Half Startup Ideas

2 years ago

New York City’s drone delivery startup. The startup wants to get packages from warehouses to homes in a half hour.

206

2 years ago

A startup that helps people find new homes, apartments or roommates on behalf of landlords

152

2 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for small businesses to get the financing they need. Pure is a platform that helps businesses build a relationship with banks or credit unions, which can then make lending decisions on behalf of the business without requiring a formal loan.

149

2 years ago

A startup that provides a service where they will send a greeting card to someone on your behalf

145

2 years ago

A subscription-based service that organizes people’s photos and videos into a repository on their behalf.

143

2 years ago

A startup that wants to add interactive games to a TV broadcast of a big game, and bring sports fans to the game and keep them engaged for longer than the halftime show.

143

2 years ago

A startup that provides a service to take pictures of your house and sell it on your behalf

140

1 year ago

This startup is building a new kind of fitness tracker that uses a smartphone app to track a person’s activity, then sends the data to a wearable device that’s connected to an account. The team is looking to launch in the second half of 2020.

140

2 years ago

A platform that helps people manage their contact lists. The startup says it’s dealing with a half-billion contacts with 70% of the world still not connected.

133

2 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can send letters to their children and they’ll write back on their behalf

131

2 years ago

A startup that helps employees manage their expenses. The startup plans to launch in the first half of 2017.

131

2 years ago

A startup that wants to make the “banking process” easy for millennials. The CEO says that half of millennials don’t have checking accounts, and another third don’t have credit cards. They want to do for banking what Mint did for personal finance.

127

2 years ago

A SaaS platform for marketers and businesses to create their own digital ads for Facebook. The startup is in a third round of investment and will launch in the first half of 2020.

124

3 months ago

A software platform that lets small businesses run their own payrolls and lower payroll costs by half.

119

2 years ago

Businesses in the mobile payments space have often struggled with security. Called SIV, it uses AI to make payments on a consumer’s behalf with a single tap.

118

9 months ago

A software company that creates text-based virtual assistants to perform tasks on behalf of the user.

116

7 months ago

A B2B app that allows employees to request purchases, track and approve them on behalf of their employers. In a nutshell, the app lets employees request purchases and get approval to purchase them. The company plans to launch in the next quarter, with a B2B offering and a B2C offering to follow.

109

1 year ago

A startup that wants to create a platform that allows people to participate in virtual competitions using video chat. The platform will launch in the UK and the US in the second half of the year, and will allow people to compete in a range of different games, from puzzle solving to trivia.

97

2 years ago

A new type of advertising where companies pay to have their ads appear in live videos on platforms like Facebook. The company is also building a platform to help users monetize those videos, allowing users to sell ad space on their own behalf.

92

1 year ago

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

90

9 months ago

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

87

2 years ago

A startup that lets you set up a virtual assistant who can carry out tasks on your behalf. The startup is intended to help those who don’t have full time help or who are too busy to help themselves.

84

2 years ago

A company that helps place people, from salespeople to telemarketers, with the right clients, on behalf of clients.

84

2 years ago

A company that wants to build a meal kit delivery service. It currently has 6,000 users, with a $17,000 monthly recurring revenue run rate, and plans to launch in the first half of 2020.

80

2 years ago

Y Combinator is not a startup accelerator in the traditional sense, as it does not provide capital, mentorship, or other startup-specific services. Instead, Y Combinator provides seed funding and office space for startups that have already been bootstrapped for over a year and a half. Y Combinator has five cohorts a year, each of which lasts for 14 weeks. Participants are required to pay for their own flights and housing, which are taken care of by Y Combinator.

80

2 years ago

Pint is a voice-controlled home assistant meant to help users keep track of things like what’s in the fridge and the weather. The startup aims to have a voice assistant that can understand what you mean and act on your behalf, with a smart speaker also available.

78

1 year ago

A way to bring the B2B world back together in the form of a platform for companies to manage the sales process. Proposer uses a local sales rep to act as a “gatekeeper” who can then go out and talk to customers on behalf of the company.

