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5 years ago

A startup that helps people choose where to live based on what is happening in their life, not just on what they can afford

3,732

2 years ago

A place where you can find jobs you can do from home.

2,277

2 years ago

A digital marketplace where students can sell their services while still in school. The startup is seeking to receive $1 million through a crowdfunding campaign.

1,575

2 years ago

A new way to buy and sell cars, accepting Bitcoin and Ethereum.

1,326

2 years ago 1 views

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

1,252

2 years ago

A mobile app that lets users choose what they want to buy and where to buy it.

890

2 years ago

A B2B software company that connects customers and service providers to automate the entire experience of paying your bills online. It has an enterprise model, where companies can pay US$400 a month for recurring invoices.

760

2 years ago

A digital native bank that lets you deposit and withdraw money from anywhere in the world.

698

3 years ago

A place where you can find restaurants, hotels, and attractions (like museums, parks, and hiking trails) in your area.

682

4 years ago

A startup that wants to build an online marketplace where shoppers can easily find out what’s in stock in a product they’re looking for.

467

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

5 years ago

A messaging app for urbanites in India, where the government has banned SMS and WhatsApp, and SMS is often unreliable.

422

5 years ago

A female-focused, non-sexualized virtual reality platform where women can connect with other women in a safe and judgement-free environment to discuss and learn about sexual health and wellness.

414

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can pay a professional to do something for them that they are procrastinating on

404

2 years ago

An online forum where workers can discuss their employment cases.

402

4 years ago

People love their pets, but when it comes to veterinary care, there’s a shortage of vets, and a high cost. PetMeds is building a subscription service that integrates with veterinarians to deliver pharmaceuticals and supplies to pets at home, where they can get better care and less expensively.

394

4 years ago

A collaborative workspace where people can work on their own projects and teams can rent desks for a day or week.

384

4 years ago

A decentralized worldwide marketplace where members can buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.

355

4 years ago

A kind of “digital cash” that’s fully digital, works anywhere, and doesn’t require a fee to transfer money.

345

2 years ago

A startup where users pay a daily fee to see curated content from the web.

345

4 years ago

The company offers a platform where you can order and deliver a meal from a restaurant you’ve never heard of before.

316

4 years ago

A global marketplace for local goods that requires zero inventory or storage costs. The startup says it can deliver goods from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world within 48 hours.

300

4 years ago

A tool for choosing where to eat in a city.

297

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire someone to come to your house and do laundry, cook meals, etc for you

281

5 years ago

A startup that sells ready-made food for people who live in an area where it’s hard to get good quality food

280

5 years ago

A platform that helps companies transfer money to individual employees in different locations. It’s a way for companies to have more control over the money they spend and track where it goes.

279

5 years ago

Find a bar or restaurant where you’re headed.

279

4 years ago

A retail delivery service where employees can scan and deliver items to customers’ doors.

279

5 years ago

A digital platform where people can buy and sell cars and vehicles.

278

5 years ago

In the past year, there have been a few notable exits from Indian startups and their founders. Vani Kola, co-founder of Zomato, sold her company to local rival Swiggy for an estimated $50 million.

275

5 years ago

The startup is building a platform for house-hunting in India. It’s a service like Zumper or Realtor.com but for a country where 40% of houses are bought and sold on a daily basis.

274

3 years ago

Create a service where sellers can put up products for sale on different sites.

272

5 years ago

A money transfer service where people can send money to family members without having to deal with the banking system.

269

3 years ago

A startup that helps businesses find out how many customers they have, how much they spend and where they came from.

263

4 years ago

A platform for homes where homeowners can share tools and services, and get paid for doing so, similar to AirBnB.

262

4 years ago

A company that helps small businesses find tech talent, with a focus on recruiting developers and designers in cities where they are based.

261

4 years ago

They want to build a platform where employers and freelance workers can “communicate, connect and collaborate”. They have raised $1.1M in seed funding as of September 2019.

253

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire a photographer to take professional photos of you

246

4 years ago

A platform where people can ask questions to experts, and get answers and advice. The idea is that millions of people can use it to get help with anything from career advice to questions about their own health.

245

4 years ago

A startup that uses your location to show you the cheapest gas stations near where you are.

241

4 years ago

A startup with an app that can block websites that operate in countries where the government is blocked. The startup is currently focused on the Chinese market.

236

4 years ago

A freelance platform where contractors can build websites, mobile apps, and other digital products.

232

4 years ago

This company sells a chatbot that answers work-related questions. The startup says there is a $22.5 billion market for this type of service.

232

4 years ago

Founded in 2013, QuizUp is a trivia game where you compete against others for high scores. The startup has raised $1.5 million and is now making its way into Asia.

232

4 years ago

A startup where people can vote on what they’d like to see on the menu at restaurants.

232

2 years ago

A collaboration platform where users can log into Slack and create and manage their own private channels. The service is free for up to 10 people at a time.

229

4 years ago

A startup that provides a “digital home” where someone can design and build a custom home online, and then have it shipped to them. The startup creates a 3D model of the house, and then puts it into a CAD program, which allows them to directly see the design, and put in every detail.

227

3 years ago

The website where users can order products with a click of a mouse

226

5 years ago

This startup is building an artificial intelligence-based platform for hiring, where customers can create a job description and AI will do the background check, find the best candidate, and schedule an interview.

222

5 years ago

A tool that helps people track packages in real time, so they know when the delivery is happening, and where exactly.

222

4 years ago

This is a 3D blockchain game built on the Ethereum blockchain. The game pits users against each other, where they compete for virtual game cards and battle for blockchain-based prizes.

221

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can book a trainer to come to their home and workout with them

220

4 years ago

SaaS business that provides a platform for companies to manage their payments and invoices from anywhere in the world.

220

5 years ago

A startup where you can buy used tablet computers from big retailers like Best Buy and Staples.

213

4 years ago

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213

4 years ago

A platform where people can get paid for vlogging, drawing, or creating content.

211

4 years ago

The idea behind this startup is that there are 100s of millions of people who don’t use their car’s navigation system, but do know how to use their cellphones. The startup wants to solve the problem by building a service for people to use their phone’s GPS to give them directions.

209

2 years ago

A software platform that helps companies manage their supply chains in one place. The startup is looking to build a marketplace for this software where companies can buy and sell contracts for their suppliers.

209

5 years ago

A “crypto-fiat exchange” where customers purchase cryptocurrency with fiat money and then pay their bills with the money they’ve earned.

207

4 years ago

A startup that uses artificial intelligence to predict where a person will get dengue fever within 72 hours and suggests a preventive treatment to them.

207

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people who are in the hospitality industry can find temporary housing if they are traveling for work

206

4 years ago

A startup that allows you to select when and where you’d like to get your car washed, from a list of viable times and places.

206

4 years ago

This is a video chat app that can connect users to a live video conference where they can call one another.

206

4 years ago

There are a lot of really great ideas out there, and we’re only just getting started.

206

3 years ago

The idea here is to build a platform similar to UberPool, where users can choose to share rides with strangers instead of getting a taxi. It’s meant to be a sort of last-mile transportation.

206

5 years ago

Academic research: “We are in the midst of a digital revolution, where the ability to extract value from data is rapidly outpacing the ability to create it.”

205

2 years ago

This is a startup that wants to create a platform where developers can build apps for a company’s hardware products. It’s a hardware-agnostic platform, meaning you can build an app for a smart lock or a thermostat for a smart heating system.

205

5 years ago

A New York-based startup that sells t-shirts that have a QR code embedded on them to track where the item was shipped.

201

4 years ago

A “social network for nurses”, where nurses can connect with each other and patients. The company is currently focused on the US healthcare system.

201

4 years ago

A startup where sellers can search and advertise used vehicles in real time.

201

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where parents in China can pay to have someone with a degree in education check their kid’s homework

200

5 years ago

A startup that helps businesses manage their cash flow. The tool helps companies forecast where their cash will come from, and sends automated reminders when it runs low. The startup uses machine learning and AI to help companies forecast how much cash they would have at this month’s end and the next month.

200

4 years ago

A community where aspiring politicians can get advice from other politicians, and help each other get elected.

200

4 years ago

A tool for finding and hiring professional drivers. The idea is to give customers access to a marketplace where they can find drivers and vice versa.

199

5 years ago

A startup that provides a concierge service to help people who are traveling to figure out where to eat and what to do

198

2 years ago

A startup and mobile app for selling tickets to events, which can be refunded if a show gets cancelled, or resold if there isn’t enough demand.

198

5 years ago

It’s a lifestyle music service, where you can access your library from any device and listen to the music in whatever order you want. You can also pay for a subscription to get access to a wider library.

196

4 years ago

A startup co-founded by Y Combinator alum Sam Altman, this is a social network where you can make friends with the people you meet through the app. Users pay for memberships and can then message and chat with others on the platform.

196

4 years ago

A company that uses the Ethereum blockchain and a native digital currency to buy and sell online content — with no fees and no middlemen.

196

4 years ago

A startup that is building a “sharing economy” platform for home rentals, where people can post their homes for free and offer them for short-term rentals.

195

5 years ago

A startup that sells a service where they take your clothing and make it in to new pieces of clothing

194

4 years ago

A platform that allows users to chat with each other in a currency-agnostic way, where they can “send” and “receive” money.

194

5 years ago

A bot that can automate the process of selling products on Craigslist, on Craigslist, and on other sites where it can be sold. The product is geared towards online retailers.

193

4 years ago

Mentioned in the "2017 YC Demo Day" video, where they discuss the concept of a "mobile printing program" for small businesses. They are now calling their service "Quick Print," and the company is no longer in YC.

193

4 years ago

A community where you can ask a curated team of experts for advice on a particular topic.

192

4 years ago

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

192

4 years ago

Open source software meant to help e-commerce sites track items in their inventory. Marketers want to know where to buy their products and what items are selling.

192

4 years ago

This company is building a new type of physical currency system. Their currency is tied to the Ethereum blockchain, but is not a cryptocurrency. It’s intended to be “for people who don’t have access to currency”.

191

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 startup that provides a service where you can pay a monthly fee to have a local sitter take care of your pet

189

5 years ago

This startup is building a comprehensive online marketplace for the sale of assets like real estate and cars. The startup is focused on rural markets like India, where the costs of buying and selling homes and commodities is often prohibitively high.

189

5 years ago

Microfinancing platform that uses a machine learning algorithm to do credit checks and a risk assessment in order to make sure the capital they lend is actually utilized. Microfinance is a $2.6 trillion industry where millions of people lack access to loans, and that’s where the startup wants to come in and help.

189

5 years ago

A startup where people can sell their surplus electronics. The startup has 15,000 users, compared to 7,000 for charity.com.

188

4 years ago

An Ethereum-based security platform for ICOs and tokens. The company wants to help ICOs avoid some of the pitfalls of launching an ICO, like bad project management, and establish a standard for token security.

188

3 years ago

A personalized learning platform where you can design your own learning plan, and get feedback from a coach.

188

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

A team of Ph.D.s and VCs is building a new language for smart contracts, making it easier to write and read smart contracts that run on the Ethereum blockchain.

187

4 years ago

A startup that lets you buy a lifetime membership to a community of people who share your interests. It’s a subscription based site so you pay a set amount over time, but there’s a free version for non-members.

187

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can find a random person with similar hobbies to do a project with

186

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you pay $50 and then a photographer takes photos of your house from different angles and then you get the high-res photos

185

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can pay to have a phone call with someone who has been through something similar in their life

184

5 years ago

An online platform where customers can review products they’ve purchased and engage with brands.

184

4 years ago

A company that’s trying to solve the problem of how to get information from a decentralized public database like Ethereum to a centralized database.

184

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier for enterprises to hire workers in countries where they don’t have access to a labor market.

184

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where they go through a library and choose books that they think you would enjoy

183

5 years ago

A platform where people can pay with their debit and credit cards to buy products from merchants.

183

5 years ago

A new way to book a car, with a carpool mode that will help find rides for people who live far from where they want to go.

183

4 years ago

- "We are building a service to help people find out where to buy a home and how much it will cost.

183

3 years ago

A music streaming service where you can stream music stored on your phone to anywhere. The startup is also building a subscription service, which it’s launching in the next few weeks.

183

5 years ago

This company helps retailers track where their online sales go and find out what parts of their websites are working well or not.

182

5 years ago

A B2B company that provides software solutions to restaurants and bars wherein you can order ahead by text, email, and phone.

182

5 years ago

A mobile app for finding the closest parking spot to where you’re going, with the ability to pay for it with a credit card.

182

4 years ago

As startups have left their desks behind, founders have become increasingly worried about their physical whereabouts, and have invented apps to help. In the new book, “Fearless: How to Be Unafraid and Do Anything,” entrepreneurs and founders like Dave McClure, David Karp, and Adam D’Angelo share their stories of building their companies in secret, and how they’ve gained confidence and fearlessness.

182

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people who are visiting a new city can get a box of carefully selected items that will help them enjoy their stay

181

5 years ago

A startup that provides a tool where people can subscribe to a service that sends them a box of 5-10 items every month

181

5 years ago

A platform where you can sell your used stuff to others.

181

4 years ago

A platform where people can create a profile and upload photos of themselves to be rated by other users. The site is mostly for fun at this point, but it could be a useful tool for dating.

181

4 years ago

A startup that offers a way to purchase discounted goods, with the added benefit of being able to see what other people bought there too.

181

4 years ago

A technology startup that wants to use the power of data to make stuff like robot pets and virtual reality games more interactive. It’s currently focused on Pokémon Go, where it is working with Niantic on a new feature that allows users to interact with characters in the game.

181

4 years ago

This company is building a dynamic, social network for creators. The company’s users are known as “creators”, and they’re able to join the platform via social channels like Facebook and Twitter. The company’s blog is meant to be a “creators” hub, where they’re able to share their work, and tips and tricks.

181

5 years ago

A startup that helps people find a job where they can be themselves

180

5 years ago

In the US, over $15 billion is spent on advertising for pet care services, but there is currently no app-based service that lets you find a good pet sitter. Pet Care Hero wants to be the first.

180

4 years ago

The mobile app for keeping track of your daily finances, a feature of which is a social media-like feed where you can share your transactions with others.

180

3 years ago

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

180

3 years ago

A CEO of a software company in the Middle East told me that while he liked the idea of Hinge, one of the things missing was a way to easily find matches outside of New York, Toronto and LA. Hinge wants to be the place to find matches where you aren’t a celebrity.

180

3 years ago

This startup is building a smart jacket for dogs. It’s essentially a wearable dog leash that lets you bring your pet anywhere, such as to a cafe, park, or hotel.

180

5 years ago

Create a social network where people promote content and earn from the ads they share.

179

4 years ago

Portals for hotel rooms where you can book online.

179

3 years ago

Building a platform for decentralized applications on Ethereum, a native app store for Ethereum, and a wallet for storing ether.

179

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire a professional organizer to come to your house and organize it

178

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can get a free haircut because they need a confidence boost

178

5 years ago

A tech startup that wants to pick up where USAA left off.

178

4 years ago

A startup where dog owners can sell their pets, keeping in mind that many dogs can be abused.

178

4 years ago

A startup where users can create and sell customizable AR apps. The startup is currently working with partners in the Middle East to help them get started.

178

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can buy a box of random stuff for $100 and see if they can sell anything on eBay If they sell it, they get a portion of the profit If they don’

177

5 years ago

An online marketplace where people can sell their old textbooks for cheap.

177

5 years ago

The company believes the camera app should become a “mobile photo studio” where you can easily retouch and adjust your images.

177

5 years ago

If you’re the kind of person who really doesn’t like to waste money, this startup is for you. The company is building a tool to keep track of your spending and show you where to use your money more wisely.

177

5 years ago

A free database of all consumer credit cards, available online and allowing users to search for cards, compare them, and see where they’re used.

177

5 years ago

A new type of virtual reality experience, where people can interact with others in a “virtual school” or “virtual community” without leaving their own home.

177

4 years ago

This startup wants to build a platform where users can order food from their favorite restaurant, have it delivered to their door, and track its progress.

177

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can rent a doctor for a short period of time (IE I am getting my wisdom teeth out and I don’t want to be out of work for a

176

5 years ago

A platform that helps users take better care of their data and their digital life. They’ll be launching an app where users can manage their data automatically and use it to optimize their lives.

176

3 years ago

A platform for the “hacking” of the Ethereum blockchain, aiming to give users control over their own blockchains.

176

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can ask therapists questions and get an answer within 24 hours

175

4 years ago

A startup that sells an app that lets you take a photo, track it, and then immediately see where that item was sold. The company is based in the Bay Area.

175

4 years ago

A peer-to-peer housing marketplace, where people can find roommates or share their own home for cheaper rates.

174

4 years ago

There are over 2,000 cryptocurrencies. A finance startup called CreditChain aims to build a cryptocurrency that is more accessible to the average consumer. The company is seeking to build out a “credit blockchain” that allows banks to create and distribute digital and physical products, like insurance policies, to consumers in minutes.

174

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:

174

5 years ago

A “Facebook for your finances”, enabling people to see where their money is going and how it’s being spent.

173

5 years ago

A platform that helps people find jobs that they can work from home, where they don’t have to pay for a whole office.

172

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can rent a home in a foreign country with other

171

5 years ago

A digital society where people can share the things they love and connect with other people who like things they love.

171

4 years ago

According to the 2017 Global Startup Ecosystem Report, there were over 2.4 million startup founders working in the United States.

171

4 years ago

A new kind of financial tool for freelancers and people who work on-demand. It’s a way for people to run their finances and see where their money is going.

171

3 years ago

This startup is selling a database where people can see a list of all the people who have asked them out.

171

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can get their resume reviewed by a professional (IE I pay $50 and I get my resume reviewed) !!!

170

5 years ago

The idea is to make it easier to register to vote, from anywhere, through SMS.

170

5 years ago

In August 2018, Crunchbase reported that there were over 150 venture-backed startup accelerators in the United States. The list of top accelerators in the United States was as follows:

169

4 years ago

A platform to help people find a doctor for their condition, no matter where they live, based on their insurance and coverage.

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

5 years ago

A pet tracking technology that lets you see where your dog is, even when they’re asleep

167

5 years ago

A startup that lets you take a selfie and choose where you want it to appear – like Facebook’s ‘Camera Effects’ – in an Instagram-like interface that’s meant to show you how you look, not what you look like. The company has raised $2 million in seed funding.

167

5 years ago

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

167

4 years ago

A self-driving car startup that plans to partner with ride-hailing companies to help get people to where they want to go.

167

4 years ago

A three-sided marketplace for people to find travel partners, decide where to go and book it together.

167

5 years ago

A startup that sells a service where they help you plan a vacation and then they arrange all of the flights and hotels for you

166

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where they install cameras around a house and then people can pay to rent hours of access to the video recordings

166

5 years ago

This is a social platform where users can post their own stories in order to inspire others.

166

5 years ago

A startup that makes it easier for hotel guests to use their credit card on property. The company’s founders came up with the idea at a conference where the hotel they were staying at had a similar feature, and thought there was a better way to do it.

166

3 years ago

A social network where people can ask questions and get answers from a community of experts.

166

5 years ago

The startup wants to build a global “decentralized, distributed version control system” where users can collaborate directly with each other to do things like improve code or collaborate on core products.

165

5 years ago

An AI startup in the healthcare space, focused on building tools that help doctors and researchers better use the data that’s already out there.

165

5 years ago

A platform where users can build and sell their own apps, getting paid in cryptocurrency.

165

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire a professional to draw up the design you’re looking for and then they

164

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can get a virtual assistant to do anything they want online

164

5 years ago

A startup that wants to put a common API between many banks and start to allow consumers to take debit card payments anywhere.

164

5 years ago

A tool that helps identify the people that need to be at a meeting, and the people who are already there.

164

5 years ago

A startup that wants to provide a platform to help social networks like Instagram and Twitter track their users’ whereabouts. It has a list of “verified” users to help set it apart.

164

4 years ago

There’s a lot of demand for this kind of help, but it’s hard to find that help. A company called Pay-Per-Request is looking to bring the help of a professional notary to the masses at a low cost. The idea is that people sign up for the service and then request notaries for various tasks, get them for a low cost, and then pay for the ones that they like.

164

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where they visit your house and help you plan meals that will last a week

163

5 years ago

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

163

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire a professional to watch your pets so you don’t have to worry about them when you are on vacation or at work for long stretches of time

163

5 years ago

A tool to help creatives manage their store from anywhere using an app or website.

163

3 years ago

A platform for remote workers where they can share their workspace, access to tools and other resources, and can build the work environment they need. The company recently received $1.75 million in seed funding.

163

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can rent out air mattresses in their homes when they’re traveling

162

5 years ago

A startup that helps you set up a study abroad or exchange program at a college in the US. The startup is currently focused on China and has a pending partnership with a college there.

162

5 years ago

A "text-based social network" where people can chat with each other, send text messages, and send emoticons and stickers.

162

3 years ago

A startup that connects a restaurant’s cooks with customers who want to eat at the restaurant without actually going there. The startup is building a restaurant’s online ordering system, delivery service, and payment system, with the goal of having customers order online, with their food coming directly to them.

162

3 years ago

A startup which tracks where your money goes on the web and alerts you to hidden costs.

162

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can solve their own problems by posting their questions on your site and professionals can answer them (like a Quora)

161

5 years ago

A video and virtual reality game where you play as a character from the universe of "My Little Pony" and create an avatar. The startup is looking for a partner to help fund its effort to create a game, which started in November.

161

4 years ago

A startup that helps people find apartments to rent. They are using machine learning to scan Craigslist ads, notify people that there are apartments available, and suggest the best rent/price range.

161

3 years ago

A company that wants to build a marketplace where businesses can auction goods and services in exchange for discounted rates

161

3 years ago

A startup developing a new type of credit card that can be used anywhere, from Uber to Taco Bell to Applebee's

161

3 years ago

A live GPS-based tracking system for delivery services that lets a customer know exactly where their package is at all times, even if they don’t have a phone.

161

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can rent out their unused vacation home for 2 weeks a year and make extra money

160

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can order a box of pre-selected items for their doorstep

160

5 years ago

A platform for building 3D objects where you can customize them to get the exact look you want.

160

5 years ago

A startup for managing your team's projects and tasks from anywhere on the web. The company is currently focused on the US market.

160

5 years ago

Not sure what accelerator to choose for your startup Here are some things to consider:

160

5 years ago

A startup that uses artificial intelligence to predict where companies will be in three years. They’re based in Philadelphia but working with clients around the world.

160

5 years ago

A startup that sells a $100 smart plug that does everything from controlling the lights in your home to allowing the owner to read text messages on their smartphone from anywhere.

160

5 years ago

A platform that tracks traffic, parking, and sanitation data from businesses to help them make better decisions about where to open new locations.

160

5 years ago

A startup that’s building a tool to help companies create an online studio for virtual, remote teams. The startup wants to help companies have a team wherever they are. It’s a platform for companies without 3D graphics talent to create virtual environments and use them for video conferencing, live training, and more.

160

5 years ago

A platform for finding and hiring freelance developers, with a marketplace where developers can find work.

159

5 years ago

The startup introduces a new way to think about the internet and data centers. It rethinks the internet as a global power grid, where countries have their own little data centers that sit atop each other.

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5 years ago

There are a number of resources for startups:

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5 years ago

In 2018, there were a total of 15 startups selected to participate in the program.

159

3 years ago

A platform that helps you get your home ready for sale by taking pictures of it, writing a description and uploading it to a marketplace where buyers can view the home through a smartphone app.

159

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where they will come to your office and clean up all of the clutter that has built up (IE: cabinets, drawers, desks, etc)

158

5 years ago

This is a business-to-business marketplace where you can sell niche products.

158

5 years ago

A blockchain-based platform that lets people not only track their food and purchases, but also lets them tell the story of where their food came from.

158

5 years ago

A portfolio website for freelancers, where people can comment on each other's work, hire one another with a single click, and get paid in bitcoin.

158

4 years ago

This startup is building a new approach to accounting where companies can be both the “source” and “destination” of revenue, for the purpose of calculating tax liabilities.

158

3 years ago

A new type of marketplace that offers college students the chance to get paid to do research and do informal reports for businesses. It’s a place to learn how to write and how to write well, and where students can be paid for their work.

158

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can have a personal assistant who is an expert at daily activities (laundry, cooking, cleaning)

157

5 years ago

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

157

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where it sends you a box of healthy food every week and you can pick it up at a convenient location

157

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people who are traveling can rent a guest room in someone else’s

157

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where someone will help you to write the perfect cover letter for a particular job

157

5 years ago

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

157

5 years ago

A startup that’s looking to build a product where people can find and book gym memberships online.

157

5 years ago

A mobile app that allows employees to check in remotely, find their coworkers and learn about their whereabouts, and see how far away they are.

157

5 years ago

A sustainability project that uses IoT sensors to monitor the environment. There are over 1 billion sensors in use today, but they’re not being used to their full potential.

157

5 years ago

This startup wants to use its data to help people decide where to vacation, and where to live. It’s a bit like other startup like TripAdvisor — but it’s also a concierge service that wants to help show people the best places to vacation and live.

157

5 years ago

An online marketplace for the sale of used bikes and other goods. It’s also a user driven marketplace where users can connect with sellers.

157

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can rent a room in someone’s house for a night, a weekend, a week, etc

156

5 years ago

A startup that sells a service where they will help you figure out what to do with your old car when it’s time to trade it in

156

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where students can get help writing a thesis in exchange for a small review of the thesis once it’s written

156

5 years ago

Smart locks that let you control your home from anywhere with a smartphone

156

5 years ago

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

156

5 years ago

A platform that makes it easier to build and deploy decentralized applications on the Ethereum network. The startup aims to make Ethereum as easy to use as a web app, with an initial focus on dapps for financial services.

156

5 years ago

A platform that connects users with the accounts where the things they buy are delivered.

156

3 years ago

A startup where individuals can sell the data collected from their mobile devices for a fee.

156

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where they come to your house and stock up your refrigerator with the essentials

155

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can pay a monthly fee and then they are assigned a personal assistant who helps them with whatever they need

155

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can order a box of products for a specific time period, for example, I want to try to eat healthy for the next month, so I

154

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people who are interested in buying a home can hire someone to walk through homes that are for sale to tell them if they’re a good fit

154

5 years ago

A startup that offers a service where basketball players can learn the right techniques to shoot a free throw

154

5 years ago

A startup that sells phone cases where the back of the case can be customized to show a picture of your child

154

5 years ago

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

154

5 years ago

A question-and-answer startup where users can ask questions of and then be answered by people all over the world.

154

5 years ago

A platform for letting people work remotely from anywhere. Currently working with three companies, including one in New York City.

154

3 years ago

A credit card application for the underbanked, where users pay a small fee to use the card and earn credit line rewards.

154

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can hire someone to go to restaurants with them and make suggestions about the menu

153

5 years ago

A startup that provides a platform where you can hire someone to help you with your small business (such as bookkeeping)

153

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can hire someone to help them with their social media presence (ie post on facebook, tweet, etc)

153

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire someone to find lost furniture that you left on the side of the road for pickup

153

5 years ago

A startup that helps people who want to learn how to cook but don’t know where to start

153

5 years ago

A smart doorbell that can notify you when there’s a delivery.

