Friend Startup Ideas

2 years ago

A startup that makes it easier for people to borrow money from friends, family, and even strangers. The startup is currently only available in the UK, where it’s working with a handful of small businesses.

1,252

5 years ago

A startup to help disabled people find friends who are willing to help them out, and vice versa.

855

4 years ago

A way to help students study online with friends.

682

3 years ago

The app is meant to help people find their new friends and live their lives better.

374

2 years ago

A password management tool that can let users generate random passwords and send them to their friends as SMS messages.

335

3 years ago

A social networking app that helps you to find things to do with friends and family.

327

5 years ago

A platform that lets you send money to friends in the Philippines, India, or China, in real time.

321

5 years ago

This startup is building a platform to help people get money from friends and family. The company uses a paper check system that’s more commonly used in developing countries, and it plans to roll it out in the US, Canada, and Europe. They recently raised $1.5M in a seed round.

294

4 years ago

A way to easily share and find a place to eat with your friends.

291

5 years ago

A location-based messaging app that helps people connect with friends at various venues.

270

5 years ago

A company that’s a Slack alternative, designed to be more intuitive and user friendly.

268

5 years ago

A startup that sells a monthly service which provides a chef to cook dinner for you and your friends

261

3 years ago

A startup that enables users to determine the health of an anonymous friend. The startup currently has 70,000 registered users.

260

4 years ago

A startup that lets people buy tickets to events that they can attend from their phone, and their friends can recommend. Ticketfly is focused on events like concerts, sporting events and live theater.

259

5 years ago

A startup that helps people find one another based on their interests. It’s a way for people to find new friends and make new connections.

258

5 years ago

A startup that helps people find new friends by connecting them with people who are new to the area

253

2 years ago

A company that wants to help your friends find you when you’re not around.

239

5 years ago

Chatty is a free service to help people make more friends via group chat.

236

4 years ago

This startup wants to democratize access to medical research data for students and researchers. It’s a software platform that allows medical students and researchers to build their own datasets and access global research in a user-friendly way.

229

4 years ago

A startup that helps you to create a database of all your friends on WhatsApp so you can instantly message without them having to add you.

224

4 years ago

An eco-friendly conference for startups, focused on innovation, sustainability and technology.

219

5 years ago

A chatbot that can let people know when their friends are sexually active.

218

2 years ago

An AI-based platform that helps musicians build their own music videos. Users can also create a video of their favorite song and share it with friends and family.

218

4 years ago

A startup that wants to build an AI-powered chatbot that allows your Facebook friends to talk to your bot for all the things.

216

4 years ago

A product that helps people get paid on their phone for sharing their car’s location with friends.

208

4 years ago

A platform for engaging in adventure activities with your friends and family.

207

5 years ago

This startup is building a way to make API integrations more user-friendly.

205

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help people plan year-round events and activities with friends, family, and co-workers.

202

5 years ago

A way to book a ride-share with a friendly driver to your exact location.

201

4 years ago

A platform that enables people to rent out their homes to visitors. They’re building a platform that will let people rent out their homes to strangers or friends for short-term stays, and take care of the expenses for guests.

198

3 years ago

A user-friendly and secure digital passport store that brings biometrics to the forefront of travel documents.

198

4 years ago

A group of friends who are building a kind of alternative to LinkedIn, with more emphasis on connections and less emphasis on the algorithm.

197

4 years ago

App that lets you send a personalized video message to a friend, and has over a million users.

197

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.

196

4 years ago

A communication app that lets people exchange messages, photos and videos with a group of friends or family members.

196

4 years ago

“Eco-friendly” shipping containers that can be used to build shipping crates or other shipping products.

195

4 years ago

A company that makes a machine that prints food without food, and then makes it into a gluten-free, vegan, and keto-friendly product.

194

4 years ago

A startup that designs and sells products with a focus on materials that are more durable and environmentally friendly.

194

5 years ago

A startup that helps people find the right gift for friends and family members

193

4 years ago

A social network for elderly people to check in and view pictures of their friends and family. The startup has already helped its first customer, a family member, locate her father and communicate with him (via text) over the phone.

191

4 years ago

A way to allow people to easily share their gym photos with friends and family.

191

4 years ago

A startup that turns grocery shopping into an interactive game, where users can create and share grocery lists with friends.

191

4 years ago

A new brand of budget-friendly eyewear.

190

4 years ago

A platform for people to share, compare and book air travel with friend and family,

187

4 years ago

A startup that allows users to search through their Facebook friends’ photos to see if they’re using their real name.

187

3 years ago

This is an app for lending money to friends and family, with a focus on microloans.

187

5 years ago

A chatbot that connects you with friends, family, and colleagues when you’re in the hospital.

184

5 years ago

A social networking app that allows people to find community, find friends, and meet people close to their geographic location

181

4 years ago

A platform that helps users who are moving apartments share information with their friends and family, to make the process less stressful.

180

3 years ago

A social network for people who love to shop, where they can share their favorite things, and see the ones their friends have bought.

180

5 years ago

An iOS app that aims to help parents build their own kid-friendly games.

179

3 years ago

A company that makes it easier for people to share their favorite photos with their friends, family, and followers.

176

5 years ago

A startup that sells a service that lets you hire a photographer to take photos of you and your friends

174

4 years ago

A messaging app for groups of friends that functions like a Slack with a focus on getting a dinner invitation to a bunch of friends.

173

4 years ago

This is a startup that aims to help entrepreneurs raise money by turning to friends and family for loans.

173

3 years ago

This is a startup working to make it easier for people to connect and collaborate with their friends and family, in person and online.

172

5 years ago

A collaborative platform for creating and sharing workout videos that users can comment on and rate. The startup is currently working on user-friendly video editing tools.

171

3 years ago

A startup that encourages users to share their photos with friends and family to help them get the best possible shots for their photos. The startup uses AI to match up photos.

171

5 years ago

A software for consumers to share their credit with friends without going through a bank.

170

5 years ago

A new kind of pairing app that allows you to chat with potential partners and find out if they have mutual friends.

169

5 years ago

A startup that allows people to share their real-time location with their friends in a way that’s more private than sharing your location on Facebook.

169

5 years ago

A social media site for bloggers, with the goal of helping people find the most interesting content and share it with their friends.

168

5 years ago

A startup that acts as a middleman between your friends and their travel agent so they can pay and set up their travel arrangements online.

168

4 years ago

A “freemium” site for sending money to friends and family

168

5 years ago

A startup that wants to make hotels a little more like Facebook, where you can see what friends are staying at the same hotel.

167

5 years ago

An AI-powered bot that helps people find and stay in touch with their friends. The bot, which launched in beta in May, has over 100,000 users and is being tested with some of the biggest social media companies.

165

5 years ago

A platform that helps people share and talk about their interests, helping them find new friends and meet new people.

165

5 years ago

A “family-friendly” social network for college students.

164

4 years ago

A visual way to understand what your network of friends and contacts are doing, which the startup says will eventually include things like board games, sports, and other group activities.

164

3 years ago

This facial recognition startup is building an app that helps people keep track of their friends’ movements with a simple picture of their face.

163

5 years ago

Zuji is building a platform that lets users create and share virtual reality experiences with friends. It has raised $5 million in seed funding.

161

3 years ago

A tool for recording and archiving video content, and allowing users to share it with friends, via a built-in social network.

161

3 years ago

A way to pay your friends back for things they’ve done for you, like a small payment that can be sent as a text message.

161

3 years ago

A chat app that allows you to chat with a network of friends you’ve made while traveling.

160

3 years ago

A map that can help you meet up with friends who are stuck in traffic.

160

5 years ago

A tool to help people find out which of their friends are on the same flight as them.

159

4 years ago

The goal of this startup is to help consumers shop for services that match their needs, rather than relying on recommendations from friends and family. The company looks to compete with platforms like Groupon and LivingSocial by selling subscriptions that will take care of the customer. The startup is already working with a number of Wal-Mart and Kroger stores.

159

5 years ago

A platform that helps small businesses find pet-friendly locations and protect against data breaches.

158

5 years ago

A way to help people share their calendars with family and friends and collaborate on events. The company has already raised $2.5 million in seed funding.

158

5 years ago

A startup that creates a service where you can order a small box of items that would be a perfect gift for a friend or family member

157

5 years ago

A peer-to-peer mortgage marketplace, where borrowers could get a credit score, FICO score, and a monthly payment quote by asking friends to lend money to them.

157

5 years ago

A tool that allows you to create and manage your own variety of financial instruments. Think of it as a Pinterest and Facebook for financial funds, with a focus on helping people raise money from friends and family.

157

5 years ago

A web-based platform for buying concert tickets, connecting artists directly with fan-clubs, and allowing fans to buy tickets for their friends.

157

5 years ago

An on-demand home health care service, built on the promise that “people don’t want to be dependent on others” and the idea that “your doctor is your friend”. The startup is currently in 10 markets with plans to expand to 10 more markets.

157

5 years ago

A way to quickly send money to friends and family overseas. The startup targets people in the US who often don’t know how to send money overseas.

157

5 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier for people to take a quiz to see which of their tastes and preferences are similar to which of their friends’.

156

5 years ago

This startup has an app that helps people find the best places to eat out and then send a personal recommendation to a friend. The app is meant for those who like to eat out but are unsure where to go.

156

5 years ago

A startup that allows people to earn money by helping their friends find an apartment.

155

5 years ago

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

155

5 years ago

Ability to locate and talk to friends and family who are in the same place as you. The startup is building functionality to make phone and messaging more like texting, with the ability to send and receive emojis, stickers, and photos.

155

5 years ago

A startup that allows you to create a “move” between friends, effectively turning a video call into a video-text-chat.

155

3 years ago

This is an app that helps users find their friends on Facebook and ask them to come over to watch the game.

155

5 years ago

A $1 cloud-based platform for sharing your music, where friends can listen to it for free. The app is already on the Apple Store, and the company is looking to expand to Android and Windows.

154

5 years ago

A software platform that allows users to control and visualize their data. The goal is to provide a user-friendly interface that allows users to visualize, analyze and make decisions across their data, and tell what’s happening and what they can do about it. Think of it as a personal dashboard for your own data.

154

5 years ago

A startup that wants to let you take a selfie of yourself, and send it to a friend who’s also taking a selfie, and then you two can see each other’s faces in real time.

153

5 years ago

A company that wants to help you manage your network of colleagues, friends, and customers. The startup wants to build a smarter network of people to keep up with connections and build a community with. It plans to focus on small companies because they tend to have more existing relationships to build on, and are more likely to use social networks.

153

5 years ago

A free social network where people can discuss more than just the latest viral trends, with the ability to upload content and share with their friends.

153

4 years ago

A way to send money to friends, family, and employees using a free app on their phone.

153

5 years ago

A startup that provides mobile phone repair for $5, and a service in which customers can have their phones fixed by their friends.

152

5 years ago

An enterprise-grade analytics solution for social networks that makes it easy for people to see what posts their friends are sharing on social media sites.

152

5 years ago

A tool that allows users to send and receive payments in Bitcoin through email. The company’s goal is to make it simple to pay friends and family with cryptocurrency.

151

5 years ago

A tool that helps you figure out which of your friends are in financial trouble. It sends you a link to their profile and asks you a few questions to figure out if they’re in financial trouble.

150

5 years ago

A startup that helps quickly build custom web pages for brands, selling them to clients at a fixed price. The startup wants to replace the very expensive full-page print ad with a mobile-friendly digital display ad. Their potential clients include agencies, brands and ad tech companies.

149

5 years ago

A software that helps users create and manage their online portfolios. The software is powered by a sophisticated algorithm that helps users design a portfolio that is SEO-friendly and engaging.

149

5 years ago

This startup is building a new, more private-friendly messaging app for cryptocurrencies.

149

5 years ago

Collaborating with organizations like the United Nations and the World Bank, Geotime provides demographic, economic, and climate data in a user-friendly way that’s useful for businesses.

148

5 years ago

A game where you play a healer and have to heal your friends from the shadow that is chasing them

148

5 years ago

A “social network for club members” that lets you save the best events in a club’s calendar for your friends to see.