70

1 year ago

A platform for real estate agents to easily manage multiple listing services (MLS) listings on behalf of their clients, charging a small percentage of each sale.

66

1 year ago

A startup that helps new employees get hired by talking to recruiters on behalf of the company without the new employee having to do the work. The startup has a 100% success rate so far.

66

1 year ago

A company that helps its users keep track of their daily vitamin intake, then automatically orders vitamins on their behalf.

65

1 year ago

A platform for Indian startups to build, market, and sell their products globally, with a half dozen companies already signed up.

62

1 year ago

The company makes a point of celebrating the diversity of its employees, regardless of background. They’re relatively young — the company is the youngest in YC to go from demo day to $1 million in revenue — and more than half of the team is female.

62

1 year ago

A startup where people can list, sell, and buy used vehicles online. In the United States roughly half of vehicles are cars that have been owned for less than a year.

61

1 year ago

A grocery delivery service that aims to combine the best of Amazon Prime, Instacart, and GrubHub. It’s a business that makes sense in a city that has no grocery store within a half mile of most homebuyers.

61

1 year 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.

56

1 year ago

A software company that provides a platform for real estate agents to manage and record all their services, from collections to behalf of towing and maintenance.

56

1 year ago

Helping consultants manage projects, get invoices and manage expenses on behalf of their clients. As of last month, the startup has helped over 12,000 consultants.

55

3 months ago

A mobile app that helps users in need of food and shelter find people to help them. The startup will take donations on behalf of the user and find someone to help them.

55

1 year ago

A startup that plans to pair a wealth manager with the wealthiest of wealthy individuals, who would then fund the startup on their behalf.

54

1 year ago

P2P insurance for small businesses, which claims to be able to get the same coverage at lower rates than insurance provided by large companies. The startup plans to provide coverage to half a million businesses in its first three years.

52

1 year ago

A “marketplace for bots”, where businesses can hire software agents to handle tasks on their behalf. The startup says they can automate tasks like scheduling, scheduling, transcribing, email, and chat support.

52

11 months ago

This is a digital assistant that claims to be able to answer questions and perform tasks on your behalf.

52

1 year ago

A startup for people to create and manage YouTube accounts on behalf of their colleagues. The startup lets users control YouTube channels and share the videos on their behalf.

51

1 year ago

A software company that helps users find a product or service for their specific needs. Based on the number of users it has, it’s looking to raise a round in the second half of 2019.

46

3 months ago

This is a startup that uses AI to build a personal assistant that works on your behalf while you’re asleep. The startup is currently pitching to gaming companies to help them sell products such as in-game upgrades, items and characters.

45

11 months ago

A startup that connects customers with businesses by way of the phone. The startup is building an API for companies to send messages to customers on their behalf, cutting out the involvement of humans.

44

2 months ago

This startup is building a new way for employees to get paid. The company has built a new backend for employees to pay their own salaries to their employers and have those funds managed on their behalf.

43

11 months ago

A web-based platform that lets you create and manage a virtual assistant who can accept payments on your behalf.

42

1 year ago

A direct-to-consumer health insurance company that’s launching in the first half of 2018. The startup wants to be a one-stop shop for all of your health insurance needs.

40

8 months ago

A startup that helps merchants sell their products on Amazon. The startup has already worked with half a dozen e-commerce sites, and currently has six clients.

40

6 months ago

A platform that allows you to manage your online presence by creating and sharing content on your own behalf (for instance, a blog) and through others (for instance, a LinkedIn page.)

39

5 months ago

A startup that helps companies save money by paying for products and services in bulk. The startup manages the purchase of products on behalf of its customers and then pays for them when they’re all shipped. The startup is based in the Bay Area, based on "Crowdfunding as a Service" model.

38

1 year ago

A way for doctors to order medical supplies online to make sure they’re stocked up on the medication they need. It’s currently in its seed round with 2 doctors and plans to launch in India in the second half of 2020.

