, pay for, and schedule local services with a third party. It was co-founded by two people from Kiwi.co and Zirtual.

132

3 years ago

The company was founded by two former Googlers, and they’re building a way so that any human being can create an AI bot in a matter of minutes.

132

3 years ago

A banking solution meant to offer a new alternative to the credit card. The company is co-founded by former players from Stripe, who say they’re “creating a banking brand that works for the modern consumer”.

132

5 years ago

Pinlighter is an online service for drugstores that gives customers a fast, easy, and personalized way to comparison-shop for prescription drugs. The startup, which has raised $2.3M, was founded in October 2015 and now has more than 1,000 customers in the Chicago area.

131

5 years ago

A company that helps non-profits and foundations streamline their operations by using software to connect their various databases and systems.

130

5 years ago

A platform for creating and publishing video content with multiple channels. The startup, which was founded in August, is building on the video-sharing platform LIV. It lets users create and publish video content via a combination of Instagram and Facebook.

130

5 years ago

Decentralized social network where people can get paid to publish stories. The startup is open source and free to use, and the founder says it has a "small amount of daily active users."

129

5 years ago

The accelerator is based in New York's Brooklyn neighborhood, and was founded in February 2015. It is sponsored by MasterCard, and has attracted companies from around the world, including Colombia, Kazakhstan, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

129

5 years ago

A platform that helps people create “e-vites” for any event. The company’s founders have approached companies like Slack and Apple about integrating the company’s service into their products.

129

5 years ago

A company that helps athletes and other team members make sense of their training data. The startup was founded in November and is currently available in San Francisco, New York City, and Boston.

129

5 years ago

The startup has built an app that uses the same camera and lighting effects found in Hollywood movies to make a video look like it was shot by a camera crew. The startup aims to make it easier for filmmakers to add these effects to their own footage.

129

2 years ago

A crowdfunding platform for startups, where investors can back a company they’ve found interesting.

129

5 years ago

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

128

5 years ago

A tool that allows people to create their own digital currency, or “pre-sale tokens”, then sell them to investors. The startup’s founders say they’re already working with a handful of early-stage startups.

128

5 years ago

As Seen On TV is a YouTube channel that reviews and shares videos from the shows that air on TLC, the Discovery Channel, and History Channel. It was founded in January 2015.

128

3 years ago

The Startup Battlefield match-up features three teams and one team will win the prize of $50,000. The winner of the Battlefield will also receive a $25,000 investment from the founder of Groupon, Andrew Mason, and if they are successful, the winner will also have the option to have their company reviewed by Groupon.

128

5 years ago

A maker of software to help create and organize personas for online marketing. It’s currently available for free, though the founders are looking to go premium.

127

5 years ago

A digital marketplace for office space. The startup is a spin-off of co-founder Aditya Kripalani’s previous startup, which is also focused on office space.

127

5 years ago

A platform that provides data-driven analytics to help guide companies in making the right decisions. They’re currently in early seed, with the founders describing their value as helping companies “make better decisions with less data”.

127

5 years ago

In the US, there are a lot of jobs that pay the minimum wage. The startup is based in the Philippines, and its founder says it’s easy to get a job there for the minimum wage, but hard to get paid more.

127

5 years ago

A chatbot-based service that helps businesses sell to those in their target markets. Founded by two Interactive Advertising Bureau employees, the company wants to build “your friend in advertising” — a tool that helps you buy a product or service with a personalized conversation.

126

5 years ago

A simple, intuitive app for buying and selling on Quora. The app’s founder says they have 1,800 active users and are planning to begin selling advertisements soon.

126

5 years ago

Chatbook is building an app for people to record their travel. The startup won a $40,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to build out its mobile app. It’s intended to help people remember their adventures in a more visual way.

126

3 years ago

A data platform for the music industry. The company, which was founded in 2014, is building out a platform that connects artists and labels with data about their fans and allows them to create customized playlists, from which they can then sell song downloads.

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5 years ago

CEO and co-founder, Josh, is a self-proclaimed "Serial Entrepreneur." He's built startups in the past five years, including a few that were acquired by larger tech companies.

125

4 years ago

A set of business-focused events for women. The company wants to start with a small group of founders in the SF Bay Area.

125

5 years ago

A platform for tracking which email and social media inboxes people check, and which ones they just don’t. Their Co-founder says they’re already working with more than 1,000 customers, and their first product in the works is a “personas” platform for businesses, which helps brands better understand who their customers are.

124

5 years ago

A company building a customer service software platform that connects businesses with their customers via chat. Founded in 2017, they have over 2,000 customers.

124

5 years ago

The startup, which was founded in June, wants to help manufacturers scale up their production of custom items quickly and easily.

124

5 years ago

A tool for VPs to book travel for their teams. The founders say it’s best suited to larger companies like CPGs and banks, but the idea could have broader applicability.

124

5 years ago

City-state management software company, enabling governments to be more dynamic, efficient, and effective. The startup was founded in May, and has over 50 clients nationwide.

124

5 years ago

A B2B data analytics platform for financial services companies, most importantly banks. The company was founded in 2016 and has raised $3.7M.

124

5 years ago

A self-hosted online classroom for teachers, allowing them to bring their classes online. They’re looking for co-founders to help build out the platform.

123

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

This is a mobile application that helps people find the nearest bus stop for their commute. It’s more than just a tool to find routes, the app also provides real-time alerts to riders who are nearby, letting them know when the next bus is arriving. Founded in June, the startup has plans to expand to other cities and has run tests in San Francisco and Minneapolis.

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5 years ago

A startup that helps organizations manage and use data in a more meaningful way. The startup’s founders say their first product will be an app that helps people with diabetes manage their blood glucose.

123

5 years ago

A platform for recruiters, meant to help them find talent. The startup, which was founded in May, already has 2 paying customers.

123

5 years ago

A tool for finding out how many people have downloaded your app, and how many have used it in the past week. The founders say that it’s been integrated into 75 different apps, and that they’ve seen a 20% increase in user retention and engagement once they started using it, with a 50% increase in revenue.

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5 years ago

The founder of this startup grew up in a remote village in India and remembers a time when he was able to get a computer for the family and a year later they were able to get the internet. The founder realized the internet had brought a lot of connectivity to the country, but the next step was to bring connectivity to the millions of people who still didn’t have it. That’s what led him to start Jana, a startup that aims to give 1.5 billion people in India access to the internet.

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5 years ago

Ideas is organized by YC staff and features the companies that have been accepted into the program. Past speakers include the founders of Airbnb, Stripe, and Reddit.

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5 years ago

The idea is to be an online marketplace for companies to buy and sell their parts. Each part has a unique identifier that allows them to track their whereabouts. The founders say they have raised $8.5 million to date and are already working with over 10 companies.

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5 years ago

A project of the World Economic Forum, the Global Shapers Community is the largest global network of entrepreneurs, young professionals, and innovators. The network’s purpose is to connect the global network of young professionals with the global community of entrepreneurs. The network was founded by the World Economic Forum and Swiss Re in January 2016, with the first annual Global Shaper Summit taking place in Davos, Switzerland. Over the summer of 2016, the World Economic Forum announced that it would be partnering with the Global Shapers Community to create the World Economic Forum Young Entrepreneur Council, which completed its first meeting in October 2016.

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3 years ago

A company that says it helps teams collaborate better by combining the project management and collaboration tools found on Slack and Trello into one. They’re currently selling a $50 per month plan.

123

5 years ago

A company that creates software for individuals and small businesses that allows users to digitize and store paper documents in the cloud. The company was founded in 2014.

122

5 years ago

A seed-stage medical tech startup focused on helping patients undergoing surgery and managing their pain through a smartphone app. The founders say they’ve been featured on 60 Minutes, and have raised a $1 million seed round

122

5 years ago

A tool for patient-doctor communication. The startup was founded by a Harvard MD who saw a need to improve communication between patients and physicians. The company is already collecting patient data in some markets, and will be bringing the product to the US in the next couple of months.

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5 years ago

B2B companies are more likely to use YC-backed startups as employees, as compared to one where the founders are located in the Bay Area.

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3 years ago

We’re all connected and we’re all looking for ways to simplify things. The founders of Disconnect are looking to bring together all these different systems into one place and make it all work together. This is a familiar idea that’s been around for a long time and has had a few iterations over the years. The idea is that you get more done with less effort and it’s all because your apps are all working together.

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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 healthy, fast, and affordable way to get food delivered. It’s a millennial company, with the founders calling themselves a “health-food lifestyle brand”.

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5 years ago

A platform that helps companies manage their product lifecycles and is currently being used by “leading global brands,” as per the founders.

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4 years ago

A cloud-based platform that provides end-to-end accounting upgrades for small businesses. The company was founded by two former Intuit employees.

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5 years ago

The founders of this startup are serial entrepreneurs. They’ve raised $4.5 million to build a platform that can help brands and agencies build better ads and work with customers directly to improve their marketing efforts.

120

5 years ago

A company that provides a “wearable” device for monitoring blood sugar. It was founded in Boston by a team of MIT graduates.

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4 years ago

A startup working to democratize credit in the developing world, creating a new financial product that would give people access to credit in a way they haven’t had before. The company, which was founded in India, wants to make it more affordable for people in the developing world to use and maintain credit.

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4 years ago

An on-demand e-commerce marketplace for consumers, like those found on Etsy and Shopify. The startup wants to help consumers buy the right products and get the right discounts, while helping businesses manage their online sales and inventory.

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2 years ago

A startup that lets people book a ride on a private vehicle in New York City. The founders developed the business after realizing that most of the trips they made were less than 10 minutes, but the few they spent longer in took too long to book.

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5 years ago

A peer-to-peer marketplace for reclaimed building material, with a well-documented process for sourcing and ensuring quality before selling. The company’s founders are also part of a collective that works to repair Habitat for Humanity homes.

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5 years ago

A digital assistant that helps teachers manage grading. The founders say it has an “A+ grade” and is already being used in twenty schools.

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5 years ago

Combining the ease with which inter-city carpooling apps like UberPool and Lyft Line can be found with a new approach to making the rides more affordable, by adding a personal concierge to the ride to help with navigation, scheduling and other tasks.

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5 years ago

A web app for making artisanal soap, in which users can set up recipes and create their own soap. The startup’s founder says it’s like an online Tupperware party for soap-makers.

119

5 years ago

A solution for restaurants to manage their daily operations, including ordering, inventory, and payroll. The founders say that they currently have over 80 customers, including Chipotle and Starbucks.

119

5 years ago

The founders of this startup are former execs from major media companies including Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters. They’ve built a tool to help brands and agencies keep up with the news, and have launched in over 2,000 companies.

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2 years ago

A social network for the LGBTQ+ community. It was founded in late 2017 and has over 11,000 users.

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5 years ago

A platform that connects lenders to people who have bad credit to pay loans back on time. The company’s cofounder, David Leon, says the company is profitable, has more than $1.3 million in loans, and has been servicing loans for over a year.

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5 years ago

The company’s founders have raised over $400,000 in funding to date, making it one of the fastest-growing startups in the space.

118

5 years ago

A tool for users to get feedback on projects. The startup was founded by serial entrepreneur and former CEO of Upwork.

118

5 years ago

In 2018, the founders of OpenTable were awarded the National Venture Capital Association’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Consumer Products and Services category.

118

5 years ago

A software company that wants to help the legal profession connect with attorneys across the country. The company’s founder says they’ve already signed up over 2,000 lawyers and are working on a nationwide expansion.

118

5 years ago

A software company that helps businesses better define and measure the impact of their marketing campaigns. The company’s founders say their platform has already helped businesses like Blue Apron and Fandango “get more value for their marketing dollars.”

118

5 years ago

A new product by the founders of a popular open-source project, allowing people to see all of their files on file servers and get them to sync with their desktop.

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5 years ago

A startup to help people find and hire affordable child care. The founders say their model of the business, which has a token-based system, is open to regulation.

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5 years ago

A complete package of functionality for startups to implement into their iOS and Android apps. Its founders say that it’s different from a framework in that it is its own full stack.

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5 years ago

Y Combinator alum Dan Ellis and co-founder Andrew Conway came up with the idea to make an app that would help people use Microsoft Excel more efficiently. The startup, which has raised $1.3 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz , works with large companies to help them get their work into Excel faster.

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5 years ago

A tool for the hospitality industry to manage attendee profiles. One of the founders previously worked at Airbnb.

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5 years ago

In the meantime, the company’s founders have named the ghost town of Dry Fork, North Carolina.

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5 years ago

A set of tools that help people raise money from friends and family to finance their businesses. The startup's founders once raised nearly $600,000 from friends and family in just 48 hours.

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5 years ago

In India, startups are still mostly in the B2B space, with a few exceptions. India’s largest startup is Flipkart, which is the world’s largest online retailer. It was founded in 2007 by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal.

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5 years ago

A platform that helps people make music together using the tools they’re already using. The startup has raised $1.6 million in seed funding from investors including Union Square Ventures, SV Angel, ZipCar founder Robin Chase, and Dropbox founder Drew Houston.

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5 years ago

"A company that helps businesses go from idea to profitable reality. We help founders build ideas from day one and help them launch them successfully."

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4 years ago

A tool for quick and easy online payments. The startup’s founders say that customers are demanding a more efficient way to pay. They are planning to launch a product in the next few months.

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5 years ago

A live broadcast company for athletes and sports teams. The founders say they want to focus on live streams because of the way they’ve grown in the past few years. Their product is currently a free service, but the founders say they plan to add a paid service to compete with Facebook’s suite of sports and entertainment streams.

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5 years ago

This startup and its founders were inspired by the story of their friend who had to wait two years to get a colonoscopy. They want to make the process easier.

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2 years ago

A company that aims to help Chinese retailers deliver certain goods to their customers via e-commerce, such as appliances and furniture. The company’s founder recently noted that the company is already working with “100,000 sellers.”

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5 years ago

A company that helps small businesses gather data about their customers, and is now expanding to help retailers do the same. The company’s founding team previously worked at Google Analytics.

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5 years ago

An e-commerce for the under-served, aimed at those who want to buy a good but don’t have the means to do so. The founders believe that “goods are the new money”, and that the startup has the chance to be a “new currency” for the poor.

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5 years ago

A sassy, sarcastic assistant that works on mobile. The startup’s founder, after building a small app for the same purpose, decided to build a full-fledged assistant, which works on mobile.

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5 years ago

The Berkeley-headquartered organization was founded in 2011 to encourage entrepreneurship among middle-class Americans. It has a $50 million budget and has invested in more than 200 startups.

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5 years ago

A mobility platform that connects businesses with the right tools to make it easier for drivers to earn income by delivering packages and other items. The startup’s co-founder, Alex Boussard, says they’ve already seen interest from a number of major companies and has even managed to raise a few million dollars in funding.

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5 years ago

The Y Combinator summer school is a four-week program that teaches computer science fundamentals to top-tier high school students. The program was launched in 2010 by Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator.

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5 years ago

A startup that helps people buy inexpensive, discounted tickets to live music, theater, and sporting events. The new company’s founding team is from Ticketfly, a platform that brings together event tickets and other forms of entertainment.

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5 years ago

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

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5 years ago

A startup for crowd-sourcing, developed by the founders of Yelp, to help providers compete for customers. It’s currently a beta app, but the founders say it will be available for businesses to use in the coming weeks. If it catches on, it could disrupt the way users find and book services by grouping a person’s needs in front of a provider that has been vetted by the community.

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5 years ago

Founded by two former Googlers in 2012, Giphy is a video search engine that helps users find content to animate GIFs from online videos.

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3 years ago

A startup to help homeowners manage and monetize their homes, which the founders say has a high growth rate in the U.S.

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5 years ago

A technology company that creates “smart” thermostats for home and business use, allowing homeowners to control their thermostats via their smartphone. The company is led by CEO and founder Rajat Pahuja, who previously built a business in India called Shubh Loans that went “very profitable,” according to Pahuja.

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5 years ago

Cofounder of the company, a former commercial real estate agent, says she knew nothing about the fintech industry until she started researching it in 2017.

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3 years ago

Founded in 2017, the company is building technology to help people manage the complexities of their finances.

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3 years ago

A startup that wants to build an online marketplace for labor and skills. The company’s founders say that the $2 trillion global services market is underserved by the $200 billion services market that already exists, and the company wants to fill that gap.

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5 years ago

This startup makes it easy to integrate customer data from various sources into a single platform. The company’s co-founder was formerly a product manager at Google.

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5 years ago

A startup for bands to put out their music for sale without the hassle of a label. The company is based out of Philadelphia, and is backed by the founders of the label of the same name.

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5 years ago

A vertical website that allows people to write about their experiences with different products and services. It was built by the founders of HackerYou, a startup that helped people connect with each other and build software in the same way Facebook and other social networks did.

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3 years ago

The company is building a startup in Ghana, where the startup says it’s found a lack of transparency and accountability in the local media.

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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.

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5 years ago

The startup’s founders say they want to be the company that “solves the ‘I can’t find my team’ problem.” It wants to be the new way of tracking employees, replacing spreadsheets and HR systems with a single, secure system.

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5 years ago

A web app that helps teachers organize their lessons, then share them with colleagues. The startup’s founders are veterans of the education sector and the product is meant to serve as a kind of “Google Docs for teachers.”

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4 years ago

A set of tools to help make a mobile app. The startup’s founder, Sam Om, has been working on the startup for over a

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4 years ago

The startup, founded in April, is building an AI that can help people monitor and engage with their health. People can use the AI to keep track of their weight and health, and the AI will send them recommendations on how they can improve it.

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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.

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3 years ago

An analytics platform for companies to track employee reviews and feedback. The startup was founded by former Product Hunt team members.

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5 years ago

An online hub for people who are visually-impaired and hard of hearing. The site’s founders say that they’re currently in talks with hearing suppliers to help them build a suite of apps for users.

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4 years ago

The startup wants to be a marketplace for people to sell their used stuff. Its focus is on new-to-market products, but founders say they’d be open to selling used products as well.

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5 years ago

A company that helps companies with bookkeeping, and aims to do it all online. They pitch themselves as something like a “full-service accounting platform,” complete with invoicing, payments, and accounting integrations. The company was founded in 2015, and has been profitable in its first year.

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5 years ago

A company that helps companies aggregate and visualize their suppliers’ product data. The startup is based in the UK and was founded in August.

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5 years ago

A company that helps other startups find a founder, as well as help them with the process of finding a co-founder.

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4 years ago

A startup from the founder of Tumbr, which helps companies to engage with customers on Facebook.

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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.

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3 years ago

While the founders of Glossier didn’t originally come up with the idea for their beauty products, they’re now building a company that sells their products to others.

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5 years ago

A business plan for a startup is like a sales pitch. It’s vague. It’s hard to see its potential. And it’s hard to know if it’s worth checking out. So many founders miss out on the chance to grow their business because they don’t have this thing called a business plan that explains how they’ll do it. The goal of this startup is to make it easy for anyone to write that plan. It’s currently only available in the Bay Area.

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5 years ago

The coworking space is part of a larger effort to help women get into technology, either by connecting them to mentors or allowing them to work at an office without the need for a co-founder.

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5 years ago

A platform for helping people find their dream homes. The founders say they’ve helped people find their dream house in as little as 10 days.

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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.

