Project Startup Ideas

2 months ago

It’s a project management tool for short-term engineering and construction projects.

4,376

9 months ago

A startup that lets you hire contractors for household projects

825

1 year ago

A startup that allows people to hire a personal assistant in an hourly or per-project basis

469

11 months ago

A platform that helps designers collaborate on projects and publish their work online. The startup is currently in a beta phase, and has built a large audience that has helped it refine its design process.

353

1 year ago

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

350

1 year ago

A digital platform for the creative community. It is a marketplace that connects creative talent with needs-based projects.

295

2 years ago

Twilio, a company that provides cloud-based communication and telephony APIs, is one of the most well-known startups at YC. Their newest project is a tool that helps call center agents manage multiple languages.

286

1 year ago

A platform for quick and easy project management for small businesses, including software, creative, and other services.

246

1 year ago

A platform that connects people to community service projects near them, with a web-based platform and mobile app.

230

1 month ago

A startup for homeowners to negotiate the terms of a renovation project through a combination of price quotes and time estimates.

228

2 years ago

Bots that make the complex work of managing a home remodeling project more manageable. The company is working with HVAC contractors and property managers to aggregate data from hundreds of homes to help them do a better job of forecasting and managing their projects.

225

3 months ago

A startup that connects home improvement teams with consumers who need help with their projects.

214

1 month ago

This startup is building a way for merchants to connect with local contractors to handle big projects.

212

2 years ago

A startup for connecting freelancers with projects.

211

2 years ago

A tech-focused project management platform for small to midsize teams.

211

6 months ago

A startup that connects companies with qualified freelance IT workers to help them complete projects and stay on-task. It’s “a digital concierge for your business.”

211

2 years ago

A startup that allows people to find and hire a contractor to complete a small project.

209

1 month ago

A startup that helps people in India and Southeast Asia build and manage projects, helping them collaborate on all aspects of the project.

196

8 months ago

An email and social network for people to create and share plans for their home renovation projects.

186

1 month ago

A tool for freelancers looking to manage work on the go. The company says it’s managed $6 million of projects over the last two years.

185

3 years ago

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

181

3 years ago

A project management tool for teams.

175

3 years ago

Employees that treat hiring like an automated data science project

171

1 year ago

A startup for freelance work that connects project managers with developers, designers, and marketers.

169

1 year ago

Web and mobile app for freelancers and small businesses to manage projects and invoicing quickly.

167

3 years ago

A startup that helps engineers manage the full lifecycle of their software projects. It’s a B2B SaaS platform serving developers worldwide.

163

8 months ago

A startup that offers an online marketplace for freelance workers to work on projects together.

163

1 month ago

A company that creates a tool to help developers find and join the communities of open source software projects that are most relevant to them.

162

3 years ago

An AI-based machine learning project to help identify specific threats to the public water supply in a specific area.

161

1 month ago

A tool for managing software development projects, including the creation of a “project portfolio” and the ability to track progress against a timeline.

161

3 years ago

A startup that helps optimize “predictions and projections” for companies.

159

3 years ago

A platform for projects that want to test their products at scale before releasing them.

159

3 years ago

A company that aims to bring employees and freelancers together for projects, via a platform known as the "Freelancer's Network".

158

1 year ago

The startup is building a platform that allows developers to build apps that integrate with Amazon Echo. It’s a side project for the founders of the company.

158

2 years ago

A project management tool for non-profits, with a “social component” that helps them manage events and volunteers.

157

1 year ago

A company that offers a platform for legal, tax, accounting, and compliance professionals to collaborate on legal and finance projects, and share the results.

157

1 year ago

A platform that lets people generate a custom quote for their own project at their own price.

156

3 years ago

A marketing tool for crowdfunding platforms that helps founders and project managers track projects and keep track of fundraising progress.

155

1 year ago

A platform that allows users to share their ideas, design concepts or even start working on a project to get feedback from other users.

155

3 years ago

A business calendar app that helps employees in a company collaborate on project updates.

154

1 year ago

For developers, this is an app that lets you see all your projects from the same place.

154

3 years ago

A startup that makes a tool for people to write down all the steps they need to take to complete a project

153

3 years ago

A venture-backed startup that’s building a platform for home builders that helps them manage their quality assurance, build projects faster, and reduce costs.

152

1 year ago

Recode is a project from Cheddar that provides video interviews with the founders of startups in the technology sector.

152

3 years ago

An Indian startup aiming to build a “cloud-based project management system” for construction projects. The company says it is unique in that it allows people to manage all aspects of a project from a single interface.

151

3 years ago

A company that helps employees share information about their projects. It’s also an app that powers human resources at major companies.

151

3 years ago

The Startup is building out a free, open-source toolset for managing your GitHub project.

151

3 years ago

A company that helps crews build and launch new apps without a lot of upfront capital. It’s launching with an app that helps small businesses with the software development process—from project definition to iteration on a prototype to launch.

151

3 years ago

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

150

3 years ago

A project management tool for people with small teams, meant to make it easier to track tasks and track progress.

150

1 year ago

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

150

3 years ago

This startup is building a toolset that helps cities and counties track and manage construction projects.

149

3 years ago

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

149

3 years ago

A tool that helps teams manage project workflows, and which the startup is building for sales, support, marketing, and engineering teams.

149

1 month ago

A tool that helps companies legally rent apartment units in a short span of time. The startup is building a marketplace for short-term rental projects.

149

3 years ago

This is a collaboration tool that helps teams collaborate on projects by integrating tasks across email, Slack, Trello, and Google Drive.

147

3 years ago

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

147

3 years ago

A Slack-like service for projects that can be kicked off quickly and then come back to life at a later date.

147

3 years ago

This startup is building a platform that allows students to collaborate on projects and write code across school systems, in the hopes of creating a more creative learning environment.

146

3 years ago

A joint project of the US Department of Agriculture and the National Park Service, which is trying to create a mobile payment system for parks.

146

1 year ago

A tool for on-demand professionals, like a concierge or personal trainer, to charge customers by the hour and by the project.

146

3 years ago

A project management and time-tracking service that smartly integrates with Google Apps

145

3 years ago

A software-as-a-service startup that helps developers manage projects.

145

3 years ago

A tool for helping contractors bid on construction projects. It’s already on the job in Spain.

145

1 year ago

GreenStone is a B2B company that wants to help companies make better decisions about energy usage. They’re currently working on energy efficiency projects with large companies like Apple.

145

3 years ago

Slack is a project management and chat platform for teams and groups. Slack builds software as a service (SaaS) products, which are web-based applications that companies or organizations can use instead of having to install or maintain software on their own computer.

144

3 years ago

A startup that’s changing the way companies work with their contractors. You can enter into a contract with a contractor, who can then select from various projects to work on. The startup wants to help companies identify the right contractor for the job, and then manage the relationship with the contractor.

144

1 year ago

A Slack-like tool for managing and collaborating on projects.

144

1 year ago

A startup that provides a visual dashboard of project health and progress. The startup uses AI to crowdsource 3,000 hours of data from 50,000 employees and then provides a visualization of the health of your project.

144

3 years ago

A startup building a “cloud-based project management system that helps you manage projects and tasks, collaborate with people across the organization, and automate tasks.” The startup has raised $1.5 million from investors including Y Combinator.

143

3 years ago

In June 2018, the Startup Genome Project released data on the 100 most active venture-backed startups in the world. Of the top 100 startups, 12 were based in the San Francisco Bay Area. That was more than any other single city in the world.

143

3 years ago

A tool that helps people find and hire contractors, as a way to streamline home-improvement projects.

143

2 years ago

A chatbot that helps you track the progress of your project. A chatbot that helps you track the progress of your project.

143

3 years ago

A tool for doing data science on a continuous basis, allowing companies to pull real-time data rather than waiting for an annual report or project to happen.

142

3 years ago

A company that’s created a new platform for managing teams and projects — a tool designed to help teams stay organized and on top of their work.

142

3 years ago

A tool to help companies manage multiple workflows and processes for a single project. It’s available as a Chrome extension.

142

3 years ago

A platform for volunteer-powered projects that allows citizens to crowdsource solutions to local problems. It helps cities and nonprofits connect with volunteers to solve challenges like pollution, hunger, homelessness.

142

3 years ago

A startup that aims to give sellers the ability to sell their projects on their own terms, without having to go through a large reseller in the middle.

142

3 years ago

A digital marketing agency that handles client projects, from design to implementation.

141

3 years ago

A tool to manage employee time, allowing workers to see what they’ve worked on, as well as the location of their coworkers. It’s also built in a way that allows workers to block out time for personal projects.

141

3 years ago

A platform for managing, sharing, and tracking home improvement projects, with a focus on DIYers.

141

3 years ago

A startup for freelancers and contractors, with a goal of helping businesses fill projects quickly. The startup is launching in June.

141

3 years ago

A startup that connects users with local experts to help with everything from home projects to personal finance.

