High Startup Ideas

2 years ago

A startup that helps colleges and high schools provide students with career and technical education.

1,727

3 years ago

Idea: A startup that uses AI to help restaurants optimize their menus, ensuring that no item is priced too high or too low for the quality that it offers

756

6 months ago

A tool for low-risk, high-yield investments.

698

1 year ago

A high-tech restaurant platform that tracks how food is being served and how it is being prepared in real-time.

538

3 months ago

A network for finding low-cost, high-quality used cars.

482

2 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.

373

2 years ago

A highly customizable online resume builder that sorts out what information is relevant.

326

2 years ago

A company that makes high-end reusable coffee cups.

294

2 years ago

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

283

1 year ago

This startup is building a program that allows students to build an online resume and portfolio, even if they didn’t finish high school, while they learn the skills they need to get a job.

263

3 years ago

A startup that offers a highly customisable, easy-to-use platform for designing employee relocation packages

247

2 years ago

A startup that provides financial planning for high net worth individuals and families, and which has worked with the likes of Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, and Fidelity.

244

2 years ago

A startup that wants to build a system that helps patients get more affordable, higher quality, and faster-acting healthcare. The startup is starting in the UK and Ireland.

242

3 months ago

A platform for online education founded by a former high school teacher with the goal of helping students improve their knowledge and skills in areas like math, science, and computer science.

209

2 years ago

A startup that collects data on your phone and then turns it into a map of crowdsourced traffic conditions along major roads and highways.

204

2 years ago

A new startup that wants to build a “super-headset” with a built-in Spotify subscription. The headset will be a hit with music fans who want to buy the current, highly-rated Apple Beats headphones but want something a bit more fashionable and portable.

201

6 months ago

A startup that makes high-end supplements that aim to enhance your brain function by increasing blood flow. It’s working with Pfizer and looking to raise $4 million.

199

2 years ago

A tool for finding the highest-rated local restaurants, bars, or retail locations.

198

2 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.

198

3 years ago

A startup that provides a directory of doctors that are high quality and charge a flat fee for specific procedures

194

3 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.

186

3 years ago

A company that connects high-quality and reliable dentists to patients, also offering a digital dental records service.

186

2 years ago

A provider of high speed Internet for small businesses. Its service is targeted at small businesses, who can get a gigabit speed for $40 per month.

185

3 years ago

A company that makes a pair of Bluetooth headphones that are like a high-end pair of AirPods, but with a subscription service to make them more affordable.

182

2 years ago

A cloud platform for companies handling high-volume data including financial services, utilities, manufacturing and media.

181

5 months ago

A startup which assists professional services firms in the recruitment and development of high quality professionals from a wide range of backgrounds.

180

3 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

179

3 years ago

Idea: A new luxury travel brand that sells experiences like a cooking class in Marrakesh, a private beach in Bali, or a safari trip in Africa. The company is targeting high net worth travelers with up to $3 million in investable assets.

179

1 year ago

A platform for creating and sharing high quality screencasts for web apps, with a focus on creating screen casts for websites. Essentially, it wants to be the video editing equivalent of the “Slideshow” feature in Word or “Compose” in a browser. A $50,000 investment in June and a partnership with Apple followed soon after.

178

2 years ago

A company that wants to be the Amazon of TV. They’re building a marketplace for TV shows, movies, and sports programming with a focus on providing the highest-quality programming to customers.

176

3 months ago

A subscription-based membership club that provides private jets, for the high net-worth individual, with a focus on the business and philanthropy sectors.

175

1 year ago

A startup that is building a service that lets organizations connect to highly-skilled drone pilots.

173

3 years ago

Characteristics: “Urban, intellectual, and educated.” High-earning professional women over 50.

170

3 years ago

A platform for medical transcriptionists to get paid for their services, which are in high demand but difficult to find.

170

2 years ago

A toolkit for high-school students to create their own data science applications.

169

3 years ago

A company that wants to make it easy to find high-quality, cheap health insurance to fill a gap in the market

166

3 years ago

A way for companies to pay the bills of their employees in multiple currencies, with higher rates for those who live in the area.

164

3 years ago

A software that automates the process of taking high-quality photos of products for online stores and catalogs

158

1 year ago

This is a startup that aims to make it easier for financial institutions to raise capital by using machine learning and AI to identify potential high-return investment opportunities.

157

1 year ago

A SaaS company that helps clothing designers with their marketing and sales process, unlike current fashion marketplaces which typically drive high traffic to designers' e-commerce websites.

156

1 year ago

A platform for high performance and low latency video streaming.

155

3 years ago

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

154

2 years ago

A company that creates high-end perfume and other luxury goods for the Chinese market. The company offers traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine-infused products.

154

3 years ago

A dashboard that tracks the number of open jobs and hires, highlighting the best places to find work.

153

3 years ago

Online learning platform for high school students.

153

3 years ago

A new app that turns your phone into a high-tech thermostat so you can set it and forget it. The app talks to the temperature sensors in your home and adjusts your system to your energy usage and comfort level.

152

1 year ago

A startup that helps high school students build their resumes and personal brands online, then helps them find a career match.

152

3 years ago

Builds high-end VR content for the fashion industry. The startup, which was founded in May, wants to rapidly iterate on a VR experience before its peers.

151

3 years ago

A San Francisco-based startup in the education marketplace space that wants to help lower-income students afford higher education. The startup tells me it’s had over $200,000 in investments, has more than 10,000 students, and has been used by more than 3,000 colleges and universities.

151

3 years ago

A startup that connects high school students to internships and part-time jobs at startups. It operates in the US, Canada, and the UK, with plans to expand to Australia, the Netherlands, and Germany in the future.

149

3 years ago

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

149

3 years ago

A company that wants to let people borrow a car with the touch of a button. The company is working with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to get insurance to work with the app.

149

3 years ago

A personal finance startup that helps you have money at a higher level of granularity.

148

3 years ago

A network for users that pay for comedy to get access to higher-quality content from sponsors.

148

3 years ago

A company that helps companies manage highly distributed teams. It provides a toolkit for companies to build chat, file sharing, and collaboration tools.

148

1 year ago

A company that provides a platform for brands to sell high-end products to consumers via eCommerce, via a social way of shopping.

148

2 years ago

A startup that gives people access to low-cost, high-speed wireless internet in a place they’d otherwise have to pay for a fixed line.

147

3 years ago

A startup that is developing AI-based tools for drug developers to test their drugs in a highly controlled lab setting. They can perform controlled trials on an even smaller scale, and

146

3 years ago

A startup looking to help high-risk traders get access to the tools they need to manage their portfolios.

146

3 years ago

A startup that’s making it easier for users to supercharge their mobile devices by pairing them with high-performance wireless chargers. Its 10K program is now open for sign-ups.

145

3 years ago

A startup that wants to make decentralized identity management that’s cheaper and more secure. It’s highly ambitious, and the company has raised $2 million in seed funding.

144

3 years ago

The startup is building a system that lets restaurant operators do inventory management automatically, which is difficult because of the high number of variables involved in managing inventory, from the type of food to how it’s portioned and stored.

143

3 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.

143

3 years ago

A B2B company that helps brand managers create higher quality voice-to-voice campaigns.

143

3 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.

141

3 years ago

The startup is building a B2B website for hairdressers to sell clients on services like color, highlights, or trim, and to manage payments.

141

3 years ago

Data analytics and visualization platform for high school and college level teams and departments.

140

3 years ago

A high-tech startup that wants to use its virtual reality to help people turn their natural surroundings into their classroom.

139

3 years ago

A startup that aims to make it easy for high-net-worth individuals to have their own “pension” accounts

139

3 years ago

A company building a social media service that brings the power of a highly engaged Facebook group to a brand’s Facebook page.

139

3 years ago

A high-tech way to enable people to communicate with their doctors remotely. The company hopes to make that easier for everyone: patients, doctors, and caretakers.

138

2 years ago

"Idea" is a series of articles that provide a comprehensive overview of the startup scene in a given area. The goal is to highlight the most interesting and unique startups in a given city.

138

1 year ago

The Startup Grind is a podcast network that highlights the best stories in business, technology and startup news. The podcast is produced by TechCrunch, and features interviews with entrepreneurs, founders and investors.

