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Trip Startup Ideas



2 years ago

Allows people to book free trips on flights, trains, and buses.

267
2 years ago

A tool for coordinating a group’s shopping trip with a single destination by using an app to do the driving.

243
2 years ago

A startup that’s building a social network that connects strippers with clients

227
2 years ago

The first YC-backed startup to reach unicorn status was Airbnb, in 2009. Airbnb was followed by Dropbox, Stripe, Uber, Instacart, and Wayfair.

220
2 years ago

A payments company that lets users of services like Stripe and PayPal process recurring payments like car insurance or mortgage payments in a few clicks. It has raised $2.9 million from investors including Y Combinator and is currently in private beta.

206
1 year ago

A startup for travelers to find the best hotels, restaurants and attractions for their trip.

198
2 years ago

Y Combinator has funded a wide variety of companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, and Reddit.

196
2 years ago

A startup that helps you find a ride share for a trip by using a variety of technology to help you choose a car that’s right for you. The startup has raised $3.5 million in two rounds of funding.

173
2 years ago

A startup that helps travelers plan their trip, determine the best route, and book the cheapest fare.

171
2 years ago

A platform for online retailers to sell products, primarily on Amazon, Shopify, and AliExpress. The startup wants to provide more of a full platform for e-commerce companies, allowing them to accept payments, manage inventory and payment processing, and integrate with Stripe to get paid.

169
2 years ago

A mobile app that helps a person use a credit card that does not have a magnetic stripe. Instead, it uses a special card reader that reads the information on the card, and sends it to the app.

168
2 years ago

Idea: A new luxury travel brand that sells experiences like a cooking class in Marrakesh, a private beach in Bali, or a safari trip in Africa. The company is targeting high net worth travelers with up to $3 million in investable assets.

164
2 years ago

A road trip app that helps you find activities across the country, put them on the calendar and remind you when to go

162
1 year ago

A software company that helps people plan trips, like booking flights and hotels.

158
2 years ago

A startup that enables users to create a story about a short trip online, using photos and maps. The app has been in beta for two years now, and has over a million photos and videos.

151
1 year ago

As of 2018, YC has graduated over 2,000 companies, including some of the most well-known startups in the world, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit, and Lyft.

151
7 months ago

A technology that helps people in the developing world make full-time travel arrangements for work-related trips.

149
1 year ago

This startup helps businesses manage their supply chains by using machine learning to predict how business will flow and allowing businesses to better manage and reduce trips to the office.

145
1 year ago

A tool for managing your business travel. Easily track all of your trips, expenses, and get personal advice on how to make the most of your time away from the office.

144
2 years ago

A product that makes it easy for people to plan their trips and book their flights.

143
2 years ago

A startup that’s building an online marketplace for visual artists to sell their work to the world, with payment handled by Stripe.

143
2 years ago

A startup that is a directory of places to go on vacation and where you can do activities (IE A startup like TripAdvisor but for all sorts of activities)

140
2 years ago

This startup wants to use its data to help people decide where to vacation, and where to live. It’s a bit like other startup like TripAdvisor — but it’s also a concierge service that wants to help show people the best places to vacation and live.

140
2 years ago

Builds a platform for businesses to share and compare information about their products, services, and employees. It has partnerships with companies like Linkedin, Mailchimp, and Stripe, allowing employees to upload their resumes, manage their accounts, and receive paychecks directly within the platform.

138
1 year ago

A mobile app to help tourists book trips in real time, in a way that’s similar to using a mobile app to book a ride-share or a hotel. The company has a large following of users, and a potential to build a global brand from the ground up.

138
2 years ago

A $1 cloud-based road trip planning tool that allows users to plan and share their travels.

134
2 years ago

A wearable that helps you find the best places to park during a trip to the grocery store.

129
2 years ago

A new way to book travel. Instead of booking a flight, the travel planning app lets users plan their trip route and pick the times they want to travel.

128
2 years ago

 A little like Twilio and Stripe, this API makes it easier to build new kinds of voice-controlled software.

127
2 years ago

A startup that helps you plan your trip to the beach, from finding the cheapest flight, to finding the best hotel.

125
2 years ago

A startup that lets people book rideshare services, place trips, and get suggestions from the app. It’s already working with over 5,000 drivers.