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4 years ago

A platform connecting founders with investors for seed-stage funding.

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3 years ago

A startup that allows you to pay your bills from your phone. It’s meant to be a more cost-effective option than traditional billing software. It’s being built for small businesses, but the founders plan to expand to larger clients in the future.

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3 years ago

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

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5 years ago

A tool for students that helps them track their progress and see how they’re doing in class. The company’s founders say they’re already working with a variety of colleges across the country.

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5 years ago

A software company that’s helping people organize their finances on their phones. The software was built by the founder of a financial services company that was acquired by VC firm Andreessen Horowitz.

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5 years ago

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

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5 years ago

and Founded in 2011, it’s a cloud-based platform for managing enterprise data; a startup that’s building a data warehouse for the government

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4 years ago

A software-as-a-service company that helps B2B companies automate and secure their supply chains, a niche the founders say is worth $50 billion.

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3 years ago

This startup is building an enterprise-grade Slack competitor. The company’s founders say that they’re building a “complete messaging solution”, including bots and integrations.

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5 years ago

A platform that helps connect female entrepreneurs with investors. Its founders are hoping to reach 1 million female founders in the next 10 years.

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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.

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5 years ago

A startup that aims to be the Uber of online tutoring and tests. It’s a relatively new startup, founded in April.

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4 years ago

An online community for entrepreneurs and innovators. With over 3,000 members, it’s hosted by a number of founders, including Evan Williams. The startup has raised $8M to date.

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4 years ago

The startup is developing a system that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help physicians screen for diseases like cancer and heart disease. The startup was founded by MIT alumni.

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3 years ago

“[A]s one of the largest and most comprehensive digital marketing agencies in India, we’re all about solving problems for businesses and brands,” the company wrote on their website. “We approach each engagement in an equally hands-on and consultative manner, bringing in a unique blend of experience and expertise. We’re building on a solid foundation built by our founding team and have a great culture, which is what sets us apart from our peers in the industry.”

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5 years ago

A startup that helps businesses put in place nightly automated processes. The founders say their product helps companies be more efficient and automate processes like payroll, warehouse operations and inventory control.

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5 years ago

The Startup Grind Philly Meetup is a group of local entrepreneurs, investors, and other startup enthusiasts who regularly gather to talk about entrepreneurship, funding, and startups in Philadelphia. The event is organized by a variety of organizations including the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, The Foundry and the Philadelphia Technology Alliance.

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5 years ago

A mobile app that helps workers better organize their tasks on the go. The company’s co-founder believe that most of the information workers have on their phones isn’t being used.

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4 years ago

A software company that helps retailers sell their products on Amazon.com. The founders say they are seeing 100% conversion rates on Amazon and “super-high” sales numbers.

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4 years ago

A cryptocurrency exchange for non-accredited investors. The company’s founders have said they’d like to build a decentralized exchange for non-accredited investors.

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4 years ago

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

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4 years ago

In November, 2018, YC alumni and partners went on to found

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4 years ago

An agency that was founded in 2016 and has raised $4.7M. The company has raised $500k in seed funding. It was selected as a Gartner Cool Vendors in Healthcare CSP in 2017.

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4 years ago

A social network for Indian language users. The app is focused on users in India, but the founders say it could be used in other regions with large populations of people who use other languages.

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5 years ago

This startup is building a tool that helps you connect with lenders who can provide you with capital for your business. Notable for being a woman-founded startup (two of the three founders are women).

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5 years ago

Founded by a pair of former Stripe engineers, this startup helps companies store and deliver their data in a way that is accessible to developers.

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5 years ago

The founders of this cloud-based recruiting startup say that they’ve discovered that many people don’t have a good idea of what their job responsibilities are. They’re building an application that can help people figure that out, and then identify the best fit for each position in the pool.

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5 years ago

A startup aiming to create an insurance program that helps small businesses with insurance costs. The startup currently has a grant from the National Science Foundation.

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5 years ago

A global P2P insurance marketplace that aims to disrupt the traditional insurance market. Founded in July, the startup is currently in beta.

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4 years ago

A social network for college students with over 20k students currently enrolled. Its founders are looking to build a student-focused influencer platform that’s optimized for mobile, with a focus on gaming and video content.

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4 years ago

A company that wants to build out a “citizen army” of robots that can do warehouse work and increase efficiency. The founders claim they can do the same work in half the time by pairing robots with humans.

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3 years ago

A real-time analytics tool for hospital nurses and doctors. “Our goal is to provide real-time data,” said co-founder Will Graziani. “If your nurse needs assistance with a patient, you can go to the app, log in, and see the patient’s vital signs.”

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3 years ago

An AI-based personal assistant for doctors. The startup, which was founded in March, aims to help doctors make more accurate diagnoses in their offices. The startup provides customers with a “smart” assistant that can be used for a variety of tasks, from scheduling appointments to sending reminders from the doctor’s phone.

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5 years ago

A platform for booking a ride-share with Uber or Lyft. It is a competitor to UberRush, a company founded by former Uber and Lyft employees that allows ridesharing users to book a ride from a driver without a credit card.

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4 years ago

A group of founders from NYC, San Francisco and Mumbai came together to solve the challenge of securing data in the cloud. The startup provides a way to encrypt and decrypt files and data in the cloud that’s compliant with HIPAA and GDPR standards.

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4 years ago

One of the startup’s cofounders, Sumeet Singh, was born in India, raised in New Jersey, and still regularly wears a turban. Harsh and Singh met as PhD students at MIT.

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3 years ago

A messaging app that allows users to interact in real-time with voice, video and text. The company launched in 2014, but is now pivoting to private messaging, said co-founder and CEO, who has a background in robotics and robotics technology.

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2 years ago

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

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5 years ago

A startup that helps foreign companies find workers in the US. The startup’s founders say they’ve already had over 25,000 job postings on their platform.

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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.

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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.

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5 years ago

A software company that tracks and analyzes water usage in the United States. The startup is led by a guy who also founded a company called Aquatech that tracked water usage in the US in the 1990s.

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5 years ago

A plan to build a messaging app that’ll be a hybrid of Slack and WhatsApp. The founders say that messaging apps are the fastest growing apps in the world, and that they want to create something that’s better than both.

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5 years ago

The company plans to be the first in the world to bring 5G mobile to the masses. Its founders want to offer the first 5G mobile internet service in the world, with the first cities getting service in early 2019.

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5 years ago

A software stack for claims processing. The company, founded by a former legal executive, aims to reduce the cost of claims processing by 10-20%. It has raised $5.1 million in funding.

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5 years ago

The founder of Code.org, a nonprofit working to make computer science education more accessible, wants to create a foundation to encourage high school students to learn software and programming.

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5 years ago

A platform that allows merchants and brands to focus on their core products and services over general marketing efforts. The startup’s co-founder is the co-founder of the company that created Yo, the first social network for mobile devices.

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4 years ago

Founded by a former product manager at Google, OnSwipe is building a platform that helps major brands and retailers drive sales. OnSwipe is working with a number of major brands, including Neiman Marcus, Neiman Marcus, and Target, as well as a number of retailers, including Build-A-Bear, Lowe’s, and Home Depot.

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5 years ago

A company that launched a Kickstarter campaign to find a team to help companies get better at implementing agile processes. They think they've found a winning formula, and want to hire people to help ten companies to adapt their processes to the lean startup model.

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5 years ago

A money transfer service for the African market. The startup is launching in Cameroon in August and will expand to other countries as it progresses. The founders say their product is already being used in more than 60 countries.

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5 years ago

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

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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.

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4 years ago

A startup that’s bringing Bitcoin into the physical world, with a prepaid debit card and a physical debit card. The founders want to make Bitcoin universally usable, and are building a physical card to use at stores, ATMs, and anywhere else.

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4 years ago

This startup is founded by former Google employees and aims to be the “Uber of recruiting”, allowing companies to list their job openings for remote employees.

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5 years ago

The founders say their startup is building a more useful version of the Skype-like messaging platform Slack. Businesses use the platform to send documents or share information.

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4 years ago

A subscription-free, open-source messaging platform for teams. The startup’s founders say they want to transform how groups collaborate.

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4 years ago

A startup that helps businesses manage their payments and invoices, which the founders say is significantly more effective than spreadsheets. It aims to be a full-stack solution for companies in need of a better way to manage their accounts receivable.

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4 years ago

A company founded to help people save money on their electric bills by investing in solar panels.

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3 years ago

A platform to help people find affordable housing. The startup says it’s already found 50,000 people in need of housing in New York City.

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5 years ago

A startup that wants to make live video marketing as simple as possible for brands. The company’s founders say they’ve already helped over 1,000 brands, and are having success with brands like Best Buy.

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4 years ago

A set of tools to help build out a mobile app without having to know a lot about how to code. The startup’s founder, Sam Om, has been working on the startup for over a year, and says they’ve already secured $300,000 in funding.

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4 years ago

A company that helps companies create video campaigns, including the production and editing of videos. Founded in December 2017, the company has raised $1.1 million from a number of investors.

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4 years ago

A startup founded in 2014 in Tel Aviv, which has since raised $4 million in funding.

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4 years ago

A startup that helps connect a person’s home energy use to the company they work for. The startup’s founders say they’ve already been able to help a customer save $100 a month.

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4 years ago

In this video, a startup founder runs through a list of companies:

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3 years ago

This is a mobile app that allows users to share the results of their home energy usage with other users. It’s currently being used by 2,000 users in the UK, and the founders plan to expand to the US in the next few months.

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3 years ago

A social app that helps college kids manage their homework. The startup, which was founded in May, has 3,000 students signed up to its service

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5 years ago

A company that focuses on customer engagement for retailers and restaurants. It’s currently in beta for 10,000 users, and the founders say they’re looking to expand to markets outside the US.

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5 years ago

The startup wants to build a way for people to manage their digital assets via their mobile device. The startup says they’ve built a mobile app that can be used to create a digital presence for local businesses and brands. Co-founders say they’ve been doing extensive research on the best way to adopt blockchain technology.

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5 years ago

A tool to help companies manage their IT infrastructure from a single dashboard. The startup was founded by two former Cisco employees.

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4 years ago

A way to get food delivered from the market to your doorstep. Founder Josh Wilson says he’s already signed a deal with a local deli to deliver.

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3 years ago

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

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2 years ago

This company is a portal for scientists looking to post their findings to public databases, where they can be found by other researchers.

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4 years ago

VentureBeat is an American technology news and media company based in New York City. It was founded in 2009 as a print publication, and has since expanded to include a website and mobile apps, and became a venture-backed startup.

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4 years ago

This startup, based in the US, is building a way to connect brands and their customers. The company’s co-founder says they’ve already had over 1,000 customers sign up.

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4 years ago

A “smart” speaker that works like a smart home appliance, but which can also control your smart home appliances (like your lights and thermostat). It can work with a variety of IoT devices, and the founders say it will be in the market in the next 12 months.

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4 years ago

The story of how the founder of a company that makes protective filters for mobile devices moved to China, raised funding, and founded a rival company.

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4 years ago

A company that helps small restaurants and cafeterias provide food for their employees. The co-founders say they have taken on $1 million in orders in their first year.

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4 years ago

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

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3 years ago

A language learning app. The founders say that the app is built for the Indian market and not for international markets.

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3 years ago

A company that provides real-time GPS mapping for construction projects. Founder/CEO Sreenivasan has worked at companies such as Mapbox and Mapzen, and was the founding CEO of the open source platform OpenStreetMap.

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5 years ago

This startup is building a network of thousands of assistants who are the point of contact for people who need help with their health. The startup’s founders wanted to create a version of Amazon’s Alexa that could help people manage their health.

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5 years ago

The founders of this company want to build a more connected and secure version of Amazon’s Alexa, one that can work with smart home devices and allow users to access the internet through their voice.

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4 years ago

A company that helps small businesses get off the ground, with a library of tools that help companies with marketing, accounting, and sales. Company founders started it after seeing that many small businesses are launching on Facebook and taking on extra expenses to grow.

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4 years ago

A music streaming service that focuses on music discovery. Co-founded by former Rdio and Spotify engineers, the startup will offer a curated “radio” experience, as well as a social experience where users can follow artists and share what they’re listening to.

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4 years ago

A new company that solves the problem of building and managing data pipelines and data warehouses. Founded in 2014, the company is still based in San Francisco and raising its Series A.

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3 years ago

A startup that uses AI to help companies identify potential employees. YC invested in the company after it was founded in May 2018.

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5 years ago

A platform that links together online marketplaces, shopping carts, and inventory management. The startup’s founders say it’s a better fit for small businesses than existing solutions.

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5 years ago

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

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4 years ago

The founders of this startup are best known for building the most popular and successful startup accelerator in the world. They’re now moving into a new area, with a new accelerator format that’s aimed at helping teams build products for specific industries.

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4 years ago

Founded in May, this startup wants to connect job-seekers to employers. In addition to helping people find jobs, the startup promises to help employers find the best candidates, and even suggests the best language and time for job interviews.

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4 years ago

A company that provides on-demand delivery of grocery items to homes in the US. The startup, which was founded in July, is focused on expanding its brand to other cities.

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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.

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3 years ago

A concierge for ride sharing, which according to the founders is a $500 billion market.

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5 years ago

A company that allows you to buy and sell goods on eBay directly from within a mobile app. Founded by former Facebook exec Justin Kan, Hangers was started in 2014 and has raised $5.5 million. and has over 30,000 users.

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5 years ago

A group of women who teach other women how to be more confident in being sick. The founders say that their videos have over 1 million views.

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4 years ago

A startup that lets companies receive real-time feedback on their customer service. The founders say that customer feedback is the number one driver of company growth.

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4 years ago

A startup that wants to help HR/recruitment/HR department leaders in the US to run their businesses more like startups. The founders say the company helps HR departments get more efficient by putting HR processes on rails and sharing best practices.

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3 years ago

The startup works with the government of India’s Ministry of Defence to help small businesses in India get their hands on Defense Ministry-related contracts. The startup’s founder, Sumit Goel, is a former officer in the Indian Navy.

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2 years ago

A platform that keeps track of your expenses for you. TrackIt is a SaaS that provides a dashboard with integrated expense reporting, expense tracking and expense analysis. The startup was founded in February.

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4 years ago

A tool for creating more efficient, effective marketing campaigns for small businesses. Its founders say that a lot of small business owners could improve their marketing by using better tools.

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4 years ago

The founders of this company started it to help people in the US and UK keep track of their medication. It’s currently available for iOS.

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4 years ago

A platform for managing and tracking intellectual property. The startup’s founders say they have “tripled their revenue as we scale to help more inventors create and protect their inventions.”

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4 years ago

A platform for small businesses to manage their bookkeeping, invoicing, accounting and payroll. The startup, which was founded in 2017, has a mobile app that lets users pay their bills, check their accounts and get invoices.

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4 years ago

An engineering staffing startup that partners with companies to bring in new talent. After a company does a demo, Minimum runs a search for top candidates using its proprietary algorithm. The company says they’ve so far found candidates at top engineering schools, raised $1.4 million in VC funding, and secured over a dozen jobs.

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4 years ago

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

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4 years ago

According to its founders, this startup wants to be “the first social network to build a community of financial advisors”, helping advisors find clients.

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3 years ago

A startup that makes it easier for Hispanic families to open a savings account for their kids, particularly the latchkey kids who aren’t old enough to have a bank account at their school. The startup’s founder says that he wants to keep his children from having to share their smartphones to stay in touch with friends, and that his kids understand the importance of saving money in order to achieve their aspirations.

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5 years ago

Profile’s founders say it’s like Pinterest, but for the fashion industry.

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4 years ago

This New York City startup is building a subscription service for the restaurant industry. The founders behind the company believe that the industry is plagued by high costs and a lack of execution.

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4 years ago

A company that teaches employees how to ask for a raise. The startup, which was founded in May, takes survey data from employees and charts their salary levels, to help them identify areas for potential increases.

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4 years ago

The founders of this startup are building a platform to connect “tech people who want to do things but can’t afford to buy equipment” with people who want to give them advice.

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3 years ago

A digital currency for underbanked Singaporeans. The startup builds a platform that enables individuals to join the mainstream financial system. Right now, it’s restricted to Singaporeans, and the founders are working on getting it to the wider Southeast Asian and Indian markets.

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2 years ago

A tech company that helps automate software testing, and makes tools for managing testing. The company is currently executing on a $2.5 million seed round, with an additional $1 million from the founders.

90

5 years ago

The startup’s cofounders say they want to be the company that takes “the unknown hassle out of hiring” by eliminating time-consuming steps like job applications and paperwork. It also wants to help small businesses scale by removing the need for a HR department.

89

5 years ago

A startup that lets companies and teams track how they spend money and how much they’re saving, for tax purposes. The startup was founded by two former PayPal employees and launched in May 2019.

89

4 years ago

The startup has built a software platform that lets its customers create, manage, and publish road-side signs in multiple languages. The company, which was founded in 2012, has raised $4.5 million in funding, including a $1.5 million investment from Digital Garage in August 2017.

89

4 years ago

A way to find and hire the best contractors in San Francisco, the founders say.

89

4 years ago

A platform for sharing knowledge and expertise. The founders say they have a database of 500,000 consultants in 1,000 categories.

88

4 years ago

An insurance company for the under-35 market. The founders say they have a 20% conversion rate for under-35s.

88

4 years ago

A book publishing platform by the founders of Medium, which has raised $23.5M to date. The company wants to automate book publishing, and focus on short books.

88

4 years ago

A tech startup that was founded in 2017 and already has a working product, which they say is a “way for people to find, follow, and communicate with the brands they love”

88

4 years ago

This startup is building a platform that connects people who want to enter the IRS’ EITC program with tax preparers. The startup, which was founded by former EITC advisor Amanda Nalley, has already been used by tens of thousands of people to qualify for the tax credit.

88

4 years ago

“From the outside, our team is probably the most diverse in the YC batch [of the past five years],” says cofounder Raman Harsh, an MIT alum. “There are no limits on race, ethnicity, religion, or gender.”

87

4 years ago

The company’s founders say they’ve developed a product called The Future of Productivity, which is a way for people to map their processes to a set of rules, and to share their achievements with a community of peers.

87

4 years ago

Catch a Yacht is building a service that acts as a virtual concierge for wealthy travelers — it helps them book travel and manage their money. The company’s founders are former Facebook employees.

87

4 years ago

A company that helps people find apartments. The company claims that the average cost to find a rental is just a fraction of a percent of monthly rent, and has found that it’s more effective to have a niche niche of renters rather than trying to convince all of the town’s renters to become landlords.

87

4 years ago

The founders of Rancher Labs are using the data they’ve collected to build AI tools for companies to manage their infrastructure.

87

3 years 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.

87

4 years ago

A new way for startups to launch, with a “pay-as-you-go” model for founders and employees. It allows companies to grow without having to engage in the long, expensive process of raising a round.

86

4 years ago

This startup’s product lets small businesses manage their employees’ paperwork. It was founded in 2014 by two former BBVA executives.

86

4 years ago

A SaaS platform that helps companies create, manage, and get feedback on their campaigns. It’s currently being used for over 100 campaigns, raised over $30 million in funding, and the founders have spent over a year building it.

86

4 years ago

This idea is to provide an integrated platform that allows people to sync their calendars with their phones. The founders created a prototype that allows users to view their calendar from their phone. The company plans to have a beta version of the app ready by the end of 2017.

