Return Startup Ideas

4 months ago

A startup that captures photos and videos of parking spots available at an airport, so that drivers can find them when they return.

649

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.

277

2 years ago

A way to help people file tax returns for free.

252

3 years ago

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

234

3 years ago

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

200

3 years ago

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

176

2 years 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.

173

3 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.

157

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.

154

2 years 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.

146

3 years ago

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

142

3 years ago

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

142

3 years ago

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

141

3 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

138

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.

137

3 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.

135

3 years ago

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

135

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.

131

3 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.

124

2 years ago

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

123

3 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

122

2 years ago

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

118

3 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.

113

3 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.

111

1 month ago

An API that helps you pull out “the best parts of your conversations” by pulling out the best quotes from a conversation, and returning those quotes. The startup helps you easily pull out the best quotes with information about the conversation such as when it happened, who was in the conversation, and more.

110

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.

100

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.

98

1 year 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.

98

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.

97

2 years ago

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

96

2 years ago

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

95

2 years ago

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

95

2 years ago

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

92

2 years 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.

91

8 months ago

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

89

1 year ago

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

87

5 months ago

A B2B company that helps customers keep track of the products they own and track returns, maintenance, and other services. The startup has $1.2 million in recurring revenue.

86

10 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.

83

2 years ago

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

81

1 year 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.

78

1 year 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.

75

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.

73

1 year ago

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

73

2 years ago

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

70

1 year ago

A 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.

67

1 year 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.

67

2 years ago

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

66

2 years ago

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

65

1 year ago

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

64

1 year ago

A 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.

63

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.

62

1 year 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.

61

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.

58

1 year ago

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

58

1 year 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.

57

7 months ago

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

57

1 year ago

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

55

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.

53

1 year ago

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

53

8 months ago

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

53

1 year ago

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

51

1 year ago

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

51

1 year 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.

49

1 year 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.

49

1 year 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.

49

10 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.

49

2 months ago

A database for tracking the sales, returns, and inventory of products.

49

1 year 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.

48

9 months ago

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

48

10 months ago

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

46

6 months 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.

46

1 year 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.

45

1 year 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.

45

1 year ago

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

44

7 months 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.

44

1 year 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.

43

2 months ago

This startup is building a tool that helps retailers and their customers sort and track returns. According to the founders, the company is on track for a $1 million seed round.

43

10 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.

41

9 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.

41

1 year 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.

40

11 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.

35

9 months ago

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

34

5 months 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.

34

8 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.

30

4 months ago

Sephora will help develop a new type of beauty box that offers free samples, free shipping and free returns.

25

2 months ago

A company that is building a new kind of financial network that relies on the wisdom of the crowd. The company is selling equity in a cryptocurrency fund that comes with a pre-set rate of return for a period of five years.

20

3 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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3 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 startup that captures photos and videos of parking spots available at an airport, so that drivers can find them when they return.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

A B2B company that helps customers keep track of the products they own and track returns, maintenance, and other services. The startup has $1.2 million in recurring revenue.

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

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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

A database for tracking the sales, returns, and inventory of products.

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.

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

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.

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

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

This startup is building a tool that helps retailers and their customers sort and track returns. According to the founders, the company is on track for a $1 million seed round.

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.

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.

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.