Speed Startup Ideas

2 years ago

A $350 machine that aims to improve Internet speeds.

421

4 years ago

It’s a licensing company for small businesses to get paid speedily for their intellectual property. The startup has signed up over 300 businesses.

219

4 years ago

A speed-reading app that uses a “simulated reading algorithm” to help you read faster.

213

4 years ago

A provider of high speed Internet for small businesses. Its service is targeted at small businesses, who can get a gigabit speed for $40 per month.

198

5 years ago

A company that wants to take stock trading to the next level with an AI-powered app that can trade stocks with the same confidence and speed as a human.

197

5 years ago

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

194

4 years ago

A New York-based startup that’s building a tool for health insurance companies to streamline claims processing and increase speed for submitting claims.

189

3 years ago

Spectra is a startup that provides a platform for building better experiences for “heads-up displays” which are basically the tiny screens that are mounted on modern vehicles to display speed, navigation, and other information. It’s available on Android and iOS.

168

5 years ago

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

167

3 years ago

A smart electric scooter, that works with an app on your phone to track your location, speed, and battery level.

161

5 years ago

A web design consultancy focused on helping companies get their websites and business up to speed.

156

4 years ago

A startup that gives people access to low-cost, high-speed wireless internet in a place they’d otherwise have to pay for a fixed line.

152

4 years ago

A tool that lets customers pitch their startups to investors in a “speed dating” style pitch.

149

5 years ago

A food delivery service that provides delivery at the speed of a “pepperoni pizza” to customers who order through the app.

148

5 years ago

A Facebook Messenger bot to order groceries from local stores and deliver them to your home. The company launched in 2017 as a way to increase delivery speeds, with the goal being to make deliveries within 30 minutes of the order being placed.

147

5 years ago

TeleServ is building a service that helps people track and improve the speed of their insurance claim. The company offers a set of tools that let people track claims, check claims status, and communicate with service reps.

144

5 years ago

An AI tool that helps teams design their next product. The startup’s first product is the “customer journey” creation tool. It aims to speed up the product design process by automating the creation of user journeys.

140

3 years ago

This startup is building a tool for retailers to increase the speed of their online inventory management and better manage product availability.

139

5 years ago

A platform that simplifies and speeds up the process of applying for a mortgage.

127

5 years ago

Taking the speed and agility of the mobile web and developing a platform that can be used on any device, including desktops. The startup, which was started in 2013, is one of the few startups creating a truly mobile web application.

124

5 years ago

A tool for automated testing, with the startup touting their “5x faster” speed to find bugs.

118

5 years ago

A high-speed and cheap way to create custom-made, high-resolution 3D printed parts.

117

4 years ago

A “tech startup” which, in their words, “builds and operates a network of high-speed automated parking garages for self-driving vehicles.”

115

5 years ago

A “next-generation” keyboard for Android that can “adapt to your preferred speed, style, and keyboard layout”

114

3 years ago

A way to help traffic police officers track drivers who are speeding by their location

108

3 years ago

A mesh network for internet connectivity in remote, rural locations, where high costs and slow speeds make internet access expensive and slow.

95

5 years ago

A toolkit for companies to bring EHS up to speed with compliance regulations, including a way to assess which regulations might apply to them that they otherwise wouldn’t have known about.

92

4 years ago

A low-cost, high-speed, high-capacity network for manufacturing. Each hub is designed to be small, modular, and scalable.

88

4 years ago

A cloud-to-cloud storage company. It’s a hybrid approach that combines the power of disk-based storage with the speed and reliability of cloud-based storage.

85

4 years ago

A is a startup that allows restaurants to track and monitor customers’ orders, and speed up deliveries.

84

3 years ago

A software company that offers a full-service suite of automation and maintenance services to help companies bring their IT infrastructure up to speed.

83

4 years ago

A smartphone app that tracks how fast people are walking, running, or riding their bikes. The app tracks speed and distance traveled with GPS, then uses that data to report on how people are getting around.

82

3 years ago

The startup sells a solution to the problem of poor Wi-Fi connections at airports and hotels. The company’s product is a small device that can be plugged into a wall that has a “hot spot” for high-speed internet.

81

4 years ago

An AI that helps people review restaurants. The AI can be used for speed dating, by restaurants to review their guests’ faces, and for booking books at restaurants.

80

3 years ago

A company that helps developers build and host their own websites, with a focus on security, speed, and usability.