147

5 years ago

A startup for people who want to stay in touch with their friends and family by having them send them text messages. The company's patent application describes the service as a “person-to-person messaging system.”

147

5 years ago

This startup wants to make bank deposits and withdrawals more efficient by making them more user-friendly and integrating with various systems.

147

5 years ago

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

147

5 years ago

A chatbot that monitors and keeps track of the health conditions of your friends and family.

147

5 years ago

A startup that bills itself as a “Facebook for travel”, it allows users to share travel plans with family and friends

146

5 years ago

DesiChat is a messaging app for long-distance friends in India and Pakistan. After setting up a user account, users can message one another via a phone number, email address, or a Facebook account.

146

4 years ago

This startup is building a platform to help people who have given up their phones or are reluctant to give them up, to still communicate with loved ones, friends and coworkers. They’ve built a chatbot that allows people to send text messages and make calls to their friends without the phone.

146

3 years ago

A mobile application that can be used to get a QR code for your friend's email address in the event of an emergency. The startup is the first commercially available app for getting an email in an emergency.

146

5 years ago

A startup that helps you find your friends in real-time on your phone, and groups them with similar interests.

145

3 years ago

A social media platform that’s basically like Facebook, but focused on developing a community of artists who work together to create art and share it with their friends.

145

5 years ago

A product that allows you to draw on your smartphone so you can communicate with your friends in the same format as you do on the computer.

144

2 years ago

This startup is building a platform for community-led event planning. It’ll let users sign up for events, and invite friends to join them.

144

5 years ago

A startup that lets you send money to your friends at scale, through a simple mobile interface. The startup wants to use data from users to build a better product, and it’s currently only available for iOS.

143

5 years ago

A global payments platform, SendFriend is a virtual bank account and payments platform that allows users to purchase goods and services without a bank account. It’s similar to TransferWise but with a focus on emerging markets.

143

5 years ago

A digital tool for borrowing money from friends and family for small business purchases. The current model is still simple: the startup is working to launch an app that lets you borrow money in seconds from your friends and family. The company has raised a seed round, and is launching today

143

4 years ago

A social network for the diaspora, connecting expats with family and friends back home.

143

5 years ago

This personal finance app helps users track and manage their finances. It’s also a platform for sharing ideas and tracking financial goals with friends.

142

5 years ago

Loose talk among friends and coworkers about work and life. You can learn a lot about people by what they’re discussing, and what they’re saying is more than just idle chatter. This startup wants to make that sort of content available to employers and HR departments.

142

5 years ago

A startup builder that lets you create beautiful, interactive, mobile-friendly websites for your business, with no coding required

142

3 years ago

A smartphone application that finds you a local babysitter, or a group of friends to go to a concert, or a ride home. The startup is planning on soft launching in the second half of 2020.

142

5 years ago

A platform that lets families, friends, and neighbors connect, find, and support each other for their mental health issues, using a big data approach to help the right people at the right time. Through its platform, Bensound plans to provide a virtual space where people can post their symptoms, get support, and connect with each other. The platform reaps the insights provided by the data from all the posts to offer people with mental health issues the most personalized, accurate diagnosis possible.

141

5 years ago

A tool that helps you quickly and easily share photos and video clips with your friends and colleagues.

141

5 years ago

A design studio that helps companies create engaging, unique, and user-friendly websites. They have a portfolio of clients, including Liberty Mutual, and are looking to expand their market.

141

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

A mobile app that helps you get to know your friends and family through video chat.

140

5 years ago

A startup that helps parents and families create a custom “holiday card” for friends and family.

140

5 years ago

A peer-to-peer money transfer service for friends, families, or businesses. The startup plans to fund the business via a $1.5 million seed round, and is building a mobile app to help its members send money internationally.

139

5 years ago

This company builds technology that allows people to securely and easily send money to and from the Philippines. Their service, which launched in May of 2018, allows Filipinos to send money to family and friends without having to deal with the high fees associated with traditional remittance services.

139

5 years ago

A startup that helps you manage your morning routine. The app, which was launched in October, allows users to set daily routines that they can then share with friends or colleagues. With a daily routine, users can plan their day based on when they will be most productive, helping to keep their productivity levels up.

139

5 years ago

A way to send photos and videos to friends and family via a web application.

139

5 years ago

A startup that helps you to connect with friends and family by sharing messages, photos, locations, and locations.

139

5 years ago

A web-based service that helps people make dinner plans with friends and family.

138

5 years ago

A messaging app that lets you chat with your friends using GIFs and stickers. Like Kik, the app uses a chatbot to accept your messages and then creates your messages out of existing ones in your phone.

138

5 years ago

An API for companies to manage their own payroll and benefits. The company wants to offer a better experience for companies, and says most payroll systems are “untimely, expensive, and less than customer-friendly.”

136

5 years ago

App that helps you play games against your friends and pick up where you left off on your phone

135

5 years ago

A “digital assistant for couples”. The startup wants to build a social network for couples to share pictures, videos, and other updates, and have the ability to share with friends, family, and therapists.

135

4 years ago

A mobile app and website that allows users to find and connect with other like-minded people in their area to build a network of friends and collaborators.

135

5 years ago

A new way to interact with your friends on Facebook. It’s a messaging app that lets you play games and compete against your friends.

134

5 years ago

A free app for connecting with your friends outside of Facebook. It’s a platform where people can create digital walls and a platform to share photos and videos. They have a team of 30 people and have raised $3.5M funding.

134

5 years ago

The app helps put together a picture of your life, from your health to your home, and lets you share it with family and friends.

133

5 years ago

A family-friendly AI chatbot that allows grocery shoppers to chat with the AI through voice or text to help them pick out the best deals. The company says it’s already up and running in grocery chains like Walmart.

133

5 years ago

A company that uses real-time technology to make sure that your home security system is always on, and that it can be accessed by your family members and friends. It’s also a tool to protect against cyber thieves who could potentially hack into your devices.

133

5 years ago

A platform to help send and receive money from friends and family in the Philippines.

133

5 years ago

Company is building a platform to help people find and get along with friends, and help people find people with similar interests.

133

3 years ago

A dating app that aims to help you meet people by matching you with your friends.

132

5 years ago

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

131

5 years ago

A startup that helps with matchmaking, the startup says it sifts through users’ Instagram photos, looking for common themes. It then uses machine learning to analyze what it’s seen and suggest new friends.

130

5 years ago

A startup to help organizations create employee-friendly spaces.

130

5 years ago

A Chrome extension that helps people find the best dog-friendly outfitters to take their dog hiking

130

5 years ago

The startup's "mission is to make it easy for people to create and share their bitcoin and crypto wallets with their friends and family."

129

4 years ago

This startup wants to help people manage their finances through a simple, smart, and mobile-friendly interface. It has raised $1.3 million to date.

129

5 years ago

A startup that helps people to design, build and test their prototypes online Users will be able to share their prototypes with friends or partners

128

5 years ago

A startup that makes a mobile app that helps you understand the legal troubles of your friends. The company hopes to teach people how to manage their legal problems via a mobile app.

128

5 years ago

A mobile application that allows the user to create and share movement plans and trainings. The startup wants to help people share their workout plans with their friends, allowing them to track progress.

128

5 years ago

A platform for sharing and tracking your workouts with your friends, family, and exercise trainers.

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 platform that lets you create a personal blog or journal, write posts, and publish them on your own website, and share them with friends and family.

126

5 years ago

A startup trying to make the creation of a new app as simple as asking a friend to help you. The idea is that creative people will be more likely to give their own time free to help others who may need it, and the startup hopes to eventually help with getting new users on their apps.

125

5 years ago

A SAAS product that helps organize and manage all of a person’s relationships. The startup wants to help people communicate with their friends and family more effectively.

125

5 years ago

A startup that sells a tool for customers to book travel for themselves and their friends at the same time, and to help them understand the cost of what they’re booking. The startup has built a system that allows them to share the itinerary with friends, and helps them navigate and understand the cost of their own travel.

124

2 years ago

A platform for people to build social media-like communities around their friends.

124

5 years ago

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

123

5 years ago

This startup wants to sort the news you read to bring it to you in a format that’s somehow more relevant to you. The startup uses machine learning to determine which stories are most relevant to you, and tries to bring you the most relevant news. It’s a bit like Flipboard, but less user-friendly.

123

5 years ago

This company is building a chat-based social network for enthusiasts that aims to allow users to share their experiences and advice with each other, like Reddit or Quora. It’s a spin on the social media platform idea: instead of frequent posts from celebrities, the goal is to get your friends to post about their experiences and thoughts.

122

5 years ago

A startup that helps people automatically send money to a friend via SMS

122

5 years ago

A Slack/Facebook hybrid app that helps you figure out where your friends live.

122

5 years ago

A digital alternative for physical notes and calendars. The startup says it’s a better way to organize and share calendars with family and friends. They charge $5 per month for a calendar with unlimited notes.

122

3 years ago

A startup that lets people borrow friends’ unused airline miles for a fee.

122

5 years ago

A startup that wants to create an app that keeps you up-to-date with the latest news and information from your friends and family, or just from the web.

121

5 years ago

A way to merge your Facebook and LinkedIn friends. The startup is currently in a private beta.

120

5 years ago

A new way to personalize a conference that helps you book a room, attend a presentation, and find a new friend.

119

5 years ago

A tool that helps users track their fitness progress, measure calories burned, and connect with friends.

119

4 years ago

A platform for sharing content with a group of friends to create a group conversation

119

5 years ago

Startup that allows users to send secure messages from the popular messaging app WeChat to their friends, family, co-workers and other contacts.

118

5 years ago

You can use this to send money to friends and family, at a small fee.

117

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.

117

3 years ago

A startup that allows you to share your notes with family members and friends.

117

5 years ago

A tool to help create, share, and sync media with friends.

116

5 years ago

A space-saving, eco-friendly, solar-powered tent that's built with bamboo and recycled plastic. It's also waterproof, and when the time comes to move, it folds up into a waterproof bag, taking up less space than a cooler while still providing a dry, protected space for outdoor camping.

115

5 years ago

This is an app that turns your phone into an emergency hotspot to connect with friends and family, and to help you dial 911.

115

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.

115

3 years ago

A vinyl-quality recording app that allows users to record up to 32 tracks. Users can make music together with other users, or share recordings with friends.

114

5 years ago

A social network designed to help people make friends with those from different cultures, which works as a matchmaking service for travelers.

113

5 years ago

A peer-to-peer (P2P) payment app that allows you to transfer money to your friends and family.

113

5 years ago

A tool that lets someone create a Facebook Ad with a group of friends in it for a specific cause or purpose.

111

5 years ago

Want to find out how your friends are doing Lookalike is a tool that can tell you how many shares someone has on Facebook, how many times they’ve posted, and the likelihood that they’ll post again.

111

5 years ago

A way to store and share photos and videos in 360 degrees, allowing users to see their friends in 3-D. The startup wants to use the service to create virtual reality video by stitching together photos and videos.

111

5 years ago

A simple, secure online payment tool, similar to Paypal. The app allows users to send money to friends and businesses in their area.

111

5 years ago

This startup is building an AI chatbot that acts as a friendly customer service rep. The startup is using a combination of machine learning, natural language processing, and domain expertise to make its chatbot more human.

110

5 years ago

Professional and semi-professional athletes and influencers are seeing their profiles get hacked. This startup wants to build a way to securely store influencer data so that it’s not lost in an ex-boyfriend’s phone.

110

5 years ago

Acquire new customers and have them refer your business to their friends.

110

3 years ago

A mobile app that helps users create and share sessions of their favorite television shows with their friends, then record and share their reactions.

110

5 years ago

This startup wants to make it easier for people to find and share important information with friends and family. The startup aims to make information like travel plans, medical records, and other digitized documents more discoverable for friends and family.

109

5 years ago

A photo-sharing service that uses AI to find the best “story” in a photo and recommend it to others. Users can also share their favorite stories with friends.

109

5 years ago

A startup where your friends can rent your couch for a few days

109

4 years ago

A tool that helps you keep track of the book you read, and which you can then automatically give to a friend.