153

5 years ago

A startup for project management on the blockchain, where freelancers can find clients and employers can find projects they want to fill.

153

5 years ago

A platform where users can create virtual islands for multiplayer gaming. It launched in 2014, with the founders saying that it’s on track to reach $1.5 million in annual revenue.

153

5 years ago

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

153

5 years ago

A startup that lets users check into a space on Facebook, Twitter, or Foursquare to see photos and reviews of the space, and view events happening there.

153

4 years ago

The startup is building a social network for people who love to cook, with an emphasis on making it a place where everyone can learn from each other’s cooking.

153

4 years ago

This startup wants to be the Amazon of the home. The idea is to make a marketplace for house-goods, where sellers can list what they have and buyers can filter options and place orders.

153

4 years ago

A startup for nonprofits to manage their recurring donation programs, allowing them to figure out which programs are most effective and where to invest their money.

153

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help businesses do their bookkeeping in India, a country where the rule of thumb is that you can’t be a good accountant if you don’t know how to do your own bookkeeping.

153

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire someone to help you work through your problems/issues

152

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire someone to transcribe your audio and video interviews

152

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can rent a house on Airbnb and they’ll come clean it with their own cleaning crew before the next tenant arrives

152

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can get a haircut from the comfort of their own home (you visit their home and they cut your hair)

152

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire an assistant to do a small task for you: pay a bill, order you a pizza, etc

152

5 years ago

An online marketplace for small businesses to collaborate, where they can share resources, receive feedback from customers, and get more business. They charge businesses $5 per month per person to join, and charge businesses $500 a month to become a Vendor.

152

5 years ago

A digital solution that helps companies build their own “mobile internet” in cities where there are no roads, by letting companies connect to nearby beacons.

152

5 years ago

The startup is building a cloud-based platform where people can build and publish their own apps for any mobile platform, with a focus on Android.

152

5 years ago

A startup for freelancers, providing a venue where employers and freelancers can use an “open-source” to find and hire each other.

152

5 years ago

A simple social network where people can post things, and follow people on the network. Users can then comment on each other’s posts, or post their own.

151

5 years ago

There’s a lot of startups out there that are building tools to make our lives better, like TaskRabbit and Airbnb. But not so many that are building tools to make our lives worse.

151

5 years ago

A new kind of “bank” for the unbanked, where people can create savings accounts, send and receive money, and borrow short-term from peers.

151

5 years ago

A system for home health aides to manage their clients’ care from anywhere.

151

5 years ago

Recruiting a new generation of workers for the tech industry by creating an online platform where college students can learn how to code and get jobs.

151

3 years ago

There are a lot of options for managing your LinkedIn and Facebook profiles, but most are either paid or expensive. The startup aims to be the first in that space.

151

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can pay to have their trash and recycling picked up and taken away

150

5 years ago

A startup that is a directory of places to go on vacation and where you can do activities (IE A startup like TripAdvisor but for all sorts of activities)

150

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can send in their old books and they are sold to people in developing countries

150

5 years ago

A startup that helps people pay for things, whether it’s a ride or a cup of coffee. The startup charges a fee of $5.95/month to charge and pay for things, and there’s an option to opt in for free.

150

5 years ago

A new form of social networking where users input specific preferences about the people they want to meet, rather than using the usual “like” or “dislike” functions.

150

5 years ago

A company that helps people save money on their mobile phone bills. The startup is focused on helping people in countries where mobile services are expensive, as is the case in Mexico. It currently offers a mobile plan on a monthly basis and has signed on the largest mobile company in Mexico.

150

5 years ago

A startup that helps business owners and entrepreneurs set up corporate accounts and work with their bank from anywhere.

150

5 years ago

A startup for hiring and retaining freelancers that allows businesses to find, hire and pay people from anywhere in the world.

150

5 years ago

An adtech startup that has created a network of sites where users can view relevant ads across a network of sites.

150

3 years ago

A platform that helps users buy and sell rental properties on a peer-to-peer basis. It’s an alternative to traditional real estate listings sites where users browse and search for rentals through a portal.

150

3 years ago

A social network for runners, where users can follow other runners, and can compete against other runners.

150

3 years ago

A technology that lets users send their voice messages to their phones. The startup wants to build a platform that allows users to send voice messages to their phones from any device from anywhere.

150

2 years ago

A company that builds an ad platform for health care. It’s a market estimated to be worth $25 billion in the US, but is so closely regulated that it’s difficult to do business there.

150

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can have a “taste” of a product before they buy it

149

5 years ago

A platform for sharing and rating products across the web, where consumers can go to see what the top products in a category are and rate them.

149

5 years ago

An online marketplace that connects manufacturers with large-scale distributors. The marketplace is built on the idea that there are many manufacturing companies that want to do business with large companies, but are unable to do so because of their small size.

149

5 years ago

A software platform that allows customers to find out where they can buy products and then subscribe to them in advance. The startup is building an e-commerce platform for physical products, with an emphasis on beauty. The company is based in San Francisco.

149

5 years ago

A startup for people who want to start a business, but don’t have the time or resources to actually do it. The app aims to provide education, mentoring, and a place where entrepreneurs can network.

149

5 years ago

A startup that provides a monthly subscription service where someone comes to your house and provides a manicure, pedicure, facial,

148

5 years ago

A platform for building art, where anyone can create a piece of art in minutes. The app uses a unique algorithm to make it easier and more accessible for people to make art, and it’s often seen as the most unique aspect of the platform.

148

5 years ago

A startup that aims to help buyers of large items like boats and yachts get a quote from a wide variety of suppliers to see if they could do the job for less elsewhere.

148

5 years ago

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

148

5 years ago

Their goal is to build a platform that allows people to earn money off the things they love to do, with the idea that there are countless opportunities to earn money from social media.

148

5 years ago

An encrypted messaging app, “built for the public sphere”

148

5 years ago

A startup that wants to bring true visual search to the web. The startup uses AI to detect the objects in a picture or video, and then uses that data to power a search engine that can be used from anywhere.

148

5 years ago

A way to let people crowdsource their ideas (like Kickstarter) from the comfort of their home, where they can focus on the creative process without having to deal with logistics.

148

5 years ago

A startup that provides education on the benefits of Keto and how to go about it, has an ecommerce component where you can buy all your Keto needs

147

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can sell tickets for events you can’t attend

147

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can order a cuddling service and get cuddled by a stranger to help you with anxiety

147

5 years ago

A startup that enables people to join online discussions from anywhere, even when they’re offline

147

5 years ago

Poynt is building an identity verification service for the cannabis industry, based on the Ethereum blockchain.

147

5 years ago

A startup that automatically bookmarks the location of where you’re going for your next Uber ride and updates it each time you call.

147

5 years ago

"Idea 2.0 is a tool for entrepreneurs to help them learn about new technologies in the market and network together. It’s the Uber of technology conferences. The conference is in its second year and has had over 1,000 attendees and 300+ speakers from 45 countries. The conference’s format is based on the model of Airbnb, where the host gets to pick the guests. The guest list is highly curated and the speakers are handpicked by the company’s CEO. The conference has been very well received by attendees and has been named a Top 10 conference in the US in 2018.

147

5 years ago

A platform for creating, sharing, and selling apps for businesses, including a marketplace where people can list and sell their own apps.

147

5 years ago

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

146

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can have a professional take pictures of your possessions so that you can easily take inventory of your stuff

146

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can get videos of your children or grandchildren at a discounted rate

146

5 years ago

This startup’s idea is a combination of a travel guide with an Instagram feed where you can find unique places to eat and stay. The company is working on bringing in new geographies and businesses to get more exposure.

146

5 years ago

A remote meeting solution for companies that want to meet where people are, like coffee shops or bars. The startup is currently focusing on a few dozen US and European locations, but plans to go global in 2018.

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5 years ago

“A new type of data marketplace, we are creating a marketplace where you can buy and sell your data. Everything from your browsing history to your location data, and from your health data to your social media data. We are building a data marketplace that enables you to monetize your data.”

146

5 years ago

A platform that lets you upload your own smart contracts onto the Ethereum blockchain.

146

5 years ago

We have been taught that investing is for the financially sophisticated. But SICAV’s goal is to make it simpler, more transparent and more accessible to people everywhere.

146

5 years ago

A startup that helps people find a job at a company via a referral (ie Ikea hires you for a job but you don't know anyone there, so Ikea pays someone $1,000 if that person refers you to

145

5 years ago

A startup that aims to bring the transparency of online voting to the world of online retail, where many retailers don’t always do their best to represent their products to their customers.

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5 years ago

The online marketplace where used cars can be bought from sellers and sold to buyers. The startup is private and hasn’t released much information on its model, but it’s looking to build a local network of auto sellers and buyers who make purchases through a mobile app.

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5 years ago

Currently looking for beta testers, but if you want to help build the app, you can sign up here .

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5 years ago

The company was founded by former Google engineers, with the goal of creating a “Google for humans” where people can find information about products and services without having to search through a million different sites.

145

5 years ago

A startup that develops a software platform for tracking and analyzing all the marketing campaigns that are out there.

145

5 years ago

An online membership sharing network for businesses like Always 21, where people pay a monthly membership fee to access discounted travel and entertainment.

145

5 years ago

This is a company building a platform where an existing customer can find and hire a contractor to repair or remodel a specific item in their home. It’s a marketplace for homeowners looking to hire contractors, and the startup is profitable.

145

4 years ago

A new platform for the next generation of musicians. Musikexplorer has a music school format, where the students get a chance to learn music and play in a band.

145

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where a personal shopper goes to a store and picks out items they want for them

144

5 years ago

An online platform for secondary market transactions, where you can buy and sell stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments.

144

5 years ago

A collaboration platform for photographers and artists, built for the Chinese market. They have a service called “A.P.I.S.” where artists and photographers can upload art and photographers can upload photos to sell.

144

5 years ago

A platform for communications between students and their professors, where students can ask questions and professors can respond.

144

5 years ago

A “one-time” payment service for reviews, where customers only have to pay once and then don’t have to pay again unless they choose to.

144

5 years ago

A 3D facial recognition tool that allows users to take selfies and instantly identify who they are and where they are. The idea is that it can help businesses reduce the risk of theft.

144

3 years ago

A platform for the online videogames industry, where gamers can sell and buy game items.

144

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can order up a marketing consultant to help them with their business

143

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you pay $100/month and they will do all of your laundry and ironing

143

5 years ago

A platform to help workers access an employer’s benefits, including healthcare, regardless of where they work.

143

5 years ago

Spots on the map that help you find the closest ride to your destination. The startup wants to make it easier for drivers to find the best ride deal by letting them mark where they want to be picked up and dropping off.

143

5 years ago

A network of public and private buses that connect to each other and to bike lanes, helping commuters get where they need to go.

143

5 years ago

This startup wants to make it easier to get a headshot taken in an interior studio — anywhere in the world.

143

5 years ago

A startup that offers a service where people who are moving out can hire someone to help them clean their apartment

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5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire someone to do grocery shopping for you but the twist is that they will only buy one of everything so you don’t have to worry about extra stuff taking up space in your fridge

142

5 years ago

A social network for creatives and photographers, where users can discover, follow, and search for work by the same criteria.

142

5 years ago

There’s a really big market for high-end home security systems. The startup is building a system that helps you get the best one for your needs, with a $5 monthly subscription.

142

5 years ago

A startup that wants to build a “pay it forward” model, where people volunteer to pay for others’ purchases in the name of “paying it forward”. It’s a bit like the Amazon Dash, but with the automatic donation of the $5 to the cashier instead of the Amazon account.

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5 years ago

In addition to the startup projects listed here, some startups have been incubated at Techstars in its program.

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5 years ago

This is a “Y Combinator for entrepreneurs”, where people can get feedback and advice from Y Combinator alumni.

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5 years ago

A digital marketplace where businesses can trade services with each other. Dutch startup has already built one app for this.

142

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can order healthy meals that are pre-plated and delivered to your house

141

5 years ago

A tool used to connect small businesses with customers and suppliers, allowing the businesses to manage their finances from anywhere in the world.

141

5 years ago

A company that helps people fulfill sustainability goals by helping them save money and time on their purchases. There’s a lot of buzz in the sustainability space about the idea that the more sustainable you are, the more money you save.

141

5 years ago

A place where people can make, sell, and share custom t-shirts

141

5 years ago

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

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5 years ago

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

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5 years ago

A solution for the $4 trillion global oil market where producers don’t have reliable inventories and retailers don’t have a clear picture of demand or low prices. Oil can be stored in underground tanks and is more valuable if it’s in the right place. Oil Tracker aims to connect all the different stakeholders in the oil market.

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5 years ago

A “social marketplace for manufacturing”, where manufacturers can find and price items from suppliers, and suppliers can find customers.

141

5 years ago

A platform where people can find the right caretakers for their aging parents.

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3 years ago

A gamified way to manage time and resources. The startup, which launched in June, wants to help sales reps be more efficient by breaking down the time it takes them to close a deal and using that data to create a game-like experience where they can track their progress.

141

5 years ago

A startup that sells a service where they send you a text message every day with a new quote or thought to get you thinking

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5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can send a gift basket full of grocery items to new parents when they have a baby

140

5 years ago

Muyu is a startup based in Brazil that wants to help companies automate their invoices. The startup has a feature-rich platform where users can drag and drop invoices and attachments, and renew them automatically.

140

5 years ago

There are a lot of companies that help people find parking, but now there’s one that helps people find parking at home.

140

5 years ago

An online retailer of small business supplies that's trying to take on Amazon. The company is based in Brazil, which is where they say 85% of small businesses are located.

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5 years ago

Sphere is a new approach to online education based on the idea that online education is too expensive for many students and doesn’t provide high enough quality instruction. Sphere offers a free, high-quality education to anyone in the world.

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3 years ago

Xeeda is building an indoor drone racing league, where teams of drones compete in a virtual racing circuit.

140

5 years ago

A startup whose product is a secure private messaging app. In an environment where everyone is worried about their privacy, the startup wants to make messaging private and secure.

139

5 years ago

A startup that allows contractors to offer their clients a discount on their services, claiming it will save them money and the client time. It’s based on a model in Australia where a contractor can get a discount on their services by using a platform like that.

139

5 years ago

Decentralized Waze, the adult version, where users are paid for reporting road hazards, or get points for reporting them.

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5 years ago

This is a “tech-for-good” project that wants to build a marketplace where people can donate their old smartphones and tablets to be refurbished and repurposed into solar-powered lights for developing countries.

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5 years ago

A new way to make small investments in companies via a traditional stock exchange, where a fund manager buys shares in a private company and sells them to public investors. A good example of a startup that is trying to bring the benefits of high-frequency trading to a more traditional model.

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5 years ago

This startup is building a “smart” card that runs on a local RFID (radio frequency identification) chip. The card is intended for use in vending machines and retail stores where sales occur, but the company is also looking to use it in other contexts like credit/debit cards and membership cards.

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5 years ago

In India, there are millions of small businesses that don’t have a bank account. ManageBharat is a mobile app that helps these businesses manage transactions, pay taxes, and keep their books straight.

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3 years ago

A platform that lets people who want to help others organize where they can find the best of these groups. The company wants to help people see where others are doing good in the world.

139

5 years ago

A startup that sells a service where people can sell their old stuff and have someone deliver it to a store for them

138

5 years ago

A tool to help get the word out about an activist group’s actions, like a call to action or a march. The startup’s slogan is: “There’s more to activism than Facebook.”

138

5 years ago

A librarian’s assistant for libraries. It’s similar to a virtual assistant but for a library. It’s meant to make life easier for librarians by helping them keep track of where their patrons are in the library and what books they’re reading.

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5 years ago

CTO of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he has helped build a $100M startup.

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5 years ago

A parking app that matches drivers with parking spaces based on availability, demand, and proximity to events. In this case, it’s a pop-up that shows up in the app when there’s a space available, whether that be in a lot or garage.

138

5 years ago

A SaaS for freelancers where employers can buy, track, and manage the work of freelance workers.

138

5 years ago

Disrupting the $1.6 trillion global student loan market as we know it. According to the company, there are currently more than 200,000 different student loans, but very few of them are offered by the same company.

138

5 years ago

A startup to allow people to send money from their smartphones to a family member, no matter where they are in the world.

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3 years ago

A tool for selling tickets to events, where both the buyer and seller can reap the benefits of ticketing technology.

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5 years ago

The startup stems from the idea that a lot of people who have billions of dollars in reserve don’t invest it, and Aorta wants to be a place where anyone can start investing in a diversified portfolio of stocks seamlessly.

137

5 years ago

A place where you can find courses in the US on everything from wine to yoga to machine learning.

137

5 years ago

A digital marketplace for car parts, where companies buy and sell used parts to each other.

137

3 years ago

A social networking app where you can message and chat with people who have a rare disease.

137

3 years ago

A platform for maintaining a database of information about the world’s languages, the language you’re speaking, where you learned it, and so on. The startup aims to create a common repository of knowledge across the W3 community.

137

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can get a house cleaned for you and then get a certificate to get a discount at a local store

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5 years ago

A remote-work solution for business partners and freelancers, letting them work from anywhere. It’s a sort of “Uber for freelancers”, and is based on the idea that most clients don’t want to hire someone for a long-term gig, but instead need someone to tackle a project for a few days or a week at a time.

136

5 years ago

A “Global Credit Network” where you can borrow money from anyone in the world — no credit checks and no collateral. The startup is building the infrastructure to make international microlending easy.

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5 years ago

A company that’s building a “novel” construction management system for construction projects that use “smart data” to predict how expensive a project will be down to the square foot of a building. It’s meant to replace the current method where a project management team manually calculates the costs.

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5 years ago

A platform for the sharing economy, where a person can rent out their car, boat, or bicycle.

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5 years ago

A community where people can upload their own videos, photos, and music and share them with other users.

136

5 years ago

A social network for pet owners, where owners can post photos of their pets, find like-minded people, and post and discuss questions about their choices for pets.

136

5 years ago

An online platform where retail brands can sell their products to their customers

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5 years ago

A startup that is building a platform to help small businesses know the best loan options at the best rates. Part of their pitch is that they’re aiming to help people in emerging markets, where banks are more expensive.

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5 years ago

An AI engine that predicts where customers will shop and when they will shop, then puts the right products in the right place at the right time.

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5 years ago

A startup where people can find jobs.

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4 years ago

This startup is making lifestyle capture devices that help people remember what they’re doing and where they’ve been at all times. It’s like a Fitbit and a Misfit combined.

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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.

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5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can purchase a gift card that is redeemable for a 1 hour tech support phone call

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5 years ago

A startup of agile software, where firms can hire full-time developers to work on projects.

135

5 years ago

A startup to help companies plan, visualize, and track their marketing efforts. The startup partners with companies to help them see what works, where they should invest their time, and what they need to do next.

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5 years ago

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

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5 years ago

A platform where consumers can try out products before they buy them.

135

5 years ago

An online marketplace for university students where they can find internship opportunities, research and a community.

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5 years ago

This startup’s goal is to help hotels and other hospitality businesses save money by using the same technology that powers self-driving cars to know where their employees are, and be able to send them on a break.

135

5 years ago

A startup building an online platform for people to sell their used electronics. The idea is to be a free marketplace where sellers can sell and buyers can buy used electronics from people all over the world.

135

4 years ago

A startup that makes online payments easier for small businesses in countries where digital payments are still in its nascent stages.

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4 years ago

A social network for Indian Americans. It’s not clear how the company plans to operate in the US given the very different social norms here.

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3 years ago

This startup is building a white label SaaS platform and mobile app that lets any company send a text message to let people know where they can park their cars.

135

3 years ago

A startup looking to build a platform where users can pay rent or other fees online or via text message.

135

3 years ago

A startup where designers and entrepreneurs can connect, share ideas, and collaborate on projects.

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5 years ago

A startup that provides a recruiting service for tech talent, where companies can use any payment method they want

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5 years ago

A startup for connecting freelance designers with clients. There are around 5 million professional designers in the US, and they’re frequently hired through agencies or by the hour. The startup is building a marketplace where designers can post their work, which clients can browse and hire.

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5 years ago

A startup that helps users find and pay for public transportation in the UK, and lets them know when their bus or train is on schedule, and lets them track where they are on their route.

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5 years ago

The company is an online pharmacy, with a twist. They are creating a marketplace where doctors can sell pharmaceuticals to the public, and the public can buy these drugs directly from doctors.

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5 years ago

A startup that allows users to securely access their digital possessions from anywhere with a smartphone. It’s currently working on an encryption layer that will allow users to access their files, which can be stored in the cloud, phone, or a computer.

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5 years ago

A social network where users can connect and share information about plants.

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5 years ago

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

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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.

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5 years ago

A platform where used car buyers can find, communicate, and negotiate deals with sellers.

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2 years ago

This is a social network where you can connect with people who support your physical or digital goals. The startup says it will help with weight loss, physical training, and goal-setting.

134

5 years ago

A startup that sells a tool where you can have a virtual assistant send you a message or email whenever a specific set of keywords is mentioned on Twitter

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5 years ago

This startup is building a platform that connects landlord’s with tenants in need of a place to live and gives them a credit score. The startup’s founders say that there are already over $90 billion worth of real estate assets currently sitting idle.

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5 years ago

A startup where the US government buys excess military equipment and resells them to civilians. It’s not the first attempt to make the surplus military equipment market accessible, but it’s the first to be backed by the US government.

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5 years ago

A software solution that empowers people to make, share, and sell things on Instagram. The startup is building a marketplace where users can post products for sale, and buyers can buy products.

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5 years ago

The startup is building a platform for companies to manage their staff schedules remotely, allowing employees to work remotely anytime, anywhere.

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5 years ago

A collaboration and messaging app for the music industry. The startup has built a service where musicians can share edits and production notes with each other.

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3 years ago

This company is a marketplace for shared storage, storage on remote servers, with a network of people that store their stuff there. They charge a monthly fee, and they say they’re profitable with over 60,000 users.

133

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can pay a flat fee and get a bunch of random items from a specific category and that’s it

132

5 years ago

A startup working on a platform where people can create and share their own e-books, textbooks, and documentation.

132

5 years ago

A digital “wallet” for rideshare drivers (that’s UberX, Lyft, etc.) to pay expenses like deductibles, gas and maintenance. The digital wallet eventually will allow drivers to take rides anywhere and pay their expenses without having to have cash on hand.

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5 years ago

A tool that delivers content based on the interests of users. The startup has built a platform where users are able to express their interests, and then receive content that is tailored to their tastes.

132

5 years ago

A suburban hacker space, the Haus will provide low-cost hack and maker spaces for people to build “things”. The business, which is also an answer to the trend of “maker spaces” in cities like San Francisco and New York, is built around a single shared space, where members can come to build and learn.

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5 years ago

A platform where a user can change the price of a product based on their own internal metrics.

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5 years ago

The CEO of this startup started out as a professional taxi driver and quickly realized that there was no way for him to know how to maximize his taxi revenue. He set out to solve the problem and came up with a solution. As a result, he says, “I’m making a lot more money than the taxi drivers in Bangkok, and they’re never going to tell me how to make more money.”

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5 years ago

This is an “ATM of the future” where you can quickly find the nearest cash machine and pay with your phone, with the machine having the capacity to be disassembled for easy travel.

132

5 years ago

A tool for tracking and managing travel expenses. They’re targeting the B2B space, where travel expenses can get expensive and difficult to track.

132

5 years ago

A smartphone-based navigation app that can read your GPS data and build a map of where you’ve been. The startup has raised $2 million in seed funding.

132

5 years ago

A for-profit company that wants to create a social network for “sponsored content” where brands pay to influence public opinion.

132

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people who need to move or clean up their house can pay someone a small amount of money to do it for them

131

5 years ago

A tool for companies which allows them to set up a phone line to text customers. The idea is that companies can have a central number where they can text customers and the app can notify customers of late payments.

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5 years ago

A way for people to send each other money, for a fee. You can transfer $50 of money to someone without them having to come to a bank. There’s a mobile app that allows people to receive and send money, and an online interface for people to see all their transactions.

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5 years ago

A system that helps people connect the dots between their physical and digital lives, that helps them understand the world around them. People can use the app to find out if someone has talked about them on social media, see if they’ve visited a particular location, and snap a photo of an item they want to buy and see if they can find it elsewhere.

131

5 years ago

A B2B marketplace where big companies can hire sub-contracted workers for under-the-table projects.

131

5 years ago

A startup that brings in a freelance marketer from anywhere in the world, and pays them a commission for their work.

131

5 years ago

A startup for female entrepreneurs where they can share products and get feedback, plus other resources.

131

5 years ago

A C2C marketplace for buying and selling used furniture. There’s a big market for people looking to buy used furniture but no good way to find them. The startup’s website shows a few beautiful tables and chairs, but the bulk of the site features the items for sale.

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4 years ago

A startup for used cars and motorcycles where buyers can find sellers in their cities and vice versa.

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2 years ago

This startup is looking to bring back the spirit of the old Southern California surf bike shop, where people could get a custom bike.

131

5 years ago

“A premium app store with an emphasis on quality,” aiming to have a “curated selection of apps” that are not available anywhere else.

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5 years ago

A platform for smart contracts, where developers can build, monitor, and trade code.

130

5 years ago

The idea here is to make it easy for people to find, store and share their photos and videos.

130

3 years ago

A coworking space for women in tech that offers childcare, free classes, a coding academy, and a space where women can network and learn.

130

2 years ago

A startup that allows a person to record voiceover or screencast video calls from any device, and then upload it to a website where others can see and comment.

130

5 years ago

A company that helps online retailers “persuade” a customer to buy from them instead of their competitors. It uses algorithms to determine where the customer is in the buying cycle, and tailors a message to the customer so that they’ll click through to their website.

129

5 years ago

A personal assistant that helps you pack a suitcase. Users can use the app to create a packing list and the app will suggest items based on where you’re traveling and which items are available at your destination.

129

5 years ago

A startup for digital games, where players can earn money for playing games. Currently in beta. What’s interesting is that they’re trying to make it legal to use virtual currencies, which is a relatively new idea.

129

5 years ago

Decentralized social network where people can get paid to publish stories. The startup is open source and free to use, and the founder says it has a "small amount of daily active users."

129

5 years ago

A startup that helps people create digital drafts of their writings, where they can be corrected, improved, and edited.

129

5 years ago

A tool for developers to get track of what’s happening in their app, with a series of reports that show you how many users have opened your app, how many users have closed it, where those users are coming from, and how they’re using your app.

129

3 years ago

A platform where people can collaborate on small work tasks.

129

2 years ago

A crowdfunding platform for startups, where investors can back a company they’ve found interesting.

129

2 years ago

As a company, they offer a laundry service, but their platform itself is an online marketplace where anyone can sell and buy cleaning products, offering a function similar to that of eBay or Amazon (but for cleaning products.)

129

5 years ago

A way to check in with your employees from anywhere, using a combination of video chat and a mobile app.

128

5 years ago

A tool for tracking and analyzing an employee’s travel (could be useful for HR to track which employees are spending all their time flying somewhere instead of working).

128

5 years ago

A company that wants to build a service that lets you call up an Uber-like app whenever you need a ride anywhere. The service would give you options for the type of car to be used and then would let you track the car’s progress.

