Source Startup Ideas

1 month ago

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

4,457

3 years ago

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

875

3 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.

715

7 months 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.

634

3 months ago

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

601

1 year ago

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

482

2 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.

244

3 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

243

1 month ago

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

236

1 year ago

A place for small businesses to collaborate and share resources.

230

2 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.

224

2 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.

221

3 years ago

A crowdsourced employee handbook for startups in India.

219

3 years ago

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

218

2 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.

216

1 month 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.

213

2 years ago

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

207

1 month ago

A tool that builds GPS-enabled maps with crowdsourced data

203

2 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.

200

2 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

192

1 year 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.

189

2 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.

188

3 years ago

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

182

2 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.

182

2 years ago

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

182

3 years ago

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

180

2 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.

179

2 years ago

This list was gathered from the following sources:

179

3 years ago

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

177

2 years ago

A free, open-source portfolio app for designers.

177

2 years ago

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

176

2 years ago

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

173

2 years ago

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

172

2 years ago

A crowdsourced shopping website for Indian customers.

171

2 years ago

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

170

2 years ago

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

169

3 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.

168

3 years ago

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

167

2 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.

167

1 year 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.

167

1 year ago

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

166

2 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

164

1 year 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.

164

3 years ago

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

163

3 years ago

A concierge service to help investors source private capital.

162

2 years ago

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

162

1 year ago

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

162

1 month ago

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

162

1 year 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.

161

8 months 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%.

159

1 year 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.

158

1 year 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.

158

3 years ago

In-person job recruitment turned into a crowdsourced game.

157

3 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.

157

3 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.

157

1 year ago

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

157

3 years ago

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

156

3 years ago

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

156

3 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

155

3 years ago

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

155

1 month ago

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

155

3 years ago

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

154

3 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.

153

3 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.

153

3 years ago

There are a number of resources for startups:

153

1 year ago

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

153

3 years ago

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

152

2 years ago

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

152

1 year ago

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

152

1 year ago

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

152

3 years ago

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

151

3 years ago

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

151

1 year 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.

151

3 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.

150

3 years ago

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

150

2 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.

150

3 years ago

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

149

2 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.

149

1 year 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.

149

3 years ago

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

147

3 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.

146

3 years ago

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

146

3 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.

146

2 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.

145

1 year ago

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

145

3 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.

144

3 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.

144

3 years ago

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

144

1 year ago

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

144

1 year ago

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

144

3 years ago

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

143

3 years ago

A solution for single-source supply chain visibility

143

3 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.

143

3 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.

143

1 year ago

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

143

3 years ago

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

142

3 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.

142

3 years ago

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

142

3 years ago

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

141

3 years ago

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

141

1 year 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.

141

3 years ago

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

140

3 years ago

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

140

3 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.

140

3 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.

140

2 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.

140

1 year ago

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

140

3 years ago

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

139

3 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.

139

3 years ago

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

139

1 year 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.

139

1 year ago

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

139

1 year 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.

139

8 months ago

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

139

3 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

138

3 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.

138

3 years ago

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

138

2 years ago

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

138

3 years ago

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

137

2 years ago

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

137

1 year 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.

137

3 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.

136

3 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.

136

2 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.

136

3 years ago

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

135

3 years ago

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

135

3 years ago

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

135

2 years ago

A tool for automating and monitoring Kubernetes resources.

135

2 years ago

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

135

2 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.

135

3 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.

134

3 years ago

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

134

3 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.

134

3 years ago

A platform for employers to find and manage outsourced workers.

134

3 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.

134

2 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.

134

2 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.

134

3 years ago

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

133

3 years ago

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

133

1 year ago

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

133

8 months 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.

133

3 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.

132

3 years ago

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

132

3 years ago

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

132

1 month 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.

132

3 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.

131

3 years ago

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

131

3 years ago

A community for teachers to connect and share resources.

131

3 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.

131

2 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.

131

3 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.

130

3 years ago

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

130

3 years ago

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

130

3 years ago

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

129

3 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.

129

3 years ago

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

129

3 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.”

129

3 years ago

A crowdsourced security analyst team.

129

3 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.

129

2 years ago

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

129

2 years ago

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

129

2 years ago

A web service that crowdsources customer feedback on products.

129

3 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.

128

3 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.

128

3 years ago

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

128

2 years ago

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

128

2 years ago

A search engine that surfaces open source code.

128

2 years ago

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

128

3 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.

127

2 years ago

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

127

1 year 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.

127

3 years ago

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

126

3 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."

