Source Startup Ideas

2 years ago

A startup that’s helping Indian tech startups source cheap and reliable engineering talent.

5,327

5 years ago

Open-source software to help companies track the life cycle of their products.

919

5 years ago

A free library of “crowd sourced” electronics repair instructions, with a database of more than 100,000 step-by-step guides for common problems with over a million unique parts.

781

3 years ago

A software platform that helps people find the right mental-health resources. The company has received over $2.5 million in funding to date.

657

2 years ago

A platform that lets people share ideas and resources, creating a “social marketplace” for talent and ideas.

616

3 years ago

A social network for people with depression, anxiety and other mental health issues that helps them find resources and connect with others.

533

5 years ago

A way to help human resources departments get a better picture of how workers are doing and whether they are happy in their jobs. The startup is looking to help HR departments with new tools to reduce turnover and better focus on employee retention.

271

5 years ago

A new way to crowdsource ideas for new products, with the goal of helping fledgling startups get ideas for new products off the ground. The startup is building a platform for companies to crowdsource ideas in exchange for equity.

262

5 years ago

A startup that aims to help people with severe anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues find the resources they need to get better

257

2 years ago

A startup that uses social media to help governments solve various problems. It’s a crowdsourced problem-solving platform that allows citizens to solve problems with data, pictures, videos and text.

256

5 years ago

A startup that builds "the world’s first decentralized, open source, student portal.” Its goal is to connect students around the world to their professors through a global network of university digital classrooms.

252

4 years ago

A place for small businesses to collaborate and share resources.

246

2 years ago

A video game studio that uses the latest artificial intelligence techniques to turn crowd-sourced video into a game.

244

5 years ago

A startup that aims to help remove the friction between resource-poor hospitals in India and those with more resources.

235

5 years ago

A business-to-business (B2B) startup creating an open-source solution for businesses to create and manage a library of electronic documents.

235

4 years ago

A platform that allows users to create digital, social, and physical products by sending messages to a group of people in a bid to crowdsource their ideas or get feedback.

232

5 years ago

A crowdsourced employee handbook for startups in India.

230

4 years ago

A startup that collects data on your phone and then turns it into a map of crowdsourced traffic conditions along major roads and highways.

228

4 years ago

A platform for schools to share resources, build a community, and budget using cloud-based software.

219

3 years ago

A social network for people who want to find a second job. It’s for people who want to find a second job but don’t have the resources to do so themselves, and for people who have a job and are looking for a side hustle.

215

4 years ago

Open-source data visualization tool that connects together email, web, and desktop. It also integrates into Slack and other tools.

214

4 years ago

An open source framework that lets people edit smartphone videos with a finger, finger or stylus.

214

4 years ago

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213

2 years ago

A tool that builds GPS-enabled maps with crowdsourced data

213

4 years ago

A free, open-source portfolio app for designers.

209

4 years ago

The company is looking to help service providers know which jobs are the most important to perform, and which jobs can be outsourced, to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Its software, called

202

3 years ago

A startup that aims to bring the “sharing economy” to farmers, who are often left out of the vast majority of transactions related to food, be it restaurants or grocery stores. The founders say that since they can use shared resources, they can cut the cost of a farm by 75%.

202

5 years ago

A company that helps companies with sales and marketing by giving them a single source to track all of their leads on a single platform.

201

4 years ago

A software company that creates tools for mobile developers to help them make the most of their device and resources.

200

4 years ago

A call center for multilingual businesses. It gives companies a way to handle customer service and human resources in their native language.

200

4 years ago

An open-source platform that allows employers to create and manage a social safety net for their employees, including healthcare and retirement benefits. The startup has raised $8.8 million to date and has 1,000 employers on board.

199

4 years ago

A digital library for poets that curates the best and most unique poems across all genres. The app includes a database of more than 200,000 poems and sources, and functions as a social network for poets.

196

5 years ago

A platform that helps businesses manage their data more effectively, as well as connect diverse data sources.

195

4 years ago

A SaaS system that enables companies to create and maintain their own web pages, and use them as a single source of truth.

195

4 years ago

Open-source software that provides a platform for the secure exchange of sensitive information

194

5 years ago

A crowdsourced shopping website for Indian customers.

193

4 years ago

A company that is building software to help banks and other lenders connect to new sources of data like social media, livestreams and more, to get a better understanding of their clients and make better decisions.

192

4 years ago

Open source software meant to help e-commerce sites track items in their inventory. Marketers want to know where to buy their products and what items are selling.

192

4 years ago

A company that builds and manages software that helps the processing and management of HR, payroll, payroll tax and other human resource information.

191

5 years ago

A software platform that helps human resources departments manage their employees' healthcare.

190

4 years ago

A startup that’s building a platform that helps human resources professionals manage benefits and training.

190

5 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses and individuals who are planning to start a business find resources

189

4 years ago

An open source, open culture distributed ledger platform for distributed apps. The company wants to create a standard for the distributed web.

189

5 years ago

An open-source web application for creating and managing virtual classrooms and events.

185

4 years ago

The startup aims to build a social network for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs-to-be to help them find and connect with mentors and resources to help them start and grow.

185

4 years ago

A startup that uses AI to bring crowdsourced information to the public sector. It’s based in the UK and works with various governments and NGOs.

185

4 years ago

“A digital bank account that’s 100% open-source.”

184

4 years ago

This startup wants to build a “Netflix for Open Source”, allowing software developers to package their code up and sell it.

183

4 years ago

The Startup Genome is a resource for founders and investors. It covers early stage

183

4 years ago

An open source online IDE for building mobile apps, spanning mobile platforms (iOS/Android/web) and programming languages (Java/C/C++).

182

4 years ago

A news app that leverages the power of a crowdsource. The app gives people the chance to help build a story by adding and aggregating information.

182

4 years ago

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

181

4 years ago

The company provides a single, unified interface for customers to access their data and resources, plus a suite of APIs that allow third-party developers to integrate their services into

180

3 years ago

A startup that makes a free (and open source) online course platform that teaches programming

180

3 years ago

A startup that helps CEOs and CFOs to leverage the skills of their employees, especially their human resources. The company focuses on HR software.

180

3 years ago

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

179

5 years ago

A “network of people and resources to help you build a great website”.

178

3 years ago

An idea for an open-source machine learning framework for the next generation of internet apps.

178

5 years ago

A concierge service to help investors source private capital.

177

4 years ago

A decentralized, open-source online marketplace that allows people to buy and sell digital goods and services directly from other users without the need for a centralized authority.

176

4 years ago

A tool for helping journalists track news stories across different platforms and different sources.

176

5 years ago

Starting as a maker of carbonated drinks with the tagline “For those who don’t have air,” this startup is building a new kind of Citrus Cloud, which will use the sun as a source of carbon dioxide to allow plants to grow in areas without electricity.

175

4 years ago

A group of entrepreneurs and executives from large companies like Google, Amazon, and Walmart are working on a new startup called Kip, a platform for tech-enabled collaboration. The company’s goal is to help large companies share resources more effectively, and will launch in the fall of 2020 in the U.S.

174

5 years ago

A startup that provides crowd-sourced human testing on new products and software. They have built an internal tool to help the company evaluate software and services that it wants to launch.

173

5 years ago

A P2P lending platform for businesses that don’t have the resources to build out the infrastructure to do their own payments.

170

3 years ago

A real-time translation app that takes the place of traditional translation apps. It works by pulling in translated text from multiple sources in real-time.

170

2 years ago

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

170

5 years ago

A free and open-source app for finding, managing and sharing files

169

4 years ago

A company that’s building an interface for like-minded people to connect and share their ideas, needs and resources.

169

5 years ago

A startup that aims to make it easier for people to spontaneously and collaboratively crowdsource ad hoc solutions to a wide variety of problems.

168

2 years ago

A way to build maps with crowdsourced GPS data and then link them to the web.

168

5 years ago

A startup that is building an alternative repository to Airbnb for people to find rentable resources This includes everything from homes to lawn mowers, from the startup’s own website

165

5 years ago

In-person job recruitment turned into a crowdsourced game.

165

5 years ago

A crowdsourced translation app that lets you leave a comment to help an Italian native translate an English text into Italian.

164

4 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for companies to build websites on the open source Angular platform, including visual design and templates. Atlassian is the startup's first customer.

163

3 years ago

A platform for remote workers where they can share their workspace, access to tools and other resources, and can build the work environment they need. The company recently received $1.75 million in seed funding.

163

3 years ago

Building a toolkit that allows people to integrate data from a lot of sources into a shared dashboard.

162

3 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses with their human resources needs. The company wants to be a one-stop shop for all HR needs.

162

5 years ago

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

161

5 years ago

This startup helps employees gain access to their employer’s network and resources without logging in. It’s an employee portal that connects to the company’s own servers to provide a unified sign-on.

161

5 years ago

An open source platform that helps pharmacy owners boost sales of generics.

161

5 years ago

A human resources software company that helps companies track their employee’s work hours, track TPS reports, and calculate the number of employees they need.

161

5 years ago

A startup that aims to build a platform for women in India to document and share their experiences with domestic violence in order to help them find resources and get help.

161

5 years ago

A free and open source data visualization tool for business intelligence and analytics.

160

3 years ago

A startup that helps restaurants outsource their delivery needs, to save money and cut down on delivery time.

160

3 years ago

A stock photo agency that uses crowdsourced photos and visual effects to create photo-animation.

160

5 years ago

There are a number of resources for startups:

159

5 years ago

A company that is creating an open-source platform to track employee time, and then charging employers for its usage.

158

4 years ago

This startup is building a new approach to accounting where companies can be both the “source” and “destination” of revenue, for the purpose of calculating tax liabilities.

158

5 years ago

A startup that wants to make open-source software for 3D printers. The founders are tech veterans who have built digital fabrication tools before.

156

5 years ago

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

155

5 years ago

A startup that crowdsources legal advice by using “smart contracts”.

155

5 years ago

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

155

5 years ago

Builds mobile apps for small and medium-sized businesses that are typically handled by outsourced developers. It helps the client keep track of their employees and their weekly hours, track expenses, and generate invoices.

154

5 years ago

A company that wants to make it easy for large companies to take advantage of technology and automation to save money, while still ensuring employees have access to human resources, benefits, and security.

154

5 years ago

The startup is building a platform for allowing organizations to crowdsource ideas for products and services, and to get feedback from customers.

153

5 years ago

A platform that connects businesses with data science resources in a way that makes it easy to collaborate and get work done. The company also plans to launch a consumer app that will allow customers to sign up for machine learning-based advice.

153

5 years ago

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

153

5 years ago

A platform for people who want a green source of electricity (like rooftop solar)

153

5 years ago

A startup for freelancers, providing a venue where employers and freelancers can use an “open-source” to find and hire each other.

153

4 years ago

A startup that wants to solve the “capital management” problem for enterprise software startups. Instead of companies managing all of their own financial resources, they plan to provide a service that helps startups manage their capital, paying for those resources as needed.

153

5 years ago

An online marketplace for small businesses to collaborate, where they can share resources, receive feedback from customers, and get more business. They charge businesses $5 per month per person to join, and charge businesses $500 a month to become a Vendor.

152

5 years ago

A management platform for small companies that helps assign tasks to team members, manage plans and resources, and conduct audits.

152

5 years ago

A startup that helps people find the best, most reliable care for themselves and their loved ones. The company is looking to partner with employers and large patient-specific care providers to improve the quality of care, while also being a resource for medical professionals.

152

5 years ago

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

152

3 years ago

A platform that allows people to easily share and discover data from a variety of digital sources in a way that makes it easy to consume and share.

152

5 years ago

A software company that wants to help companies pull data from multiple sources, combine it, and make sense of it all.

151

5 years ago

A solution for single-source supply chain visibility

151

5 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.

151

5 years ago

Lever provides a free, open source platform for all kinds of digital content including documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and even video. Lever is transforming the way people collaborate and learn.

151

4 years ago

A chatbot that helps personal financial management. The startup is looking to build a platform that aggregates data from a variety of online and offline sources to provide financial guidance and advice to its users.

151

3 years ago

A way to get monthly market quotes from a few different sources, pitched as an alternative to the Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch.

151

5 years ago

A 3-screen, “Freedom of Information” app that sources and displays data from NYC’s 311 service.

149

5 years ago

A company that is building a platform for managing “smart” cities. The company wants to create a tool that helps cities manage resources like energy, parking, and transportation.

149

5 years ago

A startup for people who want to start a business, but don’t have the time or resources to actually do it. The app aims to provide education, mentoring, and a place where entrepreneurs can network.

149

5 years ago

A startup that helps folks in the fashion industry source products, make purchases, and have their purchases delivered.

149

5 years ago

A free, open-source and community-driven email client built on the Electron framework.

148

5 years ago

A startup that makes it easier to get funding from community sources, such as crowdfunding sites.

148

5 years ago

For over two years, the company has been working on a platform that allows teams to track the sales process and view it as a movie, with data visualizations and a dynamic timeline. Users can pull data from any source, and the company’s been working with a number of clients, including the White House, to do this.

148

5 years ago

A startup that builds software solutions for companies that want to develop for TV, but don’t have the resources to do so.

148

5 years ago

A way to let people crowdsource their ideas (like Kickstarter) from the comfort of their home, where they can focus on the creative process without having to deal with logistics.

148

3 years ago

A platform for companies to hire contractors, who can be sourced from colleges and universities. The startup has built a system for companies to pay for their services, and for the students to be paid.

147

3 years ago

A startup that helps local governments manage their payroll and human resources on their own.

147

4 years ago

A startup that sells a “customizable, open-source video doorbell”.

146

3 years ago

This is a service that helps car dealerships automate the process of selling cars through customer service. It’s a way to outsource the work of selling cars to customer service representatives.

146

5 years ago

Launched in August, this is an open-source chatbot that can handle both finance and consumer-facing business.

145

5 years ago

Crowdsourced reports that help companies assess the capital needs of their startups in order to raise money from angel investors and venture capitalists.

145

3 years ago

A modern, open-source, web-based platform for making 3D models. The idea is to make it easier for companies to make 3D models so they can create apps and products better.

145

2 years ago

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

145

5 years ago

A mobile app that uses crowdsourced data and AI to improve real-time messaging on messaging apps. The startup has raised $6M in funding to date.

