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This startup is building a business that connects real estate agents with people looking to rent a room, and vice versa. It works as an escrow service for landlords and tenants, with a small fee taken by the service when a transaction completes.

185

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A platform that helps businesses share their data and information with other businesses by sending out data feeds. The startup says it has taken in $1.5 million in funding to date.

167

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A wearables startup that wants to help people run more efficiently and exercise better. It says its product is worn like a wristband and tracks things like steps taken, calories burned, distance traveled, and sleep.

166

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5 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can pay to have their trash and recycling picked up and taken away

150

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5 years ago

This is a company that wants to help companies keep an eye on their employees. The company launched in late May and has already taken over $100,000 in seed funding.

148

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5 years ago

A company that makes a system for keeping track of the things that need to be taken care of while you’re on vacation

144

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4 years ago

An eye exam app that provides a digital photo of the eye taken from a smartphone camera

144

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5 years ago

This startup wants to make it easier to get a headshot taken in an interior studio — anywhere in the world.

143

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5 years ago

A startup that helps to ensure that you’re not being cheated by local taxi drivers. The startup offers a database of pre-vetted taxi drivers, helping to ensure that you’re taken to the right place, and not taken to a dodgy place.

140

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A digital platform that aims to make it easier for investors to invest in start-up companies. The venture has taken in $105 million in investments so far, but it’s still looking for its first customer.

124

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5 years ago

A log analytics company that wants to turn the data from the billions of rides taken every day by its customers into actionable insights for its customers.

117

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4 years ago

The name of the service is taken from the Latin word “diaspora”, which means “dispersed” or “dissolved.” The company is building a platform for businesses to offer their customers a daily or weekly service, such as cleaning, cooking, or laundry.

109

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5 years ago

The product is a hardware device that uses machine learning to help you take the best shot of a face. The startup uses AI to learn faces and pair them with photos of them taken by users. It’s the company's first product, which was launched in June, and was a finalist in the class of 2018.

108

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4 years ago

A flash drive that can be taken to a kiosk and used to pay for goods.

99

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5 years ago

Y Combinator is not a startup accelerator in the traditional sense, as it does not provide capital, mentorship, or other startup-specific services. Instead, Y Combinator provides seed funding and office space for startups that have already been bootstrapped for over a year and a half. Y Combinator has five cohorts a year, each of which lasts for 14 weeks. Participants are required to pay for their own flights and housing, which are taken care of by Y Combinator.

97

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4 years ago

A company that helps small restaurants and cafeterias provide food for their employees. The co-founders say they have taken on $1 million in orders in their first year.

95

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4 years ago

A tool that makes it easy to work with photos taken with a smartphone

90

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4 years ago

A tool for school districts to track their student populations, including how many absences are being taken and whether those absences are needed.

86

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4 years ago

A tool that automatically scans photos for copyright infringement. The startup wants to help potential infringers to make sure their photos don’t get taken down due to false accusations.

85

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4 years ago

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

82

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4 years ago

A company that sells photos taken by its users to other companies like Coca Cola, Microsoft, etc., for use in advertising.

81

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4 years ago

A store where people can buy full-length videos they’ve taken on their phone.

76

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3 years ago

A fast-growing startup that’s taken apart a $50 billion company and is building a new one.

76

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4 years ago

A tool for streamlining the entire process of building a website. It aims to provide its customers with a turnkey web builder service meant to reduce the time taken to build websites with one-click tools.

72

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3 years ago

The team behind online streaming service Yogscast has taken on the challenge of building a streaming video recorder, allowing people to set the camera down and watch a movie without touching the remote.

68

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2 years ago

A tool for employees to keep track and manage their own time to ensure a certain amount of hours worked and vacation time taken.

67

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4 years ago

Many people don’t realize that the costs of insurance, medical care, and even funeral services are tax deductible. While these are often major expenses, they are often taken for granted and not considered tax-advantaged savings.

66

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3 years ago

A startup that helps people who want to share photos of their pets create a meme that looks like it was taken by a professional photographer.

52

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3 years ago

The idea is to create an online platform that helps professionals save time and money by planning their own trips to conferences. The founders are both professional travel writers, and say that a lot of the best trips they’ve taken were planned on their own.

47

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2 years ago

Xionet is a software platform that allows users to upload, edit, or discover video and images, and share with the world. The startup is promising to help users create and distribute videos with no editing experience, and they’ve already taken in $100,000 in seed funding.

35

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2 years ago

A company that offers a “self-driving” app that generates a report of how many steps you’ve taken and how many calories you’ve burned

28

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2 years ago

A startup that takes your phone photos and allows you to generate a “photo album” of your life, taken from a first-person perspective.

24

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2 years ago

A startup that lets you filter the photos taken with your phone’s camera by the amount of light they’re in, so you can choose to take only the photos that are easy to take in lower light.

17

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2 years ago

An on-demand dog walking service that offers custom training and activities. They currently have 3 clients, including a company representative who has taken 15 dogs on walks.

