Grow Startup Ideas

2 years ago

A startup that’s developing a way to grow food in soil without pesticides or other chemicals.

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2 years ago

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

781

5 years ago

This startup is building a platform for American farmers to sell their goods to consumers worldwide. The startup aims to use a mix of digital store fronts and technology to deliver to consumers in countries like India and China, where the rural population has been growing.

456

3 years ago

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

427

2 years ago

An AI-powered service that aims to make it easier for small businesses to get the help they need to grow.

419

5 years ago

A software startup that wants to help farmers and growers more easily sell their products online, tracking inventory, managing orders, and ensuring quality control.

362

5 years ago

Grow is building a set of tools for restaurants, enabling them to manage their menus, design their menus, and automate their ordering and delivery processes.

353

5 years ago

A micro-funding platform for entrepreneurs, reducing the cost of startup capital for high growth startups by providing a mechanism for investors to match their own funds with the startups they care about. The goal is to save startups money on the front end while generating real returns on the back end.

311

2 years ago

A digital platform for professionals to grow their skills, with more than 1 million professionals using the platform.

290

4 years ago

A startup that works with real estate agents to help them become property managers. The company is growing quickly in the US, and aims to do the same in India.

282

4 years ago

A supply chain management platform for restaurants and other food-related businesses. Growth is strong and the founders say they’re trying to make a dent in the $8.5 trillion food and beverage industry.

252

4 years ago

A platform that helps the restaurant industry grow and scale.

245

5 years ago

A startup for the growing number of people who want to do freelance work, but don’t know how.

244

4 years ago

Indeed.com launched in 2003, but has since grown into a market leader. Indeed.com has also been acquired by The Walt Disney Company in December 2018.

244

5 years ago

According to a report by TechCrunch, the San Francisco based coworking space, WeWork, is looking to raise another round of investments at a valuation of $8 billion. WeWork has been growing rapidly, and has been a major success in the US. However, the multi-billion-dollar valuation has not been met by the pace of growth, and many question how sustainable it will be.

237

5 years ago

A small business loan, based on factors like location, team, and amount of traffic. It also offers business owner coaching to help them grow their business.

234

3 years ago

AirBnb is launching in India, but more importantly, the startup is looking to grow its presence in other parts of Asia and even the Middle East.

227

4 years ago

A company that wants to grow your network and make it easy to introduce people to each other.

226

4 years ago

allows companies to create online shopfronts for their products, eliminating the need for physical storefronts. It’s growing quickly, and recently closed a $3.8 million series A round.

225

4 years ago

A startup that will help you live like a millionaire by getting you to invest in startup owners as they grow.

222

4 years ago

This startup wants to build a new type of credit card for the underbanked, especially in developing countries. It takes the form of a prepaid card and is available in any currency. Given the lack of banking options in many such countries, the startup sees a lot of potential for growth.

222

4 years ago

A company that wants to build a system that predicts the future of cities as they grow and change.

221

4 years ago

Pexels is a stock photo platform that allows users to scan a barcode and add it to their library of photos. The startup has over 90 million photos in its database and is growing fast.

218

4 years ago

A company that provides hourly workers with technology and training to get their own small business off the ground. Come Up Now has grown from a handful of contracts to 200 employees in the past six months.

217

2 years ago

A startup that wants to create a system to manage and grow the relationship between bank and clients. The startup is currently building the first product for a client in the UK.

212

4 years ago

A company that wants to help you grow your business by giving you the tools to make smart decisions.

211

4 years ago

Self-storage startup that’s growing at 20% month-over-month.

209

4 years ago

An on-demand software development shop meant to help companies build, maintain, and grow their apps. The company has worked with companies like Uber, Warby Parker, and GoFundMe.

201

4 years ago

Growth hacking tool for app developers.

199

4 years ago

A tool that allows employees to set up a flexible work schedule. This is currently in an early stage of development and has no immediate plans for the growth of the business.

197

4 years ago

A seed-stage tech startup that’s building a business on automating the process for a person to start a business in Singapore. They’re working with a small number of clients and focusing on operations but have a business model that allows them to hire more people as the business grows.

194

3 years ago

Having grown from 10 employees to 160 in the last three years, the company is the fastest-growing startup in the city and Pittsburgh's largest private technology employer.

193

4 years ago

This startup is building an app that tracks the weather for farmers and helps them optimize their growing cycle.

191

5 years ago

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

190

4 years ago

A subscription-based, monthly newsletter that helps entrepreneurs quickly grow their business.

190

4 years ago

A startup where people can create and share their own videos to be used as a free marketing tool. The startup is working on a video series called Inside the Box, which follows a different startup every month as they grow.

190

5 years ago

A small, family-owned business that sells and installs windows and doors. The business doesn’t have a website, so they’re counting on this campaign to help them grow their business.

189

5 years ago

Big Data maps the world’s food. The startup analyzes agricultural data in real time to help farmers make more informed decisions about which crops to grow, where to plant them, and when to sell them.

187

4 years ago

The startup aims to build a social network for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs-to-be to help them find and connect with mentors and resources to help them start and grow.

185

4 years ago

A cloud-hosted platform that helps small companies and startups grow.

185

5 years ago

A company that helps retailers grow their online sales by selling them on Amazon.com. The startup has $2.5 million in funding.

181

5 years ago

A B2B company that helps businesses manage their email marketing. The company says they’re profitable and growing.

180

4 years ago

A platform for small businesses to receive IT and marketing services from a company that can scale and grow the business without increasing the business’s costs.

180

4 years ago

A startup that’s building a network of AI-driven bots that help people learn and grow professionally by giving them personalized and researched answers to their questions.

178

3 years ago

Green Tech helps small businesses grow by helping them access financing and other services.

176

5 years ago

Starting as a maker of carbonated drinks with the tagline “For those who don’t have air,” this startup is building a new kind of Citrus Cloud, which will use the sun as a source of carbon dioxide to allow plants to grow in areas without electricity.

175

5 years ago

The digital version of a pest control service. The startup’s team is small but they’re growing fast. They’ve raised $1.2 million and are looking to expand into the Northeast and Midwest.

175

3 years ago

In the last year, we’ve seen the creation of several new VC-backed startups, many of which we expect to grow into companies worth $50 million or more in the next year. (A few are already there.) Here’s a look at some of the most promising:

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4 years ago

China’s internet giants are increasingly dominating the global digital advertising market. A recent report from Digiday says: “Chinese social media and news platforms have commanded the lion’s share of ad revenue as global digital ad spend in the country has grown at a staggering compound annual growth rate of around 40% over the last five years.” How are these companies making money They’re using the vast audience of consumers on social media for traditional advertising.

173

5 years ago

A startup that helps women and men work together to grow their careers, by helping them find each others’ LinkedIn connections.

172

3 years ago

A “made-to-order” employee-owned company helps companies grow as a social network. The company helps employees share skills and expertise, and then serves as a go-between for companies and other co-workers.

172

4 years ago

This startup is developing a software platform to help local food producers and farmers grow and distribute their crops and foods.

171

3 years ago

A tool for schools that helps teachers plan and manage their school’s communication. The company says it’s already used by over 1,000 schools and is growing fast.

170

5 years ago

A startup that invests in podcasts and offers them hosting to help them grow.

169

4 years ago

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

169

4 years ago

Working with 13 corporate pilots and growing in Dallas.

169

3 years ago

A small business finance startup that helps businesses get the capital they need to grow.

169

4 years ago

A turnkey vertical farming system, where a large greenhouse can be built, which grows a variety of vegetables and fruits.

168

4 years ago

A startup for consumers to help support and grow the community of restaurants they frequent.

168

4 years ago

A platform that helps users manage and grow their online communities with easy tools, like a data dashboard.

167

4 years ago

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

167

3 years ago

A startup that provides comprehensive financial data services to the growing influencer economy.

167

5 years ago

A startup with a SaaS platform that helps retailers submit orders quickly and easily. The company is based in the UK but wants to grow internationally.

166

5 years ago

Simplifying the process of getting an investor on board. The company offers $2 million in funding to companies that have $20,000 in annual revenue plus have a proven track record of revenue growth.

165

5 years ago

As a company, HirePound has raised $1.4 million in capital. But as a company, it says it is on track to make $50 million in revenue in the next year. The company is a job board for the growing gig economy, connecting employers with micro-consultants and other contractors.

165

5 years ago

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

164

4 years ago

A startup that offers a platform for entrepreneurs to grow their online presence with social media, email, and live chats.

164

5 years ago

Plant-based protein startup that uses aquaponic systems to grow its products. The startup is looking to raise $750,000 to enter into a big box store like Walmart.

162

5 years ago

A software platform that helps small businesses, freelancers, and independent contractors obtain loans and invoice financing. They have a $50,000 seed round with a 4x growth rate since their launch in May 2019.

162

3 years ago

A company that matches brands with influencers. It says its goal is to help brands “create meaningful engagement and grow their influencer’s audience.”

162

5 years ago

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

161

5 years ago

“A platform for high-growth companies to grow their community,” which has a plan to bring in more than $100,000 in revenue in 2019 (as of July).

161

4 years ago

A platform that helps small businesses find financing to grow. The service is used by over 1,000 businesses in the US.

161

3 years ago

A startup that’s building software for the cannabis industry. The company’s software allows growers to track and manage their sales, look for patterns in their data, and get real-time insights into the market.

160

5 years ago

A platform that aims to help businesses with their growing digital presence in fashion and retail. They currently have 1,000 merchants and $2.5 million in revenue.

159

5 years ago

Hoping to use the same playbook as the coffee industry to grow their subscriptions to their platform, Hopin.

158

4 years ago

A startup that wants to help companies build out processes for their business that will help them grow their business.

158

3 years ago

A data and management platform for people to manage and grow their online business. The startup is building a data/management platform, called a “Customer Engagement Platform”. It hopes to supplement the analytics and customer management that businesses typically use with a more predictive and nuanced type of data.

158

3 years ago

A new startup venture with a focus on the growing trade of personal data. The startup wants to help consumers control their data and the tools companies can use with it.

158

5 years ago

An online platform to help people find and pay for parking in their area. It’s one of the first app-only parking companies in the space that’s grown to 1,500 employees after raising $200M from investors.

157

5 years ago

A platform for users to rate their favorite restaurants, and a business for restaurants to use to grow their customer base.

156

5 years ago

A self-funded, fast-growing accelerator for retail ventures and consumer brands.

156

5 years ago

Small but growing business that helps retailers and restaurants get paid faster

156

5 years ago

A tool for managing and growing your email list. If you ever wondered how to harvest your email list and use it to grow your business, Jato is an easy solution.

156

4 years ago

A platform for scheduling and managing taxi-cab service via smartphone. The startup is in the early stages of scaling, but the goal is to offer all of the things you could expect from a taxi cab service — like GPS tracking, real-time communication, and a dispatch system. The company is profitable and small but growing in the San Francisco Bay area.

156

5 years ago

Helping small businesses by providing a platform for them to grow and scale.

155

5 years ago

The company has raised a total of $16.5 million from Allen & Company, Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Charles River Ventures, DFJ Growth, Fidelity, SV Angel, and Y Combinator.

155

5 years ago

A software company that makes managing a large number of Twitter accounts easier. The startup has been able to grow its customer base at a rate of 50% per month, and has built a $2 million annual recurring revenue business.

155

5 years ago

A startup that gives a voice to a growing number of people who are sick of the medical system, especially in the US. It aims to help people connect with their health care providers in a more direct and human way.

154

3 years ago

A new take on Slack chat bots, which have been a big part of Slack’s growth. Instead of just repeating back what you type, it learns from you and adapts to your behavior.

154

5 years ago

A business platform for Indian SMBs to better manage their finances. Over the last 12 months, the number of SMBs on the platform has grown 50%, with an average monthly transaction size of $3,500.

153

5 years ago

An AI that helps power the “emotional intelligence” of retail stores, which are expected to grow in importance.

152

3 years ago

It helps companies grow their business by taking away the pain points in the process of creating and launching products.

152

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help online merchants and other businesses grow their audience through video. The company claims that it’s been able to acquire 1,000 new customers for its customers every month for the last four years.

152

5 years ago

A startup that provides software to help eCommerce store owners who are trying to grow their business

151

5 years ago

In the past year, the startup has grown to have over 500 media outlets and over 1,000 reporters and editors, covering everything from sports to politics, and local to international. They’re aiming to grow that to 10,000 members and double the number of journalists that cover the news.

151

5 years ago

A company that wants to use artificial intelligence to help people grow their Instagram presence.

151

5 years ago

A SaaS solution for HR teams that lets them manage a large number of employees quickly and easily. Encom is growing quickly, and recently raised $4.5 million on a $10 million valuation. It has over 2,000 customers from Fortune 500 companies such as Pepsi, Walgreens, and Verizon.