144

3 years ago

This startup is building an app that can detect malicious IP addresses to help you scrub out fake emails and link them to the actual source. It’s a simple way of protecting your digital information from being spoofed.

144

5 years ago

The company provides company-wide training and staff development. It works with employers to provide employees with the tools and resources they need to be successful in their jobs.

143

5 years ago

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

143

5 years ago

A tool to help companies manage their supply chains more efficiently, with an added focus on the green products that they’re able to source.

143

5 years ago

An enterprise resource planning solution for small businesses that lets them share key financial data with a single dashboard, rather than using different apps on different devices.

143

5 years ago

A startup that provides a crowdsourced network of reviewers to deliver criticism and praise about neighborhood businesses Customers rate the businesses, and the app gives them a network of reviewers to consider

142

5 years ago

A platform to help create and manage communities, including a marketplace for selling and buying resources.

142

5 years ago

A platform for employers to find and manage outsourced workers.

142

5 years ago

An open source software platform that helps companies manage their customer risk data through a unified and central platform

142

5 years ago

A company that offers “crowdsourced data” for “successful” products, like the iPad

142

5 years ago

The idea behind this open source tool is to allow people to get their hands on a data set and work on it without needing to license it.

142

2 years ago

A tool that helps companies manage their supply chain. The company says it’s only $1 per month per employee, which makes it cheaper than human resources outsourcing.

142

5 years ago

An AI-powered digital assistant that helps with personal finance and investing. The startup wants to become the go-to resource for financial information and advice.

141

5 years ago

A crowdsourced platform for companies and individuals to network and find leads.

141

5 years ago

A startup that wants to bring the benefits of the web to under-resourced countries, equipping them with internet access.

141

5 years ago

There are also a handful of open source startups doing interesting things:

141

4 years ago

A web service that crowdsources customer feedback on products.

141

3 years ago

A gamified way to manage time and resources. The startup, which launched in June, wants to help sales reps be more efficient by breaking down the time it takes them to close a deal and using that data to create a game-like experience where they can track their progress.

141

5 years ago

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

140

5 years ago

A realtime database that crunches social media and digital marketing analytics from realtime sources. The startup is focusing on the UK market.

140

5 years ago

This startup is building a vending machine for the financial sector. It’s an open source vending machine that lets banks and credit unions buy and sell financial products in bulk.

140

5 years ago

A startup that helps companies adjust their business operations to be more profitable, with a focus on "lean operations" that can optimize use of resources and improve efficiency.

140

5 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.

139

5 years ago

A startup to help people choose a college that fits their personality. The app is a resource for students and parents looking for information about schools.

139

5 years ago

A tool that helps sales managers and salespeople manage sales leads from all different sources. It works as a CRM for Salesforce, helping salespeople see calls and leads in one place.

139

5 years ago

A crowdsourced security analyst team.

139

5 years ago

An open-source platform for allowing any developer to build an on-demand movie ticketing app.

139

5 years ago

A small business resource center for people who want to start a new business

139

4 years ago

The founders walked away from their jobs in the technology industry to focus on food, and built a tech app that makes it easier and cheaper for restaurants to source from local farmers.

139

5 years ago

An open source database for database administrators to quickly and easily populate their infrastructure with needed data.

138

5 years ago

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

138

5 years ago

A company that helps companies build software infrastructure that allows them to handle three types of data (user, table, and document) in a single data source. It’s currently being used by a large multinational company that has 7500+ employees.

138

5 years ago

A software-as-a-service platform that allows businesses to manage their financial resources like a small business.

138

5 years ago

The company built a “crowd-sourced” platform to help people with their financial planning.

138

4 years ago

A startup that sources and purchases organic food in the US at wholesale prices, delivering it to customers for a small fee.

138

5 years ago

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

137

5 years ago

A startup that provides the infrastructure “to build and scale simple, automated, and scalable apps built on top of the open source Git version control system.”

137

5 years ago

This startup is building out a news aggregation platform for journalists and bloggers to gather content from sources like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

137

5 years ago

A tool for automating and monitoring Kubernetes resources.

137

5 years ago

A messaging platform for #MeToo survivors to share stories, recommendations, and resources.

137

4 years ago

A startup that brings together suppliers and customers in a community for shared resources, helping people get the best prices and services.

137

5 years ago

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

136

5 years ago

Helping small businesses create community-based, crowdsourced events that benefit all the attendees.

136

5 years ago

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

136

4 years ago

A platform that allows companies to crowdsource information and data. The startup has developed a platform to help companies integrate data from third-party sources.

136

3 years ago

The company makes a platform to improve recruiter efficiency and build outsourced teams, which helps companies save time and money.

136

5 years ago

An open-source platform which allows developers to easily build and manage their digital asset portfolios. Currently has a focus on digital currencies.

135

5 years ago

A digital identity platform and communications network for digital society, based on the open source Edunet system, used in Venezuela prior to the Chávez administration.

135

5 years ago

This startup is building a machine learning service that helps other companies quickly create and execute campaigns without the need for a huge staff. The startup is targeting startups that need marketing help but don’t have the time or the resources to build it.

135

5 years ago

A software company that offers a software-as-a-service product that combines a CRM and enterprise resource planning system. The company works with clients to create customized software packages.

135

5 years ago

A startup to help people find a doctor with a doctor in their neighborhood. The San Francisco-based startup, which was launched in May, is a crowd-sourced network of doctors and patients that offers a list of doctors who accept Medicaid.

135

5 years ago

A community for teachers to connect and share resources.

135

5 years ago

A startup that outsources the time-consuming parts of building a website or app to freelancers

134

5 years ago

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

134

5 years ago

A company that aims to reinvent and recruit the human resources function for startups in the US.

134

5 years ago

This is a collaboration platform for business teams to share resources.

134

5 years ago

A search engine that surfaces open source code.

133

5 years ago

An internal audit tool which helps companies audit data from multiple sources, and produce an audit report for each source.

132

5 years ago

The idea of this startup is to fill the void that the daily news leaves out. By aggregating and creating content from the hundreds of sources they partner with, they aim to provide a complete picture of the news events happening around the world.

132

5 years ago

A Y Combinator company that builds open-source components for the enterprise.

132

5 years ago

A business-to-business open source platform for building enterprise software.

131

5 years ago

A startup to crowdsource direct marketing campaigns for companies.

131

5 years ago

A startup for female entrepreneurs where they can share products and get feedback, plus other resources.

131

3 years ago

A company that helps stylists create looks for clients, from a number of different sources.

131

2 years ago

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

131

5 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

130

5 years ago

The company is building an online tool to help businesses automate payroll and human resources, with features like time tracking and flexible pay.

130

5 years ago

Decentralized social network where people can get paid to publish stories. The startup is open source and free to use, and the founder says it has a "small amount of daily active users."

130

5 years ago

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

129

5 years ago

A tool that provides an interface to connect to third-party data sources, like credit cards, loyalty programs, and other apps, to produce a complete customer profile.

129

5 years ago

A startup that’s building a C++ library that allows hardware designs to be shared on GitHub. The company’s CEO says that the concept is similar to the Arduino open source hardware platform.

129

5 years ago

A platform that enables people to crowdsource and “pay it forward” their expertise to help others

129

3 years ago

A way to crowdsource information about a business or a person.

129

5 years ago

A personal assistant for programming, with a mobile app that syncs with a PC. The startup wants to help coders find resources, learn new languages, and stay on task.

128

4 years ago

A new way to get enterprise-grade security for all your cloud apps using orchestration from a single source. It’s a security automation tool that promises to make security management easier for companies of all sizes.

128

3 years ago

A platform for recruiting people to crowdsource new business from the crowd.

128

3 years ago

A platform that aggregates various data sources like social media, web traffic, and others to help content creators create a more holistic view of their audience.

128

5 years ago

A resource for finding the best yoga classes and teachers in a particular city. The company also wants to develop a global directory of yoga studios.

127

5 years ago

The startup is working with partners to bootstrap the growth of a small-scale 3D printing community by providing the equipment and resources to move from a maker-model printer to a high-quality commercial printer.

127

5 years ago

A way for people to crowdsource their legal advice, getting online help from a group of attorneys.

127

4 years ago

A startup that helps businesses create a more efficient CRM system by collecting data from multiple sources and automatically integrating it into a single sales pipeline.

127

3 years ago

This startup is building an intelligent assistant that helps you stay on top of your home's energy usage. The product is a hub that connects to a variety of energy sources and can tell you when to run your dishwasher or change your lights.

127

5 years ago

Its goal is to be the next generation of open-source apps in the Apple App Store.

126

5 years ago

A single source of financial records for a company's employees, providing one unified way to view all their financial information and transactions.

126

2 years ago

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

126

5 years ago

A startup that creates a marketplace for companies to outsource their recruiting to on-demand recruiters, with the promise of matching candidates to available jobs within a week

125

5 years ago

A startup that aims to help college students get answers to their questions about their health. There are an estimated 1.5 million students with health questions and a very limited number of resources to direct them to.

125

5 years ago

A startup focused on helping to lower the cost of the gig economy. They provide a platform for workers to outsource tasks as much as they need, and helps clients with tasks like hiring, HR, and payroll.

125

5 years ago

A tool for managing retail inventory, with an API that allows developers to pull inventory data from a range of different sources. The startup says they’ve already integrated with over 250 retailers.

125

5 years ago

A blockchain startup developing a “decentralized protocol for recording and verifying the provenance of natural resources”.

125

5 years ago

A non-profit organization which helps teachers discuss and share classroom resources, with an emphasis on developing new materials and resources for teachers.

125

5 years ago

On-demand software for human resources (HR) teams. It automates the hiring process, removes the stress of finding the right people, and streamlines data collection and reporting for HR teams.

125

5 years ago

A resource for QA Engineers to find quality software engineering jobs in the US and Canada.

125

5 years ago

A “crowd-sourced data science platform.”

125

3 years ago

This startup is building a crowdsourced video production tool that helps people shoot, edit, and upload videos to Youtube.

125

5 years ago

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

124

5 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.

124

5 years ago

A startup that’s giving employers a way to document and monitor employee behavior, from performance issues to safety concerns. It’s a little like a human-resources app and a security camera in one.

124

5 years ago

A platform that helps people buy and sell single family homes. Currently focused on the UK. The company is using a combination of software and crowdsourced data to help buyers make smarter decisions.

124

3 years ago

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

124

5 years ago

A SaaS startup for accounting that provides a single-source, centralized platform for managing all of your accounting needs.

123

5 years ago

A tool that helps companies source and communicate with local contractors.

123

5 years ago

An “open-source ‘on-demand’ service for the generation, distribution, and consumption of media”.

123

5 years ago

This startup is building an open-source platform for healthcare providers to create and manage a variety of healthcare apps.

123

5 years ago

This startup is building a toolset for HR managers that lets them manage their company’s “Human Resources” from anywhere in the world.

123

5 years ago

This company makes a predictive analytics tool for human resources departments.

123

3 years ago

Provides a credit score for students by combining data from their FAFSA and other sources to predict how they’ll perform on a loan or in the job market.

123

5 years ago

A non-profit that follows and mentors African-American female entrepreneurs, providing them access to mentors and resources to help them build their businesses.

122

5 years ago

A suite of tools for visualizing, sharing, storing, and analyzing technical data in the field. It’s built to work with multiple data sources, and output is easily readable for the end user.

122

5 years ago

A startup that aims to help organizations be more efficient by “minimizing the amount of time, energy, and resources required” to manage the things that can’t be automated.

122

5 years ago

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

121

5 years ago

This is an ongoing list of startups that have raised funding. This list is compiled from Crunchbase and other news sources.

121

5 years ago

A software-as-a-service business which automates the process of helping human resources departments create, manage, and track benefits.

121

4 years ago

A white-label company that sells customer data to insurance companies, but the startup says the data it offers is less than what a company buying data from a broker would pay for. Instead of buying a person’s data from a broker, Vitality starts with a person’s data from 3rd party sources and helps them create a profile.

121

5 years ago

A “crowdsourced recommendation engine” that uses a model built on Yelp and other reviews to help people find apps and services that they might not necessarily know about.

120

5 years ago

The startup is looking to help people who have a lot of different data sources gather information about themselves, and then store it in the cloud.

120

5 years ago

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

120

5 years ago

A startup that helps manufacturers source materials and organize their supply chains.

120

4 years ago

A SaaS company that provides a resource of data for businesses to use in their marketing.

120

4 years ago

A cloud-based platform that leverages crowdsourced content to improve translation services for businesses and organizations.

119

3 years ago

A crowdsourced geo-tracking service for football games.

119

5 years ago

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

118

5 years ago

An open-source program that lets anyone create their own app for the Oculus Rift.

118

5 years ago

A platform that helps business owners directly monetize their digital content. They’re using a crowdsourced model of community management to build the best content curation platform.

117

5 years ago

A software company that helps HR teams with all aspects of recruiting, hiring, and onboarding. They strive to be a one-stop shop for talent as well as a human resource management solution.

117

5 years ago

A startup that provides a way for tech companies to manage their digital marketing as one source for all their marketing needs.

117

5 years ago

A company that helps companies create, manage, and implement international human resource policies.

117

5 years ago

An “open source command-line tool for processing Kafka messages”.

117

4 years ago

A startup that’s developing an app that allows users to crowdsource design work in real time. As the company says, “the platform is set up in a way that allows site visitors to create a profile, to rate designs, and to leave feedback on the designs of other site visitors. The power of the platform comes from the fact that it’s powered by a community of designers that are incentivized to be helpful.”

117

5 years ago

a technology service to make people’s lives easier by letting them manage their health records from a single source. The startup has a partnership with WellPoint to bring its service to hospitals and doctors.

116

5 years ago

A company that makes it easy for small businesses to get in touch with consumers. The startup is making it easier for companies to market to a large, specific group of consumers by creating a one-stop resource for companies to find and contact consumers.

116

5 years ago

A company that helps companies with their data pipelines, connecting them to more and more sources of data.

115

4 years ago

A company that provides software for building, managing and monetizing open source software.

115

4 years ago

A startup that connects shoppers with crowdsourced personal shoppers. It has been acquired by Groupon.

115

2 years ago

A company that helps employers create “micro-workforce” solutions, allowing employers to outsource tasks without hiring full-time employees. The startup is building a product that helps B2B companies scale without hiring.

