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8 months ago

A platform to help farmers in India to manage their crops and sell directly to consumers over the internet. In the short time since launch, it has sold $1.6 million worth of produce.

8,195
3 years ago

A startup that helps people figure out the best way to buy a house (e.g. whether to buy an older home or to renovate an existing one)

2,809
2 years ago

A platform that helps people easily sell used furniture, household goods, and other items.

1,350
9 months ago

A startup that lets you hire contractors for household projects

825
3 years ago

A startup for selling and buying used computers from other people. Users can sell their old computers in exchange for cash or trade them in for newer ones. The company provides a platform to help people sell their old computers and also offers a buy credit option.

512
8 months ago

A startup for selling your old Apple products on Amazon

394
1 year ago

A company that takes your old gadgets and recycles them into new ones

376
2 years ago

The company was founded by Ramy El Bannaoui and Chris Curtis, who had previously founded the company in 2007 and sold it in 2011.

348
11 months ago

A platform that lets users sell and share their old, unused stuff, with a marketplace that helps users decide what to do with it.

340
1 year ago

A tool for sharing public files and folders in groups.

298
1 year ago

A digital tool that helps couples reduce household expenses, track spending and save money.

291
2 years ago

M-KOPA is a tool allowing developers to create their own specialized hardware. The founders say the company has sold $4M worth of hardware over the last two years, though they’ve only launched on Kickstarter today.

284
3 years ago

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

254
2 years ago

This is a startup that uses a mobile app and a camera to find street-level recycled products and sell them to the public. They started with old library books and DVDs, but are now selling all sorts of things.

248
2 years ago

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

245
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.

238
2 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses get more customers and better ways to do it through marketing. It’s a timesaver for small businesses and a good way for startups to get a foothold in the market.

229
2 years ago

The company is building a platform for people to create and share videos of what they're building. The company's founder says that they've already sold their first video to a client.

214
2 years ago

A company that creates digital prints from the images of people, who upload their own images and the company’s prints are then rendered by using a computer vision. The prints can be sold as prints, clothing, or art.

194
2 years ago

 Founded by a 16-year-old, this startup is a tool to help people use their insurance money to pay for health care.

192
3 years ago

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

186
3 years ago

A platform for managing micro loans for rural households.

184
1 month ago

A startup that allows you to convert your old smartphone into a portable battery pack for your laptop

181
3 years ago

A group of four-hour-old startups that are still around from Demo Day in June. The goal is to help early stage founders get funding and grow their businesses.

179
2 years ago

A toolset that helps small businesses receive updates from the government and other stakeholders in an organized and timely fashion.

179
1 month ago

A physical store for buying and selling old technology in New York City.

174
10 months ago

Humaniq wants to provide a system for users to buy and sell cryptocurrency, using mobile phones. The startup is building a mobile banking app that allows users to buy, sell, trade, and hold funds in cryptocurrency.

173
3 years ago

A startup that gives people a way to donate their old clothes to charities and non-profits

171
1 year ago

This is a platform that allows people to swap their old furniture, shoes, and accessories for store credit.

170
3 years ago

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

169
2 years ago

This company encourages people to trade in their old phones for a new one that’s refurbished and refurbished again.

169
3 years ago

If you own a home in the US, you can log into an app and see what the utilities are costing you in real time. However, the founders say that households throughout the world can benefit from a similar application.

166
2 years ago

A hardware company that wants to create smart hardware to help people manage their lives. The company wants to build smart devices that can help people find what they’re looking for, identify emotions, monitor health, and automate household tasks.

165
3 years ago

A startup that helps you find and book a dog sitter so you can enjoy a two-dog household.

164
3 years ago

A platform that allows people to rent out spare bedrooms and/or spare bedrooms with other household members. It’s designed to help people earn additional income from their homes while also giving their families the chance to stay in their homes in times of need.

163
3 years ago

The Startup Genome is a biannual report on the state of entrepreneurship. It is produced by a team of researchers from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. The report is based on interviews with founders about their businesses, the challenges they face, and their plans for the future. The report is intended to give entrepreneurs, investors, and other stakeholders a comprehensive overview of the startup ecosystem in a particular country, and to help predict trends between countries.

161
1 year ago

A company that allows companies to hold meetings remotely. The startup is doing well in Germany.

161
3 years ago

A startup that helps companies that are in the business of buying and selling old houses

159
1 month ago

The startup helps people manage their debt by keeping track of all of their accounts and helping them apply for new services and refinance old debts.

156
3 years ago

A health-maintenance company for the elderly, focusing on their social needs. The company’s founder and president, Alejandro Ortiz, said that for many older people, social engagement often goes missing, making it harder for them to stay healthy.

154
3 years ago

A wireless charger that’s designed to make it easier for people who have to hold their phone to their ear.

154
2 years ago

This is an outdoor camping stove that can cook in cold weather.

154
1 year ago

 A company that helps people find and sell their old HDTVs, turning them into augmented reality products.

154
3 years ago

A software company that creates an API for a network of processors and license holders to manage payments in real-time. The startup was founded by two former executives of Adyen, a global payment processing company.

153
2 years ago

A tool that allows employees to manage their expenses so they can take accounting to the next level (and hold their bosses accountable for it). The team has raised $500,000 in seed funding and is based in NYC.

153
1 year ago

A student loan refinancing startup that promises to reduce interest rates. It just closed a $10 million round, and its founders said they’re targeting 15% of student loan holders.

152
1 year ago

This startup is building a platform that lets you manage your household’s finances and expenses from a single platform.

151
3 years ago

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

150
3 years ago

A platform for people to sell their old belongings on Craigslist. The startup wants to take the pain out of selling your things while also guaranteeing that they’ll show up at your doorstep.

150
2 years ago

The startup holds a patent on a new type of printing process that uses a liquid to transfer the ink to the paper, eliminating many of the problems with traditional printing. The startup now wants to take that technology and apply it to the production of everything from paper to fabric.

150
1 year ago

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

150
1 year ago

A company that provides a service that helps you find and sell your old books and other items online.

149
3 years ago

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

147
3 years ago

A kitchen system called the “KitchenPod” that’s meant to let you cook, then take the result home for later. The kitchen has a base unit, and a separate pod that connects to a smartphone. The fridge is connected to the base unit via Bluetooth, so it can track things like what you’re eating and how much of it you’re eating. When the pod is connected to the base unit, it can track the fridge’s temperature, as well as how much food it’s holding.

147
3 years ago

A tool to help users organize their email like personal folders.

147
2 years ago

A tool for managing the chaos of information in a busy household. The app lets you track everyone’s schedules.

147
3 years ago

A household product company that sells laundry detergent and other cleaning products.

146
1 year ago

A startup for the buying and selling of used cars, appliances and other household goods.

146
3 years ago

Digix wants to create a gold standard for digital currencies, with the goal of making a digital currency that can be stored and transferred digitally. The company wants to create a way for buyers, sellers, and investors to exchange digital currencies and reap the benefits of a global digital currency.

145
3 years ago

A startup that’s building a marketplace that allows people to buy and sell their old Wi-Fi routers and other electronics.

145
3 years ago

Seed-stage, early-stage, and pre-seed stage seed-stage companies are typically those that are less than 2 years old, and are valued between $500,000 and

145
1 year ago

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

145
3 years ago

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

144
3 years ago

A startup that helps people create custom, branded capsules that work to fight off colds and flu.

144
3 years ago

An ad tech company that’s building a new technology that they say has the potential to significantly change the way digital advertising is purchased and sold. The company’s technology has the potential to revolutionize the digital advertising market by giving advertisers complete control of their ad campaigns, directly from their desktop and mobile devices.

144
1 year ago

A product developed for the Department of Defense to help soldiers train for their jobs under simulated conditions. The startup wants to connect with both military and civilian facilities, so it can create virtual training environments and simulate real-life scenarios.

144
3 years ago

A fashion marketer that sells online clothing at $20 per dress. It’s already sold over 5,000 dresses and is on track to make $10 million in revenue in 2019.

143
3 years ago

The startup’s app, which is currently in beta, allows people to buy and sell used electronics by clicking between old iPhones and iPads. People can even keep track of the item’s age and condition which allows them to make smart purchases.

142
3 years ago

A startup that sells a new take on a very old concept: Visa debit cards. The startup has over 1,000 customers, ranging from Nike to Goldman Sachs, and has sold over 5 million cards.