124
9 months ago

A company that helps companies with “employee engagement”. The idea is that by using its “engagement platform”, companies can find more engaged employees and more engaged customers, and it’s been used by companies like Airbnb, Stripe, and LinkedIn.

123
2 years ago

An automated subscription service that promises to send you a box of the best things it finds on the internet for you — and it’s free. It’s based on a Reddit post from early January in which the founder said he was “unemployed and bored” while on a trip.

122
1 year ago

An online tool to help people plan trips. The company has a team of travel experts and works with travel agencies.

122
2 years ago

A new startup that wants to provide a way for investors to connect with companies in the early stages of development, with a focus on B2B companies. The founder said it has around $24 million in funding so far, and has already worked with companies like TaskRabbit, Instacart, and Stripe.

121
2 years ago

A platform that connects people with people who want to take independent trips.

118
2 years ago

A mobile app that helps people plan their trip to see the world’s best art. The app comes with a network of over 1,000 locations of art museums and galleries from around the world. The startup is profitable.

115
2 years ago

A platform that allows online and offline retailers to charge products to users’ cards. The company says it can boost conversion rates by 35%, but might also be seen as a competitor to Stripe and PayPal.

113
1 year ago

A data-driven service that estimates the cost of a trip based on emissions, driving it all the way to booking a flight. Their platform works with airlines and car rental companies to help reduce emissions, as well as help people make smarter travel decisions.

112
1 year ago

A product that helps users plan their grocery trips without the use of a computer. It’s designed to help walk people through their selections and make sure they don’t forget to pick up something they need.

112
2 years ago

A company that aims to mitigate the need for business travel by allowing employees to schedule business trips for any day from their desk.

111
1 year ago

Online discovery service focused on solving the problem of finding the right home for your next vacation. The startup uses data and algorithms to help vacationers find the right home for their next trip.

111
2 years ago

A startup that allows customers to order food and snacks to be delivered to their hotel room in advance of a trip.

108
2 years ago

A platform for building mobile applications for small businesses, with an easy-to-use dashboard. The startup is looking to compete with popular platforms like Square and Stripe.

104
2 years ago

Ex-Google engineers are building a new living room device they call the “Echo” that’s essentially a giant voice-controlled speaker. The device is a stripped-down, Google-made version of the Google Home, and can be controlled by voice, music, and TV apps. It’s set to launch in November.

103
1 year ago

An online lending platform that provides loans to local businesses. The startup says they have “tripled their revenue as we scale to help more businesses grow.”

103
2 years ago

A platform for connecting electric vehicle owners to people who can take them on longer trips.

102
2 years ago

A company that makes software to help manage large group trips. It helps groups of people communicate itineraries and organize everything from hotel reservations to transportation to food.

101
2 years ago

Ideas is organized by YC staff and features the companies that have been accepted into the program. Past speakers include the founders of Airbnb, Stripe, and Reddit.

100
2 years ago

A startup that provides a service where people can buy single-use items like baby wipes and toilet paper for their next camping trip

97
2 years ago

A credit card for young people, targeted at millennials for whom traditional credit cards don’t suit their habits. The company has a physical card with a magnetic stripe that customers put on one side of their phones to pay their bills.

96
1 year ago

A platform that allows you to book your next vacation, find a place to stay, and find other travelers to share the trip with.

95
2 years ago

A software startup that helps businesses subscribe to services like Slack, Stripe, Microsoft Teams, WeChat, and more.

94
2 years ago

A startup that helps users find, purchase, and rate accommodation for their next business trip.

94
2 years ago

Founded by a pair of former Stripe engineers, this startup helps companies store and deliver their data in a way that is accessible to developers.

92
1 year ago

A startup for planning a family trip that you can then sync with your calendar.

89
1 year ago

A platform for “telling your story”. For instance, you can write a story about your business trip to China, dump it into their database of a million other stories and have it created as an infographic.

89
2 years ago

A data-driven platform for B2B businesses looking to make smarter hiring decisions. The company says they have over 10,000 customers, including YC partner Stripe.

88
4 months ago

The startup is building a tool that helps people plan their trips and make the most of their time by analyzing transportation and other variables.

87
2 years ago

This startup wants to be the Airbnb of after-hours travel for dentists. Dentists can use the service to help students and interns for practice trips, and offer their own services to travelers looking for a dentist while on vacation.

