Return Startup Ideas

2 years ago

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

218

1 year ago

A way to help people file tax returns for free.

211

2 years ago

A company that helps retailers manage product returns and make refunds faster, more efficiently, and cheaper.

196

2 years ago

A startup building a software platform for retail that automates product returns, credit, and refunds on all e-commerce sites

180

2 years ago

A platform that helps advertisers to optimize the return on investment for their digital campaigns.

148

2 years ago

A company that helps people get their taxes done on time. The startup, which is looking to launch in January, wants to eliminate audits for clients with simple returns but complex returns, and is getting help from Y Combinator.

143

1 year ago

This B2B SaaS company is building a program that helps companies manage their product delivery services and handle issues like returns and warranty claims.

134

2 years ago

A startup that produces a checklist for people who are going on vacation Gives them a list of things to do before they leave and things to do when they return

133

1 year ago

Serves as an “Amazon” for the “prosumers” who buy and sell things on Amazon that they can’t sell on Amazon, which handles shipping, returns, and customer service.

133

2 years ago

A startup that uses the power of past sales information to predict returns on investments, helping investors make better financial decisions.

128

2 years ago

A tool for retailers to manage returns, store inventory, and track inventory and sales

126

2 years ago

A startup that makes a tool that helps explain your tax return to your accountant

124

2 years ago

A bot that can automatically find lost items and return them to their owner.

123

2 years ago

Yieldbot is a property management software startup looking to help people manage their real estate investment properties, and get an extra return on their investment.

119

2 years ago

A cloud-based company that helps fund managers build portfolios based on algorithms that match the risk and return of specific types of bonds.

117

2 years ago

A new kind of search engine that gets results from dozens of sources and instantly returns more relevant results to users. Its search engine can also be connected to digital assistants like Alexa or Google Home

113

1 year ago

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

108

2 years ago

This is a tool that helps small business with their tax returns. The startup is called TurboTax because it claims to be a more comprehensive and efficient way to get your taxes done.

101

2 years ago

A solution that helps large retailers and manufacturers avoid expensive damage and return costs.

101

1 year ago

The following startups are no longer in YC but will be returning for the 11th batch in June:

99

2 years ago

A tool that converts your tax returns into a report for the government. It’s built for people who do not have access to a tax professional.

98

2 years ago

This company wants to replace the often-painful experience of filling out a tax return with a more automated process. The startup is working on a software program that will work with H&R Block’s online software to take the pain out of filing a tax return and streamline the process. The company says it has $1.5 million in monthly revenue.

93

1 year ago

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

87

1 year ago

A shopping service for large retailers that serves as a “digital concierge”, helping shoppers find everything they’re looking for, and ensures they get it, including delivery and returns.

84

2 years ago

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

82

2 years ago

A company that helps millennials save money on their mortgage. It takes a percentage of the savings that are returned to the customer after applying the savings to the mortgage.

82

1 year ago

A startup that tries to deliver a “return on investment” for security, allowing businesses to get a lot of value out of a physical security guard.

82

1 year ago

A platform to help consumers get the best return on their money in their financial accounts. The startup wants to take on a large part of the financial industry and make it more transparent to consumers.

81

2 years ago

A platform that helps retail merchants with third-party logistics and returns.

79

1 year ago

A platform that helps businesses manage their inventory. It provides alerts on sales, insurance, shipping, and returns.

75

1 year ago

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

73

2 months ago

A streaming platform that provides all the funding a business needs by encouraging investors to give them money in return for rewards.

72

7 months ago

A bike-sharing program, with docking stations located in neighborhoods, and users renting and returning bikes at their homes.

67

6 months ago

In July, the Brazilian government canceled a $500 million investment in Uber. In response, Uber Brazil has been building a team of 150 to prepare for its eventual return to the country.

67

1 year ago

A startup that helps merchants manage the process of returning items. This startup is run by CFOs for major retailers.

65

1 year ago

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

62

11 months ago

A startup that helps advertisers manage, monitor and analyze the return on investment for all of the advertising that a company does, using proprietary data sets.

60

8 months ago

A filing app that helps people file tax returns while they’re on the go. Filing is a big pain point, especially for the elderly.

60

1 year ago

A company that provides a way to quickly and affordably hire an individual on an as-needed basis. It allows the worker to walk into a company and get paid for a short period of time, and then return to the company on a different schedule.

59

11 months ago

This startup helps manufacturers of consumer goods track their products and efficiently manage customer returns.

59

1 year ago

Ordering dry cleaning on the phone, meeting delivery times, charging for lost items, and tracking returns.

