Sourcing Startup Ideas

3 years ago

This startup’s goal is to prevent ad fraud. It uses a combination of machine learning, data mining, and crowdsourcing to help companies like Amazon and Google detect fraudulent activity on their platforms.

173

3 years ago

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

173

2 years ago

A platform for building mobile games that lets you generate data for your game via crowd-sourcing.

164

3 years ago

A platform for outsourcing work to freelancers in the UK. The startup helps businesses and professionals find freelance workers for different jobs. The company is based in London, and has offices in Berlin and New York.

163

1 year ago

A startup building a platform for outsourcing of digital tasks.

162

1 year ago

A crowdsourcing platform that offers rewards based on users performing routine tasks

153

3 years ago

A startup that aims to help consumers get a better idea of how a product is being made, from labor sourcing to sourcing of materials.

151

3 years ago

A company that helps companies provide more services in-house. The startup helps companies go from outsourcing certain tasks to doing them in-house.

133

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

1 year ago

A location-based, trusted system for crowdsourcing translation and translation services

131

3 years ago

A platform that promises to help people manage their personal finances by combining the power of artificial intelligence with the power of crowd sourcing. The company wants to make the financial management process more efficient and accessible.

128

1 year ago

This company builds debt crowdsourcing platforms for lending companies. Borrowers can list their credit availability and a company can decide whether they’re a good fit for a loan.

125

1 year ago

A company that uses the power of crowdsourcing to provide business owners with quality labor at a fraction of the cost.

114

2 years ago

Rather than outsourcing maintenance of on-premises equipment, a startup called LifeSpan develops and sells cloud-based tools that help companies manage their equipment. It’s based in Austin, Texas.

112

3 years ago

A peer-to-peer marketplace for reclaimed building material, with a well-documented process for sourcing and ensuring quality before selling. The company’s founders are also part of a collective that works to repair Habitat for Humanity homes.

110

2 years ago

A startup for crowd-sourcing, developed by the founders of Yelp, to help providers compete for customers. It’s currently a beta app, but the founders say it will be available for businesses to use in the coming weeks. If it catches on, it could disrupt the way users find and book services by grouping a person’s needs in front of a provider that has been vetted by the community.

109

2 years ago

A platform for crowd-sourcing ideas and designs, where users can create mockups of their idea and give it to others to vote on.

106

2 years ago

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

105

8 months ago

A tour guide app that aims to reduce lag time and provide a more accurate travel experience by crowdsourcing a network of people already on the ground to answer questions and provide tips en route.

105

2 years ago

A company that aims to create a unified market for global enterprises to buy and sell global inventory. The startup is taking a basic model of eBay for sourcing global products and turning them into a full-service marketplace.

104

2 years ago

This startup helps online retailers to improve their sales by managing the process of “crowdsourcing” product reviews.

102

1 year ago

Taking a very different approach to the app idea, Crowdbucks is a crowdsourcing app for business owners that wants to help them get funded, with a credit card-based payment system and payment feature.

98

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

3 years ago

A "social speech recognition" app that uses the power of crowdsourcing to help people with speech disabilities get the most accurate possible transcription.

96

8 months ago

A startup that uses a combination of machine learning and crowdsourcing to analyze the relationship between different types of art and social movements.

93

2 years ago

Services for working with nonprofits to help them raise more money via crowdsourcing.

79

2 years ago

A team-based, curated, on-demand service for sourcing sales leads and B2B leads. They’re currently in the process of raising a $4 million seed round.

76

7 months ago

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

75

7 months ago

A crowdsourcing platform for local conservation groups

64

1 year ago

A tool that promises to automatically create a shortlist of candidates and automate the process of collecting feedback on them. It uses crowdsourcing to make an AI-based list, and provides coaching to the candidate to see if the feedback is accurate.

62

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

8 months ago

A platform for food companies to streamline their food waste by sourcing and selling surplus items, with a focus on cold-chain items.

60

1 year ago

A tool for crowd-sourcing the translation of books.

57

1 year ago

A startup that plans to reinvent sourcing, matching up factories with buyers.

57

1 year ago

A tool that helps people find freelance work by sourcing it through a network of people who have the skills they need.