142
3 years ago

A podcast network with a focus on “unscripted” storytelling, by people who are not professional journalists. It’s designed to free creative people from the pressure of telling stories they’ve been told to tell.

142
3 years ago

This startup wants to let people buy and sell their old electronics in their own homes. The company’s goals are to make it easier to resell items, and to educate people about how they can reduce their clutter.

142
3 years ago

A startup that is building a mobile app to help connect owners of both old and new cars in a seamless way, using data from the car itself and from the cloud to provide information.

141
3 years ago

A startup that is using data analytics to help small businesses make better decisions. The company says it can help a company make a better marketing decision by determining which of their customers are the most likely to buy, or which of their products are most likely to be sold, based on behavioral data.

141
3 years ago

This is an online marketplace for people who want to sell their old stuff. It also wants to be a marketplace for people who want to buy used stuff.

141
3 years ago

A startup that wants to help users make more money by selling their excess household items to the public.

141
3 years ago

As a person’s social circle expands, it gets harder to keep track of old and new friends. Fellow is a service that helps you keep track of everyone you know, and share them with others.

140
3 years ago

A startup that is building an app to help older people who have no intention of retiring age figure out which jobs they can or cannot do.

140
2 years ago

The startup aims to solve the problem of the “job-hopping” millennial who wants to be able to get a new job without having to quit and wait for the old one to be filled.

140
2 years ago

Jet.com is a startup that will sell anything from household items to clothes to groceries to a single user, with no membership fees or minimum purchase requirements. It’s been called the Amazon of online shopping that will work on the ground. The company says it has 1.1 million active buyers already, and a $3 billion run rate.

140
3 years ago

This company wants to make it easier to sell people's old cars for them. The startup uses a site to sync with a person's social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and then finds their car on VIN-based sites like CarGurus and AutoTrader.com. Then, they'll take a significant cut of the sale price to buy back a car.

139
1 year ago

A meeting scheduling platform in the vein of Doodle. The startup is another one that’s building its service (and product) in the U.S. It’s already sold over $15 million worth of its services to companies like Airbnb, Airbnb, and Google.

139
1 year ago

The BusinessBold is an online directory of B2B startups. The directory allows members to search for businesses based on location, industry, and size. The directory is updated weekly.

139
3 years ago

A startup that connects employees with companies offering money to purchase their old cars

138
3 years ago

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

138
2 years ago

A startup that uses machine learning to help brands find the right person for the job. They claim to have found just the right person for 1,900 positions, including jobs at Uber and Goldman Sachs.

138
3 years ago

A cryptocurrency exchange that focuses on private investors. It uses a system of “certified wallets” with a touchscreen interface to allow investors to manage their holdings.

137
2 years ago

This startup is producing the next generation of technologies that can detect and remove water in buildings to prevent mold, bacteria, and other harmful microbes from growing.

137
3 years ago

A startup that aims to help financial advisors in the US give advice to clients who are buying fixed-income investments. The startup is backed by the venture arm of Goldman Sachs.

136
3 years ago

A digital product that detects, tracks, and pays a user’s monthly rent payments. Due to rent laws, a tenant in many areas may not legally be able to sign for a check until it’s been deposited. By the time they can, the landlord has already moved on to the next tenant, which means the tenant may have to pay the holdback fee.

136
3 years ago

Amazon Alexa has invaded every household in the US. The company wants to make the device even more useful, by adding a voice-controlled interface for apps.

135
1 month ago

This startup makes it easy for teams to track and manage their expenses. The startup’s co-founder says that she runs a tight household and she uses the app to keep track of different expenses for her family.

135
3 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier to source and sell used cars, cars that have not been bought and sold through a dealership.

134
3 years ago

A technology company that takes photo and video content, and makes it into a product that can be resold as an image or video stock. They’re also developing a platform to enable photo and video creatives to get paid for their work

134
2 years ago

Fintech company that offers investors a way to borrow against their crypto holdings.

134
1 year ago

It’s a Javascript library that takes a combination of files and folders and generates a dashboard with a single click on a link.

134
1 year ago

A startup for people to buy and sell their old laptops, smartphones, and tablets.

134
3 years ago

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

133
3 years ago

A startup that provides online classes on how to do household chores like cleaning a fridge

133
3 years ago

A way to automatically sell your old stuff on eBay, using big data to determine what you’re likely to buy again.

132
3 years ago

A company that wants to re-create the good old days of the local neighborhood hardware store for modern consumers. They want to build a modern version of the mobile app that lets people buy and sell their stuff in a local community.

131
3 years ago

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

131
1 year ago

A startup that combines the design of the old-school board game Exploding Kittens with the appeal of the game Cards Against Humanity. The startup is a co-op game made up of feline felines that explode when they get hit.

131
3 years ago

A blockchain-based payment platform for digital content. The startup wants to replace the current system of content being bought and sold with a new one that’s decentralized, with long-term protection for the content and payment for publishers.

130
3 years ago

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

130
2 years ago

An API for buying and selling cars, with over a million cars already sold.

130
10 months ago

A platform for people looking to sell their old bikes, scooters, and bikes. The platform also offers a service that will teach you how to fix them so you can resell them.

130
3 years ago

A startup that buys household items in bulk for consumers, and delivers them in bulk After shipping the products, the startup makes money by selling those items on the secondary market

129
3 years ago

A SaaS platform that builds and sells business software. Their most recent product was a payroll software for restaurants, which they’ve sold to multiple chains.

127
2 years ago

A microinsurance startup that serves older Americans looking to make sure they don’t spend money on medical expenses they can’t afford.

127
1 month ago

Fathom is a company that is making it easier to connect people with people who can help their ideas come to life. The company offers an alternative to the traditional approach of cold-calling people, instead offering a “media service” in the form of a “virtual assistant” that handles the follow-up.

127
3 years ago

A fitness tracking device that’s been downloaded over 3 million times, has a 4.5 out of 5 star rating on the App Store, and was sold to Apple. It’s been used by over 60 million people and is now the best-selling fitness tracker on the market. It’s profitable and has a $300 million valuation.

126
3 years ago

An online service that helps people sell used clothes without dealing with the hassle of eBay or try-before-you-buy services like Grailed and StockX. The company says it has already sold over $1M worth of used clothes.

125
2 years ago

A startup for customers to imagine products and then build them from scratch, for customers to create their own products, products that can be sold on Amazon.com

125
2 years ago

A texting platform for groups of people to communicate efficiently. The startup wants to leverage its popularity in the soccer world to make the company a household name.

125
2 years ago

BookNow is a service for online ordering and payment for food, flowers, theater tickets, and more. The company claims it has sold over $10,000 worth of tickets in four months. They’re also getting some attention from investors.

124
2 years ago

A startup that wants to make buying gift cards more efficient by allowing gift card holders to sell unused cards online.

122
2 years ago

This startup is building a platform for online tutoring that will help people learn subjects by watching videos and having them corrected by an older person.

121
2 years ago

A new channel for people to sell their old books for profit

121
1 year ago

A startup that wants to help businesses more easily collaborate, share, and delegate work from all over the world. The company is building a desktop app and a mobile app for all different stakeholders to use for project management.

121
8 months ago

An employee data management platform. The company says that it already serves over 300 different companies, and has management from both GE and Goldman Sachs.

121
3 years ago

A startup that wants to bring a 21st century version of the old magazine subscription model. The startup gives access to a variety of programming languages and news to consumers for a monthly subscription fee.

120
3 years ago

A payments app that can be used on any platform. The startup focuses on helping people save money by holding off on that $10 Starbucks drink for now.

120
3 years ago

It’s a subscription service for most common household cleaning needs.

120
11 months ago

A product that helps households store water, power, and food for a disaster.

120
3 years ago

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

119
3 years ago

A startup that’s trying to build a new kind of HR software that can help replace the old-school HR role. It is hiring in the US

119
3 years ago

A startup that aims to help people manage their health information in one place, giving them a central repository to hold all their medical records.

119
3 years ago

building a tool to help small businesses manage their paper files, like sales invoices, in a way that’s really convenient for everyone. The startup’s CEO says that they’ve already sold their product to three big companies.

117
2 years ago

A lot of companies are selling mobile phone cases with custom designs, but Nines offers custom design and production of phone cases, which will be sold in retail stores.

114
2 years ago

A company that helps small businesses sell telecommuting services. They’ve sold over 20,000 hours of telecommuting time.

114
2 years ago

A 4-year-old company that makes a programmable, connected-home appliance that can be programmed to do things from turning the AC off and on to turning lights on and off to listening to music and turning the TV on and off. The company has raised $7.3 million in funding.