140

3 years ago

A tool for helping companies (primarily B2B) manage their vendors, orders, and project management.

140

3 years ago

A new kind of service for project managers and teams that helps them manage time. The business builds software that optimizes teams time spent on projects.

140

3 years ago

A startup that’s built a platform to “help companies with small to medium sized projects manage their project budgets”.

139

3 years ago

A tools platform for building apps and websites that uses machine learning to help users find the best possible images for their projects.

139

3 years ago

A system of devices that can detect if an employee is over-committing or under-committing to projects, and adjust a person’s work schedule accordingly.

139

3 years ago

A crowdfunding platform that aims to help entrepreneurs pitch their projects on a more intimate level. It’s a tool to help founders speak directly to the crowd without the need for a large team of people. It’s currently in private beta.

139

1 year ago

A business that helps freelancers make a living on the side by providing them with access to a portfolio of projects, like a site or portfolio manager, social media management, and a customer service platform.

139

3 years ago

A platform that helps connect investors with projects they can invest in.

138

3 years ago

A project at the University of California, Berkeley that uses machine learning to classify and identify patterns found in images.

138

3 years ago

A project management platform for freelancers and small teams, asking people to “realize their potential”.

138

3 years ago

A tool for setting up radio stations, which is self-funded, but a side-project.

137

3 years ago

A project management app for iOS. Per the startup, it’s a “new kind of project management app,” and they see it as a “platform for bringing order to the chaos of distributed teams.”

137

3 years ago

A startup that helps people track the progress of their projects; it wants to be the go-to app for everyone from athletes to artists.

136

1 year ago

A tool that allows people to collaborate on projects with AI, potentially resulting in fewer bugs and less work for developers.

136

3 years ago

A subscription-based service that makes it easy for developers to discover and collaborate on open source software projects.

135

3 years ago

A crowd-funded project to bring the benefits of underfloor heating and cooling to the underdeveloped world. The startup’s founders came up with the concept for a client-focused project as a way to combine the technology with other humanitarian efforts.

135

3 years ago

A project management tool that allows companies to create and manage projects from a mobile device

134

3 years ago

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

134

3 years ago

A tool that helps people collaborate on a project without emailing back and forth.

134

3 years ago

A renewable energy startup that helps entrepreneurs build solar projects. The company says it installed over 2 megawatts last year and has plans to install more this year.

134

3 years ago

A way to organize users in a company’s social network so they can follow each others’ projects.

134

1 year ago

A project backed by the President of Brazil to develop the country’s cabs.

134

1 year ago

A way to manage payments to contractors and suppliers via a web-based system. The company collects payments and tracks projects on the same platform.

133

3 years ago

The startup is helping employers with HR solutions by providing a platform to manage all of the HR related tasks and projects through a single dashboard.

132

3 years ago

An online platform that helps find and manage projects, services and talent for non-profits.

132

3 years ago

This is a tool for freelancers to manage projects.

132

1 month ago

A tool for teams to manage and track work across different projects.

132

8 months ago

A project from the MIT Media Lab that combines solar power, a blockchain, and a smart contract to generate renewable energy.

131

1 month ago

A social network for remote teams and freelancers, allowing them to find tasks and manage projects, as well as schedule meetings and communicate.

131

3 years ago

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

130

3 years ago

The company provides a virtual shared workspace that runs on Slack, allowing people to remotely collaborate on projects.

130

3 years ago

NOTE: These projects are not ranked in order of how likely they are to succeed.

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

1 year ago

A startup for site construction that helps contractors save time by organizing work and supply requests, and enhance project coordination.

130

3 years ago

A startup that provides a portal for students to post their projects and have them critiqued by teachers

129

3 years ago

A startup that uses an app to manage the construction project of building a house

129

3 years ago

A social-media platform for contractors, designed for organizations with a small project or need.

129

3 years ago

A project management and collaboration platform for teams organized around the creation of online content.

129

3 years ago

A tool that helps companies hire designers and brand managers based on their performance on design-related projects rather than their resume.

129

3 years ago

B2B startup looking to sell software for tracking and managing projects.

129

8 months ago

A virtual assistant for task management and project management.

129

3 years ago

A startup that provides a software platform for tracking the progress of a diverse team of contributors working on a single project

128

3 years ago

A social network for professionals, who can collaborate on projects, manage client relationships, and get paid for assignments.

128

3 years ago

An open source platform for people to share 3D models of their projects, including 3D printed items, furniture, and sculptures. This startup aims to create an open-source community with 3D models.

128

3 years ago

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

128

3 years ago

A SaaS that helps companies manage their workflows and track time, expenses, and expenses by project or area.

127

2 years ago

A platform that helps people find good people to work on projects with

127

7 months ago

A side project to help users find the best time to book travel, the startup uses machine learning to figure out when flights have the least demand so you can snag a seat at the busiest time.

127

3 years ago

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

126

3 years ago

A platform that allows employers and employees to keep track of what projects they work on together.

126

3 years ago

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

126

2 years ago

A Boston-based startup with a focus on clean energy. Their product is a roof tile that pulls energy from the sun. This project is a spinout from Techstars.

126

2 years ago

A startup that aims to make it easier for local governments to take bids for public works projects.

126

3 years ago

A tool for coordinating group projects

125

3 years ago

A tool to help employees collaborate on projects efficiently, which includes an email platform, file sharing, and task management.

125

3 years ago

A digital tattoo that is meant to be a proxy for software development. The tattoo can be worn by developers and shows things like code, project statuses, and more.

125

8 months ago

A hardware startup that’s trying to create a “mini-computer” for IoT projects. The device is meant to be used in “anyplace, anytime, with any device”.

125

3 years ago

A project management tool that focuses on helping distributed teams communicate with one another.

124

2 years ago

This startup is building an online marketplace for the sale of computer parts, but based on the free and open source project OpenELEC.

124

3 years ago

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

123

3 years ago

A tool for creating and managing your software project portfolio and tracking future projects.

122

3 years ago

This is a project management platform with two components. The first is the product, a team collaboration tool that connects members to the other tools they use for project management. The second is the company itself, which focuses on building software to help teams achieve their goals.

122

3 years ago

A project management platform: “Many small businesses are managing their projects themselves,” said CEO Ben. “We want to help them have access to the same data and value proposition that large companies have.”

122

3 years ago

The company is a funding-and-dissemination platform for science projects. It’s funded by Y Combinator, and has raised $2.6M in seed funding.

122

3 years ago

A project management tool built for teams that want to organize their projects. It’s already been used by a lot of the world’s biggest brands.

122

3 years ago

A startup that helps business owners build a team of virtual assistants, who are then paid per project.

122

3 years ago

A platform for planning and executing projects, often in the developing world, that are too expensive or too risky for governments or charities to take on.

121

1 year ago

A social network for people looking to become part of the “gig economy” or work on projects without the full-time commitment of traditional jobs.

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

3 years ago

An easy way for techies to share development projects

120

3 years ago

A plan to solve the problem of 3rd-party open source code, providing a way for developers to get access to source code from major open source software projects without having to pay for it.

120

3 years ago

A digital marketplace for freelance designers. The startup’s founders want to build a marketplace that helps businesses and designers work together on projects.

120

2 years ago

A platform for product managers with a focus on software, to help them manage their projects.

120

2 years ago

A project that connects doctors in the US with patients in India who need urgent medical attention.

120

2 years ago

A startup for “sprinting” through a project, allowing users to create a schedule and track progress

120

1 month ago

a “platform for developers to build and launch their own open-source projects”. They provide the backend to allow users to create and manage projects on GitHub, the frontend to allow users to manage their projects on GitHub, and the ability to help developers make their projects on GitHub better.

120

3 years ago

A platform that allows for distributed teams to negotiate, ensure a project is on time and on budget, and track progress. They’re working on a cloud-based solution with a feature set that includes project management, time and labor tracking, and collaboration.

119

3 years ago

A crowdfunding platform for equity-based projects

119

2 years ago

A tool for making it easy to track the time spent on all of your projects, and how much you’re being paid for it.

118

3 years ago

A startup that helps people with very complicated or long-term projects find a virtual assistant

117

3 years ago

A project management tool that keeps track of project progress, allowing users to see who is working on what, and which projects are coming up next.

117

3 years ago

A tool for users to get feedback on projects. The startup was founded by serial entrepreneur and former CEO of Upwork.

117

2 years ago

A collaborative platform for artists to work on projects together.

117

2 years ago

A startup that provides a platform for people to collaborate on projects. It’s similar to platforms like Basecamp and Wrike. They charge $20 per month per user.

117

2 years ago

A web-based platform that offers customized reports and analytics for projects that are funded or in progress.

117

3 years ago

An “API for the public sector,” offering a portal for payments, project management, and services.

116

2 years ago

Patent: A “system and method for checking work hours in a time-tracking system”. The startup is looking to extend this service to software projects.