115

5 years ago

An open-source platform and data storage for enterprise use

114

5 years ago

A free, open-source platform for building and managing distributed applications. Uses a programming language called Akka.

114

5 years ago

A platform for tracking and understanding the health of small businesses. The platform incorporates data from disparate sources like patient feedback and third-party surveys to provide real-time insights into the health of a business.

114

4 years ago

A startup trying to help domestic violence victims connect with resources and foster social networks of support. They’re looking to hire a coder to help make their product.

114

3 years ago

A startup for collecting, analyzing and visualizing data from multiple sources and systems

114

5 years ago

This company is building a “truly independent” alternative to Google News. It looks at all the news sources on the web and aggregates them into a single stream, eliminating the need for users to manually visit all their sources.

113

5 years ago

This startup makes it easy to integrate customer data from various sources into a single platform. The company’s co-founder was formerly a product manager at Google.

113

5 years ago

A platform that enables customers to rate and review their favorite stores. The startup uses a crowdsourced model to encourage customer feedback and use it to guide the company’s product development.

112

5 years ago

This startup sells a zero-emission travel device that charges a phone, laptop, or other device when the traveler is near a wireless source.

112

5 years ago

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

111

5 years ago

This company builds digital assistants for developing countries, aiming to make it easy for them to get work done while using technology in ways that are not possible when living in resource-limited areas.

111

5 years ago

A platform for crowdsourcing and combining data from different geographic sources.

111

5 years ago

An open source, cloud-based platform that allows companies to track and report on the performance and progress of people and teams.

111

5 years ago

A platform for on-demand access to data and information from a variety of companies. The company wants to help businesses access information from multiple sources, and then make it easy for them to analyze and use that information.

110

5 years ago

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

110

4 years ago

A start-up that maps the world’s food systems, trying to create a “living resource” map of where food grows.

110

5 years ago

A startup that has built a visual, crowd-sourced map of the world’s nuclear weapons.

109

5 years ago

Startup Grind is a global community that aims to connect entrepreneurs and their startups with like-minded people, resources, and events in order to accelerate their growth. Startup Grind Philly is one of the first chapters based in the United States.

109

4 years ago

A resource for women on the road to help them be better travelers. The company says it’s already working with companies like Microsoft and Time Warner Cable.

109

4 years ago

A way for mobile users to get notifications from different sources, including Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

109

4 years ago

A software company that helps doctors better track patient health using data from a variety of sources. The startup is already working with physicians in Arizona.

109

3 years ago

A startup company that’s building a platform that allows people to collaborate with each other, and uses the technologies and resources they already have to build the solution.

109

2 years ago

Build, share and sell your own 3D printer. The product is based on the open source RepRap technology.

109

5 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.

108

4 years ago

A way to build a crowd-sourced marketplace of the best designers.

108

3 years ago

The company is looking to create a single directory for all the services, both online and offline, that people use to deal with their money. They want to make it easy to find resources, from banking to tax preparation to credit cards.

108

3 years ago

An open-source analytics tool for managing data on your own servers.

107

3 years ago

A startup that helps people organize their personal information, such as budgeting, travel, and investments, by making it easy to import data from multiple sources into one place.

107

5 years ago

A startup that’s building an “open-source” virtual network for computer-to-computer communication

106

4 years ago

A cloud-based platform for crowdsourcing and crowdsourced marketing. The startup is looking to scale by acquiring other startup marketing firms.

106

5 years ago

A platform that helps businesses track the true costs of their data, and then helps them make better decisions about where to allocate their resources. This startup is building an enterprise-focused tool that helps businesses track their data and calculate their true costs.

105

5 years ago

A startup that helps companies explore their data across different data sources, with the goal of extracting the useful data buried in the data.

105

5 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier to find and share data sets from different sources. It has raised $3.3 million to date, and is targeting enterprise customers.

104

5 years ago

A tool that makes it easy to create software exports from a website into the code the developer needs. It’s like a “convert code to source” tool for web developers.

104

4 years ago

A way to make a variety of products from a variety of sources, from a variety of retailers, and have them delivered to a customer's home.

104

3 years ago

This startup is building a digital library of German language learning resources for adults.

104

2 years ago

A startup that builds an open source platform for retailers to provide discount coupons online and via SMS. The startup is looking to become a “one-stop shop” for printable retail coupons. It’s currently in beta.

104

5 years ago

A “crowdsourced business intelligence platform”. The startup wants to help businesses predict and manage their growth. It launched in May with 1000 customers.

103

3 years ago

A platform that lets publishers crowdsource video reviews on YouTube.

103

3 years ago

A “customer support software for small businesses” built for free and open source.

103

2 years ago

A startup that is developing an AI as a service platform to help companies automate predictive analytics from a variety of data sources.

102

2 years ago

A startup building an open source platform to help people plan their trips with an experience similar to that of the popular TripIt app.

102

5 years ago

A platform that aims to make it easier to design and manage digital product and content experiences. An open-source platform that allows anyone to design a product and provide the necessary feedback to friends and followers. The startup is seeking to build on the work of other Open Platforms like Brave, or Pivotal, or Path.

101

5 years ago

A startup that helps employees streamline their use of corporate IT resources.

101

3 years ago

This is a collective of startups that want to use the power of the internet to build an open-source marketplace for physical goods. The startups will join forces to offer goods from around the world at low prices to anyone in the world. There’s a lot of competition in the space, but it’s an interesting idea.

101

3 years ago

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

101

2 years ago

A company that builds “virtual offices” for startups, allowing them to share space and resources and collaborate.

101

5 years ago

An automated, crowdsourced, Wikipedia-like knowledge base for self-driving cars. The startup currently has over 100,000 self-driving car test vehicles in the US and Europe.

100

4 years ago

A web app that allows people to watch movies and TV when and where they want, using a library of content from various sources.

100

4 years ago

A startup that’s building a $20 million logistics marketplace for restaurants, enabling them to outsource their delivery and inventory management.

100

5 years ago

A tool for finding and hiring independent contractors, allowing companies to outsource tasks to independent contractors with a single click.

99

4 years ago

An API for crowdsourced product reviews, allowing brands to run their own polls and aggregate the data.

99

4 years ago

A subscription-free, open-source messaging platform for teams. The startup’s founders say they want to transform how groups collaborate.

99

4 years ago

An e-commerce platform for water management and management of natural resources.

99

4 years ago

A resource for finding great, niche products for musicians and music lovers.

99

2 years ago

An open-source platform that lets you shop for insurance, credit, and loans anywhere in the world.

99

5 years ago

A customer support app for businesses, that helps users get through to human resources, and allows them to receive specific customer service.

98

4 years ago

The startup is building an online platform that helps B2B companies pull data from their sales and marketing teams to help them better allocate resources. Their service pulls data from tools like Salesforce, Marketo, and Hubspot.

98

5 years ago

A crowdsourced platform for mail-order brides that lets them communicate with potential suitors.

97

4 years ago

An open source API for medical device data

96

4 years ago

A company that helps organizations create accurate sales forecasting reports by automatically collecting the data from multiple sources.

96

3 years ago

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

96

4 years ago

This company has built an open-source platform for data science and predictive modeling. The company has built a platform that provides insights into data quickly and cost-efficiently.

95

4 years ago

A platform to improve the efficiency of a company’s human resources department.

95

3 years ago

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

95

4 years ago

A crowdsourced design tool that uses user feedback to iterate on the design of a product.

94

3 years 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.

94

5 years ago

Ira is a tool that helps people manage and communicate with their business partners and suppliers. The business development team can use the platform to find and get to know new partners, and the sales team can help handle communication, relationships, and resources, all in one place.

93

5 years ago

A tool to help companies make the right product decisions by crunching data from different sources.

93

4 years ago

A system for collecting and organizing data from multiple sources to help people get a deeper understanding of how their customers respond to different offers.

93

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier for companies to do (legitimate) software engineering work in the open source community.

92

3 years ago

An open-source platform to store and share visual assets, with the goal of making it easier to build products with computer vision.

92

4 years ago

A platform for mobile app developers that provides them with tools and resources to help them build apps.

91

4 years ago

A small team of developers who specialize in both front-end and back-end development. The startup is looking to build a web platform to integrate data from other sources into Tableau. They’re currently $5,000 in debt.

91

3 years ago

A startup tackling the problem of “fake news” and misinformation, which it says is a growing problem that is costing the industry billions of dollars. It’s a “quality control service” that allows news publishers to verify sources, and is currently being tested in the UK.

91

5 years ago

A free and open-source tool to help marketers create the same kind of email campaigns that we can create in AdWords, but with less of a hassle and less cost.

90

4 years ago

An open source digital wallet for fiat currencies.

90

4 years ago

A tool to help small businesses get an edge on their competitors. It’s a toolset built to help small businesses onboard and manage clients. It’s a more advanced version of a service like HubSpot’s existing “Crowd Sourced Marketing” program.

90

3 years ago

A startup that aims to help make it easier to build apps - using open source software - across the board.

90

3 years ago

A personal assistant that helps users find and book a car by answering questions with providers and financing sources. The startup helps users find a car, and deal with various providers, including financing and insurance details.

90

4 years ago

A platform that aggregates and distributes content from across the web. Source wants to make it easy for anyone to find, manage and share content from different providers.

89

4 years ago

A startup that aims to make a better, cheaper, faster and more accurate way to calculate the radiation dose you receive from the sun and other sources of radiation.

89

4 years ago

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

89

4 years ago

A tool that helps users find and use open source software.

89

3 years ago

A startup that aggregates local deals from a variety of sources to help you find cheap or free stuff in your city.

89

3 years ago

A software platform for managing a contract with multiple brands, especially one that’s trying to source materials in different countries.

89

3 years ago

A crowdfunding platform that helps non-profits raise money by giving them a way to crowdsource donations from donors.

89

5 years ago

Idea: Crowdsourced AI to predict drone flight paths

88

5 years ago

This is a “B2B” resource marketplace for UK legal services. It allows you to find lawyers who can help you with legal needs.

88

4 years ago

Outsmart is building a data communication network for businesses to monitor and control their communication resources. They currently have $12,000 in monthly recurring revenue.

88

4 years ago

A startup that enables more people to take part in crowdsourced science

88

2 years ago

A startup that allows filmmakers to crowdsource camera advice and technical work from working pros.

88

5 years ago

Open-source, distributed computing that allows people to build and manage their own supercomputers. The company wants to provide people with the means to build their own supercomputers, allowing them to “live in the cloud” at home.

87

3 years ago

A new type of payment platform that helps SMBs, who don’t have the resources of big banks, to operate more efficiently with less friction.

87

3 years ago

A platform for companies looking to outsource IT support, support technicians, and IT consulting.

87

2 years ago

A startup making crowd-sourced and AI tools to help people make better financial, insurance and investment decisions.

87

5 years ago

Startups with a focus on the small business market are a regular feature of Y Combinator, and this one is a real game-changer. EnviroFinder collects data from multiple sources and makes it easy for businesses to see how they rank in their local market, then take that information and “re-market” it to their customers on websites they’ve built. The idea is to help entrepreneurs win at the local level in a way that doesn’t rely on expensive and time-consuming in-person events.

86

5 years ago

The following is a list of notable consumer product startups in North America that have raised venture funding, according to Crunchbase and its sources.

86

4 years ago

This startup is building an all-in-one management platform for human resources, payroll and benefits.

86

4 years ago

Uses machine learning to automatically detect which members of a startup’s team are the best performers and which are the worst. The startup uses this data to help optimize the startup’s resources.

86

4 years ago

Open source hardware/software for providing access to the Internet, built on Amazon Web Services.

86

4 years ago

A tool for journalists to gather information from a variety of public sources.

86

3 years ago

A startup that uses a hybrid of geocoded data from social networks and other sources to provide driving directions.

86

2 years ago

A company that makes software to help companies make sure they are efficient and accurate in their human resources processes and HR data management.

86

5 years ago

Idea: Open-source crypto-to-crypto exchanges

85

4 years ago

A platform that allows people to crowdsource their ideas and work with others to turn them into reality. The startup hosted its first hackathon in Tel Aviv in October.

85

4 years ago

A company that helps get you a loan from a bank or credit union. The startup uses a crowdsourced approach to identify customers who are in need of a loan, and then gets them in touch with a lender.

85

4 years ago

A meal kit delivery service that is 100% plant-based, free of sugar, gluten, soy and GMOs, and sourced from local farms and farmers’ coops.

85

3 years ago

A company that helps small and medium sized businesses develop and launch new products by introducing them to a network of mentors, design resources, and developers.

85

4 years ago

The startup wants to help more than 50,000 SMBs get more control over their data with a customer relationship management tool that integrates with all their business data sources.

84

4 years ago

A company that makes a tool to help companies get their payroll done faster. The platform is based on the idea of a traditional monthly payroll cycle, but instead of hiring a payroll company to handle things, companies can outsource it to a company like Payroll Master, which runs the payroll for them for a monthly fee.

84

2 years ago

An API that allows other apps to better integrate their products into the Startup Institute. The company is also working on making the API open source if it takes off.

84

4 years ago

This company wants to build a platform for sharing and trading solar power. It’s an open source alternative to solar exchange markets.

83

4 years ago

A way to leverage AI to perform custom formulas on data sources

83

4 years ago

A platform for the open-source community to share best practices for building software.

83

4 years ago

A company that gives companies a platform to create marketing campaigns from a suite of resources they can leverage.

83

4 years ago

This startup is building a tool that makes it easier for journalists to find sources in the Middle East.

83

4 years ago

An online, crowdsourced language translation platform.

83

4 years 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.

83

3 years ago

A tool to help people who are on the autism spectrum find resources and employment.

83

3 years ago

A fintech company that helps banks and credit unions build a “single-source finance sourcing solution”.

83

3 years ago

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

83

2 years ago

A startup that focuses on how to take a social network and turn it into a revenue source. The company is looking to have users pay $5 per month (or $150/year) for a package that allows them to have their own private social network of friends.

83

4 years ago

A new way to source and source product, both for offline sellers and online shoppers.

82

3 years ago

A crowdsourced oral history platform for the victims of the Las Vegas shooting. The startup aims to give victims a place to share their stories, in the hopes that it can shed light on what actually happened that night.