37

5 months ago

In 2018, more than half of the companies in Y Combinator had been founded within the previous three years, with many of the companies founded in 2017.

36

11 months ago

A company that aims to make it easier for companies and people to pay for things by using bitcoin. The startup has already had some success, with a half million users, but is still in the process of developing its own wallet.

33

11 months ago

A tool for travel that uses machine learning to find cheap flights and hotels and book them on your behalf.

32

8 months ago

A company that creates apps for the NFL to connect fans and team. The company has built apps for the NFL for a year and a half, and has revenue from a partnership with a premier sports app producer.

31

7 months ago

A company that provides tools to help with implementation of the eKYC process to comply with KYC regulations by using them on clients’ behalf.

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Half Startup Ideas

New York City’s drone delivery startup. The startup wants to get packages from warehouses to homes in a half hour.

A startup that helps people find new homes, apartments or roommates on behalf of landlords

A startup that makes it easy for small businesses to get the financing they need. Pure is a platform that helps businesses build a relationship with banks or credit unions, which can then make lending decisions on behalf of the business without requiring a formal loan.

A startup that provides a service where they will send a greeting card to someone on your behalf

A subscription-based service that organizes people’s photos and videos into a repository on their behalf.

A startup that wants to add interactive games to a TV broadcast of a big game, and bring sports fans to the game and keep them engaged for longer than the halftime show.

A startup that provides a service to take pictures of your house and sell it on your behalf

This startup is building a new kind of fitness tracker that uses a smartphone app to track a person’s activity, then sends the data to a wearable device that’s connected to an account. The team is looking to launch in the second half of 2020.

A platform that helps people manage their contact lists. The startup says it’s dealing with a half-billion contacts with 70% of the world still not connected.

A startup that provides a service where people can send letters to their children and they’ll write back on their behalf

A startup that helps employees manage their expenses. The startup plans to launch in the first half of 2017.

A startup that wants to make the “banking process” easy for millennials. The CEO says that half of millennials don’t have checking accounts, and another third don’t have credit cards. They want to do for banking what Mint did for personal finance.

A SaaS platform for marketers and businesses to create their own digital ads for Facebook. The startup is in a third round of investment and will launch in the first half of 2020.

A software platform that lets small businesses run their own payrolls and lower payroll costs by half.

Businesses in the mobile payments space have often struggled with security. Called SIV, it uses AI to make payments on a consumer’s behalf with a single tap.

A software company that creates text-based virtual assistants to perform tasks on behalf of the user.

A B2B app that allows employees to request purchases, track and approve them on behalf of their employers. In a nutshell, the app lets employees request purchases and get approval to purchase them. The company plans to launch in the next quarter, with a B2B offering and a B2C offering to follow.

A startup that wants to create a platform that allows people to participate in virtual competitions using video chat. The platform will launch in the UK and the US in the second half of the year, and will allow people to compete in a range of different games, from puzzle solving to trivia.

A new type of advertising where companies pay to have their ads appear in live videos on platforms like Facebook. The company is also building a platform to help users monetize those videos, allowing users to sell ad space on their own behalf.

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

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

A startup that lets you set up a virtual assistant who can carry out tasks on your behalf. The startup is intended to help those who don’t have full time help or who are too busy to help themselves.

A company that helps place people, from salespeople to telemarketers, with the right clients, on behalf of clients.

A company that wants to build a meal kit delivery service. It currently has 6,000 users, with a $17,000 monthly recurring revenue run rate, and plans to launch in the first half of 2020.

Pint is a voice-controlled home assistant meant to help users keep track of things like what’s in the fridge and the weather. The startup aims to have a voice assistant that can understand what you mean and act on your behalf, with a smart speaker also available.

A way to bring the B2B world back together in the form of a platform for companies to manage the sales process. Proposer uses a local sales rep to act as a “gatekeeper” who can then go out and talk to customers on behalf of the company.