15

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2 years ago

An AI-driven platform that helps teachers identify students who may need extra help. The AI platform will put out a list of students who are struggling in certain areas and will help teachers pinpoint which students should be taken out of class early to help them catch up.

14

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2 years ago

A mobile app that helps borrowers get more information about the loans they’ve taken out in the past.

14

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2 years ago

A startup that allows users to virtually try on glasses before buying. The startup’s founders believe that the industry is ripe for disruption, and that customers are tired of being taken advantage of.

12

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5 years ago

Idea: A way to organize your photos into albums based on the locations they were taken.

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Taken Startup Ideas

This startup is building a business that connects real estate agents with people looking to rent a room, and vice versa. It works as an escrow service for landlords and tenants, with a small fee taken by the service when a transaction completes.

A platform that helps businesses share their data and information with other businesses by sending out data feeds. The startup says it has taken in $1.5 million in funding to date.

A wearables startup that wants to help people run more efficiently and exercise better. It says its product is worn like a wristband and tracks things like steps taken, calories burned, distance traveled, and sleep.

A startup that provides a service where people can pay to have their trash and recycling picked up and taken away

This is a company that wants to help companies keep an eye on their employees. The company launched in late May and has already taken over $100,000 in seed funding.

A company that makes a system for keeping track of the things that need to be taken care of while you’re on vacation

An eye exam app that provides a digital photo of the eye taken from a smartphone camera

This startup wants to make it easier to get a headshot taken in an interior studio — anywhere in the world.

A startup that helps to ensure that you’re not being cheated by local taxi drivers. The startup offers a database of pre-vetted taxi drivers, helping to ensure that you’re taken to the right place, and not taken to a dodgy place.

A digital platform that aims to make it easier for investors to invest in start-up companies. The venture has taken in $105 million in investments so far, but it’s still looking for its first customer.

A log analytics company that wants to turn the data from the billions of rides taken every day by its customers into actionable insights for its customers.

The name of the service is taken from the Latin word “diaspora”, which means “dispersed” or “dissolved.” The company is building a platform for businesses to offer their customers a daily or weekly service, such as cleaning, cooking, or laundry.

The product is a hardware device that uses machine learning to help you take the best shot of a face. The startup uses AI to learn faces and pair them with photos of them taken by users. It’s the company's first product, which was launched in June, and was a finalist in the class of 2018.

A flash drive that can be taken to a kiosk and used to pay for goods.

A company that helps small restaurants and cafeterias provide food for their employees. The co-founders say they have taken on $1 million in orders in their first year.

A tool that makes it easy to work with photos taken with a smartphone

A tool for school districts to track their student populations, including how many absences are being taken and whether those absences are needed.

A tool that automatically scans photos for copyright infringement. The startup wants to help potential infringers to make sure their photos don’t get taken down due to false accusations.

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

A company that sells photos taken by its users to other companies like Coca Cola, Microsoft, etc., for use in advertising.

A store where people can buy full-length videos they’ve taken on their phone.

A fast-growing startup that’s taken apart a $50 billion company and is building a new one.

A tool for streamlining the entire process of building a website. It aims to provide its customers with a turnkey web builder service meant to reduce the time taken to build websites with one-click tools.

The team behind online streaming service Yogscast has taken on the challenge of building a streaming video recorder, allowing people to set the camera down and watch a movie without touching the remote.

A tool for employees to keep track and manage their own time to ensure a certain amount of hours worked and vacation time taken.

Many people don’t realize that the costs of insurance, medical care, and even funeral services are tax deductible. While these are often major expenses, they are often taken for granted and not considered tax-advantaged savings.

A startup that helps people who want to share photos of their pets create a meme that looks like it was taken by a professional photographer.

The idea is to create an online platform that helps professionals save time and money by planning their own trips to conferences. The founders are both professional travel writers, and say that a lot of the best trips they’ve taken were planned on their own.

Xionet is a software platform that allows users to upload, edit, or discover video and images, and share with the world. The startup is promising to help users create and distribute videos with no editing experience, and they’ve already taken in $100,000 in seed funding.

A company that offers a “self-driving” app that generates a report of how many steps you’ve taken and how many calories you’ve burned

A startup that takes your phone photos and allows you to generate a “photo album” of your life, taken from a first-person perspective.

A startup that lets you filter the photos taken with your phone’s camera by the amount of light they’re in, so you can choose to take only the photos that are easy to take in lower light.

An on-demand dog walking service that offers custom training and activities. They currently have 3 clients, including a company representative who has taken 15 dogs on walks.

An AI-driven platform that helps teachers identify students who may need extra help. The AI platform will put out a list of students who are struggling in certain areas and will help teachers pinpoint which students should be taken out of class early to help them catch up.

A mobile app that helps borrowers get more information about the loans they’ve taken out in the past.

A startup that allows users to virtually try on glasses before buying. The startup’s founders believe that the industry is ripe for disruption, and that customers are tired of being taken advantage of.

Idea: A way to organize your photos into albums based on the locations they were taken.