138

3 years ago

New York - New York City is home to the largest financial district in the world, but the cost of living for interns in this area is so high that it’s difficult for companies to entice young talent to stay. This startup, known as Give, wants to make it easier for companies to hire interns.

137

3 years ago

An AI-powered assistant that helps build websites. The startup is looking to help people build high-quality websites in short cycles of time.

137

3 years ago

The startup says it’s a better version of the traditional “pay-once-and-get-everything” package that’s popular with consumers, which works well for a lot of products but can be hard for more high-tech products.

137

3 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.

137

3 years ago

A company that manufactures and distributes high-end headphones, digital cameras, and other electronics. The startup is focusing on the “high-end” market by offering higher quality products priced at the same range as its competitors.

136

3 years ago

Postmates for the well-to-do is a new startup that’s launching in Chicago in September looking to deliver food and beverage at a higher price point than its delivery competitors. It’s currently testing out its service in the area around Lincoln Park, Chicago.

136

3 years ago

Ideabook is a blog that highlights the interesting startups, interesting ideas, and interesting people at Y Combinator.

136

3 years ago

A startup that wants to sell high-end football jerseys for the NFL.

136

1 year ago

A company that makes a low-cost, high-capacity drone that can drop off packets of goods in a package attached to an airplane. The drone can then land at the destination, drop off its payload and return to the airport. The startup has already secured $1.2 million in funding.

135

3 years ago

A startup that helps farmers and businesses avoid the high cost of getting loans, especially through microfinance.

134

3 years ago

A startup that aims to deliver affordable, high-quality storage to the home. The company is focusing on a particular vertical, which is a new one.

134

3 years ago

A startup that connects high-quality tutors and students Tutors can set their own price

133

3 years ago

A company that helps high net worth individuals invest their money into private equity funds, using their own data and assets.

133

1 year ago

A platform that brings together the best of e-commerce, wholesale and retail, with an emphasis on high-quality products at the best prices.

133

3 years ago

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

132

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a location-based search engine for restaurants, highlighting the cuisine of a city via an interactive map.

131

3 years ago

A “high-touch customer service concierge”, providing inbound customer support and on-demand service.

131

3 years ago

A way to sell high-end items like luxury cars and art on an auction site. The startup is currently working with the University of Washington to create a marketplace for school auctions.

130

3 years ago

A payment processor for small businesses that provides low-cost ATM withdrawals and cash-back payments. The company wants to partner with ATMs that have locations in underserved areas that have a high concentration of cash-carrying customers.

130

3 years ago

A startup that provides a platform for the creation of high-end products that helps you collaborate with other artists to create custom products.

130

3 years ago

A company that uses AI to help make low-cost, high-quality face-to-face video calls.

130

3 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.

130

3 years ago

A platform for creating and selling e-books, but targeted at high school students

129

1 year ago

A platform that lets people and businesses organize and share content with a focus on the narrative, rather than just the data. Zeego’s tech helps them structure their content in ways that highlight the best parts and make it easy to search.

129

3 years ago

A company that helps people in the US get discounts, gifts, and discounts on their prescriptions. It’s currently for people with high-deductible insurance plans.

128

3 years ago

A startup that looks to make it easier for the elderly to get a second smartphone. They’re looking to make it easy for the elderly to get a second smartphone when they’re already paying high smartphone bills. They’re launching in a few months and have already received a $250,000 investment from an angel group in the Valley that helps solve “pioneering problems in emerging markets.”

128

3 years ago

A solar panel that is cheap, durable, and highly efficient.

128

1 year ago

A platform that provides a digital library of high-resolution imagery, allowing anyone to access a trove of top-notch images.

128

3 years ago

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

127

3 years ago

A startup that brings the “higher education experience” to students by connecting them with tutors. Notable alumni include Sarah Lawrence College, Harvard, and the University of Michigan.

127

3 years ago

A company that markets and sells “performance” clothing for men. The startup is trying to make sure that the clothes it sells are comfortable and high quality.

127

1 year ago

A web-based platform for high school students to manage their academic progress and grades.

127

10 months ago

A startup for people who want to buy or sell their homes online. The startup aims to be the Amazon of home sales, specifically in the high-end market.

127

10 months ago

A startup for high-quality cannabis products. The startup says it’s able to bring in new customers, but also to get customers to purchase more product. It’s targeting dispensaries and delivery venues.

126

3 years ago

A discovery platform for specialized high-end clothing that’s based on the feedback of customers

125

3 years ago

A tool for high-frequency traders to help them build algorithmic strategies. The startup also wants to make the process of building algorithms easier for researchers to understand.

125

3 years ago

The high cost of online advertising means that marketers struggle to find the right people to reach with their ads. Yieldly wants to automate the process of finding the right people, using a system of algorithms that finds the right person to target for the right job, based on the criteria the company needs.

124

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help people in developing nations to access the global stock market in a way that helps them avoid high fees and complicated paperwork.

124

3 years ago

The startup is simplifying the process of encrypting files by bringing high-end encryption to small businesses, with an API that lets developers create their own encryption tools.

124

11 months ago

A way to connect high-school students with mentors to help them get into college through video conferencing and mentoring. They’ve partnered with organizations like Teach for America and the Boys & Girls Club to help students prepare for college.

124

3 years ago

A platform for developing mobile apps that connects clients with developers. They’re not looking to compete with big agencies, but trying to fill a gap between startups and agencies. They’re currently attracting interest from small businesses with a few employees who are looking for a way to get high-level visibility and technical support to manage the complexity of building apps.

122

3 years ago

This startup is building a system that helps companies recruit and retain high quality talent. With a $100,000 investment from Andreessen Horowitz, the company is working with companies like Hubspot, Zendesk, and The New York Times to do so.

122

3 years ago

A startup that builds out self-service enterprise-grade analytics for businesses. FastForward provides tools for a profitable, high-volume marketing campaign.

121

3 years ago

A way for advertisers to measure the success of their ads, and for consumers to see which products get the highest engagement.

121

1 year ago

A way to enable workers at companies and in remote locations to tap into high-quality medical care. The startup has offices in the US and India, and has already reached over 2,000 patients in India and the US.

121

3 years ago

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

120

3 years ago

A video-sharing platform for high school students to share their work and connect with each other. The company’s goal is to provide a forum for high school students to share their work with each other, inspire each other, and connect with mentors.

119

2 years ago

A single-page application framework that aims to let developers build highly-optimized mobile apps using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Modernizr is used by over 100,000 developers.

119

3 years ago

A startup that creates a new kind of smart home audio experience Their idea is to create a “high quality, yet affordable, audio experience”

118

3 years ago

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

118

3 years ago

A platform that helps companies “create and manage high-quality video content” by coordinating video production and distribution.

118

1 year ago

A startup that lets you see why your car insurance rates are so high.

117

4 months ago

A startup that helps organizations improve reporting in a way that’s more efficient and more accurate. The company says they have a 40% higher success rate than competitors on the best-in-class survey software.

117

3 years ago

A startup that is building a platform to allow high school students to build a career in technology.

116

3 years ago

A platform that helps consumers identify “high quality” products from “low quality” ones.

115

3 years ago

A payments company that serves high-volume ecommerce merchants. It’s in the process of launching a service that will enable online sellers to offer rewards to buyers.

115

2 years ago

A community of freelance designers with an emphasis on high-end products like furniture, ready-to-wear, and toys.

115

3 years ago

A startup that aims to help US cities build 100,000 solar powered charging stations across major highways to help people get around.

114

3 years ago

A high-speed and cheap way to create custom-made, high-resolution 3D printed parts.

114

3 years ago

A startup that’s building an online marketplace for used cars, with a focus on low-mileage, high-quality cars.

113

3 years ago

A startup that provides a SaaS platform for SaaS companies to build high quality content. The startup is backed by some of the largest tech companies in the world, including Google, Microsoft and Twitter.

113

3 years ago

The Y Combinator summer school is a four-week program that teaches computer science fundamentals to top-tier high school students. The program was launched in 2010 by Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator.

113

3 years ago

A company that lets people borrow a single printer that can print out 100,000 copies of a document. This smart printer will print at an incredibly high resolution — the company claims it will print at “40 times the resolution of a typical home printer”.