113
2 years ago

A two-year-old startup that builds tools for the lucrative e-commerce market in China. The startup has a system that allows online shoppers to track orders, and has a team of about 20 full-time developers.

113
2 years ago

An API and a mobile app for Paypal. The startup aims to let Paypal users create personal online banking accounts and hold them in one place.

113
2 years ago

A startup that facilitates the donation of household items to people in need. It’s a B2B business.

112
2 years ago

A platform to help people find employees, rather than cold-emailing job-seekers.

112
2 years ago

An online platform for people to sell and buy their own cars. The company has already sold over $200,000 worth of vehicles, and has signed up over 400 sellers.

112
2 years ago

A new way to store and manage your digital media. The team at Briefly is building a platform that enables users to “train” their computer to automatically organize and discover their files, and then creates a “smart folder” that’s a digital representation of the physical one.

112
2 years ago

A platform for customers to find and book speaking engagements with companies, without the need to cold-call.

112
3 years ago

A hardware startup that’s building ruggedized bitcoin hardware that can be sold to businesses and consumers. The company is currently working on a $1,000 device that it says can be used for up to a year on a single battery.

111
3 years ago

A digital storefront for selling and marketing your art. The company is currently focused on artists whose work is sold by galleries, but it wants to expand into more verticals.

111
2 years ago

Tracr is a B2B startup that allows companies to buy and sell tickets on the same day. They currently have 50,000 tickets sold daily, with a 4% take rate through the app.

111
2 years ago

A way for consumers to sell their old electronics and get paid for it, using an app that makes it easy for the buyer to scan barcodes.

111
2 years ago

A three-year-old company building a real-time communication and collaboration platform for businesses and teams. It’s a tool that helps teams stay on the same page, and communicate as they work.

111
2 years ago

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

111
2 years ago

A startup for freelance writers, editors, and translators. The startup is in its pre-launch phase, but has already sold $3,000 worth of services. It’s not a traditional marketplace, instead relying on a closed community of writers and translators who are all working on the same project.

110
2 years ago

A thermometer that tells when your house is too cold or too hot.

110
2 years ago

A platform for books, movies, games, and TV shows to be sold online. They’re a startup of a publishing company, who are using it to build their digital catalog.

110
3 years ago

A digital registry that records and organizes all your investment holdings.

109
2 years ago

This is a startup that wants to help people sell their old stuff on Craigslist, using their own photos and descriptions to sell their items without the hassle of eBay or Craigslist.

109
2 years ago

The company wants to make it easier for people to sell their old games online with a digital storefront, and also make it easier for people to get paid when they find bugs in games.

109
1 month ago

The idea behind Crowdcast is to leverage the crowd to fund the covering of physical assets, like the building of a new college library or the refurbishment of an old factory.

109
2 years ago

A program that helps people trade in their old textbooks for credits to buy new ones. The startup is working with publishers to get its new textbooks a little cheaper than new ones.

108
2 years ago

A monthly subscription service for home laundry detergent that offers recommendations for how much to buy, when and how to use it. The startup has already sold more than $2 million in the past year from its first customers–with over 25,000 subscriptions.

108
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

107
2 years ago

A tool to help businesses convert old school paper invoices and receipts into digital ones.

107
2 years ago

Fusion is a real estate software company that allows real estate agents to list their listings online and receive notifications whenever a home is sold.

106
2 years ago

This company wants to build a mobile app that allows parents to choose what type of diaper they would like for their newborn, like chux or a prefold diaper.

106
2 years ago

A location-based mobile gaming platform that partners with cities to hold gaming tournaments and earn revenue from in-app purchases.

105
8 months ago

A company that has created a device designed to keep people active under the guise of being a “gym ball.” The startup is currently focused on helping people age 65 or older maintain their fitness level, and the founders say they’ve sold over a thousand of the devices so far.

105
3 years ago

A space-saving, eco-friendly, solar-powered tent that's built with bamboo and recycled plastic. It's also waterproof, and when the time comes to move, it folds up into a waterproof bag, taking up less space than a cooler while still providing a dry, protected space for outdoor camping.

104
2 years ago

A company that tries to get people over the old corporate fence by transforming talent management into a more human experience.

104
2 years ago

A company that’s building an app that can manage the list of expenses of a household or individual.

104
2 years ago

People are tired of waiting on hold for customer service, so they’re putting their calls into a queue to be answered and retrieved. The startup is aiming to be the de facto customer service app for the next generation of companies, and says it’s already working with several major companies in the space.

102
2 years ago

A startup for hiring refurbished items. The company’s CEO, who is also CEO of a shipping company, has been refurbishing old shipping containers and reselling them on the site. The company has raised $1.5 million in funding.

100
2 years ago

A Chinese startup that wants to help people learn English faster and easier. The startup writes questions and answers on cards and puts them on a string, which people can play around with. And their idea is proving popular in China, with a million cards sold in three months.

100
2 years ago

A platform for selling and buying your car or truck, financed with a monthly payment. The startup sold its first loan in May with former GM executive, Mark St. Pierre, leading the company.

100
2 years ago

A startup that helps manage the risk of a global network of life insurance policy holders.

100
2 years ago

An online platform for people to sell their old cell phones on. It has about 100,000 people already listing their phones, most of whom are in the U.S.

100
1 year ago

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

100
2 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier for people to buy and sell their old phones, and also provide a marketplace for tons of other used phones.

99
8 months ago

A shopping-cart service for household goods. It would connect stores with customers who have bought similar items in the past to help people find better prices.

99
2 years ago

A solution for loans that are backed by corporate stocks, allowing their holders to be traded like stocks.

98
11 months ago

A startup for managing your home's temperature, including notifications when it’s getting too warm or too cold.

98
2 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easy to replace your old and inefficient microwaves with a new model that uses less energy

97
2 years ago

A community of people who have “fancy” allergies. The startup helps people with allergies to plants, animals, sewage, mold, and other substances identify which substances they’re allergic to, and share their reactions.

96
2 years ago

People who want to sell their old furniture can list it on the site, which acts as a kind of garage sale, then buy it for a dollar.

96
1 year ago

Revive is building a platform for holding generic drug companies accountable for their drugs, which include those that are off patent and in need of generic competition. The startup aims to build a way for generic drug companies to explain their products and defend themselves against generic-drug-makers.

96
7 months ago

A startup that wants to use cutting-edge technology to make household chores more efficient. (They are working with AT&T to bring this service to its customers.)

96
1 month ago

A network of over 80,000 household journalists who work for free in China to report on local government, events, and news.

96
2 years ago

 A startup that scans the web for infringing material and sends the webmaster a notification. The company says it has a team of around 30 people who monitor the web for content it believes is infringing. The entrepreneur who came up with the idea told us that the team monitors about 20,000 URLs per day, and sends notification to site owners with the option to take down the content.

95
2 years ago

People often get sick in the winter, and the startup wants to help manage those colds and flu. It’s looking to build a platform that provides real-time tracking of colds and flu.

95
2 years ago

A startup looking to gain a foothold in business software for the real estate industry. The startup’s platform aims to help brokers, agents and developers collaborate on the back-end of their work.

95
2 years ago

A startup that helps companies get energy-efficient lightbulbs into their warehouses. They’ve already sold over 1,000 LED bulbs in a few months.

95
2 years ago

A platform for sellers of physical goods to get digital goods in return, which can be sold on other platforms.

95
2 years ago

A company that helps people come up with products and services that can be sold on its e-commerce platform.

93
2 years ago

A newly-formed company that wants to enable a sharing economy around shared assets, like household items.

92
2 years ago

A company that helps companies setup a single cloud-based site, on the site a mixture of physical and digital products can be sold through an e-commerce platform.

92
2 years ago

Thoughtful home services that provide concierge services, cleaning, and other household issues. The company has $10 million in funding from investors including Michael Moritz.

91
2 years ago

A platform that helps saving for retirement, based on the idea that many Americans’ retirement savings come from old-fashioned and not so old-fashioned vehicles: cash deposits, a Roth IRA, or a 401(k).

91
2 years ago

A company that offers a platform that allows people to trade their old smartphone for a new one. The idea is that people can trade their used phones for credits that can be used to purchase a new one.

90
2 years ago

A startup that lets users share status updates with the press and other stakeholders. The startup wants to become a single point of contact for journalists and other stakeholders, allowing them to build relationships with journalists, send them updates, and more.

