Foundation Startup Ideas

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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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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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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 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

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5 years ago

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

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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.

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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 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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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

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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”.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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2 years ago

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is currently funding an initiative to improve data science education in the United States.

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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.

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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.

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2 years ago

A startup that wants to build “a decentralized, open, and accessible foundation for the future of electronic health records”.

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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.

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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.

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Foundation Startup Ideas

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is currently funding an initiative to improve data science education in the United States.

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.

A startup that wants to build “a decentralized, open, and accessible foundation for the future of electronic health records”.

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.

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.