113

2 years ago

A “tech startup” which, in their words, “builds and operates a network of high-speed automated parking garages for self-driving vehicles.”

112

3 years ago

A health plan that combines the ease of a Health Savings Account (HSA) with the security of a high deductible.

111

3 years ago

As an online continuing education course for lawyers, this startup is hoping to enable higher education for lawyers without charging tuition.

110

2 years ago

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

110

3 years ago

A startup that sells high-quality, locally made clothes for men who want something more stylish than what you can find at Old Navy

109

3 years ago

The company aims to be a “banking for millennials” that offers high-yield savings accounts. It’s a way for younger consumers to build their savings without having to pay a premium for the privilege.

109

2 years ago

A startup that aims to solve the problem of re-marketing in higher education recruiting by building a way to help schools replace the need for multiple applications.

108

3 years ago

A ready-to-mix drink company that makes simple, high-end cocktails at the push of a button. The company is currently in the process of raising seed capital.

107

2 years ago

A startup that’s creating a platform for sharing high-quality, low-cost medical images.

107

2 years ago

A startup that wants to use a similar process to build a marketplace for music rights, letting creators sell their rights to their songs to the highest bidder.

106

2 years ago

Allows users to create a “smarter” calendar, with a focus on things like highlighting “no shows”, removing “redundant” events, etc.

106

1 year ago

This startup is building an app that cuts through the noise of the daily news cycle, by separating the good from the bad. The app, called “The Daily”, takes a different perspective, highlighting the optimistic and the important, but not the trivial. It’s already been featured in the Washington Post, Fast Company, and the New York Times.

105

1 year ago

A platform that helps customers avoid high fees by connecting them directly with their bank and credit card companies.

104

2 years ago

A tool helps auto manufacturers create highly efficient car designs. It can review thousands of designs, pick out ones that are more efficient, and make suggestions to manufacturers to try.

103

3 years ago

A company that provides “next-generation” insurance solutions to companies with higher liability risks. The company’s approach is a bit atypical, as they say they’re not “selling” insurance, but rather “managing” the risk of the company. The startup says they’re already working with more than a dozen clients with plans to expand to 20 more before the end of 2019.

102

3 years ago

This startup helps identify fraud in the ecommerce industry by identifying network traffic patterns that indicate a high level of fraud.

102

2 years ago

This company is building an electric scooter that’s “designed for high traffic areas”.

102

10 months ago

A company that builds an online marketplace for high-quality rental cars, connecting people with rental cars on a national scale.

102

1 year ago

A platform for hiring experienced contractors to do IT and engineering jobs in the US, with a focus on higher education

101

3 years ago

A startup that helps businesses market to high school students, instead of relying on the university market.

100

2 years ago

A startup that uses high-tech, low-cost sensors to monitor the quality of the air around us.

100

2 years ago

A platform that helps users find great deals from local businesses, but don’t have to go to the store. The startup sees itself competing with Groupon, although it hopes to target smaller businesses and compete with Groupon’s recent move to focus on higher-margin, bigger deals.

100

1 year ago

A video ad platform that lets you buy high-quality video ads to promote your YouTube channel or other online content. By using the service, you’re able to share your content and get paid for doing it.

100

3 years ago

A company that aims to make low-risk, high-return investments in real estate.

99

2 years ago

A software company that helps retailers sell their products on Amazon.com. The founders say they are seeing 100% conversion rates on Amazon and “super-high” sales numbers.

99

2 years ago

A startup that provides AI-based medical screening for high risk patients.

99

2 years ago

A payment solution for contractors and service providers. The company has a base of high-volume users in the US and is looking to expand internationally.

98

2 years ago

A startup that wants to help women who are having a hard time finding high-quality, affordable maternity clothes.

98

2 years ago

A tech-enabled market for finding and hiring high-quality freelancers. The company’s aim is to help small businesses expand their reach and have access to a more comprehensive pool of talent.

97

1 year ago

An online marketplace for high-quality furniture and design objects, which helps buyers and sellers find each other.

97

3 years ago

A startup that wants to bring affordable, secure storage to small and medium sized businesses. The company is focused on providing remote access to business owners who would otherwise have to pay high prices to store things in their own homes.

96

2 years ago

A payment system for small businesses in the Philippines, with a focus on remittance, based on a user’s location. The startup wants to target merchants with a high volume of transactions but low capacity, such as small shops and restaurants.

96

2 years ago

This startup builds an app to help you find a high-quality hotel when you’re traveling. The company wants to help people find the best hotel for their needs.

94

2 years ago

A tool that helps recruiters find the best candidates for a job. They’re building a team of recruiters, who can make the company’s pool of applicants appear highly qualified.

93

1 year ago

A high-tech incubator that helps companies raise money and build their businesses in Silicon Valley.

92

1 year ago

A platform to facilitate peer-to-peer lending, allowing people to lend money to each other and earn higher interest rates than banks

92

1 year ago

An email marketing platform. Businesses with high volumes of email marketing can choose to send their emails using a software sdk and pay a flat monthly fee.

92

11 months ago

This is a platform to connect freelancers with high-paying clients. It’s a new way to find jobs that could be ideal for freelancers. Clients post projects they’re looking to pay for, and freelancers respond.

92

2 years ago

The founder of Code.org, a nonprofit working to make computer science education more accessible, wants to create a foundation to encourage high school students to learn software and programming.

91

1 year ago

A social network for moviegoers. They want to bring together Instagram-like photos of movies, and use the same data to highlight attractions in a new way.

90

2 years ago

A company that creates a line of high-end electric scooters for use in urban areas, no motorcycle license required.

89

2 years ago

A startup that makes it possible to play League of Legends without loading up 20 minutes of video. The app pulls high-level play out of the video and presents it in a condensed format, with highlights and stats.

89

1 year ago

A startup that’s building a robotic vacuum cleaner for indoor use; it’s first product is a $10 model that’s meant to work in high-traffic areas like bedrooms.

89

10 months ago

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

89

2 years ago

A company that helps people create high-quality videos for their websites and social media channels.

88

2 years ago

A company that wants to make it easier for high schools to pay for science instruments. It’s raised $1.3 million in seed funding.

88

2 years ago

This New York City startup is building a subscription service for the restaurant industry. The founders behind the company believe that the industry is plagued by high costs and a lack of execution.

88

3 years ago

A startup that sells a subscription box that provides users with a variety of high-end beauty products

87

2 years ago

A startup that is building a service that highlights the best of the media industry, rather than the best of YouTube.

87

2 years ago

A credit card for people who don’t want a traditional card. The startup gets merchants to opt-in to their service, and since they don’t have a traditional credit history, they don’t have to pay as high interest rates.

86

2 years ago

A company that provides a platform for fans to buy and sell tickets to a yachting race, a “sailboat race on the high seas”.

86

1 year ago

A platform for middle school and high school students to work on programming problems and then link that work with online learning platforms like Khan Academy and Coursera.

85

8 months ago

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

85

2 years ago

A startup, which has raised over $1 million, that helps customers go through the process of hiring a virtual assistant. It highlights the process in a series of animated videos.

84

2 years ago

Cofounder of the company, a former financial industry analyst, began researching the fintech industry in 2017. She found a dearth of female founders in the space. In her startup’s pitch deck, she highlights several female founders as part of the company’s advisory board.

82

2 years ago

Freight costs are high enough for this startup to make moving easier by letting you move any size item (such as a couch, or a full house) for $3.

82

2 years ago

A startup looking to make it easier for companies to hire and fire employees. The system’s algorithms help companies find the best people, and eliminate the high-conflict humans in the process. The company also offers a “health score” for each job candidate. The company says they’ve operated in New York and LA and are now expanding to other parts of the country.

82

10 months ago

A platform that looks to connect high school seniors with internships.

82

2 years ago

A low-cost, high-speed, high-capacity network for manufacturing. Each hub is designed to be small, modular, and scalable.

81

1 year ago

A startup that makes it easy for people to build a large collection of books, comics, art prints and other collectibles. It helps people build up a private collection without paying high storage fees.

80

2 years ago

The startup’s target is high-level executives, and they want to help them stay on top of their job description and responsibilities.