128

4 years ago

A company looking to build a better version of the “wish-list”, where items can be added and removed while shopping.

128

4 years ago

A startup that’s building an AI-powered email marketing platform, where emails are a lot more personal, without the need to go through a third-party service.

128

4 years ago

A company that offers a “crypto-native” platform for blockchain development. They want to build a platform for developers to build DApps or smart contracts that run in the Ethereum blockchain.

128

3 years ago

Vouched is an online healthcare platform for insurance, where people can find doctors and hospitals, get advice, and pay all in one place.

128

2 years ago

A decentralized network where people can vote on content, and publishers can charge for access to their content.

128

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can pay to have someone manage their social media accounts

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5 years ago

L2L is building a platform that connects people who are looking to buy or sell properties to those who are looking to rent. The company wants to build a marketplace where people can buy and sell homes without going through the hassle of a real estate agent. The company also has a deal with Century 21 in the Philippines to build a realty app that can help people sell and buy real estate.

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5 years ago

In the US, there are a lot of jobs that pay the minimum wage. The startup is based in the Philippines, and its founder says it’s easy to get a job there for the minimum wage, but hard to get paid more.

127

5 years ago

A complete solution for data management. The idea is to let customers control where their data goes, then track and store it to eliminate errors and improve accuracy.

127

5 years ago

A company that will help you “re-purpose your technology,” where you can take old tech and either sell it to someone else, or build something new out of it.

126

5 years ago

A company that helps companies manage their supply chain. The startup helps companies manage their supply chain by providing visibility into where their goods are coming from and how they’re being shipped, and manage their logistics.

126

5 years ago

A startup that wants to take the pain out of international travel booking by creating a marketplace where travelers can find last-minute deals from local vendors.

126

5 years ago

The startup is trying to bring the benefits of a traditional shared workspace to remote workers. The startup is building a system that allows users to take part in many different workspaces, and then get the space where they work.

125

5 years ago

Saving autonomous mapping startup HERE from bankruptcy. A consortium led by the German car maker and German insurance company has acquired the self-driving mapping software startup, with the group looking to merge HERE’s mapping data with Nokia’s mapping assets and use it to build its own self-driving car platform.

125

5 years ago

A startup that aims to help college students get answers to their questions about their health. There are an estimated 1.5 million students with health questions and a very limited number of resources to direct them to.

125

5 years ago

This startup wants to bring a more collaborative approach to online education. Classcraft is building a platform where you can teach someone programming, where you’re accountable to them.

125

5 years ago

A startup for public safety and first responders, that informs decision-makers when there’s a threat or emergency.

125

5 years ago

A fix for the “gig economy”, offering a comprehensive insurance package for independent workers. Their product is designed for the future and will work for any independent worker, anywhere in the world.

125

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you get a $200 gift card to an online store and you get to keep 10% of the value of the gift card

124

5 years ago

An online service that helps people find and sell used goods and collectibles. The company is also looking at a new model where it will serve as a marketplace to help buyers find and buy goods.

124

5 years ago

A platform for freelance work, where users can bid on jobs, and get paid by a single company in exchange for a small fee.

124

5 years ago

There’s a huge amount of open software in the world, but there’s also a huge amount of open source software. The company has built a platform that curates open source projects, allowing others to easily see what’s out there. The team is currently working on a browser extension, and says they’ve had “hundreds” of companies use the platform to create software.

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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

A startup that helps people find cheap flights to and from the city where they’re visiting. The company says it’s already been used by tens of thousands of customers who saved $1,000 on a flight.

124

4 years ago

This startup is creating a marketplace for L.A. real estate agents to connect with renters looking for apartments. It's an online marketplace that connects renters with agents and offers a page where agents can post listings for rent on their own website.

124

4 years ago

A consumer card that can be used at many places where plastic credit cards are accepted. It’s meant for the Indian market to replace a plethora of different forms of payment.

124

5 years ago

A company that helps businesses manage data from virtual assistants. The idea is that the assistant can ask for and get information and then send the request to the company's website, where the data is stored and can be accessed.

123

5 years ago

The idea is to be an online marketplace for companies to buy and sell their parts. Each part has a unique identifier that allows them to track their whereabouts. The founders say they have raised $8.5 million to date and are already working with over 10 companies.

123

5 years ago

This is a marketplace where people can sell their expired Amazon and eBay gift cards, with a small percentage of the proceeds going to charity. The startup takes a cut from each sale.

123

5 years ago

This startup is building a toolset for HR managers that lets them manage their company’s “Human Resources” from anywhere in the world.

123

4 years ago

A mobile app where people can donate money to artists or bands that they like. The startup is working with artists like N.E.R.D., KATY PERRY, and SEX AND THE CITY.

123

4 years ago

A startup that advertises itself as “the Airbnb of villages.” The company is building a marketplace for rural villages in India, where villagers can rent out their rooms for short-term stays.

123

3 years ago

A platform that lets advertisers see where their target audience is spending their time and how it compares to their competitors.

123

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can get a second opinion on medical tests

122

5 years ago

A company that wants to build a “blockchain for the real world”, allowing users to build things on Ethereum based on real-world things like physical spaces.

122

5 years ago

Nextbit wants to deliver Android in a way that lets you take your phone with you everywhere. It cuts down on background apps and syncs only the apps that you want to use with your phone. Available on Android and iOS.

122

5 years ago

The startup is building a traveler marketplace for South American cities. It’s a place where travelers can find roommates, book flights, and even share their rooms on AirBNB-like websites.

122

5 years ago

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

122

5 years ago

B2B companies are more likely to use YC-backed startups as employees, as compared to one where the founders are located in the Bay Area.

122

4 years ago

A way of organizing parts of your life in a way that makes sense, allowing you to “organize everything in one place, and all the right things are right where you need them.”

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3 years ago

It’s a hybrid marketplace for B2B, where sellers can list products and buyers can browse and purchase them.

122

3 years ago

A digital platform for the sale and distribution of digital assets and digital goods, built on the Ethereum network.

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

5 years ago

This startup is building a tool to help people find the best doctors, dentists and other medical professionals in their area. The startup is looking to build out a health care recommendation system based on personalized data from the patient’s current doctor. Gives the patient a recommendation, which is then sent to the doctor, where they can then make a decision on how to proceed. The company is looking to launch in early 2021.

121

5 years ago

It’s not uncommon for someone to wake up with a hangover, but it’s often a hassle to find something to drink that doesn’t taste gross. The startup wants to make sure there is always a drinkable alternative to the morning-after-party staple, water.

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4 years ago

A digital library for art and music that’s built using blockchain technology. It’s a decentralized system, built on top of the Ethereum network, that tracks and stores art pieces, but also allows for them to be accessed via a web interface.

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4 years ago

A startup where moms can use a mobile app to communicate with other moms in their area.

121

3 years ago

A startup where people can rent and sell their properties, powered by the Trulia dataset.

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5 years ago

A tool that helps people find the best travel deals, picking up on the long tail of unadvertised fares. The startup is pitching itself as a sort of early booking agent, where customers can search for flights and then call in to a travel agent.

120

5 years ago

A decentralized version of Upwork, where people get paid in tokens rather than fiat currency.

120

5 years ago

A video-chat-like app for internal meetings, which allows for video and chats but also an internal forum where employees can write notes and comments.

120

5 years ago

A social network for immigrants in the United States. The startup wants to create a community where immigrants can connect with each other and immigrant-owned businesses.

120

4 years ago

A startup that allows you to buy and sell your car for a fraction of a typical used car price. It also contains a market where you can post your trade-in for a new car.

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3 years ago

A card that can be used to pay for its own purchases and then be used for future purchases anywhere that accept Paypal.

120

5 years ago

Predictive modeling technology that can help marketers understand where consumers are and what they’re interested in at any given time.

119

4 years ago

A social network for restaurants, startups and developers. It’s a platform where restaurants can find users to fix their tables, answer the phone, and do general upkeep.

119

4 years ago

Fostr is a marketplace where people sell their unused clothes. The company has raised $1.5 million in seed funding and says they’ve sold over 30,000 items in the last two years.

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4 years ago

Gives small businesses and freelancers a place to create a “marketplace” where they can sell a product or service and find buyers. It’s a “marketplace of marketplaces”.

119

3 years ago

This tool is designed to help content creators get their work out there, from uploading their videos to managing the performance of their ads.

119

3 years ago

A startup that uses AI to help you see what you’re looking at on your phone. The startup uses 3D depth sensing to tell you which objects you’re seeing and where they are.

119

5 years ago

A startup that offers entrepreneurs support and advice on their business idea in the form of a “venture coach”. They’re working on a way that their coaches can help entrepreneurs with their projects from anywhere in the world.

118

5 years ago

The startup has created a predictive analytics tool that helps food companies decide where to open new locations. The startup is focused on the US and UK.

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5 years ago

The digital home improvement store, HomeDepot, is still trying to figure out where to go next. It launched a new website in late 2016, but it felt more like a home services site than a home improvement one.

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3 years ago

An experiment in a new movement for travel that allows you to eat anywhere, at any time.

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3 years ago

A tool for learning about the local lifestyle, culture, and politics of a country before traveling there.

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2 years ago

A system that acts as a “digital notary”. It takes a digital file, such as an email or video, and makes it as if it were signed in person. The company is targeting legal and healthcare situations, where the need for a notary is real.

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5 years ago

We’ve all shared our thoughts on the internet, so why not do it for a profit There are a lot of people with some expertise in the areas of screenwriting, video editing, and voice acting who’d like to work in their free time on projects without any pressure to launch.

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5 years ago

This startup aims to be a place where you can get childcare information, and then book that childcare at any time. The company wants to solve the problem of childcare shortage, and says it has already helped people book childcare for the first time, and is now helping people find care for the first time.

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5 years ago

A shop where you can buy custom-designed fashion. It comes from a team that worked on the biggest startups in the fashion industry, including Rachel Zoe, Rag & Bone, and Tory Burch.

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5 years ago

Missed the deadline Here are the other ideas that didn't make it, but hopefully will in the future.

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5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire a babysitter online and pay with paypal

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5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can purchase classes for different hobbies

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5 years ago

A startup that’s building a marketplace where companies can offer to do tasks on demand. The startup wants to replace the process of asking people to perform menial tasks with tasks that can be automated.

116

5 years ago

A productivity app for freelancers, allowing them to plan, manage, and track projects from anywhere.

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5 years ago

A payroll company, where employees get paid bi-weekly.

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4 years ago

A platform for crowd-sourcing ideas and designs, where users can create mockups of their idea and give it to others to vote on.

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2 years ago

This app is meant to help people track the things they own and where they are, as they are moving from one place to another. It’s a smartphone app, with a web app too, meant to replace the need to keep track of all of the various slips of paper used by people to track what they own and where.

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5 years ago

A startup that aggregates and analyzes information about the cost of living and quality of life in a location to help people decide where to move

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5 years ago

“A startup for the exchange of surplus data between companies, where data producers can sell their data to the highest bidder.”

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5 years ago

A way to measure how well a startup is performing and where it should spend more money.

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4 years ago

This startup is building a social-based platform where people can share, rate and review restaurant dishes and locations

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2 years ago

A way to track where your brand’s logos are.

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5 years ago

A startup that offers an AI-powered service that helps patients decide where to seek treatment for cancer

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5 years ago

An AI-powered product recommendation platform that helps users find and shop for products across Amazon and other retailers. The startup wants to build the first recommendation platform for consumers in the US, where it’s been testing.

114

5 years ago

A startup that builds on the idea of “loyalty as currency”, where they reward users with points and coupons for their loyalty.

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5 years ago

A software company trying to solve the problems with digital payments in developing markets, where mobile banking is still a novelty. The startup wants to provide a solution that’s simple, easy, and secure.

114

5 years ago

A company that makes it easy for anyone to get online in the Philippines. The startup partners with telecoms to provide Internet in areas where it’s not a priority, and has also partnered with the government to provide WiFi in the streets and public areas.

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5 years ago

A payments company that uses the Ethereum blockchain to “build a decentralized, secure, and transparent payments network.”

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4 years ago

A startup that helps people find the closest taxi service on demand. A company called Taxi Magic will match you up with a cab in under 5 minutes, and if there's not one nearby, you can request a car to come pick you up.

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5 years ago

This startup is building a consumer-facing marketplace for the home-sharing economy, where people can find a roommate to live in their home.

112

5 years ago

A venture-backed startup that serves as a marketing platform for credit card and bank data that lets companies run campaigns. It’s also a marketplace for data, where companies can buy and sell their own data sets.

112

5 years ago

A platform for fashion brands to manage their products, with a lean startup that seeks to build a marketplace where brands can sell their products directly to consumers.

112

5 years ago

A platform that allows for GPS-enabled payments where customers can pay for parking at over 3,000 locations in the U.S. via their smartphone.

112

5 years ago

A credit card linked to your bank account, like a debit card with your bank’s approval. The card can be used everywhere the bank accepts credit cards. The startup has raised $1.5 million in seed funding from a single investor, Andreessen Horowitz.

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5 years ago

A system that helps you figure out if a new product is a good fit for your business based on past purchases. It helps you identify the things you buy and where you buy them, then uses that information to make recommendations.

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3 years ago

An online community for basketball where users can “create a team, join one and talk about the game”.

112

3 years ago

The company is building a startup in Ghana, where the startup says it’s found a lack of transparency and accountability in the local media.

112

3 years ago

A startup that aims to build a decentralized voting system, where votes are gathered and verified by the blockchain so that no voter can be disenfranchised.

112

5 years ago

A company that helps restaurants, bars and coffee shops optimize their ordering process. The startup’s platform lets customers search for locations, get delivery options from there, and track orders.

111

5 years ago

A visual collaboration tool that helps people determine what they want to do, where they want to do it, and what they want to work on next.

111

5 years ago

A mobile app providing users with recommendations on where to eat in their city based on their location. The company says it processes over 20 million restaurant reviews every month.

111

5 years ago

A company that’s building a platform where you pay a monthly fee to use a service to manage your contractors. The startup is taking a page from the Automated Clearing House (ACH) system, which lets banks settle payments between banks.

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5 years ago

A company that provides a remote team management service, helping companies manage their teams from anywhere, at any time.

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5 years ago

A startup that lets users create a “hotel”, a place where they can post items to rent and others can offer to help them out.

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4 years ago

A decentralized marketplace for web pages, where people can buy and sell ads. The startup offers buying and selling ads for web pages the same way that people sell and buy ads on Facebook.

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4 years ago

A startup that helps employees stay protected with a phone app that sends alerts to their phone whenever there’s an important message from their employer.

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4 years ago

A company building on the Ethereum blockchain that wants to create a more efficient marketplace for small businesses. The startup charges a service fee for members, and will also integrate with a business’s accounting software.

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3 years ago

An online marketplace for health data and analytics, where companies can buy and sell anonymized health data to help improve health outcomes.

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5 years ago

There are a few challenges that are unique to Y Combinator:

110

5 years ago

A peer-to-peer lending platform where people can loan money to one another. The startup is currently working on a separate peer-to-peer loan product.

110

5 years ago

A “car-sharing” platform where users can find a ride

110

4 years ago

The startup is building a “digital” version of the traditional “mystery” game, with a new spin on the game: The game is a multiplayer one where players build their own “mystery” board, where they can use AI to give clues to each other.

110

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

3 years ago

A blockchain startup looking to build a decentralized platform for deploying, hosting and managing applications that run on the Ethereum network.

110

5 years ago

A startup that sells a tool where you can upload a video and it gives you a list of things that could be wrong with it to help you figure it out

109

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can get a custom meal delivered to their house that is gluten free, paleo, vegan, etc

109

5 years ago

A business that wants to create a bank that runs on the Ethereum blockchain. It’s planning to use revenue from that bank to fund the company’s own blockchain development.

109

5 years ago

A private social network for women in Saudi Arabia, where women are nearly banned from working or even being on the internet.

109

5 years ago

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

109

4 years ago

This startup is building an app that helps you browse and buy clothes in a world where it’s hard to find a style you like. At launch, the app will feature over 1,000 brands from across the world, but the plan is to expand to everything.

109

4 years ago

The company’s founders speak of a future where the internet of things (IoT) and the internet of everything (IoE) converge, allowing users to control the devices in their homes directly from their phones.

109

3 years ago

A SaaS platform for helping people make sense of the plethora of financial data that’s out there.

109

3 years ago

A product to help people with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia remember where they placed their keys.

109

2 years ago

A peer-to-peer marketplace where people can buy and sell things locally without going through a middleman. Currently, it works with people in New York City, but the startup plans to expand to other cities soon.

109

5 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.

108

5 years ago

A mobile money platform for emerging markets, where the company says it has already made $1 billion in loans to over 20 million customers.

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 video conferencing platform that’s powered by the cloud and designed to work on all devices. It’s already integrated with Slack, allowing customers to schedule meetings from anywhere and get notifications when they’re available.

108

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a “social network for employers and job seekers”, where both sides can see each other’s profiles, see what jobs they’ve accepted, and see how frequently each candidate applies to jobs.

108

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.

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3 years ago

A startup that wants to build the system to manage US military-funded humanitarian aid to the world. The company wants to build a “Google for relief”, building a system where donations come in a bottom-up approach and then the money can be distributed to the people in need.

107

3 years ago

A company that provides a way to sell shares of your future earnings. We’ve all been there: You want to leave a job, but your current employer has stock options. You’d like to sell them, but it’s hard to find a buyer. You want to sell them but don’t know how. You could just sell them on the street, but that’s risky…

107

5 years ago

A company that helps businesses find and manage virtual assistants. The company’s software provides a web-based platform where employees can manage and pay for the services of multiple virtual assistants.

106

5 years ago

An advertising platform for artists that uses blockchain technology to smooth out the payment process. ArtPro is building a DApp on Ethereum that will allow artists to sell their digital work directly to their fans.

106

5 years ago

A way for people to take a photo of their food, and see where it came from and what was in it. It’s already up and running, and aims to keep customers up to date on the food they eat.

106

4 years ago

This startup makes the most of the fact that employers like to have their employees on the same location. It connects employees with other employees in a private chat room, where they can discuss work and ask questions. It’s a more efficient use of time for employers who don’t want their employees talking to each other.

106

4 years ago

A tool for people to create their own version of Slack where they can host a chat group at their own location.

106

4 years ago

There are a staggering number of these startups. The following are just some of the more prominent ones.

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4 years ago

A software company that uses machine learning to predict where the next Kindle Fire or Google Pixel will be sold.

106

3 years ago

A video game where users build a virtual city and help determine its fate from within the game. While other games have used this format before, the most successful example is Clash of Clans, which has over 1 billion monthly active users. It’s a familiar model, with the startup working with major publishers like Disney and Warner Bros. to reach that audience.

106

3 years ago

A news aggregator and content discovery app for the Middle East, pitched as “one place where you can find the latest news, and your favorite articles from across the Arab world.” The startup is working with the Saudi Arabian government and hopes to expand to other countries.

106

5 years ago

A platform that helps businesses track the true costs of their data, and then helps them make better decisions about where to allocate their resources. This startup is building an enterprise-focused tool that helps businesses track their data and calculate their true costs.

105

4 years ago

In the world of artificial intelligence, there’s always one who’s ahead of the curve.

105

4 years ago

A social network for all of the robot hobbies out there including 3D printing, futurism, robotics, and more.

105

4 years ago

A web-based tool to help people plan their financial goals. It’s especially useful for people without an advisor, and uses machine learning to predict where individuals are on the financial spectrum.

105

3 years ago

A commerce platform for the Indian market, where many consumers have previously had to go through multiple vendors to make a purchase.

105

3 years ago

A startup that sells to the Indian market, which has a huge, under-served market for low-cost long-distance plans, where monthly plans are cheaper than mobile data in the US.

105

5 years ago

This startup is working on a new type of storage for the connected home, where it can be both a sort of “in-home cloud” as well as an “in-home NAS”.

104

5 years ago

A visual editor for news articles, where journalists can add their own photos and graphics to the content.

104

4 years ago

A startup that lets you move money between your bank accounts anywhere in the world, including in real time

104

5 years ago

A company that helps companies connect people who want to move to a new location with people who want to live there.

103

5 years ago

A digital HR solution for companies that want to access information about their employees from anywhere. The startup currently has $300,000 in funding.

103

5 years ago

The world of finance is changing dramatically, and there’s a lot of confusion around how new technologies like fintech will impact financial services. Fintech can take the form of apps, startups, and platforms, or it can be composed of a mix of all three. Fintech is a catch-all term that can include everything from cryptocurrencies, to artificial intelligence, to machine learning, and more. Fintech startup solutions help companies navigate these changes.

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

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can buy single-use items like baby wipes and toilet paper for their next camping trip

102

5 years ago

A “digital bookshelf” where people can collect and share their favorite books. The company has received $1.25 million in seed funding.

102

5 years ago

A shared vehicle rental service where drivers can split the cost of a ride.

102

5 years ago

Of course, that’s just a sampling. And some of these companies are still in the idea stage, so they might not turn into actual businesses. But this list shows that there’s a lot of revenue to be made building new tools for the online world. Now it’s up to entrepreneurs to decide what sorts of products to build.

102

4 years ago

This startup is building a platform to help companies find and vet talent. It’s based on “The Apprentice” format, where candidates are selected by a panel of experts and then compete in a series of challenges (e.g. an improv comedy show.)

102

5 years ago

A sensor embedded into a device that allows it to communicate with a connected phone and let the maker know if the device is being moved and where it’s being moved to. The sensor would also allow the maker some control over the device.

101

5 years ago

A startup that will “provide prescription drug adherence to your patients”.

101

5 years ago

A coworking space that offers a space to network and work, and the tools to help organize the work that’s done there. It’s designed to be a place for entrepreneurs and freelancers to meet up, work together, and eventually launch their own companies.

101

5 years ago

A Slack clone for the enterprise, where teams can create their own channels and invite members to collaborate.

101

4 years ago

A "daily deal" marketplace where customers can buy discount tickets to concerts or other entertainment events.

101

4 years ago

There are many more we could list, but these are some of the bigger startups that have launched in the last few months.

101

3 years ago

A digital credit card that can be used anywhere MasterCard is accepted.

101

3 years ago

This is a collective of startups that want to use the power of the internet to build an open-source marketplace for physical goods. The startups will join forces to offer goods from around the world at low prices to anyone in the world. There’s a lot of competition in the space, but it’s an interesting idea.

101

3 years ago

An Ethereum-based blockchain based on a new design that allows for faster, cheaper, and more secure transactions.

101

5 years ago

A startup that turns the web into a better form of research and analysis. The company choose to focus on medical research, where the company is seeing a huge benefit to using the web to perform medical research. It’s using machine learning to turn the web into a better research tool.

100

5 years ago

A grocery delivery business in the UK. Postmates offers services like same-day grocery delivery, which is especially useful to people living in urban environments where it’s hard to get to grocery stores.

100

5 years ago

A new kind of e-banking system for Latin America, which is designed to improve the experience of active bank customers. The company plans to launch in Brazil in the next few months and expand thereafter.

100

5 years ago

A platform for selling and buying used cars, introduced at YC’s Demo Day in 2015. The startup brings a car buying platform to a market where many people don’t have credit or don’t want to deal with the hassle of financing. It’s already in use in the Bay Area, and is looking to expand to other areas of the country.

100

4 years ago

A web app that allows people to watch movies and TV when and where they want, using a library of content from various sources.

100

4 years ago

A startup that wants to build a decentralized banking system. The founders say that banks are creating systems that are too expensive and too clunky to be used, and that the market is underserved — especially by credit cards, which are used by everyone in the world, but for which there’s no good way to transfer money across borders.

100

4 years ago

A startup that’s bringing Bitcoin into the physical world, with a prepaid debit card and a physical debit card. The founders want to make Bitcoin universally usable, and are building a physical card to use at stores, ATMs, and anywhere else.

100

2 years ago

An open-source platform that lets you shop for insurance, credit, and loans anywhere in the world.

99

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can rent out your car to someone for a day so that they can make a distance trip but don’t want to pay for a plane ticket

98

4 years ago

A company that helps people make the most of the time they spend in transit: the company’s “smart luggage” tracks where you are and what you are doing.

98

4 years ago

A startup that helps tech companies hire engineers from India, the US and elsewhere.

98

4 years ago

A startup where users can pay to get products shipped to their house. The startup is also working on an app that lets users follow their packages as they move through the shipping system.

98

3 years ago

The Startup Battlefield is a series of competitions that takes place twice a year where startup teams compete to win up to $100,000 in cash prizes.

98

3 years ago

A digital storage locker for large amounts of data that can be accessed from anywhere.

98

5 years ago

This startup is building a marketplace for data science talent, where companies can hire data scientists to help them research, analyze, and monetize data.

97

5 years ago

A platform where users can earn cryptocurrency for taking surveys, answering questions, and posting content. The Maven team says they’re already making $200+ per month on the platform.

97

4 years ago

The startup is building a Wi-Fi device with a built-in battery for charging your phone in the middle of nowhere, allowing for more travel freedom.

97

3 years ago

A partnership between two startups to provide payment processing for merchants. Processing fees are low, and there is no minimum payment threshold, the company says.

97

2 years ago

This company is a portal for scientists looking to post their findings to public databases, where they can be found by other researchers.

97

2 years ago

An AI that helps users to take better pictures by predicting where a person’s eye will go in the image to help them capture moments.

97

5 years ago

With this company’s “socially intelligent” inventory management system, manufacturers can better predict demand for their products in real time, and thus lower their costs. It integrates with factories’ inventory systems and takes orders and shipment predictions from social networks to figure out where to place a product’s next shipment.

96

5 years ago

A system that prevents people without credit scores from opening bank accounts, thereby eliminating the risk of fraud and identity theft.

96

5 years ago

A tool that lets neighborhoods around the world participate in a mobile barter system, where a group of neighbors can trade items like furniture they no longer use or tools they no longer use. The startup has raised $8 million in funding to date.

96

4 years ago

A social networking website where people can post pictures and videos of their cats

96

3 years ago

A $25 credit card that connects to your bank account that can be used anywhere Visa and Mastercard are accepted. The card can be used anywhere in the world.

96

3 years ago

A platform for building your own smart contracts, powered by Ethereum and the ERC20 token standard.

96

3 years ago

A startup for buying and selling used stuff. Buyer beware: there are scams out there, but you can also buy high-end designer items for $2.50.

96

5 years ago

A funding platform where a company can take a “drip” approach to fundraising, instead of a full-on “spray”. It allows a company to get funding without all the hassle of pitching, negotiating, and offering equity, while still getting the full equity portion.

95

5 years ago

A software that helps companies track and manage the use of the various places their employees work. Repsoft allows managers to see where their people are, and to assign tasks from anywhere.

95

3 years ago

A mesh network for internet connectivity in remote, rural locations, where high costs and slow speeds make internet access expensive and slow.

95

5 years ago

Wrapping up our list of the best startups in Y Combinator’s class of 2020, we've selected 5 startups from the batch that had the best business ideas and the best execution. (If you're curious, we'd recommend checking out the list of the top Y Combinator startups of 2019 here .)

94

5 years ago

A $5 device that connects to your browser and helps you keep track of your spending. The device tracks your checking account and credit card transactions, and lets you enter receipts, to see where your money is going.