116

2 years ago

A project of the World Economic Forum, the Global Shapers Community is the largest global network of entrepreneurs, young professionals, and innovators. The network’s purpose is to connect the global network of young professionals with the global community of entrepreneurs. The network was founded by the World Economic Forum and Swiss Re in January 2016, with the first annual Global Shaper Summit taking place in Davos, Switzerland. Over the summer of 2016, the World Economic Forum announced that it would be partnering with the Global Shapers Community to create the World Economic Forum Young Entrepreneur Council, which completed its first meeting in October 2016.

116

3 years ago

Arist is a cloud-based project management and accounting tool that helps small teams manage projects and budget. Arist is a free plan with paid options that offers more features. Arist is available on the App Store, Google Play, and the Arist website.

115

3 years ago

A tool to help teams manage large projects.

115

3 years ago

A tool to help companies estimate the time it will take to complete software development projects. Currently only for-profit SaaS companies, the startup wants to expand into the nonprofit and hardware sectors in the future.

115

3 years ago

Helping companies find and hire the best crew for their projects, from the best electricians to the best drone pilots.

115

2 years ago

A startup that helps teams track their time with an app, from team member to team member and on to projects, tasks, and invoices.

115

2 years ago

A tool to help artists find people who would be interested in commissioning work on their own creative projects.

115

3 years ago

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

114

3 years ago

A tiered plan for teams of developers to work together on the same projects, with a free tier that has limited features and a $10 per month plan that has access to all features.

114

2 years ago

A startup that is building a platform that connects companies with people who can help with IT projects. For instance, someone might build a new website, but they need a developer to make the site work.

114

2 years ago

A project management app for small teams and distributed teams of people that don't want to be tied to a computer screen.

114

7 months ago

A startup for small businesses to find small projects to help with their daily tasks

114

1 month ago

A tech company building a marketplace for real estate development projects. They say they’re in talks with Y Combinator to build out a product startup within YC.

114

3 years ago

A platform to make it easier for creative professionals to collaborate with clients. Both parties can share and comment on the project, and get feedback/input from others in the community.

113

2 years ago

A crowdsourced platform that will be used to crowdsource a variety of projects and tasks.

113

8 months ago

A company that’s built a visual workflow tool that allows teams to collaborate on projects, with a focus on engineering.

113

2 years ago

A user-generated marketplace for project management tools, allowing companies to sell them to the public

112

3 years ago

A side project to Zenefits, a human resource software company, that automates payroll for small businesses by pulling data from Quickbooks.

111

3 years ago

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

111

3 years ago

Rethinking the way we build and manage software is the goal of BuildZoom. The startup allows users to compare home improvements from a variety of vendors and service providers from the comfort of one website. It's an online marketplace that allows consumers to shop for home improvement projects from the convenience of a desktop computer or mobile phone. BuildZoom makes it easy to find the right contractor, and provides a level of transparency that other home improvement websites do not.

111

3 years ago

A new product by the founders of a popular open-source project, allowing people to see all of their files on file servers and get them to sync with their desktop.

111

2 years ago

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

111

2 years ago

A tool that helps you visually approximate the distribution of code within a project and can even show you how much time you’ve spent on each line of code.

111

3 years ago

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

110

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 tool for remote workers to manage their time and projects while traveling to and from work.

110

3 years ago

A “virtual office” for remote employees, offering a virtual workspace, meeting space, and project management solution.

108

2 years ago

Helps IoT developers of all sizes build and deploy IoT-connected projects. The company says it has built over 10,000 devices in the last two years.

108

8 months ago

For the past year, they’ve been working on a 2-man company that focuses on building a set of tools that can help startups and freelancers manage their projects.

107

2 years ago

A startup that helps people focus on the most important part of a project: the design.

106

2 years ago

This is an open source project to create a webOS-like platform for a variety of mobile devices.

106

2 years ago

This startup is building a way to collaborate on a schedule that combines current project management concepts like Trello with the concept of a “workflow”, a name that describes a way to organize work in a way that’s both intuitive and structured. The company’s first project was building a lightweight but robust version of GitHub’s Jira.

106

2 years ago

A startup that helps teachers and students collaborate on homework and projects in real-time by connecting them through a chatroom.

105

2 years ago

A B2B solution that allows partners to share and organize their projects and track their expenses.

105

8 months ago

A startup for small businesses that want to grow their business by taking on extra projects. Instead of doing all the work themselves, you can put the work out to small contractors.

105

2 years ago

A project management tool that helps teams store all their documentation in one place.

104

3 years ago

A platform for freelancers to find and keep clients without the headaches. It’s aimed at small businesses and other organizations that need to keep track of projects, but don’t have the time or personnel to do it.

103

2 years ago

A U.S. startup looking to build a marketplace for open-sourced projects.

103

2 years ago

A crowdfunding platform for crypto projects looking to raise funds. It’s an “all-in-one” platform that allows investors to participate in ICOs and other forms of crowdfunding. The company has raised $34 million to date.

103

2 years ago

A device that can act as a second screen for your smartphone, beaming to your TV or a projector. The startup is focused on the touchscreen issue, as the screen is often the weak link in smartphone use.

102

2 years ago

A SaaS business that aims to automate the process of onboarding new hires into a company, so employees can have more time to focus on important projects.

102

1 year ago

A platform that connects users with the right companies for small projects. Their platform collects project requirements and matches users with companies that fit the need.

102

4 months ago

This company is building a community for developers, helping them find and collaborate on open source projects.

102

3 years ago

A task management tool that helps teams track projects, assign tasks, and discuss their progress.

101

2 years ago

A project management and collaboration platform for small businesses, which helps them document and share projects, track progress, and communicate with each other.

101

1 year ago

An online meeting tool that lets customers create online “camps” for their teams to collaborate on a project.

101

2 years ago

A company that helps teams of software developers collaborate on projects by letting them review each other’s code and share the feedback.

100

2 years ago

A tool that helps teams track projects using real-time activity and tasks.

100

2 years ago

A communication and collaboration tool that compiles everything from your calendar into a single location. It’s meant to help an employee manage all their communication and project management needs.

100

2 years ago

A way for groups to keep track of ideas and projects that are in progress.

100

5 months ago

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

100

2 years ago

A tool for managing the costs of projects, like equipment and travel. The company is building a global network of people who will manage a project for you

99

2 years ago

Helps employers manage and track employee’s work hours and performance for per-project billing.

99

10 months ago

A project management tool for freelancers and self-employed workers. The startup wants to help people make money and manage their time more efficiently.

99

2 years ago

A startup that launched in 2009, The Ophelia Project is the original "crowdfunding for women" platform, meaning it enables female entrepreneurs to raise money from female investors. It has raised $133 million since its inception.

98

2 years ago

A product management platform for businesses that want to implement agile project management.

97

1 year ago

A tool for tracking meetings, tasks and projects in a very clear and simple way.

97

2 years ago

This is a platform for the financing and management of artists’ works. It’s for labels and artists to receive payments from their fans in advance and use it to work on new projects.

96

2 years ago

A platform that helps small business owners collaborate on projects and communicate with clients. The company has built a system that uses a “social network for online tasks” model.

95

2 years ago

A virtual assistant for the enterprise that helps people stay organized and on top of projects, but also helps let them go on vacation.

95

2 years ago

This startup wants to help teams collaborate on their projects. The startup’s app helps teams with a visual timeline of project deadlines, and also lets them share files, so users can work on stuff in real time.

95

5 months ago

An automated system for managing the health of codebases and applications. Currently focused on open source projects.

95

2 years ago

A cloud-based form software for home improvement projects and construction jobs

94

2 years ago

A startup that builds construction management software, allowing builders to track and keep track of project progress.

94

10 months ago

A startup that’s building on the Curiosity Project for tech-savvy kids and their families, to help them discover a wide range of careers.

94

1 month ago

A web-based file sharing and collaboration platform that lets teams in different locations work together on the same project

94

2 years ago

An enterprise-focused social network that lets teams collaborate on software projects.

93

2 years ago

A platform that connects people with various sponsorships for their projects.

93

2 years ago

A project to help health care professionals gain experience with industry standard health IT tools.

93

11 months ago

A cloud based CRM for small to medium sized enterprises. The startup is building a platform to help sales and marketing departments keep track of sales leads, contracts, customers and projects.

93

2 years ago

A B2B platform for product management teams, sales teams, and marketers to manage their projects and sales pipelines all in one place.

92

2 years ago

A company that delivers services on-demand, like Uber Eats, and uses a model of individual freelancers to help out on projects. Currently focused on the $75 million food delivery market.

91

2 years ago

A startup that helps freelancers manage their time by creating a dashboard showing how much time they have to complete a project. It helps freelancers manage their time and act on time management tips they get from their favorite books.

91

1 year ago

A patent-pending technology that turns smartphone screens into touchscreens by projecting them onto any surface.