150

5 years ago

A web-based service that helps small businesses grow their sales by managing their social media, SEO, and marketing campaigns. The company currently has 1,000 clients and are now hiring in the Philadelphia area.

149

5 years ago

A monthly membership service that helps companies identify and recruit technical talent. The company boasts $1 million in recurring revenue and says it has already grown its team from 10 to 30 people.

149

4 years ago

A startup that provides a suite of mobile-first eCommerce tools to help drive business growth. They’re building a platform to help brands create a single, seamless customer experience across all sales channels including online, mobile, social, in-store and in-app.

149

3 years ago

Covers the entire cycle of innovation in an organization by starting with the idea, then prototyping, scaling, and then innovating again as the company grows.

149

5 years ago

A company that makes it cheaper to travel to Europe, the UK, and the US. It’s based in London and is looking to grow with the help of a $250,000 series A round.

148

5 years ago

A startup that wants to grow in the middle east and eventually offer a hub for those looking to find a doctor, dentist, or other healthcare professional in their area.

148

3 years ago

This is a platform that helps companies that want to start a business in a location they’re not in, find an employee in that place and work together remotely. They handle everything from recruiting to HR to employee pay, with the employee paid the same rate in their home country as the company is. The company is profitable, with $2M in recurring revenue and $1M in ARR and growing.

148

3 years ago

A way to help small businesses grow their presence on social media via a 'shopify for small businesses' platform.

148

3 years ago

A tool that helps farmers in Africa grow crops that are more productive and sustainable.

148

5 years ago

A community for young adults that wants to help them get into finance and grow their careers.

147

5 years ago

Sunlight is an app that allows media companies to schedule video to go out live on their website with a single click. Sunlight’s CEO says that the app has already helped his company grow by up to 30%.

147

5 years ago

A company that provides global data analysts with insights into consumer trends in real time. The startup is growing its team and expanding globally. It has raised $2 million to date from O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and CrunchFund. It will be based in San Francisco.

147

5 years ago

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

147

3 years ago

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

147

5 years ago

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

146

5 years ago

A company that helps small businesses in the US grow faster by delivering online marketing, sales, and customer support. They have raised a total of $2.8 million since launching in 2018.

146

5 years ago

Helping companies in China with a digital office. The company’s users have more than 10 million users and it says it’s growing fast.

146

4 years ago

This startup is producing the next generation of technologies that can detect and remove water in buildings to prevent mold, bacteria, and other harmful microbes from growing.

146

5 years ago

An email app that lets you set up alerts for specific topics, and lets you get email updates from a growing number of organizations including the White House.

145

5 years ago

A Web/Mobile-based platform for hiring, recruiting, and finding jobs. In the last year, the company says they’ve grown from $1.5 million in annual revenue to $4.5 million, and that they’ve seen 10x growth in the last 12 months. The company has more than 50 employees and is currently hiring.

144

5 years ago

A machine learning system that helps marketing teams to segment customers and grow revenue

144

5 years ago

Deliveroo is a food delivery service that allows restaurants to use their app to take orders for their customers, with the option to customize the meal or package it for individual delivery. It already has 2.4 million users within the UK and a service that is growing more than 100% year-over-year.

143

5 years ago

A web-based platform to make it easy for businesses to grow their social media presence, through tools like a social media management dashboard, a social media scheduling tool, and a social media optimization tool.

143

5 years ago

A platform for small businesses to manage marketing and sales, enabling them to make more profitable sales and grow their customer base.

143

5 years ago

A startup that makes crockpot meals. Crockpot enables users to pre-order a custom meal from a variety of restaurants and have it delivered. It’s currently in the test phase, and looking to raise a seed round to grow and launch.

143

3 years ago

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

143

3 years ago

Viable is a startup that develops software for restaurants, the company says it’s already working with over 500 businesses in the UK. The company is looking for a CFO to help them grow.

143

5 years ago

A platform that helps companies find new opportunities for growth in their markets, such as new markets, new products, or new customer segments.

142

5 years ago

The startup is looking to help small businesses grow by connecting them with customers, and bringing them together.

142

3 years ago

A customer service platform for small businesses. The company claims to have $15,000 in monthly recurring revenue, and has been growing at a rate of 50% month-over-month.

142

5 years ago

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

141

5 years ago

A platform to help small businesses grow by offering them a complete marketing suite in a single product.

141

5 years ago

A platform for small factories in Asia to manage and grow their supply chains.

141

5 years ago

A real-time communication platform for companies that want to grow.

141

5 years ago

A startup that helps small business owners manage and grow their business across the internet by allowing them to create a virtual storefront, and tap into the expertise of other entrepreneurs.

140

5 years ago

A home services marketplace that helps users coordinate with contractors and service providers to make repairs and renovations. The startup also offers a concierge service that lets users put the app on a desk, and it works with home services companies to help them grow.

140

5 years ago

A microfinancing platform that gives small businesses access to capital they need to grow.

139

3 years ago

The startup is building software to help organizations grow their social media presence, providing a more automated process for adding a Twitter handle, Facebook page, and Instagram account.

138

5 years ago

A “strategic network of growth-oriented businesses”.

137

5 years ago

A software company that helps companies grow their email list, using automation and artificial intelligence.

137

5 years ago

This is an online video training marketplace for startups looking to grow and hire. The company is hiring a head of sales and has a $30,000/month business already with a handful of startups using it.

137

5 years ago

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

137

5 years ago

A company that wants to help people generate revenue from their Instagram accounts, by selling their content to advertisers. It has a built-in sales system to help clients monetize their Instagram growth.

136

5 years ago

An agency that helps organizations “build agile teams, identify and craft the right growth strategy, and build the right retention and customer experience programs.”

136

5 years ago

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

136

3 years ago

A startup that partners with CFOs and investment firms to help them better manage their business and growth.

136

3 years ago

A data-driven consulting firm that focuses on organizational growth and management.

136

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help mom and pop stores grow their sales by giving them a way to make online payments in a country where card fraud is rampant.

136

5 years ago

A startup that helps real estate agents with "after-hours" showings The startup wants to grow into a managed marketplace that serves as a broker for all home services, from repairs to insurance

135

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that provides a small-scale, educational version of a Tesla Powerwall battery to budding solar panel users The company says that their product is the fastest-growing solar product in the United States, and has seen an 800% increase in the number of students using it

135

5 years ago

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

135

5 years ago

A mobile payment app for the Philippines. The startup, which launched its app last month, is targeting the country’s growing middle class.

134

5 years ago

One of the key differences between this year’s class and last year’s was the level of public interest in highlighting the work of the companies that were accepted. This year that level was very high, with over 10,000 people visiting the project page. That interest was a major factor in the growth of the class.

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5 years ago

Zapier wants to help small businesses automate physical tasks using web tools. It’s currently in private beta with a few thousand users, and the startup is seeking to raise funding to grow it.

134

5 years ago

The team behind the app GrowthBot is building out a toolset that helps companies examine where they’re losing money in their sales process. GrowthBot wants to help companies figure out where they’re losing money, and what they can do to optimize their sales processes to increase revenue.

134

3 years ago

A platform that helps channel partners grow their businesses by helping them bring in more customers.

134

5 years ago

This is an omnichannel platform to help retailers connect with their customers directly, in order to grow sales and better manage inventory.

133

5 years ago

A platform for healthcare startups to grow their partnerships, build scale, and get investors. It aims to help sales efforts by making salespeople more efficient and giving them access to sales data in real time, which can help them close deals.

133

5 years ago

A SaaS platform that helps a company “improve its brand by engaging with its customers and creating a more compelling experience for the consumer.” It helps brands create content, establish a presence and grow their customer base.

132

5 years ago

Causes that want to communicate with people on Facebook and other social media platforms can now do so through a Facebook-style private messaging platform that will allow users to send and receive messages through a growing list of apps and services. The company says the community is growing rapidly and has over 200,000 members.

132

5 years ago

A company that helps employees build their personal brand, which they say is a natural outgrowth of the social and professional networks they’re already in.

132

5 years ago

A next-generation restaurant delivery app that allows users to order food, track it and pay, all through a mobile app. What They Deliver is putting a new business model on the table to help restaurant owners grow their companies.

132

5 years ago

A startup looking to help entrepreneurs in Africa start and grow businesses based on their unique needs.

131

5 years ago

A platform that helps businesses optimize their supply chain by helping them to analyze data in real-time and identify opportunities for growth. They charge a standard rate of $150 per month per company.

130

5 years ago

Social networking for farmers. Farmline’s pitch is that as farmers grow and share more info about their crops, they’ll be able to reap more benefits from the same share.

130

5 years ago

An email marketing service built to help small businesses, startups and freelancers grow their email lists and boost their sales. It offers a free plan for businesses with up to five contacts.

130

5 years ago

Indiagames is a venture backed company that is building technology to help Indian game developers and publishers grow their market.

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5 years ago

A company that “helps businesses buy and build from a wider, more diverse set of technology services”. The startup has raised $6 million from investors and says it has already helped companies grow from “the size of a small company to a well-staffed, highly functional team”.

129

5 years ago

A platform that helps small businesses grow with the help of AI and machine learning. The startup is targeting the B2B market, and already has over 100 customers.

129

5 years ago

A platform that uses artificial intelligence to let companies hire professional services firms to complete work. The company combines P&L data with its own data to help companies hire the right professionals. It only launched in August and is looking to grow its client base.

128

5 years ago

A startup that wants to be the middleman between the growing number of small-scale contractors and the big-contractor industry

128

5 years ago

The startup is working with partners to bootstrap the growth of a small-scale 3D printing community by providing the equipment and resources to move from a maker-model printer to a high-quality commercial printer.

127

5 years ago

A startup that wants to be the “Yelp for small businesses”, helping them connect to customers and other local businesses in their area, and help them grow and engage with their customers. Currently has $100,000 in seed funding.

127

4 years ago

A productivity tool that helps you organize the ever-growing amount of content you create. The startup builds a “knowledge base” of all your content in an easy-to-use interface.

127

2 years ago

A restaurant management system for Indian restaurants that helps them grow

127

5 years ago

A single platform to help companies understand and engage with their customers, and act on that data. The startup is testing out a platform designed to serve the needs of small-to-medium-size companies, and then help them scale as they grow.

126

5 years ago

A new company that makes it easy for people to order from their favorite restaurants while they’re away, and have them delivered. It started in 2012 and announced a $1.3 million Series A in 2017. They’re growing fast.

126

5 years ago

A web-based sales platform for small business. The startup aims to help them "sell bigger than them" and offer a way for them to grow faster.

126

3 years ago

This credit card processor for small businesses is growing fast but has a small user base.

126

5 years ago

A startup that sells customer acquisition services for B2B companies. They’re focused on funding growth for their clients by providing free, one-time services such as marketing and customer support.

125

5 years ago

A company selling data visualization and analytics tools for account/growth teams.

125

5 years ago

A platform that lets you grow your own marijuana, and then consume it at your leisure.

125

5 years ago

A company that provides automated software for product development teams to manage their internal development processes, including functionality for code reviews, bug tracking, and test automation. The company is growing and had $1.5 million in monthly recurring revenue in 2019.

124

5 years ago

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

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5 years ago

A chatbot to help businesses grow their international footprint. The chatbot will serve as a way for businesses to quickly and easily find markets in other countries and sell there.

124

5 years ago

"Growth Hack" is the second-most cited book on Amazon.com, after The Lean Startup by Eric Ries.

124

5 years ago

The term was coined in 2006 by Fred Wilson, who wrote "Startup - A Silicon Valley Adventure" in which he stresses the importance of a culture of growth.

123

3 years ago

This company is trying to build a new way of converting data into money, by partnering with local farmers to provide them with the information they need to grow their business.

123

5 years ago

A startup that intends to use the momentum of the cryptocurrency community to grow and expand its platform for other crypto-related companies. It’s a tool for users to buy and sell digital assets.

122

5 years ago

A social media app that claims to help people “organically grow their social networks”.

122

3 years ago

A social network for poets. It’s a “social network for poets, where poets can share their work, interact, collaborate, and grow.”

122

3 years ago

A startup that provides marketing data and customer analytics to help companies grow.

121

5 years ago

Idea: A company that helps parents keep track of their kids’ activities at school The company wants to use data science to help parents see what’s going on inside classrooms and, as it grows, is looking to expand into other verticals, including medicine

120

5 years ago

A startup that gives away stock instead of cash to startups when they want to accelerate their growth.

120

5 years ago

An iOS app for restaurants to help them grow

119

3 years ago

An online platform for small businesses to grow their businesses. It’s meant to be more of a business management platform for those who already sell their own products, rather than a marketplace like Etsy.