94

4 years ago

A company that helps brands communicate with their customers in a more personal way. The startup wants to make a “human social media network” that works in a more organic way, where you can reach people with specific interests without the need for any kind of targeting.

94

4 years ago

A music streaming service that focuses on music discovery. Co-founded by former Rdio and Spotify engineers, the startup will offer a curated “radio” experience, as well as a social experience where users can follow artists and share what they’re listening to.

94

4 years ago

A company that claims to have the world’s smallest solar power system. It’s for homes, but can be used anywhere.

94

3 years ago

A startup that builds and operates a network of “smart” kiosks in airports and train stations in Asia. The kiosks sell tickets, and there’s an app that allows users to hail a ride.

94

3 years ago

A company that makes wayfinding software for cities. It helps city planners create maps and understand where people go.

94

5 years ago

Gets people to go to the gym, and then pays them to go there. People can make money by opting in to be covered by the startup, and can balance their own class schedules.

93

4 years ago

A startup that helps companies find and recruit talent anywhere in the world. The company says they have over 1,000 clients ranging from top Fortune 500 companies to startups to large AIs.

93

4 years ago

A startup that helps exercise for runners by showing them the route from where they’re running to their destination.

93

4 years ago

A social network where users can ask and answer questions about various topics like dating, fashion, and fitness.

93

4 years ago

The founders have a vision of a world where everyone can pay rent or a mortgage, and have a constant stream of income without having to get a job.

93

3 years ago

A startup that builds apps for markets with different business models from the US, such as the Indian market, where companies can’t sell a product for cash.

93

3 years ago

A way to give and receive digital currency without having to buy a wallet. The app is built to support all of the major cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dash, Litecoin and more.

93

3 years ago

A startup that offers a way to review and rate the quality of restaurants before you dine there, to help diners decide where to eat. It’s a similar concept to Yelp, but for food.

93

2 years ago

The startup is working with big brands to create a platform that lets brands create and run their own online shops where consumers can buy directly from them. The idea is to create a market for in-house brands without having to go through a wholesaler.

93

5 years ago

The startup is a service that helps you find out who your neighbors are, and helps you get in touch with them. You can use the service to find out where they live, what they do for a living, and how well they get along with their people.

92

5 years ago

A system that allows companies to track data for their employees to help them understand where they’re spending their time and money. The startup is currently in beta.

92

4 years ago

A video-based learning platform where students can ask questions to their teachers, while the teachers’ answers are displayed as video lessons.

92

4 years ago

A startup that wants to build a marketplace where people can trade used computers. It’s already started in Brazil but wants to expand into other countries.

92

4 years ago

A startup that aims to build a database of every person in American history, a database that would someday have a search engine that could find out, for example, where a person’s great-great-great-great-grandfather was born.

92

3 years ago

A way to help children explore the world through a virtual world. Kidoosh wants to create a place where kids can explore and learn without fear of other kids.

92

5 years ago

Non-profits in the U.S. and abroad rely on donors and volunteers to get their work done. Unfortunately, they aren’t always able to rely on these people to do what they promise. BitGive is a platform for non-profits that operates on the Ethereum blockchain. The platform lets non-profits raise money through cryptocurrency and use those funds to make donations to the causes they care about.

91

4 years ago

The startup wants to build a marketplace for the next generation of employees, where companies can sell affordable part-time and contingent labor for tasks like cleaning, deliveries and other services. It wants to build a company that will be able to create a network of “micro-employers”, who can offer cheap labor, solve for the “short-term inconvenience of an extra employee,” and scale quickly.

91

4 years ago

A visual dashboard for tracking where a piece of equipment is in a warehouse, as well as where it’s headed next.

91

5 years ago

This company has developed a way to help homeless people decide if an apartment is worth locking down before signing a lease. The app, which is currently being tested in San Francisco, is meant to help people make better decisions about where to live, and could be particularly helpful for the homeless.

90

5 years ago

The other factor is the service-based nature of B2B companies. B2B companies typically spend on services, such as accounting or legal services. The most common B2B service businesses include accounting, banking, and legal services. B2B marketing startups are therefore more likely to be targeting B2

90

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 mobile game where you get to travel to different books, like Harry Potter, and be in the scenes like you would in a scene in the book.

90

4 years ago

A startup that wants to create an on-demand service where users can turn their less-than-perfect photo into a work of art.

90

4 years ago

A startup that uses machine learning to figure out what kind of content should go where in the web’s ecosystem.

90

3 years ago

A content marketing platform for companies, where they can easily create and distribute content to their audience, such as how-tos, guides, and onboarding materials.

90

3 years ago

A tool that helps users manage their healthcare accounts, which include the primary care physicians that they see, prescription and medical history, and the payments that are out of their control. It’s meant to help people manage their health regardless of where they live.

90

3 years ago

A startup to help big businesses manage their legal contracts from anywhere in the world. Hubdoc takes legal contracts, translates them into natural language, and then translates them back into legal language for the user. Hubdoc says it has $1.6 million in funding.

90

2 years ago

A “sanctuary city” for marijuana users in California. The startup wants to set up places where people can smoke pot without fear of prosecution.

90

5 years ago

A web and mobile app for restaurants, allowing them to manage their kitchen operations from anywhere in the world. The startup also works with the restaurant delivery companies Postmates and DoorDash.

89

4 years ago

A startup focused on helping non-profits make better use of their data. It’s early days, but that’s one of the key areas where non-profits are struggling to get value from their data.

89

4 years ago

A platform for hiring professionals in China. The startup provides a platform where companies find and hire digital marketers, digital product managers, and other digital talents.

89

4 years ago

A tool for creating and distributing your own live stream video. Ideas are from developers, and are developed via a “discovery pipeline”, where a public vote decides which one of the new ideas will be built.

89

4 years ago

A startup that’s building a “Facebook for the workplace”, where employees can comment on and rate each other, and managers can see who’s being productive and who needs a raise.

89

4 years ago

A startup that lets users book medical appointments, with the ability to track where a medical professional is and when their next available appointment is.

89

4 years ago

A social network for fashion industry buyers, which creates a central location where buyers can find and interact with designers for fashion shows and trade shows.

89

3 years ago

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

89

2 years ago

A company that helps people keep track of their city’s bike share program, enabling them to track their usage and see where the closest stations are located.

89

2 years ago

A company that allows you to get your food delivered from anywhere, with just one tap.

89

2 years ago

Builds and operates an online marketplace, where you can buy and sell items.

89

2 years ago

This company has a card that is a smart card that you can use anywhere in the world to get on a train or pay for a cup of coffee on the street. It has built a platform to allow airports to charge for any amount of time left on the cards.

89

5 years ago

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

88

5 years ago

A real estate startup that helps customers find the best value on homes. It’s currently testing a model where customers can set their own price and get paid 20% of the difference between that and the property’s actual value.

88

4 years ago

A solution for companies to provide real-time expense tracking and invoicing from anywhere in the world. The company is currently charging for the early access of its beta, but plans to launch publicly in early 2019.

88

4 years ago

A decentralized marketplace for content, where users can enter their own videos and get paid for them after a certain period of time.

88

4 years ago

A startup for cosmetics, where people can list and manage their inventory.

88

4 years ago

A social app (currently only in the UK) that helps people share their experience of using a service at a “near restaurant”. The startup aims to help people find restaurants they like, without needing to physically go there.

88

4 years ago

This is a financial education platform, where you learn the ins and outs of various lending options to make sure you’re getting the best loan possible.

88

4 years ago

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

88

4 years ago

A platform that aims to make it easier for people to find out what’s on TV and where it’s on, but with a focus on delivering ads.

88

4 years ago

Build a game that helps you visualize where you’re going on a road trip, using a case study of the most popular game in China.

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

A search engine for the internet of things, where all the devices in your home can be brought together through APIs to make it easy for you to monitor and tune them.

88

4 years ago

“From the outside, our team is probably the most diverse in the YC batch [of the past five years],” says cofounder Raman Harsh, an MIT alum. “There are no limits on race, ethnicity, religion, or gender.”

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

A cloud-based peer-to-peer insurance platform, which is already in use in the automotive industry. The startup wants to be the only place where clients can buy insurance online, in person, or on the phone.

87

4 years ago

This startup is building a new kind of store for farmers around the world, where farmers can sell directly to consumers at a discount.

87

4 years ago

An online marketplace for hotels where they can access the best hotel deals, with an AI-powered booking engine.

87

4 years ago

This startup wants to build a “C-store” where you can buy things from various online retailers and have them delivered right to your door.

87

4 years ago

A software that generates an interactive 3D model of a building. It’s used to help people visualize their buildings or homes, and allows for physical models that can be viewed from anywhere.

87

3 years ago

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

87

3 years ago

A tool for helping people visualize where their donations go when they donate online to nonprofits.

87

3 years ago

A startup where community members can connect with one another to provide services, such as baby-sitting, home maintenance, and pet care.

87

2 years ago

This list is incomplete as there are many other startups that have not yet been featured here.

87

5 years ago

A startup that sells a subscription service where you can rent a video game, but also buy a physical copy of the video game

86

4 years ago

A company building a platform that allows consumers to buy accessories for their smart home devices from a single marketplace, thereby simplifying the buying experience.

86

4 years ago

A “maker” version of Slack, where people can build their own add-ons and plugins for Slack

86

4 years ago

A “blocks” app, a place where people can collect, organize and share images of their favorite locations.

86

4 years ago

A startup that wants to help authors with their manuscripts. It’s working with 15 publishers, and is in the business of helping them create a coherent story.

86

2 years ago

A platform that tracks and analyzes your credit card transactions, allowing you to see where your money is going and use analytics to improve your spending habits. The company is hoping to partner with companies like retail services and banks.

86

4 years ago

This startup is building a platform that allows anyone to post a video of their favorite place anywhere in the world, then share the link with their followers.

85

4 years ago

A tool for paid subscriptions across multiple platforms. The company says it’s the easiest way for companies to put their products out there, but in a paid format.

85

3 years ago

An online platform where customers can find and book luxury travel.

85

4 years ago

A startup that wants to help teams manage work from anywhere from their phone.

84

4 years ago

This startup is building a video game streaming service, where people can watch others play games on Twitch or YouTube.

84

4 years ago

A startup that focuses on solving the problem of finding legal medical marijuana for consumers, especially for those who live in states where marijuana is illegal.

84

4 years ago

A startup that connects customers with restaurants that deliver, to get fast food and takeout delivered to your door. It’s an attempt to solve a problem that has been around for decades, but for which there is no easy solution.

84

4 years ago

A tool for schools, teachers and administrators to monitor student behavior and see if there are any issues with the school, from bullying to attendance.

84

4 years ago

A chat service where merchants and buyers can connect to find each other, with a chatbot serving as the go-between

84

3 years ago

This company is partnering with universities to provide an online solution to help students stay on top of their schoolwork. It’s especially useful for students in the US, where they say it’s hard to keep track of due dates.

84

3 years ago

A way to set up a white-labeled version of Facebook’s Messenger, where you create a community of people who can message each other without having to create a new account.

84

3 years ago

A company that allows for easy and secure access to your house from anywhere – even if you’re not home.

84

3 years ago

A startup that’s building an app that “separates the signal from the noise” when it comes to where to invest.

84

2 years ago

A startup that aims to create a platform where the government can share public data with private sector companies. The startup wants to help government avoid the $25M/year it spends on public records handling.

84

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can get a personalized letter from a celebrity (ie Barack Obama, Bill Gates, etc)

83

4 years ago

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

83

4 years ago

A solution for companies to hire, manage, and train remote employees, who can then do their work from anywhere. They’ve raised $1.5M in seed funding.

83

4 years ago

An enterprise SaaS business that collects data on where companies spend money and what they buy.

83

4 years 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.

83

4 years ago

A tool that helps developers by allowing them to see exactly where their users are coming from and what they’re doing on their site.

83

4 years ago

A startup that wants to be the Uber for bike rentals: a service where you can pick up a bike and drop it off at a central hub and then pay a flat fee to use it.

83

4 years ago

A business-to-business loan platform that aims to replace banks by offering smaller loans to businesses in countries where there aren’t enough banks. The startup has been in the works for over a year and has already signed up 5,000 businesses in India.

83

4 years ago

A matching platform for freelancers and clients, where freelancers can post projects, let clients browse openings and apply to them.

83

3 years ago

A way for people to manage their digital assets, like bank accounts and health records, from anywhere using a smartphone.

83

3 years ago

A remote control app that lets you control your phone’s flashlight, camera, music, and other features with just your voice, so you can walk around your house and control your phone from anywhere.

83

2 years ago

The company is building a platform that will allow customers to order a pickup or delivery from any of the company’s partner restaurants, regardless of where they are, and have it brought to their home.

83

4 years ago

Smart contracts for the real estate industry, which are built on top of Ethereum, allowing parties to create smart contracts for leases, escrows and home sales.

82

4 years ago

Voice-activated home and car security devices that run in the background and alert you if there is an issue.

82

4 years ago

A startup that helps find and book essential medical appointments anywhere.

82

4 years ago

This startup does a reverse image search for a person or a company, and can tell you when a photo was taken, where it was taken, and the person or company who was in the photo.

82

4 years ago

A platform to give users a “just in time” grocery delivery in a few minutes in a city where in many places a delivery can be a two hour wait.

82

4 years ago

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

82

4 years ago

Companies are often built around their culture, and often they need to make those cultural changes to be successful. That’s where CultureWorks comes in to help companies change their culture in a seamless way — and it’s already doing so at a firm like Apple.

82

4 years ago

The company offers a marketplace where people can sell their services, like a handyman or a babysitter, to help others with their projects.

82

4 years ago

A workplace chat app where employees can have ongoing conversations, share documents and files between each other.

82

3 years ago

Startups that fit into multiple categories, where founders have multiple roles — co-founder, CEO, CTO and CIO, or just the founder and CTO — are a bit more common today, but still rare. The challenge is that it can be difficult to measure how much of the company’s sales and profit go to the founder. Here’s a partial list of startups that fit into that category:

82

3 years ago

A social network for artists. The startup aims to be “an alternative to other social media platforms,” by offering a platform where artists can connect with fans and fellow artists, while also selling artwork.

82

3 years ago

This is a platform where companies can hire freelancers and pay them in crypto, using the startup’s own cryptocurrency.

82

3 years ago

The idea is to create a credit system for global trade, where a buyer in the US wants to purchase something from supplier in China. It’s a way for global businesses to manage the complexities of international trade.

82

2 years ago

A startup that is building a platform for B2B sales, where salespeople can track leads and sales, and manage appointments.

82

2 years ago

An AI platform that helps companies study their own relationships with customers, find out who their best customers are, and where they are on their journey.

82

2 years ago

A platform where developers can build, sell, and deliver software as a service. The company is looking to charge as low as $10 per user per month.

82

5 years ago

Idea: This startup is helping to launch a product called “Tinder for travel” where users can pick and choose flights, hotels, transport, etc. and then a concierge arranges the trip for them.

81

4 years ago

The startup is working to make the task of maintaining and protecting clothes easier and more efficient. The company’s app helps users scan clothing into the app at home, and then sends them to a “laundromat” where they can drop off their clothes for washing.

81

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 credit card company built on the Ethereum network that allows people to create their own credit cards and charge it to a credit card. They’re still working on their product for the moment.

81

4 years ago

Mentioned on Forbes as an example of “a group of entrepreneurs who are making some smart decisions for the future of transportation.” They’re making an electric scooter that’s more than just a toy and aims to build a fleet of them for riders in places where people deal with traffic and don’t have a car — and to not just be a toy for rich people.

81

4 years ago

A ride-sharing service for commuters, where subscribers can have a vehicle drop them off at their office, or pick them up from there, for a small monthly fee.

81

4 years ago

A video chat app for kids, where parents can chat with the kids on screen, even if they are offline. The app is aimed at children ages 6-14.

81

4 years ago

A startup that wants to let start-ups get a “digital bank account” where they can handle donations, payments, and invoicing.

81

4 years ago

A B2B company that helps companies take credit card payments from anywhere, from anywhere.

81

3 years ago

Most startups listed here do not have any seed funding.

81

3 years ago

The idea here is to create a mobile app that can connect your mobile phone to the Internet and alert you when you get near a specific location. The app displays the location and sends an alert with directions so you can find your car and get home from the grocery store.

81

3 years ago

This SaaS platform connects businesses with customers and notaries in a single, streamlined experience. It’s a virtual living room where users can conduct real-time video meetings.

81

3 years ago

This is a solution for the $5 trillion market where logistics companies are paying for cargo capacity, enabling them to buy and sell space for other companies to store their inventory.

81

5 years ago

A peer-to-peer marketplace and online marketplace for exclusively selling used goods. The company wants to bring a new way to buy and sell things, but it’s not quite a marketplace. Instead, it’s a service that connects buyers with sellers, and a platform where sellers can share their goods.

80

4 years ago

Cryptocurrency exchange where users can send funds to one of their own accounts and then exchange currencies at a lower price.

80

4 years ago

The idea is to offer a place where you can order custom-made clothing, and have someone else choose your colors, fabrics, and patterns.

80

4 years ago

A company that helps customers track when and where packages are shipped.

80

4 years ago

A place to share and discover visual content on the web, where users can vote on and comment on pieces, and can even help create new pieces to be shared.

80

4 years ago

A blockchain-based platform for decentralized email, where it’s possible to do email transfer by scanning QR codes.

80

4 years ago

A food ordering app for restaurants, allowing diners to order from anywhere and track the status of their order.

80

4 years ago

A way to pay people who are sick to stay at home, thereby freeing up hospital beds.

80

4 years ago

A startup that allows companies to deliver a customer service experience that is both efficient and personable. The startup is a spinoff of a company called Customer.io, where the founders had to implement a customer service software for a customer support company.

80

4 years ago

A “truly decentralized Internet”, where all of the data is stored on computers that are spread across the world, and none of the data is stored on any single computer.

80

4 years ago

A startup developing a “mobile-first” platform that allows people to search through publicly available data about the world. One example is a tool that uses machine learning to find your address by looking at where you are based on Google Maps.

80

4 years ago

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

80

4 years ago

This startup wants to use big data to predict which customers are most likely to leave a store and where they’ll go next.

80

4 years ago

A platform for connecting job seekers with employers, where employers can find cheap, skilled labor from around the world.

80

4 years ago

A WeWork-esque coworking space in NYC that has memberships that are priced based on a number of factors, including what you’re working on, where you’re working, your gender, and more.

80

4 years ago

A plan for startups to pay corporate dividends to their employees. The company charges a $100 startup fee to launch, and then $10 a month thereafter.

80

3 years ago

A startup in the blockchain space that makes tools to help developers build smart contracts on their own. They are also building a sidechain, a private blockchain, to be able to integrate with other blockchains like Ethereum.

80

4 years ago

This is an effort to build a social network around the "sharing economy" that "provides more complete information related to people and homes" on the sharing economy than exists anywhere today.

79

4 years ago

A messaging app where users can choose the color of their notifications.

79

4 years ago

A company that helps companies automate their sales process with a “human machine interface” where salespeople can interact with the sales process via chatbots.

79

4 years ago

A consumer mobile banking mobile app for the developing world. It’s meant to bring mobile banking to consumers in places where banking infrastructure isn’t robust, and where there are often mobile networks that are poor quality or nonexistent.

79

4 years ago

The startup wants to bring online education to developing countries. It’s currently building its first pilots in India and Nigeria, where it’s pitched as a way to bring education to places that aren’t well-off enough to attract students from elsewhere.

79

4 years ago

A platform for crowd-sourced marketing, where startups can run promotions with users for money.

79

4 years ago

A SaaS business that supports small businesses with a “hub and spoke” model, where a local business acts as a coordinator for a group of smaller businesses.

79

4 years ago

This startup, founded in May, has a tool that helps companies better understand their financial health. The startup’s software goes through all of a company’s expenses, tracks revenue and profitability and gives employees a report on where all the money is going.

79

4 years ago

A way to monetize and organize digital content. With StoryIt, you can create and manage reading lists, track which books you’ve read and where you got them, and mark books as “read” or “currently reading”.

79

4 years ago

The technology at work here is a bit obscure, but it’s a patent-pending way of helping schools and other groups create a geographically differentiated curriculum.

79

4 years ago

A platform for using the cloud to host and share content, including music, photos and videos. The company wants to be a place where people can upload, edit and share their own content in a way that isn’t controlled by one single entity. It has 9,500 users and is profitable.

79

4 years ago

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

79

4 years ago

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

79

3 years ago

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

This startup is building an AI chat bot for booking appointments. The company is building a platform where users can get appointments booked through a chat bot. The chat bot can book appointments based on a user’s location and availability.

79

3 years ago

The company wants to be the Airbnb of Brooklyn, where you can rent out your bedroom or your couch while you’re traveling.

79

3 years ago

A cloud-based document management system that allows users to store, share and access their digital documents from anywhere and at any time. The B2B business currently has a customer base and is profitable.

79

4 years ago

Another product for running virtual meetings, this time focused on the enterprise. The startup helps companies organize large-scale conference calls even though they could be anywhere in the world.

78

4 years ago

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.

78

4 years ago

The startup has a novel approach to tackling the problem of a lack of transparency in the oil industry. It’s a tool that allows users to track the source of their oil, and take it from there.

78

4 years ago

A micro-job platform where people can earn a few dollars an hour doing a task for a company that already has a full-time employee doing that same task. The idea is that someone can have a few hours of work on Mechanical Turk each day already, and that’s the entirety of their work week.

78

4 years ago

A new kind of online marketplace for buying and selling used cars. Instead of going to a dealer, it's a platform where people can bid on cars and sellers can list them on the site.

78

4 years ago

A healthcare blockchain powered by the Ethereum network. It’s a digital patient ledger system that can share patient data with physicians, insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies with the goal of reducing costs and improving patient outcomes.

78

4 years ago

A startup that’s building out a marketplace where people can sell their old smartphones, which the startup says will be used to fund a better future.

78

4 years ago

The startup is developing a global network of “Barista of the Future” in 20 countries where them will be a barista in a coffee shop, and they earn a living wage. The program is designed to provide baristas with the skills they need to run their own business, and to help them start their own locations.

78

4 years ago

A startup focused on the energy sector, where energy is managed from a central hub to yield more energy from a smaller area.

78

4 years ago

A company that helps TV networks "create and monetize their own exclusive shows, even without a network, by giving advertisers the ability to sponsor and advertise wherever their programming appears."

78

4 years ago

A startup that helps companies use machine learning to assess the performance of their website. The startup’s product generates a report for each website it tests, showing which parts of the site are most successful and where performance is lagging.

78

3 years ago

This company wants to build a platform where every household can be equipped with a low-cost device that can detect imminent threats like fires and carbon monoxide.

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

A coffee subscription service for the food industry, where the coffee is made from beans from the farm to cup by the service.

78

2 years ago

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

78

5 years ago

There are hundreds of small companies and startups that help businesses find partners for all kinds of things, whether it’s for data analysis or marketing. Liminal thinks it can be more of a middleman, helping businesses find more opportunities to partner with other companies.

77

4 years ago

A platform for meal-kit delivery designed to eliminate the “kitchen limbo” where people lose track of how much is left in the fridge and need to go buy more. It streamlines the process of sending the meal components to the client, then doing the cooking for the client and keeping track of when it needs to be delivered.

77

4 years ago

A digital health and wellness platform, with a focus on medical adherence and safety. Its current offerings include an app, a digital diary, and a smart bracelet. Its current clientele include dozens of hospitals and healthcare companies.

77

4 years ago

An online platform that connects companies with a shared mission, where they can pool funds, create a common goal, and help each other. Startup is based in Silicon Valley and has launched in San Francisco.

77

4 years ago

A startup that wants to build an app that helps connect residents of rural areas in developing countries to healthcare facilities where they can receive treatment.

77

4 years ago

A digital tool that helps you know where your car is, even if it’s parked in an underground garage.

77

4 years ago

A video platform for museums and art galleries, where a user can share content among other members of the museum in real time.

77

4 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 create a digital locker for customers, enabling them to store and access their stuff anywhere, anytime.

77

3 years ago

A B2B company that brings accounting to a space where it’s traditionally done poorly.

77

3 years ago

A platform that helps people with disabilities track where public transportation is, and check schedules.

77

3 years ago

A startup that allows users to rent out their cars, bikes, and boats and earn money in the process. In the US, there are a million people who use Airbnb-like services to rent out their homes each month.

77

3 years ago

This startup is creating a tool that helps finance customers visualize their expenses, and also helps them identify where their money is going.

77

4 years ago

Ink is a platform for live events, with a focus on music. Users are able to create and manage their events within one platform and then broadcast these events to the world. Ink also offers a community feature, where users can share content with each other. The company raised $12.5 million, with 23,000 users in 50 countries, and is backed by Lightspeed and Greycroft.

76

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 kind of bitcoin exchange, where people can buy and sell bitcoin, litecoin, and ether with a bank account.

76

4 years ago

A platform for managing your personal digital life across multiple devices. Think of it as a digital “phonebook” that you can access from anywhere.

76

4 years ago

A system where you can click on a sticker to make a phone call. The stickers are already on sale in the UK and the US.

76

4 years ago

GigSalad is a marketplace for gigs, where users can pay with Apple Pay or Venmo and get instant, real-time payment confirmation.

76

4 years ago

A startup where customers get a certain number of tailored articles per month, delivered via email.

76

4 years ago

A platform that helps universities and colleges reach international students, especially those who are shy or don’t speak English well. It helps them find the right person or organization to help them with anything they need while they’re there.

76

4 years ago

A store where people can buy full-length videos they’ve taken on their phone.

76

3 years ago

This startup is building a “scavenger hunt” game where players have to use a wearable device to find clues and solve puzzles.

76

4 years ago

A French startup that makes it easier for people to get their hands on medical marijuana. The startup wants to make it easier for people to get quality medical marijuana, even if they don’t live in a state where it’s legal.

75

4 years ago

This company is building a digital service that helps businesses manage their data, giving them access to information on any device, anytime, anywhere.

75

4 years ago

A startup that wants to help people buy, sell and ship items without having to worry about inventory. The startup is building a platform where you can list items for sale, then have them packaged and shipped directly to someone else.

75

4 years ago

A startup where you can sell your used electronics, and get paid in bitcoin.

75

4 years ago

A collaborative platform where companies can share customer data and research with each other. The company is in the process of closing a $1M seed round.

75

4 years ago

It’s a location-based service for ridesharing. The company is currently in beta in the San Francisco Bay Area but hopes to expand from there.

75

4 years ago

A startup with a concierge-like ordering and delivery feature where users can request items and wait for them to arrive, then be billed for those items by the store.

75

2 years ago

There’s a lot of hype around automation in the workplace, with startups promising ways to help make people more productive by removing the need for certain tasks altogether.

75

4 years ago

This is a platform for texting in Spanish, targeting the Latin America market. They’ve built an SMS-based platform where you can “send and receive SMS using the language of your choice”.

74

4 years ago

A startup where people can list their cars for sale. The company has raised $500,000 in seed funding, and says it has 5,000 cars listed.

74

4 years ago

A company that makes AI-based apps to help companies track their users' whereabouts. The startup launched in June, saying it has clients in the US and UK. The startup has raised $2.5 million to date.