79

2 years ago

The startup aims to be a peer-to-peer marketplace for student loans, to help students avoid high interest rates by borrowing from other students.

79

2 years ago

A startup that helps high school students build their own websites. They’re launching in the US in 2019

78

1 year ago

A startup that’s building an app to help companies recruit people in India. It’s a more effective version of traditional job-posting sites and is primarily focused on getting high-quality candidates to apply.

78

4 months ago

A wearable device that uses sensors to measure your body’s levels of oxygen saturation, pulse, and blood pressure in order to alert you to potential dangers like low oxygen or high blood pressure.

78

1 year ago

A startup that offers a tool to help brands create highly customized email campaigns, integrating with Salesforce and other CRM systems.

77

2 years ago

The company wants to create a crowdsourced set of office supplies, including note paper, highlighters, a notepad, a pens, a pen holder, a pencil sharpener, a stapler, a paper clip, a paper clip holder, a red pen, a whiteboard marker, a dry erase marker, a mini eraser, a phone stand, a paper clip holder, a USB, a business card holder, a clipboard, a sticky note pad, a notepad, a pen, a pencil, a highlighter, a pencil sharpener, a dry erase marker, a stapler, a paper clip, a paper clip holder, a USB, a business card holder, a clipboard, a sticky note pad, a notepad, a pen, a pencil, a highlighter, a pencil sharpener, a dry erase marker, a stapler, a paper clip, a paper clip holder, a USB, a business card holder, a clipboard, a sticky note pad, a notepad, a pen, a pencil, a highlighter, a pencil sharpener, a dry erase marker, a stapler, a paper clip, a paper clip holder, a USB, a business

76

1 year ago

This is a digital delivery system for medical cannabis that wants to provide standardized strains, value-added services, and high-quality delivery across the country.

76

1 year ago

A startup that makes a high-tech paper tablecloth that can be used to protect a dining room table and also to track how often a table is used.

76

2 years ago

A software platform for high school students to build interactive, video game-style apps.

74

2 years ago

A startup that helps high school students organize their activities through a student-specific calendar.

74

1 year ago

A company building a service for high-net-worth individuals to securely access their retirement accounts.

74

1 year ago

A startup that wants to build a platform for higher education students to find jobs. It’s a new platform for students, businesses and recruiters, and it’s cheaper and less time-consuming than traditional job boards.

74

1 year ago

A network of real-time, high-quality audio recordings of presidential speeches, for use in classrooms, research, and other purposes.

74

2 years ago

Helping people put their home into a rental portfolio. The startup’s platform is meant to help investors see the potential return on investment of the investment portfolio, and to help them decide when to sell or hold out for a higher return.

72

2 years ago

A startup that is building an autonomous, high-speed autonomous truck.

72

1 year ago

A mobile app that helps people find the best deals on local goods, like groceries and coffee. It’s focused on food delivery and grocery delivery, with a case study showing higher sales for customers in areas served by the service.

72

2 years ago

A startup that uses AI to tailor your work environment by taking the psychology of your job and the company you work for into account. TRACE, which launched in early 2019, has found that when you work in a “high-energy” job, your brain feels more alert and focused, but that when you’re in a “low-energy” job, your brain feels more relaxed and unfocused.

71

1 year ago

A “high-touch” sales and marketing automation platform.

71

10 months ago

This is a system that brings together employees, customers and suppliers with real-time data, allowing businesses to make decisions with a high level of confidence and accuracy.

71

2 years ago

An all-in-one headphone that’s designed to be both high-quality and cheap.

70

2 years ago

The startup wants to make it easier for small businesses to receive financing. It’s a mobile lending platform, using the same algorithms as big banks, but with lower interest rates and higher standards for creditworthiness.

70

10 months ago

An AI-based technology that figures out what an artist is working on and automatically creates a high quality version.

70

9 months ago

This startup is building a tool to help high school students choose the right college for them. It uses data from over 100 top universities to help students pick the best fit.

70

9 months ago

A SaaS solution for managing and securing business continuity plans by providing a high-level view of the entire system, as well as giving policy makers, auditors, and compliance officers the ability to identify, control, and report on key system capabilities

70

2 years ago

An online marketplace for selling and buying high-end furniture and other home goods.

69

2 years ago

A startup that makes accurate, high-resolution 3D models of the things in the world. The company charges designers and architects in-person visits in which they can see prototypes in person and get one-on-one feedback.

69

1 year ago

A high-end, high-margin business-to-business e-commerce platform for professional services that started off as a B2B tool for lawyers but has since expanded to business-to-consumer.

69

1 year ago

World Rugby is building a digital platform that lets fans follow their favorite team and save highlights of games and other content. The company says it can also offer more ways for fans to engage with the team, and has a team of rugby enthusiasts for their first major customer, the New Zealand Warriors.

69

1 year ago

A business service for freelance designers that allows them to access a library of high quality photos, fonts and templates for their clients.

69

1 year ago

A visual programming language for creating highly interactive, connection-based software.

69

9 months 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.

69

2 years ago

The startup is building a platform for sharing and tracking your purchases online, not unlike the existing platforms, but they’re highlighting its use for digital marketing.

68

2 years ago

A higher-end version of the popular Always on, Always Connected (AoAC) earbuds.

68

2 years ago

A college prep app for high schoolers.

68

1 year ago

This employer of the year builds the first cloud-based platform to help companies automate payroll processes, which they claim helps companies run more efficiently and gives them time to focus on higher-value work.

68

1 year ago

A cloud-based music platform that emphasizes high-quality content.

68

1 year ago

A platform that lets users host conferences, potentially saving the high cost of hosting one in-person.

68

8 months ago

Food delivery workers in India are some of the worst paid in the world, with daily wages of as little as $1.25. Slice aims to provide them with a way to make higher wages with improved service and convenience.

68

3 months ago

A college prep and career prep program for kids in high school designed to help them find internships or jobs.

68

2 years ago

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

67

1 year ago

A business that sells high-quality, nearly-new equipment in bulk to retailers across the US.

67

1 year ago

This startup aims to make it easier for people to buy high-quality, custom-designed and custom-made wedding rings. The company wants to disrupt the traditional diamond industry and take a day-to-day approach to helping couples design their rings.

67

10 months ago

An “augmented reality” startup that wants to put augmented reality into a high school science textbook. It’s aiming for a $30 million valuation at a $3.4 million pre-order.

67

2 years ago

A startup that allows users to create and edit high-definition 3D models of real-world objects

66

2 years ago

A startup that wants to help non-profits find sponsors, from high-value companies that have $100K+ to support, to local businesses that have $100 per year.

66

1 year 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.

66

1 year ago

A platform that delivers on-demand, high-quality digital content. The company has spent the past year creating a platform that allows users to upload content to it, and creating an editorial team that curates the content that users like.

66

1 year ago

A 3D printing service that uses robots to build parts in high-volume using different materials. The company has a partnership with 3D Systems, which gives it access to a large pool of customers and materials.

66

1 year ago

A digital school for college students that helps them write better essays and get high school credits.

66

1 year ago

Metronome is a plugin for Spotify that helps you navigate playlists better by highlighting the songs you haven’t heard yet.

66

3 months ago

After launching in Mozambique in 2016, the startup is expanding its service to other countries that have high rates of child labor, including Bangladesh, India, and Nepal.

66

1 year ago

A video series of side-by-side comparisons of the same products or websites to highlight the differences.

65

1 year ago

Creates custom-designed, interactive and high-quality mobile apps for brands and agencies to manage, create and distribute content via their own proprietary technology.

65

1 year ago

This startup makes it easier for companies to have a centralized, secure place to store and share articles, videos, and other digital content—particularly for content that’s both time sensitive and highly valuable.

65

1 year ago

A solution for banks to help them manage the risk of their high-volume lending.

65

1 year ago

A real estate app for buyers and sellers, combining technology and human capital to pinpoint the highest and best bid for a home and help close a deal.

65

8 months ago

A startup that provides loans to people in high-paying jobs through platforms, such as Airbnb.

65

2 years ago

A platform to create and distribute high-quality, curated content for marketing and education, including online courses and videos.

