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1 year ago

A platform that helps people find jobs at other companies, allowing them to rate employers and allow their profiles to be searched by employers.

749
3 years ago

A small business marketing strategy and planning tool that lets small businesses measure their marketing performance across all channels. It started by focusing on social media and has expanded to include web traffic and content marketing, email marketing, and paid search.

456
1 year ago

A team of researchers, investors and techies with a penchant for creating startups that help people find and save money, and then build a digital broker that matches people with specific lenders.

325
2 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier for restaurants to find chefs. It says that 10,000 chefs are searching for jobs online every day.

317
1 year ago

A platform for people with rare diseases to find research partners, and for researchers to find potential partners.

295
2 years ago

Merkle is an AI-driven search engine that helps you find the best way to spend your money based on the things you’ve bought in the past. They’re based on a “Netflix for shopping” approach.

288
2 years ago

A startup that allows users to search for, and buy, a cheap used car from other people’s parked cars.

238
2 years ago

Helps users find the best deals on flights, hotels and car rentals. The startup allows you to search for flights, hotels, car rentals and more, and then allows you to filter the results by price, location, amount, and whether you’d like to pay with cash or credit card.

219
3 years ago

A search engine for fashion companies to find clothes and accessories that go well together, cut for a specific body type, or are made with sustainable materials.

213
2 years ago

A platform for lending and borrowing money with a goal of reaching 1 million borrowers. Users will be able to search for and compare loans online.

213
2 years ago

A search engine for small business loans.

208
2 years ago

A new search engine that’s faster and cheaper than Google.

202
1 year ago

An AI-powered search engine that learns from your searches to create personalized content. It’s meant to serve as a search engine for all things like local events, weather, news, and sports, with a focus on the “people-centric” aspects of the internet.

201
2 years ago

This startup wants to democratize access to medical research data for students and researchers. It’s a software platform that allows medical students and researchers to build their own datasets and access global research in a user-friendly way.

200
2 years ago

A company that makes a comprehensive, searchable database of the world’s universities.

199
2 years ago

The company wants to make negotiating harder than it already is by providing a simple, searchable interface for employees to search the market for best deals on everything from Amazon Prime subscriptions to a new suit.

198
2 years ago

A digital platform that helps people save money when they’re shopping online, allowing them to search for sales and coupons, and monitor their spending in real time.

198
2 years ago

This startup wants to bring more transparency to online rental listings by creating a search engine that sorts and ranks homes based on their location, amenities, and price, as well as the number of reviews they have.

197
3 years ago

Academic research: “We are in the midst of a digital revolution, where the ability to extract value from data is rapidly outpacing the ability to create it.”

195
2 years ago

This startup is looking to replace the whole process of writing a paper from a researcher to publishing it in peer reviewed journals, using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

191
1 year ago

A graduate of Y Combinator and Google Brain, a startup spun out of Stanford’s machine learning lab that wants to make machine learning accessible to researchers by making it easy to train models without having to write code.

190
3 years ago

A tool for managing and harvesting content from a website’s search and sharing features. The startup has raised $5.2 million from a number of investors, including Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Mitch Kapor.

189
2 years ago

A search engine for ideas and ideas. The startup’s premise is to make sure you find the best ideas, and do it all for free.

189
3 years ago

A startup that’s building a “digital lab” for large pharmaceutical companies, helping them scale their research with AI and speed up their drug discovery.

187
3 years ago

A startup co-founded by a former Googler, Qwant is trying to recreate some of the magic of the Google search results page with a new, more visual UI. The startup is trying to compete with Google for the European market.

186
3 months ago

A software platform for managing, monitoring, and analyzing data for marketing research. It is working with brands like AT&T and Unilever.

186
3 years ago

A way to quickly build a search engine for your website.

181
3 months ago

An online platform for research that connects researchers with companies, helping them get more done in less time. Researchers can find the right researchers and get funding more quickly. The startup is based in London, but has another office in San Francisco.

181
2 years ago

A startup that allows users to search through their Facebook friends’ photos to see if they’re using their real name.

179
3 months ago

A platform for sharing data from the academic research and teaching community. They want to help faculty build their own community websites, and help them promote their research and teaching.

178
2 years ago

 A platform for recording and sharing video, including the ability to store, search and share clips.

177
3 years ago

A platform for crowd-sourcing job search and recruiting for companies.

176
3 years ago

A social network for women who are searching for a job, created by the company that created the job board Ziprecruiter.

175
2 years ago

A startup where sellers can search and advertise used vehicles in real time.

175
3 years ago

 A search engine for finding people by education, gender, and location.

173
3 years ago

A cryptocurrency to incentivize scientific research.

171
2 years ago

A team of former Googlers building a visual search engine for the web.

170
3 years ago

An online platform that lets users organize their collections of crayons, Pokemon cards, and other “collectibles” in a way that’s easy to search, sort, and share.

169
2 years ago

A startup that is a search engine for the world's best creative work.

168
3 years ago

This search engine is trying to build the next generation of search results, with a focus on both social media and deep links.

167
3 years ago

A startup that lets users search for random words and phrases to get a list of the most popular results.

167
3 years ago

aims to aggregate all the deals and coupons for a given region or city. Users can search, compare, and subscribe to the best deals in their area, then get updates on new deals, or even unsubscribe.

167
3 years ago

 A tool to help you do a better job of selling. You can either search for people to sell to, or build a list of your own contacts. The company charges $3 per lead, $10 per contact, and $10 per sale.

166
3 years ago

A startup that makes the process of digitizing books easier for libraries, allowing them to digitize their collections and search them online.

165
3 years ago

A free database of all consumer credit cards, available online and allowing users to search for cards, compare them, and see where they’re used.

165
3 years ago

A startup that’s building a service that allows users to search for nearby restaurants, bars, and other places to eat or drink, and then book reservations on their phone.

165
2 years ago

A cloud-based database of student loan debt for people to search, with a sign-up required to see data. The company also has a personal debt management product.

165
3 years ago

A startup that would bring barcodes to the speed of the internet, allowing people to search for an item’s barcode and purchase it from an online retailer

164
11 months ago

A search engine that provides access to academic journals.

162
3 years ago

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

161
3 years ago

A tool for working with data in order to understand the real world. For instance, a medical researcher can use it to investigate how much stress the human body can handle, or to understand how people interact with their surroundings.

160
3 years ago

 A tool that helps you search for and find your lost phone, on a map that shows it’s current location.

160
3 years ago

This startup is building a marketplace for health insurance plans, allowing people to search and compare plans.

160
1 year ago

A startup that helps recruiters make more effective candidate searches by pulling in data from multiple sources, including Twitter and Facebook.

159
1 year ago

A startup that wants to build a search engine for the web that’s not linked to a single company by default.

159
3 years ago

A market research platform for fashion designers that serves as a central database for pricing, trends, and quality.

158
3 years ago

A company trying to bring together auto repair information from different sources into a single, searchable place.

156
3 years ago

A company that helps with home repairs and renovations, letting customers research and book local contractors

156
2 years ago

A company that helps online businesses with their online marketing by allowing them to target their customers based on their search history and then match them with a relevant video ad

156
1 year ago

A startup that’s building a network of AI-driven bots that help people learn and grow professionally by giving them personalized and researched answers to their questions.

156
3 years ago

A digital, searchable file of your medical records to make it easier for you to access information and keep all your records up to date.

155
3 years ago

A search engine for rental properties in blue-chip suburban regions.

154
3 years ago

This startup wants to build a “database of experts” that help companies with a variety of tasks, from research to coding.

154
3 years ago

An AI startup in the healthcare space, focused on building tools that help doctors and researchers better use the data that’s already out there.

154
2 years ago

A platform for job seekers to search for jobs using data from LinkedIn

154
1 year ago

A real estate site that provides a messaging platform and search tools to help agents find new clients and then negotiate deals with them.

153
1 year ago

A tool that helps merchants build personalized webpages, show up in search engines, and access to a set of tools that monitor their online presence and conversions.

153
3 years ago

A search engine that aims to create a Wikipedia for the internet of things

152
3 years ago

A software platform for publishing academic papers and hosting conferences, designed for scientists, researchers, and students.

152
2 years ago

A startup to help people find the best rate for an apartment, whether it’s to rent or sell. The startup wants to enable apartment search for people with low to no credit, helping them get the best rate.

152
3 years ago

A search engine for esports. The startup is meant to help fans find events, follow players and teams, and share content.

151
2 years ago

The startup is building a platform to help keep track of healthcare data from providers, patients, and researchers.

