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A startup that aims to bring the “sharing economy” to farmers, who are often left out of the vast majority of transactions related to food, be it restaurants or grocery stores. The founders say that since they can use shared resources, they can cut the cost of a farm by 75%.

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A way for retailers to log and track inventory in a way that makes it easier for them to see at a glance how much they have left of a product.

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

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

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If you’ve been to a restaurant in the United States, chances are you’ve left a tip. But what happens to that tip What if that tip was shared with the next person who dined at the same restaurant Farbric’s app cuts out the middleman, allowing the restaurant to keep more of that cash.

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This startup is selling a B2B service that helps restaurants, drug stores, and grocery stores bring back leftover food from customers.

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

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Two founders left YC to build a $10 per month service to help food delivery services become more cost effective and more like an on-demand service. It’s available in a few cities in the US, and it’s simple: a “geofenced” area with a few delivery zones that are cheaper than a full city block.

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A startup that helps people find the best deals on flights. Inspired by Tinder’s “swipe left” interface, buyer’s hunt for the best fares and sellers compete to get the most attention.

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A company that buys the leftover food from the restaurants it serves, packaging and reselling the food for a profit.

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2 years ago

A platform that helps you find a babysitter and make sure kids don’t get left behind.

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

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A startup that helps restaurants and other places sell their leftover food for a profit.

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4 years ago

A social media platform focused on art. The startup wants to create a community around artistic endeavors and sales. The company’s current campaign has a goal of $100,000, but is still running with a month left.

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A startup that is working to build the world’s first augmented reality grocery store. The idea is to create a way for users to scan a barcode to get an augmented reality display of what a product looks like in a store, before they’ve even left the house, with a camera view of what a product looks like at their homes.

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The startup is introducing a new mobile messaging platform that can track the location of your phone to let you know when you’ve left the perimeter of a business, so you don’t leave your phone unattended.

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

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This startup is finding new ways to bring the internet to developing countries, particularly those that are “left out” of the current internet infrastructure

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A startup that helps the small and midsize media companies that are often left out of the “big media” conversation. Medium is a platform for content creation, and connects with its audience to help those creators get their content to the next level.

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4 years ago

A platform for meal-kit delivery designed to eliminate the “kitchen limbo” where people lose track of how much is left in the fridge and need to go buy more. It streamlines the process of sending the meal components to the client, then doing the cooking for the client and keeping track of when it needs to be delivered.

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A startup that aims to be a hybrid of Slack, Gitter and Discord, featuring a notification system that lets you know when a team member is available, or if they’ve left the room.

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IFTTT, that connects the Internet of Things to your other applications and services. The startup is trying to build a “connected” kitchen in India that can monitor how clean the kitchen is, how many times the door has opened, and how much food is left in the fridge.

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4 years ago

The following startups have left TechStars Boston since the program’s start in 2011 and are no longer affiliated with the program:

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A team of former Facebook engineers who left the company to build a tool to allow businesses to better manage their paid digital advertising.

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3 years ago

A platform providing a unit of measurement for how much data a consumer has left on their mobile phone network.

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The list of 30 companies below is generally regarded as the best of the best in the world at the time of the nomination, but they have since been acquired or sold, or have left the market.

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Military veterans are often in search of employment when they leave the service, and are often left with a gap in their resume that’s hard to fill. This startup is working to help them get back into the workforce by building a platform to help them find jobs and apply for positions, and connect employers with talent.

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A collaboration platform for teams used at companies like Facebook, Uber, and Airbnb. The company’s founder left his last job at Uber to work on the startup full-time.

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4 years ago

A platform that helps restaurants connect with customers who have left reviews. The startup is using the software to help restaurants improve their management software, which is used for everything from ordering to inventory to ordering takeout.

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A startup that helps people create and manage their personalized travel itineraries. The founders are former Google employees who left to work on this.

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3 years ago

A multi-functional tool for managing TV shows, currently in beta, with a focus on binge watching. The app lets users create a watchlist and then track how many episodes they’ve watched, and how many are left.

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2 years ago

A company that makes a GPS tracking system for dogs, along with a connected app for dog owners. The idea: A device that tracks dogs and people long after they’ve left the home, and lets dog owners know where their pet is at all times.

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An API for talking to your fridge. The startup wants to build a low-cost appliance that helps you track what’s in your fridge and how much is left.