91

8 months ago

A company that is building a messaging platform for global development work, aiming to make managing projects easier.

91

2 years ago

A tool for freelancers to track how much work they’ve done, pay invoices and manage their projects. The startup is working with YC alumni to grow the team.

90

2 years ago

A developer tool for managing communication between sales and marketing teams, allowing teams to collaborate around projects and tasks.

90

1 year ago

A startup in the process of introducing a way for people to manage their time and projects more effectively.

90

2 years ago

This startup aims to help employees manage their work product by helping them find the right people to collaborate with, manage projects, and get paid.

89

2 years ago

A startup that makes a 3D printer designed for makers that’s affordable for schools and other startups. It also offers a crowdfunding platform for projects that need a 3D printer.

89

2 years ago

A digital assistant that helps users reach out to a network of professionals for help with projects.

89

1 year ago

A project management tool that combines features from Trello, Basecamp, and Asana.

89

1 year ago

A company that says it helps teams collaborate better by combining the project management and collaboration tools found on Slack and Trello into one. They’re currently selling a $50 per month plan.

89

1 year ago

A tool to help students and teachers plan and track projects. It allows for collaborative planning via the web and an app for instructors.

89

9 months ago

A company that wants to build a decentralized, open-source exchange platform for digital projects. They say they’ll have a separate platform for ICOs and one for pre-sale tokens.

89

8 months ago

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

89

2 years ago

This is a tool that helps you mark you as having read, commented, and suggested items on a project, so you can know when you’re done with an assignment and move on to the next thing.

88

1 year ago

Established in 2014, the New York-based startup has built a tool that helps customers and management teams collaborate on creative projects.

88

1 year ago

A tool that helps teams manage projects, update their workflows, and get things done by simply dragging and dropping.

87

1 year ago

An incentivized reputation platform for projects

87

2 years ago

A startup that delivers a team of virtual assistants to help with projects. The startup charges a flat fee of $150 per month for all team members.

86

2 years ago

A business that connects equipment manufacturers with construction workers so they can collaborate on projects from start to finish.

86

2 years ago

A platform that lets you create and manage bids for your project's bids for a fraction of the cost of doing it yourself.

86

2 years ago

A tool for hiring project managers, pitched as a “

86

1 year ago

A place to discover and share ideas for DIY projects.

86

2 years ago

A GitHub competitor looking to gather all your projects into one place.

85

2 years ago

A tool for contractors to build, manage, and distribute their work projects easily.

85

2 years ago

A startup that wants to help companies find qualified freelancers to help with projects, much the same way that Upwork does.

85

2 years ago

A project management and time tracking app that allows users to track time from multiple devices, while also converting time tracking data into a single, searchable spreadsheet.

85

11 months ago

A tool for developers to track the code changes they make, in a project management system.

85

7 months ago

This startup provides a platform that makes it easier for people to share experiences and collaborate on projects online.

85

2 years ago

A startup for freelancers to sell their services. It’s a bit like Upwork, but instead of freelancers posting projects, it’s employers hiring freelancers.

84

2 years ago

The idea is to build a platform that makes it easier to manage and collaborate on Excel spreadsheets, which would be useful for people working on projects with a lot of data that they need to send around.

83

2 years ago

A company that wants to build a set of tools that enable teams to work together more efficiently across projects.

83

2 years ago

A 3D printing service for home renovation projects, with custom-built walls and other materials.

83

2 years ago

A project management platform for film and TV professionals –

83

8 months ago

A company that provides real-time GPS mapping for construction projects. Founder/CEO Sreenivasan has worked at companies such as Mapbox and Mapzen, and was the founding CEO of the open source platform OpenStreetMap.

83

2 years ago

A startup that wants to automate and scale out the management of ad hoc software development projects. It aims to become the go-to platform for IT service providers and developers.

82

2 years ago

A project management app for startups, meant to be particularly useful in the digital sector.

82

2 years ago

A startup that will be launched by Ben Horowitz, which will be the first project of his new Horowitz Center for Entrepreneurship. The company will create a social network for network engineers to receive and give feedback on code.

81

2 years ago

A startup that helps contractors bid for jobs, with a focus on projects that are often hard to nail down.

79

2 years ago

Fledgling startup that wants to let you design your own custom robotics projects through a simple drag-and-drop interface. The company is hoping to make it so that a person can build a robot with just a few minutes of work.

79

2 years ago

A platform for building and tracking periodic projects that require regular maintenance and updates, like website redesigns, software updates, or videos.

79

1 year ago

A “social network for creative professionals”, allowing creatives to build communities around their projects and skills.

79

10 months ago

A new kind of crowdfunding platform that operates as an app, with a huge focus on rewards and perks. It’s also a new model for getting money to creative projects, which are often poorly funded.

79

2 years ago

This startup is building a platform to help crowdfunds make decisions about which crowdfunding projects they should support.

78

1 year ago

A project-based funding program that lets companies quickly raise money when they need it.

78

1 year ago

A time management app that helps you prioritize tasks, prioritize projects, and stay on track.

78

8 months ago

A project management platform for software development, with an emphasis on collaborating across distributed teams.

78

2 years ago

A three-way partnership between a university, a local government, and a private company that connects local governments and non-profits that want to find funding to their projects in a more efficient way.

77

11 months ago

A project management app for building better working relationships between departments.

77

2 years ago

A platform that helps designers collaborate with multiple people on one project

76

10 months ago

A tool for finding and prioritizing the most important tasks for a project or business. It’s built around the idea that it’s easier to reorder an item after you’ve finished it than it is to pick a new one, and many other “to-do” management tools have copied this model.

76

2 years ago

A project management tool for teams that allows them to create their own Slack team channels.

75

1 year ago

An AI-powered app for pairing workers with projects around the world.

75

1 year ago

A company that helps build collaborative robots and robotic arms. Their current project is part of the DARPA Robotics Challenge.

75

9 months ago

A dropbox alternative for artists and creatives who want to collaborate on projects. The company is building out a digital community for sharing files and ad-free storage.

75

7 months ago

A tool that helps teams work together on a project by facilitating shared editing and commenting on documents.

75

7 months ago

A project management tool that rewards team members for completing tasks.

75

4 months ago

A 10-minute video to life project with the goal of creating an entire lifestyle brand on one video.

75

2 years ago

A tool for educators that will make it easier for them to work with Google Apps. The company is hoping to build a web-based interface for teachers to access Google Apps and collaborate on projects.

74

1 year ago

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

74

1 year ago

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

74

8 months ago

This social media platform is creating a space for people to post and discuss the things they’re interested in, which could include a new project, a new restaurant, or even a new way to get to work.

74

2 years ago

is a startup that uses an AI-driven search engine to find freelance gigs. is currently being built as a per-project app that pays 40% of each job’s total bill.

73

2 years ago

A project from a hardware engineering company, which wants to make a programmable, modular robot with an open source hardware ecosystem.

73

1 year ago

A startup that allows you to keep track of your billable hours on every project.

73

1 year ago

A platform that provides a way for small business owners to meet on-demand with a concierge for small tasks, like booking a car, managing a home project, getting a driver’s license, etc.

73

1 year ago

An on-demand service that helps employees of large companies remotely work on their own projects.

73

1 year ago

A startup that plans to compete with Basecamp, Trello and other project management platforms by offering unlimited private projects to its users.

73

1 year ago

This startup is building a connection between developers and local governments to help them build projects faster. They’ve had a great response so far, and the city of San Francisco is using them to build projects like the “people’s hub” on Market Street.

73

1 year ago

A shared workspace for tech companies to rent out their desks and conference rooms for short-term projects.

73

8 months ago

A 90-day “refuge” for artists that allows them to work at their own pace on an art project without pressure to ship a finished product.

73

7 months ago

A tool to help you save, manage, and organize all of your tasks, notes, and things you want to do. It’s like a to-do list that can be viewed as a calendar or spreadsheet and helps you keep track of all of your projects.

73

2 years ago

A new way to train employees without the usual expense of traditional employees. The company says they’re working with many large universities on a new way to train employees in areas like documentation, procurement, and project management without the need for a full-time employee.

72

2 years ago

As part of the Make Tech Easier project, the team is building a tool to help non-tech folks make tech purchases. They have a custom loyalty card that helps users identify the problem they want to solve, then build a purchase workflow. The startup now has $6,000 in monthly recurring revenue after just a year in business.

72

1 year ago

An e-commerce platform for speciality retailers, which worked with a B2B company to get a project off the ground.

72

1 year ago

A platform for managing a team's projects. It provides an online dashboard for project management tasks, and allows employees to collaborate via an online version of Asana.

72

9 months ago

A free, open source SaaS that helps teams collaborate on the same project at the same time.

72

8 months ago

A Slack app that allows team members to post updates to a running project.

72

2 years ago

A project to “create a community to help people get better at hand-eye coordination”.

71

1 year ago

A startup that wants to turn medical transcription into a project management tool.