151
2 years ago

A search engine for the cannabis industry, focused on companies and events

151
1 year ago

A mobile app that lets you search for licensed child care and babysitting in your area. The startup wants to make it easier for parents to find quality daycare at a reasonable price.

151
3 years ago

A search engine for content about programming. It’s built to help people find programming tutorials, ebooks, and other resources.

150
3 years ago

A startup that offers “visual search” and “search intelligence”, which helps find images and other content that are relevant to your query.

150
1 year ago

This startup is building a website for people who are in the process of hiring a freelancer, contractor, or consultant. It’s meant to be a place for people to search for the right person for the job, and also for freelance workers to find gigs.

150
3 years ago

A company that’s building search engine tools for search engine optimization for restaurants.

149
3 years ago

A real estate search platform, planning to expand to Europe and the US.

148
3 years ago

A “mobile-first” market research app that helps companies make more data-driven decisions.

148
2 years ago

A startup that lets people in the US upload their resumes to a centralized platform, allowing the hiring managers to search for candidates and see their backgrounds.

148
1 year ago

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

148
3 years ago

A tool for journalists to research and structure pitches and stories

147
3 years ago

A search engine for small businesses with “no ads, no tracking, and no fake news.”

147
3 years ago

A startup that is building a search engine for businesses, intended to let them find the right vendors and suppliers.

147
3 years ago

A startup that helps employers manage the hiring process, and lets job seekers set up profiles and search for opportunities.

146
3 years ago

This startup is building an online and mobile platform to help consumers research credit cards, loans, and credit scores.

146
1 year ago

A search engine for content that can be shared and clicked on by multiple users simultaneously.

146
3 years ago

A new kind of search engine that lets users input questions in natural language.

145
3 years ago

A healthcare service that provides a platform for human resources to view and search through the health records of employees. Providers can also use the platform to set up secure access for their employees, and then billing details are sent automatically.

145
3 years ago

An online platform that helps people find and connect with others with similar interests (i.e. a Google search for people who like to ride bikes in San Francisco).

145
3 years ago

A company founded by a team of Stanford and Berkeley researchers that uses AI to detect and prevent fraud. The software aims to detect when a person is trying to make a credit card purchase in a store and notify the appropriate employees, who can then stop the transaction.

145
1 year ago

An online tool for researching and buying goods made from recycled materials.

145
3 years ago

A market research app that helps companies understand the wants and needs of their consumers better. It’s paid for by a company like SurveyGizmo or SurveyMonkey that charges a small fee every time a survey is completed.

144
3 years ago

The Tampa Bay, Florida-based startup is building a platform that allows users to search for and access previously stolen goods.

143
3 years ago

A web-based platform for managing customer service research.

143
3 years ago

A SaaS platform that helps companies manage their expense reports. It starts with a monthly subscription and then allows the user to create expense reports that are editable and searchable, with the option to export.

143
3 years ago

This startup is creating a job search engine for freelancers.

143
3 years ago

A startup that wants to bring true visual search to the web. The startup uses AI to detect the objects in a picture or video, and then uses that data to power a search engine that can be used from anywhere.

143
3 years ago

makes it easier for people to discover, research, and purchase private jets.

143
3 years ago

A digital library that combines the cataloging and searching of books with the ability to buy and donate books.

142
3 years ago

A platform for companies to hire, manage, and engage their freelancers. They are looking to introduce a marketplace of sorts that allows companies to post and search for the service of a specific individual. They are also looking to launch a marketplace-style app for freelancers and clients to find each other.

142
3 years ago

A search engine for crime and safety alerts in the US. The startup is looking to use machine learning to tell which alerts are legitimate and which are not.

142
3 years ago

This is an app that helps consumers find an apartment for rent by allowing them to search and compare all listings in San Francisco and beyond.

142
3 years ago

$50 app that connects people with items they’re looking for (think Ikea showroom product search).

141
3 years ago

A browser extension for Google Chrome that allows you to search for and filter in-app ads.

141
3 years ago

An algorithmic startup that is a marketplace for job board ads, allowing companies to target their job search to a specific demographic. The company’s founders say they’ve raised $1.6 million in a round led by Greycroft Partners.

141
3 years ago

A new way to search for doctors, with Yelp-esque reviews and ratings for medical professionals.

140
1 year ago

An on-demand software company that helps publishers distribute content via direct selling and third-party platforms. It’s targeting the small business market, but will also be expanding into research, and wants to take on the business of direct selling.

140
3 years ago

A startup that provides research and analysis to companies that want to do business with the city government

139
3 years ago

A real estate app meant to help people find, research, and purchase houses. The startup is currently focused on the San Francisco Bay Area.

139
3 years ago

A company that wants to use search engine optimization to help restaurants pay less in sales tax. Currently the startup is trying to go through the tax process to prove that it can save restaurants money.

139
3 years ago

 A social network for creatives and photographers, where users can discover, follow, and search for work by the same criteria.

138
3 years ago

TechCrunch’s IPOs have been pretty good over the past decade. The 14 most recent IPOs have collectively brought in $2.4 billion as of April 2018, according to research from Pitchbook.

138
3 years ago

A startup that is building an app that lets you upload an image to search for similar-looking content, so you can find more like-looking photos.

138
3 years ago

A startup that lets you buy, organize, and sell artwork from artists around the world, with the option of searching for art by artist or subject. ArtGen is based in New York City.

137
3 years ago

The company was founded by former Google engineers, with the goal of creating a “Google for humans” where people can find information about products and services without having to search through a million different sites.

137
3 years ago

The startup is building a tool for companies to search for, compare, and purchase jobs that are close to them.

137
3 years ago

 This is a website for buying and selling used computers. The website automatically searches for computers that are listed by sellers.

137
1 year ago

A platform for human-powered drones to fly for small businesses, agricultural operations, and for research purposes.

137
3 years ago

A startup that conducts research on the effects of technology on society, and then works with companies and government to find solutions

136
3 years ago

A startup that lets you find and purchase reproducible office supplies with a simple, visual search for suppliers.

136
3 years ago

The startup’s goal is to make it easier for people to shop for vacation homes. They’re building a platform for people to search for vacation homes that they can then book and pay in one place.

136
3 years ago

A market research and recruiting tool for the beauty industry. The startup’s founders say they have already worked with brands like Revlon and L’Oréal.

136
1 year ago

A search engine for the real estate industry. The company aims to make it easier for buyers and sellers to find each other, in an industry that’s often tough to navigate.

136
3 years ago

The startup is building a platform for genomics data that is both more accessible, and more useful in the long run than other existing options. They are digitizing research from thousands of articles to make their platform the definitive source for scientific information.

135
3 years ago

A startup that allows homeowners and renters to search for rental houses or apartments based on amenities, price, and neighborhood. It doesn’t charge any commission, so it’s free.

135
1 year ago

A new type of marketplace that offers college students the chance to get paid to do research and do informal reports for businesses. It’s a place to learn how to write and how to write well, and where students can be paid for their work.

135
3 years ago

Scrubly is a search engine that automatically detects plagiarism in text. The startup’s first product is a plagiarism tool that monitors students’ texts and flags any that could be misappropriated.

134
3 years ago

A platform for research collaboration between researchers and companies doing clinical trials. It's meant to be an easier way for companies to find clinical trial sites and researchers to find clinical trials to participate in.

134
3 years ago

A search engine for medical research papers, and a library of all the latest scientific research. The startup is also developing a library of all the latest medical research papers.

133
3 years ago

A search engine for sales opportunities that pulls in data from the likes of LinkedIn and Eventbrite

133
3 years ago

A data-driven research and reporting platform for companies to help them do in-depth research. The company is building for both business use and academia, with a focus on the latter.

133
3 years ago

An online marketplace for university students where they can find internship opportunities, research and a community.

133
3 years ago

A software company that helps companies with legal needs to manage everything from legal agreements to legal research.

132
2 years ago

A customer research and feedback platform for brands.

132
2 years ago

A startup that allows you to search the internet for photos of your favorite band, and allows you to “unlock” the images with a code.

132
3 years ago

A startup that’s building a location-based search engine for restaurants, highlighting the cuisine of a city via an interactive map.

131
3 years ago

A startup that helps MIT researchers start new companies. It’s a new twist on a classic idea, as the startup connects entrepreneurs with researchers to facilitate their work.

131
3 years ago

A “personal assistant” for investors, aiming to help them research companies, make investment decisions, and diversify their portfolio.