86

4 years ago

A startup that wants to optimize workflows for video and photo editing by ensuring that the right tools are available for the right task at the right time. The company, which was founded in May, has worked with partners including Adobe and Apple.

86

3 years ago

A sensor for measuring sweat and moisture in the clothing of people who are active. The startup, founded in January, wants to create a product that will help people get more out of their workout, helping them analyze their body’s performance and also offer a tool for people to compete with others in the same workout.

86

3 years ago

This is a company that is building an online network of counterfeit-resistant products that can be used to trace the provenance of a product. The company, which was founded in 2015, says they have a database of nearly 1 million genuine and fake products.

86

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to be like a “mini-LinkedIn” for Indian startups, with a focus on helping founders build their brands

85

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 company is working on using AI and data to customize pricing for businesses. The founders say they’ve already signed up hundreds of businesses, and are looking to roll out an API and dashboard soon.

85

4 years ago

A startup that wants to be a one-stop shop for all the things that a small business needs to do to get paid and do business. The company’s founders say that companies that use their platform spend up to 80% less time on account-related tasks.

85

4 years ago

The company was founded in 2012 by Joshua Granick, a former entrepreneur and executive at a number of startups including Twitter and Uber.

85

4 years ago

One of the co-founders of Loosecubes was one of the first people to use Flutter.

85

4 years ago

A digital store for renewable energy equipment, which the founders say is the only one of its kind in the US.

85

3 years ago

A startup that helps groups of people find free concerts in cities across the world. The startup, which was founded in May, has been featured on Forbes and has 2,000 users for the app.

85

2 years ago

This company is selling a service that allows customers to manage their daily errands using AI algorithms. The company’s founders say that they have already attracted over 300,000 signups.

85

2 years ago

In late 2013, Y Combinator launched a course in the field of web development. The course is taught by Sam Altman, founder and president of Y Combinator. Some of the instructors are Sam Altman, Paul Graham, Chris Dixon, Michael Seibel, and Jared Friedman.

85

5 years ago

The startup's founders say they help companies in the $50B+ technology industry find top technical talent and make sure they spend the right amount of time and money on the right people.

84

4 years ago

A tool for various health-related startups. The startup helps startups on the cusp of launching gather advice from experts in the field. It charges a small fee starting at $99, but founder Alex Goodyear says it’s worth it for the experience.

84

4 years ago

In December 2018, a short video was released on the startup’s Twitter feed in which co-founder Isaac Lee described the company’s culture as “our culture is that we’re always going to be one step ahead of you.”

84

4 years ago

A startup that wants to build a marketplace for more environmentally-friendly products. With a business that was founded in the UK, they now have an office in the US.

84

4 years ago

A platform for advertisers to manage pay-per-click campaigns for digital media, including banner ads, video ads, and native ads. Its founder, Michael Poulsen, says he’s brought in $10,000 in revenue since its inception in May.

84

4 years ago

A platform that helps companies build and manage travel and expense management apps. One of the founders, who worked at Expedia, was frustrated by all the apps and services they used. So they built a better expense reporting system

84

4 years ago

A tool for small businesses to manage and secure their data. Founded in 2015, QuickBooks.com is a subscription-based solution and is available online and through a mobile app.

84

4 years ago

A payment processing platform for small businesses. The startup, which was founded in April, has already earned $200,000 in revenue, with plans to expand internationally in the next 12 months.

84

4 years ago

A startup that helps restaurant chains create loyalty program. The company’s founders want to use the same tech that powers the loyalty program at Expedia to help businesses like Chipotle and Panera create their own.

84

4 years ago

A new-generation online video platform that aims to compete directly with YouTube. The company’s co-founders say they’re already seeing traffic and engagement numbers that rival the video platform.

84

3 years ago

Founded by an ex-Google employee, Focal is a mobile app that uses machine learning to match the perfect product images with their users’ tastes.

84

3 years ago

This startup, which was founded in December, has been fun for the last year.

84

4 years ago

A platform for trading cryptocurrencies. The company has raised $1.3 million from investors including Y Combinator, Foundation Capital and Founders Fund. The company has raised $2.2 million total.

83

4 years ago

A facial recognition service that the founders say is “unparalleled”, and that has raised over $1 million in funding. The company is currently hiring, but declined to disclose numbers.

83

4 years ago

A $15,000 tool to help people purchase and sell their cars, alongside their current vehicles, and get the most money for both. The founders of this startup say that people are willing to spend up to $80,000 to get a new car, but are not willing to spend the same amount on their current ones.

83

4 years ago

Based on the startup’s founder’s work at Kiva, a nonprofit that helps people in poverty create micro loans, the startup wants to expand its service to provide people in the US loans at a lower cost. It currently serves small businesses in 30 US cities.

83

3 years ago

A new online community for college students. The founders want to help the over 6 million students who study in the US to stay connected.

83

4 years ago

The startup, which was founded in 2010, builds software that helps companies manage their supply chains. The idea is to build software that automates all the tedious work of managing different vendors, suppliers, and shipping.

82

4 years ago

Fintech startup for facilitating money transfers between countries. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Myanmar, its beta version allows users to send and receive money online via mobile phones.

82

4 years ago

Co-founders said they were inspired by the success of Airbnb but found themselves frustrated by the startup’s inability to deliver on its promises. Rival hotel booking site Hotels.com filed for an IPO in April 2016.

82

4 years ago

A startup that wants to take the pain out of booking a flight. The cofounders, who hail from three different continents, say they’ve been able to eliminate the pain in booking a flight by combining the data from various travel sites.

82

4 years ago

The company, which was founded in 2016, uses AI to make videos of your life, so that when you look back on your life, you can show friends and family how you were at different stages of your life.

82

4 years ago

The founders of this startup say they can produce a beer with only water that tastes as good as Budweiser. The company’s first product is a line of craft beers it describes as “India Pale Ales.”

82

4 years ago

In January 2018 James and his wife, Ali, founded a non-profit organization to help refugee children in Nepal.

82

3 years ago

Startups that fit into multiple categories, where founders have multiple roles — co-founder, CEO, CTO and CIO, or just the founder and CTO — are a bit more common today, but still rare. The challenge is that it can be difficult to measure how much of the company’s sales and profit go to the founder. Here’s a partial list of startups that fit into that category:

82

4 years ago

As a company that offers a service to connect freelancers with employers, Cofoundr has an exclusive relationship with a major content distribution platform.

81

4 years ago

A company that helps small businesses improve their marketing. The startup’s founders say they’ve built a “universal marketing plan” that helps small businesses launch new products and services and grow sales quickly.

81

4 years ago

A startup that’s building a dating app for people over 50. The app lets users browse by interests, post photos, and build their own profiles. Money is kept separate from the app, so the founders don’t have to have people have to delete their profiles if they don’t want to date.

81

4 years ago

A B2B service that’s been in beta for over a year that helps restaurants manage their finances. The service helps restaurants manage their business from a single location and get a better sense of how they’re doing and where their money's going. The company was founded in 2013 and is profitable and growing.

81

4 years ago

A web-based tool that helps companies bundle and manage their data, from backups to backups to backups. The founders say it saves companies from having to set up a full-blown data center.

81

4 years ago

A way for people to make money by sharing the things they already own. The founders say that with the average American household owning over 70% more items than they actually use, this is a $130 billion market that enables people to make money from the stuff they already own by selling it to others.

81

4 years ago

The company was founded by founder Tom Galvin, and was originally part of the Y Combinator Winter 2017 class.

81

4 years ago

A startup that wants to disrupt the global shipping industry by building a platform that allows anyone to send packages directly to a customer. The startup’s founders say that the company has already built a beta product and has started a pilot program with USPS.

81

4 years ago

This startup is building a way to create a personal news feed in which you can share posts and photos, while also making it easy to search and browse the feed. It's best known for co-founder Daniel Kottke's parody of Facebook, which he called "The Facebook."

81

4 years ago

The company was founded in 2014 by Sebastian Neef, Gert Doering, Simon Ritter and Sebastian Schinzel.

81

3 years ago

Co-founder of iOS app startup that analyzes yoga poses.

81

3 years ago

The founders of this startup say their technology will “democratize access to capital”.

81

2 years ago

is a group of Indian business owners that help one another improve their operations, as well as provide education and guidance. Founded in early 2019, the company has just launched its first product, an automated program that helps owners of small businesses track and pay their employees.

81

2 years ago

A platform for business, enabling companies to add and manage their suppliers on-demand. The company’s founders, who came from a marketing background, say the product is targeted at companies in the $1-10 million range.

81

2 years ago

Y Combinator has been criticized for sometimes playing a role in the demise of startups that they have nurtured. The company has been accused of being "too good" to startups, providing the founders with too much money and support and thus suppressing the risk of failure.

81

4 years ago

A B2B company that helps companies manage their ticket inventory. After being founded in March, the startup is already has raised $4.6 million in Series A funding.

80

4 years ago

A platform to help advise and manage small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The startup’s founder says he wants his product to be like a “low-cost version of Facebook for SMBs”.

80

4 years ago

A startup that allows companies to deliver a customer service experience that is both efficient and personable. The startup is a spinoff of a company called Customer.io, where the founders had to implement a customer service software for a customer support company.

80

4 years ago

This is a new way to sell your stuff on an app. Founded in January, Papago helps people sell their items on its marketplace. The marketplace has four categories: stuff, collectables, household items, and vehicles. Members can post their items on the site for 24 hours, and if no one buys it, the item goes back to the seller’s inventory. If someone buys it, the seller gets paid in bitcoin.

80

3 years ago

A dating app that connects singles in the same city. The app works with the two users to schedule a date, with a free trial of the paid service. The founders are former Google employees.

80

3 years ago

A wearable device that alerts you when your oven is on, or when a door or window is opened or closed. The company, which was founded in May, also lets parents monitor children’s activities.

80

2 years ago

The company’s founders are veterans of the music industry, having worked for Sony, Warner, and EMI, and they’re building an artist-management platform.

80

2 years ago

A company that’s building an on-demand food delivery app. It has a few dozen employees and a few dozen customers already, but its founder says he’s eyeing a national launch and plans to grow to hundreds of employees and thousands of customers.

80

4 years ago

Little Bean is a digital marketing agency that works with companies to sell their products on social media. The startup, which was founded in April, has built a platform that allows customers to create custom campaigns on social media to advertise their products or services, which are then tracked by Little Bean, who will help the client optimize the campaign to improve ROI.

79

4 years ago

A platform for selling books in the Philippines, in the same way that Amazon does for books in the US. The startup’s investors include Facebook’s David Marcus, CEO of Coinbase Brian Armstrong, and the co-founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman.

79

4 years ago

The startup is building a product that helps people pay for their next drink with a tap on a table or a QR code. The startup’s founder, Rajan Rajan, was the founder of the popular brunch spot, The Blind Barber.

79

4 years ago

A company that is building a platform to help restaurant owners and workers manage logistics and inventory. The startup’s founders say their focus is on reducing waste.

79

4 years ago

This startup, founded in May, has a tool that helps companies better understand their financial health. The startup’s software goes through all of a company’s expenses, tracks revenue and profitability and gives employees a report on where all the money is going.

79

4 years ago

CrowdFlower is building software to automate data analysis on distributed computing platforms like Amazon EMR or Google BigQuery. The startup, which is based in New York, was founded in 2015, and currently has around 12 employees.

79

4 years ago

A suite of tools for startup founders interested in crowdfunding.

79

4 years ago

A tool to help companies bring their products to market faster. The startup’s founders believe that the traditional development process of building a product from scratch can often be too long and slow.

79

4 years ago

A tool for creating a budget and tracking expenses. The company was founded in April, and currently has 10 employees.

79

3 years ago

A startup that builds an app that functions as a personal foundation for the consumer, offering insurance and investments with a flat-rate annual fee.

79

4 years ago

A software startup that creates an index of over 1.5 million digital products, allowing them to be found and purchased from across the web.

78

4 years ago

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

78

4 years ago

A platform to help talented people find jobs in the tech industry. Its founder, Aaron Jaffe, says he’s working with a number of the Valley’s most prominent startups.

78

4 years ago

A company that helps veteran owned businesses get military contracts. They’re looking for a co-founder to help scale their operations.

78

4 years ago

A SaaS platform that helps businesses manage their phone calls with a single dashboard that can be accessed from any device. The founders say they’ve already had over 400,000 calls a month through their platform.

78

4 years ago

A startup to help companies manage their intellectual property in a cohesive way. The company says they’ve done a lot of research and found that a lot of companies are spending a lot of time and money on this work that’s actually not that important.

78

4 years ago

An online retailer of jeans for men, women and kids. Founded in 2015

78

4 years ago

The company is currently in beta, and the founders say they’re focused on helping businesses with their HR needs.

78

3 years ago

This company is working on a way to send money to countries that have been hit by natural disasters. It works in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and is currently in use in the Philippines.

78

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps brands and agencies plan out their Instagram marketing strategies. The founder is a former head of marketing at Instagram (who worked on its mobile app) and says that brands still have a hard time figuring out how to adapt their advertising to the platform.

77

4 years ago

A startup that creates a digital trail of products for consumers to track and manage, from an item of clothing to a car. The founders aim to make it easy to track your life’s possessions.

77

4 years ago

A data science platform that helps businesses discover correlations and patterns in huge amounts of data. The startup was founded by a former Facebook data scientist and has raised $1.5 million so far.

77

4 years ago

A company that sells carbon credits to investors and helps them invest in clean energy and facilities. The startup was founded in 2016 and has raised $1.3M.

77

4 years ago

Has launched in the past year in the US, in areas in which cannabis has been legalized in the past year in states like Ohio, New Jersey, Texas, and California. The company’s founders say they can apply their technology to any state/state-regulated cannabis industry, and are already in business in the US.

77

4 years ago

A company that helps webmasters get their sites found more easily by search engines.

77

4 years ago

An online service that helps non-profit foundations and research groups compete with for-profit companies by matching them with expert volunteers.

77

4 years ago

A startup for families to coordinate care for seniors. The founders hope the platform will help caregivers manage care, so they can do things like remind care-givers when the person’s medication needs to be refilled.

77

4 years ago

A digital platform that gives brands the ability to curate, share, and promote content across multiple channels. It’s like Facebook’s “Explore” but for Instagram. The founders say they’ve built a team of over 100 people and are looking to raise $15 million.

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

Founded in 2017, the company plans to use machine learning to allow retailers to better predict the needs of their customers and make changes in real time.

77

4 years ago

In addition to being a founder, Zebra has also built and launched eight startups in the past.

77

4 years ago

Co-founded by former CEO of Appjo, a startup that made a product to help people write and manage their to-do’s online.

77

4 years ago

Ideas for startups have been found on Quora and other sites.

77

3 years ago

A startup that was founded in May, a company that helps the financial industry with compliance and regulatory compliance.

77

3 years ago

A supply chain management service with a focus on the food industry, enabling customers to track and manage the movement of goods from farmer to table. The startup was founded in April, and has been growing rapidly.

77

3 years ago

A startup for companies to find new employees. The startup’s founders say that their data shows that people are interested in learning about their jobs and company, but don’t know how. The startup’s job posting app helps these people find a new employer.

77

3 years ago

An email marketing platform for retailers, including the ability to auto-calculate discounts. The startup’s founders explain that their goal is to “make the web of the retailer’s customer the same web of the retailer’s customer.”

77

3 years ago

A company that builds Bitcoin mining hardware and wants to make building your own custom mining equipment easier. The founders built the first Blockchain-based mining device over a year ago.

77

4 years ago

A B2B software company that helps hardware manufacturers and distributors sell to retail stores. The company’s founders say that in the past year it’s already signed and closed on 125 deals and has more in the pipeline.

76

4 years ago

A platform that helps people in developing economies get around the inefficiencies of the current financial system. Its founders say that their platform is “an order of magnitude cheaper” than other existing alternatives.

76

4 years ago

An on-demand concierge service for real estate. The startup, which was founded in May, is building a platform that will help buyers and sellers in the US negotiate or manage their real estate transactions online.

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 team of people that builds software for and with the help of the general public (readers, writers and other types of creators). Its first product was a book, "", which won the 2016 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Best Nonfiction.

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 B2B company that helps businesses manage their operations. The startup was co-founded by a former Google employee who used to run a business before quitting in 2011 to become a full-time entrepreneur.

76

4 years ago

The founder of this startup has said she’s working on “blockchain-based insurance”, which she has described as “insurance without the middleman”.

76

4 years ago

A startup that “connects healthcare providers with patients with different needs,” according to the founders.

76

4 years ago

A crowdsourced search engine for finding people to hire for remote work, like the founder of this startup did.

76

3 years ago

• How the founders of two startups from opposite sides

76

3 years ago

A tool that helps small businesses with marketing automation and analytics. The founders say they have 4 clients and 100,000 users.

76

5 years ago

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

75

4 years ago

WellDoc is a medical record company that was founded by two doctors. It provides a service to all physicians to use patient information in electronic medical records to reduce costs and improve patient care.

75

4 years ago

Founded in 2015, this is the company behind the popular, free, and open-source development platform app-builder App-Builder-Platform .

75

4 years ago

A smart suit that monitors a cyclist’s body and sounds an alert if the cyclist is having a heart attack. Geekster’s founders say that it’s a much cheaper alternative to an electrocardiogram, and only takes a few seconds to measure a person’s heart rate.

75

4 years ago

In 2018, the United States has the largest number of startup founders in the world, and has been for the past few years.

75

4 years ago

This startup is building a platform to help renters manage their finances and manage their utilities. The company’s founders say they want to build a tool that’s cheaper and faster than a traditional bank account and are seeking seed funding.

75

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.

75

3 years ago

It is a drop-in-a-bucket startup incubator in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles. The company was founded in 2017 by former Google executive Brian Wieser. The company's mission is to foster entrepreneurship in the city of Los Angeles.

75

3 years ago

Renewing a lost driver’s license online. The startup, which was founded in 2018, currently has around 15 employees.

75

3 years ago

A SaaS platform for enterprise HR teams. The startup is a full-stack service for recruiting and onboarding, but the founders want to add more features to the platform.

75

3 years ago

A platform that connects home-based businesses, including services like furniture assembly, with customers. The company’s founders say it’s not a home cleaning business, but rather a better solution for customers who need help organizing and scheduling their home cleaning services.

75

2 years ago

A startup that uses computers to teach kids about computer science. The founder, who was a 7th grader when he started, previously built an app that teaches kids about the Internet.

75

4 years ago

A startup helping startups focus on users, not investors. Mow is a VC that creates a seed round for a startup, but only if the founders agree to give themselves away for free to customers for a year.

74

4 years ago

Cofound.it is a Swiss startup that launched a year ago with a goal of helping seed-stage companies raise funding. It has a platform that helps investors only invest in startups that it has vetted, and a “crowd” that can help vet companies.

74

4 years ago

A personal finance app that helps people track their spending and save money. Based on a survey of over 1,000 people, the company found that the top things most people wanted to track were their net worth, credit, and income.

74

4 years ago

A startup that uses AI to tailor your work environment by taking the psychology of your job and the company you work for into account. TRACE, which launched in early 2019, has found that when you work in a “high-energy” job, your brain feels more alert and focused, but that when you’re in a “low-energy” job, your brain feels more relaxed and unfocused.

