Transparency Startup Ideas

5 years ago

This startup wants to bring more transparency to online rental listings by creating a search engine that sorts and ranks homes based on their location, amenities, and price, as well as the number of reviews they have.

215

3 years ago

A company that wants to provide more transparency in the cryptocurrency markets. Its platform allows trading between buyers and sellers to be performed without any middlemen.

214

2 years ago

A platform for finding and buying the best deals on flights, hotels and rental cars. The startup hopes to bring the same type of transparency to the industry as sites like Priceline and Hotwire have brought to the travel space.

208

4 years ago

A company that is working with local governments to help them use the power of social media to bring transparency to city hall.

203

3 years ago

A platform for “radical transparency”.

200

3 years ago

A tool for sharing and tracking ideas, committed to transparency and privacy.

195

5 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses gain trust with tools to increase security, privacy, and transparency

174

5 years ago

A bank account that the founders say is “like a personal investment account with 100x the transparency of other accounts and no fees.” The account is meant to be a savings account for small businesses or freelancers.

164

5 years ago

A startup that wants to help people find and hire home cleaners who are local, and who have the right experience. They want to help the market for home cleaning, which often lacks liquidity, by bringing order and transparency to the market.

161

5 years ago

Provenance is a food tracking app, that has been billed as a startup that’s trying to get food to the same level of transparency as it has in other industries like banking or ride sharing. It’s a bit like the app Just Eat, but for food.

158

5 years ago

A platform that aims to bring transparency in the consumer data industry with a set of tools that help customers understand what data is being collected about them

158

3 years ago

The startup is focused on the global pharmaceutical supply chain, and wants to use blockchain technology to help reduce fraud and improve transparency.

158

5 years ago

Idea: A startup for tracking and keeping tabs on the cost of a medical procedure. The idea is to allow patients to shop around for prices, and also to provide a level of transparency that many hospitals don’t have.

157

5 years ago

This startup, which is a subsidiary of a government agency in Brazil, is focused on building technology to provide transparency into the country’s elections.

156

5 years ago

A tool designed to bring transparency to the loan origination process, helping to prevent fraud, identify the best loan products, and save lenders money.

156

5 years ago

A way to bring transparency to the hiring process, as well as a way for candidates to vet companies and find out who’s looking for them.

155

4 years ago

A company that wants to have more transparency about the daily spending habits of its customers.

152

5 years ago

A startup that aims to bring the transparency of online voting to the world of online retail, where many retailers don’t always do their best to represent their products to their customers.

145

5 years ago

A startup that helps schools and universities establish open data programs to promote transparency and accountability.

140

4 years ago

A startup that’s building a platform for online consumer engagement campaigns. It also aims to bring more transparency to the online advertising industry.

127

5 years ago

A platform for pet owners with chronic conditions to have more control over their care and more transparency into their health. The app allows owners to take phone calls from their doctors, get their medical records, and run tests for them.

126

5 years ago

A company that wants to bring more transparency and accountability to financial services. Vantage is looking to disrupt the private equity industry. The company is building a platform that will allow investors to track and analyze investment performance.

126

5 years ago

Rethinking the way we build and manage software is the goal of BuildZoom. The startup allows users to compare home improvements from a variety of vendors and service providers from the comfort of one website. It's an online marketplace that allows consumers to shop for home improvement projects from the convenience of a desktop computer or mobile phone. BuildZoom makes it easy to find the right contractor, and provides a level of transparency that other home improvement websites do not.

115

3 years ago

The company is building a startup in Ghana, where the startup says it’s found a lack of transparency and accountability in the local media.

112

3 years ago

A platform to bring more transparency to online advertising

96

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make payroll and HR admin easier, and provide more transparency into how much time people are spending on the job.

90

4 years ago

A startup that aims to bring more transparency into the sharing economy by bringing more accountability to on-demand services.

89

4 years ago

A startup that gives users the ability to manage and store their personal data, giving them control and transparency over their data.

89

4 years ago

A decentralized prediction market, looking to use the power of the blockchain to bring more transparency to public wagers. The startup already has a partnership with the NBA to use data on player performance to create more stable markets.