80

4 years ago

A startup that helps amateur photographers and amateurs take better photos. The startup is building a photo editing app that makes it easier for people to improve their photography by adding in the most important shutter speed and aperture settings.

79

3 years ago

A software platform that helps SMB’s and teams in their B2B sales process by offering a seamless user experience, a centralized view of sales pipeline and appointment management. Everything is available in the cloud and is at the speed of a real-time CRM.

79

4 years ago

The company’s clients include GE, GE Healthcare, and GE Digital. The company’s software helps companies and healthcare providers improve the speed and efficiency that they use to monitor their complex IT systems.

78

4 years ago

Ink is a platform for live events, with a focus on music. Users are able to create and manage their events within one platform and then broadcast these events to the world. Ink also offers a community feature, where users can share content with each other. The company raised $12.5 million, with 23,000 users in 50 countries, and is backed by Lightspeed and Greycroft.

76

4 years ago

A startup that is building an autonomous, high-speed autonomous truck.

76

3 years ago

This SaaS provider is building a tool that makes creating speed and data-driven marketing campaigns simple.

75

2 years ago

A voice-activated personal assistant that can speed up your tax preparation and give you personalized financial advice.

75

4 years ago

A company that uses software and physical sensors to track the movement of workers. The founders started out working on a drone that can fly offsite and monitor the speed of workers, which they say saves $100 million in lost productivity each year.

72

3 years ago

A startup that will allow people to attach themselves to a message and send it to specific contacts or friends. Called “rallying”, the app is meant to speed up responses and bring people together.

72

4 years ago

The startup has developed a way to bring the flexibility, speed, and cost-efficiency of digital printing to the printing industry. The company is building a digital printing platform for professional print jobs, with the goal of replacing traditional printing services. They’re currently in the YC Winter 2019 batch.

71

4 years ago

A tool to help people learn how to code and build websites. The startup wants to help people get up to speed quickly and cheaply. It already has 50,000 users and has raised $20 million in funding.

71

4 years ago

A mobile app that aims to make it easier for rural farmers to access markets in nearby regions. The startup is working to use data science, machine learning, and internet of things (IoT) to improve the speed and accuracy of rural markets.

71

3 years ago

A tool for speeding up the process of sharing your phone’s location information with friends, family, and potential coworkers.

71

3 years ago

A digital platform for speeding up the process of hiring contractors, where you can select from a pool of different service providers.

69

3 years ago

A company that builds a full website for businesses in just hours. The startup, which was founded in early 2015, also builds mobile apps and website software with speed and ease.

68

2 years ago

A platform to help private equity firms speed up the deal-making process.

66

3 years ago

A six-month-old startup that’s building a speed dating app for people who want to find a date quickly.

63

3 years ago

A content delivery network that’s built for gaming, and speeds up game downloads by 9x.

62

4 years ago

This startup is building out a platform that helps get people up to speed with their skills so they can best take advantage of their current position.

60

3 years ago

This startup is building a service to help people create their own “satellite” internet, connecting it to existing cellular networks. The founders of the startup say the service is a better alternative to the speeds of existing satellite broadband.

60

4 years ago

A game of skill and speed to help people learn Chinese

59

3 years ago

This startup wants to solve the problem of low-speed internet in developing countries. It wants to build a network of satellites that can beam internet to remote areas.

56

3 years ago

This startup is building a “mobile app for cars that actually gets safer”, offering a sensor and driver monitoring platform that can warn drivers of things like speed limits and drunk driving.

53

3 years ago

A startup that helps the software industry get up to speed with the newest trends. The startup provides a platform for companies to build and publish app prototypes, with a focus on business use cases.

50

2 years ago

A startup working on a way to speed up the data center by using case management and automation.

50

2 years ago

A team of four at Stanford that’s developing a tool to speed up the workflows of companies. The company provides a browser-based tool that helps workers in sales, marketing, and product teams collaborate and share data.

50

3 years ago

A group of friends launched a startup racing to build a go-anywhere, accessible, and affordable modular electric car. The car is a lightweight, urban electrical vehicle, with a range of about 500 miles, a top speed of about 70 mph, and a starting cost of $10,000.

48

3 years ago

The startup has built a tool that lets chefs build menus for restaurants, to speed up delivery of the food.