119

5 years ago

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

118

5 years ago

A software company that helps IoT devices connect to the internet. The company initially grew out of a maker of the exact same products with a smaller market, and it wants to grow into the larger IoT market.

118

5 years ago

It turns any mobile phone into a live ID, and promises a “one-tap verification” that will be accepted by a growing number of retailers.

118

3 years ago

A company that wants to help fund the growth of companies with a $1,000 monthly subscription fee.

118

4 years ago

This startup wants to improve the way farmers in India grow food by using drones and artificial intelligence to identify and treat diseases.

117

5 years ago

A company that helps bring back the romance of gardening and growing plants in the age of technology.

116

5 years ago

A company that helps you evaluate the best investments to take advantage of growing trends — and withdraw money if you want.

116

5 years ago

A startup that helps grow Instagram influencers by giving them access to a community of other social media influencers and brands.

116

5 years ago

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

115

5 years ago

A networking app that uses the gamification of “leveling up” to get users to make new connections and grow their network.

115

5 years ago

A messaging app for small businesses that allows them to grow their businesses with curated content from across the web.

115

4 years ago

A startup that wants to create a platform for managing the growing number of products that are connected to the internet, and which want to be part of the Internet of Things.

115

5 years ago

A startup that wants to help companies and businesses grow by working with them to eliminate waste and reduce costs.

114

5 years ago

The company behind the $500,000 World Cup prize pool, FanDuel is building a baseball-based fantasy game. FanDuel has a head start in the US and UK, but will need to grow in other countries to have an impact.

114

5 years ago

An online marketplace for trading used books, based on users volunteering their books as collateral. The company is based in the UK but has been growing in the US.

114

5 years ago

A digital marketing agency for mobile app developers, focused on helping them to grow their businesses. The startup is a spin-off from a digital marketing agency, and has raised $1.1M in seed funding so far.

114

5 years ago

A platform for wine and spirits startups to grow and sell their products to the market.

114

3 years ago

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

114

5 years ago

A startup that lets you issue your own token that can be used to grow a business or pay for a service. It’s based on the ERC20 token standard.

113

5 years ago

A startup that connects merchants with vendors to help grow their businesses. Merchants can request products and orders and have them delivered within a few days. They have also opened up an API for other companies to integrate into their product.

113

4 years ago

This startup is looking to help creative agencies manage the growing number of creative teams, with a service that helps clients manage their work flow, manage their expenses, and manage their teams, all in one place.

113

4 years ago

An online lending platform that provides loans to local businesses. The startup says they have “tripled their revenue as we scale to help more businesses grow.”

113

5 years ago

A platform that allows small business owners to create and market coupons to their customers. The platform is growing in popularity for in-person coupon-based events.

112

3 years ago

A tool for “product managers and designers to make design decisions, collaborate and grow their ideas”. It’s meant to combine user feedback with a team’s existing knowledge to make the most informed design choices.

112

5 years ago

An investment platform to help startups from the seed stage through growth. The company wants to help startups raise funds and make pitch decks quickly and easily.

111

3 years ago

A startup for small businesses that want to grow their business by taking on extra projects. Instead of doing all the work themselves, you can put the work out to small contractors.

111

4 years ago

A start-up that maps the world’s food systems, trying to create a “living resource” map of where food grows.

110

5 years ago

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

109

5 years ago

Businesses in the Netherlands can create a marketplace for people to sell their home-grown products and services. The startup has already helped 30 small businesses rent out their homes.

109

5 years ago

A tool to help nonprofits do their fundraising. By taking in donations and giving them out to their clients in a direct, transparent manner, the startup wants to help nonprofits grow their donor bases and improve their bottom line.

109

5 years ago

A startup that builds a homegrown alternative to the likes of Instagram, PicsArt, and Snapchat

109

5 years ago

Startup Grind is a global community that aims to connect entrepreneurs and their startups with like-minded people, resources, and events in order to accelerate their growth. Startup Grind Philly is one of the first chapters based in the United States.

109

5 years ago

A “next generation” ecommerce platform for startups and small businesses, that uses AI to help them grow their businesses.

108

5 years ago

An analytics tool for sports teams that helps them understand where fans are coming from and how their fanbase is growing over time.

108

5 years ago

A maker of waterproof backpacks for the outdoors, a market that’s worth $1.2 billion and growing.

108

5 years ago

A tool that helps consumers create a budget and track their spending. The startup has raised $12 million for its technology thus far, and is looking to pivot into a basic financial management tool as it grows.

108

3 years ago

A digital marketplace for anyone to buy and sell stuff. The platform connects sellers with buyers and owners with renters, providing on-demand services. The startup is looking to grow into a software as a service offering.

108

5 years ago

A monthly subscription service that helps users connect with potential customers and grow their businesses.

107

5 years ago

Launch is a period of intense growth and expansion, and the companies listed above are just a drop in the bucket. As the startup ecosystem continues to grow, a lot more startups will have good ideas. Here are the top startups that have launched in 2019, according to TechCrunch.

107

3 years ago

A company that helps create new tools for learning and education. The startup has grown from a conference talk to a full-fledged startup.

107

5 years ago

This company is building a platform that helps people manage and grow their wealth for retirement. It’s a robo-advisor that works with both individual investors and large investment funds.

105

3 years ago

A SaaS startup that helps businesses grow through better marketing. The startup has 50,000 active users already and is profitable.

105

5 years ago

A company that helps other companies make more money by helping them grow their email lists.

103

5 years ago

A “crowdsourced business intelligence platform”. The startup wants to help businesses predict and manage their growth. It launched in May with 1000 customers.

103

5 years ago

A data visualization tool for account managers and growth teams. The startup wants to help salespeople visualize their accounts and see where their best prospects are.

103

5 years ago

A startup where you can buy and sell your homegrown vegetables, herbs, and fruit.

103

4 years ago

A computer science degree designed for people in the large, growing Indian market for “robotics, artificial intelligence, and computer vision”, with a built-in partnership with the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

103

5 years ago

A startup and time tracker for freelancers. It’s also a social network for the growing number of freelancers.

102

5 years ago

A startup that wants to provide insurance for freelance content creators, giving them a way to secure their gigs against things like blackouts and injury. The company is looking to grow into more than just content creators, proposing to add insurance to other types of industries.

102

3 years ago

A platform that helps employers with payroll and HR. They’re profitable and growing in the Raleigh, NC area.

102

5 years ago

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

101

5 years ago

A startup that provides data and analytics on the impact of customer data on retail growth

101

2 years ago

A platform for growing organic food that uses data to predict seasonal produce demand.

101

5 years ago

A social network for the small, independent coffee shops that serve as anchors for a neighborhood. The startup wants to help coffee shops grow with a social network and start-up accelerator.

100

4 years ago

A startup that helps bring startup culture to India. They want to help India’s startups grow by providing a hub for community and events. They’re planning to have a physical location in India.

100

4 years ago

A company that builds smart, modular hydroponic grow systems

100

3 years ago

A growing startup in India that’s working to build a version of Google Docs for businesses, focusing on text documents and contracts.

100

5 years ago

A data platform for companies looking to grow more efficiently.

99

3 years ago

A company that’s building a workplace-focused social network. They’re looking for new opportunities to grow.

99

5 years ago

A startup that wants to build a platform to help small businesses, with a clear focus on helping small business owners build their brands and grow their businesses.

98

5 years ago

A tool for freelancers to track how much work they’ve done, pay invoices and manage their projects. The startup is working with YC alumni to grow the team.

98

5 years ago

A company that wants to help consumers build and grow their own personal brands by selling them on merchandise and experiences, similar to what Amazon does with Amazon Prime.

98

5 years ago

It’s a company that hires independent researchers to evaluate the credibility of news stories. The startup says it has a staff of more than 30 researchers in the US and Europe and claims to be the fastest growing news-biased fact-checking startup in the US.

97

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a technology platform to help smaller businesses grow by providing them with marketing tools and data analyses.

97

3 years ago

A startup that helps your business grow by helping it gain visibility through well-branded, easy-to-share content. It aims to make content marketing for small businesses much easier by hosting their content on its platform and making it easy for people to find.

97

5 years ago

OpenTable was ranked the #1 startup in the category of “Food and Beverage” in the Inc. 5000 ranking of the fastest growing private companies in the US in 2018.

95

3 years ago

A startup that helps landlords list their buildings for short-term rentals. The company says the B2B market for short-term rentals is “growing exponentially”.

95

4 years ago

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

94

4 years ago

"FastCo" lists the top startups in the world every year. The list is based on revenue, but also factors in the startup's presence on other "fast-growing" lists, including those published by "Forbes", "Inc." and "Forbes Europe".

94

4 years ago

A company that wants to invest in emerging companies, picking up equity when they are small and helping them grow.

94

4 years ago

This startup wants to help companies manage a growing number of integrations. It’s an API marketplace that allows companies to connect to other apps without building their own.

94

3 years ago

A video platform for growth coaches, who can create training videos for their clients, and then sell the videos to an online marketplace.

93

4 years ago

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

92

4 years ago

A startup that uses AI to help retailers understand how their customer demographics are changing. The company says it can help retailers identify who their new customers are, and how they’re growing.

92

4 years ago

A web-based service for buying and selling designer clothes and accessories on the web. The company’s CEO says the site has grown to 2.5 million monthly users and $20 million in annual revenue.

92

4 years ago

A company that wants to provide tools and services aimed at helping retailers and their clients scale and grow.

92

3 years ago

A company that helps small businesses gain access to different sorts of loans and financing. The company says it’s currently locked in a legal dispute with one of its investors, but is still growing.

92

5 years ago

Expense sharing for travel is a growing trend, but Expense Buddy aims to do it better than others by creating a “predictive expense engine” that creates a bill for your trip before you leave, and serves it to you via email or SMS.

91

5 years ago

A startup that allows you to grow a whole portfolio of assets with one purchase, such as a website, business card, email, etc. The startup allows users to mix and match different products to create a single portfolio, while driving down the cost of all of them.

91

4 years ago

"Mashape’s mission is to help small businesses grow and scale. Mashape has developed a suite of tools that allow small businesses to manage their businesses from a central platform. This can be anything from scheduling a meeting to processing invoices. Using Mashape, small businesses can focus on running their business and not their IT. Mashape’s platform is designed to be easy to use and free for small businesses."

91

4 years ago

A multi-service platform that helps retailers grow sales and loyalty through loyalty card programs.

91

3 years ago

A startup tackling the problem of “fake news” and misinformation, which it says is a growing problem that is costing the industry billions of dollars. It’s a “quality control service” that allows news publishers to verify sources, and is currently being tested in the UK.

91

3 years ago

Marketing software for the beauty industry that helps by making the customer experience easier for both customers and beauty brands. The beauty industry is growing at a 40% rate, but is plagued by archaic processes. For example, the industry is split into about a dozen different channels, each with its own customer service department and customer support teams.

91

4 years ago

To help the fresh produce industry, which is worth $100 billion in the US, Farmako hopes to build a “smart warehouse” that uses artificial intelligence to track when and where fruit and vegetables are grown, to help ensure they’re grown locally.

90

4 years ago

A SaaS for managing and tracking the performance of a dealership’s fleet. The startup has grown to 3,000 dealerships, including Hertz, Enterprise, and other major companies.

90

4 years ago

In the last decade, the number of startups has continued to grow, making the San Jose area "the best place to start a business in the world."

90

5 years ago

A $1 million prize for startups creating tools for early stage companies to manage their growth

89

4 years ago

The startup is building a “social tool” that helps millennials find and connect with one another to “help them grow their social capital”. The social platform has already built a $1.2 million round of funding and has raised another $3 million in a seed round.

89

4 years ago

E-commerce site for America’s small towns, offering everything from electronics to home goods. The company is looking for more partners to grow the business.

89

4 years ago

A platform that helps small businesses grow by offering training and advice from experts, an event calendar, and a marketplace of services from other small businesses.

89

4 years ago

A SaaS startup based in San Francisco, California. The company has been growing rapidly, claiming to have “signed up more than 20,000 people in just the past month”. Its app lets users schedule and pay for deliveries, including food and household items, with a delivery fee.

89

4 years ago

A way to help companies grow their email lists, helping them get more money and engagement.

88

4 years ago

This startup is building an API for API companies to build API integrations into their API. API integrations are a key part of growing an API-powered business by letting users access the API without actually running the API themselves.

88

4 years ago

An automated social media management tool, which helps companies grow by helping employees find and hire people better.

88

4 years ago

A platform to help people get more out of their money by calculating the cost of their life and retirement. The startup currently has 38,000 users and is growing by 1,000 a month.

88

4 years ago

A product that helps you track where your food comes from, how it was grown, who grew it, etc.

88

3 years ago

A company providing a solution for the distribution of food in areas where the population is growing and food is scarce.