85

4 years ago

A startup that aims to bring more transparency to the global trade and supply chain process, they say they’re building a “digital procurement platform powered by artificial intelligence”

85

3 years ago

A tool to give employees a way to go behind the scenes with their employers to see how they’re running their company. The startup says that it’s bringing transparency to the boardroom.

84

4 years ago

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

78

4 years ago

A company that brings transparency to the healthcare industry, helping patients organize their medical records.

75

4 years ago

A startup that wants to connect the world’s supply chains digitally, with the aim of increasing transparency and efficiency.

74

4 years ago

A utility token for the global ride-sharing and car-sharing sector. The startup wants to bring a new level of transparency and collaboration to the industry, by creating a platform for drivers and riders to manage all their accounts on one platform.

73

4 years ago

A health and wellness startup that is working to disrupt the pharmacy business by lowering the costs of shopping for prescriptions and increasing the transparency in patient data.

73

4 years ago

This startup is building a platform to help cities adopt new technology to improve efficiency and transparency.

71

3 years ago

A new kind of Wall Street, built to solve problems in the financial markets, including risk and transparency.

66

3 years ago

The startup’s point of differentiation is its transparency: it posts all its financials on a website.

65

4 years ago

A mobile-first blockchain solution for manufacturing to provide transparency and efficiency to the supply chain.

64

3 years ago

A startup that claims to be building a decentralized blockchain for the global insurance industry. The startup is building a global insurance blockchain to provide payment transparency and data sharing for insurance companies, which can verify and clear payments without the need for middlemen.

61

3 years ago

A platform for hiring high schoolers for internships and college placement. The startup “focuses on bringing transparency and efficiency to the recruiting process for both employers and students”.

61

3 years ago

Adaptive Path is a management consultancy that advises startups on how to organize around a CEO. The firm advises companies on how to hire CEOs, how to measure performance, how to address issues like burnout, how to handle conflicts and how to create a culture of transparency.

60

3 years ago

A company that aims to introduce a price transparency tool to the healthcare market. The company’s algorithm uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to determine a price for a specific treatment, and then suggests a price for a patient to pay.

58

3 years ago

A company that helps people find the most affordable healthcare options. The startup, which launched out of Harvard, is trying to convince the insurance and healthcare industries to include more transparency into their services.

55

3 years ago

A platform for startup founders to raise capital in a new way. Their pitch is that their platform is bringing transparency and efficiency to angel investing. Instead of a typical deal where a startup founder gets 50% of the company’s future equity, they offer equity up front as well as a stake in the company’s future profits.

55

3 years ago

A system that helps municipalities identify and monitor fraud from public utilities and utilities in their area. It’s designed to help governments cut costs and provide transparency.

54

3 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easy for customers to leave reviews and recommendations for events, apps, and other products, allowing for more transparency and trust for those retailers and companies.

53

3 years ago

This startup wants to bring the same transparency that’s made credit scores a consumer product to the finance industry. Instead of having to go to your bank every time you want to see how your credit is doing, you can keep track online. The company is privately held.

53

3 years ago

A startup that aims to improve the insurance industry by giving consumers more transparency into the claims process and a better way to comparison shop, improving satisfaction rates.

50

2 years ago

Reworking how people track their health for more transparency.

50

3 years ago

Smart contracts are used to provide transparency and facilitate trust in complex transactions. CoinAdvisor is a startup that provides advice on how to choose and use smart contracts, and has developed a library of smart contracts to help developers in the ecosystem. It’s aiming at companies that need help on legal or regulatory compliance, or who have to deal with copyrights, trademarks, and patents.

49

2 years ago

A company built around the idea of “radical transparency”. It’s working to provide a platform to expose information about the companies you work for.

49

3 years ago

A web and mobile app that helps people find and book events in their area and lets them buy tickets without incurring a service fee. It’s a spin on the idea of Eventbrite, but with a focus on local content and price transparency.

45

3 years ago

A startup that helps people fill prescriptions in their own homes. The company aims to take the pain out of getting prescriptions and to bring more transparency to the process.

41

2 years ago

A new startup that’s launching a business-to-business marketplace for digital advertising. AdXchange is intended to bring more transparency to digital ad buys and help advertisers target their campaigns more accurately.

38

2 years ago

This startup wants to help small businesses create a culture of accountability and transparency by giving employees a way to document how they’re spending their time.