90
2 years ago

This company is building a way to track the financial life of a real estate property by using machine learning and artificial intelligence to help people decide whether to sell or hold onto a property.

90
2 years ago

A startup that’s building a service that helps people sell their old smartphones without having to go through a lot of hassle.

89
1 year ago

A startup that helps people get health insurance by selling them insurance for their household. In the past two years, the startup has signed up more than 100,000 subscribers.

89
4 months ago

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

89
2 years ago

A way to connect old-fashioned pay phones to modern devices, with the idea being to make current pay phones more productive.

88
2 years ago

The startup is aiming to build a way for employers to track the quality of their workers, and fix any issues that might be holding them back.

88
2 years ago

Nota is building a tool that helps companies calculate their cost of goods sold on on each unit of product they sell. The startup built a tool that can predict and measure the cost of goods sold within an hour.

88
1 year ago

 A personal assistant for small businesses, which will help them hire, track expenses and hold meetings.

88
1 year ago

This startup is building a way to sell your old electronics in one place, with a way for users to donate the products to people in need.

87
2 years ago

Senses , a service that turns your smartphone into a personal assistant, is being developed by a team of veterans of Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant, as well as a company that sold the Siri app to Apple.

86
1 year ago

A startup that helps people share their bicycles in the hope of getting them fixed, or sold.

86
1 month ago

Building a platform for video producers to sell their services, allowing them to create and manage videos and have them pre-sold to customers.

86
2 years ago

A group of startups that wants to build a more flexible alternative to the more common SaaS model. The startups want to build tools that let people customize their solutions into “custom apps” that can be sold to customers directly.

85
2 years ago

 A startup that wants to “make it easy to replace the old-school process of making a reservation with a web app”.

85
2 years ago

A startup that is building an insider-trading app that has a “whisper mode” that alerts the entire network when an event is happening. It’s working with clients like JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.

84
2 years ago

A startup for people who want to donate their old home appliances, furniture, and other items for reuse. The startup says that in the US alone, more than 10 million items go unused in storage every year.

83
2 years ago

A startup building a “vertical-first” social network. The startup says it’s “targeting the very oldest of the old”, helping people who are looking to connect with people who are older than 50.

83
1 year ago

A Bitcoin-like security token that gives investors a place to track the value of their holdings.

83
2 years ago

A platform for fans to get a hold of their favorite artists and get their first interview, exclusive concert tickets and more.

82
2 years ago

A solution for managing and storing information in the physical world, from paper records to files to folders.

82
2 years ago

The idea is to build an app to sell tickets to former members of the military who are looking to reconnect with their old unit.

81
11 months ago

A software company that helps people sell and buy cars that’s 90% sold through its own app.

81
8 months ago

A startup that makes it easier for Hispanic families to open a savings account for their kids, particularly the latchkey kids who aren’t old enough to have a bank account at their school. The startup’s founder says that he wants to keep his children from having to share their smartphones to stay in touch with friends, and that his kids understand the importance of saving money in order to achieve their aspirations.

81
2 years ago

A way to allow people to make money off their old clothes or other items they no longer use. They take these items to local companies that refurbish them.

80
1 year ago

A decentralized blockchain platform to help people share expenses. The startup wants to help people find friends and families to help them pay for things like vacations and household maintenance. The app uses an algorithm to match people up, then goes to the third party to make the payment.

80
1 year ago

 A dating app for the elderly, for the first time giving older adults a way to look for love in their own neighborhood. The app is designed to be easy for the elderly and disabled to use, and have a handy feature that lets them order from their favorite restaurant.

79
6 months ago

A mobile app that helps people in the US learn how to save money on household utilities.

79
24 days ago

The company has met with banks in more than 15 countries and has 15,000 credit card holders. The startup wants to provide a “micro ATM” that allows people to withdraw cash from their phones.

79
2 years ago

A tool for managing a household’s information, from bills to schedules to grocery lists to recipes. The startup is building out a family social network.

78
1 year ago

A SaaS startup based in San Francisco, California. The company has been growing rapidly, claiming to have “signed up more than 20,000 people in just the past month”. Its app lets users schedule and pay for deliveries, including food and household items, with a delivery fee.

78
9 months ago

A software company that creates a “Digital Oven” that turns old ovens into new ovens and can add new functions to old ovens.

78
8 months ago

A process that allows music creators and labels to connect with fans on social media, using an old-fashioned phone call or email to get straight to the heart of the matter and figure out how they can make music together.

78
3 years ago

Idea: A company that is building a platform that helps people manage their cryptocurrency holdings. The startup helps people track the value

77
1 year ago

The startup has a new way to make a product that is more sustainable, less toxic, and less expensive. Instead of using the same old tools and materials,

77
8 months ago

A startup that makes digital versions of old-school paper journals

77
1 year ago

An online marketplace for local household goods that allows you to buy anything from a couch to a crib. Its currently run in 20 cities across the US.

76
1 year ago

This is a new way to sell your stuff on an app. Founded in January, Papago helps people sell their items on its marketplace. The marketplace has four categories: stuff, collectables, household items, and vehicles. Members can post their items on the site for 24 hours, and if no one buys it, the item goes back to the seller’s inventory. If someone buys it, the seller gets paid in bitcoin.

75
1 year ago

An online nursery school for babies 0-12 months old, which offers classes in arts and crafts, cooking, and using a computer.

75
2 years ago

A platform for creating and distributing podcasts. The company is currently in private beta, and has already sold $2 million worth of ad-free podcasts, which are spread across categories like health, finance, travel, and parenting.

74
1 year ago

The startup provides software to help reduce food waste by connecting retailers with nearby farms. The startup has sold $115,000 worth of the software since its launch in January.

74
8 months ago

A platform for hosting and managing community events, allowing event organizers to sell tickets and even hold a raffle.

74
8 months ago

A way for people to earn money from their old electronics, with an app-based marketplace for selling phones, tablets, and laptops.

74
2 years ago

A startup that wants to create a marketplace for the private sale of used cars. It's a Craigslist-like service, except the cars are owned by the users, not the site, and are sold between users.

73
2 years ago

The startup will provide an easy way to buy and sell your old electronics securely. The company will pay you in cash via PayPal or make a donation to a charity of your choice.

73
1 year ago

A startup that creates a marketplace for household services. The company is building a platform that allows buyers and sellers to connect and create a marketplace for items like roofing, plumbing and electrical repairs, and lawn care.

73
1 year ago

A platform for sharing and storing household items, with an app that helps manage them

73
1 year ago

A startup that uses the smartphone’s accelerometer to automatically turn on fans and heating/cooling systems when it’s cold outside.

73
1 year ago

 A  company that  builds  a  personal  and  professional  portable  credit  score  for  people  who  have  an  unsecured  credit  card  (UCC)  and  don’t  have  the  equipment  to  install  a  credit  card  reader.  For  the  most  unsecured  credit  card  holders,  commonly  known  as  under-banked,  the  company  will  build  a  simple  and  secure  online  credit  application.

72
1 year ago

A startup that makes lightweight, ultra-thin notebook computers. In the past couple of years, the company has sold 150,000 of its computers to companies in the enterprise, education, and healthcare industries.

72
1 year ago

A startup that brings the best talent from the world's best schools to teach you how to be a better coder. The startup is an elite teachers program that has sold out its next batch of spots to students from the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, and Israel.

72
1 year ago

This company wants to build a platform where every household can be equipped with a low-cost device that can detect imminent threats like fires and carbon monoxide.

72
7 months ago

A travel booking and marketing platform that makes it easy for travelers to secure tickets from their phones, even ones that have sold out.

72
1 year 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

71
1 year ago

A startup that lets people sell their old smartphones for cash. It has processed over 10,000 phones since it launched in April.

71
1 year ago

A startup that’s building a way to optimize medical research by connecting researchers and other stakeholders to accelerate the process of building new drugs.

71
1 year ago

A way for people to make money by sharing the things they already own. The founders say that with the average American household owning over 70% more items than they actually use, this is a $130 billion market that enables people to make money from the stuff they already own by selling it to others.

71
1 year ago

Thinking of building the most advanced and simple way to get customers to pay for their stuff. The company has already sold $1 million worth of credit cards, and they plan to expand to other countries.

71
6 months ago

This is a platform for people to sell and buy tickets for physical events. The company is building an API that allows anyone to sell their tickets through the app, and has sold $2.5 million worth of tickets in the last year.