131
3 years ago

Helping companies in the legal industry to digitize and automate tasks that are currently done by hand, such as routine tasks like document searching and rights management.

131
2 years ago

A new way to search for your favorite podcasts, and a way to see when your favorite shows are coming out.

131
1 year ago

A search engine that’s meant to handle searches across many different apps so you don’t have to open each one to perform your search.

131
3 years ago

This startup is building a browser for the startup world. Its goal is to create a simplified version of the startup experience with tools for research, fundraising, and community engagement.

130
3 years ago

 The startup aims to be a single source of research on all of the different ride-sharing apps from Uber to Lyft.

130
3 years ago

This startup is building a messaging app that’s encrypted and searchable by insiders only.

130
1 year ago

A platform that helps users buy and sell rental properties on a peer-to-peer basis. It’s an alternative to traditional real estate listings sites where users browse and search for rentals through a portal.

130
3 years ago

A crowdsourced research platform focused on helping companies understand their customers.

129
3 years ago

A platform that helps small businesses optimize their sites for search through visual conversion. The startup is currently in private beta.

129
3 years ago

A “digital concierge” that helps users personalize their own homes. Instead of searching around for different products, users can ask their digital concierge to come up with ideas and send them to the user.

129
3 years ago

This startup is building a new kind of pay-as-you-go mobile device, which can be used for a variety of purposes, from music to glasses to medical and molecular research. The device is meant to be flexible and easy to use, with a range of options for the hardware and software, and a monthly fee that is based on usage.

129
3 years ago

This startup is building a “sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub”-level of search, giving users more detail about the results for more search terms.

129
3 years ago

A startup that helps companies buy chemicals for industrial processes. It works by helping companies identify chemicals by web searches and then matching them to the exact chemical they’re looking for.

129
1 year ago

A platform that lets people and businesses organize and share content with a focus on the narrative, rather than just the data. Zeego’s tech helps them structure their content in ways that highlight the best parts and make it easy to search.

129
3 years ago

The creators of this startup want to bring the world a universal, open-source, and non-profit search engine.

128
3 years ago

A new kind of search engine that uses AI to give answers to questions. It also works with an app on your phone to let you get answers without having to search for them.

128
3 years ago

A search engine that surfaces open source code.

128
2 years ago

A career search platform that helps employers find local talent.

128
1 year ago

A tool to help with “data identification,” allowing users to search through files and pictures in their computer or mobile device to ensure they’re not accidentally deleting or erasing anything.

128
3 years ago

A startup that helps you optimize your search engine results pages (SERPs) and has just raised $125 million

127
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

126
3 years ago

A startup that’s building a “person search engine” for all the people in a particular location, including registered business, registered residents, and registered vehicles

126
2 years ago

The app will allow people to search and buy flights at any time of day, choosing from direct flights, travel agencies, or their preferred airlines.

126
1 year ago

This startup is building a tool that helps publishers and advertisers monitor, analyze, and target their content. The startup says their platform has a lot of market research behind it.

126
3 years ago

A tool for high-frequency traders to help them build algorithmic strategies. The startup also wants to make the process of building algorithms easier for researchers to understand.

125
3 years ago

A digital assistant that helps people find their way in the world, using location-based search and mapping.

125
3 years ago

A startup that is helping companies make their data sets more accessible to marketers and researchers.

125
3 years ago

A startup building a search engine for products and services. The idea is to make it easy for them to find the products they want, while giving them information about the products they are buying.

125
2 years ago

A video creation and distribution platform for scientific research teams, used by the NIH, FDA, and other institutions.

125
2 years ago

A real estate search portal for the UK.

125
3 years ago

Data is siloed across different departments at a company, preventing anyone from understanding how their company stacks up against the competition. This startup is building a map of various types of data within a company, allowing users to search across multiple data sets at once.

124
3 years ago

A search engine for things that have been read. The company’s co-founder was a former search engine developer who was frustrated with the state of the industry.

124
1 year ago

This app is meant to help you meet people and find dates, but it’s also a platform for B2B companies to do things like research consumers by querying their social media profiles.

124
3 years ago

A tool that helps journalists find the best pictures to illustrate articles. Users are currently able to search and sort through thousands of images in less than a minute.

122
3 years ago

A company that is building a new kind of search engine that helps you find the best vendors in a given local market. It’s part of the idea that government services should be made more efficient and easy to use.

122
3 years ago

A search engine that ranks content by relevance rather than popularity.

122
3 years ago

A search and discovery app for event producers.

122
3 years ago

A software company building a “search engine for financial markets” that enables investors to find the best stocks to buy and sell.

121
3 years ago

A startup that’s developing a platform to help real estate agents find more rental properties by searching for apartments on sites like Zillow and Rent.com.

120
2 years ago

A visual search engine that curates images for people, similar to Pinterest

120
3 years ago

 Playboard is an AI-powered tool that helps automate the search for new hires and finds data to validate job candidates.

119
2 years ago

A company that’s building a mobile app to allow travelers to search for hotels and airbnb listings in cities they’re visiting.

119
2 years ago

An AI tool that aims to make it easier for users to research and buy travel, hotel and vacation packages

119
1 year ago

A market research startup that conducts surveys online, filling in the gaps in businesses’ own research to help them make more informed decisions.

119
3 years ago

A startup that makes it easier for people to search for events. They have over 50,000 active events listed on their site, and are focusing on events in the B2B space.

118
2 years ago

 A company that sells software to help people increase the efficiency with which they commute. People have been searching for ways to get from one place to another faster for a long time. Relay is a startup that wants to make that easier.

118
2 years ago

A startup that searches and identifies the best places to drive for any given route.

118
2 years ago

A tool for searching and accessing email accounts. The company wants to be a “Google for email”, with users able to connect email accounts from different providers.

117
3 years ago

A search engine focused on finding the most relevant articles about a particular topic. The startup is building the search around data from more than 190 million sources across the web. It was recently featured on the HBO show Silicon Valley.

116
3 years ago

A digital marketing platform for e-commerce that helps create customer personas, conduct user research, and optimize campaigns.

116
1 year ago

A job search app that pulls in data from LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and more, to help users find the “perfect” job.

116
3 years ago

A former McKinsey consultant is building a visual search engine that allows users to search for and visualize data. The startup has raised $20MM since August.

115
3 years ago

A tool that helps people find the best travel deals, picking up on the long tail of unadvertised fares. The startup is pitching itself as a sort of early booking agent, where customers can search for flights and then call in to a travel agent.

115
2 years ago

A company that is building a marketplace for data that comes from large data sets. TimeNexus aims to make this data available to researchers and teams to help them build out their own prediction models.

114
3 years ago

A digital platform that allows you to explore and research topics of your interest by browsing and sharing user-created content.

113
10 months ago

A job search engine that lets you search for jobs and companies by location, job title, and industry.

113
2 years ago

A company that helps you find medical specialists who are willing to collaborate with you on your research.

112
2 years ago

A mobile app that lets doctors see a patient’s medical history in a single search.

112
2 years ago

A search engine for mobile phone numbers with features like call forwarding.

112
3 years ago

A system that gathers cannabis-related data and allows users to search it in a single location. The startup is focused on helping people find strains that will help them with specific ailments, and aims to build out a robust strain database.

111
3 years ago

A startup that aims to create the Google search for the physical world. The company is building a search engine for the physical world, and is currently in the process of building a prototype.

111
1 year ago

A startup that is building a platform to help book travel in a new way — instead of searching for flights and hotels, you’ll search for experiences. The startup is partnering with hotels, attractions, and others to build a better experience for travelers looking to do something unique.

111
3 years ago

A blockchain-based platform to power collaborative research. The startup is building a platform that allows researchers to share data and research findings and get results published so that other researchers can build on the work.

110
3 years ago

This is a company that’s building a platform for search engine optimization for e-commerce. The startup uses computer vision to analyze images in e-commerce websites, and then helps businesses optimize their images for search engines. The company says it can increase click-through rates by 30% and reduce bounce rate by 40% in a month.

110
3 years ago

A team of designers and engineers building a digital prototype for a custom-built laser cutter. The team is building the product as a way to fund the research of a laser cutter they hope to build themselves.

110
3 years ago

A startup that “provides an AI-powered, ad-free content-based search experience for social media that allows users to see engagement, content, and activity across multiple social media channels and news outlets.”

110
3 years ago

A platform that allows users to share photos, videos, and other multimedia in a single place, and search for content by topic.

110
2 years ago

Building a company focused on making modeling, simulation and optimization more accessible to researchers, engineers and scientists.