47

2 years ago

A company that helps companies build a few-minute sales methodology by having salespeople work only a few minutes at a time to get up to speed.

47

2 years ago

A startup that allows you to create a personalized map of your phone’s network usage and destinations, with info on the speeds of each connection. It’s already a popular app with 1,000,000 installs.

47

2 years ago

“A visual ‘cheat sheet’ to help you learn new technologies and speed up your development”. The company is building a library of technology stacks, and launching a platform for customers to customize a course that will get them ready for new technology launches.

46

2 years ago

This app helps employees manage their workloads and see how their current workload compares to others’. Each user has a “speedometer” that displays the amount of work they’ve completed, and you can compare your speedometer to other people’s.

46

2 years ago

A web-based software platform for enterprise ultrasounds. The startup hopes to speed up the process of scheduling and paying for scans.

46

2 years ago

This startup is developing a way to deploy software at the speed of telecom. The company wants to make it so that your phone can update itself whenever you upgrade your phone, rather than having to wait for your provider’s OS to update and then waiting for the app to be updated.

45

2 years ago

A very small device that mounts on a bike handlebar that uses Bluetooth to track a rider’s speed and distance and keep tabs on things like calories and time.

45

3 years ago

A startup that helps enterprise IT teams speed up their processes, automate dull tasks, and gain greater visibility into their infrastructure.

42

3 years ago

A tool that allows you to “learn the micro-skills you need to be successful in a new field” by writing a series of texts and emails to a tutoring service. The startup wants to help people get up to speed on a new skill or industry.

34

2 years ago

This startup aims to help power out-of-town businesses by allowing them to take advantage of the high-speed internet from their users. It has offices in New York and Boston.

34

2 years ago

A startup with a team of former Google employees. Their goal is to boost the speed of email delivery for users by a factor of 10.

32

2 years ago

This B2B company is building an IoT-based platform to speed up the buying process for warehouses and distribution centers.

28

2 years ago

A wearable device that can detect if a person’s heart rate is speeding up due to a panic attack and then send them an SMS message to let them know they’re having a panic attack, or even give them a breathing exercise to help calm down.

28

2 years ago

A real-time speed tracking app that lets companies track their courier partner’s progress.

25

2 years ago

A startup that’s building a high-speed drone to deliver fresh groceries to people’s doors in San Francisco.

24

2 years ago

A company that partners with employers, trainers, and counselors to help people transition into the workplace. Employers want to help employees get up to speed, and trainers want to help people learn new skills.

24

2 years ago

A transcription tool for lawyers to use at client meetings to speed up the process.

22

2 years ago

A company that helps improve the speed and quality of internet-enabled traffic. The startup works with cities to optimize traffic with software that can cut speeds in half.

20

2 years ago

Airboard is a startup that wants to design an electric skateboard that can go up to 20 miles on a single charge and has a top speed of 60 mph. The startup is currently looking for funding.

18

2 years ago

A digital transformation consultant that helps companies get up to speed with digital technology.

17

2 years ago

A mobile app to help you keep track of the places you go. The app uses the same sensors that new cars have to track your speed and location and can provide details like gas prices, weather, and local news.

16

2 years ago

A startup that’s building a magnetic-levitation train capable of speeds of 200 miles per hour. The company’s CEO says that it’s necessary to “address the mobility problems of all the world’s cities”.

16

2 years ago

A Y Combinator alum, this startup uses GPUs and other computing hardware to speed up deep learning for machine learning.

14

2 years ago

A trade-only app for the coffee industry. It’s like a barista on speed.

14

2 years ago

Amperio provides a payment platform that removes the friction for companies to pay each other, lowering the cost of payment and increasing payment speed and transparency.

13

2 years ago

A startup that helps companies manage the process and speed of their audit and compliance checks. They’re currently serving the healthcare and compliance industries, with plans to expand into other industries in the future.

8

5 years ago

Idea: This startup is making a wearable device to help train new drivers The device plugs into a car’s OBD-II port and tracks various metrics like steering speed and braking force

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to re-create the “best part of the job interview”: the speed dating side of

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Speed Startup Ideas

A $350 machine that aims to improve Internet speeds.

It’s a licensing company for small businesses to get paid speedily for their intellectual property. The startup has signed up over 300 businesses.

A speed-reading app that uses a “simulated reading algorithm” to help you read faster.

A provider of high speed Internet for small businesses. Its service is targeted at small businesses, who can get a gigabit speed for $40 per month.