126

2 years ago

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

126

2 years ago

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

126

3 years ago

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

125

3 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.

125

3 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.

125

2 years ago

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

125

3 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

124

3 years ago

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

124

3 years ago

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

124

3 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.

124

2 years ago

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

124

2 years ago

A startup to crowdsource direct marketing campaigns for companies.

124

2 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.

124

2 years ago

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

124

3 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.

123

3 years ago

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

123

1 year ago

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

123

3 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.

122

3 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.

122

3 years ago

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

122

3 years ago

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

121

2 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.

121

3 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.

120

1 month ago

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

120

2 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.

119

2 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.

119

6 months 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.

119

3 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.

118

3 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.

118

1 year ago

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

118

3 years ago

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

117

2 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.

117

2 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.

117

2 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.

117

1 year 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.

117

3 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.

116

3 years ago

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

116

3 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.

116

2 years ago

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

116

3 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.

115

3 years ago

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

115

3 years ago

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

115

3 years ago

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

115

2 years ago

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

115

2 years ago

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

115

2 years ago

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

115

2 years ago

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

115

3 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.

114

2 years ago

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

114

2 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.

114

2 years ago

A “crowd-sourced data science platform.”

114

3 years ago

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

113

2 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.

113

2 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.

113

2 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.

113

2 years ago

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

113

2 years ago

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

113

3 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.

112

2 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.

112

2 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.

112

2 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.

112

1 year 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.

112

3 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.

111

3 years ago

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

111

3 years ago

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

111

1 year ago

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

111

2 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.

110

3 years ago

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

109

2 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.

109

2 years ago

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

109

2 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.

109

2 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.

108

8 months ago

A crowdsourced geo-tracking service for football games.

108

1 month 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.

108

2 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.

107

2 years ago

An open-source platform and data storage for enterprise use

107

3 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.

106

2 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.

106

2 years ago

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

106

2 years ago

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

106

2 years ago

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

106

2 years ago

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

106

2 years ago

This 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.

106

2 years ago

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

106

11 months ago

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

106

2 years ago

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

105

2 years ago

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

105

2 years ago

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

105

11 months 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.

105

2 years ago

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

104

2 years ago

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

104

2 years ago

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

104

1 year 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.”

104

2 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.

103

2 years ago

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

103

11 months 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.

103

2 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.

102

4 months ago

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

102

2 years ago

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

101

1 year ago

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

101

8 months ago

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

101

2 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.

100

2 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.

100

1 year ago

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

100

2 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.

99

2 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.

99

2 years ago

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

99

2 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.

99

1 month 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.

98

2 years ago

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

97

2 years ago

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

97

2 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.

97

8 months ago

A platform that lets publishers crowdsource video reviews on YouTube.

97

2 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.

96

2 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.

96

2 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.

96

8 months 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.

96

1 month 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.

96

2 years ago

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

95

5 months ago

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

95

2 years ago

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

94

1 year 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.

94

8 months 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.

94

6 months ago

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

94

6 months ago

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

94

2 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.

93

2 years ago

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

93

1 year ago

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

93

2 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.

92

8 months ago

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

92

6 months ago

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

92

1 month ago

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

92

2 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.

91

1 year ago

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

90

1 year 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.

90

7 months 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.

90

2 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.

89

2 years ago

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

89

2 years ago

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

89

9 months ago

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

89

13 days ago

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

89

2 years ago

An open source API for medical device data

88

1 year ago

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

88

2 years ago

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

87

1 year 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.

86

1 year ago

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

86

2 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.

85

2 years ago

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

85

2 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.

85

1 year 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.

85

10 months 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.

85

2 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.

84

2 years ago

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

84

1 year ago

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

84

8 months 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.

84

2 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.

83

2 years ago

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

83

1 year ago

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

83

10 months ago

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

83

8 months ago

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

83

8 months ago

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

83

1 year 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.

82

1 year ago

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

82

2 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.

81

2 years ago

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

81

1 year ago

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

81

2 years ago

An open source digital wallet for fiat currencies.

80

2 years ago

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

80

1 year 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.

80

1 year ago

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

80

8 months ago

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

80

2 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.

79

2 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.

79

2 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.

79

2 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.

79

1 year ago

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

79

1 year ago

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

79

9 months 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.

79

8 months ago

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

79

2 years ago

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

78

2 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.

78

1 year ago

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

78

8 months 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.

78

2 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.

77

2 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.

77

1 year 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.