71
2 years ago

This startup is building a platform that lets retailers sell their old stock at a discount and get a new customer through the process.

70
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.

70
1 year ago

A startup that lets people sell their used furniture and household goods directly to a community of buyers.

70
1 year ago

A startup that connects customers with local employees that can help them take care of household repairs, like carrying groceries upstairs, or going to the grocery store for you.

70
1 year ago

A machine learning platform that can predict cancer in the pancreas better than the current gold standard.

70
1 year ago

A startup to buy and sell mobile phones and accessories. The startup wants to provide a space for people to sell their old phones, keeping them out of the dumpster. The company says it is focused on helping the “unbanked” and the “underbanked”.

70
3 years ago

Idea: A startup that lets you buy, hold, and sell Bitcoin, without having to deal with the complexities of the cryptocurrency world

69
2 years ago

 A company that collects data from credit cards to build a predictive model of which cardholders are likely to pay back their debts (and which ones are likely to default). It’s looking to offer a free model to banks for their riskiest customers.

69
1 year ago

The startup facilitates the sale of old vehicles for a profit via a network of dealers that maintain and sell the cars.

69
1 year ago

A startup that wants to help people create a “digital safety deposit box” for their old photos, videos, and other digital content.

69
1 year ago

A startup that helps companies pull in email addresses from LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Google accounts. It’s meant to help sales teams avoid the “cold email” process.

69
2 years ago

A unique, third-party app that helps you track your shipping from UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL, and Aliexpress. The company has sold $20,000 in products since October 1, 2016.

68
2 years ago

A “programmatic” ad platform that changes the way ads are bought and sold, letting companies create ads in real-time, without having to have an existing relationship with a publisher. The startup has raised $4.3 million to date, and has plans for an IPO in the next year.

68
2 years ago

This startup helps to deliver a new kind of photo book with a digital book that can be sold or shared online. It’s a premium service that costs $600 for a year.

68
1 year ago

An online marketplace for independent businesses to sell their products to consumers. The startup charges a monthly membership fee, but it offers a monthly bonus for businesses that sell a certain amount of products without going over a certain monthly threshold.

68
1 year ago

A startup that’s building out a marketplace where people can sell their old smartphones, which the startup says will be used to fund a better future.

68
1 year ago

A software suite that allows customers to watch their “spam” folders in real-time, allowing them to see which social media accounts are actually sending unsolicited messages.

68
1 year ago

A tool for digitizing old school video, with the goal of preserving iconic video for future generations.

68
1 year ago

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

68
2 years ago

A startup that’s creating a digital concierge service for everyday tasks. The company hopes to expand into household services, driving their business model with the same $1 per month fee they charge for their concierge service.

67
2 years ago

A startup that aims to build a “Google for the home”, so you can find all your household goods online.

67
1 year ago

People in the US are getting older, but the cost of healthcare is rising faster than the CPI. This startup wants to make healthcare affordable for everyone by merging technology with universal healthcare.

67
1 year ago

 A startup that wants to solve the problem of credit card fraud by using a smartphone to scan a QR code on a payment. The startup’s $10 app will then send a text to the cardholder, asking them to confirm the payment before it’s completed. The startup says that within the next 12 months it will have 100,000 users.

67
1 year ago

A cloud-based platform for purchasing and selling used vehicles and other household items. The startup sells its customers’ used vehicles and other household items, with sellers paid in cash or with a credit card they can use to buy other items.

67
1 year ago

A startup that wants to build a company that will take care of the sales tax and paperwork for any item sold on Amazon.

67
3 years ago

Idea: This startup is building machine learning software that helps people create smoother panning and zooming in videos. The startup previously sold a product called Flycam that helps camera operators smoothly move from one part of the scene to another.

66
3 years ago

Idea: A home security company for Latin American households, primarily in Mexico. The startup is focused on providing internet-connected cameras that allow users to see and talk to visitors while they’re away from home.

66
2 years ago

A 3-year-old startup that’s building an AI that can generate 3D models of objects using consumer video.

66
2 years ago

A new service that lets users sell their old smartphones to buy new ones.

66
2 years ago

A ride-hailing app for the elderly that wants to reduce the number of older people who are dependent on caregivers.

66
1 year ago

A platform for selling your old electronics.

66
1 year ago

A home care startup helping families with elder care and adult day care. They plan to use a network to match older adults with families that need care.

66
1 year ago

This is an on-demand concierge service for cleaners, basically an Uber for household staff.

66
1 year ago

A network of young designers who use their own personal resources to make a product that can be sold online. The company offers a “design-to-order” service for consumers, who can choose from a number of product options, including customization of colors, fabrics, and packaging.

66
1 year ago

A 3D app that allows users to scan and digitize old books, turning them into searchable, accessible PDFs.

65
1 year ago

A startup that uses machine learning to teach a robot how to paint and then make unique works of art that can be sold to customers.

65
1 year ago

The company makes a digital rewards card that can hold a credit card, a gift card, cash, and more.

64
1 year ago

A company that’s looking to solve the problem of tracking and maintaining essential household appliances and cars.

64
1 year ago

A startup that wants to replace the old “bunch of keys” business model that requires manual labor to file tax returns from tax preparation services to online forms.

64
1 year ago

A platform for enabling automatic payments and refunds to people who’ve paid for subscriptions or products online. It’s sold on a freemium model.

64
6 months ago

A startup that wants to reinvent the good old-fashioned “loyalty” program by using blockchain to track transactions and loyalty points.

64
2 years ago

A platform for small-time home contractors to bid on large construction jobs. The startup is being incubated by Y Combinator. This startup takes a relatively new concept, the gig economy, and applies it to construction, which is a relatively old concept.

63
2 years ago

A startup for secondhand goods to help you get the best deal on that old furniture you’re using to store your old cat’s remains.

63
1 year ago

A platform that empowers artists to create and sell their own merchandise. To date, the company has sold $1 million in merchandise since launching in 2014.

63
1 year ago

This startup wants to help people buy, sell, and use their old phones for recycling.

63
1 year ago

A tool for customers to pay for products and services on their phones, with built-in barcode scanning. Today the company has over 400,000 users and has seen similar traction to Square, though older.

63
1 year ago

This startup is building a platform to make it easy for online businesses to manage their customer support, and make it easier for their customers to get a hold of them in the event of a problem.

63
1 year ago

All of us have an old smartphone lying around somewhere, and we don't know what to do with it. The startup wants to aggregate all of those old devices into a platform to help make them useful again.

63
1 year ago

A company that tracks older people's daily activities by tracking and analyzing their wearables.

63
1 year ago

As a long-time Amazon customer, this startup is building an app that helps you re-order your favorite items, including household goods and food, from Amazon. The startup is currently in the pilot phase, with a rollout planned for mid-2018.

62
1 year ago

A three-year-old startup that makes mobile apps for banks to make them more secure

62
1 year ago

This is a startup that delivers “zero-emission” electric scooters to riders who are too old or infirm to bike.

61
1 year ago

The startup’s a startup looking to disrupt the human resources market in big, old-school companies. With the help of AI and machine learning, the startup wants to make recruiting and hiring more efficient while helping companies tap into the power of data to better predict how well candidates will fit.

61
1 year ago

This company aims to be the first in the world to use blockchain (in their case the Stellar blockchain) to create a new gold standard for data integrity and security.

61
1 year ago

A tool for homes that helps predict and address emergency situations like fires and floods. The startup says it’s already sold over $1 million worth of its fire and flood sensors since launching in early august.

61
4 months ago

A company that makes a way for people to buy and sell their old music, movie and game CDs by connecting old CDs to the cloud via QR codes. The startup wants to make the process of selling your old CDs as easy as buying a new one.

61
2 years ago

A new way to get ahold of a new hire. The company offers a service to get your new hires onboarded and trained, and was founded in August

60
1 year ago

 A home-sharing app that connects renters with hosts and includes an expense ledger, an app to hold meetings, an inventory system, and a database of contacts. The company is focused on the hospitality and hospitality-adjacent industries.

60
1 year ago

A tool for SMBs to hold “discussions” with their employees on worker’s compensation claims.

60
1 year ago

A three-year-old startup that offers a social networking platform for people who are underrepresented in the tech industry — women and minorities.

60
8 months ago

A tool that aims to make it easier to get surveys to people in the US and Canada. SurveyMonkey is already a household name in the marketing tech world.

60
8 months ago

A platform for food companies to streamline their food waste by sourcing and selling surplus items, with a focus on cold-chain items.

