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2 years ago

The founders of a $60,000 startup are creating a platform that gets people to help lend each other money at a rate of about 1% interest.

11,312
5 years ago

A data science company that helps people better understand their personal data.

1,633
4 years ago

“A tool for better understanding customers”

1,032
2 years ago

A startup that wants to use technology to help retailers manage wasted food. The founders of the company say it’s a $200 billion industry that is growing.

781
2 years ago

This startup wants to be a free app for keeping track of your expenses and helping you to understand your cash flow.

719
2 years ago

 A shipping company that wants to help all companies make their deliveries faster and more reliable, working with a bunch of Fortune 500 companies. The founder has 30 years of experience in logistics.

656
3 years ago

A supply chain management tool for small businesses that manages everything from physical inventory to internal supply chains. The service is aimed at businesses with under 100 employees and is currently in private beta.

655
2 years ago

A startup that helps landlords manage their properties by helping them understand how to manage their units for long-term success.

592
3 years ago

A software company that helps startups in the energy sector understand and manage their energy consumption

434
3 years ago

Unexpected startup success, the founders say it has grown from $8 million in sales in Q1 2018 to $7 million in Q3 2018 and $7 million in Q4 2018.

427
5 years ago

A startup that is building a consumer-facing app that’s essentially a data-driven diary. The startup wants to help people understand what they’re eating, how much they’re exercising, etc.

344
5 years ago

Inventor Dr. Ramesh Kale has been working on a low-cost, disposable "smart" pacemaker for under $1,500. The device is implanted in a pocket-sized battery pack that an individual wears around their waist. The pacemaker is connected to the battery pack via a small wire. When the device senses irregular heartbeats, it sends a signal to the battery pack, which then notifies the individual's doctor. The battery pack is replaceable, and is expected to last up to a year.

339
2 years ago

A team of three founders came up with an idea for a drone that uses satellites to locate and track lost or stolen drones.

334
4 years ago

M-KOPA is a tool allowing developers to create their own specialized hardware. The founders say the company has sold $4M worth of hardware over the last two years, though they’ve only launched on Kickstarter today.

321
5 years ago

A platform for helping students better understand college loans, with an interactive quiz that helps students create a personalized repayment plan.

304
5 years ago

An online service for companies that allows them to connect their products to third-party markets. The company’s goal is to allow companies to sell their products in other countries, and also to help them better understand demand.

295
2 years ago

A startup for teaching robotics. The founders claim to have 10 employees, including some former Google employees.

289
5 years ago

A monthly subscription service that sends you an e-book on a topic you’ve selected every month. The company launched in December, and is signing up more than 50,000 new subscribers every month, the founder tells me.

277
5 years ago

In the past year, there have been a few notable exits from Indian startups and their founders. Vani Kola, co-founder of Zomato, sold her company to local rival Swiggy for an estimated $50 million.

275
2 years ago

The idea is to use a combination of machine learning and algorithms to help consumers understand investment risk in a way they haven’t before. The startup wants to build a “risk assessment” tool that takes into account the potential for a company’s product to go up or down and then advises consumers on the proper level of risk they should take.

274
4 years ago

A data science company that uses machine learning to help brands better understand the number of people who’ve seen their ads.

272
2 years ago

A SaaS for small and medium-sized businesses. The company’s founder claims that the platform has saved them around $3 million in annual expenses by facilitating remote access and communication between employees.

270
4 years ago

A startup that provides a gamified platform to help businesses understand and improve products and services to their customers. The startup sees itself as a kind of “Twilio for data”.

259
4 years ago

 A startup that helps companies create data visualizations to understand their market

258
4 years ago

A supply chain management platform for restaurants and other food-related businesses. Growth is strong and the founders say they’re trying to make a dent in the $8.5 trillion food and beverage industry.

252
4 years ago

A tool for retail managers to understand and mitigate their staff’s stress levels.

248
4 years ago

A payments company that offers a way for small businesses to pay for their own invoices. The founders say they’re aiming to replace “payroll” software.

248
5 years ago

The founders of a startup that helps veterans and employers identify and hire each other.

243
5 years ago

The company is building a platform for people to create and share videos of what they're building. The company's founder says that they've already sold their first video to a client.

242
4 years ago

This startup uses voice recognition and artificial intelligence to understand the emotions that are being expressed by voice (like “I’m angry”) and determine if this voice is coming from a human or machine.

242
4 years ago

This SaaS company helps doctors and patients collaborate on medical records. The founders are also building a medical device to connect a patient’s vital signs to medical professionals.