88

3 years ago

The company is looking for a new CEO to help it grow beyond its current 2,000-customer base. The CEO had a bumpy time at the helm and the company hasn’t grown much since he arrived.

88

5 years ago

A platform that connects borrowers with financial services and technology to transform the way they borrow and pay. They have a $2.5M seed round and are close to a round of growth.

87

4 years ago

A startup that’s building a platform where employers can post jobs and candidates can apply for them, and also manage their profiles and cover letters. It’s currently in its beta version and growing in the SF Bay Area.

87

4 years ago

Blogging software that helps coaches and other industry pros manage their blogs, tracking social media growth and other metrics.

87

4 years ago

The startup provides small businesses with the tools to grow organically by providing tips and support to small businesses from its customers.

87

3 years ago

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

87

3 years ago

A platform for small and medium-sized businesses that helps them close more sales and grow more revenue.

87

4 years ago

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

86

4 years ago

A company that provides a mobile app that helps farmers manage the business of growing and selling produce. The app is free and uses a system of “contracts” to help farmers manage their crops.

86

3 years ago

A company that helps companies develop the “next generation of customer experiences”, through an analytics suite that “gives you actionable key insights to help you drive and grow your business”.

86

3 years ago

This is a chatbot that helps people ask legal questions. The startup said it has already seen results for their customers, with a client’s investment account growing by $4,000 in a month.

86

4 years ago

Pivot is a social network for women entrepreneurs. It started in 2016 as a blog that features women in the Philadelphia area, but has since grown to include a community of over 600,000 women.

85

3 years ago

This startup is building a platform for the SME (small and medium businesses) market in India, aiming to help them grow through a messaging platform.

85

4 years ago

(New Zealand) The startup helps B2B companies expand and grow their customer base. They recently won a R10M contract from the New Zealand Government.

84

4 years ago

A tool that helps companies grow their sales and brand through social media.

84

4 years ago

A rideshare service focused on millennials and their desire to grow and be independent.

83

4 years ago

A new way of making yogurt. Instead of a starter culture, they grow the yogurt with probiotics.

83

2 years ago

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

83

4 years ago

A startup that helps users create a “mini-startup” and manage it from one place. The company wants to help people build and grow startups with minimal effort.

82

4 years ago

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

82

4 years ago

A “bottom of the funnel” growth platform for B2B companies. Based in Vancouver, the platform helps businesses identify leads and convert them into paying customers.

82

4 years ago

A platform that aims to help dating sites like Match.com grow their user base.

82

4 years ago

A platform for hiring people to complete tasks based on a digital contract. The startup wants to grow the market for contract workers by allowing companies to take a digital contract and have a contractor complete a task.

82

4 years ago

A platform that connects startups with local investors, who provide funds and advice as the startup grows.

82

4 years ago

A team of engineers and a design team at a startup in China who want to grow their business into a larger team and a larger product.

82

3 years ago

A startup for small businesses in India that helps them grow by connecting them with suppliers and growing awareness of their business

82

3 years ago

A company that builds lab-grown diamonds. The company says it’s already working with top jewelry designers.

82

2 years ago

A platform that helps foreign fast-growth companies in Southeast Asia find new funding.

82

4 years ago

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

81

4 years ago

A platform for developing video games and other digital content. They're hiring a CEO to grow the company and have plans to expand from the Bay to LA, New York and beyond.

81

4 years ago

A tool that helps customers and retailers connect and grow their business.

81

3 years ago

A platform that connects small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the digital marketing and adtech space to help them connect, learn, filter, and grow.

81

3 years ago

Like the Lending Club for car loans, AutoGrow’s business is to lend money to people who can’t get loans from banks or credit unions. It’s currently lending $1 million a month to people in the US.

81

4 years ago

A software platform that allows businesses to build apps for employees to track their time and get paid for it automatically. They have 12 customers and are still growing.

80

4 years ago

A startup that’s building a home-grown cryptocurrency which they hope will be more widely adopted than Bitcoin.

80

4 years ago

The company wants to help marketers predict which city will see the most growth in mobile app usage. They’ve built a machine-learning algorithm that generates possible markets based on a number of factors, including population density and the amount of money spent on mobile devices.

80

2 years ago

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

80

4 years ago

A San Francisco-based startup that’s building a next-generation financial services platform for the growing population of financially underserved people.

79

4 years ago

A marketing automation platform for B2B SaaS companies, touting a 1,500% growth rate in the past year.

79

4 years ago

A startup that has built an AI-powered platform to manage the growth of your startup’s social media engagement, allowing the company to monitor customer sentiment, measure engagement, and optimize their content.

79

3 years ago

A way to use Facebook Messenger to send photos to a family member’s phone. Personalized photo sharing is a growing trend, but there are few services that can do it without an integration with a social network.

79

3 years ago

In 2011, TechCrunch announced the first Startup Battlefield in San Francisco, and the event has grown to become a major tech event for entrepreneurs and investors. This year, TechCrunch is launching two Startup Battlefield events in the San Francisco Bay Area and one in Los Angeles.

79

2 years ago

A software company whose goal is to provide a way to manage the growth and maintenance of your business website.

79

4 years ago

A startup that helps users register for local events, including concerts, art shows, meetups, and sports games. The startup is growing quickly, with over 30,000 events registered in the past year.

78

4 years ago

A startup that helps stores integrate digital marketing efforts, with an eye on optimizing marketing spend so they can grow their businesses.

78

4 years ago

Ransomware is a growing problem for businesses today. ReProtect is a kind of ransomware that helps companies fight back by creating a fake version of their own software. It looks to the user like a legitimate version of the app, and will only encrypt the data on the company’s servers if the user pays a fee.

78

3 years ago

A startup that helps companies in the world’s fastest growing markets manage, store, and share documents.

78

3 years ago

A platform for sellers and brands to grow on the Shopify platform by providing an alternative to the storefront that many sellers already use there.

78

3 years ago

The idea is to create a marketplace to get small companies to share office space and enable them to grow

78

4 years ago

A startup that uses AI to promote its customers on social media. The startup is also working on a social media marketing platform that allows companies to attract more customers and grow their social media following.

77

4 years ago

A startup that wants to connect the world of freelance services with the growing number of companies that need to build, manage and pay freelance workers on the fly.

77

4 years ago

A platform that helps grow online communities by generating content and promoting engagement

77

4 years ago

This company is building a new way for people to get access to fresh, locally grown produce. The startup wants to make it easier for consumers to connect to local farmers and get them to market their products.

77

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make money by helping companies to track their employees’ social media posts for each other so they can work more effectively. The company is currently in beta and is looking for partners to help it grow.

77

3 years ago

A decentralized exchange for cryptocurrencies. The company wants to become an “Ethereum with a lot of growth”.

77

3 years ago

A company that wants to be the go-to agency for companies that want to grow their brand on social media.

77

3 years ago

A platform that helps small and medium-sized businesses manage and automate their data. The platform automates the tedious work of data analysis, reporting, and strategic planning. A growing number of business software vendors are using technology from this startup to assist their sales teams.

77

3 years ago

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

77

4 years ago

A hardware company that makes it easier for people to possess and grow their own cannabis. They’re supplying this solution to dispensaries in Colorado, where Gov. John Hickenlooper has shown support for legal weed in the past. The company is already in business in Canada, and is looking at expansions into other states.

76

4 years ago

A new solution to help companies manage the sprawling growth of data centers

76

4 years ago

Machine learning and artificial intelligence startups are growing at a rapid pace, and this one is focused on helping software companies get the most out of their data.

76

3 years ago

A startup that aims to help farmers grow more food using data analytics.

76

3 years ago

A fast-growing startup that’s taken apart a $50 billion company and is building a new one.

76

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help retailers target the right customers in the right place at the right time. The company says they have grown to over 40,000 customers, with plans to expand to other markets.

76

2 years ago

A company specializing in payment for the $1 billion Indian marketplace, starting with mobile payments and following up with physical cash and digital wallets. They’re looking to help merchants get access to the country’s massive and growing middle class.

76

4 years ago

The startup is creating a simple way for people to grow their own food in urban areas

75

4 years ago

A startup that helps people find the best prices on flights from different airports, based on the distance between airports. It’s just one of many startups in this growing field.

75

3 years ago

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

75

3 years ago

A little startup growing from a seed grant from Google.

75

3 years ago

A platform that allows users to create and share digital storybooks that both kids and grownups can explore and enjoy. The creators say that their tool will allow people to create books that are just as rich as the ones they would read in a physical book, and that their knowledge of digital and mobile storytelling will allow the team to make the books as interactive as possible.

75

4 years ago

A company focused on helping clients with growing their presence in Asia. Its app helps people navigate Asia’s credit card market, which is significantly different from the US market.

74

4 years ago

A company that wants to make the growing trend of shopping with your phone more seamless and enjoyable.

74

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help users build and grow a personal brand. The idea is to let users manage their own personal image, build their social capital, and participate in the global economy.

74

3 years ago

A cycle sharing startup aimed at growing urban cycling in cities.

74

3 years ago

A marijuana startup in the US that wants to use AI and big data to help cultivators and sellers grow less and better.

74

3 years ago

A small software company that’s built a small accounting app for restaurant workers. The startup says it’s growing at a rate of around 500% a month.

74

3 years ago

A fast-growing global microfinance platform that helps entrepreneurs and small businesses access credit and loans.

74

4 years ago

A startup which helps small businesses get funding to grow. The company gives small businesses a way to run their own crowd funding campaigns and get funding for their business.

73

4 years ago

A network that helps people build wealth by giving them an app they can use to invest their savings with the best options. The startup is aiming to grow and compete against Wealthfront and Betterment.

73

4 years ago

This is a platform that helps employees stay compliant with health insurance laws, which often cost employees money. The startup says it has employees in 22 states and that it is growing.

73

3 years ago

A company that is building a toolset to help retailers accelerate their e-commerce growth. Merchants can take advantage of the platform to engage with customers, send them personalized offers and build stronger relationships.

73

3 years ago

A fashion app that connects people who have outgrown their clothes and need to trade them for new ones.

73

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help small businesses grow by providing them with marketing resources, like a library of content, a database of business names, and an email database.

73

3 years ago

A program that would connect classrooms to the Internet and provide resources such as curriculums, tests, and other learning materials. The startup is looking to grow a large number of schools that connect classrooms and offer educational services.

73

2 years ago

A moving company that wants to integrate with independent movers and send them all the status and pricing information via the app. The startup is running on the growth engine of its web product.

73

4 years ago

An AI that helps companies discover and understand meaning in text and voice. The product is used by companies like Duolingo, and the startup says it’s profitable and growing.

72

4 years ago

A financial technology company that helps comprehensive research in the world of growth investing.

72

4 years ago

A computer vision startup that wants to help computer vision researchers get access to more data by making it cheaper and easier for them to process images. The startup currently has a small team of 7, but they’re looking to grow that to 15 by the end of the year.

72

4 years ago

This SaaS business allows users to grow their own tomatoes in a hydroponic system.

72

4 years ago

The Yield Lab is a business accelerator focused on agriculture and food. The startup provides capital, office space, and mentorship to help early stage companies launch and grow.

72

3 years ago

A way to save money on growing herbs and vegetables. Users take a photo of a plant, and the app can determine the optimal conditions for growing it.

72

3 years ago

A digital, fast-growing portfolio of tools that enable a more streamlined life for people who have health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.

72

3 years ago

Many startups on the list came from India, a country that has been a "fintech powerhouse" in recent years. The country has a large population of engineers and a growing consumer base, and the availability of capital and technology has led to a boom in the number of startups in the country.

72

2 years ago

A startup that connects employers with people who want to work from home. The company says it’s already had more than $1 million in revenue, and is growing quickly.

72

4 years ago

Zulberry is a mobile payments and commerce platform aimed at growing business in emerging markets. The company wants to become a more effective digital alternative to cash.

71

4 years ago

A social enterprise that sells a monthly subscription to its members, who can use the service to get a cup of tea in their home or a drink in a restaurant. The company hopes to provide a service to the growing number of people who do not have access to this basic human necessity.

71

4 years ago

An online platform that connects small businesses to digital advice and support from experts to help them grow and thrive.

71

4 years ago

Workplace software that aims to make teams and companies more productive. The company, which launched in May, says it’s already working with over 1,000 companies and has grown its team from 14 to 30 in just four months of launch.

71

4 years ago

A platform for organizing and tracking group rides. The company is also working on its own app, but it’s working on turning volunteers into drivers to spur growth.

71

4 years ago

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

71

4 years ago

A “private social network” with a “pay-what-you-can membership” that’s meant to be a more private and fiscally sustainable alternative to social media sites like Facebook. The company is growing quickly and currently has 30,000 members.