57

1 year ago

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

55

1 year ago

A “crowdsourcing platform for the creative industry.” Their goal is to eventually make creative collaboration easier, using some of the same tools as Kickstarter.

55

6 months ago

A startup that promises to “save you time” and “deliver better results” by sourcing and delivering services in a similar way to Amazon Prime.

55

10 months ago

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

52

4 months ago

A restaurant recommendation app that uses crowdsourcing and AI to recommend places to dine.

52

1 year ago

OpenIDEO is a platform to crowdsourcing ideas providing a place to design and create products, apps and websites.

50

11 months ago

This startup wants to help manufacturers manage their supply chains, from sourcing raw materials to manufacturing their goods.

50

1 year ago

This startup is building a tool to help companies find and vet their next CEO through crowdsourcing.

49

5 months ago

Health-focused crowdsourcing platform that helps users find the best doctors and health care professionals in a given city.

49

11 months ago

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

45

11 months ago

A crowdsourcing startup that provides access to a network of freelance graphic designers for companies, who then work on a per-hour basis to create graphics, web content, and logos for companies.

45

1 year ago

A Y Combinator-backed startup that aims to make it easier for small entrepreneurs to start a business by allowing them to get investment by crowdsourcing investors’ ideas.

39

9 months ago

A company that uses the power of crowdsourcing to help the homeless. The startup has already built a series of widgets for the New York City subway system that provide homeless people with a “home away from home”, where they can shower, receive assistance and be housed.

38

7 months ago

A startup that bills itself as an online marketplace for sourcing, buying and selling of used medical equipment across the world.

37

9 months ago

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

36

5 months ago

A partnership-based startup that helps real estate agents find leads in the space. The company invests in the leads and handles the whole process, from sourcing to closing.

34

4 months ago

A tool for businesses to focus on one core competency while outsourcing others.

32

5 months ago

The startup is building a mobile app that connects users with non-traditional job applicants who also have relevant skills like graphic design, marketing, and accounting, crowdsourcing the labor of these potential employees in exchange for a small fee.

25

3 months ago

This startup is building a system for crowd-sourcing algorithms for data science. It has over 100,000 users and serves on over 10,000 data science teams.

18

2 months ago

A startup that uses crowd-sourcing to help businesses get people in their offices to physically install their products.

17

2 months ago

A company that makes an app based on the concept of crowd sourcing ideas for new products, and then using a social community to vote on the best ideas

16

2 months ago

A startup that will build a platform for crowdsourcing that allows for their users to be paid in cryptocurrency.

15

26 days ago

A tool that helps people find their way around in a city. The startup wants to use low-cost, low-power sensors to build a network of indoor maps. As users move around the city, the plan is to use a combination of indoor mapping data and crowd sourcing to build a live street map.

11

3 years ago

Idea: A startup for sourcing leads for lead generation

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Sourcing Startup Ideas

This startup’s goal is to prevent ad fraud. It uses a combination of machine learning, data mining, and crowdsourcing to help companies like Amazon and Google detect fraudulent activity on their platforms.

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

A platform for building mobile games that lets you generate data for your game via crowd-sourcing.

A platform for outsourcing work to freelancers in the UK. The startup helps businesses and professionals find freelance workers for different jobs. The company is based in London, and has offices in Berlin and New York.

A startup building a platform for outsourcing of digital tasks.

A crowdsourcing platform that offers rewards based on users performing routine tasks

A startup that aims to help consumers get a better idea of how a product is being made, from labor sourcing to sourcing of materials.

A company that helps companies provide more services in-house. The startup helps companies go from outsourcing certain tasks to doing them in-house.

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.

A location-based, trusted system for crowdsourcing translation and translation services

A platform that promises to help people manage their personal finances by combining the power of artificial intelligence with the power of crowd sourcing. The company wants to make the financial management process more efficient and accessible.

This company builds debt crowdsourcing platforms for lending companies. Borrowers can list their credit availability and a company can decide whether they’re a good fit for a loan.

A company that uses the power of crowdsourcing to provide business owners with quality labor at a fraction of the cost.

Rather than outsourcing maintenance of on-premises equipment, a startup called LifeSpan develops and sells cloud-based tools that help companies manage their equipment. It’s based in Austin, Texas.