109

4 years ago

A social networking app that allows users to set up and run an online "party" for their friends.

109

4 years ago

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

109

5 years ago

A customizable, female-friendly skincare brand that uses AI to make products that are good for the skin.

108

3 years ago

A tool that helps you convert PDFs into mobile-friendly content. The app is free, but Pro has plans to monetize through in-app transactions and subscriptions.

108

5 years ago

A company that’s building a tool to help companies build, market, and sell their products to their friends and family.

107

3 years ago

A new way to securely communicate with family and friends through text, phone calls, video calls, and group chats

107

5 years ago

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

106

4 years ago

One of the most important parts of the mission is to create a platform that allows workers to generate a living wage while keeping them connected to their friends and family.

106

4 years ago

A free social network for the LGBT community. It’s a social network for LGBT people, like Facebook, but without the “friends” — it’s more of a “community” for LGBT people.

106

3 years ago

Enter a city’s zip code, the app will give you a list of local LGBTQ-friendly businesses, including restaurants, bars and bathhouses.

106

3 years ago

A startup for people to book a ride in a carpool with their friends. Drivers can set the rules for the ride and set their own rates.

106

5 years ago

A startup that can help you set up multiplayer games with friends for the iPhone.

105

4 years ago

A way to automatically send money to a friend in need. If you can’t go to the person who needs the money, you can still give them some of what you have.

105

5 years ago

A group of former AOL employees are building a new kind of digital product, in a new kind of space. Their goal is to build a product that’s creative, inspiring, and that has a social component — a way for people to share their work with their friends and followers.

104

5 years ago

This is a “personal assistant” that helps you game on your phone. The company focuses on helping gamers track their progress and keep up with their friends.

104

5 years ago

A startup that’s building a new and more user-friendly way to create and manage group texts, similar to GroupMe.

104

4 years ago

A social network for Snapchatters, with tattoo styles and styles that can be shared with friends.

104

3 years ago

A platform that allows users to discover and share videos from across the web. The company wants to help users find the best videos for them, and easily share them with friends.

104

2 years ago

A messaging app for the deaf and hard of hearing that makes it possible for deaf people to get phone calls, video calls, and video chats. In May 2019 the company launched a product that lets deaf people hear their friends through a device to communicate.

103

5 years ago

A personal assistant that helps people figure out which of their friends is most likely to be on Twitter and Instagram.

102

4 years ago

A way to send money to friends in Mexico, with a fee of no more than $1 per transaction.

102

3 years ago

An on-demand beauty service that functions like a concierge or personal stylist, who will help you pick out a new outfit for the day, book a manicure or massage, or help you pick out a gift for a friend. The startup is currently focusing on the UK, with an international expansion in mind.

102

3 years ago

A product that allows consumers to collect and share their life’s moments in the form of text, audio, video, and pictures. The company claims they’re the first company to blend AI-driven software, powerful hardware, and mobile-friendly design to create a stand-alone action camera, the Zing Camera.

102

2 years ago

A tool for event organizers that helps them create events online, bid on them, and collect payments. It also means you can find events your friends are hosting.

102

5 years ago

A mobile app to help them track their exercise progress. Users can share their progress with friends and get motivation and tips from other users.

101

5 years ago

This is an app that aims to help people understand their credit score and how it can affect their future. “The app provides a user-friendly credit score calculator that is designed to give you a quick and easy understanding of your score. The calculator gives you a score based on your credit history and helps you understand how your credit score is calculated, how it will change, and what it means to you,” the company says.

101

5 years ago

A platform that aims to make it easier to design and manage digital product and content experiences. An open-source platform that allows anyone to design a product and provide the necessary feedback to friends and followers. The startup is seeking to build on the work of other Open Platforms like Brave, or Pivotal, or Path.

101

4 years ago

The company with the combined vision of Google, Facebook, and Uber: A new kind of messaging platform that allows you to send and receive a message with a set of actions. An example: You can send a message to a friend and then order them a pizza, with the message automatically being routed through the app and then to the pizza chain.

101

3 years ago

A startup to help you, your friends, or your family members get the best price on an insurance claim. Based on the idea that insurance companies are using the same pricing models across all of the world, the app claims to provide a personalized experience.

101

3 years ago

A company that lets you create a profile on a website that tells you when your employers, friends, and other people you know are going to leave their company. The company says they have a network of “hundreds” of websites, including the NBA, the New York Times, the New York City Fire Department, and the New York City Police Department.

101

5 years ago

A companion app for the cloud-based version of the New York Times that lets you save articles to read later, annotate them, and share them with your friends.

100

4 years ago

A mobile app that allows people to create real-time surveys and quizzes about their day, with a social component so they can share the activity with friends.

100

4 years ago

This startup wants to build an app to help detect which of your friends have the most valuable LinkedIn connections.

99

3 years ago

A desktop application that provides a user-friendly interface for creating, editing, and sharing scripts for YouTube videos.

99

3 years ago

A startup that lets you share your location with your friends and family, and you can use it to track the location of your friends.

97

2 years ago

The startup is working on an app that lets people see what their friends are watching on Netflix and Hulu.

96

4 years ago

A way for people to pay friends and family without a credit card.

95

4 years ago

A new platform that allows you to share your carpooling plans with friends on your preferred ride-sharing app, while allowing the app to earn money from your ride-sharing efforts.

95

5 years ago

A startup focused on user-friendly music discovery. The startup wants to create a desktop experience around music discovery that will allow users to browse and listen to songs, and also see what others are listening to.

94

3 years ago

An international service that helps people find the best price and best flight to Mexico, whether they are planning a vacation or relocation. The startup’s product is a comparison engine that pulls flight data from the world’s leading travel website and aggregates it into a set of user-friendly comparisons. Users can search for and book flights, hotels, and car rentals, and check the price of a flight against competitors.

94

5 years ago

Startup that wants to create a platform that would allow people to create an “anonymously encrypted blog” for their friends, family, and co-workers.

93

3 years ago

A video chat application that allows you to call and video chat with family, friends and anyone else you choose, using a phone number or email address

93

4 years ago

A tool that lets you manage your favorite video games via their Steam API, allowing you to edit, create, and share with friends.

92

2 years ago

This startup makes it easy for you to take a photo of a portion of a book, scan it into a PDF, and then share it with a friend.

92

4 years ago

A web-based platform for organizing your life, sharing with friends and family, and managing your daily activities. Notable for its “paperless” interface, which lets you create to-do lists and share them with others.

91

4 years ago

A platform that helps you build and save customized travel itineraries for your next trip, and then allows you to share them with your friends to help them get a head start on planning.

91

4 years ago

A startup with a camera that allows you to snap a photo into a virtual world. This lets you snap a photo of your friend’s room, for instance, and then walk into that room in VR and be able to explore it.

91

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.

91

4 years ago

A social network that allows users to chat and play games with their friends who are currently hanging out in the physical world. Users can also play games against friends at home, meanwhile.

90

4 years ago

A text-based banking app that helps users make secure payments, like transferring money into a friend’s bank account.

90

4 years ago

An API that enables apps to tap into Facebook’s Newsfeed to give users a better idea of what their friends are reading

90

4 years ago

A startup that helps you play games with friends without giving away all your personal information.

90

4 years ago

The doc app is meant to work with any electronic health records system. It’s built on the idea of user-friendly dashboards, so users can see all of the data that’s relevant, in one place. HealthBlitz is currently working with the Mayo Clinic to build out a prototype. HealthBlitz says that it’s already working with nearly 3,000 healthcare providers.

89

4 years ago

A startup that allows people to send a video directly to a friend, with a minimum of fuss.

89

4 years ago

Helping people see their friends’ tweets, photos, and videos from their phones during a dinner party.

89

4 years ago

A decentralized blockchain platform to help people share expenses. The startup wants to help people find friends and families to help them pay for things like vacations and household maintenance. The app uses an algorithm to match people up, then goes to the third party to make the payment.

89

3 years ago

A security startup that’s building a new way to communicate with friends and family about their health, as well as a healthful way to communicate about health.

89

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that is building a mobile app, where you can invite your friends to play games with you, and earn money.

88

5 years ago

A tool that helps users to create and edit their own “competition packs” of decks for a given game, which they then use to play against friends or strangers online.

88

4 years ago

A startup that enables users to create a ‘vision profile’ and share it with friends. Created by a couple in their twenties who wanted to know how other people were making it in the world.

88

4 years ago

A platform that enables journalists to “do journalism by postcard” by sending a link to a story to a friend, who then comments on the story and sends a link to a friend, etc.

88

4 years ago

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

88

4 years ago

An employee referral platform for businesses to get employees to refer their friends to their job.

88

3 years ago

A startup that aims to help people track their food intake and share it with others. The app turns the act of eating into a game, where you can play with friends or compete with other people, as well as track your food intake.

88

3 years ago

A tool for people to connect and make friends with other people in their geographic town.

88

2 years ago

A “social network for caregiving” that allows family and friends to see the location and activities of their loved ones with a simple, monthly payment.

88

4 years ago

A startup that helps people stay in contact with their family and friends, with messaging, calling, and video calling.

87

4 years ago

A startup that helps people in India establish a bank account. The service aims to be user-friendly for people who don’t have a bank account. The team also says that it’s working with the government to digitize all government records to make banking easier.

87

4 years ago

The startup is building a platform for online communities of interest. Currently, it’s a way for people to find events and share recommendations for friends, but it can be applied to other categories like sports, music, movies, etc.

87

3 years ago

A platform that helps people build cash gifting sites where they can gift e-gift cards to their friends and family.

87

2 years ago

A group of friends, who used to be engineers at a Fortune 50 company, wanted to create a new startup. They wanted to build a SaaS-based platform that could help companies do more with less. The company has a $1.2 million seed round and is planning to have a platform available for companies to use in the first quarter of 2018.

87

4 years ago

A tool helping people make an audio track of their life, from a single instrument, so they can share that with their friends and family.

86

4 years ago

A tool for helping people create a stay-at-home network of family and friends.

86

4 years ago

A platform that combines the best of human and machine intelligence that allows you to create your own visual voice and chatbot. The idea is that your chatbot will be able to learn from your interactions and start to learn from your friends and family.

86

4 years ago

A startup that lets people text a friend and have it sent to their phone as a reminder.

86

4 years ago

A real-time video chat app that lets you chat with your friends, family, and coworkers, even if they aren’t online.

86

4 years ago

A group messaging app that gives users of all ages the ability to text and call their friends, including the elderly and the disabled.

86

2 years ago

Translating text into the “world’s most human-friendly language”.

86

4 years ago

A company that works with schools to make the school environment more parent-friendly.

85

3 years ago

Making office supplies more environmentally friendly, allowing a company to buy paper cones and cups in bulk, rather than using them up and throwing them away.

85

4 years ago

Employers can access a single dashboard to track their employee’s performance. Performance is measured across different channels, including time spent at work, friend requests, and the effectiveness of their social media presence.

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

This startup is building a tool for sharing an avatar between multiple users, so that people can see their friends and family from their phone and desktop.

84

3 years ago

A user-friendly mobile app for small businesses that helps them manage their marketing campaigns, and includes analytics on the performance of campaigns.

84

4 years ago

This startup is building a tool that lets anyone create a site where they can create a collection of online videos and share them with friends.

83

4 years ago

An online payment platform that lets people pay their friends through Venmo. Payalu is backed by Y Combinator, 500 Startups, and others.

83

4 years ago

A startup that lets you share your meal with your friends and family. The startup is looking to upend the delivery model by integrating with restaurants and other food sites to place orders.

83

4 years ago

A tool that lets you send money to friends, family and businesses.

83

3 years ago

A video messaging platform for young people, with the goal of connecting users to one another for relationships, friendship, and dating.

83

3 years ago

The startup wants to provide a tool to help people find new friends based on their location and interests. The startup is launching in the UK in Q3 2019.

83

3 years ago

If a startup isn’t building the next big social network, it’s building the next big messaging app. After launching on Messenger, Snapjoy is pitching a new service that lets users create their own social network for their friends and family.