64

1 year ago

A high-end video game player built on the blockchain that allows gamers to compete against each other without relying on centralized servers.

64

1 year ago

A startup building products for home improvement stores to bring in more high-end customers.

64

9 months 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.

64

8 months ago

A startup that builds and sells custom-made, high-end clothing.

64

2 years ago

A drag-and-drop tool for building custom, high-performance websites, with an emphasis on WordPress.

63

1 year ago

An online marketplace that connects fashion brands with customers at high-end retail stores.

63

1 year ago

A medical device company building a high-performance, low-cost endoscopy system that can be used by physicians at home or in the field.

63

1 year ago

A startup that plans to help high-net-worth families invest more in their offspring early on, by offering a way to invest in children’s college savings while they’re still in high school.

63

2 years ago

A startup that aims to make it easier for people to access health care without worrying about high costs. The startup wants to create a more seamless experience for patients with insurance covering more than 80% of health care costs.

62

1 year ago

A startup that makes it easy for anyone to access inexpensive and highly profitable lending.

62

1 year 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.

62

9 months ago

This startup is working on a new way to manage and keep track of employees. Currently visiting high schools to teach students how to code.

62

1 year ago

A new messaging app that can push high-quality voice messages to users.

61

1 year ago

The startup sells a solution to the problem of poor Wi-Fi connections at airports and hotels. The company’s product is a small device that can be plugged into a wall that has a “hot spot” for high-speed internet.

61

2 years ago

An email marketing startup helping small businesses gain new customers. The startup sends customers a free sample for every high-value email they send.

60

1 year ago

A high-tech, custom-built vending machine for businesses. The company has been in the business of selling vending machines to businesses since 1923.

60

1 year ago

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

60

1 year ago

A startup that uses algorithms to identify the most promising niches to target and serve highly-targeted ads to them.

60

1 year ago

A social recruitment platform for high-end fashion brands. The startup is building their own marketplace, and working with brands to help them find the right people.

60

1 year ago

A startup creating an online platform that allows women to find high quality and affordable health and beauty products.

60

1 year ago

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

60

2 years ago

A decentralized open-source marketplace for the distribution of high-quality digital content.

59

1 year ago

A company that is building a single mobile app to help shoppers find products they want. It’s first product is a $5 app for finding high quality clothing that’s been made specifically for your body type.

59

1 year ago

This personal finance app is meant to help you save money and get into the best financial products. It’s currently only available in the U.K. The app also claims to have access to the UK’s highest interest savings accounts, so it may not be available in the U.S.

59

1 year ago

A tool for digital nomads, focused on things like finding a place to stay, legal advice, and people to introduce you to people to meet. Founded in 2015, Union.ro is gaining traction in areas with a high density of digital nomads.

59

8 months ago

An email-based education platform that helps high school students find scholarships, internships, and college courses.

59

2 years ago

A company that makes smart locks for high-end residential housing, so that you can unlock your front door with your phone, for instance.

58

1 year ago

The company is building a low-cost, lightweight, and highly efficient way to make 3D printed prosthetics.

58

1 year ago

A web-based app that helps you find and organize high-quality, verified local restaurants near you. The app has been downloaded over 5,000 times since its launch in early September.

58

1 year ago

Postmates’ algorithm scours the internet for items that have high demand, and sends them to the customer within an hour.

58

1 year ago

A startup for items that are in high demand, like event tickets, that makes it easier for people to buy and sell their tickets. They’ve carved out 50% of the tickets sold to date.

58

1 year ago

A startup that offers a way for small businesses to customize print products online to create special-edition products without the high upfront costs associated with traditional custom products.

58

9 months ago

A platform that helps brands and agencies buy influencer marketing directly to consumers. The company is building a platform that helps brands and agencies choose influencers more strategically. The company says they’ve already signed a few high-profile influencer campaigns.

58

2 years ago

A startup that wants to help low-income families get discounts on everything from healthcare to higher education.

57

6 months ago

A startup for high-end luxury goods, which operates as an e-commerce store, showroom, and video production studio.

57

1 year ago

A company that builds a high-level way for developers to build digital experiences for brands.

56

1 year ago

A company that delivers care to patients with chronic conditions, like diabetes and high blood pressure, through a network of integrated care centers in a discrete geographic area.

56

1 year ago

This startup is building a line of low-cost, high-demand consumer electronics.

56

1 year ago

A temporary staffing platform that allows companies to hire “high quality” temporary workers. The company says over 40% of their users are industry professionals.

56

1 year ago

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

56

9 months ago

A startup that wants to help high school students build apps on their own time, and get paid.

56

9 months ago

This startup wants to make healthcare more transparent, with a system that uses artificial intelligence to identify and highlight the risks of a patient’s treatment plan.

56

9 months ago

A company that produces high-performance stoves that are “perfect for off grid living”.

56

3 years ago

Idea: A company that builds a mobile app that provides a “visual, interactive experience” for the middle school/high school students to buy and sell items to one another.

55

1 year ago

Dyson is a British vacuum cleaner manufacturer that has been in business since the 1950s. The company is known for its trademark bladeless vacuum cleaners and high-end design.

55

1 year ago

The Philadelphia Business Journal also has a weekly feature called "Philadelphia Startup Spotlight", which highlights Philly startups. It highlights the company's most recent news and trends, and interviews the CEO.

55

1 year ago

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

55

1 year ago

A digital platform for letting companies offer flexible working options to their employees, from part-time to full-time, with better benefits and higher pay.

55

1 year ago

An educational app for teens, designed to help them learn and practice their English language. The first release of the app, with 11,000 users, is aimed at high school students, most of whom are 14 and 15 years old.

55

8 months ago

A startup that wants to allow businesses to quickly develop a network marketing or direct sales team without having to find new people. The business has deals with a number of high-level recruiters, and counts Y Combinator and Stripe as customers.

55

3 years ago

Idea: A startup that’s building a tool that lets you share your high school student’s grades and progress with colleges

54

1 year ago

A digital network that connects businesses in high income countries with those in lower-income countries. They’re working with the UN’s World Food Programme to address food security.

54

1 year ago

a startup that wants to tap into the “tens of billions of images available across all devices” to build a platform that helps people find and create high-quality photos.

54

1 year 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.

54

9 months ago

A startup that helps high-end fashion brands and retailers manage their last mile supply chain.

54

1 year ago

SaaS company that helps people build better quality and higher-performing websites faster. They’ve also built a suite of tools for developers that help them determine how good their website is, how fast it loads and how well it performs for visitors.

53

1 year ago

A startup that is building a tool to help developers build simple, high-quality, global mobile apps. It’s a cloud service for building iOS and Android apps, and it has 15 employees.

53

1 year ago

A company building a programmable, modular “smart” house. The company is currently building a smart-grid home in Portland, Oregon, and designed to be highly energy efficient and modular. The idea is that by building this type of home, the owner can install or upgrade the systems as she sees fit.

52

1 year ago

A social enterprise that provides equipment and support to the developing world for the production of sustainable, high-quality, locally-sourced products.

52

1 year ago

A company that makes a high-end smartwatch, the Guess Connect, which it says is the first smartwatch that enables users to “live a more connected life.”

52

1 year ago

The founders of this app want to build a tool for managing digital feedback. Instead of emailing feedback to a manager or leaving a comment on a blog post, users can send feedback directly to a specific employee, and the app’s smart algorithms will automatically highlight the most important parts of each comment so the employee can see it, reply to it, and move on without having to read through unnecessary comments.

52

1 year ago

A startup that makes managing your business’s high-value assets easy and streamlined.

52

1 year ago

A startup that plans to build a platform that allows businesses to create and sell their own “masterpieces”, with a focus on high-end jewelry and similar items.

52

8 months ago

A platform that connects users with their favorite local professionals and connects customers to high performing service professionals.

52

8 months ago

A piece of software that will allow users to connect their phone to their laptop and use the phone to take high-quality photos and videos. The startup is trying to compete with Instacam and other similar products.

52

7 months ago

This startup builds digital credentials for teens and young adults at risk of dropping out of high school, aiming to help them learn essential skills like reading and math, improve their confidence, and help them graduate. It’s being used in Washington D.C. and in schools in the Bronx.