74

4 years ago

A digital currency exchange for emerging markets. The startup, founded in 2017, is building a digital currency exchange for countries where currency controls are still in place.

74

4 years ago

A “true” concierge service where homeowners and renters can get help with things like groceries and dry cleaning

74

4 years ago

A food delivery app for the under-served neighborhood in the US where food can be delivered to with a minimum amount of driving.

74

4 years ago

A platform that allows you to manage your finances in one place, a place where you can link to your bank account, credit cards, and more.

74

4 years ago

A startup that’s building out a “one-click” mobile application development environment for Android, where you can write apps with a drag-and-drop interface.

74

4 years ago

This is an app that helps police departments make their cities safer. It’s a service that alerts officers when there’s a body in the street, fires in the air, or a carjacking in progress.

74

3 years ago

A software platform that helps people map where their groceries are in real-time, helping them avoid long supermarket lines.

74

3 years ago

A unique startup for online games, where users can make their own games and sell them to other users through the company's marketplace.

74

3 years ago

A solution that allows teachers to create a student Google Drive and Dropbox account from anywhere. The startup provides the tools for teachers to create this student account and then share their documents with the student. The student can then use these tools to keep their work secure and in sync, and create a digital repository for their work.

74

3 years ago

A startup that wants to bring a “digital concierge” to hotels, where clients can ask for a concierge to book them a table at a restaurant or for a specific room, in exchange for a small fee.

74

3 years ago

An analytics tool that lets companies see where they’re spending their money and where they can save it.

74

2 years ago

The company said when you sign up with their service, you can link your gift cards with their system. When you buy stuff with your card, you get money back to spend elsewhere.

74

4 years ago

A company that helps companies better understand their user base. They help companies understand where their users are coming from and how they’re interacting with their product.

73

4 years ago

(BETA) A social network, which takes the form of a game, where users can win rewards for answering questions.

73

4 years ago

The startup wants to make it easy to zone out of the world around you, tucking into a zone on your phone where you can focus on the tasks at hand. It also wants to make it easy to track your progress.

73

4 years ago

A payment platform that uses the Ethereum blockchain to automatically handle payments and money transfers between parties.

73

4 years ago

An online marketplace for buying and selling second-hand goods, where a community of users can post items for sale, and buyers can check things out and message sellers to arrange a pickup.

73

4 years ago

A startup that turns Facebook into a universal customer service ticketing system for companies. There are no fees for companies to get their tickets listed on the platform and brands can post customer service conversations on the site.

73

4 years ago

A startup for drinks and food in cities, where consumers can order food via text message and have it delivered to them.

73

4 years ago

A home insurance startup that aims to provide better customer service and lower rates by acquiring less expensive medical data. The company also has a service where it can put together a customized health plan for you.

73

4 years ago

A video platform for small businesses where they can create their own videos and sell them to the platform’s users.

73

3 years ago

We’re at a point where almost all of the world’s population is using mobile phones. But most of the world’s adults and teens don’t own a credit score. Vaya wants to help them get one, and also helps lenders target them for loans.

73

3 years ago

All of us have an old smartphone lying around somewhere, and we don't know what to do with it. The startup wants to aggregate all of those old devices into a platform to help make them useful again.

73

3 years ago

After 10 years at Microsoft, where she was on the engineering side of the company's Azure cloud computing platform, and launching and running teams, Nadella helped build up the company's IoT and AI platforms, and then transitioned to the CEO role.

73

3 years ago

This is a video platform where companies can post videos and allow their employees to engage with them.

73

3 years ago

A web-based tool for recruiting and hiring, which includes features like a resume database and a “job board” where employers can post jobs.

73

3 years ago

One that provides an AI-powered tool to help companies identify and hire the best candidates. The startup’s tool allows recruiters to identify top talent from a shortlist of candidates, and then helps manage their recruiting process. There are no guarantees of success in the recruiting landscape, and a startup like this is a way for recruiters to get ahead.

73

3 years ago

A personal finance app that wants to help people get better at managing their money. It’s an app for the average person that makes it easy to track spending and learn where your money goes.

73

4 years ago

A startup that’s working on a new way to connect startups with investors. The startup is building a marketplace where startups will be able to connect directly with VCs without having to go through a middleman.

72

4 years ago

A phone-based savings app, where users can create mini-savings accounts to be used for purchases in the future.

72

4 years ago

This startup is building a global network of sports stadiums. It’s first project is in Brazil, where it is partnering with an insurance company to run a stadium that hosts games for the local soccer league. The startup is also working with a real estate developer to build a sports stadium in China.

72

4 years ago

A SaaS business that helps companies build customer journey maps. It’s a tool that helps companies track where their customers are at in their lifecycle.

72

4 years ago

Insight is a “socially conscious marketplace”, with the goal of connecting people to good causes. Platforms include an online donation service, a marketplace where people can buy and sell things that help a cause, and a marketplace where people can communicate with the causes they support.

72

4 years ago

This is a company that is trying to connect people with their local businesses, which can be a difficult task. Local businesses may not know how to reach out to a prospective customer, and customers may not know where to begin looking for a local business. The company is working with businesses to send out personalized emails to those customers, so that the business can reach out to the local customers.

72

4 years ago

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

72

4 years ago

A product for business owners, in which you can sell your products directly in your Shopify store. The company’s founder says there are over 25,000 people in the US using his app.

72

4 years ago

A new type of energy company where customers get a choice of energy provider, a choice of energy, and are charged a fixed monthly rate.

72

3 years ago

A social network for restaurant employees and customers, with a focus on the restaurant’s culture and the people who go there.

72

3 years ago

“Imagine a world where you could pay your favorite artists directly, whenever you wanted to.”

72

3 years ago

Jaunt is building a platform for immersive VR experiences that can be produced and sold as a service. The startup wants to build a content platform where brands sell VR experiences to their customers.

72

3 years ago

A software platform for sending and receiving money from anyone with an email address anywhere in the world.

72

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a solution to the problem of hiring people in India, where the cost of living is high and the population is big.

72

3 years ago

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

72

3 years ago

A startup that provides a live workplace environment where employees can work in their own private space but still be part of a larger company.

72

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where they test out your home and tell you about what is good and what is bad about your home

71

4 years ago

The Specialized Technology Fund (STF) is a $25 million venture fund hosted by the University of California, Berkeley, where it was founded in 2011. The fund is meant to facilitate the creation of new technologies that can improve the lives of people in developing countries. It is the first university-backed venture fund focused on developing technologies for developing countries. The fund is run by the university's Haas School of Business.

71

4 years ago

A digital platform for the organic food industry to sell directly to customers, with its current focus on e-commerce fulfillment. The founders envision a future where they can send one of the world’s most trusted brands of food directly to your doorstep.

71

4 years ago

A startup that allows users to log in from all their devices, anywhere they are, and go straight to their email.

71

4 years ago

A company that makes a software-as-a-service to help consumers or businesses see where their energy comes from.

71

4 years ago

In the US, there are currently 16 companies valued at $1B or more.

71

4 years ago

In a world run by robots, where job postings are automated, a new startup is building a kind of “job board” that allows people to post jobs and receive recruiters through the app.

71

3 years ago

A platform that helps small businesses and consumers understand where their food comes from.

71

3 years ago

A software company that helps drivers deliver packages to their doorsteps. The company says they’ve had to deal with many different delivery platforms, and there isn’t one that works well for drivers.

71

3 years ago

A startup that wants to bring “small-batch” artisanal whiskey to the masses. “We’re not trying to replace the stuff that’s out there now,” said the team. “We’re trying to add another side to it.”

71

3 years ago

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

71

3 years ago

A startup that connects vets to vets, where vets can connect with vets to get their animals seen.

71

3 years ago

A “digital assistant” for schools and districts with a real-time video calling system where teachers and administrators can speak with each other, for example to record students’ test scores.

71

4 years ago

This startup is building a platform that allows people to create custom short-form videos, where viewers can cosplay their favorite video game characters.

70

4 years ago

A platform where people can borrow a car for a day or a week

70

4 years ago

A cloud-based marketplace for small business loans, where customers can shop around quotes from a variety of banks and lenders, and settle their loans in 30 minutes.

70

4 years ago

A tool that helps employers who handle a lot of travel spend less time on their plane seats and more on making their travelers happy. It offers tools like a daily email that you can get in the seat next to you, and a 3-D interface showing you where you’ll be going.

70

4 years ago

An in-person recruiting company that pulls in employees from other companies to attend an in-person recruiting event, where they can meet with company leaders face-to-face.

70

4 years ago

is a new way for your patients to get access to your medical records. "The idea is to make it easier for patients to get their medical records by allowing them to access them from anywhere in the world, including from their smart phones."

70

4 years ago

In addition to the last column, each company’s founders would be listed in the “people” category. In the case where a company has multiple founders, alphabetical order is used.

70

3 years ago

A startup for product bundling, where users can buy a product in one size and receive a discounted bundle with a second item. The company says it’s more convenient for users than buying separately, and says it’s cheaper for brands too.

70

3 years ago

A payment company for the $2.5 trillion market in India, where cash is still the dominant way of making payments.

70

3 years ago

A tool for hiring, where you can see a candidate’s social, behavioral and work history and get information about their skills and work experience.

70

3 years ago

Shopify is looking to expand in India with the same model that Facebook used to build its business there, which is to make it easy for small businesses to get started.

70

3 years ago

A way for people to protect their identities online. The startup wants to create a system that can automatically generate new passwords when you have to reset your password or login somewhere.

70

3 years ago

The startup is building a tool that allows companies to manage their data from a single dashboard, helping them to make decisions on where to focus their time and money.

70

3 years ago

A way to track and manage multiple work-from-home jobs, so you can see a full picture of where your work-from-home money is going.

70

3 years ago

An ecommerce marketplace where sellers can upload their products and buyers can search for them. The search results are sorted by product popularity and reviews.

70

2 years ago

This startup is building a platform that allows users to create and share “text-washing”, where text is turned into images.

70

4 years ago

This startup aims to help users of the cryptocurrency Ethereum create and manage DApps on their own platform. The DApp Store will let users deploy and manage their apps, and will be powered by a decentralized transaction system that allows users to send and receive payments for their work.

69

4 years ago

A platform for building virtual reality content with human-scale interactions. The company wants to build virtual reality content where people can walk around, sit down or interact with their virtual world.

69

4 years ago

A tool for salespeople to generate new leads. The company’s co-founder used to go on sales calls where he’d be asked to generate leads, but then sit on his hands for days while he waited for new leads to appear. So he built a tool that automated this process, which has already generated 500 leads.

69

4 years ago

A decentralized AI platform built on top of Ethereum that allows developers to build AI bots that can be programmed to perform tasks.

69

4 years ago

A tool for using big data to predict where a product will sell best, rather than applying traditional marketing/sales data.

69

4 years ago

The company’s goal is to have a system where people can access their salary information 24/7 in a secure manner.

69

4 years ago

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

69

4 years ago

A platform for food trucks, where users can order food for delivery, and businesses can sell their food trucks and hire drivers to deliver food.

69

3 years ago

Lending platform for micro-lending for people in areas of the world where banks don’t work. Empowering people with capital where it is needed most. The company wants to lend $1 billion in the first year.

69

3 years ago

A digital platform for speeding up the process of hiring contractors, where you can select from a pool of different service providers.

69

3 years ago

A place where people can shop for high-end, cheap, and secondhand sunglasses. The startup’s founders are a pair of optics industry veterans with an idea for a pair of industry-focused sunglasses, and a desire to sell them directly to consumers.

69

3 years ago

A startup focused on making video calls with mobile phones, for locations where “calling is not possible.”

69

3 years ago

A new service where you can get a quick quote for your company’s travel or general expenses.

69

3 years ago

The organizers said they received over 500 invitations from companies in India and elsewhere to submit ideas, and decided to invite a group of startups and investors to pitch their ideas at the conference.

69

3 years ago

This startup wants to be a “citizen science platform” for scientists. They want to build a marketplace where scientists can sell/buy data, data sets and/or expertise.

69

3 years ago

A SaaS platform for helping home sellers list properties online. The startup wants to be the place where you can go to sell your home online.

69

2 years ago

A tool for companies to have a single data center and server where they can manage a bunch of virtual machines. The company, which launched in July, has partnerships with companies like United Airlines.

69

4 years ago

A “multi-sourced” news site where users can comment and vote on story ideas and investigate the validity of the news.

68

4 years ago

This company is building a platform where small businesses can design custom retail experiences for their customers. The startup lets you design a retail experience from scratch and have it printed on a piece of paper.

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 platform for online stores to sell their inventory in bulk, as well as a marketplace where people can buy and sell on-demand inventory.

68

4 years ago

A product that helps customers keep tabs on the live whereabouts of their packages.

68

4 years ago

A business where “you can buy, compose and sell songs with a single click”

68

4 years ago

A new way to categorize the world’s natural resources, and the goal is to help governments better understand where the world’s resources are.

68

4 years ago

A startup looking to make the world’s best, high-end machine parts with a focus on precision machining. Their idea is to build a factory that can produce any size and shape part, anywhere in the world, with high precision and great quality.

68

4 years ago

A “transaction-based” social network, where people can follow others and interact with them through messages. The startup has already signed up 500 users in the US and has plans to expand internationally in the coming months.

68

3 years ago

A startup of peer-to-peer loans, where borrowers can use an algorithm to determine the best lenders, based on their credit history, credit score and debt-to-income ratio.

68

3 years ago

A startup that allows companies to see where their customers are in the country, and how they get there.

68

3 years ago

InVision is a platform and API for building digital mockups of products where members can collaborate and share designs, interact with others, and collaborate on projects. The startup is a cross between Slack and Microsoft Flow.

68

3 years ago

The startup is developing a new kind of appliance that can be used both inside and out of the home. It can be used as a coffee machine in the kitchen, a set-top box in the living room and as a smart plug elsewhere.

68

3 years ago

A digital store that wants to replace a physical store. The startup is building an app that aims to sell things in a more streamlined way. It’s a web-based app that connects consumers to a community of people who know what they need and where to get it.

68

2 years ago

In the US, there are an estimated 1,000,000 people who identify as “intersex” or “gender-variant”, according to the Human Rights Campaign.

68

4 years ago

A startup where companies can buy and sell advertising on Facebook.

67

4 years ago

A platform to help retailers sell their products. The startup recently launched a “marketplace” where it displays products from different retailers that it has teamed up with on a branded storefront.

67

4 years ago

The average age of the industry is around 30 years old, and that’s not because they’re getting older. It’s because the industry is so new that there aren’t a lot of established veterans.

67

4 years ago

A startup for hiring carpenters and electricians. The startup claims to be the only place on the web where you can quickly find a skilled tradesperson.

67

4 years ago

An employee-owned insurance company. The startup wants to build a marketplace of insurance products for businesses, where employees can buy coverage to meet their specific needs and where the startup takes a cut of the premiums.

67

3 years ago

A startup that finds freelance developers to build things for you, in a country where developers are an underutilized resource.

67

3 years ago

Want to build your own startup but don’t know where to start Check out the StartUp Chile Startup Map , a guide to the Chilean startup ecosystem.

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 startup for augmented reality games, where players can play games together regardless of their location or device, and compete for world rankings."

67

3 years ago

A company that’s built a real-time marketplace for used cars in Australia where buyers can find cars to buy at great prices, with sellers making money from the variety of cars available to buy.

67

3 years ago

A “human-proof” way of ordering and paying for groceries across the UK. After months of beta testing there are now plans to roll it out nationwide in the UK.

67

3 years ago

A bike sharing company that offers dock-less bicycles, where users can pick up an available bike with a smartphone and leave it anywhere. Based in Vancouver.

67

3 years ago

Additionally, startups are typically small, so there is often no need for more than a couple of volunteers per week.

67

5 years ago

Online home store for India where customers can buy and sell in a peer-to-peer format.

66

4 years ago

There are two ways to get around the city. The first is the conventional private vehicle. The second is a bicycle. EcoBike wants to connect users to their bicycles via apps, and provide a software platform to allow the bikes to talk to each other.

66

4 years ago

A startup with the aim of lowering the cost of delivering medical care to remote regions. The company wants to build a tele-health network where doctors can treat patients remotely.

66

4 years ago

This startup aims to get people to “live out their best life experiences”. The company plans to use machine learning to know what users want to do and where they want to go to make it happen.

66

4 years ago

Aimed at helping remote workers manage their time, work from anywhere, and be paid fairly for it. The startup is currently working with a large telecom company to make it easier for them to manage their time.

66

4 years ago

This startup is building a tool that lets cities and companies tag where their waste goes, so that it can be recycled more efficiently.

66

4 years ago

A way to make sure that everyone who needs medical treatment receives it, regardless of where they live. It’s currently in its seed round with $75,000 in funding.

66

4 years ago

This B2B startup is developing a new kind of connected home, where one of the main functions is to help users manage the energy consumption of their homes. The startup is also trying to simplify the process of getting a home inspection, which can be a confusing process for first-time home buyers.

66

3 years ago

An API that allows you to personalize your next car. There are now more than a million cars that can be customized, with 3 million customizations per day.

66

3 years ago

This year’s shortlist was announced in February at the annual Demo Day in New Delhi, where startups pitch their ideas to investors.

66

3 years ago

Plastic Flooring Everywhere, a startup that is building a modular plastic flooring platform.

66

3 years ago

An AI-based platform that helps businesses understand how they’re being paid, where they’re being paid, and which invoices are being paid first.

66

3 years ago

Cloud-based productivity apps that make it easier for people to work from anywhere in the world.

66

3 years ago

A P2P-style marketplace where consumers can source and buy all kinds of products, from food and household items to gadgets.

66

3 years ago

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

66

3 years ago

In this case, a smart-phone-connected device that tells you when and where you can park for free.

66

3 years ago

A startup working to build a “simple way to talk with doctors anywhere, anytime” over video. It’s a tool for doctors to see patients remotely, receive instant feedback on a diagnosis, and make immediate adjustments.

66

3 years ago

A startup that lets you sell and buy things using voice commands. Currently there are about 6,000 sellers on the platform.

66

3 years ago

A platform where you can buy and sell vintage clothing and other items. The startup is currently in the midst of a round of funding, with a $1.2 million seed round from True Ventures.

66

2 years ago

A new kind of smart lock that uses a smartphone’s camera to let you unlock your door from anywhere, at any time.

66

4 years ago

A to-do list app for teams, available on iOS and Android. The app uses a collaboration model, where people can sync their lists across devices, and can edit others’ lists.

65

4 years ago

An enterprise phone system that allows companies to change their phones to a different number and have it ring as many times as they need. It’s similar to RingCentral’s business model where you can get a phone number on the side of your business.

65

4 years ago

Building a platform to support freelance writers and publishers, where writers can make money by writing for others, and publishers can profit from selling their content.

65

4 years 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.

65

4 years ago

“A social network for talent”, where job-seekers can post profiles and connect with companies that fit their skills and career goals.

65

4 years ago

A startup that helps local governments and real-estate developers build affordable housing. The company allows them to do real-time analytics on the volume of transactions in their neighborhoods, helping them figure out where to build new housing.

65

3 years ago

A company working on a mobile app that will allow users to share trips with friends and family, and see where they are going. The founders say they can currently see users traveling to over 100 countries with the app.

65

3 years ago

A platform for freelance designers, where designers can create their own jobs and manage the proposals and clients that come through their site.

65

3 years ago

A system for anyone to manage how they get their groceries delivered, from the stores where they buy to the stores that are closest for them to get their groceries.

65

3 years ago

A startup that wants to trip up criminals on the dark web with its browser extensions, which will show you where the site is hosted and how secure it is.

65

3 years ago

A startup that wants to create a marketplace where anyone can give and receive peer-reviewed ride-hailing reviews, powered by a crowd-sourced rating system.

65

3 years ago

A startup for home security systems, where sellers can list their products for sale.

65

3 years ago

This startup is building a way to manage personal brand on platforms where it has not yet been integrated.

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

2 years ago

A company that created an online platform where people can create and share videos of funny and interesting things that happen to them.

65

2 years ago

A home security and automation platform for homeowners to control their home appliances from anywhere.

65

2 years ago

A digital tool for employees to get their work done from anywhere. The platform serves as a “virtual desk” for teams to work from. Working with an enterprise pilot.

65

4 years ago

A network of online communities where users can gather and learn from one another.

64

4 years ago

A startup that is building a search engine for the ad-tech ecosystem, looking to make it easier for clients to find what they need, regardless of where they are.

64

3 years ago

The startup is building a more secure messaging app, where users can send plain text messages, but also photos and videos.

64

3 years ago

A startup that makes it easy to book airline tickets and manage your trip, with a “very simple” interface that looks like “Yelp for travel”. The company is focused on the Latin American market, where 90% of airfare sales are made by word of mouth — and where travel agents often have to call different airlines to book tickets.

64

3 years ago

A startup for B2B e-commerce, where suppliers can easily connect with customers.

64

3 years ago

The startup is building a shared customer management platform, where sales reps can share their customer relationships with one another and get access to more information on customer accounts.

64

3 years ago

A 1-hour (or longer) video Q&A series where founders answer all of your developer questions, in a format that is short, fast, and to the point.

64

3 years ago

Directs users to the best spot in the subway. The startup wants to make traveling more efficient by letting people tell you where to get off.

64

3 years ago

A tool that helps people in the US and UK set up a direct debit from their bank accounts, and pay their bills from anywhere in the world.

64

3 years ago

A blockchain-powered video platform for publishers, allowing them to monetize their content. The startup’s platform is built on the Ethereum blockchain, with a native token called the Vibe Coin.

64

3 years ago

WeTransfer is a business that allows people to send and share files from anywhere in the world, for a fee. The company has over 100 million users.

64

3 years ago

A startup that operates like a music studio but instead of a recording studio, they have a classroom setting where children learn to play traditional instruments

64

3 years ago

This startup is building a bike share that’s only available in cities where it’s legal to ride bikes on the road.

64

3 years ago

A private security firm that guards luxury homes and offices against intrusion. The startup is based out of Chicago, where the cost of living and real estate prices are high.

64

3 years ago

This is an app that helps you learn to play an instrument. There’s also a dedicated iPad app.

64

2 years ago

An online marketplace where people can buy tickets to events, concerts, and other things they can’t get normally. Think StubHub but for events that aren’t sold out.

64

2 years ago

A startup for online courses, where students can learn almost anything from software development to accounting.

64

4 years ago

A “social network for professionals”, where freelancers and small businesses can network and find each other.

63

4 years ago

This startup is building a mobile app for people who want to help out their local community, but don’t know where to begin.

63

4 years ago

A startup that wants to help small businesses create personalized marketing campaigns by analyzing their websites. They’re currently working with companies in the UK, where they plan to launch in early 2020.

63

4 years ago

One of the most basic tasks for startups is a website. This startup wants to be the “Yelp for websites” and allows for users to rate their sites and let other people know where the site is located, what it does, and whether it’s worth your time.

63

4 years ago

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

63

3 years ago

They’re building a tool to help companies make decisions about where to open new stores based on a person’s purchasing history.

63

3 years ago

A company that helps people make phone calls anywhere in the world using the internet.

63

3 years ago

The company’s vision is a world where patients have a single doctor, at a time, and that doctor works with the patient’s medical records.

63

3 years ago

A gaming server for esports teams, with features like a “selfie room” where players can take photos and selfies, and put them on the team’s profile.

63

3 years ago

This startup is building a way to send big data to a cloud-based service. The company’s challenge is that there are a lot of companies that want to send data to a cloud-based service, but each one wants to do it on its own terms.

63

3 years ago

A startup for business owners who want to run their business from anywhere in the world.

63

4 years ago

A tool for crowdfunding on the blockchain, where the funds are held in a wallet, instead of a bank or payment processor, and can be transferred to multiple investors.

62

4 years ago

This startup wants to help the millions of people who have a credit card but aren’t the type of person who checks their balance every day. It wants to be the place where you pay your credit card bill and track your spending trends.

62

4 years ago

a startup that wants to help people understand how they are spending their money. The startup wants to provide an easy-to-use dashboard of monthly spending to help people decide where to cut back.

62

4 years ago

A startup on O2O sites where companies can pre-sell inventory to customers. They charge a commission based on the volume of the sale.

62

4 years ago

Convey is a startup that uses machine learning to help retail and other companies identify places where potential customers are shopping online and offering those companies a share of the purchase in return for data.

62

4 years ago

A Y Combinator-backed startup that wants to create a platform where users can access a virtual assistant helmed by AI.

62

4 years ago

A startup that uses machine learning to help companies make better decisions on where to open up new offices.

62

4 years ago

A cloud-based community where people can collaborate on and share their creative work. The idea is to encourage people to share their work and brainstorming to help others improve their craft.

62

4 years ago

A platform that lets companies provide their employees with professional development while they’re there.

62

4 years ago

This startup is building a software platform that monitors the quality of service from your cloud provider and automatically alerts you if there are issues.

62

3 years ago

A web-based digital messenger for companies, that can be used to communicate with employees anywhere, anytime. "We want to make it so that you can start using it on your phone and take it with you when you travel."

62

3 years ago

A startup that helps you map out your career pipeline, determine where you might want to specialize and what types of positions you’ll be suited for.

62

3 years ago

an online tool that lets you keep track of your credit card, debit card, and bank account charges (and where they go, who they go to)

62

3 years ago

A smart contract platform for labor, where workers are paid in the form of a token that can be traded in the secondary market.

62

3 years ago

DecideMe is a platform for people to make decisions about their own healthcare. The startup is looking to take huge inroads in the US, where they see a $1.7 trillion market, and plan to launch in 2017.

62

3 years ago

“A smart tool that helps business professionals make better decisions about where to invest”.

62

3 years ago

The company sells a device that can provide a constant supply of fresh water to remote areas and places where water is scarce. The startup is a spinoff from the University of California Berkeley.

62

3 years ago

A place where the public can share the products they find, which they’ve discovered through their fashion and lifestyle blogs.

62

3 years ago

A way to keep your doctor’s appointment history, regardless of where you get your care.

62

3 years ago

A place for people of all faiths to come together and discuss religion, faith, and spirituality, without the judgment and stigma of the public sphere.

62

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help businesses find and hire the best talent. They’re building a “talent marketplace”, where businesses can list their needs and make hires.

62

2 years ago

The app helps people who can’t afford a car repair or a new car find a cheap used one. The startup is focused on the US market, where it says that one in 10 car owners can’t afford to repair their car.

62

2 years ago

A platform to make it easier for small to mid-sized companies to make sales and close deals. The company is based here in the US.

62

5 years ago

Idea: With over a billion people in China, the potential for a successful B2C company is there, but most of them are making money on the internet and not offline.

61

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

An online platform that helps small-scale farmers sell their excess produce. It allows farmers to post prices and where to buy the produce, and consumers to buy directly from farmers.

61

4 years ago

A database of information about corporate decision-makers and where they work, with a database of people who are available to work for them. The startup aims to help recruiters find the right people for certain roles, without having to go through the recruiting process themselves.

61

4 years ago

A startup for booking a doctor's appointment for a specific patient in a specific location. Doctors and patients can both create and track appointments online, with the idea being that patients will be able to call in for an appointment from anywhere at any time, and doctors can only book appointments on the site.