71

1 year ago

A startup that helps workers and organizations to collaborate on project management, and has a management dashboard. It’s currently $6,000 in debt and looking to raise $500,000.

71

1 year ago

A startup that wants to make payments in space, between two spacecraft. They’re working with NASA on a project that aims to use a satellite system to make it possible to send cash and other items up to space — and then back down on Earth.

71

1 year ago

A tool for nonprofits to raise money for their projects with “a fast, simple and effective way to communicate with potential donors.”

71

1 year ago

A startup that helps fund civic infrastructure projects like bridge repairs and solar panels.

71

2 years ago

A project created by YC alum Eric Migicovsky, it’s a device that can measure your physical activity and communicate with your smartphone.

70

1 year ago

Helping consultants manage projects, get invoices and manage expenses on behalf of their clients. As of last month, the startup has helped over 12,000 consultants.

70

1 year ago

A platform that allows you to build a portfolio of projects that they will publish once they are complete.

70

7 months ago

A startup for finding and organizing freelancers on the go. The startup wants to help freelancers find projects, get paid, and find new clients.

70

2 years ago

A company that aims to help companies make smart decisions about the people and projects they hire. Talent teams can use the company’s SaaS tool to find people with similar backgrounds, track their progress, and see what needs to be done to help them work effectively.

69

2 years ago

Project management software for groups of people who don’t work together frequently.

69

1 year ago

A startup that builds technology and tools for teams, including a project management platform, a task management tool, and a Slack integrations.

69

1 year ago

A platform for people to crowdsource their ideas, and give feedback to others. The startup is building a platform to help businesses and projects solicit feedback, and get ideas.

69

9 months ago

A platform for people to fund projects online and directly from companies. The platform is for people to fund projects online and directly from companies.

69

3 months ago

A project management tool for generating workflows and automating processes.

69

17 days ago

A new apartment community in San Francisco that’s part of a larger, $3.2 billion vertical real estate project.

69

2 years ago

This is an online platform for managing and monitoring construction projects. The startup aims to make it easier for construction companies to track project progress, and manage their workflow.

68

1 year ago

The startup wants to use a combination of machine learning and data science to figure out a person's biological age based on a series of scans and measurements. The projections are meant to help people decide what to do with their retirement.

68

1 year ago

A project management platform for companies who want to maintain a more centralized process for processes like product development and sales.

68

1 year ago

A messaging platform for small teams working on complex projects.

68

1 year ago

A platform for agencies to manage and price out projects.

68

6 months ago

A platform that calls on other people to do work on projects, such as writing code or translating.

68

3 years ago

Idea: A software company that wants to build project management applications that are smarter and easier to use than what’s available today

67

1 year ago

A text-based message-board system built on the open-source project of the same name. BookClub allows users to write messages, read other messages, and share links to articles. Add/remove friends, send and receive messages, and add emojis to your message.

67

9 months ago

A free service that helps maintainers of open source projects get notified about pull requests, monitor project development and make the whole experience easier.

67

9 months ago

A startup that helps people “make the most of their time” by allowing them to do projects during the day when others are at work.

67

8 months ago

Trello is more of an office productivity tool, with functionality for management of projects, sharing of files and tasks, etc. It supports a wide range of file formats and is accessible via web, mobile, or desktop. Trello also supports other services, such as Slack. Trello also offers a free plan to start, with a premium plan starting at $6/month.

67

2 years ago

A tool that allows employees to track and collaborate on projects. The company says the average person wastes nearly an hour each day on email, so it’s designed to help people get more done.

66

1 year ago

A platform that allows you to automate communication and scheduling within a company, along with project management.

66

1 year ago

A tool to help you find the best developers for your new project.

66

1 year ago

Build a community of artists and let them collaborate on their projects.

66

10 months ago

A project management startup that aims to bring project management concepts from other industries to the tech world, by basing its software off of concepts like "flow" and "constraint management."

66

7 months ago

A platform that connects freelancers with projects through an automated matching engine. The startup says it’s currently connecting over 100,000 freelancers and employers.

66

6 months ago

A tool for tracking the progress of projects. It’s currently in beta but has over 1,000 users.

66

1 month ago

The Winter 2014 class was the first class to include the class-wide submission of a side project. The submission was to build a side project that would be presented and discussed at the demo day of the Winter 2014 class. The submission was to build MoonVox, which is a

66

2 years ago

A community of digital creators and a marketplace for their projects, helping them monetize their work. It’s currently in private beta and has just launched a new $5 monthly plan.

65

1 year ago

A joint project between an artist and an engineer, this startup is building an AI-powered bot that can help artists create music.

65

1 year ago

A messaging app for the enterprise, aimed at the “creative” market. The company wants to use the app for project management, chat, and productivity.

65

1 year ago

This is an app that helps companies track their “workforce”, or the people they work with. The startup is working to create a way for companies to track employees’ progress on a project via a web interface, as well as send alerts when certain things are due.

65

1 year ago

This startup wants to make coworking spaces more efficient by building a collaboration platform for workers to get smarter about their projects.

65

1 year ago

This startup is building an app for freelancers that allows them to keep track of projects and get paid.

65

1 year ago

A startup that wants to centralize communication and collaboration between your team and your customer. It works a lot like a project management tool and Slack.

64

1 year ago

A tool that lets people collaborate on a contract basis on a project and build it together.

64

10 months ago

InVision is a platform and API for building digital mockups of products where members can collaborate and share designs, interact with others, and collaborate on projects. The startup is a cross between Slack and Microsoft Flow.

64

7 months ago

An online forum for people who want to share what they’re working on, with support for public or private projects.

64

6 months ago

The startup says it is building a platform for "crowdfunding for the creative community". Their pitch is that crowdfunding is better for creative projects, like art or photography, than for software — because of the community. You can read more about the company at their site .

64

4 months ago

A platform for matching contractors to construction projects, with a focus on rural India.

64

1 year ago

Yaso is building a marketplace for businesses to sell their services on, and a way to crowdsource project management. It’s currently live in Rio de Janeiro, and has built a team of 100 people.

63

1 year ago

The startup is creating software to help companies in the HR and recruiting space scale their efforts, starting with a platform to help agencies manage large projects.

63

1 year ago

A project-management tool for small businesses. Users receive messaging and updates when tasks are completed.

63

1 year ago

A startup that helps students in college and grad school build better resumes by having them share everything from their job board activity to how many hours they’re spending on side projects.

63

8 months ago

A platform that aims to improve the public relations and marketing industries by providing tools for freelancers and agencies to schedule, track, and manage projects.

63

2 years ago

An open source project that offers an infrastructure for building bitcoin-based businesses.

62

1 year ago

A web-based platform for executing and checking off tasks from a single dashboard, built for project managers.

62

1 year ago

A web-based productivity tool for freelancers that lets them create and collaborate on projects, track their progress, and manage their projects with a shared calendar and task management.

62

1 year ago

A software-as-a-service office-wide calendar that lets employees see their schedule, see which colleagues are available, and easily see the status of projects.

62

1 year ago

A platform that helps clients and teams track and manage project plans. The cloud-based platform is used by professional services firms, marketing agencies, and retail companies, with the company’s founders saying they’ve already grown to over $100 million in annual revenue.

62

1 year ago

A startup that provides a database of construction workers, helping contractors find and hire the best employees for their projects.

62

7 months ago

An AI assistant for teams, helping them with tasks and projects.

62

1 year ago

A device that combines a smartphone and a projector into a single streaming device.

61

1 year ago

An AI that helps you intelligently manage your own teams and projects by using AI for tasks like scheduling, project management, and more.

61

1 year ago

A digital audio recorder and mixer that lets you record and mix music for your video project.

61

1 year ago

A “collaboration engine” to help teams work together on projects.

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8 months ago

Smartsheet, the employee engagement and collaboration tool, is expanding into the education market by letting instructors and students collaborate on shared projects.

61

8 months ago

A quick and easy way to design and share interactive charts, illustrations and infographics. Started as a side project in 2012, and expanded its focus to interactivity in 2017.

61

6 months ago

A SaaS startup that helps engineers collaborate on projects using a chat-based tool. The company’s CEO, Ryan Kavanagh, says that it’s already paying off.

61

1 year ago

A project management software company, focused on improving the workflows of design teams.

60

1 year ago

A tool that helps employees collaborate around a project, with a focus on saving time and being more efficient. It also provides a way to communicate with customers and sales.

60

1 year ago

Sellout is a collaborative video editing platform that aims to build on the more popular iOS app Procreate. In addition to the apps, the team behind the app has launched a website and a community forum to promote and discuss the project.

60

1 year ago

A cloud-based IT support service for small businesses, with a focus on customer service, pricing, and callbacks. Their first project was a $25,000 project with a couple of cashflow issues.

60

1 year ago

A tool for evaluating and building custom workflows for software development projects.