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A group of former BuzzFeed employees who left the company to start a media startup that would let their users “play with words”. The startup currently has more than one million monthly users who play with words by making memes.

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A company that wants to help save the world by making more efficient use of water. It’s taking a similar approach to companies like Nest by offering up a system that’s able to sense when your faucet has been left on for too long and automatically turns it off.

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A startup that provides a tool where you can enter your bank account, credit card, and brokerage accounts and see how much money you have left to spend before you go over your budget

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A startup that aims to bring the “sharing economy” to farmers, who are often left out of the vast majority of transactions related to food, be it restaurants or grocery stores. The founders say that since they can use shared resources, they can cut the cost of a farm by 75%.

A way for retailers to log and track inventory in a way that makes it easier for them to see at a glance how much they have left of a product.

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

If you’ve been to a restaurant in the United States, chances are you’ve left a tip. But what happens to that tip What if that tip was shared with the next person who dined at the same restaurant Farbric’s app cuts out the middleman, allowing the restaurant to keep more of that cash.

This startup is selling a B2B service that helps restaurants, drug stores, and grocery stores bring back leftover food from customers.

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

Two founders left YC to build a $10 per month service to help food delivery services become more cost effective and more like an on-demand service. It’s available in a few cities in the US, and it’s simple: a “geofenced” area with a few delivery zones that are cheaper than a full city block.

A startup that helps people find the best deals on flights. Inspired by Tinder’s “swipe left” interface, buyer’s hunt for the best fares and sellers compete to get the most attention.

A company that buys the leftover food from the restaurants it serves, packaging and reselling the food for a profit.

A platform that helps you find a babysitter and make sure kids don’t get left behind.

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

A startup that helps restaurants and other places sell their leftover food for a profit.

A social media platform focused on art. The startup wants to create a community around artistic endeavors and sales. The company’s current campaign has a goal of $100,000, but is still running with a month left.

The startup is introducing a new mobile messaging platform that can track the location of your phone to let you know when you’ve left the perimeter of a business, so you don’t leave your phone unattended.

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

This startup is finding new ways to bring the internet to developing countries, particularly those that are “left out” of the current internet infrastructure

A startup that helps the small and midsize media companies that are often left out of the “big media” conversation. Medium is a platform for content creation, and connects with its audience to help those creators get their content to the next level.

A startup that aims to be a hybrid of Slack, Gitter and Discord, featuring a notification system that lets you know when a team member is available, or if they’ve left the room.

IFTTT, that connects the Internet of Things to your other applications and services. The startup is trying to build a “connected” kitchen in India that can monitor how clean the kitchen is, how many times the door has opened, and how much food is left in the fridge.

The following startups have left TechStars Boston since the program’s start in 2011 and are no longer affiliated with the program:

A team of former Facebook engineers who left the company to build a tool to allow businesses to better manage their paid digital advertising.

A platform providing a unit of measurement for how much data a consumer has left on their mobile phone network.

The list of 30 companies below is generally regarded as the best of the best in the world at the time of the nomination, but they have since been acquired or sold, or have left the market.

A collaboration platform for teams used at companies like Facebook, Uber, and Airbnb. The company’s founder left his last job at Uber to work on the startup full-time.

A platform that helps restaurants connect with customers who have left reviews. The startup is using the software to help restaurants improve their management software, which is used for everything from ordering to inventory to ordering takeout.

A startup that helps people create and manage their personalized travel itineraries. The founders are former Google employees who left to work on this.

A multi-functional tool for managing TV shows, currently in beta, with a focus on binge watching. The app lets users create a watchlist and then track how many episodes they’ve watched, and how many are left.

A company that makes a GPS tracking system for dogs, along with a connected app for dog owners. The idea: A device that tracks dogs and people long after they’ve left the home, and lets dog owners know where their pet is at all times.

An API for talking to your fridge. The startup wants to build a low-cost appliance that helps you track what’s in your fridge and how much is left.

A group of former BuzzFeed employees who left the company to start a media startup that would let their users “play with words”. The startup currently has more than one million monthly users who play with words by making memes.

A company that wants to help save the world by making more efficient use of water. It’s taking a similar approach to companies like Nest by offering up a system that’s able to sense when your faucet has been left on for too long and automatically turns it off.

A startup that provides a tool where you can enter your bank account, credit card, and brokerage accounts and see how much money you have left to spend before you go over your budget