A peer-to-peer marketplace for reclaimed building material, with a well-documented process for sourcing and ensuring quality before selling. The company’s founders are also part of a collective that works to repair Habitat for Humanity homes.

A platform for crowd-sourcing ideas and designs, where users can create mockups of their idea and give it to others to vote on.

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

A tour guide app that aims to reduce lag time and provide a more accurate travel experience by crowdsourcing a network of people already on the ground to answer questions and provide tips en route.

A company that aims to create a unified market for global enterprises to buy and sell global inventory. The startup is taking a basic model of eBay for sourcing global products and turning them into a full-service marketplace.

This startup helps online retailers to improve their sales by managing the process of “crowdsourcing” product reviews.

Taking a very different approach to the app idea, Crowdbucks is a crowdsourcing app for business owners that wants to help them get funded, with a credit card-based payment system and payment feature.

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

A "social speech recognition" app that uses the power of crowdsourcing to help people with speech disabilities get the most accurate possible transcription.

A startup that uses a combination of machine learning and crowdsourcing to analyze the relationship between different types of art and social movements.

Services for working with nonprofits to help them raise more money via crowdsourcing.

A team-based, curated, on-demand service for sourcing sales leads and B2B leads. They’re currently in the process of raising a $4 million seed round.

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

A crowdsourcing platform for local conservation groups

A tool that promises to automatically create a shortlist of candidates and automate the process of collecting feedback on them. It uses crowdsourcing to make an AI-based list, and provides coaching to the candidate to see if the feedback is accurate.

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

A platform for food companies to streamline their food waste by sourcing and selling surplus items, with a focus on cold-chain items.

A tool for crowd-sourcing the translation of books.

A startup that plans to reinvent sourcing, matching up factories with buyers.

A tool that helps people find freelance work by sourcing it through a network of people who have the skills they need.

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

A “crowdsourcing platform for the creative industry.” Their goal is to eventually make creative collaboration easier, using some of the same tools as Kickstarter.

A startup that promises to “save you time” and “deliver better results” by sourcing and delivering services in a similar way to Amazon Prime.

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

A restaurant recommendation app that uses crowdsourcing and AI to recommend places to dine.

OpenIDEO is a platform to crowdsourcing ideas providing a place to design and create products, apps and websites.

This startup wants to help manufacturers manage their supply chains, from sourcing raw materials to manufacturing their goods.

This startup is building a tool to help companies find and vet their next CEO through crowdsourcing.

Health-focused crowdsourcing platform that helps users find the best doctors and health care professionals in a given city.

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

A crowdsourcing startup that provides access to a network of freelance graphic designers for companies, who then work on a per-hour basis to create graphics, web content, and logos for companies.

A Y Combinator-backed startup that aims to make it easier for small entrepreneurs to start a business by allowing them to get investment by crowdsourcing investors’ ideas.

A company that uses the power of crowdsourcing to help the homeless. The startup has already built a series of widgets for the New York City subway system that provide homeless people with a “home away from home”, where they can shower, receive assistance and be housed.

A startup that bills itself as an online marketplace for sourcing, buying and selling of used medical equipment across the world.

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

A partnership-based startup that helps real estate agents find leads in the space. The company invests in the leads and handles the whole process, from sourcing to closing.

A tool for businesses to focus on one core competency while outsourcing others.

The startup is building a mobile app that connects users with non-traditional job applicants who also have relevant skills like graphic design, marketing, and accounting, crowdsourcing the labor of these potential employees in exchange for a small fee.

This startup is building a system for crowd-sourcing algorithms for data science. It has over 100,000 users and serves on over 10,000 data science teams.

A startup that uses crowd-sourcing to help businesses get people in their offices to physically install their products.

A company that makes an app based on the concept of crowd sourcing ideas for new products, and then using a social community to vote on the best ideas

A startup that will build a platform for crowdsourcing that allows for their users to be paid in cryptocurrency.

A tool that helps people find their way around in a city. The startup wants to use low-cost, low-power sensors to build a network of indoor maps. As users move around the city, the plan is to use a combination of indoor mapping data and crowd sourcing to build a live street map.

Idea: A startup for sourcing leads for lead generation