61

4 years ago

A company that provides a way for small businesses to run their business from anywhere — either from the cloud or from a web app

61

4 years ago

A software company that helps companies manage their supply chains, allowing them to better track their inventory and find out when and where things go wrong in their supply chain.

61

4 years ago

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

61

4 years ago

This startup wants to be “the Uber of college admission”. It’s focusing on the US market, where there’s a lot of paperwork and bureaucracy to navigate, and even more pressure to get into the right school.

61

4 years ago

A company that sells “smart” dog collars that can tell if the dog is running away. The team wants to mount sensors near the dog’s collar and in the dog’s surroundings to identify where it is, and send alerts when it is running away and when it is lost.

61

4 years ago

The team is building a platform where brands can sell products straight to consumers at a discount.

61

3 years ago

A product that helps people who want to drop out of college after their first year. They say there are over 2 million students who drop out every year, and most of them can’t afford to go back to school after their first semester.

61

3 years ago

A business intelligence platform for retailers, that allows them to better understand their customers, so they can make better decisions about what to sell and where to sell it.

61

3 years ago

A startup that promises to help you know what your current income is and where it will be in the future. The startup uses an algorithm that tracks past income and predicts future income using a number of factors, including job history, location, and the current economy.

61

3 years ago

Hollywood has become a playground for startups. In addition to the traditional funding from venture capital, there are millions of dollars coming from the likes of Peter Thiel and Andreessen Horowitz. There are also a host of celebrities, like Ashton Kutcher and Mark Zuckerberg, who are teaming up with startups.

61

3 years ago

A startup that tracks where your recycling and trash goes, so you know exactly what you’re throwing away.

61

3 years ago

A software company that builds a machine learning tool for tracking and predicting where problems are going to arise in a process.

61

3 years ago

For people who want to sell and buy data, this is a marketplace for people who have data but don’t know how to properly sell it. The startup is currently focusing on the UK and US, with a plan to expand globally from there.

61

3 years ago

Watermark uses a blockchain to create a digital workbook that can be shared with others and edited, allowing them to collaborate. It’s a solution for the “shared task” problem, where work has to be done in common but can’t be shared.

61

3 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for businesses to manage their employee’s accounts, giving admins the ability to see where money is going and how much is coming in from what.

61

3 years ago

A search engine for local events like concerts and festivals that shows you how to get there

61

3 years ago

This platform allows people to put their money where their mouth is, but it's also a platform for people to do charitable work, too.

61

3 years ago

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

61

3 years ago

A startup that wants to connect people to local tradesman, with a mobile app to find them, and a platform where they can book work.

61

3 years ago

A tool that connects people who want to buy a house with those who want to sell one. There’s no direct transaction, but the startup allows you to show up at a potential home owner’s house and show interest. When both parties agree, they enter into negotiations that are mediated by the startup. The company says it has signed up over 1,100 clients.

61

3 years ago

This startup is developing an AI-driven, machine learning-based system that uses data from users’ social media profiles to match them with their ideal matches in a market where black swan events like the US election created a shortage of marriageable men.

61

2 years ago

In India’s most populous state, where the app is aimed, roughly 20,000 people die due to traffic accidents every year. It uses a combination of artificial intelligence and human intervention to monitor traffic conditions and send alerts to cars of bad driving, as well as send out a text that includes the name of the driver and a link to a video recorded by a camera attached to the car’s dashboard.

61

2 years ago

This startup is developing a system where people can use pre-packaged information about their blood pressure or sleep problems to get personalized advice. It will sell this data to health insurers and third-party companies that need it.

61

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to bring online tutoring to India It’s working with teachers and tutors, and aims to provide a marketplace where teachers can list their services

60

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that is building a mobile application where you can earn money by downloading apps, watching short videos, and answering surveys.

60

4 years ago

A hybrid of Slack and Telegram, where users can chat with each other and their channels on the platform, and the company’s bots can do more dynamic tasks on the side. It’s currently available for beta on iOS.

60

4 years ago

A startup that is building an app that helps people manage their money by managing their spending. The business is focused on the US, where the average savings rate is just 4%.

60

4 years ago

An intuitive, desktop-based app that allows a restaurant to manage their menu items and ingredients. The startup gets data from local grocery stores, which it then uses to create an automated interface where a person can have a single, intuitive experience to search for a new dish at a restaurant using their phone.

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 collaboration tool for groups of people in a team, where each member gets their own channel and a shared channel where they can chat, share files, etc.

60

3 years ago

A platform for decorating your home and sharing it with others, where you can choose to have other people vote on your decor choices.

60

3 years ago

A self-serve restaurant where customers order from a menu of pre-made meals that’s delivered in 30 minutes. By using robots to prepare meals in advance, the company is able to offer a consistent menu across its locations.

60

3 years ago

A startup meant to help people plan and track their future spending, including credit cards, to get a better feel of where they’re heading and how much they can afford.

60

3 years ago

A company that helps people figure out where their homes are in relation to more affordable new ones in their market.

60

3 years ago

A SaaS platform for helping people find the right real estate agent for their needs. The startup wants to be the place where you can go to find the right agent for any property you’re trying to buy or sell.

60

3 years ago

A platform for college students to connect and collaborate on projects. The service allows students to connect with other students in their school and city and launch projects together. There are currently over 100,000 students using the platform.

60

2 years ago

A startup where people can buy and sell their used clothes. The startup is converting people’s worn-out clothing into a secondary retail market. It’s something like a Laundry List but for clothing rather than household items.

60

2 years ago

A way to find and hire a freelancer anywhere in the world.

60

4 years ago

A startup that wants to help people use their own existing content as a source for their brands. It’s essentially a feed builder for social media, where a user can build a feed from their own feed. The startup’s founders say they’ve reached 10,000 users right after launching, and have doubled in size in the past month.

59

3 years ago

A startup that puts a new spin on the dating app Tinder, and allows users to swipe through potential dates in a bar or club setting. The startup wants to crowdsource and combine the benefits of a dating app with the social atmosphere of a bar.

59

3 years ago

A company that builds and maintains the security infrastructure for the Ethereum network, described as “a Swiss army knife for smart contracts.”

59

3 years ago

A software company that offers a suite of tools for companies that want to make better use of their employees’ time. The startup’s focus is on assisting small and medium-sized businesses that have a large workforce and are trying to figure out where to spend their time.

59

3 years ago

A company that helps people find the people they want to hire, turning job boards into a place where people can express interest in a job rather than looking through disparate listings.

59

3 years ago

BillionGraves is an online resource where you can look up the names of people in all sorts of records, and either view the images of their tombstones or read their obituaries.

59

3 years ago

A tool to help users manage their money. It has a mobile banking app, but there are also plans to release a credit card.

59

3 years ago

Flock is a rewards app where people get a dollar for every product they review.

59

3 years ago

A platform where employees can share company news, connect with each other, and have access to company documents, allowing employees to save time by not retyping the same information multiple times.

59

3 years ago

This startup is building a tool to help people determine which loans they could get and where they’re available. The company counts Bank of America, Wells Fargo, HSBC, Capital One, and Citibank among its customers.

59

3 years ago

A startup that is building a platform that allows its users to connect their accounts on different websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, with the goal of creating a platform where their data is stored in one place.

59

3 years ago

A tool to help companies fundraise more effectively, including structured events where key people pitch to funders.

59

3 years ago

A B2C marketplace for corporate members, where service providers can post skills, rates, and availability.

59

3 years ago

A solution to help the thousands of companies who have to keep track of their suppliers and have to keep track of where their products come from, a problem that has become more urgent as they have to move to the “clean” label market, where products don’t contain animal ingredients.

59

3 years ago

A startup that helps teachers prepare for standardized tests. It’s particularly useful for those in rural schools, where teachers have to travel long distances to get to their classrooms.

59

2 years ago

A personalized newsfeed for investors and traders. They’re hoping to get adoption of their app in India, where financial markets are still small.

59

5 years ago

A startup that provides a monthly subscription box for women's hygiene products that don't have a lot of options out there

58

4 years ago

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

58

4 years ago

A tool for users to communicate with each other without the need for a public forum or a message board. It’s a website where users can share a file and a message, and the messages are encrypted and deleted from the system after they have been read.

58

3 years ago

An online service where you can store your credit cards, bank accounts, and other important documents in the cloud.

58

3 years ago

This is one of the first of the non-bank digital payments startups to be funded by the super-investors of Silicon Valley — Peter Thiel. The company is building a payments platform for financial institutions, where they can send money overseas and allow their customers to pay using cryptocurrency.

58

3 years ago

A startup trying to solve the problem of eCommerce fake reviews, where companies can pay for positive reviews on Amazon and other platforms.

58

3 years ago

A startup that runs on phones and apps where users can connect with local businesses directly.

58

3 years ago

The company wants to create a service where a user can use their phone to create a virtual reality experience, and then capture it for viewing on other devices. Their product is a $3,000 kit that lets you “download” a 3-D model and bring it into the real world.

58

3 years ago

A startup that wants to change the way dental professionals communicate — by giving them a shared, secure messaging platform where they can communicate confidentially.

58

3 years ago

A free social networking app where users can connect with people and businesses they trust, with the goal of building relationships that could help them in the future. The founders believe their social network will also become a valuable tool for salespeople.

58

3 years ago

The Startup Pitch Competition is held annually at Y Combinator. Since 2012, over 150 teams have participated in the competition, where a panel of judges evaluates every team's presentation. The top 20 teams participate in an on-stage interview with a panel of judges, after which two teams are selected to move on to the company presentation stage.

58

3 years ago

This startup broadcasts the prices of products on a map in real time so consumers know where to shop.

58

3 years ago

What is it A social network for people seeking romantic connections, where they can post pictures, announce engagements, and discuss their interests.

58

2 years ago

A music streaming startup that has developed a recommendation engine for artists to see where their fans are listening.

58

4 years ago

A startup that offers a “smart” condom that tracks where you are in the act, monitors your arousal level, and vibrates to indicate that it’s time to get on with it.

57

4 years ago

A smart home lighting and thermostat system that connects to Wi-Fi, so users can control the system from anywhere.

57

4 years ago

This startup is building a tool that allows companies to send messages from anywhere and send them to specific people. It also provides a way for users to “like” or comment on other members’ posts.

57

3 years ago

We’re in the middle of a renaissance of public speaking, with the rise of social media, and a rise in the popularity of TED Talks. But there’s a gaping hole where public speaking training and public speaking coaching should be. The founders of VLIVE want to solve the problem by providing live public speaking training and coaching to individuals based on their level of comfort.

57

3 years ago

A tool to help you see where you spend the most time, and then improve the way your work and life are structured to make it easier.

57

3 years ago

A digital marketplace for real estate services where people can list, rate, and review homes.

57

3 years ago

A startup to help businesses and organizations engage more with their communities. They’re building a platform that helps people think about business in a more connected way, like a marketplace where businesses can connect with their customers or users.

57

3 years ago

The startup is building a 3D printer for small scale production. The founders met at Techstars, where they were early on a Y Combinator batch.

57

3 years ago

A startup that lets registered sex offenders track their whereabouts and interact with the community.

57

3 years ago

A startup that makes a new version of the classic game thisisyourhome.com, an interactive game where players search for clues to win points and solve the mystery behind a burglar.

57

3 years ago

Kamal is building a chat-based service where people can trade in-game items for cash (or other in-game items) and sell them in a marketplace. The company already has $1 million in funding from Y Combinator’s Paul Buchheit, 500 Startups and Play Ventures, and is looking for $3 million to $5 million in Series A funding.

57

3 years ago

A startup that provides small business owners with the tools to successfully manage their business from a remote location, enabling them to do their work from anywhere in the world.

57

3 years ago

A digital assistant for the convenience store. The company makes a point of selling products it says are not available elsewhere.

57

3 years ago

A social network for people with chronic illnesses, where users can share experiences, interact with others, and find support through an online community.

57

3 years ago

An educational platform for health, wellness and fitness enthusiasts in the US. The startup wants to gamify learning and create a community where people can learn from each other.

57

2 years ago

A startup for family members to share photos of loved ones, and keep track of who is where.

57

2 years ago

A fintech startup that seeks to help consumers with their spending by creating an “earn to give” platform where people can make donations in exchange for cashback.

57

3 years ago

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

56

3 years ago

A visual tool for assessing a business’s marketing performance. It’s using data to show the effectiveness of different marketing channels, from keyword searches to social media shares, and pinpoint where to focus their marketing efforts.

56

3 years ago

A mobile-first application that brings “real-time” travel recommendations to the road. The startup says it routes travelers based on “where the traffic is going” and “where the traffic is not”, and can even suggest alternate routes, saving time and money.

56

3 years ago

A platform for making your own custom-designed products. The startup wants to build a platform that allows you to make things you need, where you need them.

56

3 years ago

An online marketplace where you can buy and sell stuff from your computer or phone.

56

3 years ago

A startup that brings back the “golden age of lounges” by opening up a network of social clubs and bars where people can come and relax, network, connect and have fun.

56

3 years ago

A tool that helps you track where your clothes are and how they’re wearing.

56

3 years ago

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

56

3 years ago

A startup that wants to create a marketplace for virtual assistants, where customers can hire virtual assistants to do specific tasks for them.

56

3 years ago

A platform that allows businesses to upload and show off their products from a central place, where the users can browse, buy, and share the goods.

56

3 years ago

An online marketplace where people can buy and sell goods online that they don’t need. The startup says that they are currently in the process of closing their first round of funding.

56

3 years ago

A startup that makes an online video platform for small businesses, where users can share videos and recruit employees.

56

3 years ago

At the end of the day, this list is far from exhaustive, and there are a number of other startups that may be worth some extra research

56

3 years ago

A startup that helps users brainstorm and organize their ideas. It promises a place where users can sort out their ideas, make connections, and share insights. It launched in early summer in San Francisco and is planning a global rollout.

56

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to replace your wallet with a digital payments card, with one card that works everywhere. They charge a fee for the card, and also receive a cut of the fees merchants pay for the transaction.

55

4 years ago

A new kind of debt consolidation loan where a new debtors’ attorney works with a debt consolidation loan company to reduce debt and improve credit scores.

55

4 years ago

A “payroll for the sharing economy” where companies can hire independent contractors with a more flexible relationship with customers and company. The company claims it’s cheaper, faster, and easier than traditional payroll systems.

55

4 years ago

A healthcare platform that helps patients record their medical history and identify their own symptoms, then alerts them to when and where to seek treatment with an on-site doctor.

55

4 years ago

Zendrive wants to help employers and employees better understand where they are and what they’re doing by tracking their work patterns and emotions. The startup, founded in May, wants to build an app that can be used as an employee wellness tool.

55

3 years ago

An education startup that brings learning to the mobile era by allowing anyone anywhere to use its mobile learning platform and learn a specific set of skills, like how to build a chair, via a video course.

55

3 years ago

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

55

3 years ago

A startup that helps people create, distribute, and sell music online. According to its founders, there’s a $30 billion music industry in the US, but it’s almost entirely untapped in the digital space.

55

3 years ago

A startup that uses location data to identify the best-performing neighborhoods in Cincinnati and Miami, where they then focus on developing them into thriving communities.

55

3 years ago

A platform for startup founders to raise capital in a new way. Their pitch is that their platform is bringing transparency and efficiency to angel investing. Instead of a typical deal where a startup founder gets 50% of the company’s future equity, they offer equity up front as well as a stake in the company’s future profits.

55

3 years ago

A company that creates a mobile-first application to allow users to access a business's inventory from anywhere.

55

3 years ago

A startup provider, where subscribers can get their hands on a curated list of products based on their preferences, instead of having to sift through so many options.

55

3 years ago

A startup that helps arbitrage traders figure out where in the world to invest. The startup is backed by Y Combinator alum Sam Altman, who invested in the company’s seed round in November 2018.

55

3 years ago

A startup that helps people track the quality of the beef they eat, and connects the dots between various beef sources and the farms where it came from.

55

3 years ago

In a world where companies work with dozens of suppliers, sometimes on a daily basis, it doesn’t make sense to have to use multiple tools. This B2B company wants to help companies manage their suppliers on a single platform, making it easier for them to do business.

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

A personal chef and concierge service, where we’re all too busy and time-pressed to cook dinner.

55

3 years ago

A digital concierge service whereby contractors bid on a project, and the winner gets paid. The startup has been running for two years and is profitable, working with over 1,000 contractors in the US.

55

3 years ago

A startup that uses AI to help detect and fix errors in software before it’s released. The company says there are currently over 400 million errors in existing software, costing companies billions of dollars in lost revenue.

55

2 years ago

A decentralized network of apps and smart contract applications built on the Ethereum blockchain

55

2 years ago

"a collaborative research platform for advanced manufacturing tech", which is building a “virtual 3D environment and virtual manufacturing environment where engineers can design, simulate, and simulate and design.”

55

2 years ago

A twist on the “freemium” model, where the free version of the app is limited to two minutes of recording time, but allows users to build longer recordings for paid members.

55

5 years ago

Idea: A simple, powerful, and intuitive tool for creating smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain

54

4 years ago

The platform is designed to help businesses get more information on the health of their employees. It’s an online portal where employers can upload their employee data and employees can upload their own.

54

4 years ago

A collaboration platform for senior executives and other high-level professionals. The startup is creating a platform where users can share documents, plans, ideas and other content with other users, while leaving the original author’s name associated with it.

54

3 years ago

A startup that makes an online platform where people can buy/sell stock they own. It’s a good way to invest in sectors that you’re interested in, and make money off of in the future.

54

3 years ago

A company that allows companies to have a single dashboard that shows where they stand in their sales funnel.

54

3 years ago

A company that has built an online community, where users vote on questions and experts answer them using video and text. The startup is working with the NFL, which is using it as a way to raise awareness of player safety in the NFL.

54

3 years ago

This startup is looking to help companies in the B2B space generate leads by using machine learning to predict where they’ll make the best profit.

54

3 years ago

A futuristic TV platform, where people can interact with their TV just as they would a computer, and the TV responds to their commands. The company has built a prototype and is looking to raise funds.

54

3 years ago

A video game for kids, where the app uses a child’s phone to track their location and motions. The game aims to teach kids spatial awareness and how to move.

54

3 years ago

A web-based community for photographers, where photographers can show off their work, collaborate on projects, and get feedback from other photographers.

54

2 years ago

An online shopping platform built on the Ethereum blockchain.

54

4 years ago

A startup that wants to bring the experience of a video game to investing, where users can earn real money as they invest in various stocks and bonds.

53

3 years ago

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53

3 years ago

A digital marketplace where people can buy and sell a variety of goods and services. The company is also working on a food delivery service.

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 tool that allows workers to get paid for their work on the side. The app is for small businesses, especially those in the creative or tech industry where cash flow can be challenged.

53

3 years ago

This is a startup that wants to be the next-generation of social media, where people can create ephemeral messages that disappear after a few hours.

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 predictive modeling tool that aims to help local governments make better decisions about where to invest in public transportation.

53

3 years ago

A blockchain-based marketplace for virtual goods. The company wants to create a marketplace where users can buy and sell virtual assets, with the hopes of building the first “worldwide marketplace”.

53

3 years ago

A startup that wants to use machine learning to help people who don't have access to medical care to see doctors by monitoring data from the hospital, like how long the patient has been there, how long a doctor has been available to see them, etc.

53

3 years ago

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

53

3 years ago

A platform that helps brands test consumer products in the real world before they even go to market. The startup is building a consumer product testing platform where brands and retailers can test products in the real world to see how consumers react.

53

3 years ago

A “social media community” platform, where users can create their own communities of content and comment on each others’ posts.

53

3 years ago

A “smart grocery store”, a place where you can buy groceries using a card that’s linked to your membership, and then pay for them using cash or a card of your choice. The checkout process is designed to be more efficient than the one you’d get at a traditional grocery store, with the goal being to get your groceries home faster.

53

3 years ago

A crowdsourced platform that helps companies hire designers, where anyone can submit designs and the most popular ones get selected.

53

3 years ago

This platform is meant to be a place where people can express their political beliefs and have conversations that they otherwise might not have had.

53

2 years ago

The company says that their app is “the easiest way to find the best deals, find the best way to get there, and find everything you need all in one place.”

53

2 years ago

A company building on Ethereum that aims to build a “full-stack” cryptocurrency for decentralized applications.

53

2 years ago

A startup that lets customers request an Uber or Lyft to pick them up from bars, bars that are around the corner, or wherever they are.

53

2 years ago

A global platform where companies can collaborate on software development projects.

53

2 years ago

“A support system for entrepreneurs”. HelpMee is an online community where entrepreneurs can seek advice and help.

53

2 years ago

A platform where you can save the data generated by IoT devices.

53

2 years ago

A tool for companies that want to compete with Airbnb on short-term rentals, where a renter is given a room to rent, and can be charged a nightly fee for the stay.

53

5 years ago

Idea: A platform to bring great coffee to everyone, everywhere The startup is building a barista-grade coffee brewing system using the Nespresso capsule format The company says it has $8,500 in monthly recurring revenue

52

4 years ago

A freelance marketplace for coders, where developers and entrepreneurs can find each other to work on projects.

52

3 years ago

A startup that uses big data to analyze and predict the effectiveness of different marketing campaigns. The company is based in Palo Alto, where they were founded.

52

3 years ago

This startup is building an AI system that helps autistic people self-navigate and find the best way to get to where they are going.

52

3 years ago

A startup that helps you organize your finances by category and by type, and then makes it easy for you to see what you owe, who you owe, and where you owe.

52

3 years ago

A team of marketers in Silicon Valley developed a new way for companies to engage with customers on social media. WorldFace takes a team of human marketers who can comment on users’ posts and posts themselves to a Slack channel, where a bot then follows along.

52

3 years ago

A tool for companies to manage their business finances in one place, which is accessible from anywhere.

52

3 years ago

Building a Slack-like platform for the European market where companies can create their own channels. In the US there’s already a Slack-like company called Slack that has over 9 million users, with a valuation of $2 billion.

52

3 years ago

A startup that wants to replace a library card with a card that works everywhere.

52

3 years ago

A platform for online retail where shoppers can try before they buy. They’re looking to offer a trial period for clothes and accessories, and then a 30-day return policy, to ensure you’re happy with your purchase before committing.

52

2 years ago

A tracking app for the elderly and those with disabilities. The app is meant to help caregivers track their loved ones’ whereabouts.

52

2 years ago

A startup that helps make getting insurance easier by offering a service where you can generate a pre-existing condition policy for any health issue.

52

4 years ago

A company that helps people collect and report information on the state of the planet and helps them predict where the next natural disaster is likely to strike. It’s a project for The Planetary Society, an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to space exploration.

51

4 years ago

A startup where people can find a nanny or babysitter that matches their needs. The startup charges $20 a month, but they are already working with a few hundred families in the Bay Area.

51

4 years ago

Introduces the concept of “smart contracts” to the world of eCommerce. Essentially, it’s a smart contract that’s built on the Ethereum blockchain.

51

3 years ago

Zillow has a variety of plans for how you can pay for your house, from very inexpensive ones (up to $300 per month) to more expensive ones (up to $2,000). The startup wants to allow people to do more things with their house, like renting it out or renting it out while they’re not there.

51

3 years ago

A platform that helps fashion brands find emerging designers and helps them take their designs from “somewhere in the world” to “some place in the world”.

51

3 years ago

A tool that lets users explore and analyze data gathered from research.

51

3 years ago

This startup wants to make it easier for customers to find the best deals on last-minute gift cards. The startup is launching a new website where customers can search for a specific retailer and quickly see the best deals.

51

3 years ago

A local news app that requires users to verify their location as a safety measure. It’s also a way to provide local news to users in areas where there is little or no access to other sources of news.

51

3 years ago

The idea here is that you can build the game you want, rather than having to buy a pre-defined set of games for your kid.

51

3 years ago

This startup sells an iPhone app that creates an altitude profile of a user's movement over time and tells them where they are in relation to the mountain ranges around them.

51

3 years ago

A startup for investors and entrepreneurs, where investors can “sharpen their skills” by investing in different startups.

51

3 years ago

The company has a monthly recurring revenue model, where they charge users monthly, and then provide free CRM solutions to their customers. It’s an adtech company that provides the platform for brands and agencies to manage their own customer relationship management.

51

2 years ago

This startup is building a platform where celebrities tweet out facts about themselves, such as their height or favorite book. The company says they’ve seen a 30% increase in retweets since partnering with the NBA.

51

2 years ago

A startup that wants to connect the physical world to the internet of things. The company aims to create a system where wearable devices can communicate with each other to let you know when your neighborhood is not as safe as it should be or if your car is running low on gas.

51

2 years ago

A blockchain startup that wants to make it easier for developers to build and deploy blockchain apps by merging the power of Ethereum and Ethereum Classic.

51

5 years ago

Idea: A new way to execute smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain that’s meant to be more secure and less expensive

50

4 years ago

A platform where people can share their photos and videos on social media.

50

4 years ago

A mobile app that lets you order and pay for your meal easily by tapping where you’re sitting in the restaurant. It’s in its first beta test, and is looking to build the startup into a national brand.

50

4 years ago

A network of online community partners that can allow customers to request items as an “insurance agent” via a web portal. It’s a kind of insurance shopping service where you have someone else help you with the details.

50

4 years ago

A tool that helps companies manage their services, from inventory to payments, from anywhere they have access to the web.

50

3 years ago

Redefining the way the world looks at enterprise IT. As the founder puts it, "We're building a new kind of company where there's no hierarchy, no CTO, no CEO, everything is built from the bottom up."

50

3 years ago

A medical startup that wants to build a network of mini-clinics and doctors in low income countries, where there are very few doctors and no pharmacies.

50

3 years ago

A tool that allows you to take screen recordings on any device, and then upload them to a site where they’re automatically overlayed with a visualization of the device’s audio.

50

3 years ago

A tool for combatting software development and design errors, such as typos, bugs and broken images. The startup is building a visual environment where users can search and browse for design issues and then collaborate with others.

50

3 years ago

This startup is building a decentralized, open-source content distribution network where people can contribute video and photos from events and then share them throughout social media and the web

50

3 years ago

A talent platform where users can find the best talent for their projects and projects in the market.

50

3 years ago

A tool for finding external funding that’s not tied to your domain. Clique is a competitor to AngelList, a site where individuals can post up their startup and ask for funding. The advantage is that it’s not tied to a specific domain, allowing it to work for any industry.

50

3 years ago

A Boston-based startup that’s building a way to store and organize restaurant and event reviews so that they can be accessed at anytime, anywhere.

50

3 years ago

A company that wants to use the Ethereum blockchain to build a platform for digital identity and digital securities

50

2 years ago

A virtual reality platform built for educators, where users can create interactive lessons and games.

50

2 years ago

A web-based tool for managing and sharing “professional content” like presentations, videos, stories, and more. The company wants to create “an online environment where professionals can share their content with a community of peers and followers in a way that is both simple and engaging”.

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2 years ago

A Marketplace where you can buy and sell everything from cars to houses to shoes in a way that is safe, transparent, and fair.

50

2 years ago

A startup that helps you track your finances by aggregating your bank and credit card data and then letting you see where you’re spending.

50

2 years ago

Builds online communities where anyone can discuss a variety of topics.