83

2 years ago

A startup that focuses on how to take a social network and turn it into a revenue source. The company is looking to have users pay $5 per month (or $150/year) for a package that allows them to have their own private social network of friends.

83

4 years ago

A company that’s building a new type of social media experience. People can send videos to their friends and have friends vote on which ones they like or dislike, for AI to curate more interesting content.

82

4 years ago

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

82

4 years ago

A startup to help people find gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-friendly options at restaurants.

82

4 years ago

This platform provides a way for people to “pay friends with bitcoin”, essentially allowing you to transfer money to a friend in a peer-to-peer way.

82

4 years ago

A San Francisco-based startup that hopes to be the Uber of finance, where anyone can get a line of credit and borrow money from friends and family.

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

A way to transact with your friends and family overseas.

82

4 years ago

A “global comms company” for business travelers, which helps them chronicle their trips and share them with their friends and families.

82

3 years ago

A simple way to send money to family and friends in India

82

3 years ago

The startup’s mission is to make it easy to find and share personal memories through video and share the memories with friends. The startup is building the ability to curate collections of memories and share them with friends, along with finding what memories are being saved and shared by friends.

82

5 years ago

Idea: A user-friendly way to buy and manage cryptocurrency

81

4 years ago

A connected device that connects a person’s body to their social network via a bracelet, allowing them to monitor their fitness and coaching needs, connect with friends, and be more active. The device, which is being developed by a team of former Google employees, raised $1.5 million in seed funding.

81

4 years ago

A startup that lets people earn money by helping their friends book trips. At present, the company has partnered with Airbnb and Kayak to help people book their own trips.

81

4 years ago

A platform that lets people post what they’re doing in real time, such as a meetup or a job interview, and share it with friends

81

4 years ago

A new way of paying for things on the internet that’s supposed to be faster, more secure, and more user-friendly than PayPal. It’s meant to be the next step up from cash.

81

4 years ago

A social network for Latinx entrepreneurs and women with entrepreneur friends.

81

4 years ago

A company that makes home security systems that can be monitored from anywhere. It takes a user-friendly approach to things like dummies, cameras, and sensors to make a security system feel like a home.

81

4 years ago

Designed for dinnertime conversations, the app allows users to see what their friends are talking about and brings some of Facebook’s features to dinner table discussions.

81

3 years ago

A tool to help users control the data they share online with their friends on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

81

4 years ago

A startup that allows members to connect with others in their city and import their address book to find things to do, see what’s open and when, and share with friends and family.

80

4 years ago

A text messaging platform that lets people talk to their family and friends in a language they understand.

80

4 years ago

This is an app that tells you which room in your home you spend the most time in, and how that time compares to the time you spend at work, with friends, etc.

80

4 years ago

A healthcare subscription service for people wanting to track and keep tabs on their prescriptions. The company is building out a very simple and user friendly platform that saves users time and money by managing their prescriptions.

79

4 years ago

A user-friendly app designed to help hire employees. Filmed interviews have gone viral.

79

4 years ago

Using a phone, users can scan QR codes to send money to a friend who is in need.

79

4 years ago

is a startup that wants to bring personalization to CRM, allowing people to see what their friends are doing and make recommendations based on what they’ve done in the past.

79

4 years ago

A tool for sharing pictures and video of your trip with friends and family, so you can see what it looks like where you’re going. The company says they’re the only startup in the space that focuses on creating a travel-first experience.

79

3 years ago

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

79

4 years ago

A millennial-focused startup that wants to create a locally-sourced and craft beer-friendly alternative to “traditional” craft beers. LocalBev will work directly with a brewer to create a unique beer style, with each batch brewed on an on-site system.

78

4 years ago

A mobile chat platform that lets you video chat with your friends. It actually built a mobile chat platform the same way it built the messaging platform, with no outside funding. It’s now in private beta after launching in December.

78

4 years ago

A startup that pays customers for sharing content with their friends, starting with Facebook and Instagram.

78

4 years ago

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

78

3 years ago

A startup that will allow users to connect to their friends who just moved cities and help them make friends in new places.

78

2 years ago

A company that’s building applications for the cannabis industry. Their first app is called “TopShelf”, a tool that lets users find and book cannabis-related events, purchase cannabis products, and share their cannabis experiences with friends.

78

2 years ago

A new kind of consumer lending startup that engages customers in a way that allows them to become the lender to a peer group of friends and neighbors. Lending Club wants to build a decentralized peer-to-peer lending network where individuals can lend to or borrow from other individuals.

78

4 years ago

On 2 June 2015, an app called "YouNow" was released by a team of developers from the University of Southern California. The app allows users to broadcast live videos to their friends, and allows viewers to tip the broadcasters. The video is only viewable for 24 hours, but viewers can re-watch them at any time.

77

4 years ago

A suite of tools for building user-friendly online courses

77

4 years ago

A social network for students, with a twist: Students can share their school activities with their friends, who can then follow them to see what they’re up to.

77

4 years ago

This is a service that provides a way to transfer large amounts of money to a friend or family member, the company claims it’s cheaper than the international wire transfers it aims to compete with, with a 3% fee.

77

4 years ago

A platform that allows companies to run their own inventory management system, designed to be more user-friendly than the current options.

77

4 years ago

A text-based message-board system built on the open-source project of the same name. BookClub allows users to write messages, read other messages, and share links to articles. Add/remove friends, send and receive messages, and add emojis to your message.

77

4 years ago

Host a movie night for up to 20 friends and family members with a home theater system.

77

3 years ago

A startup that wants to be a "Facebook for the blind". Color was created by two brothers — one blind and one sighted — who want to help their visually impaired friends connect with one another in the same way that sighted people can.

77

2 years ago

Assuming that the government has to build a massive amount of housing for its citizens, we should be able to use technology to build a better, cheaper, more efficient, and more user-friendly solution.

77

4 years ago

A company that helps you find and connect with your family, your best friends, the ones you work with, and the ones you love.

76

4 years ago

Magig is a startup that has a new take on how to borrow money. It’s sort of like Venmo, except for the borrower. The startup allows users to send money to their friends in exchange for lending them cash that they can pay back over time.

76

4 years ago

A startup that helps your friends and family set up a plan for when you need end of life care or health care.

76

2 years ago

This startup is working to help users find places to eat, based on recommendations from close friends.

76

4 years ago

A startup that allows guests to share photos from their travel with their friends and family at home.

75

4 years ago

A way to let people buy gifts for each other with their phones. The startup is building an app that allows you to scan barcodes of items on the internet, then share them with friends to purchase for them with a few taps.

75

4 years ago

A social app that lets you set up groups of friends and family to help you out with tasks at times you’re not able to do them yourself.

75

4 years ago

A platform for connecting people to services, services to each other and to consumers. Users can set up on-demand services which can be shared with friends, or have the option to contribute to the service’s revenue share.

75

4 years ago

A tool for sharing your daily activity with your family and friends.

75

3 years ago

A smart home system that helps isolated seniors stay in touch with family, friends, and the community. It’s based on a simple app that collects information from a set of sensors in the home and alerts the caregiver to any changes or changes in the senior’s routine.

75

4 years ago

A tool for streamlining the entire social security process, with an app that allows you to give money to a friend or relative as a gift, automatically.

74

4 years ago

A solution for the “millennial” generation that allows users to send money to friends, or use it to pay for items online.

74

4 years ago

A startup that lets you chat in real time with all your friends, even if they’re in different countries or states.

74

3 years ago

A startup that aims to turn any website into a social network, using a customizable experience to foster invite-only groups that can be shared with friends and family.

74

3 years ago

A meetup app that helps small groups and groups of friends to organize events.

74

4 years ago

This startup is exploring a new way to send money to friends and family. Instead of using traditional bank transfer, they’re using a virtual currency they call Ven. It’s made of a built-in electronic payment system that’s easy to use, and they say they can send Ven without fees.

73

4 years ago

This startup aims to make it easier for people to have a conversation about money with friends and family. The company connects friends and family for advice about finances and other topics.

73

3 years ago

A way to send money to friends and family in India, via a bank account, without official documentation.

73

3 years ago

A quick way to see which of your friends are online, what they’re working on, and what they’re doing for fun

73

3 years ago

An online safety and privacy app. The app works by putting the user in control of their data and gives them the ability to create “safe zones” on the web that they can’t be tracked through. The app also lets users share their location with friends so they can help each other out in case of emergencies.

73

3 years ago

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

73

3 years ago

A decentralized platform that allows users to monetize content and make money sharing it with their friends.

73

5 years ago

A digital locker that lets users give personal keys to their valuables to family, friends, and other trusted people, and have them get access to the item in their personal account. The service is still in beta testing and has yet to be released.

72

4 years ago

This startup is looking to make it easier for people to share their ride requests, whether it be a ride with friends, a ride to the airport, or a ride to a restaurant.

72

4 years ago

An alternative to the more popular sharing apps like Snapchat, where people can share videos with friends, but also keep their messages private.

72

4 years ago

A new service that lets people offer their unused airline miles to friends and family. Recipients can redeem the miles for airline tickets, and the sender gets a payout.

72

4 years ago

A startup that allows you to make native videos of your native language, and share them with your friends.

72

4 years ago

A social platform for “millennial-friendly” news and entertainment. It’s now in private beta.

72

4 years ago

A video game that lets you play with your friends in a virtual reality world.

72

3 years ago

As the name suggests, this is a group of people who want to help you find your best friends in college. The company is targeting colleges right now, but will eventually expand to the rest of the world.

72

3 years ago

A startup that will allow people to attach themselves to a message and send it to specific contacts or friends. Called “rallying”, the app is meant to speed up responses and bring people together.

72

3 years ago

A free, often ad-free platform where people can find and share photos of their friends and family.

72

2 years ago

A team of students at The University of Texas at Austin is building a platform that allows people to create community-based apps for their personal use. The app allows users to create their own app, which they can then share with friends and family.

72

4 years ago

A startup that lets you upload your pictures and videos and arrange them in easy-to-use slideshows for your friends and family.

71

4 years ago

A software company that wants to help people connect with their families, friends, and people they care about in a more immersive way.

71

4 years ago

A tool for online videos that allows users to embed their videos on their websites and share them with friends.

71

4 years ago

The startup’s goal is to make healthcare data more user-friendly for consumers, who it says want to know what the data means and how to access it.

71

3 years ago

A tool for speeding up the process of sharing your phone’s location information with friends, family, and potential coworkers.

71

3 years ago

A startup that lets people in the military track their data, and other information like safety, on-time birthdays, and check on their friends

71

3 years ago

LendUp is a peer-to-peer lending marketplace where people can lend money to their friends, family, or other people they know. It’s similar to sites like Lending Club and Prosper, but the startup is taking a different approach to the funding. It’s aiming to let people lend money to their friends and family, and the loans aren’t paid back until the borrower has used them to buy something.

71

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.

71

4 years ago

a startup that wants to do what most people think of as “time management”, in a way that’s more user-friendly and not really “time management”.

70

4 years ago

A “social workspace” that is a virtual home for kids to hang out, play, meet their friends, and do their homework. The startup is based in San Diego and is working on a $10 million round.

70

4 years ago

A startup that lets people transfer money between their bank accounts and a friend’s account. It’s similar to TransferWise and other peer-to-peer cash exchanges.

70

4 years ago

The startup is building a platform that behaves like a combination of a group messaging app, a social network and a social graph. The app is designed to help groups of friends or co-workers communicate and share information, and is targeted for business use.

70

3 years ago

A startup to help people create their own social networks, like inviting friends and family to join along with creating a digital “photo album” that you can share with others.

70

3 years ago

A startup that allows people to track their friends’ social lives and determine if they’re getting enough sleep.

70

3 years ago

A solar-powered furniture startup that makes furniture that’s both fashionable and environmentally friendly.

70

3 years ago

A way to copyright performance art, or “capture the essence of an artistic performance.” It’s a sort of digital short film that you can collect and share with friends.

70

3 years ago

A “Facebook for people,” players can connect with their friends, see pictures and videos posted by their friends, and can post their own. The startup was started by a former Facebook executive, who wanted to build on the platform’s growth.