33

2 years ago

Smart contracts that allow you to back up your code online and add transparency, reproducibility and traceability to your code.

32

2 years ago

This startup is building a company that aims to convert the lack of transparency in social security payments into a “social dividend,” a way for the government to pay seniors a larger monthly check.

29

2 years ago

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

29

2 years ago

The startup aims to build a platform for “investors to perform due diligence on projects, promote transparency, and help maintain the integrity of projects.” It’s currently in private beta.

26

2 years ago

A startup looking to foster a culture of transparency.

22

2 years ago

A startup that is working on software that can help businesses manage their supply chains. The company says it can help businesses save money by reducing waste and improving transparency.

21

2 years ago

A startup that seeks to “bring greater transparency to the pharmacy industry” by helping pharmacies accurately fill prescriptions. The business is growing quickly as the business solves for a real pain point in an industry that’s historically been difficult to track.

18

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 building an online marketplace for gift cards, allowing people to buy gift cards from other people (called gift card re-gifting) in a way that allows for price transparency.

10

2 years ago

A tool that improves transparency and safety for the construction industry.

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Transparency Startup Ideas

This startup wants to bring more transparency to online rental listings by creating a search engine that sorts and ranks homes based on their location, amenities, and price, as well as the number of reviews they have.

A company that wants to provide more transparency in the cryptocurrency markets. Its platform allows trading between buyers and sellers to be performed without any middlemen.

A platform for finding and buying the best deals on flights, hotels and rental cars. The startup hopes to bring the same type of transparency to the industry as sites like Priceline and Hotwire have brought to the travel space.

A company that is working with local governments to help them use the power of social media to bring transparency to city hall.

A platform for “radical transparency”.

A tool for sharing and tracking ideas, committed to transparency and privacy.

A startup that helps small businesses gain trust with tools to increase security, privacy, and transparency

A bank account that the founders say is “like a personal investment account with 100x the transparency of other accounts and no fees.” The account is meant to be a savings account for small businesses or freelancers.

A startup that wants to help people find and hire home cleaners who are local, and who have the right experience. They want to help the market for home cleaning, which often lacks liquidity, by bringing order and transparency to the market.

Provenance is a food tracking app, that has been billed as a startup that’s trying to get food to the same level of transparency as it has in other industries like banking or ride sharing. It’s a bit like the app Just Eat, but for food.

A platform that aims to bring transparency in the consumer data industry with a set of tools that help customers understand what data is being collected about them

The startup is focused on the global pharmaceutical supply chain, and wants to use blockchain technology to help reduce fraud and improve transparency.

Idea: A startup for tracking and keeping tabs on the cost of a medical procedure. The idea is to allow patients to shop around for prices, and also to provide a level of transparency that many hospitals don’t have.

This startup, which is a subsidiary of a government agency in Brazil, is focused on building technology to provide transparency into the country’s elections.

A tool designed to bring transparency to the loan origination process, helping to prevent fraud, identify the best loan products, and save lenders money.

A way to bring transparency to the hiring process, as well as a way for candidates to vet companies and find out who’s looking for them.

A company that wants to have more transparency about the daily spending habits of its customers.

A startup that aims to bring the transparency of online voting to the world of online retail, where many retailers don’t always do their best to represent their products to their customers.

A startup that helps schools and universities establish open data programs to promote transparency and accountability.

A startup that’s building a platform for online consumer engagement campaigns. It also aims to bring more transparency to the online advertising industry.

A platform for pet owners with chronic conditions to have more control over their care and more transparency into their health. The app allows owners to take phone calls from their doctors, get their medical records, and run tests for them.

A company that wants to bring more transparency and accountability to financial services. Vantage is looking to disrupt the private equity industry. The company is building a platform that will allow investors to track and analyze investment performance.

The company is building a startup in Ghana, where the startup says it’s found a lack of transparency and accountability in the local media.

A platform to bring more transparency to online advertising

A startup that wants to make payroll and HR admin easier, and provide more transparency into how much time people are spending on the job.

A startup that aims to bring more transparency into the sharing economy by bringing more accountability to on-demand services.

A startup that gives users the ability to manage and store their personal data, giving them control and transparency over their data.

A decentralized prediction market, looking to use the power of the blockchain to bring more transparency to public wagers. The startup already has a partnership with the NBA to use data on player performance to create more stable markets.