50

2 years ago

A platform that aims to connect customers and online sellers on eBay, Walmart and Amazon. The aim is to create frictionless commerce where people can find products that are designed to fit their lifestyle and home.

50

3 years ago

The company's premise is to deliver a social network built around music, where users can interact with other artists. As it's a start-up, its scope is limited, but it's got a solid team of artists and managers backing it.

49

3 years ago

A web-based stencil-and-painting app that allows users to create customized graffiti anywhere they can type.

49

3 years ago

wants to be like LinkedIn, but for the world of work. It’s a targeted, global social network for businesses where data is shared automatically.

49

3 years ago

A Marketplace for freelance designers, where designers can post their designs, and then have them built by artisans in the marketplace.

49

3 years ago

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

49

3 years ago

A new way to bring your contacts to the web where they can be shared and brought into groups.

49

3 years ago

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

49

3 years ago

A startup that collects, organizes and analyzes data, such as the data gathered by 1,000 different sensors on a car.

49

3 years ago

This startup wants to build a platform that simplifies the process of requesting a loan for anyone, anywhere. It’s a service that can be used by governments and small businesses who don’t have access to capital.

49

3 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier to find and buy gifts for dad for Father's Day. The company wants to give buyers more flexibility with how and where they buy.

49

2 years ago

A tool to help you get your car to the same place that you take it to get serviced. It combines a GPS-enabled tracker and a mapping application to show you the shortest distance to your destination and then help you navigate there.

49

2 years ago

A startup that helps people find where to get the best deals on milk and cheese. The startup wants to build a platform connecting producers and consumers.

49

2 years ago

An online marketplace where consumers can buy and sell food, apparel, and other household items. It has $100,000 in seed funding.

49

3 years ago

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

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3 years ago

A "social entertainment network" – basically a streaming video network, similar to Netflix and Hulu, where users can pay a monthly subscription to access a library of movies and TV shows.

48

3 years ago

A new way to communicate, where users can communicate through a single interface to different social networks. The idea is to create a way for users to communicate with each other, but for conversations to be public.

48

3 years ago

A startup working on a software platform that allows people to open a checking account online, no matter where they live. The startup is working with over 50 banks and credit unions.

48

3 years ago

A startup that wants to build a system for truck drivers to use to find where trucks are exactly in real time, allowing them to optimize their routes.

48

3 years ago

A platform that helps companies engage their customers by automatically generating personalized ads to promote their products. The startup says there are currently over 3 billion pieces of content on the internet, but only about 1.4 billion of them are ads.

48

2 years ago

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

48

2 years ago

A startup where people can apply to be a startup’s co-founder.

48

3 years ago

A startup focused on the idea that “the future is here” and that the “present is not what it used to be”. Founded in 2018, it has written and produced 9 episodes so far.

47

3 years ago

A network of local farmers, distributors, delis, grocers and restaurants that allows consumers to share what they’re eating and where they’re getting it. It’s a sort of “eat local” app, but rather than trying to force the idea on people, it’ll be a way for people to voluntarily connect over food and share the experience.

47

3 years ago

Slack is building a tool for teams to work together from anywhere, on any device.

47

3 years ago

A 10-person startup that wants to make it easier for people to donate their blood. It’s a startup that has one person working in it full-time and another holding down a full-time job elsewhere.

47

3 years ago

This startup is trying to make it easier for small businesses to access capital. The company is building a marketplace where borrowers can connect with investors who are willing to invest small amounts of money in exchange for a higher return.

47

3 years ago

A startup that wants to be the place where people buy and sell physical products. It’s currently having trouble finding a funding partner to eventually take it public.

47

3 years ago

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

47

3 years ago

A company that uses the power of crowdsourcing to help the homeless. The startup has already built a series of widgets for the New York City subway system that provide homeless people with a “home away from home”, where they can shower, receive assistance and be housed.

47

3 years ago

A startup that is building an online game for kids, originally built for kids with cancer, now for kids with cancer everywhere. The startup is currently taking preorders for the game, which is currently in development.

47

3 years ago

A platform where contractors can sell their services for things like data entry to companies

47

2 years ago

A startup designed to allow people to get their driver’s licenses at any time, anywhere.

47

2 years ago

This is an app that helps you find parking. It uses an algorithm to figure out where you’re closest to a certain store or venue.

47

5 years ago

A startup that sells a product where you can buy a jar of coffee beans, put it in your own personal coffee grinder and then it keeps the coffee fresh for up to 1 year

46

3 years ago

A recruitment platform for small businesses where employees are given the flexibility to choose their hours and when they work, but are also able to receive paid time off and benefits.

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

A decentralized marketplace for peer-to-peer lending, where lenders can lend to borrowers globally, with no minimum amount and no origination fees.

46

3 years ago

A “human-powered ride-share” that lets people take a bike to the train station, leave it there and have it brought back to them later.

46

3 years ago

A startup for books for kids to buy and borrow. The company wants to get beyond the traditional book fair by making it a place where kids can buy, sell and borrow.

46

3 years ago

A “connected baby monitor” for parents, that allows them to monitor their kids anywhere and talk to them with a phone app, in real-time. The startup is building a data platform that tracks and shares information on both what’s happening with the kids, and the parents.

46

2 years ago

i’m sure there's more, but I’ll leave this here for now as I do have some ideas for more.

46

2 years ago

This startup is building an early-warning system for construction companies. The startup wants to help construction companies detect faults in the construction process before it gets to the point where it causes a delay in the completion of a project.

46

2 years ago

A startup that helps people around the world make the most of their social media profiles, especially in countries where Facebook is blocked.

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

This startup is building a service that they say will be the “Netflix for video” — where users can stream from the library of the company.

45

3 years ago

In a market where the best products aren’t built by the likes of Facebook, Google, or Apple, but by startups that sell products in other places, AppBounty is trying to help startups get there. The startup’s “accelerator” provides startups with resources, mentoring, and a base of customers while they build and launch their products.

45

3 years ago

A subscription model for content creators where the business takes a percentage of revenue, with the site owner retaining 100% of the ad revenue.

45

3 years ago

A chat-based tool that helps people keep track of their employees and their whereabouts. The founders say they are also building an analytics platform to track employee engagement.

45

3 years ago

A startup that helps consumers compare and find the perfect fitness classes in NYC. Founded in January and backed by Accel Partners and 500 Startups, the company includes a mobile app, a series of Youtube videos, and an online community where New Yorkers can share their workout routines.

45

3 years ago

What if there was an easier way to pay your employees This startup aims to make it easy for businesses to use a streamlined system for paying their employees. The company has already helped over 100 customers raise millions of dollars.

45

3 years ago

A startup that helps retailers track where their products are being used, and where they should be sold.

45

3 years ago

We’ve seen a number of startups that help people track their health using wearables, step trackers and other data they collect. Now there’s a startup that wants to let people track their health using color-coded stickers.

45

3 years ago

A travel-booking service that lets you find the best flights at any time, no matter where you are.

45

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can go to a special location and a professional photographer will take a photo of them and their family and then print it out

44

3 years ago

A startup that wants to create a version of Amazon, where consumers can buy products directly from brands. The startup says they’re building a storefront that’s all about discovery and discovery is the hard part.

44

3 years ago

A platform that uses an app to monitor employees’ and partners’ whereabouts and habits

44

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.

44

3 years ago

A startup that’s building an online marketplace for people to buy used goods. They want to create a global marketplace for used goods where users can buy and sell their goods, either online or in person.

44

3 years ago

Slack-like platform for recruiting, where companies can see the resumes, skills, and preferences of a job-seeker’s network and the recruiter can provide feedback.

44

3 years ago

A new way to create and sell ebooks — through a subscription model. Publishers can offer “memberships” for $10 a month and get access to a repository of 1,000 different books. There’s a title, author, and a description of the book, as well as a collection of images. They plan to launch in the fall of 2019.

44

3 years ago

A company that allows anyone to create a smart contract, the protocol layer that powers decentralized applications on the Ethereum blockchain

44

2 years ago

This is a startup that allows people to have a virtual “mall” of sorts where they can sort through their clothes and buy them.

44

2 years ago

A local real-time search engine for the US which aims to cut out the middleman and help people decide where to eat, go out or get an Uber when they’re in a hurry.

44

3 years ago

If you're an educator considering switching to a new school, learning how to improve your curriculum, or a parent considering a school change, this startup aims to help you figure out how and where you can find the best fit.

43

3 years ago

A real-time social network for collaborative content. It’s a video-based platform where users can choose what content to share via comments, and users can join groups for specific topics.

43

3 years ago

A way to track where your deliveries are coming from and when they’ll arrive. The company is using information from GPS and other sensors to enable its customers to track their delivery status in real time.

43

5 years ago

Idea: A new kind of ecommerce platform for physical goods, where every product page has a video embedded. The company calls itself “a new kind of ecommerce platform for physical goods, where every product page has a video embedded.” Users can watch videos to hear the story behind the product, or if they want, can touch the screen and hear the video narrated by a voiceover.

42

3 years ago

A startup that helps you get the most out of your commute. TransitHero tracks your commute and shows you where you should leave based on time and time of day. It then helps you find out how to get to your destination, with an app that shows you alternative routes and timetables.

42

3 years ago

A startup that helps companies run meetings online, where everyone can collaborate and get the updates they need.

42

2 years ago

Seeking to make it easier for students to get the information they need about where to take classes.

42

2 years ago

A company that is building an enterprise-class, global accounting platform that was built from the beginning with mobile in mind. The company says it’s spent the last six years building a platform that can be deployed anywhere in the world.

42

2 years ago

A crowdsourced social network for the LGBTQ community, with a purpose of being a safe, welcoming place for people to connect and organize around their interests. They’re starting with a blog-like platform where users can post their opinions on current events and share their personal stories.

42

2 years ago

A company that helps companies build a virtual sales force, allowing them to manage leads and track their activity from anywhere.

42

2 years ago

A game where you play as a psychopathic serial killer that has to kill innocent people in various locations. The game is intended to be creepy and make you feel bad about yourself.

42

2 years ago

A company that lets people set up a kind of bank account where they can deposit or withdraw cash or other assets from other people.

42

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that creates a marketplace for intellectual property. The startup’s pitch is that there’s a whole market for IP like patents and algorithms that’s currently untapped.

41

5 years ago

This company is building a platform for sharing and selling used furniture. The startup has a website where people can view and purchase furniture.

41

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 London-based startup that’s building a new kind of currency that is designed with the goal of being able to be used globally (currently in beta). The company is working with Mastercard to implement a new type of currency that can be used anywhere in the world.

41

3 years ago

This startup is building a little robot with a camera to help monitor your home while it’s not occupied, then alert you if there’s a problem.

41

3 years ago

This startup is building a platform to help local governments auction off their parking spaces like Uber. The company wants to help councils and other local governments bring in more revenue by creating a marketplace where drivers can book spaces and meet customers who are looking for parking spaces.

41

3 years ago

This is a platform where musicians can meet and collaborate.

41

3 years ago

A platform that makes it easier for retailers to find and hire customers. The startup is built on the idea that many retailers struggle to find good customers and are therefore missing out on sales.

41

3 years ago

A digital payments platform that lets organizations send money to people anywhere in the world.

41

2 years ago

A dashboard for your AWS infrastructure and billing that lets you see what’s happening in your systems, including a visual graph of everything that’s running, who’s consuming what, and where the costs are going.

41

2 years ago

A way to streamline the process of buying and selling used cars, by simply cloning the car’s current license plate in the state where you live.

41

2 years ago

A startup that connects buyers and sellers of housewares and home goods, allowing people to post listings from anywhere and get commission for each sale.

41

2 years ago

This is a company that’s looking to make it easier to manage your health information. It’s basically a health information management system, a place where you can store all your medical records, update them, share them with doctors, and so on.

41

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can book a room to stay in for a night like AirBnb but instead of an entire house it’s just a room

40

3 years ago

A sort of email directory for charities, where they can add names and email addresses of people they'd like to donate to, and then send them emails when they have funds to donate.

40

3 years ago

A platform that helps online merchants from developing countries sell their products to the developed world, where their customers are more likely to pay for them.

40

3 years ago

A $20 payment card that can be used for anything, anywhere, and is good for 8 years.

40

3 years ago

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

40

2 years ago

A tool for hospital administrators and staff to help them send out safety notifications and warning signs to patients if there is a fire, gas leak, or other emergency.

40

2 years ago

A platform that lets you know when your favorite celebrities are in the same place where you are.

40

2 years ago

A social network for freelancers, where they can review projects, find work, and even maintain a portfolio of their work.

40

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can buy “nanny insurance” so they can hire a nanny and feel more secure

39

3 years ago

This startup is building a marketplace for AI developers, which wants to build out a platform where people can share their AI tools. It’s launching in Q4 2019.

39

3 years ago

A platform for property investors to bid on and manage their rentals. It’s a “finance-free service” where you can “browse properties, place bids, and settle”.

39

2 years ago

A college admissions platform for students. The company wants to help students find colleges that fit their needs, and help colleges find students who have the potential to succeed there.

39

2 years ago

A “credit score for the world” for 90% of the world’s remittance flows. Instead of relying on a single credit score, which may differ depending on where you live, IDream ventures wants to provide a global score that’s the same regardless of country.

39

2 years ago

The startup has built a way to “scan and digitize” all of the documents in a company, and create a centralized place where those documents can be accessed from and backed up.

39

3 years ago

A web-hosted project management tool where projects can be assigned tasks and milestones, as well as tracked.

38

2 years ago

A startup where users can submit, discuss and vote on the best movie, TV show, and book covers. Users can also rate the movies and TV shows, and the top movies and books are then shared with film studios, book publishers, and publishers of comic books.

38

2 years ago

A mobile payments platform for merchants with a focus on high-risk merchants like bars and restaurants — places that have a high volume of transactions, with many customers with few accounts, or where the customer has a lower credit score.

38

2 years ago

A platform that helps small businesses connect with people who are looking to earn money. The startup wants to build a community where people can connect directly with people who are looking to make money via a service called “Earn”.

38

2 years ago

The list is not comprehensive. The above startups represent some of the more notable applicants that have been accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch. For a full list of all the startups accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch, see here.

38

2 years ago

A tool for computer science and data science courses that wants to become a marketplace where students can find tutors, and get training and advice on their coursework.

38

2 years ago

A cloud-based album management app that lets people manage their music, audio books, and videos from anywhere.

38

2 years ago

A “mobile app that gamifies investing”. There’s no specific product yet, but the startup is planning to launch a new app called “Stockfolio”, with a new feature that will let users compete against each other to see who can make the best purchase recommendation.

38

2 years ago

A software platform for commercial real estate investors that allows them to manage projects from anywhere.

38

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can go to an office and work for a day to give them a temporary feeling of working in an office

37

5 years ago

Idea: A startup for small businesses looking to work with contractors. The startup helps make sure there’s a legal structure that’s sound and protects both parties.

37

5 years ago

Idea: A startup for used goods, where resellers can list any item they want for a flat fee. The startup wants to remove the hassle and fees of selling used goods online.

37

2 years ago

A startup that helps people figure out if they can afford a home in a city. The company says that in cities where a lot of people are renting, it’s hard to find out which ones you can afford because the data isn’t readily available. So it’s building a tool that will show you what neighborhoods are affordable in a new city and help you figure out if you can afford to live there.

37

2 years ago

Game development marketplace where developers can hire other developers to build assets for games from any platform, with a revenue share for the developer.

37

2 years ago

A company that commissions audio, video, and photo content to help companies get their brand out there.

37

2 years ago

A six-person startup that makes a smartphone add-on that allows you to see the weather anywhere on the planet. They’re the first company to make an app that lets you see the weather in nearly 60 countries.

37

5 years ago

A startup that sells a subscription service where people pay a monthly fee and receive a box of snacks

36

5 years ago

A smart thermostat that syncs with your phone and can be controlled from anywhere.

36

3 years ago

A contact management app that stores your contacts in the cloud and syncs them across all of your devices. It’s an API for making your contacts easy to find anywhere.

36

3 years ago

Based on the idea that companies need information they can trust, this startup is building a way to make sure that employees are working in the right place. It uses a phone app to use geolocation to tell users where they are.

36

2 years ago

This startup is building an AI for scheduling meetings. The idea is to allow people to get a better idea of when and where they’re needed by using AI. The company wants to build an AI that can visualize data from everyone in a meeting, and immediately show people when they’re needed.

36

2 years ago

A community of local businesses in NYC that are looking to hire people. There’s a pool of over 200 companies that are available for hiring, with over 200 openings in total.

36

2 years ago

In a world where millions of people browse the web every day, the average person spends less than 20 minutes on the internet every week.

36

2 years ago

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

36

3 years ago

A remote-work startup that helps people get work done from anywhere in the world.

35

3 years ago

A recurring revenue platform for online businesses where you get a monthly auto-renewal subscription, and businesses get a monthly recurring revenue share from that.

35

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a system to improve the safety and quality of healthcare services in Brazil, where a lot of the country’s healthcare infrastructure is in need of modernization.

35

2 years ago

An automated platform for finding and paying for parking spots, and messaging users to let them know where the nearest spot is.

35

2 years ago

Why do people buy a car from someone they’ve never talked to before BizBox aims to be a communications tool between car dealers and consumers, with a marketplace for sellers. There’s a lot of money to be made in this, and BizBox has already launched a product for the German market.

35

2 years ago

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

35

2 years ago

A “smart contract for the IoT” platform. The startup aims to make it easier for developers to build IoT applications on the Ethereum blockchain.

35

2 years ago

A video streaming app for kids, where parents can create playlists and have them automatically played to their kids.

35

2 years ago

A platform that helps musicians share their music while also selling it. They’re using a crowdfunding model for musicians to get their music out there without having to commit to a label.

35

3 years ago

A software company building software to “bring the power of machine learning to the cannabis industry”, with an app that makes it easier for consumers to track where their cannabis is coming from.

34

2 years ago

A startup aiming to make it easier for people who live in cities to plan where to go for dinner, shopping and more.

34

2 years ago

A visual mapping tool that lets you plan where to go and what to see, and route your commute around that plan.

34

2 years ago

A lightbulb-changing market intelligence tool, with an iOS and Android app, and an API, where you can get access to “a wealth of data” about the worldwide lightbulb supply market.

34

2 years ago

A software that uses machine learning to analyze customer data for banks and then provides recommendations on where to open a new account.

34

2 years ago

A iOS app that connects doctors with patients so they can scans each other’s diseases in real time and see where they’re at and how to help.

34

2 years ago

A company that helps retail stores reduce the logistics risks associated with buying and selling mobile phones. The startup provides a platform that can identify what phones are in an inventory, track where they’re going, and give a price for shipping.

34

2 years ago

A company that makes a GPS tracking system for dogs, along with a connected app for dog owners. The idea: A device that tracks dogs and people long after they’ve left the home, and lets dog owners know where their pet is at all times.

34

2 years ago

A startup that wants to improve the sharing of knowledge from the world of science and technology. It wants to create a space where scientists and engineers can share their knowledge and discoveries in a way that’s more accessible to the public and the general public.

34

3 years ago

A platform that allows users to build communities, which they describe as platforms that act as a hub where users can share content and other people can discover and engage with it. Built on the same infrastructure as Airbnb, they can connect to other platforms like Zazzle, Vimeo and Etsy.

33

2 years ago

With high unemployment and a low workforce participation rate, the US needs to expand its workforce by 1.5 million workers per year — but there just aren’t enough people with the right skills to fill these positions. Hubstaff aims to help companies find and retain these employees.

33

2 years ago

A “geo-tracking” app that claims to help prevent fraud by using location data to identify a person who is geographically near a store or other location where a fraudulent transaction may be taking place.

33

2 years ago

A startup that lets you create an “instant map” on your phone, which lets you track where you’ve been.

33

2 years ago

A company that is building a product that will let anyone manage their finances from anywhere.

33

2 years ago

A smart home system that can answer questions about your home, like “What was my last meal” or “Where was I last night”. It can connect to your calendar, and show what appointments you have that day

33

2 years ago

In 2017, there were a reported 41,000 startups in Silicon Valley.

33

5 years ago

Idea: A platform for managing shared bicycles. Currently, there is no incentive for people to pick up bikes. The company wants to help companies manage their fleet of shared bikes.

32

2 years ago

The company wants to be a one-stop marketplace for car sharing, where users can easily book their car (and drivers) by selecting it on their phone and paying with a credit card. They’re in San Francisco at the moment.

32

2 years ago

Housing data from the US Census Bureau is often very difficult to access and analyze. That’s where this startup comes in.

32

2 years ago

A QR code based on the physical game Super Mario Bros. where users scan the code to play the company’s mobile version of the video game.

32

2 years ago

A company that offers an app that allows someone to buy/sell/trade Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin, with an easy way to pay for the transactions.

32

2 years ago

A social network for travelers, where they can find people to help them on their trip and share suggestions with other travelers.

32

2 years ago

A software company that helps companies manage their data, helping them securely store, share, and analyze their data from anywhere.

31

2 years ago

A startup that helps consumers buy things on Amazon with their Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin, and convert them to fiat currency.

31

2 years ago

A startup that’s developing an app that seamlessly integrates with a person’s phone and security camera to help them see their home from anywhere

31

2 years ago

The startup has created an app that displays real-time data about traffic congestion in the city you’re driving in. The data is gathered from over 1,000 sensors and aggregated on a map.

31

2 years ago

A startup that allows companies to employ remote teams from anywhere they want, using an AI-powered chatbot to manage the remote teams

31

2 years ago

A video conferencing service with 1-on-1 telepresence, allowing employees to attend meetings and work from anywhere with a phone.

31

2 years ago

An online platform where data scientists can put their “proprietary machine learning models” to good use.

31

2 years ago

A startup that takes the idea of a good-looking and functional smartwatch and turns it into a fundamental way to keep track of your life. The startup is building on the idea that we all have our own style and should be able to wear what we want, where we want.

31

2 years ago

A startup with a physical sensor that detects a host of toxic substances in the air. The system can provide real time information to health professionals on the severity of an event, and can help them figure out where to deploy response teams.

31

5 years ago

Idea: A digital market for general contractors in the Philippines. The founders say they’re solving a problem of trust, where contractors have to be trusted to show up on time and do the work. They’re currently processing $40,000 in monthly revenue.

30

2 years ago

A startup that helps people to incorporate in the UK. The company’s founders say there are around 100,000 new companies incorporated in the UK every year, but there’s no good way to keep track of them. So they launched a platform that lets people keep track of their companies’ incorporation histories in one place.

30

2 years ago

A new way to shop for men’s clothing. They start with the idea that there’s a gap in the market for a fashion brand that’s just for men. They want to offer a more personalized shopping experience than the big fashion chains, and their business is built on the idea of selling to men who might be unhappy with the way the big brands treat those who aren’t straight.

30

2 years ago

A startup that wants to create a database for all of the books in the world, and make them all easily searchable and available online. By the time the startup succeeds, the founders say that there will be 12 million books available online.

30

2 years ago

A platform for sharing and selling goods from all over the world, where the owners of the items can set their own price. The company’s founders are looking to launch in the US in the fall of 2020.

30

2 years ago

A health insurance marketplace where you can compare different plans. It’s designed to be more transparent than other options.

30

2 years ago

While there are many chatbots out there, none are as simple as the one being developed by the founder of the startup. The founder of Kibo, a chatbot that helps people understand, manage and adopt their investments, says that it is the easiest and most straightforward chatbot out there.

30

2 years ago

A chatbot for small businesses, focused on helping them manage their finances and invoicing. The startup wants to fill a gap in the market; “there is no software out there that’s just a chatbot that tells you what to do and how to do it.”

30

2 years ago

A video game where you can interact with other players and make decisions that affect their game.

30

2 years ago

A company that makes software for hitting golf balls where the wind is. The firm's product uses GPS and other sensors to track how the ball flies to the ground.

30

2 years ago

A startup that’s creating a platform for remote workers. The startup wants to help companies find work-from-home positions and offers a “pay-per-hour” model, similar to TaskRabbit. It also has a platform where employers can build the type of jobs that they want to fill, including remote work.

30

2 years ago

A tool that allows people to create a customized, color-coded map of their city that shows where they’ve been and where they’d like to go. The startup uses GPS data to create a 3D visualization of a city.

30

2 years ago

A company that helps companies manage their data centers through a platform that tells them how much electricity they’re using and where their money is going.

30

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that is building a real estate investing marketplace where individual investors can connect with each other and do deals together. The company charges a fee on each transaction, and says it is profitable.

29

5 years ago

Idea: A startup for online food delivery aimed at solving the “last mile” problem, where it’s too expensive to deliver to some locations.

29

2 years ago

The startup wants to create a bespoke payment system for the hospitality industry. It operates a registry of hotels where users can schedule appointments with hotels and book rooms via a smartphone app.

29

2 years ago

A task management system where you can assign tasks to teammates on Slack. The company is working on a product to help teams manage multiple projects.

29

2 years ago

The company’s mission is to “help the people who are the most marginalized in our society”. The company wants to create a platform that allows people to access healthcare “without the big, expensive, bureaucratic middlemen, where people can get healthcare at the point of need”.

29

2 years ago

The startup is building a marketplace for “buyers” to get the best prices for the off-the-shelf products they’re buying. The company wants to build a platform where customers will be able to browse products and find the best deals, which will help the company generate revenue from those transactions.

29

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can pay $100 and get a hand-crafted thank you card from someone who made it

28

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can get a pre-written email to use when you want to help push someone to get back to you

28

2 years ago

A startup that provides a way for customers to pay for their monthly bills by depositing funds into a bank account. The startup plans to use the funds to pay off loans, thereby saving customers money.

28

2 years ago

A company that is building the next generation of virtual reality. The startup, which is based in San Francisco, is working on a new form of VR that uses a device that looks like a pair of glasses with a button on the side, but instead of a screen, there’s a camera and a microphone.

28

2 years ago

A platform where companies can sell their products, services, and expertise to other companies. There are currently customers in the financial, insurance, and healthcare industries.

28

2 years ago

A social network for people who want help with their finances. The business is aimed at people with tight budgets, and a business model where the company charges a fee for the service, and you pay upfront.

28

2 years ago

In the US, there is a shortage of STEM workers, especially computer science experts. The startup wants to change that by teaching and training students to become computer scientists. The startup's platform is open source, and free for any school or company interested in using it.

28

2 years ago

A startup that tracks assets, helping companies rapidly understand where their money is.

28

2 years ago

A startup for restaurants, where the idea is that the startup will use a proprietary algorithm, machine learning, and data to help restaurants increase revenue and customer satisfaction by predicting the best times for peak meals.

28

2 years ago

A phone number app where you can pick a number that rings like a real phone number.

28

2 years ago

Embotics is building a tool that allows companies to take portable equipment with them as they travel, so they can use the company’s equipment anywhere.

28

2 years ago

A space where people can go to practice yoga and take care of their mental, physical, and financial health.

28

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where a person will come to your house and give you a makeup/skincare consultation and teach you how to apply makeup

27

2 years ago

A tool that lets people create and manage their own cryptographically secure identity on the Ethereum blockchain. The startup is building an open-source community around the project.