74

4 years ago

A tool for automating email marketing for businesses. Its founders, having previously built a small email marketing SaaS for startups, were looking for a way to automate the process.

74

4 years ago

A digital currency exchange for emerging markets. The startup, founded in 2017, is building a digital currency exchange for countries where currency controls are still in place.

74

4 years ago

A 3-day conference for both founders and investors. It’s a conference for people who have acquired startups at some point in their career and want to learn from others.

74

4 years ago

The founder of this startup is the CEO of a successful full-service SEO consultancy. The startup aims to take the SEO knowledge he used to build his practice and apply it to online marketing.

74

3 years ago

A new business accelerator based in Silicon Valley, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, that targets African-American tech founders with the goal of “helping them grow their businesses so they can help build the next generation of African-American tech leaders”.

74

3 years ago

The company’s founders say they are trying to build an affordable solution for people to pay for their dentist and doctor visits in the US.

74

3 years ago

A startup to help customers buy and maintain cars in the US. The company’s investors include Google Ventures and the founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

74

3 years ago

A company that aggregates content from other sites and translates it into different formats to make it easier to consume. For example, if a company wanted to provide their employees with a video training course, they could hire the founders of Istok to help out. It’s a way to make content more accessible to those who can’t read or watch the language of the original site.

74

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that lets you gift someone the ability to see the world, rather than a specific destination. The startup has 2 mentors and 7 founders, all of whom have traveled the world and are building an online community of people who are making the world a better place.

73

4 years ago

A company that helps businesses track employees and their movements. Founded in 2009, the startup claims to have raised $9.1 million in venture capital and made it to the finals of Y Combinator's winter 2017 batch.

73

4 years ago

A support tool for the “millennial workforce”, a term the founders use to describe anyone born in the 1980s and 1990s.

73

4 years ago

An anonymous messenger for LGBT teens, aimed at the Mormon community. The startup’s founder says the startup’s customer base is made up of LGBT Mormons who feel the need for a safe place to talk about their sexuality.

73

4 years ago

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

73

4 years ago

A startup that wants to allow companies to target marketing programs to specific visits on websites. The startup, which was founded in December, has already signed up over 200 customers including Pinterest, Dailymotion, and Instagram.

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4 years ago

A software development company that wants to fix the “diversity gap” in Silicon Valley. The company’s co-founder says that men make up around 80% of the tech workforce, and women only 4% (and that the industry is even worse in other parts of the world).

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4 years ago

A company that provides an online profile management tool. The startup is also working on a beta version of a layer of security around user data. The company's founder originally pitched the idea at Y Combinator in 2014, but the founders decided to pivot to a more stable revenue stream.

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4 years ago

A startup that helps healthcare professionals and patients collaborate to improve patient outcomes, and it’s powered by an AI bot. The company’s founders tell us it does all of its work by sending patients personal questions and tracking their responses to them, building a database of their responses to doctors and clinicians.

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4 years ago

Since its founding in 2011, this nonprofit has built a library of online resources and tools for the disadvantaged, including an online database of nearly 100,000 student aid resources.

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3 years ago

The startup’s founders have held senior roles at Google and LinkedIn

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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.

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4 years ago

This startup makes a paid email system that helps companies avoid GDPR fines. The company’s founders say they’re working with over 100 large European e-commerce sites. It’s currently in private beta.

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4 years ago

This company wants to make it easier for service companies to manage their customers' data. Its software will manage customer relations, customer support, billing, and other tasks. Its founding team includes veterans of companies like Google, Microsoft, and Box.

72

4 years ago

A “smart” contact lens that tracks glucose levels in real time, sending alerts to users’ smartphones. It’s currently in the clinical trial phase, but the founders are working on a commercial version that will be released in 2020.

72

4 years ago

A tool for HR professionals to create training programs on the fly. The company’s co-founder went through a lot of frustration finding training programs for employees, so he wrote his own.

72

4 years ago

A company that makes a looping video meant to be watched from the user’s couch. They’ve raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from investors including Airbnb and Airbnb co-founder, Brian Chesky.

72

4 years ago

A startup that allows users to pay bills and data plans by sending SMS messages. The founder used to work at Groupon and is raising $1.4 million in seed funding.

72

4 years ago

A tool to help you navigate and organize your life, and make sure you’re working toward your goals and not getting distracted. The founders say they want the tool to be the “GPS for your life” and they want to make it easy to add things like workouts and to-do lists.

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4 years ago

A product for business owners, in which you can sell your products directly in your Shopify store. The company’s founder says there are over 25,000 people in the US using his app.

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4 years ago

This is a startup that wants to build a platform for conditional access to digital content. The startup, which was founded in January, is looking to use the blockchain to allow content providers to set rules for access to their content, similar to how a content creator can set rules for podcast subscriptions.

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4 years ago

A software company that helps small businesses with their accounting. The startup was founded in May, and wants to help small businesses with their accounting, helping them save money and simplify their workflows.

72

4 years ago

A startup for hiring cabin cleaners and maids, similar to TaskRabbit. The company's founders say that with the average cleaning job taking about 45 minutes, a service like theirs would be a huge boon to busy modern families.

72

4 years ago

A company that uses software and physical sensors to track the movement of workers. The founders started out working on a drone that can fly offsite and monitor the speed of workers, which they say saves $100 million in lost productivity each year.

72

4 years ago

A startup that allows businesses to manage their expenses, including all in-house expenses, software licenses, and other expenditure. The company was founded by two ex-Googlers, one of whom was the first employee at Google and the other had worked on Google's AdWords.

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4 years ago

A platform for building and selling internet of things products, with focus on security and ease of integration. The startup’s founder and an ex-Facebook engineer are both ex-Google employees and are currently expanding to the US.

72

3 years ago

An “organization of organizations” that claims to offer an alternative to traditional venture capital, with a focus on helping founders bring their products to market.

72

3 years ago

A chatbot that helps users create a “smart contract” based around their personal preference. Founder David Chen tells me that the bot was built to be a “simple and fun way to teach people about smart contracts and blockchain.”

72

3 years ago

A startup for small businesses to create a professional brand by creating videos for their social media sites and website. The startup is co-founded by former Wistia and Sprout Social employees.

72

3 years ago

The Startup Visa allows founders of startup in the U.S. to be able to work in the country for up to 2 years, and is funded by the National Science Foundation.

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2 years ago

A way to make it easier for non-tech people to code, which they say is a “massive” problem. The company’s founder says that a person with no coding background can be trained in three weeks.

72

4 years ago

The Specialized Technology Fund (STF) is a $25 million venture fund hosted by the University of California, Berkeley, where it was founded in 2011. The fund is meant to facilitate the creation of new technologies that can improve the lives of people in developing countries. It is the first university-backed venture fund focused on developing technologies for developing countries. The fund is run by the university's Haas School of Business.

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4 years ago

A digital platform for the organic food industry to sell directly to customers, with its current focus on e-commerce fulfillment. The founders envision a future where they can send one of the world’s most trusted brands of food directly to your doorstep.

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 new way to get ahold of a new hire. The company offers a service to get your new hires onboarded and trained, and was founded in August

71

4 years ago

Tachyon is a tool for monitoring and managing service-level agreements. The company’s founders say they’re already working with over 100 customers, and they’ve raised $1.7 million in seed funding.

71

4 years ago

A cryptocurrency exchange based in Georgia. It was founded by an ex-Blackberry employee, who saw the need for a more professional cryptocurrency exchange.

71

4 years ago

A software product that automatically sends out marketing reminders for things like follow ups, social media posts, and store store openings. The startup’s founder claims that most startups have missed out on the marketing effort because they have forgotten to do marketing.

71

4 years ago

A startup that connects consumers and brands to help them buy products online. The founder is a former Google engineer who was a co-founder of Instacart, a grocery delivery service, before launching this startup.

71

4 years ago

“Business Insider” is a U.S. business and technology news website, founded in 2009.

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4 years ago

This startup’s founders say that the federal government’s tax-reporting process is too complex and that it’s difficult for people to pay their taxes. They’re building a simple, modern, easy-to-use tool that they hope will be used by millions of people.

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4 years ago

A platform that enables retailers to grow their business, build a community and be profitable. The company is backed by True Ventures, Amazon, and Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield.

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4 years ago

Based in New York, this startup uses blockchain to secure a direct bond between two people who want to be financial partners. A single digital bond is created, secure and licensed by law, that can be traded and used like a stock. The company is backed by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin.

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3 years ago

A tool for “geocaching” that helps hides be found.

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3 years ago

A B2B platform for companies that need to track product inventory at the point of sale for customers. The founders say it’s the biggest product in their portfolio and that it’s “growing like crazy”. They’re currently wrapping up a $1.5M seed round, and working with companies like Shopify and Zendesk.

71

3 years ago

A product launched by the founder of the popular Foodspotting app, which aims to make it easier for people to find and share tasty food photos.

71

3 years ago

A SaaS startup that manages the entire process of creating and distributing digital marketing content. The founders are former Google employees.

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2 years ago

The startup, founded in 2014, aims to let you use your smart phone to take a picture of a cityscape and send it to a friend for his or her critique.

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4 years ago

A digital representation of a physical card game for the internet, replacing the physical card deck with a virtual one. The startup’s founder says they’re close to the top 500 in the iPhone app store. They have a few hundred users.

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4 years ago

The founder of this startup wants to bring the benefits of the Internet of Things to the point of sale. The company is building a system that will allow consumers to interact with products in a more intuitive way.

70

4 years ago

This company is building a platform that connects real estate agents with short-term rentals, making it easier for agents to make money. The startup's founders are both previous Airbnb employees.

70

4 years ago

Focusing on the production side of the cannabis industry, Vite helps growers track their crop through harvest, packaging, labeling, shipping, and aging. Co-founder Pravin Patel says they built the software for half a million dollars in seed funding, and are working with other cannabis companies to deliver their software.

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4 years ago

The company’s co-founder, who is also a partner at Y Combinator, tells us “If you have a lot of money, you can go to the beach. If you don’t, you can go to the beach.”

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4 years ago

A startup that’s building a subscription service for which tech-savvy people share their homes for short periods of time to help make them more affordable for other people. The founders already have over 1,000 customers.

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4 years ago

In addition to the last column, each company’s founders would be listed in the “people” category. In the case where a company has multiple founders, alphabetical order is used.

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3 years ago

A startup that, according to its founders, is “building the best platform for marketers to use data to create great campaigns and experiences.”

70

3 years ago

A health app that uses a person’s existing social graph to construct a “social profile” of their health and use that as a foundation for recommendations.

70

3 years ago

This company, which was also founded in May, is building an online platform to help renters coordinate with their landlords. The company is looking to unify dozens of platforms that currently don’t talk with one another.

70

3 years ago

The founders of this startup want to change the way we think about the trustworthiness of online reviews. The way reviews are currently created and used has been a problem for a long time, and it’s only going to get worse.

70

3 years ago

The founders of this startup are trying to create a platform that allows users to share their favorite moments from movies.

70

4 years ago

A tool that teaches people how to be more productive, launching in the fall of 2019. The founders describe their product as a "Netflix for productivity".

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4 years ago

A tool for salespeople to generate new leads. The company’s co-founder used to go on sales calls where he’d be asked to generate leads, but then sit on his hands for days while he waited for new leads to appear. So he built a tool that automated this process, which has already generated 500 leads.

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4 years ago

Slack is a chat app for team communication. The company’s founders want to build a Slack app that integrates with other platforms, such as Basecamp or Asana.

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4 years ago

The Startup Genome is a resource for founders and investors. It covers early stage startups and is a non-profit that helps entrepreneurs, investors, and mentors. The Startup Genome aims to improve the ecosystem by providing entrepreneurs with data to help guide their decisions and spread best practices.

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4 years ago

A startup founded by former Uber employees to help Uber drivers connect with riders through a network of private messaging

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4 years ago

A replacement for the “shitty” conference call or conference voice chat apps that clutter your phone. The startup wants to use a sophisticated system of algorithms to filter through all of the crappy conference calls that happen in your daily life. The company’s founders say these calls are distracting, and in some places illegal.

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3 years ago

The founders of this startup are veterans of the tech industry, and they want to help veterans get jobs in tech, using their network of connections who know companies looking for talent.

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3 years ago

A place where people can shop for high-end, cheap, and secondhand sunglasses. The startup’s founders are a pair of optics industry veterans with an idea for a pair of industry-focused sunglasses, and a desire to sell them directly to consumers.

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3 years ago

In 2018, YC Labs selected a total of 36 startups from the batch to continue on to the next phase of the program. The majority of the founders were based in the US, with three from Israel, two from Canada and one each from Germany, Singapore, Thailand, Netherlands, Hong Kong, France, Hungary, India and England.

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2 years ago

A startup that allows people to book meetings with doctors and other medical professionals over the phone. The startup, founded in May, has already had more than 10,000 calls placed.

69

4 years ago

A micro-purchase tool for students to pay a particular school a specific amount, and also a tool for teachers to track the progress of a group of students. The startup was founded in July.

68

4 years ago

An API for healthcare providers to manage patient data. The startup, founded by a former Amazon executive, is building a new API for healthcare providers to manage patient data.

68

4 years ago

A company that helps clients manage the relationship between their brand and the people who use its products. The startup was originally built to help the non-profit World Vision, but they found they weren’t a good fit and pivoted.

68

4 years ago

A medical device that can detect breast cancer, in a more affordable and less invasive way than current tools. It’s not FDA approved yet, but the founders say they have been talking to a number of medical companies that have expressed interest.

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4 years ago

A company that helps business owners “sell their soul”. The startup turns businesses into franchises, allowing them to sell their brand to others, who buy the rights to use it. The idea is that the founders of the business “sell” them to a network of franchisees who can make money off it.

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3 years ago

A platform that helps clients and teams track and manage project plans. The cloud-based platform is used by professional services firms, marketing agencies, and retail companies, with the company’s founders saying they’ve already grown to over $100 million in annual revenue.

68

3 years ago

A startup that builds and sells a tool for restaurants to manage their food costs, both inside and outside of their restaurants. The founder said it’s a complicated space, with lots of moving parts and big, regional differences.

68

3 years ago

A company that builds a full website for businesses in just hours. The startup, which was founded in early 2015, also builds mobile apps and website software with speed and ease.

68

3 years ago

Twelve months ago, the founders of this startup were trying to find a better way to communicate with their patients. Today they’re launching a digital health platform that lets providers manage patient records, schedule appointments, and communicate with patients.

68

3 years ago

This startup wants to offer a new level of convenience to consumers who order groceries online. Founded in 2016, Thirsty is an online grocery delivery service that is opening retail stores in Chicago and San Francisco.

68

3 years ago

By combining artificial intelligence, machine learning, and a human expert, Remitly wants to be the Uber or Lyft for international money transfers. The company wants to make money transfer as simple as receiving a text message, and was founded in June.

68

3 years ago

A startup that is building a platform that allows users to manage their investments in a way that they’re comfortable with. The founders say they want to help people invest in stocks without having to think about it.

68

2 years ago

This startup is building a tool that helps retailers and their customers sort and track returns. According to the founders, the company is on track for a $1 million seed round.

68

2 years ago

A startup that’s building an e-commerce platform for start-ups in India. The company’s founders say they’ve already struck partnerships with more than 1,000 merchants and have more than 400,000 registered users.

68

4 years ago

The founders of this toolset are building an app that lets drivers find gas stations in their area.

67

4 years ago

One of the founders is a former Google employee and the company is trying to make it easier to manage your VPS. They have a landing page that includes a free trial and a free account.

67

4 years ago

Handscomb is building a “location-aware” dog collar that lets pet owners know when they leave their dog alone. The startup’s founders say the collar is more humane than a traditional shock collar, letting owners know when their dogs are alone.

67

4 years ago

A platform for hiring and managing freelance workers. The founders want to create a platform that is more like Amazon Mechanical Turk than Upwork.

67

3 years ago

Issac Williams, cofounder of DevOps startup OpsGenie, is a serial entrepreneur who has founded

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3 years ago

Building a platform that helps companies find and hire great talent. The founders spent years working on their own startup before realizing they needed to find a better way to hire workers. The platform has been used by companies like Paypal and Google to find talent.

67

3 years ago

The founders of this startup want to use AI and machine learning to help people in developing countries gain access to medical services.

67

3 years ago

A company that helps users track and manage their cryptocurrency assets, in a manner similar to their competitor Coinbase. The company is funded by the founders of Bibox, a Chinese exchange that has been involved in controversy before and has had expensive legal battles against the IRS.

67

3 years ago

A mobile app for helping people learn Spanish. The startup is looking for a co-founder to help it grow.

67

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

This startup wants to make it easy for anyone with a bad credit score to get a loan. The company’s co-founder says that when running a small business, it’s likely that they know the person they’re dealing with personally. The company uses that advantage to provide a personalized loan experience.

66

3 years ago

A journal of short fiction that tells the stories of founders, investors, and entrepreneurs on the Y Combinator platform.

66

3 years ago

Software that helps people manage the annoying and complicated practice of setting up a new home in the US. The company’s founder, who is an engineer in Brazil, built the app to help friends and family move.

66

3 years ago

A workflow tool for teams — helping to “increase the average person’s effectiveness by 20%,” in cofounder and CEO Russ Jones’ words.

66

3 years ago

A social sharing platform for bloggers and startup founders.

66

3 years ago

A crowdfunding platform for founders to raise capital from their network of friends and family.

66

3 years ago

A tool that helps you re-use code across your web, mobile, and desktop applications, by allowing you to link your code to an API. The startup’s co-founder says that after launching in April 2019, they’ve already signed up 600 customers.

66

3 years ago

A platform that allows players to build and play their own video games. It’s currently in its beta stage, but the founders plan to launch in 2020.

66

3 years ago

A cloud-based IT services company that provides managed cloud services to businesses. The company has $100,000 in monthly recurring revenue, according to the founder.

66

3 years ago

A community of people with a shared, community-driven passion for traveling. The startup was founded by parenthood consultants who say they are going to build a community for parents to connect with one another and share travel tips.

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2 years ago

A company that’s building an on-demand, on-site car rental service for major cities in the US and the UK. It’s a bit like Zipcar, but the company’s co-founder says they’re focused on “long term” agreements.

66

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that provides a full-stack CRM for nonprofit organizations. The founders claim the product has a 3x conversion rate compared to other major players, and is focused on helping nonprofits do more for less money.

65

4 years ago

A platform for small businesses to access capital. The startup, which was founded in May, is building a supply chain for small businesses to create and manage their own investment opportunities.

65

4 years ago

KVRP-FM is a radio station broadcasting at 88.1 MHz in San Marcos, Texas which airs an Adult Contemporary format. The station is owned by Educational Media Foundation.

65

4 years ago

A startup around the code name "Remix Vesta" was founded in 2014. The idea is to create a platform to bring together all the ideas created through remix videos.

65

4 years ago

The startup's founders have been driving customer growth for companies like Lyft, Instacart, and Delivery Hero. After the US, they're going global and they're looking to build a customer service app called Enter, which they say can help companies grow faster by building and managing customer relationships.

65

4 years ago

A management platform for connecting sales reps with clients, currently only available in the UK. The company’s co-founder was previously the CEO of the UK’s largest recruitment search engine.