52

1 year ago

Rides, a ridesharing company that focuses on providing a cheaper and friendlier alternative to Uber and Lyft. The company was founded on an idea that the majority of people want ridesharing but don’t want to pay the higher prices of Uber and Lyft. Rides is currently operating in Atlanta, GA, with plans to expand to other cities.

51

11 months ago

A $1 million satellite that is designed to help companies like Google and Yahoo create and operate high-resolution imagery in space.

51

8 months ago

This startup is building a way to create a new, low-cost, high-interest loan to help start businesses.

51

3 years ago

A startup that provides high quality, low cost legal services

50

1 year ago

A platform for buying and selling tickets to theater, concerts, sporting events and conferences. The company wants to make the ticket-buying process simple and to keep the tickets’ value as high as possible.

50

1 year ago

a telemedicine startup that wants to make remote and “high-touch” healthcare services more accessible to the masses.

50

1 year ago

Chai & Co is a clothing subscription company that aims to give fashion enthusiasts the option to try out clothing and purchase items they love while saving money with higher rates on wholesale.

50

1 year ago

A maker of personal protective equipment for people who work with hazardous chemicals. The startup aims to create a more affordable and accessible alternative to the typical high-end PPE.

50

1 year ago

Builds and sells tools to help create and manage campaigns that highlight what’s going on in local communities. These could range from the neighborhood watch group to a local community group trying to raise funds for a new park.

50

9 months ago

In November 2018, Crunchbase News highlighted the following companies and their founders:

50

7 months ago

A startup that highlights people who live in the same neighborhood as you, so you can meet them.

50

3 years ago

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

49

1 year ago

An AI-powered productivity tool that’s meant to help people with autism take notes, organize their notebooks and produce “high-quality” work.

49

1 year ago

A managed marketplace for people looking for care for people with special needs. The startup is a “high touch” operation, meaning it doesn’t just hope to make money but also wants to make a difference for people with disabilities.

49

1 year ago

A platform that uses machine learning to find U.S. jobs that are in high demand, like software engineering and truck driving.

49

1 year ago

A Yelp-style review platform, built to highlight obscure trending restaurants, bars, and other local businesses.

49

1 year 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.

49

9 months ago

A platform for home cooks to sell their recipes online. They target high-end consumers looking to buy a one-of-a-kind product.

49

8 months ago

A startup that helps marketplaces list and sell their items, with a focus on selling high-margin items that are hard to find.

49

6 months ago

A startup that’s building an enterprise-grade video conferencing solution. They say they’re all about offering “the highest quality video in the industry” at a price point that’s “competitive with Skype but still affordable for business.”

49

3 years ago

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

48

2 years ago

A “high-quality” image-editing tool with a library of free and paid filters.

48

2 years ago

A startup for high-net-worth individuals to manage their private equity portfolios.

48

1 year ago

A platform for hiring high schoolers for internships and college placement. The startup “focuses on bringing transparency and efficiency to the recruiting process for both employers and students”.

48

9 months ago

A medical grade robot that operates like a vacuum and can lift up to 50 pounds. The robot is used at hospitals, but it can also be used on the farm, in the manufacturing space or in other “high-risk” environments.

48

2 months ago

College recruiting software for high schools. The company says it has $8,500 monthly revenue.

48

1 year ago

A company that builds a virtual assistant for call center agents, to help them deal with the high volume of calls they deal with.

47

1 year ago

A 3D printing service for businesses, customized for every business, with hundreds of products and designs in inventory, and a 3D printer in every office. It’s a “solution for businesses that have a need for customized, high-quality products.”

47

1 year ago

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

47

7 months ago

A startup that makes it easy for consumers to find and buy affordable, high-quality handcrafted products from home

47

1 year 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.

46

1 year ago

A company that wants to bring high-end eyewear to the mass market through a subscription model. The startup is also building a platform for high-end eyewear to sell directly to consumers.

46

1 year ago

A web-based marketing platform that helps companies take a customer’s digital presence, like email, and make it searchable, ranking it as high as possible.

46

1 year ago

A credit card for healthcare professionals, with the idea that the cost of healthcare is high and yet the cost of paying for it is often too low.

45

1 year ago

Focusing on the health insurance industry, the startup says it will help provide “highly personalized care” through artificial intelligence.

45

1 year ago

Requires high-quality images and videos to be uploaded, and then it will create a beautiful virtual tour of your home. The startup is also working on a mobile app to help people show off their homes to interested buyers.

45

1 year ago

HireVue is a platform that helps companies hire people more efficiently. It’s a more sophisticated version of the jobs board with a robust analytics engine, and uses automated engagements to screen candidates. The company already has $1.5 million in funding from high-profile investors like Mark Cuban and Mark Suster.

45

1 year ago

The startup is building out an online auction marketplace, similar to eBay, but with a higher ticket price point for its auction listings.

44

1 year ago

An AI-powered platform that allows businesses to provide customers with tailored and highly-personalized product recommendations.

44

8 months ago

Startup that wants to make it easier for brands to make videos and sell them on YouTube for higher CPMs.

44

4 months ago

A university-based startup in the UK that helps students get into higher education through a job and internship program.

44

7 months ago

A platform that uses AI to help recruiters find candidates. Founded by the former CEO of Glassdoor, the company is aiming to be a highly-targeted alternative to traditional job boards.

43

3 years ago

A startup that provides high quality videos of a therapist or counselor speaking to a client The therapist or counselor gets paid per video viewed

42

1 year ago

A $25 monthly subscription service that delivers highly curated content to users, including a daily news brief, a curated list of articles and videos, and a curated selection of articles and videos for mobile.

42

1 year ago

A credit card that rewards you with higher credit limits the more you use it, and can reward you with rewards like cash back, airline miles, and hotel points.

42

1 year 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.

42

9 months ago

A marketing agency that builds high-performance marketing teams for companies in China and the US.

42

6 months ago

A startup that wants to turn old pallets into high-quality, sustainable, and inexpensive shipping cases using an innovative plastic injection process.

42

5 months ago

A direct-to-consumer platform for high-end private jet pilots. The company currently has a fleet of 5 planes and is looking to expand.

40

3 months ago

A daily news digest for high-schoolers that lets them mix and match a set of curated stories, and get it delivered to their cell phones every day. What’s unique about this startup is that it’s developed a way to let readers select which stories they want to read from the curated selection.

40

1 year ago

A platform for recruiting people with a history of high paying jobs to work for startups.

39

1 year ago

A tool for making it easy for software developers to convert their videos into a higher quality format and for businesses to find those videos, allowing for easier and more effective recruiting.

38

11 months ago

This startup is building a platform for high-school students to create personalized homework assignments, and then store and organize those assignments in the cloud.

38

8 months ago

A team of editors who are “hypereditorial”, or work at an unusually high level of detail. The company is currently focused on the food vertical.

38

1 year ago

A high-tech solution for deploying, monitoring, and managing the world’s largest supply chain.

37

1 year ago

Businesses often have to deal with the issue of creating a “high security environment” to pass over their payment information to someone. Entrepreneurs Ryan Levitt and David Honig say that the good news is that the process has basically become “the same as logging into Gmail,” and they’ve developed a simple, secure solution that they’re now using in their own businesses.

37

8 months ago

An online platform that helps professionals give presentations online, either in front of a group or to a single person, who can then edit those presentations and share them via email or other services. They also claim that their platform has a higher percentage of “live” presentations than competitors like Slideshare.

37

6 months ago

Helping high-profile companies like GE raise capital and manage their stock portfolios.

37

3 months ago

A company that provides online education and training for high school students. The company has received five rounds of funding.

37

11 months ago

Kiva Fellows have highly specialized skills. For example, the founders of this startup are former surgeons who learned the medical terminology of the legal system. They’re helping the legal system to more efficiently write and understand contracts, which they say can save money, time, and lives.

36

7 months ago

: This is an $11 million seed round for a company that wants to bring “high-end ketogenic supplements” to the US from the Netherlands.

36

7 months ago

This startup makes high quality, custom software development kits. The company was founded in late 2018 and its product is in use by companies like Disney and CVS.