27

2 years ago

A job-search company that allows people to access their resume online from anywhere, with a feature similar to LinkedIn called "Credentials" that lets you highlight skills you’re particularly proud of.

27

2 years ago

A health startup that is building an AI-driven model for predicting and preventing cancer. It focuses on improving cancer registration and diagnostics in countries where cancer is often diagnosed at a late stage.

27

2 years ago

A tool to help skilled professionals learn how to code. They are launching a website where computer science students could publicly share their projects they’ve built.

27

2 years ago

A startup that has developed an iPhone app that allows users to borrow a bike from the same spot where they’ll be picked up, for a small fee. Focused on the UK.

27

2 years ago

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

27

5 years ago

A startup that allows people to browse a map of the world to help them choose where to go on their next vacation

26

2 years ago

A social platform for millennials where they can share their favorite stories, recipes, and more.

26

2 years ago

A platform that helps companies hire and manage their social media marketing. It does this by recommending content and posting schedules. The company has an active blog where it reveals how it “solved” a customer’s problem in social media marketing.

26

2 years ago

A startup that aims to create a software that helps users take their game-based conversations to a game-based platform. The startup is looking to build a platform where users can interact with others in a virtual world, creating a “world of worlds” that they can interact in.

26

2 years ago

ePlan is looking to be the alternative to the long-standing enterprise software market, which hasn’t seen much innovation since Oracle’s SPE software. ePlan wants to build the platform where a company’s HR and finance departments can collaborate on the same projects rather than compete.

26

2 years ago

A two-sided marketplace where employers are able to find employees in need of temporary workforce.

26

2 years ago

A startup that helps companies better manage data coming out of their IT operations. The idea is to use the startup’s software to run a distributed operations center, where developers and operations teams from different departments can work on the same data and build features and tools on top of it.

26

2 years ago

A startup that helps health care providers manage their patients' data. The startup is building a platform where patients can get copies of their hospital bills, lab reports, etc., so they can get more clarity on what their insurance is covering.

26

2 years ago

Building tools that allow publishers to create and publish digital magazines from anywhere

26

2 years ago

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

25

2 years ago

A tool where users record their thoughts and upload them to a social network for others to read, comment on, and make recommendations.

25

2 years ago

A platform that allows users to shop for and sell digital goods, where you can sell your favorite video game, for example.

25

2 years ago

A targeted retail platform for the world's poorest people. The startup is building out an app that allows people to connect with businesses that match their needs and interests, and will eventually connect with those businesses to automate the sales process. There are over 6 million people in the Amazon that don't have access to healthcare, and the team says that it can help improve health outcomes by empowering them to take control of their health.

25

2 years ago

There are a lot of things people can do to protect their privacy, but people aren’t doing enough because they’re unaware of the risks.

25

2 years ago

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

25

2 years ago

A startup that helps companies do “global sourcing”, and which enables them to predict where their products will be manufactured

25

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps people find a parking spot via an app that uses data from local businesses about where they think spots will open up

24

2 years ago

A startup that helps streamers make more money by providing data analysis and analysis of where they should play and what they should play to maximize their chances of a huge audience. The company has paid out $1.2 million since launching in October 2016, and expects to pay out a lot more this year.

24

2 years ago

A company that helps companies plan and pay for corporate retreats. The app provides a point-to-point marketplace where companies can find hotels, restaurants, and attractions that will be relevant to their employees. Just as AirBnb helps travelers find cheap and cool places to stay, Corporate Retreat helps companies find cool places to stay.

24

2 years ago

A decentralized multi-pool betting platform, where users can bet on sports around the world, and choose when to take their winnings.

24

2 years ago

A startup for used bikes, where you can bid on anything from a $2,000 Trek to a $2,000 custom-built bike.

24

2 years ago

They're building a web app where people can chat with each other online and get “insights” from the

24

2 years ago

A new type of smart contract platform that allows developers to build blockchain apps that can be used both on the Ethereum network and on Ethereum Classic, a hard fork of Ethereum.

24

2 years ago

A B2B software company providing a solution where companies have to write their own invoices.

24

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can order a dinner for two from a local restaurant

23

5 years ago

A startup that helps people with agoraphobia by selling them a list of places where they can go and not be bothered

23

2 years ago

A digital service for advertising agencies, with a focus on creative ideas and workflows. It’s pitched as a competitor to all the other “ad tech” startups out there

23

2 years ago

A live video conference platform that allows users to broadcast their video directly to their audience, and then watch that live video from anywhere in the world.

23

2 years ago

a startup that wants to make it easier for teams to manage their work from anywhere, at any time, and on any device. The company’s first product is a webapp that allows teams to manage projects, assign tasks, and get feedback from peers.

23

2 years ago

A solution for employers to see exactly what their workers are doing, and when and where they are doing it.

23

2 years ago

This startup wants to be the Uber for delivery services. The company has an app where customers can order food, drinks, and groceries from local restaurants, but it’s also looking to launch a delivery option in the next few months.

23

2 years ago

A startup that helps people sell their possessions through a marketplace called Kijiji-like “Missed Connection”, a market where people post items for sale when they’re not looking to buy themselves.

23

2 years ago

A company that wants to help companies create a more fluid and collaborative workplace — one where employees are not only attending regularly to work on tasks, but can pair off and work together on those tasks, as well.

23

2 years ago

There’s a lot of work being done by third-party developers to analyze and extract insights from customer data, but the challenge is that the data is often messy and inconsistent. Because of this, it can be hard to know how to use the data for good. Uniq is designing and building a data platform that will make it easier for brands to extract value from customer data and truly understand it.

23

2 years ago

After a founder saw a local family in need of a shelter, they started doing research and realized that there was still a need for a local shelter for homeless pets in San Francisco. As a result, the startup found a way to raise money for a local shelter to help homeless pets, and is now funded to run the shelter itself.

23

5 years ago

Idea: An online platform that helps companies post jobs in Africa and screen for the right candidates It was created by two brothers, one who had worked at Google, the other who had worked at Uber in Nigeria, where they were inspired to make it easier for companies to hire in Africa

22

2 years ago

A new way to fundraise that involves creating a crowdfunding campaign that has a specific goal in mind, then asking for donations to get there.

22

2 years ago

An in-house doctor for small startups where a full-time physician isn’t possible. It’s a bit like the telemedicine startups, but for smaller companies.

22

2 years ago

The startup wants to extend the reach of cell signal. Its app uses your phone’s GPS to triangulate where you are and then extends coverage to your phone’s wider area. It’s also developing a way to control your phone remotely.

22

2 years ago

A “Social Personal Wallet” that allows users to create a shared digital wallet where they can “buy, sell, transfer, and store digital assets, like cryptocurrency and loyalty points”.

22

2 years ago

A startup that connects startups with data-driven algorithms that can predict which customers might be interested in their startup. It’s a service targeted at startups where marketing is more effective than sales.

22

2 years ago

A soccer app that lets fans register their skills, and then use a “matching algorithm” to find teams where they’ll be most helpful.

22

2 years ago

This startup is building a real-time translation layer for companies that want to build applications that work across different languages. They’re building a platform that helps developers translate their applications into any language, so that the experience is exactly the same for people everywhere.

22

2 years ago

In the U.S., we have a “lost generation” of baby boomers who don’t have retirement savings. This startup aims to help people save with a tool that helps people visualize their personal finances and see where their money is going.

22

5 years ago

Easily accessible credit. The idea here is to enable people to set up accounts and be able to borrow money for things like furniture, or home improvement. So far, they’ve raised $5.2 million.

21

2 years ago

A medical device that looks like a cart with a hose, where a person sits with their arm looped through the hose, and then extends the hose to fix a problem in their body.

21

2 years ago

Privacy is a hot topic as of 2018, and there are a number of people making big promises when it comes to keeping your information private. Some of the more popular privacy companies include:

21

2 years ago

It’s another on-demand delivery service with a twist: Instead of run only in neighborhoods where workers are already prevalent, DoorDash delivers in any city or town, with a fleet of drivers who are hired on the spot to meet demand.

21

2 years ago

A startup for the digital currency XRP, where users can buy and sell digital currencies such as bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin.

21

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire someone to go shopping for you (you provide a shopping list and the startup will send someone to the store for you)

20

5 years ago

A startup that sells a tool where you can see how much the things in your home are worth

20

2 years ago

One of the most popular places people turn to for tips on how to get a job or career is Glassdoor. The startup, which was launched in April, is building a website where people can share their side hustle, review their employers, and find mentors.

20

2 years ago

The idea here is to help start-ups with their legal needs, with a team of lawyers that will help with anything from trademarking to incorporation.

20

2 years ago

A startup for dental care, where companies with a dental license can list their services and patients can book appointments.

20

2 years ago

A startup that creates a “Geo-API” for real estate developers to help them get more accurate data on where to build.

20

2 years ago

A startup that aims to help small businesses make better decisions about their data, aiming to make it easier for them to see trends and make better decisions about where to allocate their time.

20

2 years ago

A startup that is building a database of all the items ever produced in the world, using a theory that companies should be able to search the database to understand where to find the right-sized parts to build something.

20

5 years ago

A startup that provides a tool where you can enter your bank account, credit card, and brokerage accounts and see how much money you have left to spend before you go over your budget

19

2 years ago

A real-time team messaging app, where teams can chat with a real person, in real time, without ever leaving their work.

19

2 years ago

The startup will bring a new type of “social lending” model to the world, where businesses can raise capital by selling equity instead of debt.

19

2 years ago

A startup that’s building a platform for people to create a “digital locker” that they can access via a mobile device, where they can store photos, videos, documents, and other things.

19

2 years ago

A platform that helps small businesses in the U.S. and elsewhere automate time-consuming tasks like invoicing, payments, and analytics.

19

5 years ago

A startup that provides a website where people can list items they no longer need and sell them to other people

18

2 years ago

A digital hotel room where guests can rent out their rooms for the night or week.

18

2 years ago

This startup is building an AI-powered assistant that helps users understand where their data comes from and why it’s valuable.

18

2 years ago

A platform where parents in the US and Canada can find and buy diapers and other baby items for their kids.

18

5 years ago

A startup that provides a website where people can go to find someone to help them with different chores at their home

17

5 years ago

Idea: This startup is building a way to use AI to safely clean up online hate speech, with a focus on areas where a person’s access to the internet is controlled by a local government and there’s a risk of them being punished.

17

5 years ago

Idea: An AI-powered email platform that integrates with Gmail, with a focus on the “personal touch”. The startup’s founder says there’s a generation of people who grew up on AOL’s chat interface and have since forgotten how to write emails (because they’ve been using chat).

17

2 years ago

A “Haven for hospitality” where hotel guests can stay overnight at a hotel and have full access to all the amenities of the hotel but without paying for a room.

17

2 years ago

A multiplayer online game where players can experience the world of farming. The game is built on a virtual farm and allows players to learn about the different aspects of agriculture to help them become better farmers. The game allows users to go from beginner to expert so they can save their money.

17

2 years ago

All ideas listed here are in some way connected to the "Y Combinator" startup accelerator, which has been running since 2005, and is known for its "democratized access" to seed capital for startups.

17

2 years ago

A tool meant to get people to fall in love with their new city. Glimpse is a mobile app that helps users find things to do in their new city, along with a visual of where they are in the city and what they can see from that location. It’s available for iOS and Android.

16

2 years ago

A platform for decentralized applications to be built on the EOS blockchain. EOS is a platform that allows developers to build a DApp if they have a minimum of 1,000 users on their platform. It is a competitor to Ethereum and NEO.

16

2 years ago

A San Francisco-based startup that’s building a platform for businesses to easily send and receive payments via video chat. These kinds of services are already popular in the Philippines, where the Unipay platform has over a million users.

16

2 years ago

A startup looking to build an e-commerce platform for the cannabis industry. The company is working to build a virtual marketplace where consumers can purchase everything from cannabis accessories to bongs.

16

2 years ago

A software platform that uses the blockchain to solve the problem of tracking the provenance of wine. The wine industry has a lot of documentation and bureaucracy, and they’re trying to build a way for wineries to keep track of, say, where a specific wine is from, but also to decentralize the process.

16

2 years ago

The startup is building a TeamViewer-like service for teachers, allowing them to remotely control devices from anywhere in the world

16

2 years ago

A startup where buyers and sellers can directly negotiate and pay each other for goods and services in real time. It’s a peer-to-peer marketplace in which goods and services are purchased directly from individuals and businesses.

16

2 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for people to make “Get Up-to-Date” (GUD) calls, where a doctor can call a patient’s cell phone and get their medical history over the phone.

16

2 years ago

New York City has a ton of abandoned buildings, and it’s not just the ones that were built in the 1800s. There’s currently a database of over 30,000 abandoned buildings. Larkin wants to digitize that data and make it easier to search and navigate.

16

2 years ago

An “e-consulting” platform, where a business consultant creates a document on the fly in response to a client’s questions and then emails it to them. The company is also working on a tool that will let businesses create and use their own on-demand software.

16

2 years ago

A startup that is testing a way to move office supplies. The company is essentially creating a system that will let you order supplies from anywhere and transfer them to your home, saving you money on shipping.

16

2 years ago

A startup that wants to use technology to make downtowns safer and more vibrant. The company says it can use machine learning to identify high-risk groups and crowd-source intelligence to identify where urban violence is most likely to occur.

16

5 years ago

A startup that sells a product where you can set your kids up with a set of flashcards, then the flash cards have a QR code on them and a camera sits in front of the flash card and when

15

5 years ago

Idea: “Software as a service for physical space” The startup’s first product is Lockdown, a system for monitoring the security of physical spaces and notifying users when doors are open or there’s motion on the premises

15

2 years ago

A real estate startup aiming to compete with platforms like Zillow, Trulia, and Redfin. The startup is taking an approach similar to HomeAway, where it helps homeowners and landlords sell their homes. Built with the help of $50 million from Institutional Venture Partners.

15

2 years ago

A new travel insurance product built on top of Ethereum’s smart contracts, replacing the traditional insurance contract with a new one that makes claims faster and easier to manage.

15

2 years ago

A startup for freelance social media content creators. It’s a talent marketplace, where people can sign up and get paid for creating content related to a particular topic.

15

2 years ago

A widget that shows you when your favorite retailers are having sales, where they’re having them, and the amount of time they’re valid for.

15

2 years ago

A startup that helps users to keep their cars in top-condition, by keeping track of where they park and how often they’re driven, among other details.

15

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where they help people prepare for job interviews by actually going to the company and getting a tour and pretending to

14

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people who are looking to buy a house can get a home inspection done when they are considering a house

14

5 years ago

A startup meant to help people with albinism in Tanzania, where many people are discriminated against, find employment

14

5 years ago

Idea: A company that helps brands manage their “influencers”, a new media channel that has emerged alongside more traditional ones like print, TV, and radio. There aren’t many tools for brands to use to manage this new channel, and the team wants to solve that problem.

14

2 years ago

The startup is building a major-league-style recruiting platform for the classroom, where students can rate teachers and post reviews of their classmates. The startup is already in talks with the University of Texas at Austin to launch the product.

14

2 years ago

A structured data and API-first CMS for websites. The startup’s founder grew up in the web development world but often found himself frustrated by the limitations of the standard CMSes out there.

14

2 years ago

A startup where you can create a mockup for your project, then get a quote for it and move forward. They are actively tracking over 30,000 projects.

14

2 years ago

A platform that allows teams to organize their weekly meetings online, where each team member can share the agenda, set agendas, and more.

14

2 years ago

A tool that helps you keep track of your loved ones’ locations, and their health and safety. It is meant to help caregivers stay updated on the whereabouts of loved ones.

14

2 years ago

An online scheduling platform for beauty and wellness professionals. The startup is the first in an industry to make the necessary changes to be compliant with the US’s new Fiduciary Rule, where the service provider must act in the best interest of the client.

14

2 years ago

A “Nextdoor for real-estate”, where people can post and review local real estate listings, shared by the people in their neighborhood.

14

2 years ago

A person-to-person lending marketplace, where borrowers can tap into a lender’s financial network to get loans.

14

2 years ago

A platform for building and managing communities, where you can post questions and get help from experts.

14

2 years ago

A drone-based tool for mapping on the ground, looking for areas where there is not enough GPS coverage.

14

2 years ago

Biklers is building a bike-sharing solution that’s unique because it doesn’t require a user to rent a bike. Users just have to download the app, sign up and scan an account QR code to unlock a bike they can ride for 30 minutes, anywhere in the city.

13

2 years ago

A repurposing of the popular online dating app where people can create a profile, see what they’re interested in, and, if they’re interested, send a message to see if their interests are mutual.

13

2 years ago

We’ve all been there: you’re leaving a message on a voice message system, and you’re cut off, because you’ve used up your allotted number of minutes. Time to Call helps you to cancel those messages entirely.

13

2 years ago

With the advent of self-driving cars, there will be a lot of new data that’s generated by the cars. The startup believes that it can use that data to predict accidents.

13

2 years ago

The startup is building a platform where retailers can sell their products directly to consumers by means of their personal networks. The startup is working with the mREIT to sell properties under their portfolio through this platform.

13

2 years ago

A cloud-based software that lets you organize calls to sales reps, and dial in to meetings from anywhere without needing a phone.

13

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can purchase a product that will help them lose weight / get in shape

12

2 years ago

A startup that’s building an API for content creators to produce and publish their own unique content on the platform. The app also includes a marketplace where users can access others’ content.

12

2 years ago

This is a tool that helps people visualize where they get their money from, and how much they spend it on.

12

2 years ago

A platform that connects shoppers with people who can babysit their kids, in a marketplace model where parents can pay on a monthly basis.

12

2 years ago

The startup is building a data management system for the construction industry, in which construction sites can be described, tagged, and followed in a way that makes it easier for contractors to understand where materials are coming from and how they’re getting to the job site.

12

2 years ago

The startup is looking to build a better way for bus drivers to stay safe by alerting them when there is a dangerous situation while driving.

12

2 years ago

In addition, there are 6 companies that have announced they will join the YC Demo Day, but have not yet been accepted into YC.

12

2 years ago

A tool for determining where your time and money is going. The tool takes your data and compares it to your life and work goals, then provides you with a “report card” that tells you what you’re doing well, where you could use some improvement, and what you’re getting for all of that.

12

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire someone to do something for you, and they get paid only if they successfully complete the task

11

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can find a real estate agent who is interested in the buying/selling of a home in a certain price range

11

5 years ago

Idea: The startup has developed a way for people to share live video with each other while also seeing what others are seeing in real-time. It’s an app where viewers can see what’s happening, but the creator of the video is in control of what they see. It’s modeled a bit like Instagram Stories, but the app wants to become a hub for live video streaming.

11

2 years ago

A startup that helps people manage their subscriptions. The founders think there is a lot of opportunity for the B2B market.

11

2 years ago

The idea here is to help nonprofits use data to inform their work and make smarter decisions. In addition to giving nonprofits access to data, the startup also aims to help them use that data to engage with their communities in real-time.

11

2 years ago

This startup wants to build a social network for people who love to shop and love to save. They’re looking to build a social network where customers can share their shopping experience with others. The startup is currently running a Kickstarter

10

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can hire someone to help them get their driver’s license (maybe they’re from out of state and don’t have one, or maybe they’ve had problems with bad driving and need help getting

9

2 years ago

A protocol for sharing medical data on the blockchain. The company aims to be the “first truly decentralized medical record”, where medical records are shared across a network of “care teams” that can work to improve the accuracy of the data.

9

2 years ago

A startup that lets users locate and buy parking spaces and find nearby restaurants. It's in a trial run in Boston, where the startup has partnered with the city's parking authority and is charging $10 a month for a user account, plus $1 for each parking space for which the user is a permit holder.

9

2 years ago

This startup wants to improve the way people book and pay for their flights. It’s a sort of Google Docs for flights, where users can enter flight details, and the startup will automatically transfer money between payers and payees.

9

2 years ago

Ideas are created by Y Combinator alumni. Many of the ideas are specific to a company or industry, or are specific to a single city or country. The ideas are shared here to give an idea of the breadth of innovation being pursued by Y Combinator startups.

8

2 years ago

The startup is building a software platform that allows users to sell and trade their cars (or parts thereof) without the hassles of buying a car, registering it and then selling it in a traditional dealership.

8

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can pay to have someone help them prepare for a job interview over Skype (they can ask questions, have mock interviews, etc)

6

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can upload pictures of their children and then the pictures are put into a video and sent to them every week or month

5

5 years ago

A startup that sells an art class where they come to your house + you get a custom painting at the end

3

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service to help people learn about their local neighborhood (ie: where to park, what’s the best place to eat, places

-1

5 years ago

A startup that creates a marketplace where people can resell their used cooking pans

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can hire a personal trainer to help them meet specific health goals in a certain time period

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can upload a photo and it will identify all of the different animals in the photo

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can get help with their taxes A startup that provides trainings for people to learn how to be better parents A startup

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you order a bulk order of food from restaurants and the startup delivers it to you

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where someone can provide you with a custom list of things you need to do to prepare for a big life transition (ie getting married,

-1

5 years ago

A startup that helps people find a local babysitter A startup that provides a service where you can order a bouquet of fresh flowers online

-1

5 years ago

A startup that has a tool where you can upload a photo of the shoes you have, and it tells you what other shoes you can wear

-1

5 years ago

A startup that sells a subscription box service where you get a box of random items every month

-1

5 years ago

A startup that sells a book where you can find a recipe for every possible food you can imagine

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can rent a profile on their site to a company who is looking for a new employee

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can pick up and drop off items they are selling on Craigslist

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can post a free ad for your lost pet and it gets sent out to everyone in your

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can hire someone to cook them a meal and then they can have a nice dinner out without having to cook

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where they help people with their taxes and report on what they can claim and what they can save

-1

5 years ago

A startup where people can hire a team of people to meet their goal of eating healthy and losing weight

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people who have an ill family member can hire a companion to visit them and help out

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can get a hotel room for the same price as a hostel if they stay in

-1

5 years ago

A startup that sells a service where you can outsource the work of maintaining your house plants

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can learn how to use a specific software program (IE Excel)

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can buy gift cards for others and then the recipient can buy what they want

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can buy a "get out of debt free" card for someone who is struggling with debt

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can rent a room from a stranger and stay in the city that you are visiting for a short period of time

-1

5 years ago

A startup that sells a tool where you can write a letter to your kids and put it in a time capsule

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides an online service where people can find out how to become an entrepreneur, get started, and other things related to entrepreneurship

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people who are in a dispute with their landlord can get a lawyer to help them

-1

5 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for people to sell their old books (I know there are a lot of startups doing this but it's a big market)

-1

5 years ago

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

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides an online chat system that is paired with a mobile app where people can message a doctor for a diagnosis

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can have their resumes reviewed by job coaches who can help them tweak them for their profession

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can have their blood drawn at a local lab and then shipped to a local doctor to be analyzed

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can buy a car from a car lot that you can return in a few years if you don’t want to keep it

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can get a new pet and they’ll fly you out to pick it up (this is a real thing)

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people who are moving into a new area can have their house cleaned, their old place cleaned and a bunch of other things done that they can’t do after they

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can purchase a box of basic food staples for the pantry for $25 that they can add to each month

-1

5 years ago

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

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service for people who are moving to a new city and are looking to get a job there A startup that provides a service for people who are moving to a new city and are looking to get a

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can get a discount if they buy something you bought and you share a discount with them

-1

5 years ago

A startup that sells a service where they ship you furniture you buy from online stores that don’t ship to your address

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a product to help people who have trouble memorizing things (IE they get a card with the information on it and put it in a place where they can see it)

-1

5 years ago

A startup that gives people a guided tour of a city (I know there’s one for NYC, but there could be one for other cities)

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can post your resume and will be contacted by recruiters who are interested in you

-1

5 years ago

A startup that helps people who are planning their wedding by providing a service where they can get help planning their wedding

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire a personal assistant to help you with various tasks, such as booking travel, paying bills, etc

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can buy a book and have a writer on Upwork write a custom book for them in their voice

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can buy a non-perishable dinner, put it in your freezer and it will cook itself

-1

5 years ago

A startup where people can create a online profile, and other people can message them

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you go to someone’s house, eat with them, and they teach you how to cook one of

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can hire someone to help them move their furniture from one house to another (for a higher price, they get their furniture moved and re-assembled)

-1

5 years ago

A startup that creates a marketplace for “micro-hubs”, meant for places where people can go to learn about new technology, get help with

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where they will find you a remote job for a short period of time

-1

5 years ago

Idea: This startup is building a startup marketplace where aspiring entrepreneurs can connect with investors and other resources to make their startup a success

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A platform where employees can request expenses and get approved by the team

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A shared video editing platform that helps people collaborate on video projects from anywhere in the

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A software-enabled workforce, where employees can be their own bosses

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps companies hire remote employees in an age where “anyone can work from anywhere” The startup claims that it’s already raised $120,000 in revenue, charging $20,000 per month for its services

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that operates a platform where organizations can make ‘asset-backed’ loans to people, with a low risk of default

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that makes a camera that’s meant to be used for augmented reality, where it’s meant to allow you to take pictures of things that will show up in AR.

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps companies deal with the paperwork around events. The company’s pitch is that there’s a lot of red tape to navigate for things like conferences, and they’re aiming to save companies time and money.

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to play matchmaker between people and moving companies. The founders say moving is a massive pain point, and there’s a huge demand for a simpler solution.

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A startup for people to use space to hold their products for a few months while they figure out where to ship them.

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to bring an end to email spam. It works by helping companies send their email marketing campaigns through a sort of whitelist system where known email addresses get through, while spam goes straight to the junk folder.

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A mobile app for on-the-go business people that helps them find somewhere to go at night and in situations where they might need a place to crash.

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A startup where you can hire an expert to come over and help you decorate your house

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that makes an Uber-like service where you can pay someone to

-1

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can connect with people who want to go out/hang out

-2

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can hire someone to go to a bar/club with you and help you meet people

-2

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can get help with anything from gardening to installing a washer/dryer

-2

5 years ago

A startup that develops a commodity that people can't easily get anywhere else

-6

5 hours ago 1 views

A platform that automates compliance checks for food delivery drivers in urban areas, integrating with ride-sharing apps to ensure safety and regulatory adherence.

-7

12 hours ago

A VR marketplace where freelance 3D artists sell custom virtual furniture and decor for metaverse home builders, with one-click import to platforms like Decentraland.

-25

1 day ago

A B2B service automating compliance checks for small food delivery businesses, scanning menus and supplier docs to ensure health code adherence in real-time.

-51

23 hours ago 1 views

A platform for virtual pet adoption where users train AI companions using real-world pet data to simulate ownership without the mess.

-72

2 days ago 1 views

A startup for "micro-mentorship" sessions where experts offer 15-minute video calls on niche skills like prompt engineering or urban foraging.

-86

1 day ago

A startup delivering modular, upgradable tech gadgets like phones and laptops, where users swap parts instead of buying new devices to fight e-waste.

-95

2 days ago 1 views

A platform for virtual reality office spaces where remote teams can meet in customizable 3D environments, complete with avatars and interactive whiteboards, starting free for small teams with premium features at $10/user/month.

-100

3 days ago

VR-based skill-sharing marketplace for hobbyists, where users teach and learn crafts like woodworking or pottery through immersive remote sessions with real-time haptic feedback tools.

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