85
2 years ago

A “street level” mobile app that helps users select a local driver to take them to their destination, and pay for the trip via the app.

82
1 year ago

A platform that helps you build and save customized travel itineraries for your next trip, and then allows you to share them with your friends to help them get a head start on planning.

79
1 year ago

A micro-insurance platform for the Southeast Asian market that wants to make sure that medical expenses, trips, and other events are covered.

78
2 years ago

A startup that provides a service where you can rent out your car to someone for a day so that they can make a distance trip but don’t want to pay for a plane ticket

77
2 years ago

A platform that lets businesses sell directly to their customers – similar to services like Shopify or Stripe.

76
9 months ago

A banking solution meant to offer a new alternative to the credit card. The company is co-founded by former players from Stripe, who say they’re “creating a banking brand that works for the modern consumer”.

76
2 years ago

Expense sharing for travel is a growing trend, but Expense Buddy aims to do it better than others by creating a “predictive expense engine” that creates a bill for your trip before you leave, and serves it to you via email or SMS.

74
1 year ago

A trip app, built to connect travelers with local hosts to get them a place to stay.

74
1 year ago

Build a game that helps you visualize where you’re going on a road trip, using a case study of the most popular game in China.

72
2 years ago

A travel service that leverages machine intelligence to anticipate your needs better. It takes into account past similar trips and predicts your next trip in real-time.

71
1 year ago

A platform for managing and tracking intellectual property. The startup’s founders say they have “tripled their revenue as we scale to help more inventors create and protect their inventions.”

71
1 year ago

A tool that lets users share their photos and stories from a digital experience on a social network. It’s a way to create a digital scrapbook from a trip or event. It’s been used by celebrities like Pamela Anderson and Jack Black, with a team of four people.

71
1 year ago

A startup that arranges travel-to-work commuter trips. The company’s main idea is to help people save on gas, and in a press release said it was already saving customers $150 million in gas.

70
1 year ago

The startup’s goal is to create a “travel agency on steroids”. The idea is to use AI and AI-powered services to plan trips and recommend hotels and activities.

70
1 year ago

A “global comms company” for business travelers, which helps them chronicle their trips and share them with their friends and families.

66
2 years ago

A startup that helps people with travel planning For example, I need a hotel for my trip to New York, so I go to a travel planner and tell them that I want to go to New York and they find a place for me and then they also find me a flight and maybe even a rental car

65
1 year ago

Citizen is building an app that helps people plan trips, make reservations, and book hotels online.

65
7 months ago

A company that maps and tracks all your trips.

65
1 year ago

A tool that helps businesses manage their cashflow. The startup currently has over 100 customers, including Shopify, Stripe, Stripe Connect, and more.

64
1 year ago

A startup that lets people earn money by helping their friends book trips. At present, the company has partnered with Airbnb and Kayak to help people book their own trips.

64
4 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.

64
1 year ago

Stripe is a payment platform that wants to help e-commerce merchants on smaller margins and those outside the US. The company is looking to partner with other services to help customers in places like China and Mexico expand their customer base.

63
2 years ago

Idea: This startup is helping to launch a product called “Tinder for travel” where users can pick and choose flights, hotels, transport, etc. and then a concierge arranges the trip for them.

60
1 year ago

This startup is building a “digital” tool to help people with things like vacations, travel, or spending money. The startup is on a mission to make saving money as easy as booking a trip. They have an Android application and a web app.

60
1 year ago

A local delivery business that can pick up your groceries from your local grocer, or your mail order from Amazon, and bring them to your doorstep. The service is geared towards people who are too busy to make their own shopping trips.

60
1 year ago

A startup that helps people plan their visits to a doctor by breaking down the cost of a trip in different currencies.

60
1 year ago

A tool for sharing pictures and video of your trip with friends and family, so you can see what it looks like where you’re going. The company says they’re the only startup in the space that focuses on creating a travel-first experience.

60
1 year ago

A startup that helps you create a travel itinerary for your trip, with maps, reviews, and hotel bookings.

59
1 year ago

The app will make it easy for customers to book trips and delivery orders by selecting from a shortlist of the three most popular services, such as Uber and Postmates, and using a booking code to complete the purchase.

58
1 year ago

A developer-focused SaaS firm, this startup is building a suite of tools for developers that integrates with Salesforce and other platforms, as well as third-party services like Stripe.