60
7 months ago

Jaunt is building a platform for immersive VR experiences that can be produced and sold as a service. The startup wants to build a content platform where brands sell VR experiences to their customers.

60
7 months ago

A company that uses AI to help companies protect their brands online. The company says it has sold more than $5,000 in domain names in the past year.

60
1 year ago

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.

59
1 year ago

The average age of the industry is around 30 years old, and that’s not because they’re getting older. It’s because the industry is so new that there aren’t a lot of established veterans.

59
1 year ago

A startup for selling home goods. Things are sold from the company's warehouse, shipped to the buyer, and then the item is sold on Amazon.

59
6 months ago

A tool that allows users to track and visualize their crypto holdings, and own cryptocurrencies without keeping them in an exchange.

59
1 year ago

A B2B SaaS startup focused on helping companies find, manage and automate their supply chain. The company is led by former McKinsey consultant and CEO, who previously started and sold several companies.

58
1 year ago

A tool for managing a portfolio of multiple investment holdings, built to fit the needs of both individual investors and asset managers.

58
1 year ago

A startup that will buy your old TV sets, build them into solar-powered generators, and then resell them to people in Africa who need power.

58
3 years ago

A startup that pays people to do research on topics they are interested in which is then written up into a paper and sold to students

57
1 year ago

A consumer-focused fintech product that combines BitGold, mobile payment, and cryptocurrency. It’s available on iOS and soon to be Android.

57
1 year ago

A 7-year-old company that’s already built a business around the idea that people want to send payments faster, cheaper, and more secure.

57
1 year ago

A startup for food waste and unsold food, connecting restaurants with chefs, farmers and consumers.

57
1 year ago

A tool for selling tickets for events, with a built-in ticket-buying tool and a way to share them across social media. The startup has a $1 million seed round, and has sold $5 million worth of tickets.

57
7 months ago

A platform for managing and researching bitcoin holdings, as well as a tool for tracking gains or losses from bitcoin purchases.

57
2 years ago

A digital advertising platform that serves as an intermediary between publishers and advertisers. The startup takes a 30% commission from ads sold.

56
2 years ago

A software company that aims to help people sell their used goods by taking their old goods to auction sites.

56
1 year ago

A startup that wants to build a tool for repurposing old iPhones for use on the go.

56
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.

56
1 year ago

A platform that lets you upload and sell your own book. Williams has sold 30,000 copies of his book, which is currently in its second printing.

56
1 year ago

This is a startup building an app that allows people to sell their old phones on Amazon. It’s an early stage startup that won an award at the Google Launchpad Accelerator in May.

56
7 months ago

A platform for home health care workers to connect with patients, share information and get paid. The platform is meant to minimize the time that people spend waiting on hold while they wait to speak with a doctor.

56
7 months ago

A company that helps people sell their houses using a mobile app. Instead of just paying a realtor, users can put their house on the market and pay rent to the app. Once a buyer is found, the house can be sold quickly, and the buyer can then buy it.

56
2 years ago

A tool for sales reps to get started with cold emailing and the sales cycle.

55
1 year ago

A startup for products to be sold and bought online

55
6 months ago

A “remote marketplace” that allows services to be sold and bought between members

55
1 year ago

A digital assistant for the elderly, designed to better help older adults live life and become more independent. The startup wants to integrate a concierge service with a robotic companion.

54
1 year ago

The startup has built a product that enables brands to send targeted ads to a specific group of consumers. The startup says it has already sold over $100 million of its software to a number of companies.

54
1 year ago

Resolves the age-old problem of when to quit a job for something new.

54
11 months ago

It’s a startup that gives a new way to do cold emails.

54
10 months ago

A six-month-old startup that’s building a speed dating app for people who want to find a date quickly.

54
6 months ago

This startup is building a hardware hub that can turn any old computer into a hotspot, allowing users to connect to faster Wi-Fi and mobile networks.

54
4 months ago

An online marketplace where people can buy tickets to events, concerts, and other things they can’t get normally. Think StubHub but for events that aren’t sold out.

54
1 year ago

A startup to make hyperlocal delivery of groceries, meals, and other household items easier.

53
1 year ago

A supply chain management platform that helps companies discover when they are overstocked, and when they are undersold.

53
1 year ago

This is a tool that helps people track how much they are spending on different household expenses.

53
1 year ago

A new version of the Blockfolio app that offers a single dashboard for all your cryptocurrency holdings, as opposed to the current fragmented ecosystem of apps.

53
1 year ago

A P2P-style marketplace where consumers can source and buy all kinds of products, from food and household items to gadgets.

53
11 months ago

A startup that helps people sell or donate their old phones to help fund their next phone. The company says that 80% of cell phones on the market are still in use, and that used phones are worth about $20 in the US. The startup connects with consumers on their cell phone, and ships them cash or an Amazon gift card to use.

53
10 months ago

A platform that allows people to sell their old cellphones, tablets, laptops, and other electronic devices online.

53
8 months ago

This startup wants to grow a network of “smart” parking spaces that can hold a car’s information and automatically pay the driver when they return. The idea is to keep cars from sitting idle and losing value.

53
7 months ago

An IoT-connected lavatory that can send a notification when someone needs to go. The startup says it’s already sold to a company that owns a restaurant chain. They have a few more customers in the US and Europe waiting for the product to hit their backlog.

53
21 days ago

Not a food delivery service, but a way to deliver groceries in a way that guarantees that products are kept cold and fresh.

53
3 years ago

Idea: A startup that aims to replace the ancient, insecure, and expensive fax machine with a paper-less, secure, and cheaper system. The startup is working with large corporations to do this, and has sold $100,000 in the last month, with a 2.5% take rate.

52
1 year ago

This startup helps brands reach their customers on Instagram, based on a user’s browsing history. They say they have sold over $50,000 worth of ads since launching in April.

52
1 year ago

A platform for renting and selling cars, with an app that lets customers rate their cars and have them rented or sold in their own circles. The startup says it’s already working with several hundred auto dealerships.

52
1 month ago

A company that lets people pay for their favorite recipes, which they can then print out for their household. The company has a free tier, but each additional recipe costs $.99.

52
1 year ago

A company that turns old TVs into smart displays that can tell you what’s happening in real time.

51
1 year ago

A secure, encrypted store that allows users to sell their old smartphones through a mobile app, and then get a cut of the cash.

51
10 months 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.

51
6 months ago

A startup that streamlines the process of buying plane tickets and other plane-related services. It’s sold a few thousand plane tickets per day, and

51
5 months ago

A platform for apps and games to be sold as subscriptions. The startup will allow developers to create recurring revenue.

51
1 year ago

A platform for buying and selling and exchanging surplus shoes that otherwise wouldn’t get sold. The company has sold about $4,000 worth of shoes since launching in December.

50
1 year ago

This 19-year-old software engineer built a digital, blockchain-based platform for managing digital assets or digital rights.

50
1 year ago

The startup’s focus is on helping brands drive more sales by taking their product to the consumer before it hits the shelves. It's building an online store that helps retailers decide what consumers want before the items are sold in the stores.

50
1 year ago

Combining crowdsourced journalism and social media, this startup aims to help reporters tell stories that otherwise wouldn’t have a chance to be told.

50
1 year ago

This startup is building a product that allows people to take their old, cracked iPhone screens and make them perfect through a little re-engineering.

50
1 year ago

“The first global video-based social network”, aimed at the 18 to 30 year-old demographic.

50
1 year ago

A similar to Genius Bar, but with focus on older cars.

49
1 year ago

The startup is meant to help people with colds breathe easier by creating a way to track their symptoms and home-remedies. The startup plans to launch in the UK this winter.

49
1 year ago

A financial services firm that helps business owners manage their finances. The firm’s founder, 19-year-old Christopher Cagney, says he came up with the idea after he saw a “bunch of people who had been ripped off” by their banks.

49
1 year ago

A startup that helps people to choose which health insurance plan to buy. It’s sold in the UK and the US.

49
1 year ago

A platform to help users organize and find their files and folders across their phones, computers and cloud platforms.

49
11 months ago

A startup that brings back the “golden age of lounges” by opening up a network of social clubs and bars where people can come and relax, network, connect and have fun.

49
1 year ago

A platform that helps people sell things they no longer want, like old computers.

48
1 year ago

A solar panel installer that has a fixed-price model. The startup wants to offer a way for people to get solar panels that only pay for themselves after a certain threshold is met.