65

4 years ago

A social platform that helps people connect to each other based on their shared interest in science, space, and technology. Curricula, which was founded in October, is an educational platform that lets people who share the same interests build a community and “seek, share and teach knowledge” in their area.

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4 years ago

A startup that connects people who have similar goals and passions. The company has received $1.8 million in funding from a range of investors including Greylock, Greylock-backed Founder Collective, and Y Combinator.

65

3 years ago

A platform that helps the medical community make more informed decisions through data. HealthLoop cofounders are former Apple engineers who say they’ve built a prototype.

65

3 years ago

The company’s founders say they’re working with over 3,000 small businesses in the UK.

65

3 years ago

A company working on a mobile app that will allow users to share trips with friends and family, and see where they are going. The founders say they can currently see users traveling to over 100 countries with the app.

65

3 years ago

A tool to help power the operations of a new generation of Internet of Things devices. The company’s founders have been building IoT products for a decade but are now looking to bring their expertise to a new platform.

65

3 years ago

A media company that helps content creators find sponsors for their work. The company’s founders are former employees at the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

65

3 years ago

Founded in August 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, Y Combinator-backed Skip provides a way for businesses to get in touch with customers and keep track of purchases.

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3 years ago

Who is behind it Founded in 2014, the company is currently based in Latvia, but has plans to move to the US.

65

3 years ago

A business that helps people who are in professional roles in different markets connect over video. Its founders say that their product, which launched in May, already has more than 1,000 paying customers.

65

3 years ago

A company that helps people sell their houses using a mobile app. Instead of just paying a realtor, users can put their house on the market and pay rent to the app. Once a buyer is found, the house can be sold quickly, and the buyer can then buy it.

65

3 years ago

A company that helps big companies automate their marketing and sales teams. One of the co-founders used to manage the sales teams at Rackspace, and she noticed that the same tasks were being repeated over and over again.

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2 years ago

The co-founders of the company are looking to create a “social network for gamers”

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4 years ago

A way for companies to store and sell their data. The company was founded with the idea of “solving the data supply chain”, and is building a platform that helps companies sell and collect their data.

64

4 years ago

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

64

4 years ago

A startup that lets people manage the lunch menus in their office buildings. The company, which was founded in June, is eyeing a $5 billion market.

64

3 years ago

A startup out of the London School of Economics that’s building a platform to help startup founders create their own student organizations.

64

3 years ago

A 1-hour (or longer) video Q&A series where founders answer all of your developer questions, in a format that is short, fast, and to the point.

64

3 years ago

Mathematica is an analytics tool for schools that helps teachers track student data and improve education. The founders say that the company has already helped over a million students.

64

3 years ago

A tool created by the co-founders of Bazaarvoice that helps businesses better manage their marketing campaigns.

64

3 years ago

A startup in the travel industry that offers a new way to book hotels through a single app. The company, which was founded in May, is now live in over 40 cities and has over 4,000 hotel rooms booked.

64

3 years ago

The founders of Zapier want to make it easy to set up a set of apps to automatically trigger each other. They say they have over 35,000 users and are profitable.

64

3 years ago

A tool to help small businesses manage their operations. The company’s founder says that the product helps companies lower their operating costs by as much as 15% and increase their revenue by up to 15%.

64

3 years ago

A platform that helps companies with in-office meetings, allowing people to chat/record meetings and later watch them back. The startup would also help companies streamline their conference call programs. Founded in July.

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3 years ago

After selling their hardware startup Linear, the founders of the company started SaaS software startup Level which is building out an integrated package to help people manage their finances. Level’s goal is to be a one-stop-shop for checking your credit scores and loans, and paying bills.

64

3 years ago

A company that wants to make a low-cost alternative to buying an iPhone. The startup aims to offer only unlocked iPhones at a lower price than the one that carriers charge. The founders say they've built a working model and have been selling the first batch of phones since June.

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4 years ago

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

63

4 years ago

A CRM focused on helping companies find and hire the right people. Jigsaw, which was founded in 2017, has been featured in TechCrunch, Forbes, and Business Insider.

63

4 years ago

A tool to help you figure out how to best measure a person’s data across their entire life, including health, work and leisure. The startup’s founders say they’ve already spoken to Fortune 500 companies about their solution.

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4 years ago

A company building solutions in the area of AI, applied to consumer marketing, is looking to help salespeople close deals by asking them questions. The startup’s founders say that it helps salespeople become more efficient at closing deals by asking questions like “What are you looking for” and “What are you not sure about”

63

4 years ago

A company that helps investors make money off the volatility of a company’s stock. The startup’s founders say the company has processed over $100 million in trades.

63

3 years ago

A way to create and shape material for TV shows and movies. The startup, which was founded in January, is building the software that powers a social media-style fan network for TV shows and movies, allowing fans to create and join communities around their favorite content.

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3 years ago

A web interface for translating websites and files. Translate.me was originally built by two Israeli engineers as a way to translate documents from Hebrew to English or English to Hebrew. Translate.me is currently free, but the founders say they want to move into a freemium model for larger teams.

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3 years ago

“We’re using a data-driven approach to help people find the right careers. We’ve found that a lot of people are not finding the right job for them.”

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3 years ago

The founders of this app on a road trip across the US to test their product.

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2 years ago

An online marketplace for buying, selling, and renting tech gadgets. Right now, it’s a platform only for selling gadgets, but the founders say they’d like to expand it to an online store for buying and renting gadgets.

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2 years ago

The company’s founder says that “adding a photo is a process.” pic.twitter.com/LUY6dMtZH3 — Ryan Mac (@RMac18) August 9, 2019

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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.

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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 co-founded by basketball player Kevin Durant is building a platform for housing developers to find and sell homes online. The startup’s database of pre-vetted homes is curated.

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4 years ago

A mobile payments app that lets people transfer money between their friends. The startup's founders say they're currently seeing over 5,000 users per month.

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3 years ago

A company that allows you to easily create and manage your digital marketing campaigns from one platform. The startup, which was founded in May, has just launched its beta

62

3 years ago

A food delivery app for Lyft drivers in the US that is focused on curbside ordering and deliveries. The startup was founded in March, and will begin operations in May.

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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.

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3 years ago

Startup is building a platform for customers, based on the blockchain technology, to purchase products directly from manufacturers and avoid retailers. The company, which was founded in March, currently has more than 400 brands on its platform.

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3 years ago

The founder of the company, a guy named John, started coding Windows in the 1990s, and has since been working with Microsoft as a technical advisor. He’s now building a new social media platform that aggregates all the social media sites from around the world into one place, with the goal of creating a single, unified platform for social media for the world.

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3 years ago

1. Startup founders who were born in the 1980s that graduated from top universities

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2 years ago

A company that helps employers create a culture that’s “pro-inclusion”. The startup launched in early august, and the founders say they’ve already been contacted by organizations looking to use the tool.

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4 years ago

A unicorn-founded startup that focuses on empowering workers to manage their own payroll and benefits.

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4 years ago

Instead of using a team of people to go and measure your house, the founders of Wallflower have created a system that helps you take photographs of the interior of your house that you can post to social media with just the push of a button.

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3 years ago

A B2B platform for buying and selling real estate, which was founded by former Google and Facebook employees.

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3 years ago

A platform for bringing business-to-business companies together. The founders want to make blockchain-based business networks into the next generation of business.

61

3 years ago

A startup that wants to create a platform to help chefs monetize their skills by using them to create on-demand meals for customers. The startup, which was founded in February, is working on a platform that connects chefs with customers, who can then choose to pay for meals with cash or through a credit card.

61

3 years ago

A platform for sites to sell their content to other sites. The startup was founded in 2017, but is still in stealth mode.

61

3 years ago

A tool for digital nomads, focused on things like finding a place to stay, legal advice, and people to introduce you to people to meet. Founded in 2015, Union.ro is gaining traction in areas with a high density of digital nomads.

61

3 years ago

This startup founded by a team of vets is building an app that can detect PTSD in veterans in a matter of minutes. They’re taking preorders for the app.

61

3 years ago

An online marketplace for buying and selling of used medical equipment. The founders say that the market for medical equipment is $35 billion and growing.

61

2 years ago

A startup for brand ambassadors to earn money on their social media channels. The company’s founders say that it’s growing quickly, and that they’re already working with 50 brands and have over 1,000 ambassadors.

61

2 years ago

A startup that lets companies manage their entire employee insurance policy — all the way from claims to retirement — from one place. Founded in May.

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 startup that uses facial recognition to help customers find, review, and purchase products online. Founded by the former CEO of UBER.

60

3 years ago

This startup is building a service to help people create their own “satellite” internet, connecting it to existing cellular networks. The founders of the startup say the service is a better alternative to the speeds of existing satellite broadband.

60

3 years ago

A software provider that helps companies with their data security and privacy. The founders say the company is growing fast, because the startup helps clients “focus on the things that matter”.

60

3 years ago

A small team of founders in San Francisco who work on tools that allow people in the developing world to create mobile apps.

60

3 years ago

A startup that allows employees to manage their income, expense and banking information. Small business owners that pay their employees in cash have to manage a number of paper documents to keep track of those payments. Hatipol, which was founded earlier this year, is building a system to do this more efficiently.

60

3 years ago

The company’s team is remotely based in Costa Rica and the company’s co-founder is originally from Costa Rica.

60

3 years ago

When a user clicks a link to a website, it’s often followed by a URL shortener being used to shorten the link to keep it from being found. It’s a tool used by SEO companies to rank websites. Sovereign wants to cut out the middleman and allow users to use the URL shortener directly on its platform.

60

3 years ago

A collaboration platform for teams used at companies like Facebook, Uber, and Airbnb. The company’s founder left his last job at Uber to work on the startup full-time.

60

3 years ago

The company’s co-founder and CEO, Ryan Williams, previously co-founded an online ticket co-op and a ticketing software company.

60

3 years ago

A mobile app that helps you find a yoga studio in your area, and then book classes at the studio you want. Yoga studios often have limited space, but the founders say their app can help you find a spot if you don’t want to wait for your favorite studio to open up.

60

2 years ago

A video sharing platform that offers all creators a revenue share with the platform. The startup was founded by former Netflix executives.

60

4 years ago

The founders of this startup have been working on a mobile-first platform since 2010. Now they’re building a mobile-only social network focused on young urban professionals.

59

4 years ago

A startup that wants to help people use their own existing content as a source for their brands. It’s essentially a feed builder for social media, where a user can build a feed from their own feed. The startup’s founders say they’ve reached 10,000 users right after launching, and have doubled in size in the past month.

59

3 years ago

A startup that is building an AI assistant for home assistants, helping them take care of daily tasks for their users. The startup was founded in May and is looking to raise $1MM.

59

3 years ago

A tool to help founders and engineers create and distribute their personal blog posts.

59

3 years ago

“The most important thing we do is commercialize our research and enable companies to build on top of it.” This is the second year they’ve won the Thiel Foundation award and their prize was $100,000 to help them “accelerate commercialization” and hire a new team member to help bring their product to market.

59

3 years ago

A free online platform that allows consumers to give feedback on products and services before they purchase. The startup, which was founded in May, wants to provide an easy way for consumers to provide feedback to brands before they purchase.

59

3 years ago

A SaaS tool for invoicing and payments, co-founded by two former engineers at Stripe.

59

3 years ago

A startup for organizations to send job applications to applicants in one place. The founders say that their app is already in use by a large number of organizations.

59

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.

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

The founder of B2B startup, which is building a texting app for the B2B space, gives the startup a lot of credit for the fact that it was able to raise over $30 million in funding in less than a year.

59

3 years ago

A tool for consumers to check the square footage of homes they want to buy, which the founders say has a large market in the U.S.

59

4 years ago

Part of Y Combinator’s revised application process, revised from the one from the summer, includes a video introduction from the founders. Some of the founders have also been blogging about their experiences.

58

4 years ago

A startup that uses machine learning to help people build their own personalized itineraries. The company's founders say they have a lot of B2B customers. They currently have a few hundred paying customers.

58

4 years ago

A SaaS platform that helps multinational companies grow in emerging markets. The startup’s founders say they’ve had over 50% growth in the last six months.

58

4 years ago

A tool to help companies hire and manage a distributed workforce in the age of on-demand services. In a world of on-demand services, companies are looking for tools that will allow them to manage the people who work for them. Jobbird’s founders have already turned down $500,000 in investment.

58

4 years ago

Market research tool that gathers data on amateur athletes and coaches. The company’s founder says they’ve already signed up 8,000 coaches and they’re growing fast.

58

3 years ago

The premium version of the popular chat client Discord. The founders are building a product that helps smaller, independent developers book services and manage their own store. The company says it’s the only app that lets users build their own store.

58

3 years ago

This a personal-finance app that helps people track their spending and come up with a plan for paying off loans. The founders say it’s one of the most active finance apps in Japan.

58

3 years ago

The founders of this B2B fintech startup aim to improve the way banks and other financial institutions provide financial planning advice. They aim to do this by connecting banks with the people who know best how to invest, how much to save, and how to invest.

58

3 years ago

The founders hope to start a movement to change the way doctors think about their relationship with their patients by creating a new way for people to manage their health, which could save millions of people from medical mistakes, unnecessary procedures, and more.

58

3 years ago

A financial services firm that helps business owners manage their finances. The firm’s founder, 19-year-old Christopher Cagney, says he came up with the idea after he saw a “bunch of people who had been ripped off” by their banks.

58

3 years ago

A social network that merges live video and video chats. The startup was founded in October 2018, and already has users in 20 countries.

58

3 years ago

A tool for small teams to manage projects and projects. The founders say that they want to create a new class of company, the “Project Manager”.

58

3 years ago

Libra is building a platform to help over 100,000 publishers and digital publishers increase their revenue by a whopping 90% by helping them convert subscribers into customers. Libra’s founders say that the average revenue per user is around $10, and the service wants to help them grow that to $50.

58

3 years ago

A free social networking app where users can connect with people and businesses they trust, with the goal of building relationships that could help them in the future. The founders believe their social network will also become a valuable tool for salespeople.

58

3 years ago

A pay-as-you-go delivery service that brings groceries straight to your door. Its founders say they’re currently profitable, but the plan is to raise more capital later this year.

58

3 years ago

A company that helps fight hospital-acquired infections by providing remote patient monitoring services. It has seven employees, including four full-time. The company was founded by an oncologist.

58

2 years ago

An AI-powered, self-learning personal assistant that handles the mundane, boring tasks of daily life. The company’s founders say it can organize your schedule, set reminders, and even order takeout.

58

2 years ago

A startup that helps people make their own dietary supplements. The company wants to make it easy to produce and sell supplements online, and it’s growing fast. It’s picked up $30,000 from Y Combinator and a $200,000 loan from the Kauffman Foundation.

58

4 years ago

A software-as-a-service, or SaaS, startup that enables companies to utilize software as a service. The company, which was founded in 2013, is building a platform that allows companies to build and deploy cloud-based applications with a drag-and-drop interface.

57

3 years ago

A company that sells handcrafted greeting cards in a variety of designs and styles. The startup is one of the few that has the ability to make all of its designs from scratch, and its founders say that it has a very loyal customer base.

57

3 years ago

We’re in the middle of a renaissance of public speaking, with the rise of social media, and a rise in the popularity of TED Talks. But there’s a gaping hole where public speaking training and public speaking coaching should be. The founders of VLIVE want to solve the problem by providing live public speaking training and coaching to individuals based on their level of comfort.

57

3 years ago

An AI chatbot that helps developers with technical support, giving them access to the knowledge of a group of developers who specialize in different areas. The startup was founded on May 11th.

57

3 years ago

The startup is building a platform for entrepreneurs to easily build and market their products. The startup's founder says that it can also provide financing to help scale businesses.

57

3 years ago

The startup is building a 3D printer for small scale production. The founders met at Techstars, where they were early on a Y Combinator batch.

57

3 years ago

A hardware startup that sells a low-cost, low-energy, laser-based 3D printer that can print out objects from a 3D file. The team at PRINT.AI is led by a serial entrepreneur who has participated in Y Combinator, including projects such as Exakte and Foundry.

57

3 years ago

A startup that “combines a credit card and a wallet” for users. In May the founder said it had $2 million in funding.

57

3 years ago

The company’s CEO, Will Clark, is a former member of the U.S. Air Force and a former personal trainer, and the company’s co-founders are also experienced entrepreneurs. The company, which launched in 2013, is looking to address a major issue in the fitness industry: it’s difficult, expensive, and time-consuming to get fit.

57

3 years ago

Rides, a ridesharing company that focuses on providing a cheaper and friendlier alternative to Uber and Lyft. The company was founded on an idea that the majority of people want ridesharing but don’t want to pay the higher prices of Uber and Lyft. Rides is currently operating in Atlanta, GA, with plans to expand to other cities.

57

3 years ago

A startup that lets you track your steps, sit counts, and other metrics in an effort to improve your fitness and help motivate you to exercise. The founders met while working at a physical therapy clinic.

57

3 years ago

After launching in the US in July of 2018, the startup wants to launch in Canada in late 2019. The startup’s founders say that their app helps you find the cheapest Uber rides as well as the best deals on flights, hotels, and restaurants and much more.

57

3 years ago

A company that builds data visualizations for the media market. Launched in December 2016, the startup was founded by a former Google product manager.

57

3 years ago

A tool that allows users to search the web and find words that they can't remember. The startup says it has already found over 1,000 terms and is working towards a database of over 10,000.

57

2 years ago

A wearable that measures blood pressure and heart rate at a user's fingertips. The startup’s co-founder and CEO is a former Apple employee with a Ph.D from Harvard; they’re looking to raise $100,000 on Kickstarter.

57

3 years ago

Hedere uses a mobile app to help people make decisions about their health. The startup’s founder, a physician, helped people manage their health and make decisions through an iPad app.

56

3 years ago

Telematic is an online distribution platform that turns any online-based seller into an actual physical retail store. It’s a bit like Overstock or Ebay or Amazon, but instead of buying an item through an online-based website, you can actually buy the item in a physical store. The company was founded in 2016.

56

3 years ago

A startup that wants to take the “ieatcookies” concept of delivery startups, and instead focus on food delivery for people with diabetes. The company’s founders say that in the past year they’ve already seen over 3 million “clicks” on their website.

56

3 years ago

This startup is developing a new way for developers to build apps for crowdfunding platforms. It will build custom software for each project, and also work as a consultant for founders to make sure their campaigns are compliant.

56

3 years ago

A startup founded by MIT graduate students that’s working on a way to build robots with human-like dexterity.

56

3 years ago

A venture-backed startup that helps new companies get their name out into digital. It allows founders to create customized branded websites and blogs, and gives them tools to help them effectively communicate with their community.

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

3 years ago

A platform for finding off-the-beaten-path travel deals. The founding team traveled the country for a year for research before the founding.

56

3 years ago

This startup, which was founded in March, is building a way to organize the world’s massive amount of health and fitness data into a more actionable format.

56

5 years ago

Idea: A platform that connects to the APIs of a variety of e-commerce services (Stripe, Shopify, etc.) to help them better manage and analyze customer data. The founders say they have $1,500 in monthly recurring revenue.

55

4 years ago

Zendrive wants to help employers and employees better understand where they are and what they’re doing by tracking their work patterns and emotions. The startup, founded in May, wants to build an app that can be used as an employee wellness tool.