A startup that aims to bring more transparency to the global trade and supply chain process, they say they’re building a “digital procurement platform powered by artificial intelligence”

A tool to give employees a way to go behind the scenes with their employers to see how they’re running their company. The startup says that it’s bringing transparency to the boardroom.

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.

A company that brings transparency to the healthcare industry, helping patients organize their medical records.

A startup that wants to connect the world’s supply chains digitally, with the aim of increasing transparency and efficiency.

A utility token for the global ride-sharing and car-sharing sector. The startup wants to bring a new level of transparency and collaboration to the industry, by creating a platform for drivers and riders to manage all their accounts on one platform.

A health and wellness startup that is working to disrupt the pharmacy business by lowering the costs of shopping for prescriptions and increasing the transparency in patient data.

This startup is building a platform to help cities adopt new technology to improve efficiency and transparency.

A new kind of Wall Street, built to solve problems in the financial markets, including risk and transparency.

The startup’s point of differentiation is its transparency: it posts all its financials on a website.

A mobile-first blockchain solution for manufacturing to provide transparency and efficiency to the supply chain.

A startup that claims to be building a decentralized blockchain for the global insurance industry. The startup is building a global insurance blockchain to provide payment transparency and data sharing for insurance companies, which can verify and clear payments without the need for middlemen.

A platform for hiring high schoolers for internships and college placement. The startup “focuses on bringing transparency and efficiency to the recruiting process for both employers and students”.

Adaptive Path is a management consultancy that advises startups on how to organize around a CEO. The firm advises companies on how to hire CEOs, how to measure performance, how to address issues like burnout, how to handle conflicts and how to create a culture of transparency.

A company that aims to introduce a price transparency tool to the healthcare market. The company’s algorithm uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to determine a price for a specific treatment, and then suggests a price for a patient to pay.

A company that helps people find the most affordable healthcare options. The startup, which launched out of Harvard, is trying to convince the insurance and healthcare industries to include more transparency into their services.

A system that helps municipalities identify and monitor fraud from public utilities and utilities in their area. It’s designed to help governments cut costs and provide transparency.

A startup that wants to make it easy for customers to leave reviews and recommendations for events, apps, and other products, allowing for more transparency and trust for those retailers and companies.

This startup wants to bring the same transparency that’s made credit scores a consumer product to the finance industry. Instead of having to go to your bank every time you want to see how your credit is doing, you can keep track online. The company is privately held.

A startup that aims to improve the insurance industry by giving consumers more transparency into the claims process and a better way to comparison shop, improving satisfaction rates.

Reworking how people track their health for more transparency.

A company built around the idea of “radical transparency”. It’s working to provide a platform to expose information about the companies you work for.

A web and mobile app that helps people find and book events in their area and lets them buy tickets without incurring a service fee. It’s a spin on the idea of Eventbrite, but with a focus on local content and price transparency.

A startup that helps people fill prescriptions in their own homes. The company aims to take the pain out of getting prescriptions and to bring more transparency to the process.

A new startup that’s launching a business-to-business marketplace for digital advertising. AdXchange is intended to bring more transparency to digital ad buys and help advertisers target their campaigns more accurately.

This startup wants to help small businesses create a culture of accountability and transparency by giving employees a way to document how they’re spending their time.

Smart contracts that allow you to back up your code online and add transparency, reproducibility and traceability to your code.

This startup is building a company that aims to convert the lack of transparency in social security payments into a “social dividend,” a way for the government to pay seniors a larger monthly check.

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

The startup aims to build a platform for “investors to perform due diligence on projects, promote transparency, and help maintain the integrity of projects.” It’s currently in private beta.

A startup looking to foster a culture of transparency.

A startup that is working on software that can help businesses manage their supply chains. The company says it can help businesses save money by reducing waste and improving transparency.

A startup that seeks to “bring greater transparency to the pharmacy industry” by helping pharmacies accurately fill prescriptions. The business is growing quickly as the business solves for a real pain point in an industry that’s historically been difficult to track.

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.

A startup building an online marketplace for gift cards, allowing people to buy gift cards from other people (called gift card re-gifting) in a way that allows for price transparency.

A tool that improves transparency and safety for the construction industry.