70

3 years ago

A platform that helps close friends connect using the same set of interests, like a Facebook or LinkedIn, but without the need to sign in.

70

4 years ago

A startup for meeting new people and finding friends. The app is designed to make it easier for people to make new friends, and to find people with similar interests.

69

4 years ago

A startup that lets you run a kitchen and bar business on the side or full time, or just help out in a friend’s kitchen for a night.

69

4 years ago

A way to make it easy for people to send money from their bank account to their friends and family across the world. The startup is only in the US currently, but aims to expand internationally.

69

4 years ago

A Brazilian startup that wants to make it easier for people to share their meals (and with whom) with family and friends.

69

4 years ago

A messaging app for native iOS and Android experiences that allows users to get in touch with friends and family that live elsewhere.

69

4 years ago

The startup is building an app that lets you create a “fantasy game” of sorts by competing with your friends on certain metrics. The winner of these games gets a cash prize, and the losers get to keep playing until they win.

69

3 years ago

A new take on the “online dating war” by using AI to help users find friends to hang out with

69

3 years ago

A company that wants to make it easier for families to share photos and video of the kids, including a new product that lets kids make their own videos and share them with friends with a few taps.

69

3 years ago

A “Find Your Friend” app that lets people find each other.

69

2 years ago

A travel startup that wants to take the hassle out of using air travel to see friends or family. It’s looking to take advantage of the $80 billion airline booking market.

69

4 years ago

A mobile app that shows what other people are searching for, and lets users see what their friends are looking at.

68

4 years ago

A free-to-use program that helps parents coordinate carpools among friends and neighbors.

68

4 years ago

A startup that wants to create a “system of trust” for your money. The company wants to provide a user-friendly, easy way to track and access your money, in plain English.

68

4 years ago

Great for users who want to maintain a network of family and friends, this startup is trying to build a system that analyzes text messages and sends push-notifications when your friends are nearby. The startup is in the early stages of development, but their team has already been working on the product for a year.

68

3 years ago

A mobile app that helps people track the best deals around them, from the deals their friends are getting to the deals that are most popular in their area at the moment.

68

3 years ago

Two-way video calling is on the rise. The company is building a platform that allows you to “video call” your friends and family inside the app.

68

4 years ago

A way to transform a website into a mobile-friendly experience

67

4 years ago

This startup is building an app that allows “unbanked” consumers to borrow money from people in their network of friends and acquaintances.

67

4 years ago

The startup behind the YourTango.com app and website is planning to launch a new online messaging app that will let people chat with their friends and family face to face, and the first users will be celebrities.

67

4 years ago

A hand-woven bag that looks like a pineapple. The startup is building a community of knitters, who will make and sell pineapple-shaped bags to be used as a summer beach bag or a gift for a friend.

67

4 years ago

An online community that offers a place to foster and develop friendships, share interests, and explore hobbies.

67

3 years ago

A user-friendly platform for enterprises to build, manage, and scale their user-generated content.

67

3 years ago

A personalized research assistant that can help you figure out the traits of your best friends and understand human behavior, with data visualizations and quizzes

67

4 years ago

A startup that lets people log in and see what their friends are watching and playing, and discover new things to watch and play.

66

4 years ago

A Q&A platform that transcribes audio conversations to text and vice versa, so users can have conversations with friends and family over voice technology.

66

3 years ago

A UC Berkeley startup, Spare is building a platform to help users manage and organize their data. The company is working on building a user-friendly platform that makes it easy to create, share and collaborate on data.

66

3 years ago

A Hong Kong-based startup that is creating a competitor to PayPal, a mobile payment system that can be used to transfer money to friends and family, accept payments from merchants, and make payments from users.

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 company that allows people to securely share video and audio with family and friends, then download the video or audio directly to their phone.

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 aimed at organizations with a lot of people that want to get organized but don’t know how to. It’s like YPlan or Meetup, but for people that want to do things like host a business meeting, volunteer, or get together with friends.

66

3 years ago

A way to get on-demand services from your friends, like a concierge service that can help you with things like laundry or groceries.

66

3 years ago

A dapp that lets people create a virtual reality world where they can play games, watch videos and share photos with friends.

66

4 years ago

In the same vein as OwnPeep, this startup aims to allow you to share your furniture browsing history with friends and family members so they can help you find the perfect furniture for your home.

65

4 years ago

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

65

4 years ago

A “social network for people working from home”, aimed at helping them find things to do and make new friends. The startup also has a product for businesses that “want to run their own social network for work from home”.

65

4 years ago

Using AI, this startup aims to make it easier for people to help their friends and family by text. The platform is currently running in beta in New York City for the time being.

65

4 years ago

This startup is building a way for you to pay a friend who has a different phone from yours.

65

4 years ago

A startup that makes it easier for people to find and engage with their community of friends, family and other people who share the same interests.

65

4 years ago

A platform for merchants to sell on social media. The platform helps people find products in the app and allows them to share the sale with a crowd of their friends.

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 startup that helps you see what your friends are doing in real time through their locations. The app displays a circle for each person on a map, with the circles moving closer together as they get closer to each other.

65

3 years ago

A platform for creating “microlibraries”, a digital collection of books shared by a small group of friends.

65

3 years ago

This is a fitness-related app that’s “all about making exercise fun.” The app tracks your workout and helps you discover new exercises, but is also centered on making exercise a social experience. Users can share their workout with friends, and even challenge one another.

65

3 years ago

A tool that allows you to create and share online “digital scrapbook” pages. The tools allows you to create and edit digital scrapbooks that can be shared with friends.

65

3 years ago

A messaging app that lets you use any text-based chat service (Facebook, WhatsApp, SMS) to communicate with family and friends. It’s targeting the immigrant community, hoping to help them communicate across borders.

65

4 years ago

The app lets you make money when your friends want to buy stuff from you. The app creates a “payment” link when you post a photo of an item. When a friend clicks the link, they’re charged a commission on the sale.

64

3 years ago

A visual way of sending money to family and friends, with built-in chat capabilities so you can directly message your recipients about the funds.

64

3 years ago

A user-friendly SaaS platform that helps companies and individuals co-sign loans with other users. The startup plans to use AI to match high-qualified borrowers with lenders who offer better terms while still giving the user peace of mind.

64

3 years ago

One of the most popular ways to stay in touch with friends and family has to be through text messages. The company wants to build a texting platform that is both secured and private.

64

3 years ago

A chat platform that connects you to your friends’ friends who can help you find a job, buy a house, or get an apartment. The platform is meant to help with big life decisions like these.

64

3 years ago

A social network for friends and professionals to share, discover and interact with each other. It’s a community that helps members discover, share and interact with other professionals in their area.

64

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier to find a ride-sharing service to pick up the family or friends when they need to be dropped off.

63

4 years ago

A startup for showing you all of your favorite movies on YouTube. The idea here is to provide the functionality of a movie database, but in a more consumer-friendly way that caters to those who aren’t looking to start watching movies, but instead just want to know what movies are coming out that are worthwhile.

63

3 years ago

We’ve been using Slack for years, but these days it’s a mess. Huddle wants to help teams with their internal communications by offering a dedicated communication tool for teams that’s cloud-based and mobile-friendly.

63

3 years ago

A startup that lets users create custom clip art, sharing it with friends and family via text or email.

63

3 years ago

A platform for helping people reconnect with friends that have moved away.

63

3 years ago

A payment platform that allows customers to send money to their friends and family, just like Paypal. The startup is funded by investors including Google Ventures and Thrive Capital.

63

3 years ago

A startup that makes it easy to send money abroad to friends and family. The startup is looking to partner with banks, credit card companies and other financial institutions to help small businesses and families send money abroad.

63

3 years ago

A user-friendly platform for tracking expenses paid by credit cards, loans, and other means.

63

3 years ago

It’s an app that allows you to take a selfie, upload it to the app, and then get your friends to rate it. The idea is that you’ll get better ratings if your friends like the same things.

63

2 years ago

A recipe-sharing app that helps users find new recipes while also sharing their own. The idea is that users can share their favorite dishes with friends or the wider community and receive positive feedback and suggestions.

63

2 years ago

A startup that tracks your video game achievements and allows you to share them with your friends.

63

4 years ago

A new way to help consumers buy environmentally-friendly products. The startup is a small team that’s looking to build a better way for consumers to get their hands on environmentally-friendly products from all over the world. While it’s not quite a marketplace, it does offer a centralized marketplace that connects the consumer to one online store for all their environmentally-friendly products.

62

4 years ago

A marketing tool for businesses that wants to encourage customers to recommend them to their friends and family. The company allows businesses to create and share a personalized review page, with a personality quiz and a survey, so people can see how their friends and family feel about them.

62

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.

62

3 years ago

“The best way to discover interesting new things is to ask a friend.” Spare Room is looking to build out a marketplace for people to privately buy, sell, and share gifts.

62

3 years ago

An open source app that lets users “natively share their daily life on social media”. It also allows them to create “life progress reports” that they share with friends and family.

62

3 years ago

People in the US often travel to Europe to enjoy a summer holiday. But while they’re gone, they miss all the things they usually do back home, like seeing friends and family. So iHome wants to give them the ability to go online and see photos and videos of their friends and family back home who they miss during their trip.

62

3 years ago

A way to share music with your friends, and be able to easily buy new music. Available for Android and iOS.

62

3 years ago

Service that offers a group of friends the ability to make reservations and pay for them as a group without money being split up.

62

3 years ago

A startup that lets you make a digital video in VR and then export it, so that you can share it with friends and family.

62

2 years ago

A toolset that helps people create “social experiments” in which they trick their friends into buying goods.

62

2 years ago

A peer-to-peer app that allows users to borrow a friend’s phone and use it to sign into an app.

62

5 years ago

Idea: A personalized shopping service that helps users find the perfect gifts for their friends and family. Users share the kinds of experiences and activities they like, and the company finds things they’ll like.

61

4 years ago

This company is a tool for sharing shopping lists with friends and family.

61

4 years ago

A company that is building a voice assistant for the blind, which is meant to be easier to use than others. “We are designing a system that makes it easier for blind people to navigate their homes, speak to their family and friends, and learn more about the world around them.”

61

4 years ago

A consumer marketing platform where customers can buy and ship products directly to friends. The startup is also working on a team-based crowdfunding platform to help small business owners.

61

3 years ago

A company that sells a $50,000 security system made up of a garage door opener, a smart lock and a $49 video camera. The startup’s hardware is intended to let people live in their homes with their pets, and it has a product roadmap that includes a pet-friendly version of its camera

61

3 years ago

An engine which helps you share your location to friends and family, letting them know where they can find you and vice versa.

61

3 years ago

This startup wants to make the internet more “friendly” to businesses by helping smaller companies get their products and services in front of the right people. They’re currently working with over 200 businesses.

61

4 years ago

A group of four college friends who decided to start a company to help create a more efficient way to source and manufacture electronics. The company wants to be the first company to completely eliminate the middlemen of electronics manufacturing and create more manufacturing in the U.S.

60

4 years ago

An automated solution for building a user-friendly car insurance application that’s GDPR-compliant.

60

3 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier to share a room as a group, both with friends and with strangers. The company also wants to be a way to connect people with roommate matches, and also plans to support free housing for people who need to stay in a certain city for a certain amount of time.

60

3 years ago

A friend-based messaging platform with a focus on the LGBTQ+ community, allowing users to share and re-share messages with a who’s-who of community members. The app also has a messaging feature for non-users.

60

3 years ago

A platform for sharing photos, videos, and links to webpages with your friends via email, SMS and other social networks. The platform caters to a wider group of users than just professional photographers, and has been used by celebrities, brands and musicians to share their works and ideas.

60

2 years ago

A band of friendly scammers that pretend to be IRS agents, but are actually working for the IRS

60

3 years ago

People who’ve lost weight in the past can share their weight loss story with the community. Users record how much they weigh and what they’re eating daily and tag their friends to help them stay on track.

59

3 years ago

A way to make it easier for users to take their own photos and quickly share them on social networks. The startup wants to make sharing photos with friends as easy as sending a text message.