55

3 years ago

A startup that helps people create, distribute, and sell music online. According to its founders, there’s a $30 billion music industry in the US, but it’s almost entirely untapped in the digital space.

55

3 years ago

A startup that lets you put your phone number on a business card and connect with friends, family, and colleagues. The founders of this startup say they’re selling a lot of business cards, with over 1,200 cards shipped in 24 hours and a $1,500 monthly recurring revenue.

55

3 years ago

A platform for startup founders to raise capital in a new way. Their pitch is that their platform is bringing transparency and efficiency to angel investing. Instead of a typical deal where a startup founder gets 50% of the company’s future equity, they offer equity up front as well as a stake in the company’s future profits.

55

3 years ago

A mobile application that allows users to share and discover other book enthusiasts around the world. Founded in 2014 by Jason and Saalim Ghose, the startup is based out of San Francisco.

55

3 years ago

A company founded by Amazon.com co-founder Jeff Bezos. The startup is working on a drone delivery system that could deliver packages to customers in 30 minutes or less.

55

3 years ago

A company that helps medical students and physicians collaborate and share their documents, built as a tool to help medical students and physicians work more efficiently. The company, which was founded in February, is working on a mobile application.

55

2 years ago

A “SaaS platform for small businesses to manage their online reputation, built by the founders of the Reputation.com.”

55

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps agencies and consultants close deals with more confidence. The startup was founded in India, and is already seeing traction in that country.

54

5 years ago

Idea: A startup helping businesses in emerging markets manage inventory and orders using a mobile app and a desktop dashboard. The founders say they’ve already signed more than 50 customers in the past month (and have been accepted to Y Combinator,) and that the business has been profitable since it launched at the end of May.

54

3 years ago

This startup wants to help you book a car service without having to drive to a car service station. The startup, which was founded in June, provides a “smart” dispatch tool based on algorithms to match the right driver to your needs.

54

3 years ago

A startup that provides a marketplace for brokers and consumers to find, book, and pay for parking. The company’s founders are former employees of Parkingify, which they say is a prime example of the need for a parking marketplace.

54

3 years ago

This company, which was founded in 2015, helps companies hire workers in the Philippines. It uses a mobile app to connect recruiters with workers and to manage the work itself.

54

3 years ago

The founders of this app want to build a tool for managing digital feedback. Instead of emailing feedback to a manager or leaving a comment on a blog post, users can send feedback directly to a specific employee, and the app’s smart algorithms will automatically highlight the most important parts of each comment so the employee can see it, reply to it, and move on without having to read through unnecessary comments.

54

3 years ago

A startup that lists all the things you’d like to buy, but haven’t been able to find. The startup’s founder says his product is like a “Netflix for Amazon” and that it earns him around $10,000 a month.

54

3 years ago

A new way to manage a startup. The startup wants to create a way for founders to manage their startups in a “better way”, and to create a way for those who aren’t founders to still engage in their startups.

54

3 years ago

A social media platform that allows users to broadcast online without the need for a network connection, the founders claim it’s the first of its kind.

54

3 years ago

In November 2018, Crunchbase News highlighted the following companies and their founders:

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 tool to help people more easily manage their finances, with a particular focus on those who want to save more money but don’t know how to maximize their current investments. The company’s founder is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor in Portland who has previously worked at Intuit and First Republic.

54

2 years ago

A company that allows people to manage their finances in a way that’s easy to look at and understand. “It’s the opposite of the internet finance world,” says co-founder.

54

2 years ago

The founder of The Modern Monk, a startup that sells clothing for people who like to live an ascetic lifestyle, launched a clothing line for women.

54

2 years ago

A tool to help companies manage their data center. The startup is working with companies like Juniper, and is co-founded by an ex-Verizon tech exec.

54

2 years ago

A startup building a “beautiful” and “powerful” (as the founder puts it) AI assistant

54

4 years ago

The startup is building a tool to help people remember and pass down the history of their family. It’s currently working with a range of clients, including one of the founders, who is working with his grandfather to create a history of the family.

53

3 years ago

This is a game-like tool for creating, connecting, and interacting with users in a group. Users can create their own rooms, and can invite others to join. The founders want to find a way to enable users to create and moderate spaces that are unique to them, and that can help them to connect with people in a larger community.

53

3 years ago

A startup that helps access control systems integrate with your smartphone. The startup, which was founded in June, is based in the DC area, and has already built a marketplace for hardware, and is working on an API to integrate the system into your phone.

53

3 years ago

Improving the delivery of savings products for customers who want to save for retirement. They’re currently focused on saving for retirement, but the founders say they’d like to expand to other areas.

53

3 years ago

A chatbot for people who have been recently released from prison. The startup’s founders say that over 25% of the US prison population is in prison for drug-related offenses, and that nearly 70% of those incarcerated are people of color.

53

3 years ago

The most popular city for the founders of the top 50 startups, based on talking to founders, was New York. The city was home to 10% of the startups and the rest are spread across the US, including Silicon Valley and Seattle.

53

3 years ago

The startup has built a suite of cloud-based services for businesses to manage their HR needs. The founders, who previously worked for Google and Microsoft, say their services save businesses around $4 million a year.

53

3 years ago

A startup to help users in the US get a visa to visit Mexico. Currently, only the founder is using it to visit Mexico, but it’s growing each week and it’s easy to imagine a scenario where it becomes a full-fledged travel app.

53

3 years ago

A startup that sells products to help people sleep better, with a focus on reducing snoring. The founder told me they have no plans to make a medical device, with the product only being approved by FDA.

53

3 years ago

An online marketplace for the sharing of cars. Carpool is already in cities in the US and Europe, but the founders want to expand it to Africa and Asia.

53

3 years ago

A new kind of credit card meant to help families save money on groceries and other purchases. The startup’s founder says it’s working with a number of grocery chains and wants to build out a platform for other retailers.

53

3 years ago

A startup that provides free Wi-Fi in coffee shops, bars, and restaurants. The company’s founders say that they’re currently working with over 300 venues in London.

53

3 years ago

A data platform for companies to see what financial products their customers are using and get insights about their spending habits. The company was founded by a former Wells Fargo executive.

53

3 years ago

A company that makes a fertilizer for indoor plants. The company’s founders say that the product was designed specifically to save plants from the toxic chemicals in common houseplants, without over-stimulating them.

53

3 years ago

Cofounded by a former Apple employee, this startup wants to make it easier for companies to use their own internal data and learn from it.

53

3 years ago

A B2B platform that helps inbound marketing teams find, track, and optimize their campaigns. The company’s founders say that they’re already working with over 40 teams, and that they’re looking to find an additional 50 customers by the end of the year.

53

3 years ago

A virtual assistant that helps people with their day to day tasks. The startup, which was founded in May, says it has 2,000 daily users and plans to launch in the US and UK in 2020.

52

3 years ago

A startup that uses big data to analyze and predict the effectiveness of different marketing campaigns. The company is based in Palo Alto, where they were founded.

52

3 years ago

The idea came out of frustration as a consumer, and the founders wanted to create a product that would help others avoid the same problem.

52

3 years ago

A startup that helps people create and manage their personalized travel itineraries. The founders are former Google employees who left to work on this.

52

3 years ago

A platform that matches people who need time off with freelance business owners who need help managing projects. It is being pitched by the co-founders as a way to bridge the “digital divide” between freelancers and employees.

52

3 years ago

In 2018, more than half of the companies in Y Combinator had been founded within the previous three years, with many of the companies founded in 2017.

52

3 years ago

The company’s founder tells Fast Company that a better way to sell & ship items would be to charge 20% less for the first month, 90% less for the second, and a savings of 50% for the third.

52

3 years ago

“We’re building a tool for the people who don’t think they can learn to code,” says founder and CEO Jonah Liebman. The company, which was founded in January, wants to help coders make their job easier.

52

3 years ago

Cofounder who has worked at Google on the search team and at Yandex, a search engine in Russia that has been successful in serving regional markets.

52

2 years ago

A clean energy service that helps businesses and consumers save money on their energy bills. The company’s founders wanted to use the savings to help fund a nonprofit in a poor community.

52

3 years ago

A startup that brings the benefits of a “quiet studio” to people who live in buildings that aren’t as soundproofed. The company’s co-founder, who was previously a producer for The BBC, says he uses the studio for “super-advanced brain science and psychology research”.

51

3 years ago

This is a way to get your own personal assistant and manage your scheduling and calendar. The founders say they’re building a new company that will help other startups build a similar offering.

51

3 years ago

The founder of this startup is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management who wants to build a platform for entrepreneurs to come together to share what they’re learning, to connect with mentors, and to help each other.

51

3 years ago

The startups founders say they’re building a “Facebook for real estate” with a focus on non-MLS markets.

51

3 years ago

The Center for Humane Technology was an initiative started by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who was a founding organizer. The center's mission is to research and devise ways in which technology can be used to help people, with a particular focus on children, refugees, and the disabled.

51

3 years ago

A secure messaging app that offers end-to-end encryption. The company was founded in 2014 by a group of WhatsApp co-founders as an alternative to Facebook’s Messenger service.

51

3 years ago

A platform for event planning, with a focus on the corporate world. The startup, which was founded in May, has a focus on teams and their needs, with the app allowing them to create events, view reports, and track attendance.

51

3 years ago

This is a text editor that works with pictures. The app, which was founded in February, aims to replace the traditional text editor and provide more flexibility for users.

51

3 years ago

A platform that helps companies get their products onto 300 million rideshare riders a month. The company’s founder Tom Morton said that Uber’s “huge R&D Lab in the Bay Area is a real weakness” in the startup’s plan to compete with the ride-hailing giant.

51

3 years ago

The founders of this startup are aiming to grow a marketplace for people to sell their unused clothing.

51

3 years ago

The startup has a platform to help groups of people organise events through booking software, a Facebook-like to-do list, and a website to book tickets. The founders are also building an event organiser machine learning engine, which they plan to use to help them build a better booking engine.

51

3 years ago

The founders of this company want to build a common platform for all of the communication tools that people use for their company. They’re working on making Huddle, Slack, HipChat, and other tools work together.

51

2 years ago

A platform that uses AI to help recruiters find candidates. Founded by the former CEO of Glassdoor, the company is aiming to be a highly-targeted alternative to traditional job boards.

51

2 years ago

A way to receive money from friends and family across the country using a phone call. The founders say it’s a bit like Venmo but with US banks available for people to transfer funds to.

51

2 years ago

The company’s founders say they’re building the world’s most effective customer acquisition platform and are already running campaigns with over 1,000 paying customers

51

2 years ago

A startup that helps women find and buy designer clothing and accessories at a discount. The startup’s founder says she’s already working with some of the biggest brands in the world.

51

2 years ago

An online platform for selling used goods that are found through Google.

51

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps nonprofits raise money from their supporters. The startup charges a 20% fee of all donations made through its platform, and says it’s using a $500k grant from the Knight Foundation to grow the company.

50

5 years ago

A “digital resume” for freelancers. The founder wanted to make it easier for freelancers to acquire new customers and for clients to find them.

50

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."

50

3 years ago

This is a content delivery network for micro-documentaries. The startup is working with the National Science Foundation to create a video library for scientists.

50

3 years ago

This is a new venture from the co-founder of the company that spent $8,000 on a round of venture funding to make a $400 smart phone. The company is building a home security camera that can use AI to alert its users of intruders. The founders were inspired by the startup that once owned their smart phone.

50

3 years ago

The startup’s co-founder says that their professional-grade coffee is formulated for office workers to “get their caffeine fix without getting jittery” and comes in breakfast, lunch and dinner varieties.

50

3 years ago

A platform that connects restaurants with caterers to get food delivered in under an hour. The startups founders say they’ve already found partners in 20 cities.

50

3 years ago

The idea is to create a “one-stop shop” for people who want to buy and sell used goods on the internet. The founders say that their software, which is available on Android, will become the first place for people to discover and buy used goods on the internet.

50

3 years ago

Self-service catering for restaurants in Europe, developed by the co-founder of OpenTable.

50

3 years ago

CEO Kevin Fong founded the company with a mission to build a menswear brand that would make well-made suits at a low cost. The startup is looking to disrupt the menswear industry by offering a more accessible product and a more accessible price point.

50

2 years ago

A mobile app that helps people determine if their app or website will be profitable before they spend time and money on it. The startup is still in its early stages, but its founders have built a number of successful iOS apps, including one for Puma shoes.

50

2 years ago

The company’s founder says he started the company to build a “social network” for musicians.

50

2 years ago

Founded by Maxime Lemire, a former CFO of a company that collected $100 billion in revenue, this startup is building a platform that helps companies manage their cash flows.

50

2 years ago

A startup by the founders of the Foursquare check-in app, which they say has a 2.5 billion monthly active user base. It allows users to make reservations for things like concerts, events, and private dinners.

50

3 years ago

A chat app for kids that infuses video into the app. The startup’s founders have a background in animation, with one of the founders previously working on the "Finding Nemo" sequel.

49

3 years ago

The founders at this startup want to help restaurant owners around the US increase sales and profits for their businesses.

49

3 years ago

A startup that helps you create and manage “Zines,” a new way to record and share your life. The startup’s founders say that you can write a Zine with just a smartphone and a little bit of paper.

49

3 years ago

The company that the Founder of the company co-founded, has over 1.5M users. It’s an online music streaming service that he co-founded.

49

3 years ago

Founded by former Viacom executive and a former Google sales exec, this startup is building a suite of tools that help companies manage their influencer marketing, although their own website says they’re better suited for “large enterprises”.

49

3 years ago

A solution for businesses to track and manage the different payments they make to vendors. The company, which was founded in May, has $1,800 in monthly recurring revenue.

49

3 years ago

In 2015, the foundation of the startup was a brief strategic meeting between a team of people with a shared vision of creating a new and better way to track and support youth development. Today, they’re a nonprofit with a mission to help youth reduce barriers and realize their full potential.

49

3 years ago

A social network for people in the legal industry that lets them discover and connect with each other, build profiles, and share information. The startup’s founders say it’s the “LinkedIn for the legal industry”.

49

3 years ago

A startup that helps people and companies manage their travel and expenses. The company’s founders say they’ve saved clients $1 million in business expenses in the past year.

49

2 years ago

A startup that wants to change how you interact with your grocery store. The startup was founded in 2015 by a former Amazon exec and a former Google exec, and is based in Palo Alto.

49

2 years ago

The startup’s founder says his company is on pace to fund $2 million in revenue by the end of the year.

49

5 years ago

A startup that wants to provide access to early stage equity for founders who don’t have access to the traditional venture capital market

48

3 years ago

A software platform that helps retailers sell and market their products online, with a focus on subscription commerce, ecommerce, and marketing. The company was founded by two former employees of Warby Parker and Verily.

48

3 years ago

This app is a digital diary for kids, and the founders say that it’s only possible because of the way the app’s parental controls work. The app asks for the child’s age and gender, then shows a picture of the child and asks for a voice recording of the child’s voice. The app then classifies the voice recording and shows them on a map. The founders say that this is an important distinction, as it allows parents to be able to see which kids are in which areas at any given time.

48

3 years ago

A tool for creating websites and landing pages. The startup’s founders had built a similar tool for their own business, but realized that the majority of their work was spent on the “unfun” tasks of putting together a page.

48

2 years ago

The founders say they have a “machine learning approach,” but claim the service has been able to help companies manage their website’s security and performance by identifying and fixing faults and nagging bugs within their software.

48

2 years ago

A startup that looks to make online ordering for groceries in the U.S. as reliable and easy as ordering pizza. The startup’s founders say the startup has already tested its service in over one hundred U.S. cities, and is out in San Francisco now.

48

2 years ago

A startup where people can apply to be a startup’s co-founder.

48

5 years ago

Idea: A 3D audio startup that is trying to make podcasting more immersive by using binaural audio. The app has a pretty strong take on the future of podcasting, and its founder says that the company is profitable.

47

4 years ago

A startup that helps patients with chronic pain find the best treatment. The company, which was founded in May, offers a combination of physical therapy and behavioral therapy, along with a community of pain patients who have been successfully treated by the service.

47

3 years ago

A startup focused on the idea that “the future is here” and that the “present is not what it used to be”. Founded in 2018, it has written and produced 9 episodes so far.

47

3 years ago

The founders of this marketing startup say they’re building a Facebook for blimps. Their goal is to fuel the growth of a new kind of “social blimp” that’s valuable for businesses and pro-social.

47

3 years ago

The startup, which was founded in May, wants to become the de facto “productivity companion” for people who want to do their own research and stay on the cutting edge of tech.

47

3 years ago

A company that acts as a “voice of the customer” to help businesses improve the quality of their products. The startup, which launched in July, is funded by Foundry Group, and has a team of experienced consultants.

47

3 years ago

The founders of many of these startups have connections in the Philadelphia tech scene. Some, like Zuddle and Zpack, are backed by angel investors in the region. Others, like Farmako and Tella, were founded by students at the University of Pennsylvania.

47

3 years ago

A crowdsourced database of data and events. The company’s founders say that the database is “most trusted data source” in the US.

47

3 years ago

The idea is to create an online platform that helps professionals save time and money by planning their own trips to conferences. The founders are both professional travel writers, and say that a lot of the best trips they’ve taken were planned on their own.

47

3 years ago

A company that helps marketers build apps that allow them to target not only specific demographics, but specific moments in time. The startup’s co-founder says that it’s “the first company in the world to do this”.

47

2 years ago

A platform for making special flights available to a select group of customers. The startup’s founder says that the goal is to decrease business travel in general.

47

2 years ago

A tool to help startup founders build their startup vision. It’s a virtual printer that allows you to build a full-scale prototype of your product with a few clicks of your mouse. The startup is looking to make prototyping a viable alternative to using physical models.

47

3 years ago

A company that has a “pay-as-you-go” on-demand concierge service for students and millennials. The company’s founders want to help students focus on schoolwork and leave the rest to others, and plan to launch in early 2020.

46

3 years ago

A startup that tracks the data that can be used to predict future events based on historical data. The startups founders say they have already proven the accuracy of the Georgia Tool Company’s algorithm that predicts earthquakes by looking at past earthquake data.

46

3 years ago

A way for brands to get their products in front of potential customers. The startup was founded in January, and has already partnered with companies like Warby Parker and Patagonia to get their products in front of customers.

46

3 years ago

A startup that is building a software platform that lets you connect with other people in Springfield. The founders want to create a place for Springfielders to organize gatherings, meet up, coordinate and socialize.

46

3 years ago

This startup is building a tool to help lawyers draft documents and agreements in a way that’s clear and concise, but also in a way that’s legally precise. The founders created their own law school in 2014 and now run the firm as a for-profit business, but they plan to eventually make the tool available to all lawyers.

46

3 years ago

A company that helps companies manage their accounts receivables and payments. The founders say that their platform is used by major Fortune 500 companies.

46

2 years ago

A platform that helps users buy and sell secondhand goods, the product of a collaboration between serial entrepreneur and the cofounder of Urban Outfitters. The CEO says the company has 3,000 users, and is profitable.

46

2 years ago

A sustainable and affordable home that can be assembled in a few days. The founders say the market for these structures is worth $100 billion.