58

1 year ago

A subscription-based service that makes it easier for retailers to manage their shipping and returns.

55

1 year ago

An investment platform that looks at past investment returns to give investors more information on companies they might want to invest in.

54

1 year ago

A company that offers a new way to invest in real estate. The startup’s platform offers monthly payments of invested capital with a fixed rate of return on a pool of real estate investments. It’s a p2p lending platform, and its first customers are on a waitlist.

53

11 months ago

A business that’s building a “staging” system for retail stores. It’s a platform for stores to sell products on consignment and for customers to buy the products and then return them if it doesn’t fit their needs.

53

8 months ago

A startup that helps people, who are on the go and need to return a product, to find a nearby drop-off spot and pay for it.

49

6 months ago

A startup that helps developers get a better return on their capital and provide an efficient way to build products.

48

1 year ago

Convey is a startup that uses machine learning to help retail and other companies identify places where potential customers are shopping online and offering those companies a share of the purchase in return for data.

47

1 year ago

A startup that helps small businesses and nonprofits sell merchandise online. The company provides the software, but it also handles the returns, shipping, and customer service.

47

1 year ago

A fashion platform for buying clothes with easy returns and no re-stock fees

44

1 year ago

A tool for helping people manage their tax filings by seeing who’s owed what and for what. The company tracks nontaxable income and credits, and helps you fill out your tax returns.

43

7 months ago

Evalues how likely a user is to return to a place or site. The company wants to provide a platform for merchants to determine how likely they think a customer is to return to their location.

42

1 month ago

A company that uses the power of partnerships to help individual people invest in tiny startups and get a return.

42

10 months ago

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

41

8 months ago

A tool that uses data analytics to help companies predict how many customers they’ll be able to retain, allowing them to make decisions before they hit a point of diminishing return.

41

9 months ago

A SaaS company that helps customers optimize their returns and prevent fraud.

39

10 months ago

A virtual assistant for office tasks, like getting a return email to a client or scheduling a conference call.

37

5 months ago

A white label startup that helps companies with co-branded eCommerce experience management by providing prebuilt eCommerce pages and websites, full shipping and returns processing, and a dashboard for tracking and monitoring the results of a customer experience.

37

4 months ago

This startup is trying to take the hassle out of finding a flight for an upcoming vacation. Rather than waiting for multiple websites to return the results, FlightHub finds the cheapest flight for a given route, then books it for you automatically.

37

9 months ago

A tool for online retail stores to scan and capture sales data, allowing them to do business analytics and automate back-office functions like shipping and returns.

35

8 months ago

A company that tries to help replace the traditional annual tax return with quarterly tax returns

35

2 months ago

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

35

8 months ago

A tool to help people with e-commerce businesses better understand the return of their inventory and look at their data quickly and visually.

34

8 months ago

A tool to help small businesses in the UK and Ireland manage their tax filing. The company offers a free, self-service tax filing tool that lets businesses file their tax returns online, and pay their tax electronically.

34

6 months ago

A consumer app that helps with the “lifecycle of a purchase”, helping users order products then return them, saving the merchant money and decreasing waste.

34

4 months ago

This startup is building a platform for B2C e-commerce that provides a seamless checkout process, with shipping and returns built in.

33

1 month ago

A platform for online retail where shoppers can try before they buy. They’re looking to offer a trial period for clothes and accessories, and then a 30-day return policy, to ensure you’re happy with your purchase before committing.

33

6 months ago

A startup that helps people pick up and return things to a central location quickly. It’s an Uber-like service, but for things.

32

3 months ago

A web-based platform that allows consumers to share their personal data with companies and in return get discounts and other perks.

32

9 months ago

A tool that helps people manage their investments and track their returns, with a team of professional investors ready to help answer questions.

31

6 months ago

A company that’s building a predictive analytics platform that tracks customer behavior to provide predictions on things like when a customer might make a purchase, what they might buy, and how they might make a return.

28

11 days ago

This is an algorithmic company that claims to be able to predict whether an investment will make money. They’re not in the business of selling, but of helping investors make better decisions that can help them get a better return.

26

5 months ago

This startup wants to reduce the vacuum of small-time investors. It wants to help small-time investors to make money by helping them invest in the startups that are providing them with the best return on investment.

25

3 months ago

This startup is trying to make it easier for small businesses to access capital. The company is building a marketplace where borrowers can connect with investors who are willing to invest small amounts of money in exchange for a higher return.