82

4 years ago

A platform that tracks and visualizes data from a variety of sources.

81

4 years ago

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

81

4 years ago

A company that helps human resource departments manage their benefits program, with a focus on giving employees more control over their benefits. It’s currently in stealth mode, but raised $750,000.

81

4 years ago

An AI platform for retail that takes all of the data from loyalty cards and other sources and makes it all accessible to stores, allowing them to engage with customers in a more personal way.

81

3 years ago

An in-house talent acquisition platform for under-resourced companies.

81

4 years ago

An open source platform for enterprise software that integrates with other enterprise software. The company says it offers “the next generation of enterprise software” and wants to make developers’ lives easier.

80

4 years ago

A platform to enable building and sharing of home automation systems using an open, open source platform.

80

4 years ago

The company wants to create a crowdsourced set of office supplies, including note paper, highlighters, a notepad, a pens, a pen holder, a pencil sharpener, a stapler, a paper clip, a paper clip holder, a red pen, a whiteboard marker, a dry erase marker, a mini eraser, a phone stand, a paper clip holder, a USB, a business card holder, a clipboard, a sticky note pad, a notepad, a pen, a pencil, a highlighter, a pencil sharpener, a dry erase marker, a stapler, a paper clip, a paper clip holder, a USB, a business card holder, a clipboard, a sticky note pad, a notepad, a pen, a pencil, a highlighter, a pencil sharpener, a dry erase marker, a stapler, a paper clip, a paper clip holder, a USB, a business card holder, a clipboard, a sticky note pad, a notepad, a pen, a pencil, a highlighter, a pencil sharpener, a dry erase marker, a stapler, a paper clip, a paper clip holder, a USB, a business

80

4 years ago

A startup that sells software designed to integrate with the human resources and benefits management software of large employers.

80

2 years ago

A SaaS business that helps e-commerce businesses get the most out of their data sources.

80

4 years ago

A platform that allows open-source developers to connect with potential employers and learn about paid coding opportunities.

79

4 years ago

This startup is building a platform for teachers to build their own learning resources and organize them on their own. The startup wants to build a set of tools for teachers that make it easy to build, publish and share their own learning materials.

79

4 years ago

A platform for crowd-sourced marketing, where startups can run promotions with users for money.

79

4 years ago

A platform that lets you integrate data from trusted sources with your website.

79

4 years ago

Open-source software that helps developers collaborate on an unlimited number of applications in a private cloud. The platform can be used for connecting applications, sharing data and managing security.

79

4 years ago

Programmable, open-source home IoT platform.

79

4 years ago

A startup that helps businesses manage their infrastructure and make it easier to use a single source of truth across their entire network.

79

3 years ago

A startup called Grapher has developed a visual map tool that allows travel companies to visualize their operation in real time, making it easier to figure out how to allocate labor and resources.

79

3 years ago

A patent-pending open source script to “attract, engage, and retain” employees, aimed at businesses large and small. The script asks applicants to design a custom experience, from an attractive user interface to how to react to job opportunities.

79

5 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.”

78

4 years ago

A millennial-focused startup that wants to create a locally-sourced and craft beer-friendly alternative to “traditional” craft beers. LocalBev will work directly with a brewer to create a unique beer style, with each batch brewed on an on-site system.

78

4 years ago

An open-source platform for building, managing, and promoting interactive web experiences.

78

4 years ago

A startup that lets you track the health of your business using a combination of data from health insurance providers and data from other sources all integrated into one dashboard.

78

4 years ago

This startup is building a tool that pulls data from dozens of sources to help workers track their time and productivity.

78

4 years ago

The startup has a novel approach to tackling the problem of a lack of transparency in the oil industry. It’s a tool that allows users to track the source of their oil, and take it from there.

78

4 years ago

A platform for local news, aggregating stories from a variety of sources.

78

4 years ago

A crowdsourced app for helping people find good matches

78

3 years ago

A startup that helps people find their way around a city using the app’s crowd-sourced traffic data

78

3 years ago

A data visualizations and analytics tool that helps companies better understand the e-commerce space. The startup’s product, OneSource, is built on a software called TripWatcher, which allows companies to track their consumers’ online shopping habits and understand how they navigate the online space. It’s being used by over 80,000 businesses across 2,000 categories.

78

4 years ago

The e-commerce startup focuses on selling and installing a secure, open source operating system for IoT devices.

77

4 years ago

An API for building multi-device applications that can connect to real-time data sources like sales numbers, sales forecasts, weather, and other data to give business insights.

77

4 years ago

Pitch Deck Hacker is an open-source tool that helps users build their own pitch deck.

77

4 years ago

An on-demand, on-the-go, and on-the-nose resource for Pittsburgh families interested in buying a home in their city.

77

4 years ago

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

77

4 years ago

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

77

4 years ago

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

77

4 years ago

This startup wants to help developers focus more on their code by providing them with a design, development, and testing resource.

77

3 years ago

A startup that helps large companies find their customers. It works by pulling data from different sources, then connecting it all to create a profile of a person’s spending habits. The company says they have $1.5M in revenue.

77

2 years ago

A company building an open-source electric vehicle platform, starting with the development of batteries.

77

5 years ago

A platform that helps businesses like accounting, legal, and human resources departments manage the paperwork, invoicing, and payments for companies all in one place.

76

4 years ago

A platform that offers users a “single source of truth” for their local market, helping them to build their own communities and find local products and services.

76

4 years ago

Open source software for machine learning and neural networks.

76

4 years ago

Based in London, the Startup is a text message based platform that helps businesses get the right resources to the right people.

76

4 years ago

A startup that’s building an open-source driver for Android Nougat devices, allowing Android 6.0 users to get the performance benefits of the new chip.

76

4 years ago

A company that crowdsources ideas for new products for Nest, Google's smart home brand.

76

3 years ago

A cross-platform open source IDE for JavaScript developers.

76

3 years ago

A tool that helps users to create “a better conference” by allowing them to pull together content from different sources.

76

3 years ago

A crowdsourced product review platform for groceries and other products.

76

3 years ago

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

76

3 years ago

A video sharing platform that matches crowd-sourced videos to a library of licensed music.

76

3 years ago

Hoping to “democratize” the process of making art. The startup wants to create a “curatorial” platform that allows artists to crowdsource art, curate it and share in the profits.

76

2 years ago

A startup that helps Twitter users find and connect with people in their area through crowdsourced recommendations.

76

2 years ago

A startup that helps people find the closest parking spots in a city, with parking data sourced from the city itself.

76

5 years ago

This is a tool that helps businesses in the US comply with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The startup helps companies perform a self-assessment on their health insurance plans to see if they comply with the rules of the law. The code is open source.

75

4 years ago

A “business intelligence” tool for government agencies that aggregates and visualizes data from disparate sources so they can make better decisions and make the best use of limited resources.

75

4 years ago

Founded in 2015, this is the company behind the popular, free, and open-source development platform app-builder App-Builder-Platform .

75

4 years ago

A crowdsourced site that lets users review local restaurants, then make reservations and order takeout.

75

4 years ago

A startup for users to share their photos, with the goal of creating social media content that can be a source of revenue for them.

75

4 years ago

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

75

3 years ago

A crowd-sourced model for gathering feedback on healthcare products, services and companies. They’re building a platform that connects healthcare providers with their patient’s feedback to help them improve their patient’s experience.

75

3 years ago

A startup that allows customers to order premium coffee, tea, beer, wine, and liquor from a single source.

75

4 years ago

A crowd-sourced marketplace for finding and hiring talent

74

4 years ago

A provider of outsourced IT services, which is expanding into a platform for other businesses to outsource to.

74

4 years ago

A social network for people of color in the beauty industry to network, share resources, and promote their businesses.

74

4 years ago

The startup is building an open-source library of all the design patterns, languages, and paradigms that make up the internet. This will serve as a foundation for the internet of things.

73

4 years ago

Since its founding in 2011, this nonprofit has built a library of online resources and tools for the disadvantaged, including an online database of nearly 100,000 student aid resources.

73

4 years ago

A data pipeline for data scientists, letting them turn data from a variety of sources into a cohesive and actionable product.

73

4 years ago

This remote worker startup is looking to help companies outsource their customer support. The company is building a platform for companies to manage their customer service via AI.

73

4 years ago

A startup that makes it easier for retailers to place orders from restaurants, creating a new source of revenue for them.

73

3 years ago

This is a place for water conservationists to share data, resources, and information. The company says it already has 1.3 million members, and is looking to expand to other countries as well.

73

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help small businesses grow by providing them with marketing resources, like a library of content, a database of business names, and an email database.

73

3 years ago

A program that would connect classrooms to the Internet and provide resources such as curriculums, tests, and other learning materials. The startup is looking to grow a large number of schools that connect classrooms and offer educational services.

73

3 years ago

A new, open-source way to build rockets.

73

3 years ago

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

73

3 years ago

Who doesn’t want to eat healthier The startup is developing a way to make food delivery more convenient, so you can have your meal from a healthy food source with a healthy side dish delivered to you.

73

2 years ago

A startup that simplifies the hiring process for human resource departments, making it easier to track applications and turning HR into a more nimble, responsive organization.

73

4 years ago

A crowdsourced marketplace for people to connect with the services they need, including tasks like finding a cleaning service or a dog walker.

72

4 years ago

This is a crowdsourced platform for finding freelance labor or labor-for-hire, connecting companies needing work done with individuals who are looking for work.

72

4 years ago

This startup is building an open source framework that gives developers access to a machine learning training environment that can be used to build and train AI models

72

4 years ago

A digital platform for journalists to gather information from sources and then turn it into a story.

72

4 years ago

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

72

3 years ago

A startup that provides an API for companies to plug into. They’re a SaaS company that provides a “single source of truth” for companies to integrate their data into.

72

3 years ago

Open source software that allows people in the UK to save money on their energy bills by keeping their homes warm through energy efficiency.

72

4 years ago

This startup says they’re building a Facebook-style news feed for people to read news stories. It’s a way to let news sources share stories without having to pay for a platform.

71

4 years ago

A data visualization tool that offers individualized reports for each user, combining data from multiple sources and presenting them to an end user in a way that is easy to digest. The company’s first product, released in 2019, is for healthcare and financial services.

71

4 years ago

A well-known roboticist is building an open-source software platform to build robots.

71

4 years ago

A startup creating a platform that serves as a single source for all of a person’s online and offline credit and debit cards. The startup wants to make paying for things as easy as swiping a credit card.

71

4 years ago

An open source platform for people to find and buy organic food, powered by new technologies.

71

4 years ago

A company that is building a “micropayment” system for mobile games, which allows players to “purchase” virtual resources without having to go through a full transaction. The idea is that it could help games that otherwise wouldn’t be able to monetize with the current payment systems.

71

4 years ago

GetHR helps employers find the right talent for their open positions and provides resources for managers to make the most of their employees.

71

3 years ago

A startup that uses crowdsourcing to crowdsource grassroots marketing campaigns, driving social media engagement and word of mouth to drive sales.

71

4 years ago

The Startup Genome is a resource for founders and investors. It covers early stage startups and is a non-profit that helps entrepreneurs, investors, and mentors. The Startup Genome aims to improve the ecosystem by providing entrepreneurs with data to help guide their decisions and spread best practices.

70

4 years ago

A company that sells organic and wild foods that is also a social enterprise that helps communities build gardens, source local foods and process them.

70

4 years ago

A SaaS platform for managing enterprise resources to manage and track travel, scheduling and expenses.

70

3 years ago

This startup is building an open-source, open-access platform for large-scale data pre-processing, making large data sets more readable, usable and beautiful.

70

3 years ago

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

70

3 years ago

The startup uses crowdsourced data to help people find a new home or apartment within a 10-mile radius.

70

3 years ago

A bunch of people want to build a better Airbnb. Airy is building an open-sourced platform that helps travelers find and book places to stay on the platform, making it easier and quicker to book a place to stay.

70

4 years ago

A virtual reality company is building an open-source headset that is compatible with all phones with phones.

69

4 years ago

A startup for organic, fair trade or locally-sourced coffee beans. The startup is targeting the $1 billion coffee market in the US, and has raised a total of $1.1 million in funding.

69

4 years ago

A startup-based system to create, share, and discover content, letting people license their creations for commercial use. Based on the use of the open-source Creative Commons licenses.

69

4 years ago

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

69

4 years ago

A tool for small-business owners interested in selling their products on Amazon’s Fulfillment by Amazon, which allows companies to outsource product fulfillment and marketing to Amazon.

69

4 years ago

A startup that lets you get data on your workforce from multiple sources and into one place

69

4 years ago

A health care startup that wants to democratize the patient record by making it open-source and opening it up to the development community.

69

3 years ago

A new hardware platform for the Internet of Things that lets hardware be built with a common set of APIs. The hardware itself is open source, and the company will work with developers to make the hardware work with other software.

69

3 years ago

A digital platform that helps employers and candidates get matched with each other, via the platform. The company can also aggregate data from other sources and use it to find trends in the workforce. The company claims to have $10 million in funding and is profitable.

69

3 years ago

Open source platform to help people manage their online identities. The startup is building a system that allows users to see all their different social media profiles, grab profiles in an instant, and add data to them in one click. It’s a digital tool for people who want to manage all their social tools from one place.

69

2 years ago

A startup that helps employers and recruiters find the best candidates for their companies. It uses job boards, social media, and other traditional sources to identify the best talent for the companies’ needs.

69

5 years ago

Idea: A hardware startup looking to build a “developer’s dream”, a library of easy-to-use and open source hardware tools for electronics prototyping.

68

4 years ago

A “multi-sourced” news site where users can comment and vote on story ideas and investigate the validity of the news.

68

4 years ago

A new app that crowdsources and gamifies small business loans

68

4 years ago

A free and secure digital platform for documenting and managing the changes and additions to documents, resources, or acts.

68

4 years ago

A platform that lets companies outsource and control the relationship between their company’s own customers and the customer service agents.

68

4 years ago

A new way to categorize the world’s natural resources, and the goal is to help governments better understand where the world’s resources are.

68

3 years ago

A tool to help companies build their own software products, or “make their own software”, by letting them pay for the source code and then use that to create their own products.

