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

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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.

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A startup that provides a custom-branded credit card for businesses. The startup is working with a handful of national merchants and aims to scale eventually.

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

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A startup that makes a sensor that attaches to the outside of buildings and measures the humidity and temperature for every room. The startup is currently working with a handful of commercial buildings across New York City.

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A platform that helps your employees to deal with regulatory requirements for their business. The company currently has a handful of clients, including a financial services company.

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3 years ago

A software platform that makes it easier for fashion designers to collaborate with multiple brands. The company is already live in New York and San Francisco, and is working to launch in a handful of other cities in the next year.

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There are also a handful of open source startups doing interesting things:

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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.

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

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A food delivery app in the US that is working with a handful of restaurants to get deliveries in under an hour. It has already raised $6M.

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A SaaS that lets people collaborate and work together on inexpensive, low-power devices. The team is working with a handful of clients, but more are in the pipeline.

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A startup that partners with local retailers to curate a handful of in-store activities for users to enjoy. These “experiences” are curated by the user’s location and can be anything from a free cup of coffee to a free library book.

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4 years ago

A startup for managing the logistics of moving your home to a new location. It claims to reduce the cost of moving by up to 70%. It’s also working with a handful of real estate companies to help them manage their property data and make it more accessible.

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3 years ago

A startup that brings together a handful of travel websites and search engines.

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A company that’s “building the easiest way to finance business.” It’s working with a handful of customers to help them raise capital.

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In addition to everything on this list, there were also a handful of other companies that were pitched that I didn’t write about.

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

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This startup is building a tool for beer lovers to find, learn about and share reviews of craft beers. The startup has in the past month added beer reviews from a handful of beer experts and bloggers to its platform.

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2 years ago

The startup has already worked with a handful of major retailers on testing their mobile app. The startup is looking to develop a platform for handling a million transactions a day.

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This is a startup that helps people with financial planning and planning for retirement. It’s a complicated, nuanced domain that’s dominated by a handful of companies, but this startup is trying to automate the process using machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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3 years ago

This is a shop that’s trying to bring the best of a physical bookstore to the digital world. The startup is currently working with a handful of brick-and-mortar stores and wants to use partnerships with retailers like Barnes and Noble’s and Amazon to bring their digital storefront to those physical stores.

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A tool to help organizations centralize their communication. The app makes it easy to send messages to all employees or just a handful of people.

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A company that provides online training for professionals. It currently has a handful of clients in the finance, e-commerce, and healthcare industries, and is only just beginning to consider the software it needs to get to scale.

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A tool for agencies and marketers that lets them create personalized video ads for brands. The startup’s first product is a video ad campaign-management tool that’s in beta with a handful of clients.

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2 years ago

A company that wants to "change the way we think about healthcare." It offers a handful of different plans that allow users to pay for different levels of services. The service is currently in beta testing in San Francisco.

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A platform for college students to buy beer, wine, and liquor. The company says they’ve already started taking pre-orders on their API and working with a handful of college stores across the country.

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A startup that aims to provide better analytics for online production. HowStuffWorks is a video production company, but up until now it was only able to track a handful of metrics, like views and shares, to get a vague sense of what was working. Now they have a full analytics suite that they said gives them a much more accurate picture of whether they’re on the right track with their content.

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A cloud-based tool for handling the creation and management of community events. The company is currently in beta for a handful of cities, including Pittsburgh.

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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.

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Idea: A startup that helps online businesses understand how their product is interacting with the real world It’s like an interactive version of Google Analytics The startup’s software is built on top of a distributed programmable database called BigTable and is currently selling to a handful of enterprise clients

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A startup that is building an AI-based system that automatically detects and reverses “missteps” on an investment portfolio. They say the startup is able to detect and correct for a handful of common mistakes 80% of the time, and that it doesn’t require any human involvement.

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A company that’s building a “tech as a service” platform to help businesses decide which AI services are best for them. The startup is currently working with a handful of companies, starting out with clients in the healthcare and financial industries.

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Flippa, a startup that helps sellers list and promote their items on the site, is one of the top 10 most popular sites on Airbnb. Flippa is one of a handful of startups built on the idea that on-demand goods should be just as easy to sell as on-demand services. Flippa’s sales are in the hundreds of millions.

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Handful Startup Ideas

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

A 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 provides a custom-branded credit card for businesses. The startup is working with a handful of national merchants and aims to scale eventually.

A startup that makes a sensor that attaches to the outside of buildings and measures the humidity and temperature for every room. The startup is currently working with a handful of commercial buildings across New York City.

A platform that helps your employees to deal with regulatory requirements for their business. The company currently has a handful of clients, including a financial services company.

A software platform that makes it easier for fashion designers to collaborate with multiple brands. The company is already live in New York and San Francisco, and is working to launch in a handful of other cities in the next year.

There are also a handful of open source startups doing interesting things:

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.

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

A food delivery app in the US that is working with a handful of restaurants to get deliveries in under an hour. It has already raised $6M.

A SaaS that lets people collaborate and work together on inexpensive, low-power devices. The team is working with a handful of clients, but more are in the pipeline.

A startup that partners with local retailers to curate a handful of in-store activities for users to enjoy. These “experiences” are curated by the user’s location and can be anything from a free cup of coffee to a free library book.

A startup for managing the logistics of moving your home to a new location. It claims to reduce the cost of moving by up to 70%. It’s also working with a handful of real estate companies to help them manage their property data and make it more accessible.

A startup that brings together a handful of travel websites and search engines.

A company that’s “building the easiest way to finance business.” It’s working with a handful of customers to help them raise capital.

In addition to everything on this list, there were also a handful of other companies that were pitched that I didn’t write about.

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

This startup is building a tool for beer lovers to find, learn about and share reviews of craft beers. The startup has in the past month added beer reviews from a handful of beer experts and bloggers to its platform.

The startup has already worked with a handful of major retailers on testing their mobile app. The startup is looking to develop a platform for handling a million transactions a day.

This is a startup that helps people with financial planning and planning for retirement. It’s a complicated, nuanced domain that’s dominated by a handful of companies, but this startup is trying to automate the process using machine learning and artificial intelligence.

A tool to help organizations centralize their communication. The app makes it easy to send messages to all employees or just a handful of people.

A company that provides online training for professionals. It currently has a handful of clients in the finance, e-commerce, and healthcare industries, and is only just beginning to consider the software it needs to get to scale.

A tool for agencies and marketers that lets them create personalized video ads for brands. The startup’s first product is a video ad campaign-management tool that’s in beta with a handful of clients.

A company that wants to "change the way we think about healthcare." It offers a handful of different plans that allow users to pay for different levels of services. The service is currently in beta testing in San Francisco.

A platform for college students to buy beer, wine, and liquor. The company says they’ve already started taking pre-orders on their API and working with a handful of college stores across the country.

A cloud-based tool for handling the creation and management of community events. The company is currently in beta for a handful of cities, including Pittsburgh.

A startup that is building an AI-based system that automatically detects and reverses “missteps” on an investment portfolio. They say the startup is able to detect and correct for a handful of common mistakes 80% of the time, and that it doesn’t require any human involvement.

A company that’s building a “tech as a service” platform to help businesses decide which AI services are best for them. The startup is currently working with a handful of companies, starting out with clients in the healthcare and financial industries.