110
2 years ago

Cofounder of the company, a former commercial real estate agent, says she knew nothing about the fintech industry until she started researching it in 2017.

110
2 years ago

Founded by two former Googlers in 2012, Giphy is a video search engine that helps users find content to animate GIFs from online videos.

110
3 years ago

A company that helps restaurants, bars and coffee shops optimize their ordering process. The startup’s platform lets customers search for locations, get delivery options from there, and track orders.

109
3 years ago

A platform for buying and selling data, allowing businesses and researchers to share datasets.

109
2 years ago

 A  researcher of AI technologies.

109
2 years ago

A platform for users to search, share, and rate content made by media companies (think Youtube, Vimeo, etc.).

109
3 years ago

The startup is looking to help people who are disabled take advantage of the online world to improve their lives, whether it’s a wheelchair-bound person who needs more information on how to use YouTube or a blind person who needs better search tools for the web.

108
3 years ago

This is a real estate marketplace that wants to make it easy for sellers to find buyers using the company’s proprietary search tools. The startup says it’s already working with over 100 landlords and realtors in five states.

108
2 years ago

A startup that wants to connect you directly to the data you need for your research, building your own databases in a decentralized manner.

107
1 year ago

A database of all the companies in the EU, fully searchable and with a public API.

107
3 years ago

A B2B software company that helps recruiters manage hiring on their side, allowing them to easily search for and hire candidates.

106
3 years ago

A SaaS platform for managing data that helps scientists and researchers conduct research. The startup helps scientists find the right resources, and connect to them in ways they never could before.

106
3 years ago

A company that aims to help people find the best local plumbers for their needs. It’s a service that lets people in the US and Canada search for local plumbers on a list of vetted pros.

106
2 years ago

A digital library for insurance claims denials that allows users to search by claims date, policy number, and treatment. The app also provides a log of all denials by date and saves a copy of the denial letter for each policy.

106
2 years ago

A tool for search and discovery of technical talent

106
3 years ago

An Amazon for online stock photos, offering deep product analysis, search, and AI-assisted photo tagging.

104
3 years ago

A platform to shop for and share used cars, trucks, and SUVs by searching for and comparing available inventory via a mobile app, and then making an offer on a car with a simple swipe.

104
2 years ago

A company that creates one-click, easy-to-setup landing pages that look just like search results and are indistinguishable from them, except that they’re optimized for conversions.

103
9 months ago

A job portal that helps people hire people, and search for available jobs.

103
2 years ago

A tool for people to search for home insurance, with options for low-income renters and those who have no credit history.

102
2 years ago

A new way to store clinical and research data that’s fast, safe, and secure.

102
2 years ago

A platform that helps small teams get paid for sharing their research and results with the world.

102
3 years ago

A web-based service that aggregates and provides access to public data about real estate, letting people search for information and data about everything from price and listing inventory, to property tax rates and construction information.

101
2 years ago

This startup is building a platform to help connect patients with doctors. Patients can search for medical professionals, and get a one-on-one consultation over video for free.

101
2 years ago

A visual search engine for finding files on the web.

101
4 months ago

A platform for online store owners to generate sales from social media and search.

101
2 years ago

A tool to help data scientists find research data sets with the keywords that they’re looking for, allowing them to discover relevant, relevant, relevant data sets.

100
2 years ago

A platform for users to find, research, and buy businesses.

100
3 years ago

The BLS blog provides a daily newsletter, typically written by an economist, that summarizes recent changes in labor market conditions locally and nationally, and features summaries of research findings.

99
2 years ago

A team of former Google engineers are building a “SEO suite” for e-commerce platforms that includes keyword research, sitemaps, and other tools. It helps brands rank better on search engines and direct more traffic to the site.

98
1 year ago

A startup that wants to be the Wikipedia of insurance companies, allowing agents to research coverage on any company, to avoid calling the wrong company before doing business.

98
1 year ago

A mobile app that allows you to search for and buy local products at brick-and-mortar stores

97
3 years ago

A search engine for Japan, with data available in Japanese and English.

96
3 years ago

A digital ecosystem for data science to collaborate and do research. It’s meant to help make the field more accessible to smaller teams and startups.

96
3 years ago

A 4-person team has written an iOS app that lets people search and pay for tickets to, and receive discounts on, the city’s iconic public art installations.

96
2 years ago

The company is building an app that will allow users to search for, and then pay for, movie tickets at local movie theaters.

96
2 years ago

A mobile app that connects you to the best local restaurants based on your search results.

95
9 months ago

A tool for customers to find the best deals on product searches by location.

95
3 years ago

A startup that turns the web into a better form of research and analysis. The company choose to focus on medical research, where the company is seeing a huge benefit to using the web to perform medical research. It’s using machine learning to turn the web into a better research tool.

94
3 years ago

A platform that helps companies search for product concepts by leveraging their e-commerce data.

94
2 years ago

A Google-designed browser that makes everything on the web searchable.

94
1 year ago

A travel search engine for travellers

94
3 years ago

It’s a company that hires independent researchers to evaluate the credibility of news stories. The startup says it has a staff of more than 30 researchers in the US and Europe and claims to be the fastest growing news-biased fact-checking startup in the US.

93
3 years ago

This startup is building a marketplace for data science talent, where companies can hire data scientists to help them research, analyze, and monetize data.

93
2 years ago

A SaaS company that helps companies sell more easily online. The company’s main product, Bizboss, helps companies build marketing campaigns across social media, email, search, and direct mail.

93
2 years ago

A tool for realtors to track potential deals and keep clients up to date on the status of their market research.

93
2 years ago

A computer science student who wanted to help his parents, so he built a website for them to search for and buy used cars, and a mobile app to help them make appointments.

93
2 years ago

A platform for market research firms to buy data from customers in order to improve their products.

93
2 years ago

A digital library of books, videos, and data that allows users to search and view digital content.

93
1 year ago

A search engine for the arts. Currently focused on the UK.

93
10 months ago

Launched by former Googler Ricardo Baeza-Yates, who led Google’s mobilefirst, responsive web initiative, this startup is building a search engine for everyone, with a focus on helping users find great content from the world’s most trusted sources.

93
1 year ago

A search engine for journalists and content creators.

91
9 months ago

 It’s a tool for tracking the life of a pet. This startup is trying to create a searchable catalog of some pet’s life story, including vet appointments, photos and videos.

91
2 years ago

The startup wants to build a way for people to manage their digital assets via their mobile device. The startup says they’ve built a mobile app that can be used to create a digital presence for local businesses and brands. Co-founders say they’ve been doing extensive research on the best way to adopt blockchain technology.

90
2 years ago

A group of students at Carnegie Mellon University are building a wearable that tracks the human heart rate, breathing, and activity. The technology is meant to be used for home wellness, but also to help with medical research.

90
10 months ago

This startup is aiming to use artificial intelligence to help people find affordable housing in their area. It can help with the search, but also with the negotiation of the price and credit checks.

90
2 years ago

A startup that will allow you to “track your position in the world of work” by allowing you to track how you’re doing in your job search.

89
2 years ago

Hipmunk is a travel-search startup that’s moving into online travel agencies.

89
2 years ago

The problem with a lot of online shopping apps is that they are difficult to find, with users sometimes having to search for it. They want to change that by building a one-stop shopping app for finding anything from a local store to a nearby restaurant.

89
11 months ago

An international service that helps people find the best price and best flight to Mexico, whether they are planning a vacation or relocation. The startup’s product is a comparison engine that pulls flight data from the world’s leading travel website and aggregates it into a set of user-friendly comparisons. Users can search for and book flights, hotels, and car rentals, and check the price of a flight against competitors.

89
2 years ago

A restaurant search engine that uses both Yelp and Zagat.

88
2 years ago

A decentralized search engine that allows users to search through other websites without having to link to them. The company wants to make the web a little less centralized.

87
2 years ago

A restaurant search engine that uses Rotten Tomatoes to show the best of the best.

87
1 year ago

A startup that aims to build a database of every person in American history, a database that would someday have a search engine that could find out, for example, where a person’s great-great-great-great-grandfather was born.

87
11 months ago

A company that wants to take the hassle out of finding and keeping talent by creating a platform that allows users to post their skills, preferences and location and teams of recruiters can then search for them by those criteria.

87
10 months ago

Building a digital service that supports local community centers and government agencies to create and share printable, searchable digital maps.

87
2 years ago

A platform that engages users with content that’s relevant to them, whether they’re fans of an artist or a topic they’re researching. It’s a software-based approach to human curation.