60

1 year ago

We do so much screening and sorting of our work email in Outlook. Omnifocus is building a tool for that: a built-in email manager that allows users to view their inbox as it’s being composed, and then jump around quickly to a bunch of different projects with a click.

60

1 year ago

A platform for data science projects, allowing people to submit their code and get feedback on it. They’re also working on a product that helps people sell their data.

60

1 year ago

A way to track the progress of project management and billing from the end user,

60

4 months ago

Connecting an individual to a team of consultants (partner or freelancer) to help with a project.

60

3 months ago

A system that lets schools and other groups send their members on paid volunteer service projects.

60

2 years ago

This startup is building a global network of sports stadiums. It’s first project is in Brazil, where it is partnering with an insurance company to run a stadium that hosts games for the local soccer league. The startup is also working with a real estate developer to build a sports stadium in China.

59

1 year ago

Projects from previous YC batches that have gone on to raise funding

59

1 year ago

A software that allows a group of people to collaborate on a project through multiple channels in real-time.

59

1 year ago

A platform for community-based projects that taps into the power of the “sharing economy”.

59

2 years ago

This startup is building a chatbot that can help you map out your home renovation or design project. It's available in English and Spanish.

58

1 year ago

A cloud-based project management platform for designers and developers, through which they can view client feedback, manage workflows and streamline operations.

58

1 year ago

Startup is building a product that allows companies to manage a large number of project teams, like design teams, engineering teams, and sales and marketing teams, all in one place. The company currently has 25 employees.

58

1 year ago

A startup that wants to build a mobile app for managing a team, serving as a social network for project managers. The company says its goal is to help avoid the “fragmentation of group communications.”

58

1 year ago

This is a service that allows a team of freelancers to work on a single project, with the help of a project manager. The platform lets you specify your project needs and get them done.

58

1 year ago

A project management platform for contractors that can manage projects for less than $40,000.

58

1 year ago

A B2B company that operates as a marketplace for people to request and launch projects, and for businesses to find contractors.

58

6 months ago

A platform that helps users build and publish their own web-based apps. The startup is aiming to offer tools for experienced web developers to build apps that are more easily accessible than the average Github project.

58

1 month ago

A company that wants to build a community for people with common interests in things like the arts, sports and DIY projects.

58

1 year ago

A customer service platform for home builders. Home builders want to be able to track the progress of their projects and be able to visually see that they are on track. It’s a B2B business.

57

1 year ago

A tool for developers that allows them to take the languages they know and apply them to a new project type

57

11 months ago

A free (or low-cost) online platform that helps you to organize your digital life, with different tabs for different projects like apps, notebooks, notes and more.

57

1 month ago

A company that helps a user’s team manage a project that spans multiple locations.

57

2 years ago

A project management platform that allows anyone to set tasks and track progress, even if they don’t have a team.

56

1 year ago

A free and open-source project that helps you collect and display your favorite images, videos and social posts in a beautiful, easy to navigate interface

56

1 year ago

A scheduling app for software development projects, with a focus on agile projects, to help teams work from the same schedule.

56

1 year ago

An open-source project that aims to bring the ability to program robots to anyone, regardless of coding experience.

56

1 year ago

A software-as-a-service platform for managing large project management teams on multiple projects across different geographies

56

1 year ago

A Slack-like messaging app that is designed to be collaborative, not competitive. The app is meant to be a collaborative workspace for employees working on projects.

56

8 months ago

A tool for managing a mix of tasks, like insurance claims, and more complex projects, like a web app.

56

6 months ago

A tool for LOBs, or “long-term engagements”, which are work projects that are longer than a few months.

56

1 year ago

A startup that connects independent contractors to clients. This is a B2B startup that aims to help clients hire on a project-by-project basis.

55

1 year ago

A platform for businesses to manage their project portfolios, ensure they have access to the right resources and make their projects more efficient.

55

1 year ago

A guide to connecting with the right crowdfunding platform for your particular project

55

1 year ago

An online network that connects tech companies with non-tech companies for common projects. It also charges for consulting services for projects. The startup is backed by Benchmark.

55

1 year ago

A SaaS platform for small businesses to manage their projects and projects for them, including accounting, management, and other back-office types of functions.

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1 year ago

A tool that allows workers to send messages to their managers, such as “I’m on my way to work now” or “I’m busy working on this project right now”.

55

1 year ago

A tool that allows local contractors to create a profile of their work, and then, when a project is ready to be bid, the contractor can upload their work and get an instant quote from the bidders. The company charges $25 per month for the service, and the company is currently in private beta.

55

1 year ago

A project management platform that connects teams with on-demand freelancers and contractors.

55

8 months ago

A project management app aimed at operations which can be easily streamlined by technology.

55

7 months ago

A team-work software that helps employees keep track of their daily tasks and projects.

55

1 year ago

A space for people to work and collaborate on projects, without the office.

54

1 year ago

A startup for contractors to organize and manage their projects

54

1 year ago

A digital construction company for homeowners and builders, a platform for managing all the DIY projects in one place.

54

1 year ago

A hardware startup that sells a low-cost, low-energy, laser-based 3D printer that can print out objects from a 3D file. The team at PRINT.AI is led by a serial entrepreneur who has participated in Y Combinator, including projects such as Exakte and Foundry.

54

1 year ago

Community for people who want to learn how to code and get started with a project.

54

7 months ago

A startup that’s building a way for designers to collaborate easily and quickly on a wide variety of projects.

54

1 month ago

A platform for businesses to find and hire from a database of experienced volunteers for their projects.

54

1 year ago

A software platform for managing, tracking and reporting on a project’s finances. The startup aims to help companies simplify their finance, streamline decision-making, and get all the data they need on a project, in real-time.

53

1 year ago

The startup is built around an ad-hoc infrastructure for sharing small jobs (up to $100) between companies. Previously, small businesses have to either go through the pain of setting up their own internal app or use their own separate contractor management platform (like TaskRabbit). The startup uses its API to help companies manage their workforces, with a platform that allows for bid and project management.

53

1 year ago

A startup for home repair projects. It’s a platform for homeowners to get paid for providing services, which they’ll do by doing the job themselves or hiring someone else.

53

1 year ago

A startup that’s building a peer-to-peer platform that allows people to fund real estate projects without having to sell equity in themselves.

53

1 year ago

A way to share and collaborate on software engineering projects

53

1 year ago

A startup that helps your home become an office. The startup offers a set of tools to manage and organize tasks, like setting reminders and adding action items to an ongoing project.

53

1 year ago

A way to track the progress of project management and billing from the end user, helping them work out exactly how much time is being spent on their projects. It’s free for everyone to use.

53

1 year ago

A custom software application that helps the construction industry automate processes like sales order and invoice management, project management, and cost control.

53

1 year ago

A company that wants to take the average project manager and make them into a CEO.

53

7 months ago

A company that builds internal apps and tools for real-time project collaboration.

53

6 months ago

A system to track and monitor pipeline projects, allowing companies to keep a tab on the status of their projects, including detailed project plans and team members.

53

1 year ago

A platform for freelance designers to get paid for their designs. Designers can create a portfolio and sell projects via the platform, which is free for the first 3 projects.

52

1 year ago

A platform that helps large companies manage small teams through tools like project management, HR management and other functions.

52

1 month ago

This startup aims to help open source projects find developers by second-hand posting their job listings to the site.

52

1 month ago

A platform for business and creative professionals to collaborate remotely on projects.

52

3 years ago

Idea: The best way to learn a new programming language is to practice it through a project

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1 year ago

A toolkit for developers to manage their projects and automate their workflows, helping them stay on top of their work.

51

1 year ago

A platform connecting people and companies that want to give back to the community. The platform lets companies create and pay for work to be done in the community, allows groups to organize projects, and allows people to find work that matches their skills.

51

1 year ago

A digital platform for matching philanthropists who want to give their time to charities. It claims to be international in scope and that it has already funded over 100 projects.

51

1 year ago

A startup that connects a team of freelance designers, developers and designers with a small business needing help on a project.

51

1 year ago

A tool for keeping track of the people who are responsible for delivering a project.

51

1 year ago

A free service that helps companies plan and execute their business in the most time-efficient manner possible. The company today is focused on using machine learning to find the best timewise schedule for a project.

50

1 year ago

A collaborative editing tool that focuses on helping authors collaborate without having to deal with tech issues like screen recording, screen sharing, and file management. The product is a browser-based video editing tool that lets two or more people work together on a video project.

50

7 months ago

A web-based community for photographers, where photographers can show off their work, collaborate on projects, and get feedback from other photographers.

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5 months ago

An analytics project management app

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1 year ago

A company that helps people collect and report information on the state of the planet and helps them predict where the next natural disaster is likely to strike. It’s a project for The Planetary Society, an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to space exploration.

49

1 year ago

This startup is building a tool for project management, allowing clients to track the progress of their projects and see the costs for the project.