48
1 year ago

This startup is building a cryptocurrency wallet for the “insecure,” hoping that by giving the masses a way to hold and use cryptocurrency, it will help to democratize the market.

48
1 year ago

Calculates how much electricity your appliances use — and how much you could save by switching out your old ones for more efficient models.

48
11 months ago

This startup helps nonprofit organizations — particularly those serving women and children — connect with government and other stakeholders to solve problems and create impact.

48
7 months ago

A startup that allows people to pay for goods in exchange for a percentage of the goods sold. It’s similar to the concept of a reward card and is an alternative to services like Swagbucks and other similar programs.

48
1 year ago

A startup for the sale of used cars in the US. The company says it’s already created a marketplace that matches dealers with customers, and says it’s already sold over 20,000 cars.

47
1 year ago

A startup that helps people sell their old phones for cash, a market that is growing for emerging markets.

47
1 year ago

Using a new material, this startup is building a better way to extract gold from ore through a cheaper, faster and easier process.

47
8 months ago

A new take on the “smart smoke detector”, replacing the old-fashioned smoke detector with a smoke-detection light that can communicate with a smartphone app.

47
8 months ago

This startup is building a game that uses AI to tell players which cards to hold in their hands and which to toss out. It’s a game based on the classic poker game “War”.

47
6 months ago

This startup helps content creators sell tickets for virtual events. They have sold over $47,000 in tickets.

47
1 year ago

A platform for sharing daily tasks, it’s a little like the old “to-do list” and “agenda” apps, but it is much more flexible, with the ability to start a “task” and add details, like a deadline, location, or notes. It’s a B2B app — it’s aimed at retailers and small companies.

46
10 months ago

A startup that sells products to help people sleep better, with a focus on reducing snoring. The founder told me they have no plans to make a medical device, with the product only being approved by FDA.

46
6 months ago

A startup that promises to deliver the “cheapest tickets in the city” for all events, from concerts to movie screenings. The startup has made its money off selling tickets to events that would have been sold out.

46
1 year ago

A startup that helps businesses automate the process of reaching out to customers and prospects. Instead of using a “cold call”, which is risky and has a 50% failure rate, companies use a “warm call” that is more successful and costs less.

45
1 year ago

A peer-to-peer platform that helps people who want to sell their old mobile devices sell them to people who want to buy them. The company also takes in-bound traffic to websites that want to sell used mobile devices

45
1 year ago

It’s an online account management tool that helps users manage their household’s paper bills. It’s only available in the UK as of right now.

45
1 year ago

A way for people to sell their old sneakers, jewlery, and other items on facebook Marketplace.

45
9 months ago

The startup is building a platform for employees to manage their stock and inventory holdings in a way that’s “like using a Mint/Bank of America app” but better. The app also offers features like stock split notifications, and a marketplace for buying and selling shares.

45
5 months ago

 A platform that gets people to take long-term care of their aging parents. It’s a little bit like RelayRide, but for older people.

45
5 months ago

This startup wants to replace sales teams with machine learning software. The startup hopes to use artificial intelligence to make cold calls more efficient and less expensive.

45
4 months ago

The startup’s aim is to be a single repository for all of your company documents, allowing users to create folders for documents and share them without cluttering up email accounts.

45
10 months ago

The company, which was started by a former professional poker player, is helping people with the game of Texas Hold ‘Em.

44
1 year ago

A compliance platform for small business loans, developed by a former Goldman Sachs banker.

43
1 year ago

CollaborateLive is a platform for video conferencing and screen sharing that allows businesses to conduct video interviews with customers and prospects. It’s also a way for startups to hold virtual events, with one-hour slots available for $15.

43
1 year ago

A startup that wants to bring the power of VR games to non-gaming situations, like holding fashion shows.

43
1 year ago

A simple method to avoid the hassle of making cold calls to candidates and instead let a company’s own hiring managers and recruiters interview candidates.

43
5 months ago

This is a company that wants to make selling your old books easy and fun. With a combination of delivery, digital storefront, and mobile app, they aim to help both the seller (who can get $20 per book) and the buyer (who can buy many books at once).

43
1 month ago

Android users are often told to delete the app to fix a bug or to update it. But this startup aims to make keeping an app on your phone more manageable. Instead of just deleting the app, what if you could just set it to “do nothing” That way, you can still use it but it won’t be draining your battery or sucking up data.

43
11 months ago

A company that will make old-school kids toys and games fun again

42
5 months ago

The startup is building a platform that helps people manage their household chores like laundry, banking, and shopping. It is also building a lead generation platform for the service, which it says will help provide more personal assistants for customers.

42
4 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
1 year ago

This is a new way to help small businesses track the quality of the products they sell online, counting the items sold and the number of clicks to determine which products are the most popular and effective.

41
6 months ago

A startup that helps retailers track where their products are being used, and where they should be sold.

40
5 months ago

A startup that helps you find a warm place to sleep when your hotel room is cold. The startup is led by 20-year hospitality industry veterans.

40
10 months ago

A new social media platform that aims to reach the younger generations with a spoof of an old-school blog that lets users create posts, track them, and read them in real time.

39
10 months ago

A startup that makes it easy for people to scrap your old stuff, with a focus on making the process easy and painless.

38
9 months ago

An online marketplace for already-owned properties to be resold, with financing options.

38
2 months ago

A startup where people can buy and sell their used clothes. The startup is converting people’s worn-out clothing into a secondary retail market. It’s something like a Laundry List but for clothing rather than household items.

38
1 year ago

A self-driving electric bike company that produces a line of electric bikes that fold up into a bag and can be used as a bike-share system.

37
11 months ago

A 10-person startup that wants to make it easier for people to donate their blood. It’s a startup that has one person working in it full-time and another holding down a full-time job elsewhere.

37
3 months ago

A new kind of social network for the United States military, looking to help soldiers stay connected with loved ones and build camaraderie.

37
4 months ago

This startup is working on a way for different insurance companies to offer a single platform for policy holders to make claims and manage coverage.

34
4 months ago

A startup that helps parents track their children’s daily progress through a phone app. “Parents can snap pictures of their children in the morning, at lunch and after school to capture milestones such as the first steps, first words, first hair cut,” CEO Michael Foust told VentureBeat.

34
4 months ago

A project management app to replace the old-school email chains with a more collaborative platform.

33
3 months ago

A startup that creates an open marketplace for people to sell their old items, drive money to their bank account, and start earning rewards.

33
6 months ago

A decentralized app store that lets people sell their personal items on the blockchain, with “personal item” defined as anything that can be legally bought and sold. The startup aims to be the first to sell physical items on the blockchain, including “vintage art”, “new, rare tech”, “antique furniture”, etc.

32
5 months ago

 A Chrome extension that takes screenshots of text on a page and sends them to a Dropbox folder, so you can easily search through them later.

32
4 months ago

This startup isn’t a direct-to-consumer model, but rather a service that allows businesses to run their own in-person promotional events. The startup says they’ve seen great success with the model, having sold out of the first batch of tickets they sold and plans to sell out of the second batch they sell and their third batch as well.

32
4 months ago

A startup that combines an Uber-style marketplace with a “mom and pop” retail store. The website allows customers to buy groceries and household items on-demand, with a built-in rewards program. The founder of the company, who previously worked at Amazon, says the company is on track to expand into 35,000 stores by 2020.

32
3 months ago

A company hoping to save the world from the ills of e-waste. The startup wants to pay people to recycle old electronics.

32
6 months ago

A company that builds custom tools for people who hold Pinterest boards. It’s a Pinterest-native tool, built to make the Pinterest experience smoother and easier.

31
3 months ago

A startup that converts cash into gold, with plans to expand to other metals.

31
1 year ago

This is a company that is building an online, decentralized marketplace for the sharing economy. The startup has already launched, allowing users to split household tasks like cleaning, yard work, and dog walking among a group of users.

30
5 months ago

A startup that offers discounted travel deals and tours to people who trade in old electronics.

30
3 years ago

Idea: A startup that is making a new type of surface that feels a bit like paper but is actually a plastic material This material can then be molded to make all types of different things, like a fridge that can be rolled up The surface is also programmable, so it can be made to change color or texture when a button is pressed

29
5 months ago

A customizable origami robot. The startup’s first product is a 3D printed robot that folds origami to create the shape. The startup’s second product is an app that allows users to play around with the robots.

29
4 months ago

The idea behind Fold is that you would be able to “fold” an email and send it to a friend without having to write it out. The startup wants to build an email app that lets you “fold” emails and send them through a variety of platforms like Gmail and Slack, and then have the recipient open the message with a link to a PDF or video.