86
2 years ago

 This is a company that has done a lot of research on the best way to get a message across to people in different places. They decided that one of the best ways was to create a system that is both language and location-agnostic, and designed to be culturally sensitive. They’ve put that system to work for a variety of companies, including a hotel chain, a coffee company, and a plastic surgery center.

86
2 years ago

A new way to sell and trade real estate, with an app that provides investors with “around-the-clock access to property information, data, and search results”.

86
2 years ago

A company that uses machine learning to provide a better, more accurate and faster search tool for genealogists.

86
1 year ago

A mobile app that lets you search for local entrepreneurs in your city to connect with and request help.

86
1 year ago

A company that wants to allow consumers to rent out their home or space to earn an income. They’re building out a platform, including a search system for listing, rental rates, insurance, etc. and a platform for decision-making for renters, with plans to expand into other areas.

86
2 years ago

A platform that helps companies find and hire talent. The company wants to be the LinkedIn for the hiring process, allowing companies to do a search for their needs and then being able to find candidates who match the roles easily.

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
9 months ago

A startup that allows users to research the cost of different insurance policies so they can make an informed decision about the best plan for them.

85
2 years ago

A search engine for the professional clean up and disposal industry

84
2 years ago

An engineering staffing startup that partners with companies to bring in new talent. After a company does a demo, Minimum runs a search for top candidates using its proprietary algorithm. The company says they’ve so far found candidates at top engineering schools, raised $1.4 million in VC funding, and secured over a dozen jobs.

84
2 years ago

A startup that builds an AI-powered chatbot to help businesses with product research, customer support, and sales.

84
2 years ago

An AI-powered customer service platform that aims to make the process of searching for an agent easier and faster.

84
6 months ago

A startup that uses facial recognition technology to allow people to search for people in a crowd.

84
1 year ago

A startup that aims to crowdsource the work of hiring software engineers, with a tool for job hunting and research.

83
1 year ago

App is a service that lets users search their phone’s address book for a business.

83
1 year ago

A company that builds software that lets companies make online stores that are searchable and have a shopping cart

83
1 year ago

A telephone hotline for women in the US to call for tips and advice on sexual assault and harassment. It lists hotlines, counselors, and rape centers and people can also search for a group in their area.

83
7 months ago

This startup is building a way for people to find and research the best deals on things like discount travel, apparel, and more and build shopping lists from it.

83
2 years ago

Cofounder of the company, a former financial industry analyst, began researching the fintech industry in 2017. She found a dearth of female founders in the space. In her startup’s pitch deck, she highlights several female founders as part of the company’s advisory board.

82
2 years ago

A startup that helps people find and find freelance workers for small jobs, such as research, development, and writing.

82
2 years ago

A community platform for attorneys that gives them a place to share legal information and research.

82
11 months ago

A search engine for the internet of things, where all the devices in your home can be brought together through APIs to make it easy for you to monitor and tune them.

82
2 years ago

A startup that helps users organize photos in a way that makes them easier to find and more searchable.

81
2 years ago

A tool for searching the web for specific text, which can be used for things like tracking things you

81
3 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps you to search for nearby events, and also provides a link to the ticketing page. It’s similar to Eventbrite, but focuses on local events.

80
2 years ago

A new platform for data analysis and processing. The company’s platform is built on a decentralized network of computers that run on smart contracts, directly connecting scientists with researchers across the world.

80
2 years ago

A search engine that aims to provide a direct answer to the question “What is the best restaurant in this city”

80
1 year ago

 An AI-powered search engine that searches the web to find the latest, best sales and coupons. It uses an algorithm to scan the web for relevant information and compiles it into a report by category, city, and brand.

80
1 year ago

A startup looking to automate the process of scanning and converting hundreds of thousands of documents into a searchable database for the legal industry. The company hopes to be the go-to resource for legal teams, with their proprietary technology that allows for text-searching and intelligent summarizing.

80
10 months ago

A startup that brings together a handful of travel websites and search engines.

80
10 months ago

A tool for journalists to research and report on influential people. The startup is also looking for a way to approach “digital discovery” for these subjects, which it says is a significant problem.

79
2 years ago

This startup does a reverse image search for a person or a company, and can tell you when a photo was taken, where it was taken, and the person or company who was in the photo.

78
2 years ago

A mobile app that allows home cooks to more easily search and share recipes, and more.

78
2 years ago

a startup building a search engine that crawls the internet for duplicates, then presents a list of options to the user. They’re building a free version that’s already available in the Chrome store, and a paid version that’s not yet.

78
1 year ago

A startup that helps users find a local barber or stylist. The app has a “Hot Spots” feature that lets users find a barber in their neighborhood by searching for “barber” in the app and then selecting “hot spots” from a map.

78
1 year ago

A company that helps you organize your books, documents, and other media into an easy, searchable library.

78
1 year ago

A search engine for insurance and financial products.

78
1 year ago

A startup that helps users find and review local health specialists by allowing them to search by location, specialty and more.

78
8 months ago

A search engine for used vehicles, with a goal of letting you search for cars based on their model, year, mileage, and condition.

78
2 years ago

A startup connecting people who need rentals with homeowners who want to rent out their homes. The company wants to allow renters to search for homes within a specific price range and go directly to the homeowner.

77
1 year ago

M.A.S. Innovation is a startup that helps small businesses conduct online research. The company has built a digital research platform that allows businesses to conduct their own online searches and access a variety of digital services, including Hint.

77
11 months ago

A property search engine with a strong emphasis on local search. It’s currently in beta.

77
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.

76
2 years ago

A company that helps webmasters get their sites found more easily by search engines.

76
1 year ago

A startup that helps people do in-person research, with a focus on customer service.

76
1 year ago

The startup wants to build an app that helps people research investments.

76
1 year ago

This startup is building a way to create a personal news feed in which you can share posts and photos, while also making it easy to search and browse the feed. It's best known for co-founder Daniel Kottke's parody of Facebook, which he called "The Facebook."

76
1 year ago

A crowdsourced search engine for finding people to hire for remote work, like the founder of this startup did.

76
1 year ago

A tool that helps you analyze your web traffic, build a better site, and discover what people are searching for online.

76
10 months ago

A company that helps companies find lower-cost providers for social media and search marketing.

76
10 months ago

A software-as-a-service job posting platform that helps recruiters find the right candidate using proprietary algorithms, and search by location.

76
2 years ago

Visual Search is a tool that lets you create and share visual search results, like a game of connect the dots. The app lets users create their own visual search queries by dragging and dropping different images. It’s currently in private beta testing in the UK.

75
2 years ago

“Echo” is a new retail platform that allows customers to buy goods from a selection of over 1,000 brands, with a selection of goods from 70,000 product designers. In addition to a platform for customers to search for things to buy, Echo also offers a sales channel for retailers.

75
2 years ago

A startup developing a “mobile-first” platform that allows people to search through publicly available data about the world. One example is a tool that uses machine learning to find your address by looking at where you are based on Google Maps.

75
1 year ago

A bot that helps you research and discover interesting things on Twitter.

75
1 year ago

A visual search engine for online video, powered by user-generated content.

75
2 years ago

A solution for human resources recruiters to help companies find the right employees. They classify recruiters into two categories: “job search specialists” and “job finders.”

74
2 years ago

A travel search engine that features a social network for finding travel deals.

74
2 years ago

A platform that helps governments and companies connect with UN populations for aid, research, and development. The company is aiming to help UN agencies avoid the challenges of working with private companies.

74
1 year ago

A web and mobile app that helps anyone interested in buying a home. Users can search for homes, find listings, and get contract details before making a purchase.

74
1 year ago

An online business that provides a way to search for and buy tickets to international festivals and events. The startup’s app helps users discover which festivals are coming to their city and allows them to see the line-up and buy tickets before the event.

74
1 year ago

A network of real-time, high-quality audio recordings of presidential speeches, for use in classrooms, research, and other purposes.

74
8 months ago

An AI-driven app that helps recruiters find simple, free job postings on all the top job search sites in the B2B space.

74
2 months ago

This is a website that allows you to search for local restaurants and get the information you need about their hours, menus, and prices.

74
1 year ago

A self-sustaining research community that connects researchers with researchers, patent attorneys with patent attorneys, and innovators with innovators.

73
1 year ago

A flight search tool that works with your phone's GPS and not just flight information from the airlines.

73
11 months ago

A searchable database of U.S. employers with benefits, and a way for people to filter and search for employers by benefit.