24

3 months ago

This B2B startup helps companies with their return processing in order to pass the savings on to the customer. It’s also built to be reactive, so it’s responsive to the customer’s needs, rather than being a one-size-fits-all solution.

23

6 months ago

A financial planning app for investors who want to track their investments. The app is free for individual investors, and is designed to help people save money, get better returns, and make better decisions.

22

3 months ago

A platform for automated marketing campaigns, letting you send welcome home email to customers when they return to their homes.

22

4 months ago

A startup that offers mobile phone repair at its storefronts, with the first location opening in June 2015. The company says that most of its repairs cost $70, but that it can return a phone to a customer for free if it doesn’t work.

21

8 hours ago

A company that helps clients of an additional cost-sharing program get reimbursed by their insurance company. The company charges a flat fee and can return the money to the client in a check. Their price depends on the state of the client’s insurance.

0

2 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can buy a car from a car lot that you can return in a few years if you don’t want to keep it

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2 years ago

A startup that helps people find their lost stuff and get a reward if they return it

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Return Startup Ideas

A way to help people file tax returns for free.

A company that helps retailers manage product returns and make refunds faster, more efficiently, and cheaper.

A startup building a software platform for retail that automates product returns, credit, and refunds on all e-commerce sites

A platform that helps advertisers to optimize the return on investment for their digital campaigns.

A company that helps people get their taxes done on time. The startup, which is looking to launch in January, wants to eliminate audits for clients with simple returns but complex returns, and is getting help from Y Combinator.

This B2B SaaS company is building a program that helps companies manage their product delivery services and handle issues like returns and warranty claims.

A startup that produces a checklist for people who are going on vacation Gives them a list of things to do before they leave and things to do when they return

Serves as an “Amazon” for the “prosumers” who buy and sell things on Amazon that they can’t sell on Amazon, which handles shipping, returns, and customer service.

A startup that uses the power of past sales information to predict returns on investments, helping investors make better financial decisions.

A tool for retailers to manage returns, store inventory, and track inventory and sales

A startup that makes a tool that helps explain your tax return to your accountant

A bot that can automatically find lost items and return them to their owner.

Yieldbot is a property management software startup looking to help people manage their real estate investment properties, and get an extra return on their investment.

A cloud-based company that helps fund managers build portfolios based on algorithms that match the risk and return of specific types of bonds.

A new kind of search engine that gets results from dozens of sources and instantly returns more relevant results to users. Its search engine can also be connected to digital assistants like Alexa or Google Home

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

This is a tool that helps small business with their tax returns. The startup is called TurboTax because it claims to be a more comprehensive and efficient way to get your taxes done.

A solution that helps large retailers and manufacturers avoid expensive damage and return costs.

The following startups are no longer in YC but will be returning for the 11th batch in June:

A tool that converts your tax returns into a report for the government. It’s built for people who do not have access to a tax professional.

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

A shopping service for large retailers that serves as a “digital concierge”, helping shoppers find everything they’re looking for, and ensures they get it, including delivery and returns.

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

A company that helps millennials save money on their mortgage. It takes a percentage of the savings that are returned to the customer after applying the savings to the mortgage.

A startup that tries to deliver a “return on investment” for security, allowing businesses to get a lot of value out of a physical security guard.

A platform to help consumers get the best return on their money in their financial accounts. The startup wants to take on a large part of the financial industry and make it more transparent to consumers.

A platform that helps retail merchants with third-party logistics and returns.

A platform that helps businesses manage their inventory. It provides alerts on sales, insurance, shipping, and returns.

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

A streaming platform that provides all the funding a business needs by encouraging investors to give them money in return for rewards.

A bike-sharing program, with docking stations located in neighborhoods, and users renting and returning bikes at their homes.

In July, the Brazilian government canceled a $500 million investment in Uber. In response, Uber Brazil has been building a team of 150 to prepare for its eventual return to the country.

A startup that helps merchants manage the process of returning items. This startup is run by CFOs for major retailers.

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

A startup that helps advertisers manage, monitor and analyze the return on investment for all of the advertising that a company does, using proprietary data sets.

A filing app that helps people file tax returns while they’re on the go. Filing is a big pain point, especially for the elderly.

A company that provides a way to quickly and affordably hire an individual on an as-needed basis. It allows the worker to walk into a company and get paid for a short period of time, and then return to the company on a different schedule.

This startup helps manufacturers of consumer goods track their products and efficiently manage customer returns.

Ordering dry cleaning on the phone, meeting delivery times, charging for lost items, and tracking returns.