49

1 year ago

A project management tool for digital product teams, built for agile development.

49

1 year ago

A remote worker platform that aims to help teams of people collaborate on projects with others, with a set of tools that aggregate users and provide them with status updates and other feedback.

49

1 year ago

An e-commerce platform that features custom-built construction hardware stores, and an iOS app to help contractors and designers manage their projects.

49

1 year ago

A startup that helps developers prioritize and track their projects. Instead of a long list of tasks, developers can create multiple tasks that run in parallel, with the app keeping track of their order. Other startups in the space include Asana, Basecamp and Trello.

49

1 year ago

A tool that helps global teams collaborate and manage projects online.

49

1 year ago

A tool for small teams to manage projects and projects. The founders say that they want to create a new class of company, the “Project Manager”.

49

11 months ago

The startup aims to help teams communicate with each other during a shared, distributed, or remote project. Viable has closed a $1.6 million Series A.

49

6 months ago

A digital concierge service whereby contractors bid on a project, and the winner gets paid. The startup has been running for two years and is profitable, working with over 1,000 contractors in the US.

49

6 months ago

A tool for tracking the progress of your projects, with a “track everything” approach.

49

1 year ago

This company helps companies track their software development projects with a combination of analytics, artificial intelligence and online learning.

48

1 year ago

A software company that helps customers manage the complexities of modern managing a construction project on-time and within budget.

48

11 months ago

A startup that makes it easier for teachers to collaborate on lesson plans, from running groups to organizing projects.

48

6 months ago

A startup for freelance developers that aims to remove the friction from finding and using their services. It’s a marketplace that matches developers with specific projects, and resembles a job board in many ways.

48

5 months ago

A platform for college students to connect and collaborate on projects. The service allows students to connect with other students in their school and city and launch projects together. There are currently over 100,000 students using the platform.

48

4 months ago

The startup is building an app that connects people in the D.C. area to water conservation projects in their areas. The app will let people see which businesses are installing water conservation measures, helping them help the environment and save money in the process.

48

1 year ago

A tech startup that helps businesses optimize their resource allocation by matching the right skills to the right projects.

47

1 year ago

A platform that helps people share the stories of their lives, a project of the social news site Upworthy. The site has been around since 2009 and has a history of making viral posts that go viral.

47

1 year ago

A “workplace transformation“ company that helps companies bring together members of different teams and give them access to other team’s data and projects.

47

1 year ago

A Slack-like organization tool for freelancers, with plans to add project management tools and add an API for third-party developers.

47

1 year ago

A software developer’s startup is building an online platform that helps developers have greater visibility into their projects. The company’s CEO says it solves the problem of having to constantly check in on progress of each project.

47

11 months ago

A software platform that builds new cities for real estate developers to use as case studies for new real estate projects.

47

11 months ago

A web and mobile app that seamlessly connects your website and app with a global pool of freelance developers to power your projects.

47

10 months ago

A way to connect real estate agents with projects that need their services

47

7 months ago

Ini: It's an open source project to make it easy to get data into a data warehouse. It works with Apache Airflow.

47

6 months ago

The startup’s pitch is that their service can help your employees do things from their desks that they can’t do from their phones — like providing accurate, up to the minute updates on the status of a project.

47

1 year ago

A tool to help companies manage time and planning for projects, thus saving headaches and time.

46

1 year ago

A platform for teams to get together for collaborative coding and brainstorming sessions, or for an individual to work through a document or project alone, with in-person or remote access.

46

7 months ago

A company that takes data from the USDA, CDC and other sources and combines it with other information, such as weather forecasts and traffic projections, to provide consumers with personalized shopping recommendations.

46

1 year ago

This is a community for people who like to make things. The community brings makers together to share their projects and ideas, and help each other out.

45

1 year ago

A tool for managing projects, with a focus on small businesses. In the past year it helped over 60% of its users cash out their businesses.

45

1 year ago

A startup that wants to help users collaborate with each other on projects by having each user share and comment on a single file.

45

1 year ago

This B2B company is helping the hospitality industry track the organization of a room, project or event.

45

1 year ago

A startup that helps teachers find and get funding for interesting projects in their classroom as part of their professional development.

45

11 months ago

A social network for organizations that helps them better communicate, manage and track their projects and the impact they’ve had. Built on top of a powerful AI engine that can monitor, predict, and maximize the effectiveness of a company’s output.

45

11 months ago

This staffing agency is looking to help its clients hire virtual assistants and project managers outside of their offices.

45

11 months ago

This startup is developing a new way for developers to build apps for crowdfunding platforms. It will build custom software for each project, and also work as a consultant for founders to make sure their campaigns are compliant.

45

10 months ago

Indiegogo's projects are ranked by the number of backers they have, with each project required to have at least 1,000 backers before they are eligible for the “Most Funded” ranking. The number of backers is determined by the number of times the project has been funded.

45

10 months ago

A startup that gives students a way to get paid for work they do on school assignments and projects.

45

9 months ago

A Slack-like chat platform that focuses on business, making it easier to collaborate across projects.

45

6 months ago

A startup for people working in the creative sector, developed for people who need to collaborate on video projects, with a strong emphasis on screenwriting.

45

5 months ago

A tool that makes it easy for people to collaborate and work together on their projects, without having to resort to emailing files around.

45

1 month ago

A global platform where companies can collaborate on software development projects.

45

1 year ago

A freelance marketplace for coders, where developers and entrepreneurs can find each other to work on projects.

44

1 year ago

Helping homeowners with home improvement projects and fixing problems with their mortgages.

44

10 months ago

A tool for remote teams to manage their expenses, take care of taxes and project expenses.

44

6 months ago

A platform for companies to use to manage support requests, issue tickets and track project lifecycles.

44

6 months ago

A startup for keeping an eye on things like construction projects and tax liabilities. It’s in the very early stages, but is still profitable.

44

1 year ago

A startup that builds a simple, visual way to organize and track projects. The startup aims to help teams be more productive by making it easy to create tasks and access them later.

43

1 year ago

A project management app for Android. The app helps teams collaborate with one another, and includes a built in wiki.

43

1 year ago

This startup is building a full-stack, enterprise-grade software platform for gaming that can be embedded into other businesses. Reasons for this include the growing e-sports market and the fact that there are now more than 1.5 million gamers, with a projected growth rate of 50% a year.

43

1 year ago

A campaign that allows users to create videos of their social media posts and sends it to politicians via Facebook. It’s an election-year project that’s trying to get both parties to put social media on their agendas.

43

1 year ago

A project management platform that helps teams manage projects and tasks, and has built-in support for time tracking, emailing, and more. The company is used by Y Combinator companies and has a team of 30.

43

1 year ago

A startup that aims to be the Apple Store for the design world. Its goal is to provide design assistance to small businesses, including working on projects like a website, logo, or stationery set.

43

1 year ago

A SaaS platform that allows freelancers to charge clients based on their performance in a project. “Freelancer.com is doing $1.5bn in transactions. We think that is too expensive. We want to bring it down to $1.”

43

11 months ago

A social network for the self-employed, allowing freelancers to connect with each other, share tips and services, and engage on projects.

43

9 months ago

A digital portfolio that lets creatives show off events and projects, and lets others see what you’ve worked on.

43

6 months ago

This is an office space located in the heart of Bangalore’s commercial district. It’s a co-working space for small businesses with flexible rates and an area for entrepreneurs to work on their own projects.

43

2 months ago

A tool for keeping track of your team, projects and clients.

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1 year ago

A startup for freelancers, connecting companies with people who can complete projects. The startup is building a marketplace for the people who do the “last mile” of the project, who can do the tasks that companies themselves can’t do.

42

1 year ago

A platform that matches people who need time off with freelance business owners who need help managing projects. It is being pitched by the co-founders as a way to bridge the “digital divide” between freelancers and employees.

42

10 months ago

A startup that helps people find companies that hire skilled craftspeople, whether for short-term gigs like a house painting or upcoming projects like a roofing job.

42

10 months ago

This is a project management tool for people who want to track their time, schedule meetings, and manage projects.

42

9 months ago

A startup for teams to share code, get feedback and create branches for collaboration. Fork is for programmers who are just starting out, or who want to experiment with different code or collaborate on projects at work. It’s free to download and use.

42

7 months ago

A company that wants to bring a more collaborative, flexible alternative to Slack. The company’s CEO is focused on the project so deeply that he’s been known to send his employees to work from the kitchen while they’re cooking, getting all of their orders out and done.

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6 months ago

A bit like Slack, but for work chat. It aims to help people from all over the world collaborate on projects.

42

6 months ago

A platform that lets business owners organize their team and manage projects. This startup, based in San Francisco, is looking to bring a lot of the management and project management features of classic project management tools to the business owner.

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1 year ago

A product management tool that brings together all of the communication tools that a product manager uses to manage projects.

41

11 months ago

A subscription platform for DIY projects, with a focus on home improvement projects. The startup is looking to help homeowners save money on their home improvement projects by removing the need for a contractor.