59

3 years ago

A new way of sharing and viewing live video. The app integrates with Facebook Live and Periscope, allowing you to watch your friends and family broadcast live.

59

3 years ago

A software company that helps companies create a single, mobile-friendly app that allows workers to access spreadsheets and documents from any device.

59

3 years ago

This is a tool for identifying which of your friends or contacts on Twitter or Instagram have posted or commented on a certain hashtag. The idea is to use the data to influence which hashtags you follow.

59

4 years ago

The company’s goal is to “put the attention economy to work for people, not for advertising.” Or, as they put it: “Imagine a world where the people who you want to be connected to are the ones who know you best – your friends – not the people who pay the most.”

58

4 years ago

A startup that lets you pay your friends and family without any fees. Currently in YC Demo Day.

58

3 years ago

A new social media app that lets users identify and connect with their friends and followers who are online. The company helps users find and follow content creators, allowing for more targeted social media posts.

58

3 years ago

When your friends start complaining that their friends aren’t getting in on the next big trend, you can introduce them to the startup that wants to buy and sell that trend. The startup helps you snap up the next big thing before your friends, claiming to have over 100,000 traders in its platform.

58

3 years ago

A platform that lets you connect with your friends and follow your favorite brands, with a focus on fashion and lifestyle brands

58

3 years ago

A carpooling app for commuters looking to get to work or meet up with friends.

58

3 years ago

A collaborative texting app that uses location tracking to alert friends when they are near a specific location. It also allows users to send stickers, videos, photos and GIFs.

58

3 years ago

“A platform for data-driven marketing”. It’s a platform that pulls from Facebook and Instagram and Google to understand what your family and friends are interested in, and makes a recommendation based on that data.

58

3 years ago

A startup that helps users find and organize their contacts in a single database, a task it claims is harder than finding a partner to a friend on Facebook. The startup is looking to build an app that brings together all of your personal contacts into a single place.

58

3 years ago

A startup that matches users with their dream jobs. The company wants to alleviate the problem of the “job” described in the company’s teaser video being the “job of a friend’s friend”. The company’s “crowdsourced job” is a gig at a startup, and it’s currently in stealth mode.

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 helps users create a social media account and then promote it to their friends and family, with the goal of getting them to help make a purchase.

57

3 years ago

This startup is building a tool that allows you to prioritize content in a way similar to how you prioritize friends and family on Facebook. It’s a unique way to manage your media consumption, but it’s also a way to manage your media consumption that’s competitive with Facebook.

57

2 years ago

A platform that lets companies “track, engage, and grow their employees”. It provides a platform for companies to manage employee engagement through user-friendly dashboard and notifications.

57

4 years ago

A new way to connect with friends, co-workers and family members by sharing your location, knowledge and interests.

56

3 years ago

A startup from China that builds video games around a concept called “social finance” where the players make bets with their friends and the company that the outcome of the game will influence. For example, the company could build a game where the company that wins the bet could lobby for laws favorable to them.

56

3 years ago

A mobile phone app that helps you set up a gifting experience with friends on Facebook. It’s not clear if this is a new feature or a monetization play.

56

3 years ago

A platform for the rental market in which a person can host a party, choose their own playlist and invite their friends.

56

3 years ago

This app is designed to help high school students organize their free time to find things to do, meet friends and plan their after-school activities. It’s B2B, with a small school setting where it tries to help teachers create a network of students with similar interests to help them plan their after-school schedules.

56

3 years ago

A web platform that lets people find out if their friends are coming to their local events as a way to get them to get more involved in the event.

56

3 years ago

A startup that is building a platform to help people connect and communicate with their friends and family who are in other countries.

56

3 years ago

A startup that provides an over-the-counter device that acts as a pharmacy, with Internet connectivity and a user-friendly interface. It’s meant to be easy to use, preventing people from having to go to the doctor.

56

2 years ago

A social network that lets you chat with your friends and family, but also for businesses to share their specials with prospective customers.

56

2 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier for people to coordinate rides with friends. The startup wants to take the hassle out of finding friends for a night out.

56

4 years ago

A company that helps bank customers transfer money to friends and family in Mexico, paying them in pesos at about a 1% fee, as opposed to the 3% fee for a traditional money transfer.

55

3 years ago

A company that helps people track the people who take their money and the people who keep it. Using a combination of data from a variety of sources, the startup’s tool helps people see who their friends and family are, how much they make, and where they spend it.

55

3 years ago

A startup for sharing your digital photos and videos with friends and family.

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

Social media for the affluent, for people who want to spend more on their social media habits and keep tabs on their friends’ lives.

55

3 years ago

A company that provides a platform for creating and managing private social networks for families and friends.

55

3 years ago

A chatbot that allows people to send cash to friends and relatives without incurring fees.

55

3 years ago

This is a text messaging app that lets you call and text your friends and family directly from your phone. It’s like the Snapchat app, only instead of sharing photos or videos, it’s sharing texts. The startup makes money by charging a small percentage of the transaction.

55

3 years ago

A facial recognition startup working on a social network that uses facial recognition to help people find friends, family, and other people with a similar interest.

55

3 years ago

A ride-hailing app for people who are too sick to drive themselves, with the help of a nurse or friend

55

3 years ago

A dating application that uses an algorithm to create a match between two people based on their mutual friends and interests.

55

3 years ago

A money transfer app for sending money to family, friends, or businesses in exchange for goods or services.

55

2 years ago

A user-friendly mobile app that tracks your health and fitness, and lets you get immediate advice from your doctor.

55

4 years ago

This startup is building an app that lets people create their own unique events, which they can then invite their friends to, similar to how it works on Facebook.

54

4 years ago

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

54

3 years ago

A startup that helps development teams implement user-friendly design feedback loops and collaboration tools into their development process.

54

3 years ago

A calendar app for iOS, launched in early 2017, that enables users to share notes and other information about their day with their friends. It’s said to have over 500,000 users.

54

3 years ago

A product that lets users create their own version of Facebook, with its own user-friendly interface and powerful tools to help you build your fan base, connect with others, and better promote yourself and your content.

54

3 years ago

A startup that helps companies build a user-friendly app for managing their workforce.

54

2 years ago

A startup that lets you send money to friends through PayPal or Venmo, then splits the funds with you.

54

2 years ago

A tool to simplify the process of recognizing a person on video and allowing them to connect with friends, family, and people they know.

54

3 years ago

This startup is working on a service that promises to create a digitized version of your personal library, which you can then share with friends to read, sync with Dropbox, or print.

53

3 years ago

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

53

3 years ago

A platform for people to “know” about their friends and family, for those looking for events, people to know about, or anything else. The company uses algorithms to scan your social media profile and help you know if your family or friends are safe or in danger.

53

3 years ago

A tool for people to share aspects of their life with a trusted group of friends. The startup’s goal is to make it easier for people to ask for help when they don’t know how to do something: “When you’re in a situation that you don’t know how to handle, you can reach out to a group of friends who are there to help you,” they say.

53

5 years ago

Idea: A text messaging app to help women in Afghanistan stay safe from abuse. It works as a “panic button” that calls a preselected list of family and friends when pressed.

52

3 years ago

A messaging app that lets you send money to friends and family, even if they don’t have a bank account. Pudding lets you send US dollars to people using your phone number, and it’s available in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay.

52

3 years ago

A startup building an “AI Assistant that helps you throw a dinner party to impress your friends, that also knows when to make a restaurant reservation, and when to call your mom”.

52

2 years ago

A social network that encourages users to share digital goods and experiences, and allows their followers to share them with their friends. The goal is to make digital goods more social and monetizable.

52

2 years ago

A group of friends who met through an online dating site have created a version of a “Fitness-First” dating app, designed to help people find someone with similar body types and goals.

52

3 years ago

A tool that makes it easier to share files with friends or co-workers, allowing users to sync files across devices.

51

3 years ago

A startup that helps users show off their photos, videos and selfies to their friends.

51

3 years ago

A tool for setting up emergency events for the homeless, their friends, and supporters. The startup uses a mapped interface to organize people and events, and then helps organize logistics like phone calls, note taking, and transportation.

51

3 years ago

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

51

3 years ago

A startup that helps you enhance the usability of your website by creating custom, user-friendly CSS layouts. It’s “the next generation of CSS."

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

A platform that helps people meet new friends through a virtual reality.

51

3 years ago

Startup that wants to make it easy to share things with your friends via a simple messaging platform.

50

3 years ago

A new way to provide your friends with their favorite drinks, based on the idea that if you’re going out and it’s 3:30 in the morning, you’re more likely to want a beer and a shot than you are a glass of champagne.

50

3 years ago

A place to check-in to a piece of art, share it with friends, and add photos

50

3 years ago

A platform that helps people and companies find people to date, find people to hire, and even find people to be friends with. The app tracks social media, online dating, and other apps to bring all the information together.

50

3 years ago

A secure messaging app with end-to-end encryption and a user-friendly interface.

50

3 years ago

A credit card for students, who often have a hard time getting approved for a credit card. It includes a special student-friendly credit card account, with a lower interest rate.

50

3 years ago

An anti-theft startup that lets you pay for things with your phone using a mobile wallet. It lets you price items based on how well you know them, and some of the features include paying for a cab ride, or getting a ride from an Uber driver without having to get out of the car. It also lets you pay a relative or friend if your phone is lost or stolen.

50

3 years ago

A chat service that can be used with a single app on any device to create groups of friends and family, such as parents and kids.

50

3 years ago

A startup in the biotech space that’s trying to disrupt the whole pharma industry by providing a cheaper, more user-friendly alternative to biotech drugs.

50

2 years ago

An online community for expat parents to help each other find work, make friends, and generally make their lives better

50

3 years ago

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

49

3 years ago

A startup that helps users visualize their money and investments in a user-friendly way, helping them see where they’re spending their money and then allowing them to take action to make changes.

49

3 years ago

A relatively new startup, Peoplo is building a “bot-free chat platform that can be used by anyone, anywhere”. Peoplo users will be able to chat with their friends and family, and the company is looking to sign up up to 5 million users by the end of 2019.

49

3 years ago

A startup that connects groups of friends to meet up, this startup wants to help people organize and plan their events.

49

2 years ago

A startup that lets you create an account on a variety of investment platforms, then track how your portfolio’s doing, and share your portfolio with your friends.

49

3 years ago

A group of friends launched a startup racing to build a go-anywhere, accessible, and affordable modular electric car. The car is a lightweight, urban electrical vehicle, with a range of about 500 miles, a top speed of about 70 mph, and a starting cost of $10,000.

48

3 years ago

A startup that lets you search for recipes online, then send them to friends via email or SMS

48

3 years ago

A “do-it-yourself social network”, allowing you to share photos and videos, and easily follow your friends on Instagram and Twitter.

48

3 years ago

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

48

2 years ago

A fun way to play games with friends and compete with friends.

48

2 years ago

A social network where users can share their opinions on products and services with their friends. The company says that it has already seen a 5x increase in purchases of products that have been reviewed by others on the site.

48

3 years ago

A platform to allow users to export and import their Facebook posts, photos and videos, making it easier to share updates, stories, and lives with friends on Facebook.

47

3 years ago

A text-based chat app that uses machine learning to track the progress of a conversation and know when to stop a conversation or switch between friends.

47

3 years ago

A startup that offers a secure mobile photo-sharing service for travelers. The company is aimed at a market of people who want to send family and friends photos and videos from their phone, but don’t want their images to be stolen.

47

3 years ago

A startup that allows people to share their Spotify playlists with friends, and other users to add them to their own playlists. The startup is also building a music recommendation service.

47

3 years ago

A platform that allows users to share their digital goods, such as music, photos and video, with friends, family and fans without having to upload them to the cloud.

47

3 years ago

It’s a spreadsheet for connecting to your friends’ location data, allowing you to see where they are and plan your day ahead.

47

3 years ago

A company that makes and sells eco-friendly products to raise awareness of water scarcity and climate change.

46

2 years ago

A way to check on your Twitter feed and see what your friends are up to, from any location

46

2 years ago

A startup that allows users to send messages to large groups of friends, using a “scheduler” to send messages at the right time in a day.