71

3 years ago

Periscope is a video hosting platform, popular with people who want to broadcast a live video stream from an iOS device. They launched in July and have been growing quickly, hosting over 20 million videos to date.

71

3 years ago

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

71

4 years ago

A solution for the challenges of growing a business in a remote location

70

4 years ago

This healthcare startup wants to help employees avoid the cycle of health insurance premiums and high deductibles. They send a monthly debit card to employees, and can be customized to cover a certain amount of money per month for a certain service, ranging from life insurance to primary care to dental. They’re profitable and growing in the San Francisco Bay Area.

70

4 years ago

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

70

4 years ago

This company is building a tool to navigate the growing field of insurance compliance, making compliance easier for insurance agents and their clients.

70

3 years ago

Helping small businesses manage their social media. The startup is working with over 200,000 small businesses and growing as they integrate their service into their existing operations.

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

India is the world’s fastest growing market in the food delivery business, and this startup is building an app that wants to take advantage of that. It’s looking to create an on-demand market for delivery drivers, who can earn $20 to $30 an hour.

70

2 years ago

A startup that provides employees with a way to manage their time so they can get paid for their time using the company’s payroll system. Currently profitable, growing slowly but steadily in Philadelphia.

70

5 years ago

Idea: A remote work and freelancing platform for knowledge workers. The company says it’s growing at a rate of more than 3,000 new teams joining monthly, with over 5,000 new companies joining quarterly.

69

4 years ago

A tool for brands to grow their mobile email list without having to pay for Facebook.

69

4 years ago

This is a software platform for housing associations, which give communities disabilities and demographic data. In the past year, the company has grown to serve over 3,200 housing associations.

69

4 years ago

A startup that helps businesses inside and outside of the US grow and retain customers for more than 5 years.

69

3 years ago

A startup that helps people grow their savings faster by personalizing their savings plans with their unique spending habits.

69

3 years ago

A company that helps conferences and events grow by providing an online booking system for its attendees.

69

3 years ago

SeedLabs is a SaaS for seed stage companies, which the site says are “fast growing, high-potential companies that are too early to be listed on the stock market”. The site is meant to make it easier to find and connect with the best seed stage companies.

69

3 years ago

A platform for supporting and growing the micro-enterprise sector in the developing world.

69

2 years ago

A scheme to bring enterprise-grade monitoring tools to small businesses in India. It’s a way for businesses to better track their performance, get better forecasting, and manage their growth.

69

4 years ago

A program to help small startups with capital raise and growth

68

4 years ago

A marketing platform for small businesses looking to grow, pitch, and manage their marketing strategy. It’s a place where they can manage their marketing campaigns, track their goals, and see their progress in a dashboard.

68

4 years ago

A new solution to mobile payments that’s focused on the growing nature of B2C payments. The startup recently closed a $1 million seed investment round.

68

4 years ago

A platform for retailers to advertise their products to consumers. The startup is currently only in beta, but has grown to 35,000 users in the last 12 days.

68

4 years ago

A company that helps film festivals grow and they’re currently in beta with one major festival and one smaller one.

68

3 years ago

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

68

3 years ago

A community forum for sharing and organizing advice around making and growing a business, aimed at helping budding entrepreneurs and SMEs.

68

2 years ago

A startup aiming to build an “Amazon of home improvement”. The company, which is based in Texas, has grown to 1400 employees, and is looking to expand and expand into the US and Asia.

68

4 years ago

A product that helps grow the number of people who vote in US elections.

67

4 years ago

A startup that helps people with vision loss connect with the growing technology community that helps them. It’s working with the Pentagon on a program to help transitioning service members learn how to use technology.

67

4 years ago

A set of online tools that help small businesses grow. The company has brought in more than $500,000 in funding. The startup helps its customers start a podcast, manage business paperwork, and pay their employees.

67

3 years ago

A business simulation game where you can create your own startup, and compete to get new customers, build your product, and grow to be the most popular business.

67

3 years ago

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

67

2 years ago

A B2B company that provides an API that helps retailers grow their business with email marketing.

67

4 years ago

A SaaS platform that helps user groups grow by empowering them to manage all of their conference or event logistics.

66

4 years ago

A platform for booking salon appointments. The startup is also looking for investors to help them grow.

66

3 years ago

A small business software company that helps businesses grow by providing analytics on sales, expenses, and customer acquisition.

66

3 years ago

A platform that creates a marketplace for companies to get in touch with their customers and grow their businesses.

66

3 years ago

A technology platform that helps companies drive growth, better manage cash, reduce risks and mitigate fraud.

66

5 years ago

Idea: This startup wants to help India’s 600 million smartphone users take advantage of the country’s rapidly growing e-commerce market.

65

4 years ago

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

65

4 years ago

A company that aims to help teams grow their teams by running them through gamification exercises.

65

3 years ago

An analytics app that gives restaurant managers insights into their business and makes it easier to manage and grow.

65

3 years ago

An online platform that connects B2B companies with freelance “growth hackers”.

65

3 years ago

A platform for retail brands to sell physical products online. It’s growing rapidly in the UK, where the startup says it has already built a $2 million business

65

4 years ago

A tool to help people who want to start their own business grow their product.

64

4 years ago

A digital marketing platform for lifestyle brands, creating an app for brands to manage and grow their digital presence.

64

4 years ago

This startup is building a service for restaurants to grow their business through digital marketing, performance analytics and automation.

64

3 years ago

We're looking to invest in a very well-known brand in the same space, so that we can leverage the brand equity to build our business. We're looking for high-growth startups in the space.

64

2 years ago

This startup is building a way to streamline the process of creating a video as an independent creator. Their platform uses machine learning to help users create a “story” around their content, which they say helps grow engagement and boost their audience.

64

5 years ago

Idea: A startup building a data-driven tool for portfolio management for investors. The software mines a portfolio for things like tax losses and areas for growth in order to help investors make better decisions with their investments.

63

3 years ago

A B2B company providing a platform to help companies with the back end of a growing business or product.

63

3 years ago

A platform that helps companies manage the customer relationship with their customer data. It’s a customer growth platform for startups, but it’s not about helping customers learn about the business, instead, it’s about helping companies keep track of the data they have on customers, and making it easy to analyze and reach out to them and use those insights to grow their business.

63

3 years ago

Fast-growing e-commerce company with a SaaS application for online reviews. They say their online reviews have been used as a predictor for an item’s success.

63

3 years ago

Looking to supplement the lack of diversity in the tech industry with a website that aims to help those in the industry manage their career growth.

63

2 years ago

A tool that “finds the right people for your startup and provides a personalized onboarding experience to help you grow”.

63

4 years ago

A new company that lets users make their own bitcoin by mining it with their computer, which is then split among users. The app was first released in December 2017, and since then has grown to over 500,000 users.

62

3 years ago

A platform for the home care industry to grow, demand, and manage their services.

62

3 years ago

A startup that helps labels and distributors track shipments, manage accounts, and manage inventory. The startup aims to help brands keep track of their supply chain, as they grow.

62

3 years ago

A startup that helps entrepreneurs find small business loans so they can grow businesses without having to sell themselves or their company’s stock.

62

4 years ago

A platform that helps businesses with a global reach, from small companies to multinationals, to grow their brand in a country where they have no footprint. It charges a small monthly subscription fee and allows you to add your business to a pool of companies to bid on.

61

4 years ago

A startup that lets small businesses get paid for the time employees spend on the phone. The startup is growing fast, saying they’ve signed up over 1,000 businesses on their platform.

61

4 years ago

As of 2017, China’s biggest internet companies are Tencent, WeChat, Weibo, and Baidu. These companies have all been spending heavily on Facebook and Instagram ads, which have grown rapidly in the region. For example, WeChat spent $6.5 billion on ads in 2018 and Baidu spent $3.6 billion. Top global brands are also spending heavily on Chinese social media. For example, Coca-Cola has spent $2.2 billion on WeChat ads since February 2018.

61

3 years ago

It’s a startup that helps companies grow their LinkedIn accounts and make connections.

61

3 years ago

The team behind E-commerce Startup Factory is pitching to help businesses that have grown but need to scale their operations. They are looking for startups that have launched a business, but are not yet ready for expansion.

61

3 years ago

A platform that helps high net worth individuals grow their assets.

61

3 years ago

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

61

3 years ago

A platform that helps businesses in the sharing economy plan, manage and grow their “shared economy” businesses

61

3 years ago

A travel booking app that lets you search for flights, hotels, and attractions at once. Built for the Brazil market, the company has seen a 10x growth in ticket sales per month since May.

61

3 years ago

A text-based virtual assistant for the elderly, a market that’s growing by 20% a year.

61

2 years ago

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

61

4 years ago

A startup that’s building an automated AI tool to help companies grow their customer base and increase conversions.

60

4 years ago

A company that aims to make it easy to “make the most of the growing array of services in the sharing economy”. Its product is a breakdown of how much different services cost, and a forum where people can pay for services to be delivered.

60

3 years ago

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

60

3 years ago

A platform that connects businesses with the expertise they need to grow and scale.

60

4 years ago

An ecommerce platform for food that’s grown organically and locally with a focus on freshness and sustainability.

59

4 years ago

A startup that aims to make it easier for companies to manage the growth of their user base. It’s a SaaS product that helps companies make decisions about user growth, marketing, and customer acquisition.

59

4 years ago

A startup that helps business owners create websites with a drag-and-drop interface. The company says it has 30,000 users within its network and is growing quickly.

59

3 years ago

A tool for creating personalized videos for social media. The startup says they have 20 employees and are profitable and growing in the US, with a 10% conversion rate.

59

3 years ago

A management platform for small businesses that wants to help companies grow. The startup says it’s already working with over 300 businesses, and is helping them improve their customer acquisition, sales and retention.

59

3 years ago

A startup that wants to eliminate the need for farmers to use pesticides in the growing of fruits and vegetables. The startup wants to use its own patented technology that can eliminate pests without pesticides, and is currently looking for seed capital.

59

2 years ago

A SaaS startup that aims to help SMBs manage their businesses. The startup helps companies “accelerate the growth of their business by providing a scalable, comprehensive software suite that helps their employees collaborate and automate business processes.”

59

2 years ago

A small business lending platform for those who want to grow their business. The startup so far has funded over 300 companies with their credit platform to make loans.

59

4 years ago

A platform for the market for organic and non-GMO foods. The startup is focused on making it easier for consumers to buy and sell locally-grown and organic foods.

58

4 years ago

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

58

4 years ago

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

58

3 years ago

A startup that helps people sell their old phones for cash, a market that is growing for emerging markets.

58

3 years ago

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

58

3 years ago

An end-to-end software platform for mobile-first agriculture that helps farmers grow more food using less water, less fertilizer and less land. The company is developing a decentralized, blockchain-based platform for agriculture.

58

3 years ago

A micro-credit startup that helps low-income individuals and families buy and grow businesses. The startup wants to help people become entrepreneurs by providing low initial loans and an easy to use app to build a business plan.

58

3 years ago

Known Medicine is building a tool to help doctors grow and study their own tumors. Known Medicine is using a disposable micro-tumor for testing, taking them out of the patient’s body and into the lab.

58

2 years ago

A startup that lets you buy, sell, or trade in-game items quickly and easily. It currently has over 500,000 users, and is profitable and growing.

58

2 years ago

Recoon, a next-gen business that wants to help small business owners grow by providing them with data, analytics, and guidance. They are looking to expand across the US and other countries, especially in Latin America and India.

58

2 years ago

A startup that helps people make their own dietary supplements. The company wants to make it easy to produce and sell supplements online, and it’s growing fast. It’s picked up $30,000 from Y Combinator and a $200,000 loan from the Kauffman Foundation.

58

3 years ago

A startup that says it is an “unconference” that brings together top startup teams to help them connect, learn and grow. The first Unconference was held in San Francisco in early June.

57

3 years ago

The startup is developing a fully-integrated set of tools for the wine industry, from winemakers to salespeople. The company wants to help wineries scale, grow in sales, and manage inventory.

57

3 years ago

An investment management platform, except the company is building a new way to invest in high growth companies like companies that grow 1,000% in a year, 5,000% in 3 years, and so forth. The company is powered by artificial intelligence, and generates recommendations based on your investment desires and risk tolerance.

57

3 years ago

This startup wants to grow a network of “smart” parking spaces that can hold a car’s information and automatically pay the driver when they return. The idea is to keep cars from sitting idle and losing value.

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

3 years ago

A startup that wants to use AI for the process of building and growing a sales team, with results that can be measured by sales performance.

56

3 years ago

A decentralized network of micro-distribution hubs that works with existing delivery apps to help those apps grow beyond their current geographic footprint. It’s meant to be a “one-stop shop” for delivery companies to start using.