73
2 years ago

A startup that is building a service that helps recruiters identify and recruit technical talent. The service allows recruiters to search and view talent’s online resumes and portfolios.

72
2 years ago

A social network that allows users to upload photos and videos of their pets and “adopt” them for a small fee. Users can search for a pet, add a bio, and a profile picture, and the company makes money from the adoption fees.

72
2 years ago

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

72
1 year ago

A platform for sharing anonymous market research from a survey platform.

72
2 years ago

 A collaborative online photo library with a curated search and social features.

71
2 years ago

A search engine for TV shows that they say will be a “Netflix in a box” for cable customers.

71
2 years ago

 A startup to help companies manage their intellectual property in a cohesive way. The company says they’ve done a lot of research and found that a lot of companies are spending a lot of time and money on this work that’s actually not that important.

70
2 years ago

A startup that lets people create profiles, connect with each other, and search for events in their city.

70
2 years ago

This startup is building an enterprise search platform for businesses that want to up their search game.

70
2 years ago

A startup that helps consumers shop for affordable products and services. As a consumer, you can search for products and services and make deals with the businesses.

70
1 year ago

 A new way to search for long-term care insurance.

70
2 years ago

An online service that helps non-profit foundations and research groups compete with for-profit companies by matching them with expert volunteers.

69
2 years ago

A restaurant database that lets you search through menus, order food, and find nearby restaurants that deliver. It’s the opposite of EatWith, which is focused on finding people to eat with.

69
1 year ago

This startup is building an AI assistant that builds search queries based on the types of content you’re looking for. The assistant can then find related content in the web and find answers to your questions that way.

69
1 year ago

Password manager app with support for multiple accounts and 2FA, with a “find” feature that allows users to search for their stuff and sync it across devices

69
1 year ago

A digital marketing agency that can bring in clients’ websites to the top of search results. The company has already worked with over 100 companies, and says it’s the top performing digital marketing agency in San Francisco.

69
10 months ago

A startup that aims to improve the way people search and book travel, by giving them a “wishlist” of destinations they might want to visit in the future.

69
9 months ago

A tool for converting spreadsheets into easily searchable tables.

69
2 years ago

A company that helps doctors handle the immense volume of patient data to improve patient care and lower costs. It’s first product is a “data lake” that aggregates patient records and makes them searchable.

68
2 years ago

A company that wants to use machine learning to “find the needle in the haystack” of internet search results

68
2 years ago

A Y Combinator spin-out that’s building a search engine for AI-powered chatbots.

68
2 years ago

A search engine that finds doctors and other professionals by matching them with individuals who are looking for the same thing.

68
2 years ago

A financial technology company that helps comprehensive research in the world of growth investing.

68
1 year ago

A platform that helps companies search for and hire remote workers. Currently, they’re working with 1 company in their beta.

68
1 year ago

A computer vision startup that wants to help computer vision researchers get access to more data by making it cheaper and easier for them to process images. The startup currently has a small team of 7, but they’re looking to grow that to 15 by the end of the year.

68
10 months ago

A smartphone app that lets you search any term at all on the web and then tells you what the search result is.

68
9 months ago

A startup that is building a crowdsourced search engine to help people who are blind and visually impaired to augment their vision.

68
1 year ago

A collaborative platform where companies can share customer data and research with each other. The company is in the process of closing a $1M seed round.

67
1 year ago

A startup that launched with a $1.2 million seed round in 2014. The startup aims to build a “local living search” app that helps a user find a place to live based on the user’s location data.

67
10 months ago

A visual search engine for mobile devices, aimed at giving you more control over what you’re looking at and making it easier to find relevant content.

67
2 years ago

A mobile app that shows what other people are searching for, and lets users see what their friends are looking at.

66
2 years ago

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

66
1 year ago

A privacy app that makes it easy for anyone to create a "user-controlled" search engine.

66
1 year ago

A startup that aims to help you easily find a nearby doctor, nurse, or paramedic in minutes, with a streamlined interface that will search multiple platforms to find the closest provider.

66
2 years ago

One of the most popular products on Slack is the “Giphy Bot.” The bot allows users to search for GIFs, which are the popular Internet meme, and add them to their Slack conversations. Giphy is working on turning the bot into an actual application and is launching it in Slack users’ Slack-ified app stores.

65
1 year ago

A search engine for fashion. The startup wants to be the Google for fashion. They’re starting with the New York City market and expanding to other markets. They have a huge library of fashion data and have the reputation of the biggest fashion followers on Twitter and on Instagram.

65
1 year ago

“It’s an app that’s basically a search engine inside of an app. Instead of searching through Google, you search through an app.”

65
1 year ago

A personalized research assistant that can help you figure out the traits of your best friends and understand human behavior, with data visualizations and quizzes

65
1 year ago

A startup that’s building an “always-on” network for researchers to connect with each other to share data.

65
10 months ago

This app helps users find open jobs at companies all over the world. The startup also provides job search services and career advice for people already employed.

65
8 months ago

Takes on the task of getting your site onto Google and Apple’s search index.

65
7 months ago

This company is a portal for scientists looking to post their findings to public databases, where they can be found by other researchers.

65
7 months ago

A platform that improves the process of search by giving users more likely results, making it easier to find answers to their questions.

65
1 year ago

seeks to make it easier for users to find and book services for personal care and beauty, such as dry cleaning and hairdressing. It’s a subscription-based service that curates, researches, and collects services, and makes it easier to use.

64
1 year ago

A startup that acts as a matchmaker between consumers and local businesses — now.com. Customers can search for businesses and read reviews, while businesses can list their items, pricing and contact information. The company is based in San Francisco.

64
1 year ago

A company that “crowd-sources” legal research and analysis, which they claim can save up to 70% on legal fees

64
1 year ago

 An API wrapper for the search engine DuckDuckGo.

63
1 year ago

A startup that’s built a real-time search engine for the blockchain. The startup works by using a decentralized search engine to find blockchains and get detailed information about them.

63
1 year ago

A team of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is building an AI that can accurately diagnose diseases and make predictions based on a reference set of data. It's the MIT team's latest bid to bring the power of AI to the masses.

63
1 year ago

A company that brings different job boards together for a single search

63
1 year ago

A startup that’s building a browser extension that allows you to search and select content on a website, like you’d do on Google Images.

63
1 year ago

A software system to help companies conduct product market research in the field.

63
1 year ago

Local search and discovery service for the local e-commerce market. The company helps businesses find products and services on their own sites within the company’s platform.

63
1 year ago

An artificial intelligence platform that allows businesses to accurately predict customer retention based on different aspects, from retention rate to research.

63
1 year ago

An online inbox that allows managers to search and swap emails between teams in the same organization.

63
2 years ago

A platform that allows users to see how much they are being charged for cable, phone, and Internet service. The startup plans to build a cable TV-like platform, including a searchable database of prices, but built with a startup budget.

62
2 years ago

A tool for journalists to help them do quick research, build up their own databases, or crowdsource articles.

62
2 years ago

 An online database of the world’s natural resources, sourced from over 2,000 experts, that lets users search, compare, and learn about the world’s natural resources.

62
2 years ago

A startup working to help recruiters and HR managers connect with potential hires, avoiding data silos and the time it takes to search for the exact candidate. They’re working in the US, the UK, Australia, Singapore, and New Zealand, with plans to expand to Canada and the Philippines in 2020.

62
1 year ago

The startup aims to help communicate science more effectively, helping researchers and professors to communicate their findings easier and more concisely, and helping people learn more about the sciences.

62
1 year ago

A search engine for apartments and houses, this is a company that wants to help renters and homeowners find the best deals.

62
1 year ago

A team of researchers is working on a product to help deaf people communicate better.

62
1 year ago

A software company aimed at helping people find market research opportunities, such as through surveys and Facebook ads. They currently have 4 jobs posted, two in YC, and two at their other company.

62
1 year ago

A free tool for entrepreneurs to research and plan their crowdfunding campaigns.

62
1 year ago

A startup that aims to help people manage their Spotify accounts by giving them a dashboard to view their music history, listen to playlists, and search for new music.

62
9 months ago

A mobile app that lets you search for airfare deals based on your location and dates.The startup’s software sends out alerts that pick up on changes to prices and times and notify you of them.

62
1 year ago

A new way to learn search engine optimization techniques.

61
1 year ago

A startup that helps users find nearby, affordable healthcare. Users can search by location, specialty and whether they are on Medicaid or not, and get access to a network of healthcare providers.