68

3 years ago

A company building an open-source platform for mobile games with a technology called “user-generated content”. The company is building an online platform for mobile games that allows users to create new content and then use it in other games.

68

3 years ago

This company wants to bring “disruption to the world of academic assessment” with a service that integrates analytics and data from multiple sources, allowing students to have a better understanding of their grades.

68

4 years ago

A platform for organizing and sharing resources, especially by those with expertise in a particular field or trade.

67

4 years ago

A workplace culture survey system. The startup is building a platform that helps recruiters recruit better by pulling together data from a variety of sources, including surveys, transparent reviews from past employers, and social media.

67

4 years ago

This startup wants to build a crowdsourced database of job openings for the US military.

67

4 years ago

A tool for answering questions about events from multiple sources.

67

3 years ago

A startup that finds freelance developers to build things for you, in a country where developers are an underutilized resource.

67

3 years ago

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

67

3 years ago

A SaaS company that helps organizations manage the whole range of human resources: payroll, benefits, training, etc.

67

3 years ago

A startup that helps Russian companies in the manufacturing industry source materials and negotiate deals.

67

3 years ago

A startup that wants to provide AI-powered technology for companies to bring in data from their various cloud sources.

67

3 years ago

A tool for automating human resource processes, including recruiting, onboarding, training, and more.

67

3 years ago

A free and open source app that helps you create and manage your own cryptocurrency account.

67

4 years ago

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

66

4 years ago

A startup that makes it easier for people to discover and share interesting content by bringing together all of the different sources of content in one place.

66

4 years ago

A tool that helps people find and hire employees. JobsYouNeed crowdsources employee and job listings and brings them to the right employer.

66

3 years ago

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

66

3 years ago

A platform that brings in and organizes the data collected by all social media platforms, including email and texts, to create a single source of information.

66

4 years ago

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

65

4 years ago

A design and development studio that says it’s “a team of designers, engineers and startups” that helps “build and manage large scale web apps”. It’s interesting to see a startup that’s taking on the very same tasks that larger companies have historically outsourced to larger consulting firms like Accenture or PwC.

65

4 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.

65

4 years ago

A platform for B2B customers to find outsourcers and outsource work, with a similar model to the startup TaskRabbit

65

4 years ago

A startup for online resources for writers. The startup wants to compete with OverDrive and ebrary by giving people access to a content library that is curated specifically for writers and writers’s needs.

65

4 years ago

In May, Prevest created a proof-of-concept platform that allows people to collaborate on content. The company says they’re focused on the “first-time creators” who don’t have the resources to create content independently.

65

3 years ago

A B2B service that helps companies track and comply with their obligations, such as contingent liability laws, human resource laws, and other regulations.

65

3 years ago

A startup that wants to create a marketplace where anyone can give and receive peer-reviewed ride-hailing reviews, powered by a crowd-sourced rating system.

65

3 years ago

This is a B2B startup that helps hospitals and doctors manage and share patient data. It’s aimed at doctors and hospitals that want to use data to make better treatment decisions, and aims to be a “single source of truth” for that data.

65

4 years ago

A platform that lets you buy and sell luxury real estate, with inventory sourced from Realtor.com

64

3 years ago

The startup is building an open source custom-built hardware for internet of things devices.

64

3 years ago

A startup that offers a way to integrate marketing and CRM software with customer data from a variety of sources.

64

3 years ago

A system for getting energy from renewable sources like solar, wind, or waste. The company is working on a product that could generate power from thin film batteries, enabling the devices to be used in cars, buildings, and other contexts.

64

2 years ago

A mobile app that crowdsources and aggregates local information for finding the best products and services local to what someone is searching for.

64

4 years ago

A security startup that’s building a marketplace for on-demand security work. The company offers a new way for companies to outsource security work. The startup’s first customers are on a waitlist as well.

63

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a product to allow people to monetize their unused or overstocked idle computing resources via an API.

63

3 years ago

An open-source blockchain protocol for verifying, securing and trading digital identities.

63

3 years ago

A startup that is building software to aggregate data from different sources to give businesses a snapshot of their traffic.

63

4 years ago

OTX is building an open source marketplace for data sources, which it says will save businesses $600 billion in data expenditures.

62

4 years ago

A decentralized open-source marketplace for the distribution of high-quality digital content.

62

4 years ago

A freelancing marketplace with a premium membership that allows companies to outsource technical tasks to freelancers.

62

3 years ago

This startup is building a software platform for companies to better manage their HR and human resources, providing them with a dashboard to view pay and benefits.

62

3 years ago

An open source app that lets users “natively share their daily life on social media”. It also allows them to create “life progress reports” that they share with friends and family.

62

3 years ago

A startup and marketplace matching tool for the crowdsourced home repair market

62

3 years ago

An open source C++ library for deep learning models.

62

3 years ago

A platform that helps small businesses find equipment and services, such as rent-a-cops, using data from other online sources.

62

2 years ago

A startup that allows companies to take advantage of data from multiple locations on a quotidian basis, helping them to better manage their resources.

62

4 years ago

A platform that provides the source code and instructions necessary to build physical products using 3D printing.

61

3 years ago

A company that aims to help companies evaluate their sales pipelines, using data and predictive models to help businesses predict how they should allocate resources. A platform that helps companies understand how to optimize their sales pipeline.

61

3 years ago

An online directory for buying individual domains, which is a resource for companies looking to buy domain names.

61

3 years ago

A social enterprise that provides equipment and support to the developing world for the production of sustainable, high-quality, locally-sourced products.

61

3 years ago

SaaS for real estate companies to provide “single-source visibility of all their vendors and payments”.

61

2 years ago

This startup is working on a solution that helps companies manage their network of employees for human resources purposes. The company currently has five employees, with a plan to expand to 20 over the next few months.

61

4 years ago

A group of four college friends who decided to start a company to help create a more efficient way to source and manufacture electronics. The company wants to be the first company to completely eliminate the middlemen of electronics manufacturing and create more manufacturing in the U.S.

60

4 years ago

A platform for investing that works as a resource for financial advisors, showing them how to invest in things like individual stocks, ETFs and 401(k) plans.

60

4 years ago

The startup is working to make it easier for people to find and hire caregivers. Currently, it helps people outsource the task of finding a caregiver and matches them with one.

60

4 years ago

An open-source platform for building real-time visualizations of big data. The team is built almost entirely with engineers and designers.

60

3 years ago

This is a company that aims to build a free, open-source, community-driven framework that makes it easy to build chatbots. The team is looking to build out a bot-building platform that allows you to create your own chatbot with just a couple of clicks and then download the bot as an app.

60

3 years ago

A way to help workers build their own open source software, so they can be more creative and build more interesting things.

60

3 years ago

This startup hopes to build an open-source blockchain that can move money across borders faster than current systems.

60

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help business customers outsource their mobile app development needs. The startup is looking to partner with companies directly to help them scale on a budget.

60

5 years ago

A startup that’s built an open-source, artificial intelligence-powered bot that helps you schedule meetings on Slack. The bot is called Lino and was built by a team of ex-Google and ex-Yahoo engineers.

59

4 years ago

A startup that wants to help people use their own existing content as a source for their brands. It’s essentially a feed builder for social media, where a user can build a feed from their own feed. The startup’s founders say they’ve reached 10,000 users right after launching, and have doubled in size in the past month.

59

4 years ago

A health data system that integrates with the rest of the health care system to create a “single source” of information for people.

59

4 years ago

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

59

4 years ago

A worker-owned cooperative based in DC that provides resources to low-income residents of DC, including health care and job training.

59

4 years ago

An ad-free, free-to-use, open source music platform.

59

3 years ago

A startup that puts a new spin on the dating app Tinder, and allows users to swipe through potential dates in a bar or club setting. The startup wants to crowdsource and combine the benefits of a dating app with the social atmosphere of a bar.

59

3 years ago

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

59

3 years ago

The startup wants to use AI to scour the web for posts, contacts, and images of famous people and then match them to people who would benefit from learning from what they’ve achieved. It’s a kind of crowdsourced social media, with a revenue share model.

59

3 years ago

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

59

3 years ago

BillionGraves is an online resource where you can look up the names of people in all sorts of records, and either view the images of their tombstones or read their obituaries.

59

3 years ago

This company is building an open source platform for managing the energy costs of individual buildings, rather than a suite of products for entire buildings.

59

3 years ago

A free and open-source toolkit for building data visualizations in the browser. Blox aims to help people who want to build infographics, dashboards, and reports but don’t know how.

59

3 years ago

A platform that helps bring open source and open hardware together. They’re focused on the hacker community and makers more broadly.

59

3 years ago

A way to help users find the best time to buy and sell a home, using data mined from Zillow and other sources.

59

3 years ago

A decentralized source of trust and verification for the Internet of Things. It's a less centralized version of the blockchain, but with a focus on IoT.

59

3 years ago

A platform that provides education at a lower cost, with a focus on “smaller companies that don’t have the resources to deal with the expense and bureaucracy of traditional college”.

59

3 years ago

A startup that has a digital library of teaching materials for US schools, including lessons and quizzes. The startup is looking to improve the quality and quantity of content available, and they’re hoping that teachers and students will use the platform as a resource.

59

2 years ago

This startup wants to help companies that use natural resources to produce electricity, such as farms and wind turbines.

59

4 years ago

The core of this startup’s business is providing merchants, service providers, and other businesses with a single source to get paid. It serves merchants with invoices, payments, and accounting.

58

4 years ago

A web-based platform for managing a fleet of self-driving vehicles, integrating with all the major systems including Waymo, Uber, and Tesla. The startup’s platform is built on the open source OBD2 standard and uses the same kinds of sensors as Tesla's Autopilot.

58

4 years ago

A way to measure crowd-sourced activity to help startups figure out what people really want.

58

4 years ago

A platform for self-driving resource allocation, allowing the company to find and allocate the right resources to the right things.

58

3 years ago

A tool for sharing stories of strength and courage, in the form of an app. All the stories are crowdsourced, but the company says they have a team of over 100 reporters and editors who ensure the stories are in good taste.

58

3 years ago

It’s a platform that brings together data from a number of sources about a given subject, in an easy-to-use format.

58

3 years ago

A “desktop karaoke” for crowdsourced music. The company promises to bring the “music” to the crowd, enabling users to sing along to a song from their computer, phone, or another online source.

58

3 years ago

A free, open-source software application that helps people protect and manage their digital assets with a consent-based approach. The tool allows users to provide explicit consent before they let their data be used.

58

3 years ago

A B2B software company that works with companies to manage their sizeable legacy software deployments across large numbers of systems. The startup wants to help companies take advantage of open source and cloud infrastructure to reduce costs and scale.

58

2 years ago

A content management system that allows anyone to create their own crowdsourced news site in just a few minutes

58

3 years ago

A startup that helps people manage their own data by bringing together a range of disparate sources, like Facebook, Twitter, and Fitbit. It’s working with companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, Spotify, and Square.

57

3 years ago

A business that wants to build a comprehensive toolkit to help companies source and track the intellectual property they’ve created. The goal is to give companies a way to better manage the patented content their employees create.

57

3 years ago

A startup that matches users with their dream jobs. The company wants to alleviate the problem of the “job” described in the company’s teaser video being the “job of a friend’s friend”. The company’s “crowdsourced job” is a gig at a startup, and it’s currently in stealth mode.

57

3 years ago

Launched in May, this startup wants to make it easier to manage and order a single-source supply chain of everything from merchandise to raw materials.

57

3 years ago

A startup that aims to help people with mental illness or addiction by providing them with better access to mental health professionals and resources.

57

3 years ago

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a technology that has been around for a while. RPA is software that runs the work of a specific job, like a bank teller or a stock trader, instead of a person. The goal is to free up people to do other tasks while allowing businesses to free up IT resources.

57

3 years ago

A startup building an inventory management system for manufacturers that sifts through the internet and aggregates data from a variety of sources such as warehouses, manufacturers, and shipping companies to provide a more complete view of inventory.

57

3 years ago

A secure messaging app for journalists that allows them to send messages to sources and colleagues without exposing their phone number.

57

3 years ago

A “HR tool for startups”, which helps startups manage their employee performance with a combination of human resource tools and analytics.

57

3 years ago

A marketing company with a library of resources for copywriters, including video scripts and templates. It started with a free script library and is working toward a subscription model.

57

2 years ago

A company that is creating an open source platform for the legal cannabis industry to share information, boost marketing, and reduce the costs of compliance.

57

4 years ago

An open-source, community-driven distributed ledger system that’s designed to enable companies to cut down on large amounts of paperwork and paperwork fraud.

56

4 years ago

This B2B company is looking to help companies shift their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to the cloud.

56

3 years ago

A company that provides loans for small businesses and for entrepreneurs. The company has built its business on the idea that the best way to connect people with needs to resources is via their own networks.

56

3 years ago

An online tool that helps journalists find accurate and reliable information about current events without sifting through tweets, Facebook posts, and other unreliable sources.

56

3 years ago

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

56

3 years ago

A B2B company that provides a digital toolset for companies to manage their human resources. The company is using the product to help the HR departments of a firm in Germany hire over 1,000 new employees in the next 12 months.

56

3 years ago

A healthcare company that provides decision support software to hospitals to help them manage their resources better.

56

3 years ago

A startup with $1.5 million in funding that is looking to bring the benefits of machine learning and AI to the world of human resources.

56

3 years ago

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

56

2 years ago

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

56

2 years ago

A “veggie-only” delivery service that makes it easy for customers to source and order vegan ingredients. The company launched in San Francisco in February and is backed by investors including Google Ventures.

56

4 years ago

A startup that’s trying to create a new way to crowdsource real estate listings by leveraging the real estate market’s existing data.

55

3 years ago

A company that helps people track the people who take their money and the people who keep it. Using a combination of data from a variety of sources, the startup’s tool helps people see who their friends and family are, how much they make, and where they spend it.

55

3 years ago

A tool that combines a content management system with a CMS-like editor. The tool, which is open source and available at no cost, is aimed at the smaller web builder who wants to build a web site quickly.

55

3 years ago

A tool that brings together data from multiple sources and presents it in a single place.

55

3 years ago

A startup that helps people track the quality of the beef they eat, and connects the dots between various beef sources and the farms where it came from.

55

3 years ago

This startup is building an open source platform for young people to learn to code. The startup is based in Mountain View, California.