A platform for real estate agents to easily manage multiple listing services (MLS) listings on behalf of their clients, charging a small percentage of each sale.

A startup that helps new employees get hired by talking to recruiters on behalf of the company without the new employee having to do the work. The startup has a 100% success rate so far.

A company that helps its users keep track of their daily vitamin intake, then automatically orders vitamins on their behalf.

A platform for Indian startups to build, market, and sell their products globally, with a half dozen companies already signed up.

The company makes a point of celebrating the diversity of its employees, regardless of background. They’re relatively young — the company is the youngest in YC to go from demo day to $1 million in revenue — and more than half of the team is female.

A startup where people can list, sell, and buy used vehicles online. In the United States roughly half of vehicles are cars that have been owned for less than a year.

A grocery delivery service that aims to combine the best of Amazon Prime, Instacart, and GrubHub. It’s a business that makes sense in a city that has no grocery store within a half mile of most homebuyers.

A software company that provides a platform for real estate agents to manage and record all their services, from collections to behalf of towing and maintenance.

Helping consultants manage projects, get invoices and manage expenses on behalf of their clients. As of last month, the startup has helped over 12,000 consultants.

A mobile app that helps users in need of food and shelter find people to help them. The startup will take donations on behalf of the user and find someone to help them.

A startup that plans to pair a wealth manager with the wealthiest of wealthy individuals, who would then fund the startup on their behalf.

P2P insurance for small businesses, which claims to be able to get the same coverage at lower rates than insurance provided by large companies. The startup plans to provide coverage to half a million businesses in its first three years.

A “marketplace for bots”, where businesses can hire software agents to handle tasks on their behalf. The startup says they can automate tasks like scheduling, scheduling, transcribing, email, and chat support.

This is a digital assistant that claims to be able to answer questions and perform tasks on your behalf.

A startup for people to create and manage YouTube accounts on behalf of their colleagues. The startup lets users control YouTube channels and share the videos on their behalf.

A software company that helps users find a product or service for their specific needs. Based on the number of users it has, it’s looking to raise a round in the second half of 2019.

This is a startup that uses AI to build a personal assistant that works on your behalf while you’re asleep. The startup is currently pitching to gaming companies to help them sell products such as in-game upgrades, items and characters.

A startup that connects customers with businesses by way of the phone. The startup is building an API for companies to send messages to customers on their behalf, cutting out the involvement of humans.

This startup is building a new way for employees to get paid. The company has built a new backend for employees to pay their own salaries to their employers and have those funds managed on their behalf.

A web-based platform that lets you create and manage a virtual assistant who can accept payments on your behalf.

A direct-to-consumer health insurance company that’s launching in the first half of 2018. The startup wants to be a one-stop shop for all of your health insurance needs.

A startup that helps merchants sell their products on Amazon. The startup has already worked with half a dozen e-commerce sites, and currently has six clients.

A platform that allows you to manage your online presence by creating and sharing content on your own behalf (for instance, a blog) and through others (for instance, a LinkedIn page.)

A startup that helps companies save money by paying for products and services in bulk. The startup manages the purchase of products on behalf of its customers and then pays for them when they’re all shipped. The startup is based in the Bay Area, based on "Crowdfunding as a Service" model.

A way for doctors to order medical supplies online to make sure they’re stocked up on the medication they need. It’s currently in its seed round with 2 doctors and plans to launch in India in the second half of 2020.

In 2018, more than half of the companies in Y Combinator had been founded within the previous three years, with many of the companies founded in 2017.

A company that aims to make it easier for companies and people to pay for things by using bitcoin. The startup has already had some success, with a half million users, but is still in the process of developing its own wallet.

A tool for travel that uses machine learning to find cheap flights and hotels and book them on your behalf.

A company that creates apps for the NFL to connect fans and team. The company has built apps for the NFL for a year and a half, and has revenue from a partnership with a premier sports app producer.

A company that provides tools to help with implementation of the eKYC process to comply with KYC regulations by using them on clients’ behalf.