56

3 years ago

A company that lets developers make games and apps with an easy-to-use toolset. The startup currently has a small Alexa skill that describes their goals, and a small Android app, but wants to grow into a platform from which developers can easily launch apps and games.

56

3 years ago

A startup that builds a mobile app to help small businesses manage their books and finances. It promises to help business owners reduce the risk of fraud and make it easier to grow their business.

56

3 years ago

A startup that lets users search for nearby food and specialty ingredients, and then pay for them in an app. It’s access to these ingredients can be used in recipes or to make products. The startup, which is rapidly growing, is still in the pre-launch stage.

56

2 years ago

A tool that works across different email platforms that helps users track their expenses and grow their businesses.

56

2 years ago

To help small businesses grow, this startup is developing a mobile app that allows them to get paid in local currency from their customers' bank accounts.

56

3 years ago

A startup that uses a combination of AI and machine learning to help companies make sense of the growing amount of data they are trying to collect, and come up with actionable insights. Currently working on a pilot in the UK.

55

3 years ago

Propeller is building an enterprise-level social network for fast-growing companies to get the right people in the right room at the right time. The company is a response to the explosion of talent acquisition platforms on the market.

55

3 years ago

A cloud-based tool for tracking progress in the legal field. It’s part of a growing industry of tools for law firms looking to automate and automate.

55

3 years ago

A startup that wants to use machine learning and a “big data set” to help companies figure out where to open new locations. A big focus is on the US, with growth plans to expand internationally.

55

3 years ago

This startup wants to help companies grow their brand recognition and reputation through providing a platform for their customers to recommend products and services.

55

3 years ago

The startup wants to let users design, build and grow their own maps, using an iPhone and a simple interface.

55

3 years ago

A platform for small businesses to manage and grow their online presence. It’s an online platform that allows local businesses to create a website, a blog, and ads. It also handles payment processing, inventory management and customer service.

55

5 years ago

Idea: A remote digital marketing agency for high-growth tech companies The startup has worked with a few dozen clients since launching last year, and is currently available to startups that are a $1 million in revenue or less

54

3 years ago

A tool that helps you manage and grow your e-commerce business at scale. The startup is trying to make it easier for retailers to scale their e-commerce businesses with the help of a detailed sales and marketing dashboard.

54

3 years ago

This startup wants to make it easier for business owners to grow their businesses by giving them access to a team of business- and marketing professionals.

54

3 years ago

Health-related non-profits must raise millions of dollars to grow and expand. Loop is building a tool for them to manage daily tasks and keep operations running smoothly.

54

3 years ago

A startup that builds a “supercharged” mailing list of all the people who want to be a part of your content. The startup allows you to send targeted emails to all of your followers, creating a supercharged, targeted list that you can use to grow your email list.

54

3 years ago

An online platform to aid in online dating, with members paying to boost their profile and get access to special features. The startup says it’s already got over 1,000 users and is growing at about 40 percent month.

54

3 years ago

A mobile game that teaches children about the mechanics of the solar system by planting seeds and watching them grow.

54

5 years ago

Idea: The team is building equipment for the workplace, like medical supplies. It’s trying to scale into a high growth business by partnering with large companies.

53

4 years ago

This is a company that wants to grow local food in the developing world, and has a product to help do that.

53

3 years ago

This startup is building a full-stack, enterprise-grade software platform for gaming that can be embedded into other businesses. Reasons for this include the growing e-sports market and the fact that there are now more than 1.5 million gamers, with a projected growth rate of 50% a year.

53

3 years ago

A startup that helps companies hire remote workers with salaries matched to local salaries. The company says its revenue is growing by 50% month over month.

53

3 years ago

A startup to help users in the US get a visa to visit Mexico. Currently, only the founder is using it to visit Mexico, but it’s growing each week and it’s easy to imagine a scenario where it becomes a full-fledged travel app.

53

3 years ago

A startup that helps startups grow by giving them access to the biggest potential customer base in the world - the US government. The company's proprietary Fintech platform provides access to the US government's banking, insurance and finance systems.

53

3 years ago

“The Go-To-Market for Growth” is a tool that helps small businesses execute a “Sell-Out Strategy.”

53

3 years ago

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

53

3 years ago

A startup that has grown from the common ground between computer science and the arts. Their goal is to create a more efficient way to create, remix, and share art.

53

3 years ago

A startup focused on helping “boundaries of the farm” in California’s Central Valley, so that farmers can look for new ways to grow food. The company purchases and recycles organic waste, converts it into rich compost, and sells it back to farmers.

53

3 years ago

A small, tech-forward business that specializes in data and analytics for small businesses, with a focus on helping them grow.

53

2 years ago

A startup that aims to help home-based businesses with services that help them grow.

53

2 years ago

A platform for hiring freelancers to do work for companies, which are then paid automatically by PayPal. The company says it has grown 300% in the past year, hiring a team of 50 people.

53

4 years ago

A digital assistant that helps manage and maintain a growing network of sensors.

52

3 years ago

The startup is building a platform to help brands and shops grow, whether that’s pushing sales or opening new locations.

52

3 years ago

A tool for helping freelancers manage their expenses and plan for taxes. The startup has built an app that makes it easier for freelancers to track the money flows from their business, and provides a “tax your business” tool to help them calculate their taxes. They’re profitable and growing in the San Francisco area.

52

3 years ago

This startup is building a portfolio of software tools for companies to manage and grow their employee base more efficiently, starting with the ability to keep track of their employees’ schedules.

52

3 years ago

A business-to-business service that pairs growing brands with retailers to help them forge relationships. The company has 25,000 retailers in its network.

52

3 years ago

A healthcare startup that lets you access vetted doctors and pay for care via secure mobile payments. The company says that its growth over the past year has been impressive, with over 10,000 users on its platform.

52

3 years ago

A startup for businesses seeking to grow internationally. Companies can connect with a team of remote advisors who help with finance, legal, and operational concerns.

51

3 years ago

A platform that helps people build and manage their own organically-grown gardens. The app is free and available in the US, Canada and Australia.

51

3 years ago

For the past five years, the startup has been building a suite of services and software for companies that want to grow their data science teams.

51

3 years ago

The founders of this startup are aiming to grow a marketplace for people to sell their unused clothing.

51

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps nonprofits raise money from their supporters. The startup charges a 20% fee of all donations made through its platform, and says it’s using a $500k grant from the Knight Foundation to grow the company.

50

3 years ago

A software platform that helps coaches get more out of their clients, using coaching as a tool for growth and personal development.

50

3 years ago

We believe that the best way to grow a business is to build a community around it. We have been doing that with our users since our launch in 2010.

50

2 years ago

A micro-finance startup that uses the power of supply chain management and predictive analytics to help micro-businesses grow.

50

3 years ago

A “home-grown” fashion e-commerce platform built on the Japan-centric model of shop-in-shops.

49

3 years ago

As the cloud services market grows, so does the need for developers to have a consistent way to manage the apps that make up their cloud-based workflows. This is the idea behind HotPlate, which is building a developer platform for web and mobile apps.

49

3 years ago

A digital product that allows individuals to create and manage multiple templates for their businesses. The best part is that the templates can be constantly updated, allowing the business to change the look and feel of their company even as they grow.

49

3 years ago

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

49

3 years ago

A bakery that grows, packages and ships all the ingredients for food from single farms to online customers.

49

2 years ago

To help small businesses scale by offering a suite of services including marketing, accounting, and product management, with the goal of helping them grow 1,000x their current size.

49

2 years ago

A credit union in Texas looking to grow their loan portfolio by building a payment processing service.

49

2 years ago

A startup that lets you build a digital asset of your business. The startup has been around since 2014 and now has $1.5 million in seed funding, with $10 million in planned growth.

49

3 years ago

A low-cost decaf evo coffee that’s grown and harvested naturally, but doesn’t contain any caffeine.

48

3 years ago

A startup that wants to enable the growth of physical retail businesses through online marketplaces.

48

3 years ago

This startup is focusing on a “growth subscription” for B2B companies that allows them to have access to their customers’ data in real-time and analyze it for business intelligence.

48

3 years ago

Built to help companies create, share, and use dashboards in minutes, not hours. It was launched in early 2019 and is building a small but growing team.

48

3 years ago

A startup creating a new way to finance small business growth. The startup is working to create capital in the form of loans that companies can repay in installments over time. The company is already working with eight businesses in Philadelphia.

48

3 years ago

The founders of this marketing startup say they’re building a Facebook for blimps. Their goal is to fuel the growth of a new kind of “social blimp” that’s valuable for businesses and pro-social.

47

3 years ago

Viable is building a platform for employers to manage their employee health plans. It’s a B2B operation, with its first customers being large employers like the Department of Defense and United Parcel Service. Viable is profitable and growing in the Philadelphia area.

47

3 years ago

A platform for media and brands to grow their audience and grow their revenue. The startup is building a platform for brands to get more attention for their content by making it easier for people to share and consume it — and for brands to pay for advertising.

47

2 years ago

A free online tool meant to help businesses find and grow new customers, focusing on B2B businesses with a focus on marketing. The startup already has a beta product and is looking to take the product to market in 2020.

47

2 years ago

A startup that engages users in helping develop online tools. It’s trying to hire a CEO to help grow the company.

47

3 years ago

This platform helps businesses sell and manage their services in the healthcare space in a simple, intuitive way. The company is growing fast: it has 500 customers, and it was acquired by Apriva in June

46

3 years ago

A company that helps consumers buy health insurance. The app uses Artificial Intelligence to compare various plans and prices, and then helps consumers make the decision of where to go. The company has been growing rapidly in Philadelphia, and is backed by NEA.

46

3 years ago

This startup is building a platform to help people build and grow their brands. The startup is building out a tool to help people find the best new talent to hire.

46

3 years ago

A platform for fostering the exchange of ideas, ideas that are fed into the startup’s growing community of users.

46

3 years ago

A company that lets you analyze data in your inbox, like the impact of a customer’s purchase. The startup looks for patterns in customer interaction and uses those to improve the customer experience. They’ve got a few customers in the US and are looking to grow globally.

46

3 years ago

A lending platform for businesses that allows them to access the funding they need for their growth, when it’s needed. The startup has received $6 million in funding from Silicon Valley venture firms and is working with businesses in the Bay Area, New York and Washington DC.

46

2 years ago

Seed investments for early stage startups in Boston, managed by a pair of former Bain Capital Ventures partners. The seed fund will invest $50,000, and the idea is the accelerator will help entrepreneurs grow their company before they get to the point that a Series A investment is warranted.

46

2 years ago

One of the most popular dating apps in the world, OkCupid is small but has a lot of room to grow.

46

3 years ago

This is a platform that allows people to build a custom social network with a wide range of different types of users, like families, groups, or people of a particular interest, like the board game Risk. Eventually there will be a “universal” platform that allows people to build a custom social network, which will be valuable because custom social networks can grow faster.

45

3 years ago

The startup’s founders say they want to build a marketplace that connects farmers with buyers of locally grown, organic produce, with plans to launch in early 2017.

45

3 years ago

A startup that aims to use AI to help farmers grow crops that are more resistant to climate change.

45

3 years ago

A college admissions platform that was pitched as “LinkedIn for colleges,” but with a twist: instead of looking for professional connections, the company’s users are looking for school connections. The company claims to have over 1,000 users and is looking to grow from there.

45

3 years ago

The startup is building a tool for small businesses that lets them quickly grow their inventory and manage their deliveries by incorporating a “smart assistant”.

45

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help merchants grow their businesses by using its core product, Shopify’s marketplace.

45

3 years ago

A startup that offers restaurant managers insights on how to grow their business.

44

2 years ago

A membership service for food trucks that is meant to help them grow.

44

3 years ago

A travel insurance platform for people who have a travel plan and want to buy the lowest price policy. The startup wants to solve a problem that is “currently the biggest pain point for consumers” and “the fastest growing vertical for insurance companies.”

43

3 years ago

A startup that provides a mix of online coaching via text and on-the-phone calls to help entrepreneurs start and grow businesses.

43

3 years ago

A company that helps makers of products sell them online. The company needs funding to support growth to the next level.

43

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that is building a platform to sell hot sandwiches to restaurants They say they have 7x ROI on customer acquisition, and are growing 10% week-over-week

42

3 years ago

This startup wants to help doctors and patients sign electronic medical records. The startup hires nurses to manage patient records, and is growing by hiring more nurses.

42

3 years ago

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

42

3 years ago

A lot of companies in the U.S. don’t provide their employees with benefits today, but that’s starting to change. Requip is a company that helps employers provide benefits for employees, so they can focus on growing the business.

42

2 years ago

A social network built around the idea of the “disconnected workforce.” As the name suggests, it aims to be a network of remote workers who can easily meet up and collaborate. It’s live in New York City, and in the past nine months has grown from 20 to 50 employees.