55

3 years ago

A self-hosted, free, open-source program for health-tracking.

55

3 years ago

A startup that helps companies make their resources more efficient. A company that helps businesses automate their business processes.

55

3 years ago

A startup working on a software platform for schools to run a school’s entire day from one source. The product helps teachers manage schedules, run lessons, and manage student rosters.

55

3 years ago

An integration tool for data scientists, allowing them to use the same software tools they’d normally use but with data from multiple sources. It’s a way for data scientists to move from supporting their current toolset to natively using a new tool.

55

3 years ago

A social platform for students and professors to connect, share resources and find mentors. The startup is currently developing a mobile app to integrate with existing tools.

55

3 years ago

A startup that is building an open source, free, and open source software platform for the Internet of Things.

55

3 years ago

Combing data from local government, social media, and other sources to help police identify and locate gang members.

55

2 years ago

A $2,000 tool for helping journalists track their sources.

55

2 years ago

A resource for electing progressive women to office.

55

2 years ago

A “crowd-sourced HR technology” that helps companies hire and manage the workforce in a more efficient fashion.

55

4 years ago

A tool that allows you to edit the source code of websites.

54

4 years ago

A startup that wants to help small businesses build their own custom, open-source messaging apps using the Twilio API.

54

4 years ago

A tool that helps human resources departments and HR leaders manage their compensation packages, including offering benefits and compensation. The platform helps companies manage the entire process of compensation, including the stack and data management.

54

3 years ago

A platform that lets homeowners and renters connect with each other and build a pool of resources for what they need.

54

3 years ago

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

54

3 years ago

A company that helps retailers build custom software to help them outsource inventory management. Think of a company that has five stores in New York City and wants to outsource its inventory.

54

3 years ago

A company that builds a “single-source, global component supply chain management” platform for manufacturers.

54

3 years ago

A startup that helps teachers organize their classroom via a virtual classroom that allows them to share resources, record ideas and chat with other teachers.

54

3 years ago

If you run a B2B company, you’ve probably got hundreds of thousands of transactions, but you still need to make sure that your onboarding process is going smoothly. Contacts acts as a one-stop shop for all of your sales, marketing, and human resources processes so that you can get on the same page.

54

3 years ago

A platform that leverages machine learning and financial data from sources like US regulatory agencies to help investors narrow down their choices in the stock market.

54

2 years ago

A platform for sharing, creating, and building virtual spaces and spaceships in VR. The idea is to create an “open source platform” that lets you build VR experiences and games, allowing creators to monetize their work and sell access to their creations.

54

5 years ago

Idea: A platform for people to pay for community services, like cleaning or cooking The startup wants to provide a way for people to outsource

53

4 years ago

This startup is trying to make it easier for people to get their hands on a credit score. They have a credit check API that pulls information from a source like Transunion, Experian, Equifax, and others.

53

3 years ago

A free open source app for family tree research.

53

3 years ago

A company that provides an online knowledge base for local service providers, allowing them to source different types of services from a wider pool of people.

53

3 years ago

A platform to help brands source and engage influencers and influencer marketing

53

3 years ago

A crowdsourced platform that helps companies hire designers, where anyone can submit designs and the most popular ones get selected.

53

4 years ago

A B2B company that takes your legal documents and creates a single source of truth so you don’t have to keep updating multiple contracts every time.

52

3 years ago

Technology for tailoring and sharing educational resources for kids. The company has 8 employees and is initially focused on developing markets in Africa and Asia.

52

3 years ago

A startup that wants to design and manufacture open source 3D printers for schools and home workshops.

52

3 years ago

A small business services company working to help small businesses with accounting, human resources, legal and marketing support.

52

3 years ago

Multi-city, crowdsourced apartment rentals, as well as a matching service that pairs renters with potential roommates

52

3 years ago

A way to engage a larger community around the idea of better food sourcing and consumption. The startup wants to be the go-to resource for all things food.

52

3 years ago

A web-based platform for real estate agents. The company wants to help agents outsource their listings and find the right client to buy or rent their property.

52

3 years ago

This startup is building a way for people to quickly and easily send encrypted messages with any messaging app. The startup is targeting the social media and dating industries, but is also looking to create a way for journalists to securely communicate with sources.

52

3 years ago

A free, unlimited, ad-free way to publish a blog in a standard HTML format, using an open source blogging platform.

52

2 years ago

A startup that is building out an AI powered approval process for HR recruiters. The startup is building AI to help recruiters within companies gather and compile data from external sources.

52

2 years ago

A “data brokerage” platform. The company acts as a broker between the buyer and the data source, building relationships with companies and enabling them to sell their data.

52

4 years ago

A crowdsource marketing platform for e-commerce companies. The startup wants to unify the process of building and managing online marketing activities by combining the efforts of multiple people into a single set of data.

51

3 years ago

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

51

3 years ago

A predictive analytics service for healthcare resource planning.

51

3 years ago

The startup aims to help people outsource their tasks, with a marketplace and platform that connects people with the right people to complete certain tasks.

51

3 years ago

Flap is a new way to add non-standard formatting to images on the web, by adding a double exposure effect to photos. Flap is attempting to take on the trend of adding effects to photos, with a single source for all the possibilities.

51

3 years ago

One of the most-followed accounts on Instagram is a personal food blog from a female scout leader, who shares recipes and photos of food. Cookbook.me wants to build a crowdsourced site that crowdsources content from bloggers and chefs.

51

3 years ago

A local news app that requires users to verify their location as a safety measure. It’s also a way to provide local news to users in areas where there is little or no access to other sources of news.

51

3 years ago

This is a company that makes accountants for freelancers, with a focus on smaller companies that might not have the resources to create their own.

51

3 years ago

A “crowdsourced personal assistant” for managing your finances, with a dashboard for tracking your spending and a mobile app for handling money transfers. The company has been working with YC companies in the past.

51

2 years ago

The list is based on data curated by Crunchbase, which has been a source of inspiration for other lists like the 10 most valuable startups in Africa.

51

2 years ago

A startup that crowdsources sound effects to help filmmakers create realistic audio for their projects.

51

4 years ago

This startup is building a system for merchants to monitor their sales and customer data from multiple data sources in one place.

50

3 years ago

A platform that helps companies with their open-source contributions, which often involve making the right changes to a codebase.

50

3 years ago

A student loan refinancing platform from Y Combinator alum Brick Road, launched in August with $10 million in venture funding. Brick Road talks about helping borrowers get lower rates than the ones offered by banks, and promising a “low-cost, low-equity” funding source.

50

3 years ago

A crowdsourced news publisher for lifestyle coverage.

50

3 years ago

This startup is building a decentralized, open-source content distribution network where people can contribute video and photos from events and then share them throughout social media and the web

50

3 years ago

Opensource online financial services platform for SMEs in the UK. No overdraft fees, no credit limits and no minimum balance fees.

50

3 years ago

A startup that’s building an open source platform to help non-profits and municipalities manage their financial data.

50

3 years ago

A digital calendar for cities and governments. The platform has a partnership with San Francisco that includes the city’s 311 service and departments like Human Resources. It’s also building data-driven dashboards for the city.

50

3 years ago

This startup is building an app for people to easily calculate their health insurance benefits by using their data from other sources.

50

3 years ago

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

50

3 years ago

A startup that offers an open-source tool to help companies manage their data and find the best ways to use it.

50

2 years ago

A Y Combinator alum, this startup’s goal is to help people with their retirement planning. The company is working on something it calls the "Retirement Calculator" which it says will help people plan for their retirement using data sourced from the federal government. It also plans to sell tax-loss harvesting services for retirement accounts.

50

2 years ago

An open source project that builds a framework to make it easier to build strong authentication systems.

50

3 years ago

One of the leaders in the field of natural language processing, Google has recently released a free open-source library to make it easier for developers to get started with building apps that can recognize text.

49

3 years ago

A cloud-based solution for companies that outsource talent-specific IT assistance.

49

3 years ago

A scheduling software for human resources departments. Their users include companies like Comcast and American Express.

49

3 years ago

The company is building a free and open-source software that allows anyone to create their own decentralized marketplaces. They hope to help fix some of the problems that have plagued other decentralized marketplaces like AirBnB, the most well-known Dapp.

49

2 years ago

A new startup that combines the concept of “micro-hiring” with crowd-sourced labor to provide remote workers with some of the benefits of working from home, without the hassles.

49

2 years ago

An open-source development platform aimed at helping developers build products for the Internet of Things.

49

2 years ago

A platform that helps students who are working on school projects with “crowdsourced” labor.

49

5 years ago

Idea: A non-profit that aims to create a decentralized, open-source standard for blockchain identity

48

3 years ago

A non-profit that uses analytics to help the homeless find housing. The startup is using data-driven tactics to help homeless people search for housing and the resources that go with it.

48

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a platform to help marketers tap into crowdsource data to help make their marketing campaigns more effective.

48

3 years ago

A startup that wants to create an open source tool that can make it easier for companies to build data platforms.

48

3 years ago

A tool to help companies and publishers make sense of data they receive from social media platforms, as well as manage their own data. The startup is an open-source toolset that helps users analyze, visualize and transact their data.

48

3 years ago

Swarm is looking to create a marketplace for freelance work, allowing businesses to outsource their work to people with special skills.

48

3 years ago

A product that helps people organize and visualize their finances over a period of time. The startup is building an open-source tool that can help consumers see their expenses over time and also help them prioritize spending to save more money.

48

2 years ago

A platform for startups to raise capital, built on top of the large number of open-source startups and app developers that use Stripe.

48

2 years ago

This startup wants to help homebuilders design and build smart houses, and is building an open-source platform to do so.

48

4 years ago

A set of open-source tools that allow users to map any website to their own software development stack.

47

3 years ago

A SaaS sales app that helps salespeople and managers track sales pipeline, resources and pipeline capacity.

47

3 years ago

A set of services for companies and individuals to “easily and securely” import their financial data from different sources, such as banks, credit card companies and other financial institutions, into a single account.

47

3 years ago

A platform for micro-sourcing for small businesses, allowing them to outsource tasks, and aggregate data about them. The startup currently has a run rate of $10,000 per month.

47

3 years ago

A crowdsourced database of data and events. The company’s founders say that the database is “most trusted data source” in the US.

47

3 years ago

They’re building an “open-source” mechanism for more quickly, securely and reliably sharing medical records within health care organizations.

47

3 years ago

The startup wants to revolutionize the way programmers can search for and find open source code.

47

3 years ago

A startup that allows you to buy directly from the source in order to save on shipping costs.

47

2 years ago

“CrowdCurating” allows users to crowdsource video production through a video editing app. The startup is already profitable and has over 1 million users.

47

3 years ago

A startup by the same name is a crowdsourced platform for finding and playing music.

46

3 years ago

A platform that helps people create analytics dashboards from any data source.

46

2 years ago

A digital marketplace for small businesses and independent contractors to connect with customers and get access to resources. It's similar to existing marketplace-like startups like Thumbtack, but with a focus on independent contractors.

46

2 years ago

A platform that allows entrepreneurs to crowdsource legal help on a per-case basis.

46

2 years ago

A platform that allows users to view their data from different sources and create dashboards to visualize and compare their data.

46

5 years ago

Idea: Open source, self-hosted analytics for ecommerce

45

3 years ago

An open source platform that allows coders to host their own “microservices” and deploy them to any cloud provider. Microservices is a way of building and deploying distributed applications that is gaining traction in Silicon Valley. The company provides a software development kit and developer tools to build and manage microservices.

45

3 years ago

In a market where the best products aren’t built by the likes of Facebook, Google, or Apple, but by startups that sell products in other places, AppBounty is trying to help startups get there. The startup’s “accelerator” provides startups with resources, mentoring, and a base of customers while they build and launch their products.

45

3 years ago

This startup wants to build an iPhone app that competes with the likes of PayPal and Venmo that allows people to crowdsource small amounts of money to pay for things.

45

3 years ago

A distributed computing network that’s built to create and share machine learning models. It’s similar to a public cloud in that it’s meant to be shared among all the people who need to use it, but it provides free access to most of its resources.

45

3 years ago

An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that helps companies manage the full life cycle of IT projects, from sales to service.

45

3 years ago

A blue-collar contractor services company that allows companies to pay contractors and get estimates. The business is built for companies that want to outsource a huge amount of work without having to deal with recruiters or hiring full-time employees.

45

3 years ago

This is a startup building a platform for crowdsourced data for the cannabis industry. Current users include a company that develops cancer treatments, and a company that does research on how cannabis interacts with other drugs. It’s also working with a company that’s trying to build a regulatory compliance system for the cannabis industry.

44

3 years ago

A digital platform for university students to connect, organize, and share resources. The startup is looking to bring the digital revolution to universities, providing a place for students to meet, organize, learn, study, and connect.

44

3 years ago

A startup that creates a platform for community-driven “living labs” in developing countries, which use mobile phone technology to help communities make the best of their limited resources.

44

3 years ago

A company that builds open source hardware, selling sensors and actuators to control different systems.

44

3 years ago

A platform that allows users to share their skills and convert them into paid work. It’s similar to sites like Upwork, but is geared toward companies that want to outsource their inhouse development needs.

44

3 years ago

A startup for independent contractors in the U.S. to find temporary work. Like TaskRabbit, Crowdsource might be an online marketplace that connects job-seekers and job-providers.

44

3 years ago

A platform that uses machine learning to automate the process of setting up and managing virtual desktops. The startup is currently in private beta, and the founders hope to soon release an open source product.

43

3 years ago

A startup building a platform for enterprise software to integrate with data from sources like Fitbit, Twitter and Salesforce (via APIs.)

43

3 years ago

@StartupGuru is a social network for entrepreneurs, connecting them with soft skills resources, mentors, jobs, and more.

43

2 years ago

A “currency cruncher” that takes data from a variety of sources and spits out a single currency.

43

2 years ago

The first-ever open-source, modular, offline, self-contained, intelligent, self-service, smart, and fast cash deposit machine.

43

5 years ago

Idea: The first 100% free, open source code collaboration platform The company has raised $47 million in venture capital and has over 1000 users

42

3 years ago

A tool for managing and analyzing the data from multiple sources, including all the CRM systems, marketing automation tools, and other data sources. It’s a platform for managing the data, not individual tools.