29
4 months ago

A company that turns any old jacket or shirt into a custom-designed garment.

29
4 months ago

A startup for buying and selling all of the different things that people consume daily, like beer, household items, soda, or books.

29
3 months ago

A tool that lets people hold live Q&A sessions over Skype. It’s kind of like a webinar, but one that’s happening over the phone.

29
27 days ago

A tool built with the idea of keeping your bank account connected to your credit card. It’s a mobile app that holds your account information in a secure private vault, and lets you check on it from your phone or your computer. The app also gives you a one-step login to your account, and helps you pay your bills.

29
4 months ago

A startup that helps companies sync their systems with other companies. The startup is in the process of signing up companies, but the co-founder told us that they’re targeting companies with more than 1,000 employees each.

28
3 months ago

A startup that helps family businesses stay on track. Co-founder Zachary Berg says that they’ve already sold to a private biz and a few nonprofits.

28
5 months ago

A startup for international students that helps them find a job in their field of study. It’s a clone of the old Hobsons site, but with a local focus.

27
5 months ago

A way to talk to your car and get it to tell you when to do maintenance. The company’s founders say their technology will be able to detect when a car is losing its battery’s ability to hold a charge, and alert a driver to have its oil changed or brakes checked.

27
3 months ago

A platform for assembling apps, focused on developing mobile games. The company specializes in two categories: “advergames”, which are games that the company makes itself, and “mobile games”, which are made by third-party developers and sold through the portal.

26
9 days ago

This startup is building a bank that caters to the “millennial” demographic of 18- to 35-year-olds by offering a 24/7 customer support line, chat support, fast payments, and rewards programs.

26
3 months ago

A startup backing a peer-to-peer lending platform for payday loans. They currently have a $250,000 loan for a 1 year old from a customer that is paying back $50 a month.

25
4 months ago

A business that helps people sell their unused airtime. The startup has sold over $1,000 worth of unused minutes in the last 30 days, and is used by over 1,000 customers.

24
2 months ago

In the old days of e-commerce, a customer might get a shipping confirmation and an email with a tracking number a few days after placing a order. But in today’s online economy, with e-commerce orders varying from minutes to hours, the e-commerce customer doesn’t necessarily get a clear sense of how much time they have before their order is delivered.

24
2 months ago

An online platform that allows people to sell their old stuff online, with a focus on finding unique and hard-to-find items.

24
4 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.

23
3 months ago

A startup for restaurants to list (and track) their current menu items, and to let customers know if and when a dish is sold out.

23
3 months ago

A product built for the household that wants to track and manage their energy use.

23
2 months ago

A startup that says that it’s building the Uber of the household product industry.

23
4 months ago

The startup’s co-founder, who goes by the name Jacob, says that the main problem with the current credit-scoring models is that they’re too old. The current models don’t consider the latest credit scores, he explains, and only look at how many credit cards a user has. Jacob’s co-founder, who goes by the name Tim, says that his startup is working to solve the problem with an algorithm that models a user’s credit score based on their behavior and also looks at their credit card usage.

22
2 months ago

A company that wants to make sure your data is being used for the right reasons. They’re building software and hardware that lets you know if your data is being sold or used.

21
3 months ago

A tool for making custom paper mache jewelry. The startup has sold more than 50,000 paper mache pieces since launching a year ago.

20
2 months ago

A startup that makes household cleaning supplies like scouring pads and sponges. The founders realized that they could cut down on the amount of plastic waste they were producing by making their own cleaning supplies.

19
2 months ago

An insurance company in the UK that uses a dynamic pricing model that adjusts premiums based on the age of a policyholder and the likelihood of them having a heart attack or stroke in the next five years.

19
1 month ago

Gives a new lease of life to old PC's by re-purposing them as video conferencing machines to bring together disparate employees.

19
14 days ago

A startup that helps insurance companies bridge the gap between policyholders and their claims by creating a front end that simplifies the process of creating and tracking claims.

19
8 days ago

The startup is building an online platform that helps match buyers and sellers of used cars. The startup is a new way to buy a car after it’s already been sold.

19
2 months ago

A PC-based chatbot that helps make sales calls and handle customer service. It’s a retooled version of the company’s prior product, Promoter, which was sold for $1.9 million to a competitor.

18
2 months ago

 A new kind of cold-storage service that makes it easy for companies to store and transfer their data to offsite locations.

18
2 months ago

A digital library for people who want to store old books digitally. Users get a CD of their digital library for $25.

18
2 months ago

A London-based startup that wants to help you keep track of the things you’ve sold online, so you’re not stuck with a bunch of inventory you can’t sell. When you’re done with something, you can sell it to someone else, and you can make money off of it.

17
2 months ago

A company that makes a product called “Aquaman” that cleans water with the help of the sun, but also uses intelligent algorithms to determine the best times of day to clean the water, what household items can be used to filter the water, and what types of water-cleaning products would be best to buy. Aquaman’s website says they’ve sold $2.75 million in their first four years of operations, and that they’ve serviced 200,000 customers worldwide.

17
2 months ago

A competitor to the popular online tool Zola.com, which provides same-day delivery of groceries and household items. The company is looking to get a piece of a $20 billion market by building out same-day delivery on its own, without Zola’s existing network of grocery stores.

16
2 months ago

A self-promotion platform for makers, makerspaces and makerspaces. It offers services like a blog, a newsletter, and listing on websites like Etsy, and the tools to make any item sold via the platform.

16
4 days ago

A company that provides a platform for those with a medical condition to sell clothing and accessories online, while offering a way of tracking the inventory as it’s being sold.

15
22 days ago

A wireless data device that translates between human and machine language, in a similar way to the company’s previous product, the Speakit. The founders say they’ve sold $1.4m of the devices.

14
6 days ago

A foster care, adoption, and social services company that aims to help older kids transition into adulthood.

14
2 months ago

A company that lets people easily re-pay old or unpaid invoices with new payment methods.

13
2 months ago

A “mobile-first” venture that seeks to bring the next wave of car companies to the US with a startup they call the “Tesla of the auto industry.” They’re building a self-driving, electric, and fully autonomous vehicle that can be sold to people at a rate they can afford.

13
6 days ago

A startup that wants to build a one-stop shop for food, cosmetic, and household products.

12
3 years ago

A startup that provides a service for people who are getting older (70+) and want to move into a senior’s residence/retirement home

8
6 days ago

A company that offers an API that allows customers of its software to take a photo of a receipt and it’ll scan the bar code to find the item, then show the item’s price on the screen. The startup’s CEO says the company has sold $30,000 worth of software since the beginning of the year.

8
3 years ago

Idea: An e-commerce site that sells recycled products, such as old books, smartphones, and art

3
3 years ago

A startup that sells easy-to-use household appliances for people who don’t have much experience with them

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3 years ago

A startup that sells a tool for helping people find old classmates or friends

-1
3 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for people to sell their old books (I know there are a lot of startups doing this but it's a big market)

-1
3 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people who are moving into a new area can have their house cleaned, their old place cleaned and a bunch of other things done that they can’t do after they

-1
3 years ago

Idea: A secure folder for your private photos and videos

-1
3 years ago

Idea: A company that will clean up your old hard drives

-1
3 years ago

Idea: A new edition of the classic novel “The Little Prince”, translated into Arabic The publisher says that it’s sold $15,000 worth of ebooks already with a plan to get to $100

-1
3 years ago

Idea: A way to track the usage and performance of digital ads The startup has already sold several $15,000 contracts

-1
3 years ago

Idea: A ‘gig economy’ labor marketplace for graphic designers. The startup says it’s growing 1,000% month-over-month, and has already sold $3,000 a week in design work.

-1
3 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps people ship their used items to buyers. The founder says that she’s already sold $3,000 worth of items in her first two months.

-1
3 years ago

A company that makes a small device that connects to a circuit board. The device is meant to be used by people who don’t know how to solder, to fix their electronics.

-1
3 years ago

Idea: A startup for people to use space to hold their products for a few months while they figure out where to ship them.

-1
3 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to bring an end to email spam. It works by helping companies send their email marketing campaigns through a sort of whitelist system where known email addresses get through, while spam goes straight to the junk folder.

-1
3 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to make the experience of using an ATM more fun, by giving people a place to hold meetings, conduct interviews, etc. with the ATM app.

-1
3 years ago

A startup that transfers the videos and pictures from your old phone to your new phone

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