46

4 years ago

A startup that connects people looking for Asian exchange students to those looking to make a move overseas. The startup, which was founded in May, launched with a $300,000 seed round in June.

45

3 years ago

A way to help small businesses with accounting, a startup founded by two former Paypal employees.

45

3 years ago

The startup’s founders say they want to build a marketplace that connects farmers with buyers of locally grown, organic produce, with plans to launch in early 2017.

45

3 years ago

As the founder of a peer to peer marketplace for student tutoring, the founder of TutorPal aims to help low-income families, people with disabilities and others get access to help with their studies.

45

3 years ago

A chat-based tool that helps people keep track of their employees and their whereabouts. The founders say they are also building an analytics platform to track employee engagement.

45

3 years ago

A startup for what the founders call “digital assets”

45

3 years ago

A startup that helps consumers compare and find the perfect fitness classes in NYC. Founded in January and backed by Accel Partners and 500 Startups, the company includes a mobile app, a series of Youtube videos, and an online community where New Yorkers can share their workout routines.

45

3 years ago

A venture founded by the former head of the transportation app Boost. The startup is heating up and has over $1 million in seed funding.

45

3 years ago

Cupcakes has created a way to allow customers to order their cupcakes by the hour, with a $3 delivery fee. Founded in 2015, the startup has more than 1,000 customers in New York City and says it is on track to be profitable by the end of the year.

45

2 years ago

A way to create and manage polls and surveys online. Founders say they want to make polls easier, more visual, and more fun.

45

2 years ago

The founders say that they have the funds necessary to bring their idea to life. They will be launching a seed program in January 2021.

45

2 years ago

A startup that brings a personal touch to your online banking. It’s meant to be your “personal banker” and it’s like a more friendly, self-directed version of your regular bank. The company’s founder says it’s already working with 100 customers on their first product.

45

5 years ago

Idea: A peer-to-peer lending marketplace The startup offers an alternative to traditional banks, which the founders say offer high interest rates, but often have hidden fees

44

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

The CEO of the company said that their three co-founders thought of the idea as a “wish-list”. They wanted to help people find the right car for their lifestyle, so they built out the tool to give car buyers a breakdown of the total cost of buying the car and the monthly cost of ownership.

44

2 years ago

A startup that allows iPhone users to test their levels of lead, arsenic, and other heavy metals that have been found in water.

44

5 years ago

A crypto exchange that’s meant to serve people in the developing world. The startup’s founders say they only charge a small fee of 0.6% per transaction, compared to their competitors that charge 10% or more.

43

3 years ago

A platform that uses machine learning to automate the process of setting up and managing virtual desktops. The startup is currently in private beta, and the founders hope to soon release an open source product.

43

3 years ago

Building a system for lending on small business loans for microloans. The founders say it can help small businesses access capital and provide a better lending experience.

43

3 years 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."

43

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

An online real estate marketplace in Argentina with a focus on young buyers and sellers. The startup’s founders have local names, and say they’ve already had over 40,000 unique visitors per month.

43

2 years ago

Founded in 2016 by Alen Silvera, this startup

43

2 years ago

For over a year, the founders of a web development company have been trying to sell their client’s website to a company that specializes in this type of thing. They want to build a website builder for small businesses.

43

2 years ago

A cloud-based platform that helps healthcare organizations (hospitals, clinics, and doctors offices) reduce medical errors and improve patient safety at the point of care. CEO Justin Miller, former CTO of Radiology at Stanford Medicine, and CTO and co-founder of Machine Intelligence Watson, which was acquired by IBM.

43

2 years ago

A company that developed a tool to embed video on websites, which the founders say has been downloaded more than a million times. The founders also run a content distribution network that helps websites reach more people through social media.

43

3 years ago

A civil engineering startup that aims to help demolish buildings and then build the foundations for new ones, in a single process. The company currently has nearly 30 customers in Europe and Asia.

42

3 years ago

The founders of Fundable are building an app that lets small businesses manage their business expenses in one place. They’re funded by Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management.

42

2 years ago

A way to talk to your car and get it to tell you when to do maintenance. The company’s founders say their technology will be able to detect when a car is losing its battery’s ability to hold a charge, and alert a driver to have its oil changed or brakes checked.

42

2 years ago

A tool for creating, managing, and marketing social media campaigns. It’s building on the foundation of its first app, Pinch, which launched in early 2016.

42

3 years ago

Startup founders attend the firm’s "Founders’ Clinic", which is a series of one-on-one coaching sessions with founders. The clinic is limited to 20 startups each year and is usually held in New York in the summer. The clinic is currently led by founder of VC firm Y Combinator Paul Graham.

41

3 years ago

A pet insurance startup. Founder Alec Sharma says he wants to make it easy to insure your pet. “You can get insurance for your dog, you can get insurance for your cat, you can get insurance for your hamster.”

41

3 years ago

Startup that provides a platform to help companies identify and correct racially biased hiring practices, and a tool to help companies avoid them. The company, which launched in February of 2019, was founded by the chief diversity officer of Barclays.

41

3 years ago

Kiva Fellows have highly specialized skills. For example, the founders of this startup are former surgeons who learned the medical terminology of the legal system. They’re helping the legal system to more efficiently write and understand contracts, which they say can save money, time, and lives.

41

3 years ago

The company’s founder, who is also a rapper and musician, wants to be the Spotify of rap music. The startup is building a platform for rappers to share their music for fans to stream and purchase.

41

3 years ago

For the last 40 years, a startup without a clear exit strategy has been a rare breed. But today, one in five startups are bootstrapped, and it’s become a viable strategy for founders, who argue that if you find a product that people love, you can always charge for it and if it works, you won’t need to raise funding. Spredfast wants to make this the norm.

41

3 years ago

A workplace analytics startup focused on HR. The founders have built a system that allows HR teams to track employee performance, morale, and engagement.

40

3 years ago

A social enterprise for providing fresh and healthy meals to kids. After receiving seed funding from The B Team and the Philadelphia Foundation, the team is now working with schools and nonprofits to scale up their efforts.

40

2 years ago

The startup’s founders say their goal is to “help any startup sell at least $100k a month,” through their web-based software. The platform, which uses a simple point-and-click interface, starts at $1000 and increases in price depending on the amount of features you want.

40

2 years ago

A platform for people to rent their homes via Airbnb, allowing owners to earn extra income. The founders say that their platform is the only one of its kind in the US, and that the site has already facilitated over $1 million in rental revenue.

40

3 years ago

The startup, which was founded in February, wants to help businesses get their products onto Amazon’s home delivery network. The company is currently in the midst of a $1.2 million seed round.

39

3 years ago

One of the co-founders of Tailwind is a former employee of Uber, and their product is a platform that helps companies optimize their supply chain with AI.

39

3 years ago

A startup that helps develop a company’s “brand voice”, which is how different companies communicate about the same thing. The startup’s founders say they’ve already built a brand voice for 10 clients.

39

2 years ago

This startup makes high quality, custom software development kits. The company was founded in late 2018 and its product is in use by companies like Disney and CVS.

39

2 years ago

The founders of this startup want to give people the tools to build their own guitars.

39

2 years ago

A startup that combines an Uber-style marketplace with a “mom and pop” retail store. The website allows customers to buy groceries and household items on-demand, with a built-in rewards program. The founder of the company, who previously worked at Amazon, says the company is on track to expand into 35,000 stores by 2020.

39

2 years ago

A community for people who are interested in understanding and overcoming financial struggles. The company was founded by a former professional road racer and WIRED editor.

39

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

The founders of the startup had been using hammers for decades and decided to create a tool for anyone to use to make custom hammers.

38

2 years ago

This startup, which was founded in May, wants to help patients decide what to buy and how to buy it.

38

2 years ago

Mtgox is an online cryptocurrency exchange that was founded in September 2016 and has since garnered a large following. It currently has a trading volume of over $2.5 billion in a year of operation.

38

2 years ago

The startup aims to help start-up founders scale their operations and make their businesses more efficient. The company is building a platform for start-ups to use to manage and run their operations, including their product, sales, finance, HR, and marketing.

38

2 years ago

A group of people who want to help startup founders by sharing their network (and the occasional beer) with them.

38

3 years ago

A startup founded by a former Googler that aims to help brands tell their stories through interactive videos.

37

2 years ago

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is currently funding an initiative to improve data science education in the United States.

37

2 years ago

A startup that helps family businesses stay on track. Co-founder Zachary Berg says that they’ve already sold to a private biz and a few nonprofits.

37

2 years ago

This startup is trying to fix the broken foundation of the automobile industry by building an autonomous driving platform to help other automakers build better cars.

37

2 years ago

A new type of smartphone that can be controlled by a select group of people. The device is controlled by a few people who can call, text and video chat. The founder, Shai Bantum, was born with a rare heart defect that made it necessary for him to have a pacemaker. The company is in beta in the US and Israel.

37

2 years ago

The founders of a home service company in New York are using a combination of machine learning and human labor to keep track of thousands of random tasks like mowing lawns and taking out the trash.

37

3 years ago

The founders of this startup say they’re building software that better enables companies to maximize their Facebook and Twitter campaigns.

36

2 years ago

The founders of this medical startup are trying to use their new, highly sensitive sensors to help patients better track their progress against their diseases. The sensors use the patient’s sweat to track their body’s movement, allowing them to see how they are holding up to their disease.

36

2 years ago

A startup that wants to help people save money on their phone bill by using their data more efficiently. The company’s founders say they’re “moving in the direction of pushing consumers to use the most expensive data plans and the most expensive minutes of data”.

36

2 years ago

A subscription-based marketplace for micro-services. Founded in January, the startup has 3 customers.

36

2 years ago

A platform for hiring temporary staff and growing businesses. The startup’s co-founders spent time in the US and UK and noticed a need to hire workers but couldn’t find them. With the help of the startup’s investors, they’re looking to hire a full-time team to build out the business.

36

3 years ago

Tango helps manufacturers and retailers identify and create branded merchandise on demand. It’s an online platform that facilitates customizable merchandising solutions. Founded in November 2017.

35

2 years ago

The founders of this startup are military veterans, and they’re building a service that helps people find the best mental health providers for them in their area.

35

2 years ago

This Y Combinator startup wants to build software that allows people to capture their surroundings, and make those memories available on the web. The startup, which was founded in May, is based in Montreal.

35

2 years ago

"The company's founders say that while they've always thought of themselves as a B2B company, for now they are focusing on providing the service they have to their own customer base of 600 firms. It will be interesting to see how the business develops as it moves this model into the B2C world."

35

2 years ago

Founded by a former Google employee, this startup aims to make it easier for people to sell things they no longer want. The startup lets users reduce clutter by selling their items to a marketplace with a buy-back guarantee, which helps them get new use out of their items.

35

5 years ago

Idea: A platform for building chatbots. The founders say their competitor, Maya, charges $3,000 per month while their offering is just $995 per month.

34

2 years ago

Founded in 2013 by engineers from Columbia, Booz Allen, and other companies, Bonobos

34

2 years ago

A startup that helps companies sync their systems with other companies. The startup is in the process of signing up companies, but the co-founder told us that they’re targeting companies with more than 1,000 employees each.

34

2 years ago

This startup is building out a digital learning platform for workers in industries that need skilled workers, like construction, manufacturing, energy, and healthcare. The founders say the platform is already being used by some of the largest construction companies in the US.

34

2 years ago

The company, founded by a former senior executive of Google and Amazon, wants to make it easier and cheaper for companies to bring their data products to market for consumers. The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Salesforce Ventures.

34

2 years ago

A neural network that generates text from images, which the founders say is able to create text that’s more “natural” to its speech-to-text domain.

34

2 years ago

A tool to help co-founders manage their early-stage startups (or startups they’ve been involved in) through a single dashboard.

33

2 years ago

Founders saw the need for a marketplace for responsible fashion and accessories, and created one. By selling in bulk, the startup can offer a $100 bag for $50.

33

2 years ago

a company that’s building a social network for flower growers. The founders say they want to build a community of people who have the same interests in growing flowers.

33

2 years ago

A startup for people to get premium access to fitness and workout programs. The company’s founders say it’s a $2 billion industry.

33

2 years ago

A team of three founders that want to create a comprehensive online platform for people who want to use their skills to build their own businesses.

33

2 years ago

“The best way to get people to buy is to make them want to buy,” says the startup’s co-founder. “We’re making people want to buy.” Wayfinder is a travel company that focuses on helping customers buy their first vacation or their next vacation, and is currently selling its services to hotels, airlines, and cruise lines.

33

2 years ago

A startup that aims to provide more accessible, affordable and regulated credit to the unbanked in emerging markets. The founders say they’re aiming to close the gap between the poor and the middle class which in some countries is as much as 20 percentage points.

33

2 years ago

Founded in 2012, the company is focused on building a platform for people to purchase, share, and sell photos from around the world.

32

2 years ago

A cloud-based platform for ad-hoc translation. The company currently supports the meeting of business and translators but plans to expand to other areas of translation. The founders are also working on translation startups in Russia and Thailand.

32

2 years ago

Story: A hybrid product that combines spaces for internal meetings and external events, built by the founders of Eventual, a startup that helps people organize events.

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 company that uses AI to help companies gain a better understanding of their customers, and then use that insight to help them create a better product. The startup has found that “90% of marketing is wasted”.

32

2 years ago

A digital marketplace for buying and selling used cars, with automated pricing and financing options. Its founders say they’re already working with dealers and banks to integrate their technology into existing processes.

32

2 years ago

Kalahari is a parcel delivery service that partners with couriers and delivery services to deliver packages across Africa. It has a base in South Africa, and its co-founders say that they have plans to expand to other African countries like Kenya and Nigeria.

32

5 years ago

Idea: SaaS startup that helps hotels manage their rooms and guests, with a little bit of Netflix’s recommendation algorithms baked in. The idea is that hotels can use it as a booking engine to get more out of their rooms, and the company’s founders say they have a 75% conversion rate.

31

2 years ago

Bonobos was founded in New York City in 2007 by Andy Dunn, a former executive vice president at Target and former director of product at Yahoo. Bonobos is a men's clothing retailer.

31

2 years ago

A company that helps companies and big companies like corporations to better understand their customers’ needs. The startup says that since it was founded, they’ve helped more than 3,000 companies.

31

2 years ago

A startup for finding and sharing items at a discount in your city. Founded in late 2014, the startup is based in Boston, and has signed up more than 1,000 stores in the US, including Bed Bath & Beyond, Target, Staples, and Price Chopper.

31

2 years ago

A voice-activated assistant that responds to natural language. “It’s like Alexa, but it sounds like a person,” says the founder.

31

2 years ago

A startup that handles all the administrative tasks of running a nonprofit. The founder, Gaurav Mehlawat, works for the non-profit, acts as the company’s CEO, and is also the COO.

31

2 years ago

Founder of the startup formerly known as 1Password, a password manager.

31

5 years ago

Idea: A digital market for general contractors in the Philippines. The founders say they’re solving a problem of trust, where contractors have to be trusted to show up on time and do the work. They’re currently processing $40,000 in monthly revenue.

30

2 years ago

If this company’s products are as good as its founders say, it’s possible that their launch is overblown. But let’s go into this anyway, because it’s obviously a big deal for entrepreneurs to get funded, and it’s rare for them to get funding from the founder’s mom.

30

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.

30

2 years ago

A company that’s building a platform for monitoring and analyzing political campaigns, and a data analytics tool for tracking all of the money that goes into, and comes out of, political campaigns. The founders say they’ve tested their product with hundreds of campaigns, and are now focused on building out a platform for the public to use.

30

2 years ago

The startup, which was founded in 2016, is developing a “social cryptocurrency” that rewards members for sharing and creating content, much as social media platforms like Facebook. The company is looking to raise funds to build its first product, a social network for cryptocurrency users, in early 2020.

30

2 years ago

The startup’s co-founder, who goes by the name Jacob, says that the main problem with the current credit-scoring models is that they’re too old. The current models don’t consider the latest credit scores, he explains, and only look at how many credit cards a user has. Jacob’s co-founder, who goes by the name Tim, says that his startup is working to solve the problem with an algorithm that models a user’s credit score based on their behavior and also looks at their credit card usage.

30

2 years ago

A startup to help recruiters and hiring managers find candidates that have the skills they need. The company’s founders say that they’ve been hired to get data from competitors and use it to create a data set that helps them automate the process of building their own.

30

2 years ago

A startup that wants to create a database for all of the books in the world, and make them all easily searchable and available online. By the time the startup succeeds, the founders say that there will be 12 million books available online.

30

2 years ago

A platform for sharing and selling goods from all over the world, where the owners of the items can set their own price. The company’s founders are looking to launch in the US in the fall of 2020.

30

2 years ago

While there are many chatbots out there, none are as simple as the one being developed by the founder of the startup. The founder of Kibo, a chatbot that helps people understand, manage and adopt their investments, says that it is the easiest and most straightforward chatbot out there.

30

2 years ago

A social network for people who love dogs. The startup is building a mobile app that will have a dog-themed newsfeed, and users will get to interact with other dog-lovers. The startup, which was founded in May, is in a Y Combinator incubator.

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

2 years ago

A social network for millennial women. It allows women to connect via their interests, with the app’s founders saying they have seen a 400% increase in users since launching the site in September.

30

2 years ago

The founders of this company say that it helps people who have a lot of data, but not much time to manage it. It’s a startup that wants to help people organize their data using a mobile app.

30

2 years ago

A cloud-based platform that helps photographers, interior designers and other creative professionals collaborate in real time. It is a new platform from a company that has been in business for 18 years. Founded in February, it already works with more than 15 top creative professionals in New York City and plans to open for business in the third quarter.

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2 years ago

A startup that makes household cleaning supplies like scouring pads and sponges. The founders realized that they could cut down on the amount of plastic waste they were producing by making their own cleaning supplies.

29

2 years ago

A startup that wants to make healthcare more accessible to people living in developing countries. The startup believes that its model of using mobile phones to pay for healthcare services will be a more accessible option for people in rural areas who don’t have access to traditional healthcare. It’s looking to partner with companies like Walmart and the Gates Foundation to help its cause.

29

2 years ago

A mobile app that helps professionals find the right people to hire for jobs. The startup’s founders say they’ve been “working with more than 350 companies so far, with over 1,000 subscribers”.

29

2 years ago

Biospace is building a data platform that helps identify the types of genes that contribute to cancer. The startup, which was founded in March, has already had applications of their technology in the lab and clinical trials.

29

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 digital assistant for doctors, designed to help them take digitals notes while they’re seeing patients. The startup’s co-founder says they’ve already built an app and are looking to scale.

28

2 years ago

A platform for freelance designers, allowing them to earn money for their work, like the Google AdSense program. The startup’s co-founder said he’d be open to working with startups.

28

2 years ago

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.”

28

2 years ago

A startup that lets users take a selfie and get a quote for products from retailers, then once you’ve found the perfect product, you can buy it directly from the retailer.

27

2 years ago

Instead of building a home, the founders say, this company lets people rent out their homes and instead make a profit on the hosting fee. It’s similar to Airbnb for personal use.

27

2 years ago

A search engine that looks for visual content in text and vice versa. It's founders want to make it easier to locate information in white space.

27

2 years ago

A web-based service for student loan debtors, currently in beta. The startup’s founders had both student loans and were really frustrated by the lack of resources to address them.