242
4 years ago

This year’s judges were Jason Ho, Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures; Kristi Puller, Founder, and CEO, Techstars; Bill Gaver, General Partner, 500 Startups; and Sanjay Dastoor, Founder, and CEO, InVenture Partners.

238
5 years ago

This is a startup that makes it easier for people to understand that their health insurance isn’t covering the entirety of their medical expenses.

236
2 years ago

A tool that helps marketers better understand the conversation happening on social media, helping them to get more out of their paid efforts.

231
4 years ago

A natural language processing startup that is building software that helps companies better understand user conversations, especially in chat. The company is launching in the US in 22 countries and is working on a US expansion for early next year.

228
4 years ago

A directory of the world’s best remote job sites, curated by the founders of Remote Year.

228
4 years ago

An SaaS data platform meant to help companies understand what types of influencers they should be advertising to and which ads are effective.

227
2 years ago

A “platform for understanding and managing the impact of content on all social media channels,” with a focus on building tools for brands and their agencies.

225
5 years ago

A tool that helps companies in the green economy get a better understanding of their carbon footprint.

222
4 years ago

This startup wants to build a new type of credit card for the underbanked, especially in developing countries. It takes the form of a prepaid card and is available in any currency. Given the lack of banking options in many such countries, the startup sees a lot of potential for growth.

222
4 years ago

An organization that helps small businesses in the US and Canada understand and reduce their tax liabilities.

217
2 years ago

A design studio for offices and retail. The startup wants to create a stylish, personalized workspace for each employee, which can be installed in under 15 minutes.

216
4 years ago

An ad-tech startup focused on helping brands to better understand their ad campaigns.

214
5 years ago

The founders of this startup say they are “building the first truly global, blockchain-based, decentralized and transparent peer-to-peer marketplace for advertising.”

210
4 years ago

This startup has two co-founders, and they describe themselves as “…the first and only platform that helps [you] create and learn from inspiring and engaging content about personal finance, investing, and life.”

209
4 years ago

This startup offers a platform to help companies and organizations collaborate on content, from making public records to organizing conferences. Its founders describe it as a “LinkedIn for events”.

207
4 years ago

The founders of this startup are trying to create a new kind of credit card that can be used across multiple merchants, instead of different cards for different merchants.

205
4 years ago

Founders came up with an idea for an app that would help people discover good food and drink in their neighborhood and pay for it.

203
4 years ago

A company that makes it easier for businesses to discover products your customers want. The startup is working with 1,000 brands, including Lululemon and Warby Parker, to help them better understand their customer base.

203
4 years ago

A startup that helps you learn to code by making you build a simple tool that you eventually turn into a real product. The startup’s co-founder saw a need for the same kind of bootcamps in the area, and created the site to fill it.

202
3 years ago

A startup that aims to bring the “sharing economy” to farmers, who are often left out of the vast majority of transactions related to food, be it restaurants or grocery stores. The founders say that since they can use shared resources, they can cut the cost of a farm by 75%.

202
5 years ago

A startup that provides a service for helping people find a co-founder

201
4 years ago

Take a multi-pronged approach to recruiting, matching a candidate with multiple companies, and then helping them understand the role they’re interviewing for.

201
4 years ago

A real estate brokerage that helps people buy and sell homes in Brazil. The startup makes it possible to get an apartment in Brazil in under 30 minutes. It currently has 1,500 agents, but wants to expand to other countries.

199
4 years ago

This startup is looking to use AI to find trends in the social media posts of brands, to help them better understand their consumers.

197
4 years ago

A company that uses AI to help people understand their credit score. It’s founded by a former VP of risk at FICO, and has raised $40 million.

196
4 years ago

The startup’s pitch is that “we help people save money by visiting restaurants that are good, but not the best.” The app now has 100,000 users in the UK, and its founders say they’ll be able to expand globally if their funding round meets its goal.

196
2 years ago

A startup that aims to help people save money by helping them understand the costs of their life insurance policies. The startup hopes that, by helping customers understand what their policies are really costing them, they can lower the premiums.

196
4 years ago

A startup that connects insurance companies to underwriters in the event of a claim, allowing everyone to focus on customer service while the underwriting process is handled.

194
4 years ago

An email marketing tool that integrates with all of your favorite email clients. The startup’s founders say they’ve already closed $1.5 million in pre-launch investment.

193
4 years ago

A company that is building software to help banks and other lenders connect to new sources of data like social media, livestreams and more, to get a better understanding of their clients and make better decisions.

192
5 years ago

A software company that builds tools for eCommerce businesses to understand their customers better and increase conversion.