58
1 year ago

This is an app that helps people plan trips based on similar stats to Yelp.

57
10 months ago

A company that makes it easier and cheaper to pay back student loans. The startup is now taking payments via Stripe.

57
1 year ago

A “social travel planner”, building a community of people and destinations to help travelers plan their trips.

56
1 year ago

A startup that tracks the cost of a person’s trip, and then uses that data to help them save money.

56
4 months ago

A platform that allows companies to do an “all-in-one” solution for managing multiple payments, including credit cards, cryptocurrencies, and more. They have a relationship with Stripe.

56
1 year ago

A data scientist-powered machine learning platform for the retail industry, enabling retailers to serve customers with personalized, real-time recommendations for their shopping trips.

55
1 year ago

This startup, which launched in May, is building a tool that allows people to take on the role of a travel agent by offering to book their trips online.

55
1 year ago

Technology to help teams in Brazil manage corporate travel more effectively. As travel becomes more important for companies, TriptoHelp wants to help teams book travel, sort itineraries, and manage more efficiently.

55
1 year ago

A startup that makes it easy to book airline tickets and manage your trip, with a “very simple” interface that looks like “Yelp for travel”. The company is focused on the Latin American market, where 90% of airfare sales are made by word of mouth — and where travel agents often have to call different airlines to book tickets.

55
2 months ago

An organization that wants to build a data-driven web travel guide for finding trips

55
1 year ago

A platform for creating travel packages, with a focus on weeklong trips

54
11 months ago

This app is meant to help business owners make purchases of services that travel to a person’s house. Instead of making a trip to the store, you can use a smart phone app to purchase a service like a plumber or a carpenter.

54
1 year ago

A travel concierge service to help people book trips, whether they are traveling or are booking stays for others. It currently has over 1,000 people signed up.

53
4 months ago

A mobile application that helps you plan and organize your trips. Runway lets you compare prices, find what’s open and closed, share your itinerary, and book tickets and hotels.

53
11 months ago

A startup that wants to trip up criminals on the dark web with its browser extensions, which will show you where the site is hosted and how secure it is.

52
1 year ago

A company that takes the hassle out of finding and optimizing ride-sharing trips. The startup serves as a matchmaker between drivers and riders, facilitating the sharing of rides.

51
1 year ago

A company working on a mobile app that will allow users to share trips with friends and family, and see where they are going. The founders say they can currently see users traveling to over 100 countries with the app.

47
11 months ago

People in the US often travel to Europe to enjoy a summer holiday. But while they’re gone, they miss all the things they usually do back home, like seeing friends and family. So iHome wants to give them the ability to go online and see photos and videos of their friends and family back home who they miss during their trip.

47
2 months ago

A startup that wants to allow businesses to quickly develop a network marketing or direct sales team without having to find new people. The business has deals with a number of high-level recruiters, and counts Y Combinator and Stripe as customers.

47
11 months ago

A SaaS tool for invoicing and payments, co-founded by two former engineers at Stripe.

46
3 months ago

The founders of this app on a road trip across the US to test their product.

46
2 months ago

A tool that helps people in the US and Canada plan and pay for trips that are a mix of business and pleasure.

46
8 months ago

The startup is building an application to find, book, and take group trips to the same locations.

45
3 months ago

A company that wants to bring the concept of a trip planner to travel, with an app that helps users find and book hotels, flights, and car rentals. The company is focused on making travel easier for first-time users.

45
8 months ago

A square-shaped camera that could eliminate the need for tripods, a monopod, and a ball head.

44
7 months ago

A tool to help companies record and share the most valuable moments of a trip and plan better for the next time.

44
11 months ago

An enterprise billing system that integrates directly with Stripe.

42
7 months ago

 A tool for helping commuters get to their train station on time, called "Trip Planner."

42
11 months ago

A travel booking app that lets users create trips without leaving the app, without having to create a separate account.

41
10 months ago

A startup that wants to help customers find the best Uber and Lyft drivers, by letting them track their trips and view ratings and details about their drivers. They’re currently testing with 10 cities in the US, and plan to expand to the UK in the future.

41
2 years ago

Idea: A platform that connects to the APIs of a variety of e-commerce services (Stripe, Shopify, etc.) to help them better manage and analyze customer data. The founders say they have $1,500 in monthly recurring revenue.