27

2 years ago

The founders of Capital One’s Product Development team explain how they built a new computer vision API to help financial institutions determine whether a card was used for fraudulent activity.

27

2 years ago

A wireless data device that translates between human and machine language, in a similar way to the company’s previous product, the Speakit. The founders say they’ve sold $1.4m of the devices.

27

2 years ago

Y Combinator was founded in 2005 by Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with a satellite office in New York City.

27

2 years ago

A startup aimed at mitigating the need for self-serve gas stations. The startup’s founder says the idea is to make gas stations “a thing of the past”, saying “we have the technology to make that happen.”

26

2 years ago

The founders of the Rainmaker platform are building a new kind of marketplace for employees, allowing companies to outsource any job to multiple independent workers, and manage them all more effectively.

26

2 years ago

A “modern day ‘Captain Kirk’,” according to the founders, who want to use smart home technology to make it possible for people to control their homes and businesses using voice commands.

26

2 years ago

The founder of Crest, a food delivery platform (and former YC company), is helping a new startup get off the ground with recipe software.

26

2 years ago

A marketing platform for retail companies. The startup’s founder says he wants to aggregate all of the data a retailer has to make it easier to get in touch with customers.

26

2 years ago

A social network for people who are interested in helping people find their lost pets. The founders say that they’re looking to build a platform that will allow pet owners to find the best possible service to help them recover their lost pets.

26

2 years ago

The cofounder of a company called Too Good To Go is opening a new business that delivers groceries and other essentials in reusable boxes.

25

2 years ago

A startup for selling houses that’s based on a platform for renting the houses, called Rentalia. The founders say it’s like Airbnb, but for houses.

25

2 years ago

The companies were selected by the Startup Battlefield judges: Ankit Gupta, Founder and Managing Partner of Y Combinator; Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Partner at Y Combinator; and Brad Feld, Partner at Foundry Group, an investor in the Y Combinator portfolio.

25

2 years ago

A group of high school students who founded a startup to help college students gain skills for finding internships and jobs.

25

2 years ago

The company’s co-founder, who has been running a successful events business for the last two years, says he wants to create a platform that helps small businesses like his make their events a little more profitable.

25

5 years ago

Idea: A B2B company that helps pull financial data from multiple sources and makes it available inside a CRM-style interface. The founders say they’ve already worked with a few dozen companies.

24

5 years ago

Idea: A tool for helping companies and employees build their own internal chatrooms. The founder says that the product has been used by YC for the past few years, and is now being offered to other companies as well.

24

2 years ago

Smart is a company that wants to empower developers to build the next big ideas. The founders say that they want to build a platform for developers to build things that are “so powerful that they can’t be ignored”.

24

2 years ago

“A personal assistant for kids,” as the founders put it. The app is meant to be fun but also offer a lot of value, like helping kids keep track of what’s happening in their lives and plan ahead.

24

2 years ago

A startup that allows customers to create their own iPhone and Android apps using APIs and a developer-friendly platform. The founders say that they’ve built the first iteration of the product, but are looking for $500,000 in seed capital to build out the product.

24

2 years ago

The latest app from the founders of Tagtile, this one’s focused on connecting shoppers to the products they’re looking for on Amazon.

24

2 years ago

A company that helps companies create and deliver digital marketing campaigns, social media and email campaigns. The startup’s founders say that they have been able to help companies save $2 million on their marketing budgets.

23

2 years ago

A platform that helps investors find and fund early stage startups. The startup’s investors are also the founders of the startups.

23

2 years ago

A startup that wants to build “a decentralized, open, and accessible foundation for the future of electronic health records”.

23

2 years ago

Ashley Thayer, founder and CEO of the company, wrote that this product "aims to take the friction out of booking a rental and allows renters and landlords to book and pay for their rental experiences through a mobile app."

23

2 years ago

A startup co-founded by former Microsoft President Brad Smith to help governments and businesses deal with the challenge of cyber-attacks and online censorship.

23

2 years ago

A way to create a name and tag for the people you meet on the road (a la Foursquare.) It’s also a way to track those locations on a map, and see what’s happening nearby. Its co-founder used to be a member of the Y Combinator batch.

23

2 years ago

The Y Combinator team consists of ten full-time employees, including both founders and managers.

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

After a founder saw a local family in need of a shelter, they started doing research and realized that there was still a need for a local shelter for homeless pets in San Francisco. As a result, the startup found a way to raise money for a local shelter to help homeless pets, and is now funded to run the shelter itself.

23

2 years ago

The Foundry is a marketplace for creative professionals in the U.S. based in New York City. The company was founded in 2014 by three creatives, including a digital design director at Condé Nast. The company’s flagship product is a marketplace for creative professionals.

23

2 years ago

A startup that looks to improve the way urban planning happens worldwide by using data analytics to reduce traffic jams in cities. The founders have the firm belief that traffic jams make cities less livable.

22

2 years ago

This product is designed to help people massage their muscles with light to help reduce pain and increase blood flow. It is the first product of its kind that uses a new kind of light therapy called near-infrared laser therapy. Cofounders Ryan and David Berger, both of whom have had shoulder problems, were the original inspirations for the product.

22

2 years ago

A startup that connects people who have a physical disability with those who can help them. The founders hope to allow people to earn money by helping out others.

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 luxury concierge service in the NYC area. The company’s founder has said he hopes to create a service that’s a bit like a concierge for the wealthy.

22

2 years ago

Kids need to have a place to exercise on-demand. The founders built a set of tools to help them do that at home, with one of the founders training himself to play guitar while wearing their product.

22

2 years ago

An online marketplace for people to sell their old cell phones and electronics. The startup, which was founded in August, is already averaging more than $1,000 in monthly revenue per customer.

22

2 years ago

Wealth is the founder of the app Wealthify, which was recently acquired by Citigroup. They’ve also recently launched a new financial platform called , which helps people manage their wealth.

22

2 years ago

A platform for selling certified organic foods that are certified by third parties, including the USDA. The company, founded in December 2017, is ramping up to launch in February 2019.

21

2 years ago

A platform that helps companies build their brand on the internet, so it can be found in search results.

21

2 years ago

The Zimride founders are creating a social network to help Zimride users find parking and share rides to and from airports.

21

2 years ago

Founded in 2018, this company is already gaining traction in India with the government’s rural healthcare program. The company uses AI and telemedicine to help remote rural areas connect with a doctor.

21

5 years ago

Idea: This startup simplifies the process of creating certificates of deposit for retail customers by creating a very simple web-based platform. The service is currently free, and the founders say they’re working on pricing.

20

2 years ago

A platform that connects artists with brands and helps them join forces on projects. The founders say they are building a “digital agency on the blockchain” to make art more collaborative.

20

2 years ago

A social media analytics company with an emphasis on civic engagement due to its founder’s background in political science and public relations.

20

2 years ago

A company that offers a platform to sell and manage restaurant inventory. It was founded in July.

20

2 years ago

A software company in Utah that helps companies and not-for-profits set up web-based call centers with zero upfront costs. The founders assume that companies don’t want to spend on call center software since most of their deals are over the phone.

19

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.

19

2 years ago

The founders of this company say their goal is to build a complete, social, and secure marketplace for buying and selling gold.

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 computer server company founded in 2005 and based in Boulder, Colorado.

19

2 years ago

The startup helps designers prototype ideas, and is also in the business of creating websites and landing pages. The company’s founders say 40% of their business is with YC companies, and that they are expecting a $1 million revenue run rate by the end of the year.

19

2 years ago

A self-hosted video platform built on top of YouTube. The founders say they want to ensure that creators can get paid fairly when using their platform.

18

2 years ago

A group messaging app that allows photos to be sent and shared in a group at a set time and date. The app’s founders say it’s built for events like weddings and birthdays, and that the group chat feature allows for a lot of customization.

18

2 years ago

The startup, which was founded in October 2017, originally named “Disconnect”, was founded by Yevgeny Ponomarev, a Russian software developer who immigrated to the U.S. in 2012. The company, which currently has 3 full-time employees and 7 part-time workers, is based in Boston, MA and San Francisco, CA.

18

2 years ago

A ride-hailing app for farmers and others who rely on shipping for their work. The app allows users to schedule a delivery of their harvest, and the startup has found it especially useful in the summer when farm workers don’t live nearby.

18

5 years ago

Idea: An AI-powered email platform that integrates with Gmail, with a focus on the “personal touch”. The startup’s founder says there’s a generation of people who grew up on AOL’s chat interface and have since forgotten how to write emails (because they’ve been using chat).

17

2 years ago

Co-founder at HotPlate, Gunawan is building a platform that allows mom and pop stores to bring their own payment systems to their businesses.

17

2 years ago

A startup that wants to solve the problem of the boom in digital-native startups and the difficulty of finding and retaining staff. The startup’s founders say they’ve hired more than a dozen developers, designers, and customer success managers.

17

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that aims to help people learn to code through a combination of chatbots and online courses The company’s founders say they’re currently working on an AI-powered chatbot that can make coding exercises more interesting

16

2 years ago

A startup that allows businesses to operate their own taxi (or ride-sharing) apps. The founders say they have $20,000 in monthly recurring revenue and have already signed up over 50 clients.

16

2 years ago

The founders of this startup are looking to build a user interface for the blockchain, a form of decentralized accounting.

16

2 years ago

The idea for a startup is to make something that solves a problem and can be sold. The founder, the vision, the product, the technology, and the business model have to be great.

16

2 years ago

A startup that’s building a “contactless payment system” that automatically tracks the revenue a merchant is making. The founder says the system tracks revenues from the point of sale, not just the transaction.

16

2 years ago

A startup focused on helping companies in the credit card industry understand how their customers are using their cards. The startup’s founder is a former Bank of America executive.

16

2 years ago

A recipe app for the home cook, with a focus on the Asian market. The startup sells itself as a “hobby” — a term that the founders say is an important part of the company’s appeal.

16

5 years ago

Idea: An education platform for coding. With an estimated 1.5 million job openings in the next 5 years, the founders say they’ve got an opportunity to help provide the next generation of developers with

15

2 years ago

A company that helps companies create data-driven websites based on their business goals. The company’s founder is a former developer at Uber, so it has a good reputation in the area.

15

2 years ago

A B2B company that helps you connect with the right sales reps for your company’s products. The startup’s founders are software engineers who want to shift the responsibility for sales people’s calls to software.

15

2 years ago

A startup working to make health insurance more personable, helping individuals get in touch with a health care advisor for a personalized quote. It’s a long-awaited product from the company that was first founded in 2010.

15

2 years ago

Appels is a DNA-powered food platform, and its founders say that with the current cost of food and the low-quality of the data it’s often hard to figure out what’s in your food.

15

2 years ago

A startup co-founded by Y Combinator’s Sam Altman that helps companies get into China through a $500,000 investment and coaching. The company says it has seen $1 billion in exit value.

15

2 years ago

A startup with a strong data science background that allows employees to analyze and create models from massive amounts of data from things like social media, forum posts, blog posts, and more. The founder says that these data sets can be used to predict behaviors and trends for things like product development.

15

2 years ago

The latest startup from Eileen Burbidge, a founder of Zappos. A company that’s building a marketplace for “luxury” products.

14

2 years ago

Unravel is an influencer marketing platform that allows brands to reach consumers using their networks. The company was founded by two former Facebook Product Managers.

14

2 years ago

A structured data and API-first CMS for websites. The startup’s founder grew up in the web development world but often found himself frustrated by the limitations of the standard CMSes out there.

14

2 years ago

In November 2018, "Return of Kings" founder Daryush Valizadeh, known as Roosh V, was banned from entry to the United Kingdom. Valizadeh published an article in "Return of Kings", titled "How to Stop Rape" which suggests that women are more likely to be raped if they stay in their home countries rather than moving to the United States or Europe. This article has been criticized by people as being misogynistic and conservative.

14

2 years ago

A global platform for supporting rural communities with internet and phone services. TeliaSonera (formerly Telia) was founded in 2010 and has 51 million users in Africa and Asia.

14

2 years ago

A payment app that allows a small fee to help a merchant securely accept card payments from a customer. "We started because the cost of accepting card payments was too high," says cofounder James Chen.

14

2 years ago

A “social lending” startup that aims to get personal loans from friends, family, and neighbours. The company’s co-founders have backgrounds in financial technology.

14

2 years ago

A digital tool for managing and tracking your life insurance benefits. It was founded in 2015 and has been profitable since inception.

14

2 years ago

This startup wants to make it easier for customers to get a hold of their suppliers. Since the startup’s founding, it has grown to a list of more than 100,000 suppliers, and aims to expand to 500,000 over the next few years.

14

2 years ago

The founders say that they’re a “paint app for grownups.” They’re building a suite of mobile apps that let you create custom, edible murals.

14

2 years ago

The startup’s founders say that they’re trying to “make the experience of owning a car enjoyable again.”

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

A platform that helps physicians manage their patient records, allowing them to share with other doctors and family members. The company, which was founded in April, is pitching it as a way to make things easier for patients and doctors.

13

2 years ago

A startup that allows users to virtually try on glasses before buying. The startup’s founders believe that the industry is ripe for disruption, and that customers are tired of being taken advantage of.

12

2 years ago

A start-up that aims to make it easier and faster to start a tech company. "We're building an enterprise platform that makes it easier for people to start new businesses," said co-founder Maxime Côté.

12

2 years ago

Founded by a former Googler, this startup aggregates and compares the best deals on popular items, from travel to sports to tech and more.

12

2 years ago

A startup that offers debit cards to college students, with funding from the Gates Foundation. The cards are funded by money that comes from the students’ tuition.

12

2 years ago

A startup for people in need of medical care in the developing world. The startup’s founder, Sam Patt, has been working in the field for 15 years.

12

5 years ago

Idea: A podcast for entrepreneurs and small business owners. It’s called “Sales & Marketing” and it’s hosted by two former startup founders.

11

2 years ago

A startup that helps people manage their subscriptions. The founders think there is a lot of opportunity for the B2B market.

11

2 years ago

A new-age train ticketing agency, founded by some ex-Strava executives. The startup aims to build a platform that lets you buy train tickets and pay with any major credit card.

11

2 years ago

A drone company that wants to use its autonomous drones to significantly lower the cost of construction by providing a way to automate the act of laying foundations.

11

2 years ago

Social network for artists, with a mostly curated stream of content from the artists. Founder says they have over 1,000 artists on their platform.

11

2 years ago

The startup founder, Aarti Krishnan, had been a software engineer at Facebook for six years before deciding to start her own company. She was inspired by a friend’s experience of starting a business, and is helping women in the US start their own businesses.

11

2 years ago

A company that powers digital experiences for businesses based on data. It was founded by two former McKinsey consultants and a former Google exec.

11

2 years ago

A startup building a platform that helps users create personalized videos for their businesses. The company’s founder said the videos can be used to present to clients, potential partners, employees, or customers.

11

2 years ago

An ATM for the blind – a mobile app that enables visually impaired people to carry out simple tasks like scanning and paying for items at vending machines. The cofounders say it’s their first startup and that they’re working on a way to make it more convenient for people who need to use it multiple times a day.

10

2 years ago

The program provides seed funding, office space, and three months of access to mentors in exchange for a commitment of two years from the founders. The founders are expected to devote 40 hours a week to the company, and are expected to move to Silicon Valley for the duration of the program. The program is selective in its application process, accepting only the most promising companies, typically those that are first-time entrepreneurs and have bootstrapped their

10

5 years ago

Idea: A platform for custom-welded bicycles The startup was founded in September and has $15M in pre-orders for its debut bike: the Pista Track

9

5 years ago

Idea: A business that provides an experience platform for making and organizing all kinds of lifestyle plans Co-founder Dan is the former head of product at Maker’s Market, the private label division at Walmart

9

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

Wyldtech was founded by John Smith in 2013. The company has won multiple awards and has worked with some of the biggest brands in the world, including General Electric, Cisco and Hasbro.

8

2 years ago

A tool that helps small businesses improve their online marketing efforts. The startup, which was founded in May, helps businesses create landing pages, edit their website copy, and optimize their website. They’re currently working with over 100 small businesses in the UK.

8

5 years ago

Idea: Early stage, VC-backed uBiome is an open source citizen science biotech that makes it easy for anyone to analyze their microbiome The company is profitable and is scaling internationally, but its founders want more funding

5

5 years ago

Idea: A startup for startup founders to sell business ventures that are proven to be working.

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5 years ago

Idea: A software company that’s building a tool that helps lawyers and other legal professionals manage their case load It does this by building predictive models that help lawyers understand how they’re spending time, who they should be billing, and how to allocate their time more efficiently It also helps process payments The startup has $0 in funding and was founded in 2017

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5 years ago

Idea: The founders of Recruiterbox have started a new company called Proxee, which is a “CRM for recruiters” The app promises to help recruiters source and manage candidates

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5 years ago

Idea: A social network for people who love to travel The startup’s founder is an active traveler who wanted to create a space for like-minded folks to find travel companions The startup says they have over 75,000 users

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5 years ago

Idea: A platform that makes it easy to rent out office spaces around the world The founders say they’re already making a profit

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that’s trying to make it easier for large companies to do product placement in film and TV by providing a single platform for all their deals The startup was founded by three Hollywood veterans

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that connects German startups looking for co-founders with “potential employees” in the form of freelancers.

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that combines the idea of a social network with the idea of a dating app. People can follow each other and post content, but they can also chat with each other. The founders say that their users are posting content at a rate

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5 years ago

Idea: Improves the performance of ads by pinpointing the moment that a customer sees an ad and decides to buy. The startup is building machine learning models to predict conversion time, and the founders have already run $1m of ads through their product.

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that is building a platform for shared office space. The company’s founders say that it’s already profitable and has $2.8 million in revenue, with $10 million in annual recurring revenue. The company is installing $10 million in hardware in the next two years. It’s currently profitable.

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps people ship their used items to buyers. The founder says that she’s already sold $3,000 worth of items in her first two months.

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup for private label goods. The founder wants to make it easy for people to create their own private label brands, and is pitching it as a marketplace for startups to create their own version of a “Brands You Love But Can’t Find In Stores” store.

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5 years ago

Idea: A business that helps carpenters and plumbers schedule service calls. So far, the founders say they have $1,500 in

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5 years ago

Idea: A tool for keeping your software up to date. In a demo, the founder showed that the service updates a user’s phone to the latest version of Android.

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup for custom mobile applications for companies and non-profits. It’s a well-known model that has been around for a few years. The founder says his company has $30k in monthly recurring revenue, working with 500 companies.

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to play matchmaker between people and moving companies. The founders say moving is a massive pain point, and there’s a huge demand for a simpler solution.

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5 years ago

Idea: A new brand of premium, non-GMO, gluten-free chips for people who want to avoid the chemicals and additives found in most store-bought chips.

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5 years ago

Idea: This is the company behind the Bodega app, which calls itself a “Bodega box that comes with a free human.” The startup is building an app for small convenience stores in order to make shopping for milk, eggs, and other items more convenient. Its founders are betting that by bringing in a human to help customers, they’ll be able to differentiate from other convenience stores.

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5 years ago

Idea: Two-factor authentication for banking. The founders say that banks are terrible at protecting their customers’ information, and that they can do a better job with two-factor authentication.

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5 years ago

A network of physical offices for startup founders.

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