A subscription-based service that makes it easier for retailers to manage their shipping and returns.

An investment platform that looks at past investment returns to give investors more information on companies they might want to invest in.

A company that offers a new way to invest in real estate. The startup’s platform offers monthly payments of invested capital with a fixed rate of return on a pool of real estate investments. It’s a p2p lending platform, and its first customers are on a waitlist.

A business that’s building a “staging” system for retail stores. It’s a platform for stores to sell products on consignment and for customers to buy the products and then return them if it doesn’t fit their needs.

A startup that helps people, who are on the go and need to return a product, to find a nearby drop-off spot and pay for it.

A startup that helps developers get a better return on their capital and provide an efficient way to build products.

Convey is a startup that uses machine learning to help retail and other companies identify places where potential customers are shopping online and offering those companies a share of the purchase in return for data.

A startup that helps small businesses and nonprofits sell merchandise online. The company provides the software, but it also handles the returns, shipping, and customer service.

A fashion platform for buying clothes with easy returns and no re-stock fees

A tool for helping people manage their tax filings by seeing who’s owed what and for what. The company tracks nontaxable income and credits, and helps you fill out your tax returns.

Evalues how likely a user is to return to a place or site. The company wants to provide a platform for merchants to determine how likely they think a customer is to return to their location.

A company that uses the power of partnerships to help individual people invest in tiny startups and get a return.

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

A tool that uses data analytics to help companies predict how many customers they’ll be able to retain, allowing them to make decisions before they hit a point of diminishing return.

A SaaS company that helps customers optimize their returns and prevent fraud.

A virtual assistant for office tasks, like getting a return email to a client or scheduling a conference call.

A white label startup that helps companies with co-branded eCommerce experience management by providing prebuilt eCommerce pages and websites, full shipping and returns processing, and a dashboard for tracking and monitoring the results of a customer experience.

This startup is trying to take the hassle out of finding a flight for an upcoming vacation. Rather than waiting for multiple websites to return the results, FlightHub finds the cheapest flight for a given route, then books it for you automatically.

A tool for online retail stores to scan and capture sales data, allowing them to do business analytics and automate back-office functions like shipping and returns.

A company that tries to help replace the traditional annual tax return with quarterly tax returns

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

A tool to help people with e-commerce businesses better understand the return of their inventory and look at their data quickly and visually.

A tool to help small businesses in the UK and Ireland manage their tax filing. The company offers a free, self-service tax filing tool that lets businesses file their tax returns online, and pay their tax electronically.

A consumer app that helps with the “lifecycle of a purchase”, helping users order products then return them, saving the merchant money and decreasing waste.

This startup is building a platform for B2C e-commerce that provides a seamless checkout process, with shipping and returns built in.

A platform for online retail where shoppers can try before they buy. They’re looking to offer a trial period for clothes and accessories, and then a 30-day return policy, to ensure you’re happy with your purchase before committing.

A startup that helps people pick up and return things to a central location quickly. It’s an Uber-like service, but for things.

A web-based platform that allows consumers to share their personal data with companies and in return get discounts and other perks.

A tool that helps people manage their investments and track their returns, with a team of professional investors ready to help answer questions.

A company that’s building a predictive analytics platform that tracks customer behavior to provide predictions on things like when a customer might make a purchase, what they might buy, and how they might make a return.

This is an algorithmic company that claims to be able to predict whether an investment will make money. They’re not in the business of selling, but of helping investors make better decisions that can help them get a better return.

This startup wants to reduce the vacuum of small-time investors. It wants to help small-time investors to make money by helping them invest in the startups that are providing them with the best return on investment.

This startup is trying to make it easier for small businesses to access capital. The company is building a marketplace where borrowers can connect with investors who are willing to invest small amounts of money in exchange for a higher return.

This B2B startup helps companies with their return processing in order to pass the savings on to the customer. It’s also built to be reactive, so it’s responsive to the customer’s needs, rather than being a one-size-fits-all solution.

A financial planning app for investors who want to track their investments. The app is free for individual investors, and is designed to help people save money, get better returns, and make better decisions.

A platform for automated marketing campaigns, letting you send welcome home email to customers when they return to their homes.

A startup that offers mobile phone repair at its storefronts, with the first location opening in June 2015. The company says that most of its repairs cost $70, but that it can return a phone to a customer for free if it doesn’t work.

A company that helps clients of an additional cost-sharing program get reimbursed by their insurance company. The company charges a flat fee and can return the money to the client in a check. Their price depends on the state of the client’s insurance.