77

1 year ago

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

77

3 years ago

Idea: Crowdsourced AI to predict drone flight paths

76

2 years ago

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

76

2 years ago

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

76

1 year ago

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

76

1 year ago

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

76

1 year ago

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

76

7 months 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.

76

2 years ago

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

75

2 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.

75

2 years ago

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

75

2 years ago

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

75

7 months ago

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

75

2 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.

74

2 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.

74

1 year 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.

74

1 year ago

An online, crowdsourced language translation platform.

74

5 months ago

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

74

3 years ago

Idea: Open-source crypto-to-crypto exchanges

73

2 years ago

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

73

2 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.

73

2 years ago

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

73

1 year ago

A crowdsourced app for helping people find good matches

73

1 year ago

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

73

1 year ago

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

73

1 year ago

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

73

1 year 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.

73

1 year ago

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

72

1 year 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.

72

1 year ago

Programmable, open-source home IoT platform.

72

1 year ago

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

72

9 months ago

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

72

8 months ago

A 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.

72

8 months ago

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

72

6 months 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.

72

2 years ago

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

71

2 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

71

1 year ago

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

71

1 year 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.

71

1 year ago

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

71

1 year ago

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

71

1 year ago

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

71

8 months ago

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

71

2 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.

70

1 year 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.

70

2 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.

69

2 years ago

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

69

2 years ago

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

69

2 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.

69

1 year ago

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

69

1 year ago

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

69

1 year ago

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

69

1 year ago

A cross-platform open source IDE for JavaScript developers.

69

1 year ago

A crowdsourced product review platform for groceries and other products.

69

2 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.

68

2 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.

68

2 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.

68

1 year 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.

68

1 year 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

68

1 year 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.

68

1 year ago

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

68

1 year ago

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

68

1 year ago

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

68

1 year 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.

68

11 months 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.

68

8 months 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.

68

1 month 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.

68

2 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.

67

2 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.

67

2 years ago

A crowd-sourced marketplace for finding and hiring talent

67

2 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.

67

1 year ago

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

67

1 year ago

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

67

1 year ago

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

67

9 months ago

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

67

8 months 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.

67

8 months 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.

67

2 years ago

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

66

2 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.

66

1 year 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.

66

1 year 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.

66

1 year ago

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

66

1 year ago

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

66

1 year 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.

66

9 months 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.

66

8 months 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.

66

5 months ago

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

66

2 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.

65

2 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.

65

1 year ago

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

65

1 year ago

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

65

1 year 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.

65

1 year 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.

64

1 year ago

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

64

1 year ago

Open source software for machine learning and neural networks.

64

1 year 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.

64

1 year 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.

64

1 year ago

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

64

1 year 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.

64

1 year ago

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

64

1 year ago

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

64

7 months ago

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

64

2 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.

63

1 year ago

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

63

1 year ago

A new app that crowdsources and gamifies small business loans

63

1 year 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.

63

1 year ago

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

63

1 year 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.

63

1 year 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.

63

1 year 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.

63

1 year ago

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

63

3 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.

62

2 years ago

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

62

2 years ago

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

62

1 year 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.

62

1 year ago

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

62

1 year ago

A tool for answering questions about events from multiple sources.

62

1 year 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.

62

1 year ago

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

62

10 months ago

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

62

8 months 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.

62

7 months ago

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

62

2 years ago

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

61

2 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.

61

1 year 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.

61

1 year 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.

61

1 year ago

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

61

1 year 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.

61

1 year ago

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

61

1 year 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.

61

1 year ago

A new, open-source way to build rockets.

61

8 months 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.

61

8 months ago

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

61

1 year ago

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

60

1 year 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.

60

1 year ago

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

60

1 year 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.

60

1 year ago

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

60

1 year ago

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

60

9 months ago

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

60

7 months ago

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

60

1 month 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.

60

1 year 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.

59

1 year 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.

59

1 year 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.

59

1 year 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.

59

1 year ago

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

59

1 year 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.

59

1 year 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.

59

9 months 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.

59

9 months 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.

59

7 months 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.

59

6 months 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.

59

2 years ago

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

58

1 year ago

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

58

1 year ago

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

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

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

A place for small businesses to collaborate and share resources.

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 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 crowdsourced employee handbook for startups in India.

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

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

A tool that builds GPS-enabled maps with crowdsourced data

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A free, open-source portfolio app for designers.

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

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

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

A crowdsourced shopping website for Indian customers.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

A concierge service to help investors source private capital.

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

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.

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 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 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.

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.

In-person job recruitment turned into a crowdsourced game.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

There are a number of resources for startups:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A 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 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.

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

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.

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