42

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help people grow a healthy garden in any city. It will provide a tool to help people plan out where to grow what and a network of experts to help with questions.

41

3 years ago

A B2B startup that helps banks, credit card companies, and other lenders manage the back end of their business. They’re looking to grow out of their current 6-person startup into a $20m company.

41

3 years ago

A startup for “food-as-a-service” startups that want to grow quickly with minimal overhead. The idea is to help startups provide a full set of food and kitchen services for startups, for $1,000 per month. The first batch of startups is a handful of restaurants in Philadelphia’s Queen Village neighborhood.

41

2 years ago

A small business that helps people catch up on their finances. The company has been ranked as one of the fastest-growing in the US by Inc. Magazine four years in a row.

41

2 years ago

A platform for health conscious restaurants to share menus and nutrition info with customers. The startup wants to help restaurants grow their business and make them more profitable

41

5 years ago

Idea: A co-working space in Colombia that is growing quickly The company is currently in a few pilot locations and is looking to expand rapidly They have a waitlist of over 50 companies

40

3 years ago

A startup for identity verification is meant to grow out of existing systems, like Facebook, but with more privacy.

40

3 years ago

The startup allows travelers to easily and quickly book travel plans with a few taps, using the app to organize flights, hotels, rental cars and activities. The company says it’s grown to over 60 employees since launching in November.

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 desktop app for sharing and gifting social media posts. The startup is looking to go after the niche but growing market of sharing on social media.

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

3 years ago

A growth hacking startup that helps marketing teams get their names out with the help of expert consultants.

39

2 years ago

A platform that helps publishers manage their payments and sales across mobile and desktop. The company is focused on taking out the friction in cross-platform payments and growing “mobile commerce”.

39

2 years ago

This is a web-based network for real estate agents to share listings and view properties, which is a growing trend in the industry.

38

2 years ago

A family-owned and operated company that has grown into a leading provider of nonprofit and community organizations with e-commerce websites.

38

3 years ago

A company that provides a “No-Wait” service for restaurants, with the goal being that customers don’t have to wait 10 minutes for their food, but can order and get it before they leave the restaurant. The company has partnered with six San Francisco restaurants and revenue is growing.

37

2 years ago

This startup helps people connect with peer-to-peer lending startups and invest in them, using their skills to help loan companies grow and scale.

37

2 years ago

A marketing automation SaaS that helps small businesses use viral content to grow their social presence. It currently has 8 enterprise customers.

37

2 years ago

The team behind this co-working space-cum-event space wants to build a community that caters to the growing number of startups that live outside of major urban areas.

37

2 years ago

A “hybrid middle-market bank” that’s focused on growing its loans and deposits.

36

2 years ago

This startup is building a game like Farmville for advertising-related products. The game works much like it does on Farmville, as you build a farm and connect with people who are also building farms to make money for what you grow and sell.

36

2 years ago

A fast-growing startup that helps independent, small and medium businesses, and their clients, build and track their customer relationships on a single platform.

36

2 years ago

A startup looking to help businesses grow in Latin America. With $400K in seed funding and 30 employees in San Diego, the startup is growing rapidly in the region.

36

2 years ago

A platform for hiring temporary staff and growing businesses. The startup’s co-founders spent time in the US and UK and noticed a need to hire workers but couldn’t find them. With the help of the startup’s investors, they’re looking to hire a full-time team to build out the business.

36

2 years ago

A startup that creates social media marketing for small businesses and nonprofits with a focus on customer service. The company currently has a team in San Francisco and is looking to grow by the end of Q3. They’re looking for a CTO who’s currently working in the Bay Area.

36

2 years ago

A startup that helps developers build and test apps. The company sets up a private, secure development environment for developers to test apps on real devices. The startup has grown rapidly, now servicing more than 50,000 developers.

35

2 years ago

Build an agentless lending platform connecting traditional financial institutions with growing companies that are in need of capital.

35

2 years ago

A company that offers a range of online services for growing companies. The company is focused on helping small businesses scale, and also wants to enable mobile apps.

35

2 years ago

A software-as-a-service company that helps media companies digitize their content. The startup wants to grow into a platform that will integrate all content types including books, music, video and television.

34

2 years ago

A startup that collects and distributes ad content for Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter. The company is profitable and growing in the New York area.

34

5 years ago

A startup that helps brick-and-mortar retail businesses grow online The company used a SaaS model for their marketing platform, which helps companies attract and convert online customers

33

2 years ago

Homegrown is an authentication app that provides a “simplified” form of biometrics (like fingerprints) to ensure you’re you when logging in to a service.

33

2 years ago

A SaaS startup working on a platform for scheduling and managing healthcare appointments. The startup is growing fast in Boston and is now profitable.

33

2 years ago

A digital asset management app for artists. The startup says it has brought in over $200,000 last year in revenue for its artists and has plans to continue growing.

33

2 years ago

a company that’s building a social network for flower growers. The founders say they want to build a community of people who have the same interests in growing flowers.

33

2 years ago

A company that claims to help employees design and manage their career and growth more easily. They’re a branch of Bizible, a startup that provides human resources to companies.

32

2 years ago

A predictive machine learning platform that aids in the growth of companies by predicting what will happen to their sales.

32

2 years ago

This startup helps companies and brands market to people on social media. It does this with insights on people’s social media behavior, and is growing rapidly.

31

2 years ago

A management platform to help small businesses grow. It has a number of different pricing tiers for medium and larger businesses, with different tiers of customer support.

31

2 years ago

An insurance company for the rapidly growing digital currency industry.

31

2 years ago

Committed to helping small businesses grow and increase profitability. The startup helps businesses with business development, marketing, and accounting.

31

2 years ago

Businesses in the US and internationally are growing their customer-facing teams at a rapid pace.

31

2 years ago

A tool to help US companies comply with US tax laws by automating their estates and corporate structures. They say they have over 300 clients, and have been growing after launching at the beginning of 2019.

30

2 years ago

A platform for automated messaging to help midsize businesses grow.

30

2 years ago

A platform that helps startups launch in places like India, Brazil, and the Philippines, and serves as a resource for them to grow and scale.

30

2 years ago

Focused on the growing technology needs of the health, fitness, and wellness industries.

30

3 years ago

Hire the Smart, an applicant tracking platform built for fast-growing, low-pay environments. It is one of the few startups in the pool that has been around for over a year. The company previously focused solely on the fast-food industry, but has since broadened its offerings to cover retail and other industries. The startup is also one of the few in the competition that does not currently have a product in production.

29

2 years ago

In 2011, the company was named by Inc. Magazine as one of the “50 fastest-growing private companies in America"

29

2 years ago

A company that uses AI to help farmers track their crops and predict what will grow in the future.

29

2 years ago

A way for companies to communicate with customers through a chatbot. The startup says that their chatbot works well with first-time customers, and that it will grow to handle hundreds of thousands of conversations.

28

2 years ago

A company that will invest in social entrepreneurs and help them grow their business.

28

2 years ago

A company that wants to grow the world’s most valuable urban farm. They’re a customer acquisition platform that helps businesses find customers.

27

2 years ago

A community for family photographers, not just selling their photos but helping them grow their businesses by providing help with printing, selling on Etsy, and public relations.

27

2 years ago

A startup that helps companies and brands grow sustainable food sources and crops, connecting buyers with farmers. It’s using a model that’s a cross between Etsy and Amazon to connect people with food and farmers.

27

2 years ago

A cloud-based service that makes it easy to start a small business in India. It’s a stock market marketplace that gives small businesses a chance to grow and compete with their bigger counterparts.

27

2 years ago

A B2B ticketing marketplace that focuses on the hospitality industry, which is expected to boom in the next few years in the US. In the US, the hospitality industry is expected to grow by 5.5% over the next 2 years.

26

2 years ago

A tech company that helps business owners organize and grow their online presence, including social media.

26

2 years ago

This startup is building a “live chat mobile app”, which lets users create a chat room and use it from the web, or a mobile app. It’s hoping to mitigate the growing trend of in-app messaging.

26

2 years ago

The startup builds software for managing the supply chain in the cannabis industry. They’re part of the fast-growing cannabis ecosystem in Washington state.

26

2 years ago

A short-term rental platform for small apartments around the world. The startup is currently in beta and working with 30% of the market. It wants to grow into an automation platform that will allow renters to make rental payments, view the unit, and schedule cleanings with software.

26

2 years ago

A way to help workers in the U.S. and Canada get visas to work in other countries. Their model is to help the companies that allow their employees to work abroad to get them visas. The startup is looking to grow into a full-service immigration firm.

24

2 years ago

This startup is building a cloud-based mobile application platform for travel companies to grow their businesses by providing a more efficient booking experience for their customers.

24

2 years ago

A “supercharged mobile development platform” for high-growth startups. The platform is designed to help startups grow from a few dozen or few hundred employees into thousands.

24

2 years ago

A platform for doing online surveys. The company is currently trying to raise money to grow internationally.

24

2 years ago

A new type of financial services platform for small businesses, aimed at helping them reduce risk and increase productivity. The business is focused on helping small business owners manage their vendors and purchases, so they can focus on growing their business.

23

2 years ago

A startup that helps companies grow their customer base by giving them a tool to acquire new subscribers from people who already have an existing relationship with them.

23

2 years ago

An AI boss that manages a business, helps with research and development and helps the company grow

23

2 years ago

In March 2019, Y Combinator announced the launch of Y Combinator Research, a new research and development arm. Y Combinator Research will primarily focus on "unconventional" business models and will produce research reports on how to successfully build and grow companies with new models.

23

2 years ago

The growth of tech startups in the Latin American region is driven by a number of factors, such as its young and growing population, the lack of a franchise restriction, and the lack of protectionist measures. Local politicians in some of the world’s smallest and most impoverished countries are eager to encourage the growth of technology startups.

23

2 years ago

A platform that helps companies grow their business by providing them with the tools to find, hire, and collaborate with the best talent.

23

2 years ago

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

22

2 years ago

A startup that helps companies get into the automotive aftermarket and government vehicle replacement markets. The company wants to help companies price their products to be competitive with the current market to help them grow.

22

2 years ago

A data and analytics service for small businesses as they try to grow.

22

2 years ago

A startup that claims to be the first to help plant managers manage their crops. They’re building a software solution with a hardware component that’s supposed to be able to monitor plant growth, disease, and pests on a real-time basis.

22

2 years ago

A social network based in Brazil and aimed at the hospitality industry. The marketshare of the company is growing fast with thousands of members.

22

2 years ago

Social networking for the wine industry, with a platform for wineries and sommeliers to meet each other, learn about each other’s wines, and connect. A few dozen wineries already use the platform, and its user base is growing.

21

2 years ago

A company that wants to help farmers use data to grow their crops faster and more efficiently. The startup has some serious funding behind it with $10 million in venture funding and has been working with big agriculture companies like Monsanto and DuPont.

21

2 years ago

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

20

2 years ago

This is a medical records app for hospitals that doctors can use for patients. The startup currently has 10 employees and is growing rapidly.

19

2 years ago

A product platform for small businesses to sell and manage products, with a focus on helping e-commerce retailers grow their businesses. It will eventually eliminate the need for a merchant account and credit card processing.

19

2 years ago

A digital agency that helps companies design and build their websites, helping them reach their audience. They’re also helping clients who want to grow their business with a better experience.

19

2 years ago

A startup for firms to manage their “growing number of employees”, and which helps them “monitor and manage their time spent on projects, and productivity.”

19

2 years ago

A method for generating long-term revenue. The startup does this by selling to companies who are interested in growing their business.

19

2 years ago

A platform for building and managing growth teams, allowing a company to quickly create and manage teams, and set up metrics and KPIs. The company says that it has a few large enterprise contracts that it wants to grow.

19

2 years ago

A software company building a way to track people’s activity while they’re using a service, in order to make it easier to figure out customer behavior and grow a business. It’s a tech-first approach to a classic problem.

19

2 years ago

A startup that seeks to “bring greater transparency to the pharmacy industry” by helping pharmacies accurately fill prescriptions. The business is growing quickly as the business solves for a real pain point in an industry that’s historically been difficult to track.

18

2 years ago

A seed-to-sale software and hardware platform that enables seed-to-sale tracking and compliance for cannabis growers and sellers.

18

2 years ago

"Idea" magazine is an executive magazine for the global tech, digital and startup entrepreneurship community. The magazine is based in San Francisco, California. The core mission and focus of the magazine is to support and promote entrepreneurship and the exceptional growth of entrepreneurs and startups.

18

2 years ago

A B2B game that helps companies create long-term growth strategies by simulating the effects of real-world scenarios, such as a hackathon.

18

2 years ago

A venture for social good that helps underprivileged and underserved people around the world start or grow businesses.