A company that wants to take stock trading to the next level with an AI-powered app that can trade stocks with the same confidence and speed as a human.

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

A New York-based startup that’s building a tool for health insurance companies to streamline claims processing and increase speed for submitting claims.

Spectra is a startup that provides a platform for building better experiences for “heads-up displays” which are basically the tiny screens that are mounted on modern vehicles to display speed, navigation, and other information. It’s available on Android and iOS.

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

A smart electric scooter, that works with an app on your phone to track your location, speed, and battery level.

A web design consultancy focused on helping companies get their websites and business up to speed.

A startup that gives people access to low-cost, high-speed wireless internet in a place they’d otherwise have to pay for a fixed line.

A tool that lets customers pitch their startups to investors in a “speed dating” style pitch.

A food delivery service that provides delivery at the speed of a “pepperoni pizza” to customers who order through the app.

A Facebook Messenger bot to order groceries from local stores and deliver them to your home. The company launched in 2017 as a way to increase delivery speeds, with the goal being to make deliveries within 30 minutes of the order being placed.

TeleServ is building a service that helps people track and improve the speed of their insurance claim. The company offers a set of tools that let people track claims, check claims status, and communicate with service reps.

An AI tool that helps teams design their next product. The startup’s first product is the “customer journey” creation tool. It aims to speed up the product design process by automating the creation of user journeys.

This startup is building a tool for retailers to increase the speed of their online inventory management and better manage product availability.

A platform that simplifies and speeds up the process of applying for a mortgage.

Taking the speed and agility of the mobile web and developing a platform that can be used on any device, including desktops. The startup, which was started in 2013, is one of the few startups creating a truly mobile web application.

A tool for automated testing, with the startup touting their “5x faster” speed to find bugs.

A high-speed and cheap way to create custom-made, high-resolution 3D printed parts.

A “tech startup” which, in their words, “builds and operates a network of high-speed automated parking garages for self-driving vehicles.”

A “next-generation” keyboard for Android that can “adapt to your preferred speed, style, and keyboard layout”

A way to help traffic police officers track drivers who are speeding by their location

A mesh network for internet connectivity in remote, rural locations, where high costs and slow speeds make internet access expensive and slow.

A toolkit for companies to bring EHS up to speed with compliance regulations, including a way to assess which regulations might apply to them that they otherwise wouldn’t have known about.

A low-cost, high-speed, high-capacity network for manufacturing. Each hub is designed to be small, modular, and scalable.

A cloud-to-cloud storage company. It’s a hybrid approach that combines the power of disk-based storage with the speed and reliability of cloud-based storage.

A is a startup that allows restaurants to track and monitor customers’ orders, and speed up deliveries.

A software company that offers a full-service suite of automation and maintenance services to help companies bring their IT infrastructure up to speed.

A smartphone app that tracks how fast people are walking, running, or riding their bikes. The app tracks speed and distance traveled with GPS, then uses that data to report on how people are getting around.

The startup sells a solution to the problem of poor Wi-Fi connections at airports and hotels. The company’s product is a small device that can be plugged into a wall that has a “hot spot” for high-speed internet.

An AI that helps people review restaurants. The AI can be used for speed dating, by restaurants to review their guests’ faces, and for booking books at restaurants.

A company that helps developers build and host their own websites, with a focus on security, speed, and usability.

A startup that helps amateur photographers and amateurs take better photos. The startup is building a photo editing app that makes it easier for people to improve their photography by adding in the most important shutter speed and aperture settings.

A software platform that helps SMB’s and teams in their B2B sales process by offering a seamless user experience, a centralized view of sales pipeline and appointment management. Everything is available in the cloud and is at the speed of a real-time CRM.

The company’s clients include GE, GE Healthcare, and GE Digital. The company’s software helps companies and healthcare providers improve the speed and efficiency that they use to monitor their complex IT systems.

A startup that is building an autonomous, high-speed autonomous truck.

This SaaS provider is building a tool that makes creating speed and data-driven marketing campaigns simple.

A voice-activated personal assistant that can speed up your tax preparation and give you personalized financial advice.

A company that uses software and physical sensors to track the movement of workers. The founders started out working on a drone that can fly offsite and monitor the speed of workers, which they say saves $100 million in lost productivity each year.