46

3 years ago

A system that consolidates all of your online accounts into one dashboard, with a user-friendly interface. The startup is currently in private beta.

45

3 years ago

A startup that helps teams find friends, neighbors and coworkers who want to co-work or co-work at home

45

3 years ago

A tool that lets you take a snapshot of your phone, screenshot a website, and send it to friends

45

2 years ago

This startup is building a simple solution for people who want to send money to each other via text message. The company’s platform is built with the goal of making it easy to pay friends and family, and is targeting the $15 billion remittance market.

45

2 years ago

A company that aims to create a more affordable, user-friendly and general purpose wireless sensor platform. The platform, which is in early stages, is designed to be as flexible as possible so that it can be used in a variety of ways.

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

3 years ago

The startup is building a network of people who have a shared interest in creating things that are useful, beautiful and environmentally friendly. They have a purpose-built app for tracking and sharing ideas.

44

2 years ago

A tool that lets you collect and analyze data on your online friends and contacts

44

3 years ago

A “Facebook for personal finance” that allows people to share their financial needs and information and get help from a network of friends, family, and experts.

43

3 years ago

A user-friendly platform that allows people to make a tax-deductible donation to charity in a single step.

43

3 years ago

A mobile-only bank that offers a low-cost solution for people in the UK to save money in a simple, user-friendly app.

43

3 years ago

A startup that sells wayfinding software to help retail businesses build more intuitive, user-friendly maps.

43

2 years ago

A startup that is building a web-based version of a popular gamification platform, using a much more intuitive and visual interface. The company offers social networking, leader boards, and ability to play games with friends.

43

3 years ago

A new way to connect with your friends and family. A new way to connect with your friends and family.

42

3 years ago

Build an online platform that lets people play in their home and share their gameplay with their friends. The startup’s goal is to give the community an opportunity to play in the same game at the same time.

42

3 years ago

A chatbot-based network for contact management by legacy, friends and family, and people with specific needs. The company wants to build a software platform for handling contact management for the elderly and for people with dementia, as well as for people with chronic illnesses.

42

3 years ago

This startup is building a social network for drivers. It lets drivers find their location, search for nearby businesses, and share their location with friends.

42

3 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier for people to share their homes and apartments with friends and family by providing a solution that lets people access their space and control their systems with a smartphone or tablet.

42

2 years ago

A platform that allows users to target ads to people based on their social networks and interests. They have a Facebook component that lets marketers target people based on their friends’ likes.

42

2 years ago

A platform for predicting which of a customer’s friends will enjoy a particular brand of beer

42

2 years ago

A company that is building a more personal way for people to store their files. It’s a social storage app that lets you share files with friends, but also lets you manage how much storage you’re using.

42

2 years ago

A platform for creating and managing small-scale events. The company wants to create a platform that allows users to create and manage events with their friends and family, all without the need for third-party services.

42

2 years ago

A group of friends in the LA area are building an app that will help you find the best local restaurants in your area with a few taps of your phone.

42

3 years ago

A personal assistant for the iPhone, with features like reminding you to go to the gym, tracking your phone’s battery, and sending you reminders when your friend’s birthday is coming up.

41

3 years ago

A tool that helps you track your health and fitness data, and allows you to share your progress with friends and family. The company wants to build a community of people who are trying to achieve health and fitness goals, and track each other’s progress.

41

2 years ago

A startup that detects when someone is looking at a specific webpage and lets them know, enabling them to catch up on that web page. Consider the fake Amazon page on your friend’s phone to get an idea of what this could be like.

41

2 years ago

UX engineering firm that helps companies design and build user-friendly software.

41

2 years ago

A tool that helps you find the cheapest flight on airlines, based on what your friends have been saying on Twitter.

41

3 years ago

A startup for people who care about the environment. The startup is working to create a marketplace for “environmental products” wherein a company can sell their own environmentally-friendly products and make money off of the idea that their customers are willing to pay more to buy products that are eco-friendly.

40

3 years ago

User-friendly internet plant databases that have been around for decades. The Startup is looking to compile a bunch of the most popular plant databases into one online platform for both gardeners and growers.

40

2 years ago

A company that helps people connect with friends and family who live in different parts of the world.

40

2 years ago

A company that helps companies make their websites mobile-friendly. They have a free plugin, but their long-term goal is to provide “universal” web accessibility for all sites.

40

2 years ago

This data startup is building a “creepy” web platform to help people find out what their friends are doing on the web, by analyzing their social media posts and search history.

40

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that provides a service that helps people who are having a birthday party to grow their network and find more friends

39

2 years ago

A newspaper app that allows users to search for local news and articles, and share them with friends.

39

2 years ago

A startup that builds data driven, user-friendly medical packages for pharmaceutical companies.

39

3 years ago

A platform that helps users organize and share their life events in the context of a narrative that’s then read by others. The company wants to help people better communicate their lives to their friends, family and others.

38

3 years ago

A platform that helps companies build user-friendly apps for their employees, including expense reporting, management of rewards programs, and payroll.

38

3 years ago

A tool designed to help people share their videos with family and friends, with a focus on re-creating/enhancing memories

38

3 years ago

A tool for recording your thoughts, quizzes and other information, which can be shared with friends and family. The startup has been around since 2013 and is used by at least 2,500 schools in California.

38

3 years ago

This startup wants to make sending money between friends easier, and it’s already working with more than a dozen businesses, with a goal of making it as easy and as ubiquitous as sending a text message.

38

2 years ago

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

38

3 years ago

A startup that makes it easy to manage and share expenses between friends and families in the same way that Airbnb allows people to rent out their homes directly to each other.

37

2 years ago

The idea behind Fold is that you would be able to “fold” an email and send it to a friend without having to write it out. The startup wants to build an email app that lets you “fold” emails and send them through a variety of platforms like Gmail and Slack, and then have the recipient open the message with a link to a PDF or video.

37

3 years ago

A company that helps connect companies with their customers in real time. The company can provide a lot of real-time engagement for companies like Call of Duty, allowing users to play the game in real time with their friends.

36

2 years ago

A startup to help “make money” by letting people loan out their spare furniture to friends.

36

2 years ago

A startup where you can play sports games against friends and strangers.

36

2 years ago

This startup helps people get “paycheck-to-paycheck” banking, a means of making regular payments to family and friends.

35

2 years ago

A company looking to provide consumers with a way to see what their friends are buying in the market and get a discount if they do the same.

35

2 years ago

A social network where you can hang out with friends in a virtual space and for pay, the company wants to become something like a virtual nightclub where you can listen to music, play games, chat with other users, and engage in live chat.

35

2 years ago

A startup for buying and selling used phones online. One of its business models is a “gifted” model that gives “reputable” users the ability to gift other users with phones. Called "Gifted,” it's a free app for iOS that lets you buy and gift phones to your friends, family, or strangers.

35

2 years ago

A mobile app for managing food allergies that allows users to track and share their allergies with friends and family

35

2 years ago

A platform for mapping and tracking the air quality in buildings, meant to help developers and architects create more environmentally friendly buildings.

34

2 years ago

A loan-gifting app that connects borrowers with friends and family who have extra money. The company plans to use the revenue from the app to fund its operations.

34

2 years ago

A startup that helps users rate their gym performance, and then share their progress with friends.

34

2 years ago

A startup that aims to improve the way we keep track of, and communicate with, our friends and family.

34

2 years ago

A startup that makes it easy to connect your email and social media accounts, allowing you to subscribe to messages, tweets, and posts from friends and family.

34

2 years ago

A startup that wants to simplify the way people stay in touch with friends and family through video messaging.

33

2 years ago

ShareRing is building a decentralized network of wireless communication hubs for sharing rides, renting out rooms, and more. It’s meant to be more environmentally friendly and cost-efficient than ride-sharing apps like Uber, and is already in talks with the government of Australia.

33

2 years ago

A startup that lets you save a coupon to the app, then send it to a friend, and they can redeem the coupon before you.

32

2 years ago

Napptics is building a digital concierge that helps people book events and travel experiences for their friends, much like AirBNB.

32

2 years ago

This social app allows people to share their travel plans and the places they want to go with friends and strangers, who then can comment and vote on the ideas those plans.

31

2 years ago

A startup that lets you book your favorite apps on demand. The idea is you can book a video call with a friend, a ride with Uber, a haircut from Costco, etc.

31

2 years ago

A web-based service that helps support people with dementia. The startup is building a social network that allows users to not only share memories, but also connect with friends and family who can help them.

31

2 years ago

A startup for booking business travel that’s more customer-friendly than AirBnB or Expedia. The startup is currently in talks with media companies.

31

2 years ago

An email-to-GIF platform that allows you to send images and recordings as GIFs to your friends.

30

2 years ago

A social network for bartenders that helps them find work, friendships, and tips by sharing their experiences via video.

30

2 years ago

The service is free for members, who can use it to track the location of their family members, friends, or pets in case of an emergency. It features a map of the area’

30

2 years ago

A platform to help you quickly find out which of your friends and family are using the most data on their phone, and to help them better manage their phone usage.

30

2 years ago

An in-app conversation for video chat. The startup’s product is a 3D avatar of your friend with a transparent window into their real-life view.

30

2 years ago

A software company that wants to make payroll automation more efficient. They have an “asynchronous” (aka web-based) payroll system that lets employees manage their time and pay themselves, and the company says “our system is friendly and easy to use for anyone.”

30

2 years ago

An AI-based messaging bot that can take a photo of a food and send it to friends.

30

2 years ago

A new app for sending a “selfie” to friends, allowing you to see how your face looks in different situations.

30

2 years ago

The startup has built a way to combine a person’s social media data into a single dashboard, so that they can see what friends are doing and follow them back on social media without having to go to each individual social media platform.

29

2 years ago

A "smart money" app that uses data to automatically manage and share money between friends. Users add their credit cards and accounts to the app and then link it to their Facebook friends. The app takes a small fee of all transactions and automatically transfers money between people.

29

2 years ago

A startup that helps people to find out what their friends are doing, similar to Snapchat’s “Find Friends” feature.

29

2 years ago

A platform for online education that is both personalized and tailored to the individual. This is a startup that wants to make learning more social, with courses that can be shared not just among students and their instructors, but also with Facebook friends and the world at large.

28

2 years ago

A company that wants to build a way for brands to encourage their customers to adopt environmentally friendly behaviors, like recycling

28

2 years ago

A startup that brings in-app messaging to smartphones, letting users send a message to friends across Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. Users can also send an in-app image or doodle.

28

2 years ago

A way to preserve and share photos of children, which is why the startup is building their own “baby photos” version of Instagram, which will allow users to select a single photo and share with their friends.

28

2 years ago

A startup that allows users to share their location with their family and friends. The app uses a phone’s GPS and a parent’s current location to let them know when they’re near their loved ones.

27

2 years ago

A social network for people who play video games, where they can play with friends and other players in a more social way.

27

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that lets you give friends and family a chance to pay rent and other bills

26

2 years ago

It’s a P2P lending platform, where you can arrange loan payments with your friends and people who know you the best.

26

2 years ago

A startup focused on building a “smart wallet” for people who don’t have traditional bank accounts. People who don’t have access to traditional banking services can store their money in the app, which also allows them to send money to family and friends.

26

2 years ago

An online platform that helps people find friends who live in other cities to get out of the house and meet new people.

26

2 years ago

Subscribing to cat videos is so 2015. Canary is building a service that lets you buy and sell your feline friends, to keep them safe.

26

2 years ago

A mobile app that lets users play games and shows off their achievements to friends, as well as a social network.

25

2 years ago

A company that allows users to make an electronic payment in seconds, without a credit card or bank account. Instead, the startup offers a way to pay friends and family with Bitcoin.

25

2 years ago

A phone application that helps you keep track of the movies and shows you’re watching, as well as letting you recommend new shows to friends.

25

2 years ago

This startup is on a mission to make the web more friendly for designers and developers alike. It wants to help developers and designers produce better websites, apps and games.

25

2 years ago

A social network for art history buffs and nerds. Its goal is to make it easier to share research and build profiles for oneself and one's friends.