61
1 year ago

A startup that builds a search engine for the Internet of Things. The company’s first product is a smart thermostat that displays your home’s energy usage.

61
1 year ago

Crowdfire is a marketplace for freelance virtual assistants offering services like research and writing. The startup has 71 clients and $4,000 in monthly recurring revenue.

61
1 year ago

A Spanish startup that wants to help people build better, more productive websites. It has developed a product that helps users rank their website in specific search engines, so they can get more traffic.

61
10 months ago

An ecommerce marketplace where sellers can upload their products and buyers can search for them. The search results are sorted by product popularity and reviews.

61
8 months ago

A startup that provides an API for access to scientific research for free. It’s currently available for the life sciences, but eventually hopes to expand to other disciplines.

61
7 months ago

A platform for researching new drugs, based on a mechanism called “Optogenetics” that allows scientists to turn cells on and off with light.

61
3 years ago

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

60
1 year ago

A management platform for connecting sales reps with clients, currently only available in the UK. The company’s co-founder was previously the CEO of the UK’s largest recruitment search engine.

60
1 year ago

A company that wants to help you find things you’d like to buy online, helping you shop better and more efficiently. The startup wants to build a better way to search and compare products, get suggestions from places you trust, and be able to buy from the site without an account.

60
1 year ago

A platform that connects people with products they don’t have, and can’t find through their own searching.

60
10 months ago

A company that makes it easy for users to find healthcare providers in their area. The startup wants to provide a platform that simplifies and personalizes the search, and allow users to book appointments on the app.

60
10 months ago

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

60
1 year ago

A startup that is building a search engine for the ad-tech ecosystem, looking to make it easier for clients to find what they need, regardless of where they are.

59
1 year ago

The idea is to create a product that helps the community of health professionals in a particular area access to the latest research and technology and connect with the world’s leading scientists.

59
1 year ago

A platform for sharing and protecting your research when you’re writing a paper.

59
1 year ago

A startup that helps you filter your search results by a variety of criteria

59
1 year ago

A way for people to search for parking spots and valet services with an app.

59
1 year ago

A company that helps businesses with their search advertising. The company is built on a search engine called SmartyStreets, which is built on a sheet of paper and helps users find businesses that match their needs.

59
1 year ago

A startup for providing a stable of freelance workers who can do things like data entry, research, or video.

59
10 months ago

A company that collects and converts online reviews of businesses and services into a database that users can search to find what they are looking for, whether it be a restaurant, dentist, or even a professional.

59
9 months ago

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

59
2 years ago

A search engine that looks like Google but won’t show you stuff that isn’t relevant to you.

58
2 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier for businesses to vet candidates. The startup is building a platform that helps employers create a page with relevant writing samples, relevant work experience, and a research summary that can help employers determine if a candidate is the right fit.

58
1 year ago

A data conversion app that brings the search experience of Google to Facebook (similar to how Twitter brought the search experience to Facebook.)

58
1 year ago

A “library of points of interest” that allows users to search a 3D Spatio-temporal map, which they can then mark as favorites. The startup says their “points of interest” are more than just “coffee shops, restaurants and art galleries” and that their map will be “a more inclusive, relevant and vivid alternative to Google Maps”.

58
1 year ago

A way to help HR departments put their job postings into a searchable database. The company has multiple contracts with employers, and is focusing on shift workers in the US.

58
1 year ago

A chatbot that helps users find the cheapest flight on their chosen airline and search for the best flights on selected dates.

58
1 year ago

A platform for companies to sell products online, but only when people are searching for deals.

58
11 months ago

Settle is building a service that hosts a curated list of cities across the world and allows users to search for anything from the cheapest hotels to the best places to visit.

58
11 months ago

A visual search engine for images, using computer vision technology to scan and match image content, similar to Google Image Search.

58
2 years ago

A mobile app that brings local search and user reviews to mobile apps.

57
1 year ago

A tool for data scientists and researchers to create graphics from a database.

57
1 year ago

A text-based chat app for the blind and visually impaired that leverages voice search and voice-to-text.

57
1 year ago

A startup that’s a better way to search for and purchase movie tickets, helping you find the best seats at the best price.

57
1 year ago

A next-generation digital library that integrates content from public and private sources into a single searchable interface.

57
6 months ago

This company helps Amazon sellers improve their search performance and increase their sales by removing redundant inventory.

57
4 months ago

i-Kee is a startup in India that wants to provide a platform on which consumers can sell things directly to other consumers. It also provides an Android app that lets users search for items they want to sell, and then use i-Kee as a marketplace for transactions.

57
1 year ago

The company, known as “The Pick”, is building a system that helps users find the products they need when they’re not in the store. The Pick offers a digital storefront and mobile app that allow users to search products, compare prices, and get delivery times.

56
1 year ago

A company that offers a way for your website to be optimized for search engines.

56
1 year ago

An intuitive, desktop-based app that allows a restaurant to manage their menu items and ingredients. The startup gets data from local grocery stores, which it then uses to create an automated interface where a person can have a single, intuitive experience to search for a new dish at a restaurant using their phone.

56
1 year ago

An online marketplace for local service providers, it allows users to search, compare and book local services like landscaping, handyman, and pest control.

56
1 year ago

A startup that helps companies make their data more transparent to share with the public. It’s meant to give journalists and researchers data to help them uncover facts not often displayed on company websites. The startup says they’ve developed a prototype to help journalists and researchers get data that is more often than not hidden from public view.

56
10 months ago

A travel booking app that lets you search for flights, hotels, and attractions at once. Built for the Brazil market, the company has seen a 10x growth in ticket sales per month since May.

56
9 months ago

A startup that makes it easier for people to find their next job by comparing resumes to jobs. The startup uses machine learning to discover trends that signal a strong fit for a job and then provides access to a job-searching tool.

56
3 years ago

Idea: A pharmaceutical company that offers financial and marketing help to early-stage startups and researchers

55
1 year ago

A startup that helps people organize their online data in an easy, searchable manner. Available for both desktop and mobile.

55
1 year ago

A crowdsourcing platform that helps you search part of the world to find people who are in the same situation as you.

55
1 year ago

 “The most important thing we do is commercialize our research and enable companies to build on top of it.” This is the second year they’ve won the Thiel Foundation award and their prize was $100,000 to help them “accelerate commercialization” and hire a new team member to help bring their product to market.

55
1 year ago

A startup building a platform to track and publish the results of medical research.

55
1 year ago

A health data startup that aims to make it easier for patients to research and manage their own health. The company’s built a mobile app to help with things like managing symptoms, tracking health conditions, and diagnosing illnesses.

55
1 year ago

A web-based platform for companies to hire and research contractors, allowing them to find contractors quickly with over 1,000 daily users.

55
1 year ago

This company is working on a technology that lets you take a picture of a document, and then run a search across the entire document in a matter of seconds.

55
1 year ago

A startup that’s trying to solve the problem of companies not having a marketing platform that’s not just search engine optimized.

55
11 months ago

A startup that helps people search for and discover local services from dentists and plumbers, among others.

55
10 months ago

A startup that pairs a person searching for an apartment with one willing to rent out their apartment.

55
10 months ago

A company building a database of real estate listings that can be used to search for roommates and find roommates online.

55
8 months ago

A “crowdsourced” platform to allow people to search for and purchase bike parking spaces.

55
3 years ago

Idea: A job search app for college students and recent grads in the US It takes a gamified approach, with a focus on making the process of finding a job more fun

54
2 years ago

A company that builds medical devices and also does research in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering.

54
1 year ago

Drawing on a UX study, the startup is building a tool for helping experimenters organize their research efforts.

54
1 year ago

This is a virtual reality startup that wants to build 3D imaging for medical research. The company wants to use a combination of 3D scanning and computer vision to capture, model, and analyze a patient’s tissue and organs, in order to train a machine-learning algorithm to identify cells and to spot abnormalities.

54
1 year ago

This startup is working on software that helps legal professionals track their research — “research” is a term so broad it encompasses everything from reading court cases to scouring the internet for relevant information. The startup says it has $1 million in revenue.

54
1 year ago

A brand-new startup that offers a way for people to share their data with companies for research. The startup wants to incentivize more people to share their medical data with researchers who can use it to better understand how diseases spread.

54
1 year ago

A startup that lets users search for nearby food and specialty ingredients, and then pay for them in an app. It’s access to these ingredients can be used in recipes or to make products. The startup, which is rapidly growing, is still in the pre-launch stage.