A startup that will allow people to attach themselves to a message and send it to specific contacts or friends. Called “rallying”, the app is meant to speed up responses and bring people together.

A tool to help people learn how to code and build websites. The startup wants to help people get up to speed quickly and cheaply. It already has 50,000 users and has raised $20 million in funding.

A mobile app that aims to make it easier for rural farmers to access markets in nearby regions. The startup is working to use data science, machine learning, and internet of things (IoT) to improve the speed and accuracy of rural markets.

A tool for speeding up the process of sharing your phone’s location information with friends, family, and potential coworkers.

A digital platform for speeding up the process of hiring contractors, where you can select from a pool of different service providers.

A company that builds a full website for businesses in just hours. The startup, which was founded in early 2015, also builds mobile apps and website software with speed and ease.

A platform to help private equity firms speed up the deal-making process.

A six-month-old startup that’s building a speed dating app for people who want to find a date quickly.

A content delivery network that’s built for gaming, and speeds up game downloads by 9x.

This startup is building out a platform that helps get people up to speed with their skills so they can best take advantage of their current position.

This startup is building a service to help people create their own “satellite” internet, connecting it to existing cellular networks. The founders of the startup say the service is a better alternative to the speeds of existing satellite broadband.

A game of skill and speed to help people learn Chinese

This startup wants to solve the problem of low-speed internet in developing countries. It wants to build a network of satellites that can beam internet to remote areas.

This startup is building a “mobile app for cars that actually gets safer”, offering a sensor and driver monitoring platform that can warn drivers of things like speed limits and drunk driving.

A startup that helps the software industry get up to speed with the newest trends. The startup provides a platform for companies to build and publish app prototypes, with a focus on business use cases.

A startup working on a way to speed up the data center by using case management and automation.

A team of four at Stanford that’s developing a tool to speed up the workflows of companies. The company provides a browser-based tool that helps workers in sales, marketing, and product teams collaborate and share data.

A group of friends launched a startup racing to build a go-anywhere, accessible, and affordable modular electric car. The car is a lightweight, urban electrical vehicle, with a range of about 500 miles, a top speed of about 70 mph, and a starting cost of $10,000.

The startup has built a tool that lets chefs build menus for restaurants, to speed up delivery of the food.

A company that helps companies build a few-minute sales methodology by having salespeople work only a few minutes at a time to get up to speed.

A startup that allows you to create a personalized map of your phone’s network usage and destinations, with info on the speeds of each connection. It’s already a popular app with 1,000,000 installs.

“A visual ‘cheat sheet’ to help you learn new technologies and speed up your development”. The company is building a library of technology stacks, and launching a platform for customers to customize a course that will get them ready for new technology launches.

This app helps employees manage their workloads and see how their current workload compares to others’. Each user has a “speedometer” that displays the amount of work they’ve completed, and you can compare your speedometer to other people’s.

A web-based software platform for enterprise ultrasounds. The startup hopes to speed up the process of scheduling and paying for scans.

This startup is developing a way to deploy software at the speed of telecom. The company wants to make it so that your phone can update itself whenever you upgrade your phone, rather than having to wait for your provider’s OS to update and then waiting for the app to be updated.

A very small device that mounts on a bike handlebar that uses Bluetooth to track a rider’s speed and distance and keep tabs on things like calories and time.

A startup that helps enterprise IT teams speed up their processes, automate dull tasks, and gain greater visibility into their infrastructure.

A tool that allows you to “learn the micro-skills you need to be successful in a new field” by writing a series of texts and emails to a tutoring service. The startup wants to help people get up to speed on a new skill or industry.

This startup aims to help power out-of-town businesses by allowing them to take advantage of the high-speed internet from their users. It has offices in New York and Boston.

A startup with a team of former Google employees. Their goal is to boost the speed of email delivery for users by a factor of 10.

This B2B company is building an IoT-based platform to speed up the buying process for warehouses and distribution centers.

A wearable device that can detect if a person’s heart rate is speeding up due to a panic attack and then send them an SMS message to let them know they’re having a panic attack, or even give them a breathing exercise to help calm down.

A real-time speed tracking app that lets companies track their courier partner’s progress.

A startup that’s building a high-speed drone to deliver fresh groceries to people’s doors in San Francisco.

A company that partners with employers, trainers, and counselors to help people transition into the workplace. Employers want to help employees get up to speed, and trainers want to help people learn new skills.