25

2 years ago

A startup based in California, looking to create a platform that allows people to “automate the management of their network of friends”.

25

2 years ago

Four friends who grew up together in New Mexico wanted to help their mom and grandma downsize their homes. They created a website where people can buy homes to downsize them and take in the proceeds as rent. As of early 2019 the company was processing over $5 million in transactions, with plans for $20 million in revenue by 2020.

25

2 years ago

A startup that lets users record themselves on Periscope, then share the video with friends on Twitter and Facebook, or embed it on other sites.

25

2 years ago

A chat app that lets you and your friends easily organize and share life events. It focuses on simplifying life by helping you better manage your memories and events, and sharing them with your friends.

25

2 years ago

A tool that allows people to explore their social circles and see which of their friends like the same things that they do.

25

2 years ago

A startup that provides “live customer support” for customers using the product, connecting to their friends and family to help them solve problems when they’re at their worst.

24

2 years ago

A startup that helps consumers decide which products to buy based on how much their friends have bought in the past. The company is targeting the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, looking to create a tool that lets companies measure the sales impact of their social media and e-mail campaigns.

24

2 years ago

A user-friendly health care insurance and billing platform that eliminates the hard work of billing and insurance, so you can focus on doing what you love.

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

A micro-blogging app that helps users organize and manage their thoughts. The app is aimed at people with the mental health condition of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Users can write down their thoughts in a diary and share them with their friends, family, and followers.

22

2 years ago

A video chat app that has a “magnetic selling” feature built in. When you start a conversation on the app, you get a list of the other person’s friends, who you can reach out to to see if you can chat with them as well.

20

2 years ago

A platform for connecting your social graph to find your closest friends and family members.

19

2 years ago

The company is building a calendar to help people plan social events with family and friends.

19

2 years ago

A startup that is building an assistant for managing your social media clutter and turning your social media into a tool for connecting with your friends.

19

2 years ago

Notable was a student-run startup that built an app that helps you keep track of out-of-town friends and family while you’re on the go.

18

2 years ago

"The world’s first free, no-cost, no-commitment, user-friendly, no-nonsense, no-hassle platform for finding and hiring top talent, managers, executives and CEOs for your business."

17

2 years ago

A startup that lets you share photos and videos with specific people at certain times, and then get a notification when they like it. The team has built a relationship-based photo app, and now they’re building out a notification platform to help people keep in touch with friends.

17

2 years ago

A startup that’s building a mobile first, user-friendly platform to manage and protect your business’s intellectual property

17

2 years ago

A startup that collects emails from around the world, and makes them available to anyone with an email address. The startup says it can help people discover new friends, gain access to new skills, and connect with potential customers or partners.

16

2 years ago

A more sophisticated version of the basic messaging app, which uses AI to quickly filter through messages and prioritize chat between friends.

16

2 years ago

A startup that lets you create a simple “placebook” for your friends and family, letting you share photos, notes, and location data.

15

2 years ago

A private social network for people to connect with likeminded friends.

15

2 years ago

A social network for the younger generations that serves as a community hub, with tools for news, music, and video, a way to connect with family and friends, and a place to learn new skills.

15

2 years ago

The startup wants to facilitate the transfer of money between friends in a way that doesn’t involve banks. It aims to make using an app like Venmo easier and more secure, and makes use of global bank transfers to get money to people instantly.

15

2 years ago

A platform that lets you take your offline activities online and share them easily. Users can create custom online pages for their physical workouts, and then invite friends to join them on the app to track their progress.

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 micro-lending company that helps low-income entrepreneurs get loans from their family or friends.

13

2 years ago

This company wants to give users the ability to package videos and send them to their friends in the form of a GIF.

12

2 years ago

A startup that essentially allows you to build a group of friends or a small team to work together on certain tasks, then assign tasks to them.

11

2 years ago

A startup that helps people send money to friends and family in Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya, giving them a cut each time a transfer happens.

11

2 years ago

Ideation is a micro-task app for the iPhone that allows users to record ideas and tasks, complete them, and get instant feedback from the community. It is a way for users to “get feedback from friends and family, team members, and entirely new people,” according to the company.

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 startup that’s building software to help people store and share their photos with friends. The startup’s website says that the problem is that people struggle to find the best places to store digital photos, and that the startup wants to build a platform that makes it easy to share photos and get feedback on them.

11

5 years ago

Idea: Allows people to send money to family and friends in the Philippines via chat apps like Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, and Telegram The chat apps offer a great way to chat with people, but it’s a hassle to send money via another platform like PayPal or Venmo, so they’re using chat apps as the payment mechanism

9

2 years ago

A group text for parents that allows them to text their friends with a search function and a chat function. It’s a way to give parents a place to stay connected.

9

2 years ago

This startup is building a user-friendly library management tool for libraries that's easier to use than software like LibGuides.

9

5 years ago

A startup for people who are moving to a new city and need help finding new friends

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5 years ago

A startup that sells a tool for helping people find old classmates or friends

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5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire someone to make a video for you to show your family and friends when you are stuck in a foreign country

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5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can buy gift cards that are customized by the giver (IE I buy my friend a gift card for a cooking class or to a spa)

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that allows you to make a game with your friends with a few clicks

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps people go into business together Say you have a friend that's a lawyer and another that's an engineer A collaboration tool could help them communicate, share files and bill clients more smoothly The company is currently bootstrapped, and has a 10-person team

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that lets users create, share, and track video messages with friends/family

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5 years ago

Idea: A company with an app that allows people create their own visual shopping lists and share them with friends and family.

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that makes a lightweight, mobile-friendly way to trade options for retail investors, promising a user experience similar to Robinhood.

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5 years ago

Idea: A social media app that uses a multi-level, multi-person game mechanic to help people try to figure out who in their friend group are the most popular.

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5 years ago

A startup that has a service to help people decide which of their friends to ask to go to a party

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5 years ago

A startup that gives people the ability to store their personal photos and videos online and find friends who share similar interests

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A startup that makes it easier for people to borrow money from friends, family, and even strangers. The startup is currently only available in the UK, where it’s working with a handful of small businesses.

A startup to help disabled people find friends who are willing to help them out, and vice versa.

A way to help students study online with friends.

The app is meant to help people find their new friends and live their lives better.

A password management tool that can let users generate random passwords and send them to their friends as SMS messages.

A social networking app that helps you to find things to do with friends and family.

A platform that lets you send money to friends in the Philippines, India, or China, in real time.

This startup is building a platform to help people get money from friends and family. The company uses a paper check system that’s more commonly used in developing countries, and it plans to roll it out in the US, Canada, and Europe. They recently raised $1.5M in a seed round.

A way to easily share and find a place to eat with your friends.

A location-based messaging app that helps people connect with friends at various venues.

A company that’s a Slack alternative, designed to be more intuitive and user friendly.

A startup that sells a monthly service which provides a chef to cook dinner for you and your friends

A startup that enables users to determine the health of an anonymous friend. The startup currently has 70,000 registered users.

A startup that lets people buy tickets to events that they can attend from their phone, and their friends can recommend. Ticketfly is focused on events like concerts, sporting events and live theater.

A startup that helps people find one another based on their interests. It’s a way for people to find new friends and make new connections.

A startup that helps people find new friends by connecting them with people who are new to the area

A company that wants to help your friends find you when you’re not around.

Chatty is a free service to help people make more friends via group chat.

This startup wants to democratize access to medical research data for students and researchers. It’s a software platform that allows medical students and researchers to build their own datasets and access global research in a user-friendly way.

A startup that helps you to create a database of all your friends on WhatsApp so you can instantly message without them having to add you.

An eco-friendly conference for startups, focused on innovation, sustainability and technology.

A chatbot that can let people know when their friends are sexually active.

An AI-based platform that helps musicians build their own music videos. Users can also create a video of their favorite song and share it with friends and family.

A startup that wants to build an AI-powered chatbot that allows your Facebook friends to talk to your bot for all the things.

A product that helps people get paid on their phone for sharing their car’s location with friends.

A platform for engaging in adventure activities with your friends and family.

This startup is building a way to make API integrations more user-friendly.

A startup that wants to help people plan year-round events and activities with friends, family, and co-workers.

A way to book a ride-share with a friendly driver to your exact location.

A platform that enables people to rent out their homes to visitors. They’re building a platform that will let people rent out their homes to strangers or friends for short-term stays, and take care of the expenses for guests.

A user-friendly and secure digital passport store that brings biometrics to the forefront of travel documents.

A group of friends who are building a kind of alternative to LinkedIn, with more emphasis on connections and less emphasis on the algorithm.

App that lets you send a personalized video message to a friend, and has over a million users.

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.

A communication app that lets people exchange messages, photos and videos with a group of friends or family members.

“Eco-friendly” shipping containers that can be used to build shipping crates or other shipping products.

A company that makes a machine that prints food without food, and then makes it into a gluten-free, vegan, and keto-friendly product.

A startup that designs and sells products with a focus on materials that are more durable and environmentally friendly.

A startup that helps people find the right gift for friends and family members

A social network for elderly people to check in and view pictures of their friends and family. The startup has already helped its first customer, a family member, locate her father and communicate with him (via text) over the phone.

A way to allow people to easily share their gym photos with friends and family.

A startup that turns grocery shopping into an interactive game, where users can create and share grocery lists with friends.

A new brand of budget-friendly eyewear.

A platform for people to share, compare and book air travel with friend and family,

A startup that allows users to search through their Facebook friends’ photos to see if they’re using their real name.

This is an app for lending money to friends and family, with a focus on microloans.

A chatbot that connects you with friends, family, and colleagues when you’re in the hospital.

A social networking app that allows people to find community, find friends, and meet people close to their geographic location

A platform that helps users who are moving apartments share information with their friends and family, to make the process less stressful.

A social network for people who love to shop, where they can share their favorite things, and see the ones their friends have bought.

An iOS app that aims to help parents build their own kid-friendly games.

A company that makes it easier for people to share their favorite photos with their friends, family, and followers.

A startup that sells a service that lets you hire a photographer to take photos of you and your friends

A messaging app for groups of friends that functions like a Slack with a focus on getting a dinner invitation to a bunch of friends.

This is a startup that aims to help entrepreneurs raise money by turning to friends and family for loans.

This is a startup working to make it easier for people to connect and collaborate with their friends and family, in person and online.

A collaborative platform for creating and sharing workout videos that users can comment on and rate. The startup is currently working on user-friendly video editing tools.

A startup that encourages users to share their photos with friends and family to help them get the best possible shots for their photos. The startup uses AI to match up photos.

A software for consumers to share their credit with friends without going through a bank.

A new kind of pairing app that allows you to chat with potential partners and find out if they have mutual friends.

A startup that allows people to share their real-time location with their friends in a way that’s more private than sharing your location on Facebook.

A social media site for bloggers, with the goal of helping people find the most interesting content and share it with their friends.

A startup that acts as a middleman between your friends and their travel agent so they can pay and set up their travel arrangements online.

A “freemium” site for sending money to friends and family

A startup that wants to make hotels a little more like Facebook, where you can see what friends are staying at the same hotel.

An AI-powered bot that helps people find and stay in touch with their friends. The bot, which launched in beta in May, has over 100,000 users and is being tested with some of the biggest social media companies.

A platform that helps people share and talk about their interests, helping them find new friends and meet new people.

A “family-friendly” social network for college students.

A visual way to understand what your network of friends and contacts are doing, which the startup says will eventually include things like board games, sports, and other group activities.

This facial recognition startup is building an app that helps people keep track of their friends’ movements with a simple picture of their face.

Zuji is building a platform that lets users create and share virtual reality experiences with friends. It has raised $5 million in seed funding.

A tool for recording and archiving video content, and allowing users to share it with friends, via a built-in social network.

A way to pay your friends back for things they’ve done for you, like a small payment that can be sent as a text message.

A chat app that allows you to chat with a network of friends you’ve made while traveling.

A map that can help you meet up with friends who are stuck in traffic.

A tool to help people find out which of their friends are on the same flight as them.

A platform that helps small businesses find pet-friendly locations and protect against data breaches.