42

2 years ago

This startup is building a decentralized search engine that consolidates information from multiple sources and, weighting them by the value they provide, can be used as a newsfeed.

42

2 years ago

A crowdsourced social network for the LGBTQ community, with a purpose of being a safe, welcoming place for people to connect and organize around their interests. They’re starting with a blog-like platform where users can post their opinions on current events and share their personal stories.

42

3 years ago

A free, bilingual, crowd-sourced tool for finding tourist spots and restaurants in other countries.

41

2 years ago

A web app that helps companies manage their online presence. It’s free for small companies, and offers resources like SEO and digital marketing for larger ones.

41

5 years ago

Idea: Use crowdsourced data to build a universal language translation app for developers

40

2 years ago

A startup that pulls data from a variety of sources to create an AI-powered shopping list.

40

2 years ago

A company that’s building an open source self-driving platform. The platform is designed to be modular, so that it’s easy for developers to build different self-driving solutions around it.

40

3 years ago

A student-first, customizable, open-source learning platform that creates custom learning paths for K-12 students.

39

3 years ago

A company that aims to make it easier for companies to manage their big data analytics, with a platform that provides the ability to connect data from different sources with the goal of “automating the most repetitive tasks”.

39

2 years ago

A resource for people who are building apps for the Amazon Alexa service, with a focus on developers who are looking for help building their skills.

39

2 years ago

WebGL is an open source framework that lets you render 3D games in the browser.

39

2 years ago

The company behind the popular open source status app, Open Weather Map

39

3 years ago

A consumer-facing tool for restaurants that helps customers figure out the best option for their budget. The startup helps customers get a better idea of what makes sense for their budget and wants to be the go-to resource for people who are trying to figure out what to eat on a budget.

38

3 years ago

WebRTC is an open-source project that makes it easy to make peer-to-peer, real-time video and audio communication possible on the web.

38

2 years ago

A device designed to help monitor and manage air quality in hospitals. The startup built an open source design and is currently selling the hardware.

38

2 years ago

Open source customer service software. The startup hopes to change how customer service is done by using a robot to make it easier for companies to manage customer interactions.

38

2 years ago

This startup is developing an open-source project to “unlock the Internet for all.”

38

5 years ago

A platform for the construction industry that helps contractors communicate and source and track materials

37

3 years ago

A company that provides a platform for crowdsourced shopping recommendations.

37

3 years ago

A startup building a library of open-source JavaScript that can be used by other frameworks and libraries. The company has the goal of helping other developers get started with React.

36

2 years ago

An Arabic-language startup that’s attempting to build a crowdsourced translation app for Arabic speakers that translates Arabic texts and translates them into English.

36

2 years ago

A simple SaaS tool for human resources to manage applicant tracking, employee onboarding and payroll.

36

2 years ago

An open source project to create a next-generation operating system that’s more secure.

36

2 years ago

A tool for managing complex integrations. It helps companies get data from multiple sources, and then makes it easy to visualize in a way that’s easy to digest.

36

3 years ago

A platform that helps publishers sell their content to advertisers. The startup wants to give publishers a new way to monetize their content by allowing them to create a new revenue source — ads.

35

2 years ago

This startup is building a platform that will let companies aggregate their data from various sources and help provide better insights on their business.

35

2 years ago

A startup for virtual secretaries that delivers a virtual staffing agency for companies that want to outsource administrative work by substituting temps

35

2 years ago

A startup that’s building an open-source API platform for building applications that can communicate with one another.

34

2 years ago

"The world’s first global, open-source platform for managing the media in your life through a single source."

34

2 years ago

This startup is building an automated system for human resources. HR managers can request an employee through the platform, and the system will assign them to the right job.

34

2 years ago

A startup that’s built an open-source code library for machine learning and data science that’s optimized for Python.

33

2 years ago

Looking for an open-source, “smart” way to bill customers for things like data usage.

33

2 years ago

A company that makes a platform to help companies manage their supply chains, and a marketplace for buyers to source materials and services.

33

2 years ago

A water purification system designed to help eliminate the risks of drinking from a contaminated source.

33

2 years ago

Small tasks platform that allows small businesses to outsource work of all types, from design to development to marketing to legal.

33

2 years ago

A file synchronization system for desktop apps. The startup is building an open source alternative to Dropbox, and is funded by Andreessen Horowitz and Collaborative Fund.

33

2 years ago

An online platform that can be used to find legal resources and lawyers.

33

2 years ago

A way to crowdsource research for academics, with a database of peer-reviewed articles for easy reference.

32

2 years ago

The startup pulls a bunch of data from a bunch of different sources and gives it to marketers in a way that makes sense.

32

2 years ago

A startup that’s building a platform of services that will help small businesses and freelancers get things done from a variety of sources and vendors.

32

2 years ago

A platform for governments to crowdsource services like policing and cleaning.

32

2 years ago

A company that claims to help employees design and manage their career and growth more easily. They’re a branch of Bizible, a startup that provides human resources to companies.

32

2 years ago

Advisor’s pizzas have a 1:1 ratio of cheese and sauce. They’re made with fresh dough, and the ingredients are — in most cases — all sourced from local farmers.

32

2 years ago

A software-as-a-service platform for managing, organizing, and analyzing data from multiple sources.

32

3 years ago

A crowdsourced platform that helps make sense of the data that companies generate. It’s meant to be a simpler way to understand a company’s monthly and quarterly metrics.

31

2 years ago

A web-based tool for artists to crowdsource the production of their music. The startup launched in August, after a year of working with a musician to create a tool that would allow his fans to produce songs with him.

31

2 years ago

A company that helps human resources departments get the right employees for the job. Its algorithm matches candidates to companies, and is currently operating in the UK.

31

2 years ago

A tool that helps people find the best local and web-based resources for a given topic. Users can search for tips, videos, and other content.

31

2 years ago

A company that works with the U.S. government to provide people with legal resources on how to qualify immigrating to the United States and what to expect as an immigrant.

31

2 years ago

A startup that is building an online marketplace for renting out, or “leasing out”, spare computer resources (like CPU power and storage space). Neocapital is pitched as a way for companies to maximize their profitability by renting out unused resources.

31

2 years ago

A platform that allows individuals to crowdsource their ideas and their feedback on a product

31

2 years ago

This is an open-source framework for creating custom hardware startups with the help of industry mentors and a state-of-the-art prototyping lab.

31

2 years ago

A “one-stop shop” for employers and HR departments to manage their employees, including onboarding, performance management, assessment, and deployment. In other words, an employer’s entire human resources system in one place.

31

2 years ago

A company that aims to build a platform for open source, using a “freemium” model to let developers build on its core services.

30

2 years ago

A system that tracks how people are using a product to improve their experience. The startup takes data from a variety of sources — including user surveys and online reviews — and combines it to make recommendations.

30

2 years ago

An open-source platform that brings together different players in the supply chain process.

30

2 years ago

A cloud-based tool that translates any source of text into any other source of text, designed to be used by international teams to collaborate. The startup aims to be the “Google Translate of text,” with further verticals planned.

30

2 years ago

A platform that helps startups launch in places like India, Brazil, and the Philippines, and serves as a resource for them to grow and scale.

30

2 years ago

A platform for teachers and parents to work together on their kids’ homework. The startup’s platform is meant to help teachers find the right resources for their students to learn from, such as lesson plans, study guides, and videos, all in one place.

30

2 years ago

This is a visual design tool for data-driven decision making. A data scientist can visualize data from different sources in a single dashboard to identify trends and gain insights.

29

2 years ago

This startup is offering a program that provides entrepreneurs with access to mentors, capital, co-working, and resources.

29

2 years ago

A startup that is building a toolset for managing IoT data. The idea is that the things you own can become a source of data that you can use to perform analytics.

29

2 years ago

This startup wants to build an open-source car that operates without the driver. The goal is to make the car autonomous so you can be productive in the car by doing work while driving.

29

2 years ago

A global distribution platform that helps manufacturers source and distribute goods to retail channels. The startup is building out a supply chain management platform by digitizing factories, enabling a new level of transparency and efficiency.

29

2 years ago

A platform that helps companies achieve more with fewer resources, using artificial intelligence and automation to bring together the right people.

29

2 years ago

A decentralized startup that wants to build an “open source, peer-to-peer digital currency”.

29

2 years ago

Paving the way for a new, more efficient way to manage the world’s supply and demand of natural resources. It helps companies like Shell and Unilever track the amount of oil or water they’re using, and what it costs.

28

2 years ago

A cross-platform, open-source command-line tool for writing and running tests against your code.

28

2 years ago

The self-described “biggest and baddest way to scale applications” is a cloud-based platform built on open source technology that helps startups build and manage their apps.

28

2 years ago

This startup is bringing a business intelligence toolkit to small and medium-sized businesses, letting them get insights from their data in ways that are more relevant for them than those available from their traditional sources.

27

2 years ago

A tool that lets people create and manage their own cryptographically secure identity on the Ethereum blockchain. The startup is building an open-source community around the project.

27

2 years ago

In the US, there is a shortage of STEM workers, especially computer science experts. The startup wants to change that by teaching and training students to become computer scientists. The startup's platform is open source, and free for any school or company interested in using it.

27

2 years ago

It’s a marketplace for businesses to offer and find freelance services. It’s currently in private beta; the idea is to make it easier to find and find the right labor resource, especially for small businesses.

27

2 years ago

A startup that creates a single resource for people to find local shops that sell specialty drinks.

27

2 years ago

A startup that connects developers who are working on open source projects. The startup aims to help developers get paid for their work, and work with them directly on projects so they can stay on top of development with the best engineers.

27

2 years ago

A web-based service for student loan debtors, currently in beta. The startup’s founders had both student loans and were really frustrated by the lack of resources to address them.

27

2 years ago

A startup that helps companies and brands grow sustainable food sources and crops, connecting buyers with farmers. It’s using a model that’s a cross between Etsy and Amazon to connect people with food and farmers.

27

2 years ago

This is an open-source API that allows developers to build and customize a variety of tools to help businesses track their marketing and sales efforts.

27

2 years ago

An open source platform that allows users to build and deploy their own online gaming platform, with an emphasis on online multiplayer.

27

2 years ago

The founders of the Rainmaker platform are building a new kind of marketplace for employees, allowing companies to outsource any job to multiple independent workers, and manage them all more effectively.

26

2 years ago

A way for programmers to build apps that are open-source, with the goal of making collaboration better.

25

2 years ago

"a platform for banks to make lending decisions online by aggregating credit risk data from a wide range of data sources, including social media, from borrowers and loan officers".

25

5 years ago

Idea: A B2B company that helps pull financial data from multiple sources and makes it available inside a CRM-style interface. The founders say they’ve already worked with a few dozen companies.

24

2 years ago

A company building an open-source solution for managing digital assets in a secure and auditable manner. The platform includes a digital signing protocol, a digital asset registry, and a secure digital asset management platform.

24

2 years ago

A platform for connecting designers and developers in a way that allows teams to move faster with more shared resources.

24

2 years ago

A company that is helping homeless shelters in the US to provide better amenities for their guests. It’s a better way of distributing room and food options, and a cheaper way of managing the supply of these resources.

24

2 years ago

A dashboard for retail outlets that integrates data from a range of sources to provide a unified view of sales, promotions, and weather, among other things.

24

2 years ago

A digital assistant for people living in rural Kenya, meant to help them access resources.

24

2 years ago

A system for people to crowdsource their favorite Spotify playlists, which is then used to create recommendations for the music service.

24

2 years ago

A crowdsourced model for hiring world-class experts, which they are leveraging to help companies outsource knowledge work.

23

2 years ago

A free and open-source tool that helps users organize their digital collections. This tool helps you find, organize, and review the content in your library, while also providing you with a searchable database.

23

2 years ago

This startup says it’s the first company to “build a serverless, peer-to-peer, high-performance, low-cost, distributed marketplace for data”. That’s a mouthful, but it means the startup is building a marketplace that’s built on open-source protocols that allow it to operate in a way similar to BitTorrent.

23

2 years ago

Makes a monthly SaaS subscription option for businesses that want to run their own email campaigns, avoiding the need to outsource the service.

22

2 years ago

A home renovation app that crowdsources design decisions, turning them into experiences.

22

2 years ago

A platform that helps solve the challenge of getting data from various sources and making sense of it.

21

2 years ago

A hardware accelerator that helps startups produce low-cost, open source hardware.

21

2 years ago

A company that helps businesses track their employees’ performance and get performance reviews up to human resources standards. The startup helps companies evaluate employee absences and work time, and offers HR departments analytics and reporting.

21

2 years ago

An online resource for finding and hiring private pilots in the US.

21

2 years ago

A platform for crowd-sourced data to “support AI”

21

2 years ago

“The company is developing an open source operating system to bring the benefits of Linux to the mobile space in a form that would be familiar to iOS and Android users. In addition to its core OS function, OS-Core will also provide a development platform that developers can build applications on top of.”

21

2 years ago

A digital assistant for recruiters that makes it easier to source qualified candidates and get them to the right stage in the hiring process. The startup says it has $5 million in funding to date, and is looking to expand globally, with its headquarters in the US.

20

2 years ago

A digital platform that provides free resources for patients with chronic conditions and their caregivers to learn how to care for them.

20

2 years ago

This startup wants to make it easier for companies to manage their inventory across multiple warehouses and distribution centers. Inventory is the bane of any startup. It’s expensive, difficult to manage, and a huge source of lost revenue.

20

2 years ago

Perpetual, a startup that works with the homeless in San Diego, California, to connect them with resources like furniture, clothing, medical care, and job-placement services. The startup is also working with local non-profits to connect the homeless with these available resources.

20

5 years ago

Idea: A tool for connecting people with a “community partner” like a co-working space or business incubator. It’s a way for people to find and join groups to collaborate on projects, host events, and share resources.

19

2 years ago

An open source project to “give developers control over what data gets collected by your app”. The startup says it's a privacy solution, but it's also a way to cover your own ass when it comes to collecting user data.

19

2 years ago

A one-stop resource for startups building products in India.

19

2 years ago

A startup that crowdsources the anonymous data of anonymous users to give companies a better understanding of their customers.

19

2 years ago

Launched in May 2010, Y Combinator has been the primary source of funding for many of the most successful startup companies in Silicon Valley. The program has been called "the most prestigious startup accelerator in the world".