18

2 years ago

This is a platform for franchise business to build their operations on. It helps franchisees in the early stages of their business build a brand, grow their customer base, and build a sales pipeline.

18

2 years ago

An enterprise product management startup that aims to increase sales, grow revenue and drive quarterly goals for businesses.

17

2 years ago

A startup that helps B2B companies manage and grow their customer lists by connecting them with relevant business owners and connecting salespeople with buyers.

17

2 years ago

A social network for people with mental illness. The company is building a platform for users to share ideas, tips, and support, and to begin to build a community of people with mental illness. It’s being run in conjunction with Grows and the Well.

17

2 years ago

A software company that helps people plan, manage, and grow their travel. The startup aims to be the TripAdvisor for travel.

17

5 years ago

Idea: Grow food indoors using smartphone apps

16

2 years ago

A startup that wants to take on the role of an advisor in helping small businesses and professionals better grow their brands — including through creating branded content.

16

2 years ago

The company says its mission is to give small businesses the tools to create, manage and grow their own online content in a way that’s easy and comprehensive.

15

2 years ago

A software platform for managing the development of mobile apps. Its aim is to help companies build, launch and grow mobile apps.

15

2 years ago

A tool that helps companies manage and grow their social media presence. The startup wants to bridge the gap between marketing and operations by giving companies data to make decisions on when and how to invest in social media.

14

2 years ago

A UK-based startup that is building an app for fashion retailers that allows consumers to order products online, track them, and manage them in-store. The product hopes to empower consumers to shop more, and retailers to grow their businesses.

14

2 years ago

This startup wants to make it easier for customers to get a hold of their suppliers. Since the startup’s founding, it has grown to a list of more than 100,000 suppliers, and aims to expand to 500,000 over the next few years.

14

2 years ago

The founders say that they’re a “paint app for grownups.” They’re building a suite of mobile apps that let you create custom, edible murals.

14

2 years ago

A new tech startup that’s building a “social network for celebrities” across entertainment, fashion, sports, and more. It’s looking to partner with celebrities to help them grow their accounts.

13

2 years ago

This startup is building a suite of tools for media startups to manage their growing brands, including branding and packaging, PR, access to influencers, and a customer care service.

13

2 years ago

This startup is building a platform that tracks the cost of starting a business, and provides advice on how to use that data to guide the growth of the business, making it incredibly valuable to anyone starting a business.

12

2 years ago

An automated form of HR that acts as a replacement for the HR department. The company’s base product is a hiring and onboarding software, and its growth has been driven by their core B2B sales-specific product, which acts as an automated replacement for HR.

12

2 years ago

A software company that wants to help companies easily grow their revenue through customizing their websites (and their content). The company merged with others in July and now has 15 employees.

12

2 years ago

A business management tool for companies looking to grow from 10 employees to 250.

12

2 years ago

Clicksurance is a subscription service that helps insure against the risks of growing too quickly and too quickly losing money.

12

2 years ago

This startup aims to make it easier and cheaper to buy, store, and grow your own food

11

2 years ago

A platform that helps companies create their own sales funnels and marketing apps, aimed at helping small businesses grow. The startup lets you customize what you want to sell, how you want to sell it, and how often you want to sell it.

11

2 years ago

A system for growing high-quality cannabis at scale.

11

2 years ago

A company that builds apps that make it easier to find, choose and buy new or used cars. The company currently has a full-time staff of 10 and is growing steadily. They are also working on a new app that will allow users to swap cars with other users through the app.

11

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps people manage their finances by pulling in all their accounts from various banks and credit card companies. The company says it is profitable and growing quickly.

10

2 years ago

This startup aims to improve agriculture by helping farmers manage their crops’ environmental impact. They want to help farmers take more care in growing crops, and thus raise yields while conserving resources.

10

5 years ago

Idea: A simple way for people to pre-order food online from local restaurants, picking up their food without waiting in a line or ordering into a kitchen. Customers place an order on the website, and then the startup calls the restaurant to confirm. The startup says it’s grown 10% week-over-week for the last year.

9

5 years ago

Idea: A ‘gig economy’ labor marketplace for graphic designers. The startup says it’s growing 1,000% month-over-month, and has already sold $3,000 a week in design work.

8

2 years ago

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

8

2 years ago

This startup helps companies source, manage, and grow their online ad campaigns.

8

5 years ago

Idea: A text-to-speech AI-powered assistant that can connect with virtually any virtual assistant It has already raised $23 million and is growing fast

6

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service for people to help them get certified for the medical marijuana program in their state (ie in Virginia you can be certified to grow your own and/or buy from a dispensary)

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5 years ago

Idea: A market for people who want to rent their vehicles to others for a few hours or the day The company has grown to 15,000 drivers in the Boston area They’re aiming to be a trusted marketplace that makes it easier to rent cars, and more profitable for their drivers

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that runs a marketplace for co-working spaces They have a large number of employees already, and want to grow into a way for people to easily find co-working spaces in the future

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps Midwestern farmers sell their produce more easily on the West Coast. The company is building a series of farms in the Midwest that will grow produce for big companies in the West, and use an Uber-like system to deliver it.

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5 years ago

A startup that helps businesses grow

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A startup that’s developing a way to grow food in soil without pesticides or other chemicals.

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

This startup is building a platform for American farmers to sell their goods to consumers worldwide. The startup aims to use a mix of digital store fronts and technology to deliver to consumers in countries like India and China, where the rural population has been growing.

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

An AI-powered service that aims to make it easier for small businesses to get the help they need to grow.

A software startup that wants to help farmers and growers more easily sell their products online, tracking inventory, managing orders, and ensuring quality control.

Grow is building a set of tools for restaurants, enabling them to manage their menus, design their menus, and automate their ordering and delivery processes.

A digital platform for professionals to grow their skills, with more than 1 million professionals using the platform.

A startup that works with real estate agents to help them become property managers. The company is growing quickly in the US, and aims to do the same in India.

A supply chain management platform for restaurants and other food-related businesses. Growth is strong and the founders say they’re trying to make a dent in the $8.5 trillion food and beverage industry.

A platform that helps the restaurant industry grow and scale.

A startup for the growing number of people who want to do freelance work, but don’t know how.

Indeed.com launched in 2003, but has since grown into a market leader. Indeed.com has also been acquired by The Walt Disney Company in December 2018.

A small business loan, based on factors like location, team, and amount of traffic. It also offers business owner coaching to help them grow their business.

AirBnb is launching in India, but more importantly, the startup is looking to grow its presence in other parts of Asia and even the Middle East.

A company that wants to grow your network and make it easy to introduce people to each other.

allows companies to create online shopfronts for their products, eliminating the need for physical storefronts. It’s growing quickly, and recently closed a $3.8 million series A round.

A startup that will help you live like a millionaire by getting you to invest in startup owners as they grow.

This startup wants to build a new type of credit card for the underbanked, especially in developing countries. It takes the form of a prepaid card and is available in any currency. Given the lack of banking options in many such countries, the startup sees a lot of potential for growth.

A company that wants to build a system that predicts the future of cities as they grow and change.

Pexels is a stock photo platform that allows users to scan a barcode and add it to their library of photos. The startup has over 90 million photos in its database and is growing fast.

A company that provides hourly workers with technology and training to get their own small business off the ground. Come Up Now has grown from a handful of contracts to 200 employees in the past six months.

A startup that wants to create a system to manage and grow the relationship between bank and clients. The startup is currently building the first product for a client in the UK.

A company that wants to help you grow your business by giving you the tools to make smart decisions.

Self-storage startup that’s growing at 20% month-over-month.

An on-demand software development shop meant to help companies build, maintain, and grow their apps. The company has worked with companies like Uber, Warby Parker, and GoFundMe.

Growth hacking tool for app developers.

A tool that allows employees to set up a flexible work schedule. This is currently in an early stage of development and has no immediate plans for the growth of the business.

A seed-stage tech startup that’s building a business on automating the process for a person to start a business in Singapore. They’re working with a small number of clients and focusing on operations but have a business model that allows them to hire more people as the business grows.

Having grown from 10 employees to 160 in the last three years, the company is the fastest-growing startup in the city and Pittsburgh's largest private technology employer.

This startup is building an app that tracks the weather for farmers and helps them optimize their growing cycle.

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

A subscription-based, monthly newsletter that helps entrepreneurs quickly grow their business.

A startup where people can create and share their own videos to be used as a free marketing tool. The startup is working on a video series called Inside the Box, which follows a different startup every month as they grow.

A small, family-owned business that sells and installs windows and doors. The business doesn’t have a website, so they’re counting on this campaign to help them grow their business.

Big Data maps the world’s food. The startup analyzes agricultural data in real time to help farmers make more informed decisions about which crops to grow, where to plant them, and when to sell them.

The startup aims to build a social network for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs-to-be to help them find and connect with mentors and resources to help them start and grow.

A cloud-hosted platform that helps small companies and startups grow.

A company that helps retailers grow their online sales by selling them on Amazon.com. The startup has $2.5 million in funding.

A B2B company that helps businesses manage their email marketing. The company says they’re profitable and growing.

A platform for small businesses to receive IT and marketing services from a company that can scale and grow the business without increasing the business’s costs.

A startup that’s building a network of AI-driven bots that help people learn and grow professionally by giving them personalized and researched answers to their questions.

Green Tech helps small businesses grow by helping them access financing and other services.

Starting as a maker of carbonated drinks with the tagline “For those who don’t have air,” this startup is building a new kind of Citrus Cloud, which will use the sun as a source of carbon dioxide to allow plants to grow in areas without electricity.

The digital version of a pest control service. The startup’s team is small but they’re growing fast. They’ve raised $1.2 million and are looking to expand into the Northeast and Midwest.

In the last year, we’ve seen the creation of several new VC-backed startups, many of which we expect to grow into companies worth $50 million or more in the next year. (A few are already there.) Here’s a look at some of the most promising:

A startup that helps women and men work together to grow their careers, by helping them find each others’ LinkedIn connections.

A “made-to-order” employee-owned company helps companies grow as a social network. The company helps employees share skills and expertise, and then serves as a go-between for companies and other co-workers.

This startup is developing a software platform to help local food producers and farmers grow and distribute their crops and foods.

A tool for schools that helps teachers plan and manage their school’s communication. The company says it’s already used by over 1,000 schools and is growing fast.

A startup that invests in podcasts and offers them hosting to help them grow.

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

Working with 13 corporate pilots and growing in Dallas.

A small business finance startup that helps businesses get the capital they need to grow.

A turnkey vertical farming system, where a large greenhouse can be built, which grows a variety of vegetables and fruits.

A startup for consumers to help support and grow the community of restaurants they frequent.

A platform that helps users manage and grow their online communities with easy tools, like a data dashboard.

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

A startup that provides comprehensive financial data services to the growing influencer economy.

A startup with a SaaS platform that helps retailers submit orders quickly and easily. The company is based in the UK but wants to grow internationally.

Simplifying the process of getting an investor on board. The company offers $2 million in funding to companies that have $20,000 in annual revenue plus have a proven track record of revenue growth.

As a company, HirePound has raised $1.4 million in capital. But as a company, it says it is on track to make $50 million in revenue in the next year. The company is a job board for the growing gig economy, connecting employers with micro-consultants and other contractors.

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

A startup that offers a platform for entrepreneurs to grow their online presence with social media, email, and live chats.

Plant-based protein startup that uses aquaponic systems to grow its products. The startup is looking to raise $750,000 to enter into a big box store like Walmart.

A software platform that helps small businesses, freelancers, and independent contractors obtain loans and invoice financing. They have a $50,000 seed round with a 4x growth rate since their launch in May 2019.

A company that matches brands with influencers. It says its goal is to help brands “create meaningful engagement and grow their influencer’s audience.”

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

“A platform for high-growth companies to grow their community,” which has a plan to bring in more than $100,000 in revenue in 2019 (as of July).

A platform that helps small businesses find financing to grow. The service is used by over 1,000 businesses in the US.

A startup that’s building software for the cannabis industry. The company’s software allows growers to track and manage their sales, look for patterns in their data, and get real-time insights into the market.

A platform that aims to help businesses with their growing digital presence in fashion and retail. They currently have 1,000 merchants and $2.5 million in revenue.

Hoping to use the same playbook as the coffee industry to grow their subscriptions to their platform, Hopin.

A startup that wants to help companies build out processes for their business that will help them grow their business.

A new startup venture with a focus on the growing trade of personal data. The startup wants to help consumers control their data and the tools companies can use with it.

An online platform to help people find and pay for parking in their area. It’s one of the first app-only parking companies in the space that’s grown to 1,500 employees after raising $200M from investors.

A platform for users to rate their favorite restaurants, and a business for restaurants to use to grow their customer base.