36

2 months ago

A personal finance app that uses machine learning to show you the best financial decisions for your life. The app uses data from your credit cards, loan, and debit cards to build financial reports that show you which of your expenses you can cut off for higher returns.

36

3 years ago

Idea: A peer-to-peer lending marketplace The startup offers an alternative to traditional banks, which the founders say offer high interest rates, but often have hidden fees

35

1 year ago

A more secure alternative to Gmail, aimed at businesses and high-security users

35

11 months ago

A high-end, low-cost version of Amazon's Echo. The startup wants to offer a smart speaker that connects to the internet in order to answer questions, play music and offer information.

34

6 months ago

In the US, 1 in 5 women is diagnosed with breast cancer. Many of them can’t afford the high cost of surgery, and don’t have access to screening tests. Screenings for breast cancer are mostly done with mammograms, which have a high rate of false positives.

34

2 months ago

Startup that helps students get higher grades by helping them organize and structure their work. By switching to a study schedule, students take on less work and are more likely to complete it.

34

8 months ago

This startup is building a way to make recycling food waste a more efficient process. It’s taking waste materials like potato peels and turning them into a drinkable, nutritionally-rich, high-protein powder.

33

7 months 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.

33

4 months ago

A hybrid crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending company that lets people borrow money to pay off high interest debt, starting with student loans.

32

20 days ago

A product to help people get a higher-quality sound from their cell phones without the need to buy expensive accessories.

32

6 months ago

A startup that wants to build a tool that helps people identify the cheap, high-quality private schools in their area.

31

6 months ago

A startup for creative types that delivers a curated selection of high-quality videos on a monthly basis.

30

6 months ago

A startup that aims to use digital currency to provide a fan-powered way to support artists and their music. This incentivizes artists to release new music, with fans being rewarded for voting, and artists being rewarded for a higher amount of votes. A bit like Bandcamp but for music.

30

6 months ago

A company that provides embedded security products for high-value infrastructure, the company is working on hardware that can detect when a cyber attack is taking place.

29

5 months ago

This startup aims to help power out-of-town businesses by allowing them to take advantage of the high-speed internet from their users. It has offices in New York and Boston.

28

6 months ago

The founders of this medical startup are trying to use their new, highly sensitive sensors to help patients better track their progress against their diseases. The sensors use the patient’s sweat to track their body’s movement, allowing them to see how they are holding up to their disease.

27

6 months ago

A technology company that is building a way for high net-worth individuals to manage their assets and get a second opinion on their investments.

27

6 months ago

An online platform for finding high quality, “curated” health and fitness information.

27

5 months ago

A platform that connects freelancers with businesses that need a quick custom made logo, a high-end t-shirt, or a difficult to print brochure or flyer.

27

7 months 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.

26

6 months ago

PortionWorks is building a startup in Philadelphia that uses a high-tech pill-dispensing machine to automate the process of making food portions. It can make a cup of yogurt, for example, in just two seconds.

25

4 months 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.

25

5 months ago

A startup that enables small businesses to pay their employees in bitcoin, while avoiding the high fees of credit card payments.

24

4 months ago

C-Team is building an AI-powered marketing platform for retail companies. The company claims that it can tell if a customer is a problem from the first interaction, and then use AI to improve sales, customer retention, and higher-level marketing.

24

3 months ago

EyeEm is a startup that wants to be the Kodak of photography. The company’s app aims to be the place you go to find great images of whatever you are looking for. The startup is also building a new generation of digital cameras and a film stock that allows people to turn their smartphone into a high-end camera.

24

5 months ago

In early 2019, Softbank acquired a majority stake in the startup. It’s a software company that helps designers produce high-quality mockups for mobile apps.

23

5 months ago

This startup is building a mobile app for sports and fitness coaches who want to better connect with clients on their smartphone. It allows coaches to set goals (for instance, to have someone lose 10 pounds in a month) and feed all the data into the app. The app then uses analytics to highlight the best areas to focus on.

23

4 months ago

A credit card for the unbanked, designed to lower fees and help people get credit through high-risk loans.

23

3 months ago

This startup is building a machine that can process financial transactions at a high rate.

23

2 months ago

This is a startup that helps inbound marketing teams identify high-quality leads, and then helps them take action on these leads.

23

2 months ago

A platform that connects businesses with local farmers and helps them get the highest quality produce at the best price possible. The startup is working on an app and a marketplace for farmers.

22

5 months ago

A cloud-based data analytics company that focuses on helping people identify the most relevant and highest-value data points to turn into actionable insights

21

3 months ago

A startup that turns Skype calls and video conferences into video calls with high-quality video.

21

4 months ago

A startup that’s building a high-speed drone to deliver fresh groceries to people’s doors in San Francisco.

20

1 month ago

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

20

1 month ago

This startup says it’s the first company to “build a serverless, peer-to-peer, high-performance, low-cost, distributed marketplace for data”. That’s a mouthful, but it means the startup is building a marketplace that’s built on open-source protocols that allow it to operate in a way similar to BitTorrent.

20

3 years ago

Idea: An ‘online gym’ for high frequency traders

19

6 months ago

A customizable software platform that allows smartphone-based game developers to quickly build 3D games. People want to play games that are fun and engaging, but often a high barrier to entry means people will not invest the time to learn how to program in 3D, and need to find games that are already made (often with less than stellar results).

19

4 months ago

A tool that helps marketers find high-value customers in their email lists based on their propensity to buy.

19

3 months ago

SAS, an analytics company, wants to create a program that will help banks automate the process of building their own high-frequency trading systems.

19

2 months ago

A group of high school students who founded a startup to help college students gain skills for finding internships and jobs.

19

1 month ago

A Fintech company that’s building a platform for high-net-worth individuals to invest in real estate, collect rent checks, and manage their investments. It’s already onboarding the first 100 customers at $79k.

19

5 months ago

A startup that uses AI to help recruiters find high-quality candidates for their job openings. Recruiters use the platform to identify candidates and then the company connects them with the hiring managers.

17

22 days ago

Greenhouse is a health insurance startup that offers high-deductible plans. The startup is approved to offer coverage in the US but is still waiting for the go-ahead from the Department of Health and Human Services. The startup has plans to be profitable in 2020 with plans for up to $250 million in revenue.

16

21 days ago

This startup provides companies with a way to connect with long-term, high-value customers.

15

1 month ago

A content marketing platform that helps marketers create high-quality content with the help of a community of data scientists and marketers.

12

1 month ago

A startup that sells student-designed backpacks from high schools in Asia. Parents can order them and have the backpacks shipped to their homes, or they can order them directly from the website.

12

27 days ago

The restaurant and bar industry is highly fragmented. Bodega is a startup that’s working to bring all of the small businesses under one umbrella.

11

18 days ago

A platform for those looking to buy and sell used luxury items. The startup is focused on selling high-end items that have been gently used.

11

23 days ago

A startup making high-quality and affordable custom-made furniture

10

16 days ago

A payment app that allows a small fee to help a merchant securely accept card payments from a customer. "We started because the cost of accepting card payments was too high," says cofounder James Chen.

10

3 years ago

A startup that provides affordable vehicle insurance to people under 25. The startup wants to become the go-to resource for young drivers and disrupt the current auto insurance industry which targets only the high-risk demographic.

9

18 days ago

The startup wants to help people find high quality products, and is using machine learning to identify the quality of products using the pictures customers take of products.

8

21 days ago

A platform for single-room occupancy hotels with free WiFi and the ability to book rooms with a single interface. Loudbnb’s platform is meant to help offset the high overheads of managing a single-room occupancy hotel.

7

18 days ago

A group-buying site for high-end fashion, with a focus on expanding to international markets.

6

20 days ago

A startup that helps you make your own custom-designed, high-quality photobooks

5

5 days ago

A design firm that creates high-end, custom, custom-made, custom-designed websites, landing pages, email campaigns, etc.