19

2 years ago

A platform that helps small businesses connect with experts in specific fields in order to outsource specific tasks.

18

2 years ago

A platform designed to crowdsource for and process passive income for content creators.

18

2 years ago

A digital health platform that offers a single point of access for patients, doctors, and pharmacists. They want to be the go-to resource for personalized health advice.

18

2 years ago

A $30M series A to fund the development of a series of new animal medicines. The startup is developing a new source of an active molecule to treat a range of diseases in farm animals.

17

2 years ago

It’s a collaborative way to gather resources like legal or engineering help for a project.

17

2 years ago

A company that’s built a platform that lets people crowdsource their long-term projects, like building a house.

17

2 years ago

A company that crowdsources translations of non-English languages for corporations. They’ve already signed up Y Combinator, and their clients include Slack, Stripe, and others.

17

2 years ago

An open source platform that helps businesses create a “single source of truth” for their data by consolidating it into a central location.

17

2 years ago

A cheap, open source, and hackable version of Google’s Nest thermostat, which serves as a control hub for the internet of things in a home.

17

2 years ago

A platform that helps teachers and parents share resources for students and families.

17

2 years ago

A programming tool for automating tasks in an open-source way.

17

2 years ago

This “mobile-first, responsive, cloud-based, open source content management system” manages news sites and other content. It also lets people build “apps” by combining various bits of content.

17

2 years ago

A company building a platform to build Android apps on top of an open source operating system.

17

2 years ago

A platform to crowdsource content for online influencers and celebrities.

16

2 years ago

A payments platform aimed at helping small businesses, including brick and mortar shops, pay their employees, who are often their only source of revenue.

16

2 years ago

A startup that wants to use technology to make downtowns safer and more vibrant. The company says it can use machine learning to identify high-risk groups and crowd-source intelligence to identify where urban violence is most likely to occur.

16

2 years ago

A startup that wants to build a dedicated group of investors who source deals for companies in the social media space.

15

2 years ago

A digital, crowdsourced directory of everything in the world, from government documents to digital files

15

2 years ago

The startup is a “human resources technology company that enables companies to manage their talent and people data in one place – and to do so from any device”.

15

2 years ago

A tool to help recruiters go into a job interview with a list of questions tailored for that specific candidate. The company does this through a crowdsourced database of questions and answers.

15

2 years ago

A company that gives a glimpse into what it’s like to be homeless. The company provides real-time information on the conditions of shelters and other resources in cities across the US.

14

2 years ago

A free, open-source platform for helping new developers get their first job.

14

2 years ago

A product development app that provides users with a list of local resources to solve a problem. The company describes it as “Uber for local products.”

14

2 years ago

A platform for on-demand trucking startups to crowdsource drivers and move freight across the US.

14

2 years ago

Zabiba is a messenger that has been designed with the Arabic market in mind, and is open source and free.

13

2 years ago

An open source project for building a personal chef, launched by Y Combinator in February 2018.

13

2 years ago

A platform that allows companies to tap into the skills of their employees to help with customer service. The startup makes it easy for companies to outsource customer service to its network of over 1.5M people.

13

2 years ago

A tool for building and distributing software, and working in the open source community.

13

2 years ago

This is an open-source platform for data scientists to build on top of. The company is trying to democratize data science by making it easy for anyone to pick up the skills necessary to crunch numbers.

13

2 years ago

A startup with a better way to source new employees, connecting job seekers to the right company and job at the right time.

13

2 years ago

Streamlines the process of budgeting and forecasting with a tool that pulls in real-time data from different sources, then generates reports.

13

2 years ago

A crowdsourced cybersecurity tool for consumers, helping them scan cloud/internet-connected devices to uncover potentially unsafe apps.

12

2 years ago

Open source, network-enabled home automation system which allows users to control multiple devices using a single app. The company has launched two separate products: One for fans of Hue, Philips and other brands of smart lights, and one for smart home enthusiasts.

12

5 years ago

A startup that provides affordable vehicle insurance to people under 25. The startup wants to become the go-to resource for young drivers and disrupt the current auto insurance industry which targets only the high-risk demographic.

11

2 years ago

A company that helps manage all the different sources of data about a business, and then uses artificial intelligence to make sure all the data is working together. They have a product in the market for companies that want to collect data about sales and marketing, and their machine learning algorithm can automatically pull all the different data together to give a complete picture of a business.

11

2 years ago

A platform that helps companies with their HR needs, which is the first human resource software designed specifically for enterprise.

11

2 years ago

A tool built on a decentralized protocol that allows groups to crowdsource tasks and verify their completion.

11

2 years ago

A tool that helps companies monitor their time, energy and resources, and make more efficient use of them.

11

2 years ago

A startup that is building the first-ever open source fitness app. The app will include things like an online store, a fitness tracker, and a mobile app.

11

2 years ago

This startup aims to improve agriculture by helping farmers manage their crops’ environmental impact. They want to help farmers take more care in growing crops, and thus raise yields while conserving resources.

10

2 years ago

A company that makes a video game called "Rotten Kingdom" that sends players to a post-apocalyptic world to fight monsters and collect resources.

10

2 years ago

A startup that’s building a “frictionless” education app for teachers that helps them find and purchase resources for their classroom.

9

2 years ago

Open-source software for managing the logistics of medical devices. The startup wants to make it easier for medical device manufacturers to track, manage, and report their products.

9

2 years ago

This startup helps companies source, manage, and grow their online ad campaigns.

8

2 years ago

A social network that allows users to crowdsource content for video games.

6

5 years ago

Idea: Early stage, VC-backed uBiome is an open source citizen science biotech that makes it easy for anyone to analyze their microbiome The company is profitable and is scaling internationally, but its founders want more funding

5

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that makes it easy to integrate blockchain technology into your business They’re building an open-source platform that will allow businesses to easily create decentralized applications, and will provide consulting

2

5 years ago

Idea: Blockchain-based open-source tool for managing car-sharing communities

2

5 years ago

A startup that helps people who are dealing with a degenerative disease to find resources that will help them cope and deal with the disease

-1

5 years ago

A startup that sells a service where you can outsource the work of maintaining your house plants

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A centralized hub for information and resources for businesses

-1

5 years ago

Idea: An open source platform for managing the supply chain

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A series of low-cost, open-source WiFi routers

-1

5 years ago

Idea: This startup is building a startup marketplace where aspiring entrepreneurs can connect with investors and other resources to make their startup a success

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A tool to help recruiters source candidates and apply for jobs

-1

5 years ago

Idea: The founders of Recruiterbox have started a new company called Proxee, which is a “CRM for recruiters” The app promises to help recruiters source and manage candidates

-1

5 years ago

Idea: Open-source, decentralized app store

-1

5 years ago

Idea: An open source npm package for writing better React tests

-1

5 years ago

Idea: An open source CSS framework for building accessible, high-performance interfaces

-1

5 years ago

Idea: Mention is a tool for tracking news about your company The startup says it’s a service for journalists who want a way to quickly search through news sources to see what’s being said about a company

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A platform for realtors to outsource some of their tasks to virtual assistants from around the world

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to bring data-driven insights to the human resources world.

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A software company that helps small businesses manage their invoicing. The company targets small businesses that don’t have a dedicated finance team or want to outsource the work.

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that collects different data sources and makes them intelligible, allowing people to make data-driven decisions.

-1

5 years ago

This software company is building a platform for developers to use in building apps that can read and process information from multiple data sources, including Telegram.

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A startup that’s helping Indian tech startups source cheap and reliable engineering talent.

Open-source software to help companies track the life cycle of their products.

A free library of “crowd sourced” electronics repair instructions, with a database of more than 100,000 step-by-step guides for common problems with over a million unique parts.

A software platform that helps people find the right mental-health resources. The company has received over $2.5 million in funding to date.

A platform that lets people share ideas and resources, creating a “social marketplace” for talent and ideas.

A social network for people with depression, anxiety and other mental health issues that helps them find resources and connect with others.

A way to help human resources departments get a better picture of how workers are doing and whether they are happy in their jobs. The startup is looking to help HR departments with new tools to reduce turnover and better focus on employee retention.

A new way to crowdsource ideas for new products, with the goal of helping fledgling startups get ideas for new products off the ground. The startup is building a platform for companies to crowdsource ideas in exchange for equity.

A startup that aims to help people with severe anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues find the resources they need to get better

A startup that uses social media to help governments solve various problems. It’s a crowdsourced problem-solving platform that allows citizens to solve problems with data, pictures, videos and text.

A startup that builds "the world’s first decentralized, open source, student portal.” Its goal is to connect students around the world to their professors through a global network of university digital classrooms.

A place for small businesses to collaborate and share resources.

A video game studio that uses the latest artificial intelligence techniques to turn crowd-sourced video into a game.

A startup that aims to help remove the friction between resource-poor hospitals in India and those with more resources.

A business-to-business (B2B) startup creating an open-source solution for businesses to create and manage a library of electronic documents.

A platform that allows users to create digital, social, and physical products by sending messages to a group of people in a bid to crowdsource their ideas or get feedback.

A crowdsourced employee handbook for startups in India.

A startup that collects data on your phone and then turns it into a map of crowdsourced traffic conditions along major roads and highways.

A platform for schools to share resources, build a community, and budget using cloud-based software.

A social network for people who want to find a second job. It’s for people who want to find a second job but don’t have the resources to do so themselves, and for people who have a job and are looking for a side hustle.

Open-source data visualization tool that connects together email, web, and desktop. It also integrates into Slack and other tools.

An open source framework that lets people edit smartphone videos with a finger, finger or stylus.

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A tool that builds GPS-enabled maps with crowdsourced data

A free, open-source portfolio app for designers.

The company is looking to help service providers know which jobs are the most important to perform, and which jobs can be outsourced, to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Its software, called

A startup that aims to bring the “sharing economy” to farmers, who are often left out of the vast majority of transactions related to food, be it restaurants or grocery stores. The founders say that since they can use shared resources, they can cut the cost of a farm by 75%.

A company that helps companies with sales and marketing by giving them a single source to track all of their leads on a single platform.

A software company that creates tools for mobile developers to help them make the most of their device and resources.

A call center for multilingual businesses. It gives companies a way to handle customer service and human resources in their native language.

An open-source platform that allows employers to create and manage a social safety net for their employees, including healthcare and retirement benefits. The startup has raised $8.8 million to date and has 1,000 employers on board.

A digital library for poets that curates the best and most unique poems across all genres. The app includes a database of more than 200,000 poems and sources, and functions as a social network for poets.

A platform that helps businesses manage their data more effectively, as well as connect diverse data sources.

A SaaS system that enables companies to create and maintain their own web pages, and use them as a single source of truth.

Open-source software that provides a platform for the secure exchange of sensitive information

A crowdsourced shopping website for Indian customers.

A company that is building software to help banks and other lenders connect to new sources of data like social media, livestreams and more, to get a better understanding of their clients and make better decisions.

Open source software meant to help e-commerce sites track items in their inventory. Marketers want to know where to buy their products and what items are selling.

A company that builds and manages software that helps the processing and management of HR, payroll, payroll tax and other human resource information.

A software platform that helps human resources departments manage their employees' healthcare.

A startup that’s building a platform that helps human resources professionals manage benefits and training.

A startup that helps small businesses and individuals who are planning to start a business find resources

An open source, open culture distributed ledger platform for distributed apps. The company wants to create a standard for the distributed web.

An open-source web application for creating and managing virtual classrooms and events.

The startup aims to build a social network for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs-to-be to help them find and connect with mentors and resources to help them start and grow.

A startup that uses AI to bring crowdsourced information to the public sector. It’s based in the UK and works with various governments and NGOs.

“A digital bank account that’s 100% open-source.”

This startup wants to build a “Netflix for Open Source”, allowing software developers to package their code up and sell it.

The Startup Genome is a resource for founders and investors. It covers early stage

An open source online IDE for building mobile apps, spanning mobile platforms (iOS/Android/web) and programming languages (Java/C/C++).

A news app that leverages the power of a crowdsource. The app gives people the chance to help build a story by adding and aggregating information.

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

The company provides a single, unified interface for customers to access their data and resources, plus a suite of APIs that allow third-party developers to integrate their services into

A startup that makes a free (and open source) online course platform that teaches programming

A startup that helps CEOs and CFOs to leverage the skills of their employees, especially their human resources. The company focuses on HR software.

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

A “network of people and resources to help you build a great website”.

An idea for an open-source machine learning framework for the next generation of internet apps.

A concierge service to help investors source private capital.

A decentralized, open-source online marketplace that allows people to buy and sell digital goods and services directly from other users without the need for a centralized authority.

A tool for helping journalists track news stories across different platforms and different sources.

Starting as a maker of carbonated drinks with the tagline “For those who don’t have air,” this startup is building a new kind of Citrus Cloud, which will use the sun as a source of carbon dioxide to allow plants to grow in areas without electricity.

A startup that provides crowd-sourced human testing on new products and software. They have built an internal tool to help the company evaluate software and services that it wants to launch.

A P2P lending platform for businesses that don’t have the resources to build out the infrastructure to do their own payments.

A real-time translation app that takes the place of traditional translation apps. It works by pulling in translated text from multiple sources in real-time.

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

A free and open-source app for finding, managing and sharing files

A company that’s building an interface for like-minded people to connect and share their ideas, needs and resources.

A startup that aims to make it easier for people to spontaneously and collaboratively crowdsource ad hoc solutions to a wide variety of problems.

A way to build maps with crowdsourced GPS data and then link them to the web.

A startup that is building an alternative repository to Airbnb for people to find rentable resources This includes everything from homes to lawn mowers, from the startup’s own website

In-person job recruitment turned into a crowdsourced game.

A crowdsourced translation app that lets you leave a comment to help an Italian native translate an English text into Italian.

A startup that makes it easy for companies to build websites on the open source Angular platform, including visual design and templates. Atlassian is the startup's first customer.

A platform for remote workers where they can share their workspace, access to tools and other resources, and can build the work environment they need. The company recently received $1.75 million in seed funding.

Building a toolkit that allows people to integrate data from a lot of sources into a shared dashboard.

A startup that helps small businesses with their human resources needs. The company wants to be a one-stop shop for all HR needs.