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10 months ago

A talent platform where users can find the best talent for their projects and projects in the market.

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9 months ago

This company designs and builds special equipment for the oil and gas industry. It also has a couple of projects in the works to create customized equipment for other industries.

41

9 months ago

The B2B business is a platform for small businesses to request, build and manage their projects.

41

9 months ago

A startup that helps companies and government officials in developing countries set up their own bond sales to fund infrastructure projects.

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4 months ago

A startup for “passion projects” to connect people with partners who can help finance their projects.

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3 months ago

This startup is building an AI assistant that helps people with their finances. The startup began as a project at MIT to build a simple AI that can intelligently manage your finances.

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1 year ago

A company that aims to “make it easy for anyone to deploy software” by providing a platform for developers to collaborate on code, manage their projects, and share codebases

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1 year ago

Activity Charts is a project management tool that aims to help people stay on top of their work, while being able to see how they spend their time.

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11 months ago

A platform that will give clients access to a pool of freelance talent to complete their projects. The startup’s funding comes from YCombinator, with its app launching in June.

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10 months ago

This startup is building software to allow people to track the progress of projects they are working on, ideating on things they’re working on, and get feedback from colleagues.

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10 months ago

A startup that’s building an online forum for inner-city teens to share advice and work together on creative projects.

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9 months ago

A startup that makes it easy for businesses to find and hire independent contractors who can fill positions like data entry, project management, etc.

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9 months ago

A tool that logs, tracks, and categorizes the work of designers, writers, and other creative types. Screenhero is a tool that takes the pain out of tracking time spent on projects and organizing it.

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9 months ago

The startup aims to make it easier for employees to do their work remotely, so they can stop being on call and focus on their projects.

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5 months ago

The Slack-style messaging app for games, called Gamejam. The startup wants to make it easier for game developers to collaborate on projects, as well as get feedback, feedback, and more feedback.

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4 months ago

Startup that takes a concept like crowdfunding – selling a project or idea to the public – and turns it into a digital marketplace for a wide variety of funding options.

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3 months ago

A company that wants to build a social network for the blockchain, but without the social aspects of other blockchain projects.

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7 days ago

A startup that allows brands to launch crowdfunding campaigns to finance their projects and product. The startup wants to help brands launch more ambitious projects.

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It’s a project management tool for short-term engineering and construction projects.

A startup that lets you hire contractors for household projects

A startup that allows people to hire a personal assistant in an hourly or per-project basis

A platform that helps designers collaborate on projects and publish their work online. The startup is currently in a beta phase, and has built a large audience that has helped it refine its design process.

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

A digital platform for the creative community. It is a marketplace that connects creative talent with needs-based projects.

Twilio, a company that provides cloud-based communication and telephony APIs, is one of the most well-known startups at YC. Their newest project is a tool that helps call center agents manage multiple languages.

A platform for quick and easy project management for small businesses, including software, creative, and other services.

A platform that connects people to community service projects near them, with a web-based platform and mobile app.

A startup for homeowners to negotiate the terms of a renovation project through a combination of price quotes and time estimates.

Bots that make the complex work of managing a home remodeling project more manageable. The company is working with HVAC contractors and property managers to aggregate data from hundreds of homes to help them do a better job of forecasting and managing their projects.

A startup that connects home improvement teams with consumers who need help with their projects.

This startup is building a way for merchants to connect with local contractors to handle big projects.

A startup for connecting freelancers with projects.

A tech-focused project management platform for small to midsize teams.

A startup that connects companies with qualified freelance IT workers to help them complete projects and stay on-task. It’s “a digital concierge for your business.”

A startup that allows people to find and hire a contractor to complete a small project.

A startup that helps people in India and Southeast Asia build and manage projects, helping them collaborate on all aspects of the project.

An email and social network for people to create and share plans for their home renovation projects.

A tool for freelancers looking to manage work on the go. The company says it’s managed $6 million of projects over the last two years.

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

A project management tool for teams.

Employees that treat hiring like an automated data science project

A startup for freelance work that connects project managers with developers, designers, and marketers.

Web and mobile app for freelancers and small businesses to manage projects and invoicing quickly.

A startup that helps engineers manage the full lifecycle of their software projects. It’s a B2B SaaS platform serving developers worldwide.

A startup that offers an online marketplace for freelance workers to work on projects together.

A company that creates a tool to help developers find and join the communities of open source software projects that are most relevant to them.

An AI-based machine learning project to help identify specific threats to the public water supply in a specific area.

A tool for managing software development projects, including the creation of a “project portfolio” and the ability to track progress against a timeline.

A startup that helps optimize “predictions and projections” for companies.

A platform for projects that want to test their products at scale before releasing them.

A company that aims to bring employees and freelancers together for projects, via a platform known as the "Freelancer's Network".

The startup is building a platform that allows developers to build apps that integrate with Amazon Echo. It’s a side project for the founders of the company.

A project management tool for non-profits, with a “social component” that helps them manage events and volunteers.

A company that offers a platform for legal, tax, accounting, and compliance professionals to collaborate on legal and finance projects, and share the results.

A platform that lets people generate a custom quote for their own project at their own price.

A marketing tool for crowdfunding platforms that helps founders and project managers track projects and keep track of fundraising progress.

A platform that allows users to share their ideas, design concepts or even start working on a project to get feedback from other users.

A business calendar app that helps employees in a company collaborate on project updates.

For developers, this is an app that lets you see all your projects from the same place.

A startup that makes a tool for people to write down all the steps they need to take to complete a project

A venture-backed startup that’s building a platform for home builders that helps them manage their quality assurance, build projects faster, and reduce costs.

Recode is a project from Cheddar that provides video interviews with the founders of startups in the technology sector.

An Indian startup aiming to build a “cloud-based project management system” for construction projects. The company says it is unique in that it allows people to manage all aspects of a project from a single interface.

A company that helps employees share information about their projects. It’s also an app that powers human resources at major companies.

The Startup is building out a free, open-source toolset for managing your GitHub project.

A company that helps crews build and launch new apps without a lot of upfront capital. It’s launching with an app that helps small businesses with the software development process—from project definition to iteration on a prototype to launch.

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

A project management tool for people with small teams, meant to make it easier to track tasks and track progress.

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

This startup is building a toolset that helps cities and counties track and manage construction projects.

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

A tool that helps teams manage project workflows, and which the startup is building for sales, support, marketing, and engineering teams.

A tool that helps companies legally rent apartment units in a short span of time. The startup is building a marketplace for short-term rental projects.

This is a collaboration tool that helps teams collaborate on projects by integrating tasks across email, Slack, Trello, and Google Drive.

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

A Slack-like service for projects that can be kicked off quickly and then come back to life at a later date.

This startup is building a platform that allows students to collaborate on projects and write code across school systems, in the hopes of creating a more creative learning environment.

A joint project of the US Department of Agriculture and the National Park Service, which is trying to create a mobile payment system for parks.

A tool for on-demand professionals, like a concierge or personal trainer, to charge customers by the hour and by the project.

A project management and time-tracking service that smartly integrates with Google Apps

A software-as-a-service startup that helps developers manage projects.

A tool for helping contractors bid on construction projects. It’s already on the job in Spain.

GreenStone is a B2B company that wants to help companies make better decisions about energy usage. They’re currently working on energy efficiency projects with large companies like Apple.

Slack is a project management and chat platform for teams and groups. Slack builds software as a service (SaaS) products, which are web-based applications that companies or organizations can use instead of having to install or maintain software on their own computer.

A Slack-like tool for managing and collaborating on projects.

A startup that provides a visual dashboard of project health and progress. The startup uses AI to crowdsource 3,000 hours of data from 50,000 employees and then provides a visualization of the health of your project.

A startup building a “cloud-based project management system that helps you manage projects and tasks, collaborate with people across the organization, and automate tasks.” The startup has raised $1.5 million from investors including Y Combinator.

In June 2018, the Startup Genome Project released data on the 100 most active venture-backed startups in the world. Of the top 100 startups, 12 were based in the San Francisco Bay Area. That was more than any other single city in the world.

A tool that helps people find and hire contractors, as a way to streamline home-improvement projects.

A chatbot that helps you track the progress of your project. A chatbot that helps you track the progress of your project.

A tool for doing data science on a continuous basis, allowing companies to pull real-time data rather than waiting for an annual report or project to happen.

A company that’s created a new platform for managing teams and projects — a tool designed to help teams stay organized and on top of their work.

A tool to help companies manage multiple workflows and processes for a single project. It’s available as a Chrome extension.

A platform for volunteer-powered projects that allows citizens to crowdsource solutions to local problems. It helps cities and nonprofits connect with volunteers to solve challenges like pollution, hunger, homelessness.

A startup that aims to give sellers the ability to sell their projects on their own terms, without having to go through a large reseller in the middle.