5

3 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)

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3 years ago

Idea: E-Commerce for High-Quality, Handmade Goods

-1

3 years ago

Idea: A company that makes high-tech socks that help athletes recover from foot injuries The startup has $10,000 in monthly sales, counting Y Combinator itself as one of its customers

-1

3 years ago

Idea: A startup that pairs businesses with highly-rated freelancers

-1

3 years ago

Idea: An open source CSS framework for building accessible, high-performance interfaces

-1

3 years ago

Idea: Event-centric marketplace connecting online retailers with high-volume consumers

-1

3 years ago

Idea: A C2C marketplace for high-end travel, renting out hotel rooms, yachts, and other high-end travel experiences The startup has already managed to produce $20k in revenue per month after launching in June

-1

3 years ago

Idea: A business that builds custom, localized WordPress websites for small businesses in the US, with a focus on high quality and low prices

-1

3 years ago

Idea: A web app that makes it easy for people to sell the stuff they don’t want anymore. It’s an “eBay for the rest of your stuff”, meaning it’s not just for things with a high value.

-1

3 years ago

Idea: A new twist on insurance for freelancers. The startup is a high-deductible plan with a really low premium — that also includes a loan component. The startup says it’s looking to compete with a 1500% APR loan and offer a 1% interest loan.

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3 years ago

Idea: A startup that creates single-page websites for companies to highlight what they do.

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3 years ago

Idea: A machine-learning service that helps companies build products that are customized for their users. The company says it’s built for high-touch, high-volume businesses like ticketing, travel, and e-commerce.

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A startup that helps colleges and high schools provide students with career and technical education.

Idea: A startup that uses AI to help restaurants optimize their menus, ensuring that no item is priced too high or too low for the quality that it offers

A tool for low-risk, high-yield investments.

A high-tech restaurant platform that tracks how food is being served and how it is being prepared in real-time.

A network for finding low-cost, high-quality used cars.

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.

A highly customizable online resume builder that sorts out what information is relevant.

A company that makes high-end reusable coffee cups.

This startup is building a program that allows students to build an online resume and portfolio, even if they didn’t finish high school, while they learn the skills they need to get a job.

A startup that offers a highly customisable, easy-to-use platform for designing employee relocation packages

A startup that provides financial planning for high net worth individuals and families, and which has worked with the likes of Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, and Fidelity.

A startup that wants to build a system that helps patients get more affordable, higher quality, and faster-acting healthcare. The startup is starting in the UK and Ireland.

A platform for online education founded by a former high school teacher with the goal of helping students improve their knowledge and skills in areas like math, science, and computer science.

A startup that collects data on your phone and then turns it into a map of crowdsourced traffic conditions along major roads and highways.

A new startup that wants to build a “super-headset” with a built-in Spotify subscription. The headset will be a hit with music fans who want to buy the current, highly-rated Apple Beats headphones but want something a bit more fashionable and portable.

A startup that makes high-end supplements that aim to enhance your brain function by increasing blood flow. It’s working with Pfizer and looking to raise $4 million.

A tool for finding the highest-rated local restaurants, bars, or retail locations.

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.

A startup that provides a directory of doctors that are high quality and charge a flat fee for specific procedures

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.

A company that connects high-quality and reliable dentists to patients, also offering a digital dental records service.

A provider of high speed Internet for small businesses. Its service is targeted at small businesses, who can get a gigabit speed for $40 per month.

A company that makes a pair of Bluetooth headphones that are like a high-end pair of AirPods, but with a subscription service to make them more affordable.

A cloud platform for companies handling high-volume data including financial services, utilities, manufacturing and media.

A startup which assists professional services firms in the recruitment and development of high quality professionals from a wide range of backgrounds.

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

Idea: A new luxury travel brand that sells experiences like a cooking class in Marrakesh, a private beach in Bali, or a safari trip in Africa. The company is targeting high net worth travelers with up to $3 million in investable assets.

A company that wants to be the Amazon of TV. They’re building a marketplace for TV shows, movies, and sports programming with a focus on providing the highest-quality programming to customers.

A subscription-based membership club that provides private jets, for the high net-worth individual, with a focus on the business and philanthropy sectors.

A startup that is building a service that lets organizations connect to highly-skilled drone pilots.

Characteristics: “Urban, intellectual, and educated.” High-earning professional women over 50.

A platform for medical transcriptionists to get paid for their services, which are in high demand but difficult to find.

A toolkit for high-school students to create their own data science applications.

A company that wants to make it easy to find high-quality, cheap health insurance to fill a gap in the market

A way for companies to pay the bills of their employees in multiple currencies, with higher rates for those who live in the area.

A software that automates the process of taking high-quality photos of products for online stores and catalogs

This is a startup that aims to make it easier for financial institutions to raise capital by using machine learning and AI to identify potential high-return investment opportunities.

A SaaS company that helps clothing designers with their marketing and sales process, unlike current fashion marketplaces which typically drive high traffic to designers' e-commerce websites.

A platform for high performance and low latency video streaming.

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

A company that creates high-end perfume and other luxury goods for the Chinese market. The company offers traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine-infused products.

A dashboard that tracks the number of open jobs and hires, highlighting the best places to find work.

Online learning platform for high school students.

A new app that turns your phone into a high-tech thermostat so you can set it and forget it. The app talks to the temperature sensors in your home and adjusts your system to your energy usage and comfort level.

A startup that helps high school students build their resumes and personal brands online, then helps them find a career match.

Builds high-end VR content for the fashion industry. The startup, which was founded in May, wants to rapidly iterate on a VR experience before its peers.

A San Francisco-based startup in the education marketplace space that wants to help lower-income students afford higher education. The startup tells me it’s had over $200,000 in investments, has more than 10,000 students, and has been used by more than 3,000 colleges and universities.

A startup that connects high school students to internships and part-time jobs at startups. It operates in the US, Canada, and the UK, with plans to expand to Australia, the Netherlands, and Germany in the future.

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

A company that wants to let people borrow a car with the touch of a button. The company is working with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to get insurance to work with the app.

A personal finance startup that helps you have money at a higher level of granularity.

A network for users that pay for comedy to get access to higher-quality content from sponsors.

A company that helps companies manage highly distributed teams. It provides a toolkit for companies to build chat, file sharing, and collaboration tools.

A company that provides a platform for brands to sell high-end products to consumers via eCommerce, via a social way of shopping.

A startup that gives people access to low-cost, high-speed wireless internet in a place they’d otherwise have to pay for a fixed line.

A startup that is developing AI-based tools for drug developers to test their drugs in a highly controlled lab setting. They can perform controlled trials on an even smaller scale, and

A startup looking to help high-risk traders get access to the tools they need to manage their portfolios.

A startup that’s making it easier for users to supercharge their mobile devices by pairing them with high-performance wireless chargers. Its 10K program is now open for sign-ups.

A startup that wants to make decentralized identity management that’s cheaper and more secure. It’s highly ambitious, and the company has raised $2 million in seed funding.

The startup is building a system that lets restaurant operators do inventory management automatically, which is difficult because of the high number of variables involved in managing inventory, from the type of food to how it’s portioned and stored.

A B2B company that helps brand managers create higher quality voice-to-voice campaigns.

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.

The startup is building a B2B website for hairdressers to sell clients on services like color, highlights, or trim, and to manage payments.

Data analytics and visualization platform for high school and college level teams and departments.

A high-tech startup that wants to use its virtual reality to help people turn their natural surroundings into their classroom.

A startup that aims to make it easy for high-net-worth individuals to have their own “pension” accounts

A company building a social media service that brings the power of a highly engaged Facebook group to a brand’s Facebook page.

A high-tech way to enable people to communicate with their doctors remotely. The company hopes to make that easier for everyone: patients, doctors, and caretakers.

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New York - New York City is home to the largest financial district in the world, but the cost of living for interns in this area is so high that it’s difficult for companies to entice young talent to stay. This startup, known as Give, wants to make it easier for companies to hire interns.

An AI-powered assistant that helps build websites. The startup is looking to help people build high-quality websites in short cycles of time.

The startup says it’s a better version of the traditional “pay-once-and-get-everything” package that’s popular with consumers, which works well for a lot of products but can be hard for more high-tech products.

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.

A company that manufactures and distributes high-end headphones, digital cameras, and other electronics. The startup is focusing on the “high-end” market by offering higher quality products priced at the same range as its competitors.

Postmates for the well-to-do is a new startup that’s launching in Chicago in September looking to deliver food and beverage at a higher price point than its delivery competitors. It’s currently testing out its service in the area around Lincoln Park, Chicago.

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