39
8 months ago

A startup that plans to build a trip-planning mobile app. The company says it has already built its own app and is looking to a Kickstarter campaign to raise capital to build it further and bring it to market.

39
11 months ago

The president of a company called Trip Monitor, who spoke about the startup in a recent episode of The Startup Podcast, says that Trip Monitor, which is built on the idea that hotels should give consumers a “tiered” experience when it comes to online reviews, has built up a database of over 10 million hotel reviews.

38
6 months ago

The company wants to build the “Facebook for travel”. The startup’s software helps Facebook users plan trips, find deals and book flights and hotels with a few clicks.

36
5 months ago

A tool that lets small businesses build branded, web-based invoices, and bill their customers. The startup is building an API that lets businesses create invoices, then link them to their payment processing systems, like Stripe.

36
8 months ago

A travel-booking startup for independent workers that wants to make it easy for people to book exotic trips.

35
5 months ago

A startup that helps people plan trips and book travel accommodations. It’s a travel booking app for the booking agent and travel agent industries.

33
7 months ago

In 2014, the number of accepted startups from Y Combinator had tripled since launching in the summer of 2010.

32
3 months 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.

31
2 months ago

A solution that helps companies design and build new apps by automating their entire process. The company says it’s used by companies like Pinterest and Box, and counts Stripe as a customer.

31
1 month ago

 A platform for startups to raise capital, built on top of the large number of open-source startups and app developers that use Stripe.

30
7 months ago

This is a startup that combines the likes of Stripe, PayPal and Venmo in one platform. It’s a payment processing platform for merchants in the US.

29
6 months ago

Spacetrip is building a way to book space on a rocket. The startup is aiming to make a point-to-point orbital spaceflight booking service a reality, with a fully operational rocket by 2020.

29
2 months ago

“A platform for the sharing economy,” allowing people to share their cars, homes, and other items with those who need them. The company’s average trip is $10, with the average rental lasting two hours.

29
2 months ago

A travel-booking app that aggregates travel booking data from any number of travel sites, and provides the ability to group related trips.

29
2 months ago

A “portal” that helps you plan and track your sales trips, connecting you with local businesses who can supply your products.

28
2 years ago

Idea: An AI-powered marketing platform for small companies. The startup plans to launch a tool that can help companies like physical therapists and yoga teachers market themselves to nearby customers who are looking for similar services. The startup claims that their AI-driven marketing campaigns have a double or triple digit ROI.

27
5 months ago

A startup that allows employees to request rides from other employees in their proximity, which the startup says will save them time and money. The startup is currently in a pilot with 1,000 companies and tested with 25,000 trips.

26
6 months ago

A startup that helps small businesses manage and track customer data. The app is currently in beta and has integration with Stripe payments.

24
2 months ago

An AI-based chatbot for finding the best travel deals for people looking for a specific type of trip. The idea is to deliver personalized results based on an individual's travel preferences.

24
1 month ago

This startup is building a way for consumers to track the arrival of packages, saving them a trip to the post office.

23
11 days ago

A platform for recording train trips. The platform allows people to build a journey of their choice and share it with others.

22
7 months ago

A startup that helps users plan out their trips so they can maximize time spent traveling and minimize parking costs.

21
1 month ago

A tool for people who have to travel internationally and need to arrange for a visa or have a trip to a new country pre-planned.

19
2 years ago

A startup that gives people a platform to post everything from their trip to the grocery store and how they spent their money

17
2 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to connect travelers with locals The idea is to enable people to go on trips and connect with locals who can show them the top things to do in a given city

14
2 years ago

A startup that lets companies send employees on business trips and have them pay for their visits to restaurants, bars, and other places on their own dime

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2 years ago

Idea: This travel startup helps travelers book group trips, like tours and cruises The startup is focused on building a marketplace that helps small businesses find customers

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2 years ago

Idea: This startup is building a low-code application development platform. It’s currently used by companies like AppDirect, eero, and Stripe.

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2 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps SMBs in the UK manage their payments. The startup wants to go beyond Stripe and Paypal into something more similar to Xero for SMBs.

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2 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to become the Stripe of Brazil. It has a payments solution to help anyone accept payments online and in-person.

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2 years ago

Idea: A Brazilian startup that wants to be the Stripe of Brazil, helping e-commerce companies accept credit card payments.

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2 years ago

A startup that helps people plan trips to vacation destinations

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