54
1 year ago

A search engine for local events like concerts and festivals that shows you how to get there

54
1 year ago

A startup that makes a new version of the classic game thisisyourhome.com, an interactive game where players search for clues to win points and solve the mystery behind a burglar.

54
1 year ago

A research startup that works with museums, universities, and art galleries to crowdsource the kinds of questions that can be answered by crowdsourcing.

54
11 months ago

A tool for lawyers to manage case work, including researching documents and making connections.

54
8 months ago

A startup that helps people with spinal cord injuries receive a second way to communicate with the outside world. When users are able to communicate through a device, they’re able to send $15 to a researcher in the US, who uses the money to purchase a device to make the communication possible.

54
1 year ago

A platform that lets a brand manage their marketing, social media, and search on one platform. It’s available as a hosted service, or on the IBM Cloud as a managed service.

53
1 year ago

A SaaS platform which allows companies to create free online surveys to gauge customer interest in new products and services. The startup is looking to expand its offerings to content, research, and other types of online surveys.

53
1 year ago

A startup that creates software that lets recruiters search for people based on their skills, not their location.

53
1 year ago

A visual tool for assessing a business’s marketing performance. It’s using data to show the effectiveness of different marketing channels, from keyword searches to social media shares, and pinpoint where to focus their marketing efforts.

53
1 year ago

A tool that helps users to search and find the cheapest flight possibilities between their city and their destination.

53
11 months ago

A browser extension that adds a feature to Gmail that lets users keep track of the time they spend on each email, and using Gmail’s search features, easily find and archive emails that take up more time.

53
9 months ago

 A tool that allows users to search the web and find words that they can't remember. The startup says it has already found over 1,000 terms and is working towards a database of over 10,000.

53
1 year ago

A shopping app that connects users to local merchants. The app allows users to search for nearby, often ethnic-specific, goods, and shop for them through the app.

52
1 year ago

Market research tool that gathers data on amateur athletes and coaches. The company’s founder says they’ve already signed up 8,000 coaches and they’re growing fast.

52
1 year ago

A startup that provides a financial advisor service for freelancers and employees, which allows them to manage their own investments, doing their own research and managing their own portfolio, in exchange for a small commission.

52
1 year ago

Jovi is a startup that helps companies research and manage their employees. It has a pricing model that’s slightly different from other applicant-management startups, with a monthly fee for access to the full suite of services for companies.

52
1 year ago

A program that helps startups and small businesses produce more documents at lower costs. The startup provides free templates for company formation filings and will charge for other services such as incorporation, patent searches and trademark searches.

52
1 year ago

A niche search engine that uses Google’s own data to discover the answer to your question

52
1 year ago

A visual search engine for photos. The startup is trying to build a search engine that boils down huge amounts of data into a vector-based visualization that can be manipulated with a computer.

52
1 year ago

A free service that allows users to search online for medical appointments, and then book them via text

52
1 year ago

A new way to view ads in the mobile app world. The startup uses a new technology called “visual search” to allow users to swipe through ads, rather than the traditional method of text-searching ads. It’s being tested with a few companies.

52
1 year ago

A startup building a way for academic scientists to focus their work more on research and less on data management. The startup aims to reduce human errors in lab work and make scientific research more efficient.

52
1 year ago

A startup that allows users to search through a database of common information like addresses and phone numbers.

52
11 months ago

A platform that helps companies in their marketing and sales efforts. The startup recently launched a new tool to help with the hiring process. It allows companies to search for and vet candidates in the same place.

52
10 months ago

 A way to search for, organize, and share videos, photos, and music

52
9 months ago

A platform for finding off-the-beaten-path travel deals. The founding team traveled the country for a year for research before the founding.

52
1 year ago

A “human-powered search engine” meant to give users a “personalized and intuitive” interface to search their email inbox.

51
1 year ago

An interactive video dating app that lets you create your own personal events and search through the profiles of others.

51
1 year ago

A contact management app for people who are just getting started in a new job or job search, or for anyone trying to manage a variety of different networks.

51
9 months ago

At the end of the day, this list is far from exhaustive, and there are a number of other startups that may be worth some extra research

51
9 months ago

This startup is helping teachers with their lesson plans using an app that displays relevant research material and does it for free. The startup is also working with the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies to create curriculum for teachers.

51
9 months ago

Cofounder who has worked at Google on the search team and at Yandex, a search engine in Russia that has been successful in serving regional markets.

51
1 year ago

A platform that allows lawyers to search and manage their client’s documents, allowing them to collaborate and organize client files on a common platform.

50
1 year ago

A free open source app for family tree research.

50
1 year ago

A company that allows you to search for restaurants, bars, and more, coming up with the best suggestions for you. After you make your choice, the app automatically tracks your food and drink consumption, and then rewards you with gift cards when you go out.

50
1 year ago

A startup that Builds and tests a unique search engine. The startup is four people and looking to build a team to bring the search engine to “the next level”.

50
10 months ago

A software app that tracks and keeps records of the performances of academic research papers and their authors.

50
8 months ago

A search engine, built on the idea that “if you can put a price on something, you can put a price on everything.”

50
8 months ago

A startup that develops an algorithm that helps websites understand what people search for and display their results in ways that drive more traffic.

50
5 months ago

A tool that helps you find your dream job by identifying skills and experience you have. The startup says it cuts about the same costs as a traditional job search without the headaches.

50
1 year ago

This startup is building a small B2B SaaS product that helps real estate agents do their searches by comparing properties by neighborhood, agent, type, etc.

49
1 year ago

A data-driven organization that helps non-profits with data analysis. It’s team of researchers and researchers will perform data analysis for charities, so they can focus on the most effective ways to raise money and encourage donors to give.

49
1 year ago

A job search platform that will help job seekers find remote work.

49
1 year ago

A software platform that helps people create and manage the soundtrack to their life. The software allows you to search and dig through your collection of tunes, create playlists, and categorize them.

49
1 year ago

The Center for Humane Technology was an initiative started by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who was a founding organizer. The center's mission is to research and devise ways in which technology can be used to help people, with a particular focus on children, refugees, and the disabled.

49
9 months ago

A tool that helps users apply their own keyword filters to any pre-existing website and organize their content into spreadsheets to make them more searchable. Just as Google can find your search history and make predictions about what you’re looking for, the tool analyzes your website and makes predictive suggestions.

49
3 years ago

Idea: A mobile app for first aid responders, allowing them to better coordinate in the field. The app has a fast search capability, letting responders easily find supplies and guides.

48
1 year ago

A shopping app that allows you to search for local stores that sell what you’re looking for and send them a request. When you receive a notification, you’re able to go directly to the store.

48
1 year ago

A startup that brings the benefits of a “quiet studio” to people who live in buildings that aren’t as soundproofed. The company’s co-founder, who was previously a producer for The BBC, says he uses the studio for “super-advanced brain science and psychology research”.

48
1 year ago

A startup that monitors the health of your home, automatically alerting you to issues you might otherwise let slide. The company uses a team of market researchers, data scientists and a network of professional home inspectors to make sure it can competently monitor the health of your home.

48
1 year ago

A platform that helps companies manage and organize the millions of documents that they deal with every day, and make it easier to search those documents.

48
1 year ago

A B2B company that’s building a platform to help companies identify and manage the best people and content for different jobs in different industries. They work with recruiters and hiring managers to comb through hundreds of candidates and their portfolios and create a single searchable database of the best candidates possible, then present those candidates to companies in real-time as they fill open positions.

48
1 year ago

This startup is building an AI-powered law firm. The company is hiring legal research engineers, data scientists and analysts, and an HR tech lead.

48
1 year ago

A startup looking to provide a new way to search CSV and JSON files. It aims to provide a simple and easy-to-use interface to view, organize and search data in real-time.

48
11 months ago

This company is building a way to share information on the web by creating a database of the web. The team is currently focused on creating a database of the internet to be easily discovered via search.

48
1 year ago

A business that helps consumers find, research, and buy locally-sourced food.

47
1 year ago

Designed to help people search for and filter out the noise in the current news cycle, Signal Spotlight is a quick way for people to get the gist of what’s happening.

47
1 year ago

PRime is building a market research tool that allows marketers to test out their messaging and see which of their tactics work best.

47
1 year ago

A paid research platform that allows users to learn about their competitors and competitors' products.

47
1 year ago

A startup that builds an AI-powered search engine that can identify the right products for a given search.

47
1 year ago

A market research firm that helps companies find out which clients they should go after, and how to get them to pay more.

47
1 year ago

A SaaS for finding and researching freelance remote workers.