191
5 years ago

A group of four-hour-old startups that are still around from Demo Day in June. The goal is to help early stage founders get funding and grow their businesses.

190
4 years ago

A payments app that allows you to lend or borrow money in minutes, for under 1% interest. The app is in the process of getting Fintech licenses in the UK, France, and Germany.

190
4 years ago

A group of four co-founders who launched the software for digital assistants in February, who then later launched a hardware startup.

190
4 years ago

A digital detox service, helping people focus when they’re under a lot of stress.

188
5 years ago

Idea: A smart wallet that understands how you spend your money

187
3 years ago

The founder of this startup wants to do for video marketing what Spotify has done for music.

187
5 years ago

A credit card for the underbanked.

185
5 years ago

Business software for the home that allows homeowners to manage their utilities. The company’s founders say they’re targeting the $80 billion home and building automation space.

184
5 years ago

A tool for distribution of food and groceries to people in need, in the form of a vehicle equipped with a fridge, a microwave, and a coffee machine, and that can travel down the street from a central hub. The startup’s founders are veterans of the American military.

184
4 years ago

While this is a new company, the founders’ past experience and work on other startups and products and their location in São Paulo, Brazil, makes it an interesting choice.

183
4 years ago

The Startup Genome is a resource for founders and investors. It covers early stage

183
4 years ago

As startups have left their desks behind, founders have become increasingly worried about their physical whereabouts, and have invented apps to help. In the new book, “Fearless: How to Be Unafraid and Do Anything,” entrepreneurs and founders like Dave McClure, David Karp, and Adam D’Angelo share their stories of building their companies in secret, and how they’ve gained confidence and fearlessness.

182
4 years ago

A company that offers a platform for delivery of medical supplies to remote and underserved communities.

182
4 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for companies to build apps for their customers, by building an app store for developers to build apps for their customers. The startup’s founder tells us that he’s gotten 10,000 signups in 2 weeks.

182
5 years ago

A startup that aims to make banking better for the underbanked in emerging markets.

181
4 years ago

A company that wants to build software that helps footballers around the world look at the footage of their matches and understand how they could be better.

181
4 years ago

The startup is building a platform that allows developers to build apps that integrate with Amazon Echo. It’s a side project for the founders of the company.

181
5 years ago

A company that builds vehicle tracking devices for businesses like car washes to help them better understand their workers’ locations.

180
4 years ago

A startup that uses AI to help companies better understand how their employees are spending their time and what kinds of activities they want to do.

180
4 years ago

A tool for understanding the many different ways in which people can make money online, such as blogging, affiliate marketing, and paid video production.

180
4 years ago

Recode is a project from Cheddar that provides video interviews with the founders of startups in the technology sector.

179
4 years ago

This startup is building a system to help engineers understand the best ways to program to particular chips.

178
3 years ago

A digital health startup that helps you manage your health, in real time. It is the only startup in the YC batch with a female founder.

178
5 years ago

A digital education platform for low-income students, helping them understand their financial aid eligibility.

177
4 years ago

The most influential students in the YC community are the founders and co-founders of YC startups. These are founders that have gone on to found their own companies in the seven years since YC.

177
5 years ago

In the summer of 2016, the Y Combinator Summer School launched a $100,000 scholarship for students who attend the program. The scholarship is awarded to graduate students from underrepresented backgrounds.

176
4 years ago

A startup that builds hardware startups. The founder, Jibran Salfi, built his first hardware startup at age 20, and has since been working at Nest Labs. He was the first employee at Nest Labs, and was part of the team that built the original Nest thermostat.

176
4 years ago

A student loan refinancing startup that promises to reduce interest rates. It just closed a $10 million round, and its founders said they’re targeting 15% of student loan holders.

176
3 years ago

The startup’s founders say they’re the first to offer a marketplace for like-minded people to share their unique skills and talents with each other.

176
5 years ago

A fast-food delivery service that can deliver food to you in under 15 minutes. Their model is a bit like Uber Eats, but they’ve automated a lot of the process so you can order online, and the food will be delivered to you.

175
5 years ago

A company focused on corporate software for the cannabis industry. The founders say they’ve already secured $2m in funding.

175
5 years ago

A food delivery service that promises to deliver food to your door in under 30 minutes.

175
5 years ago

A tool to create a photo-realistic simulation of an office environment with a 3D avatar. Its founders say it’s the first 3D avatar platform that is both accessible and real-time.

175
5 years ago

A platform that helps English language learners practice by presenting them with text in a way that will help them understand.

175
4 years ago

A software platform that enables retailers to provide more personalized service to their customers. The company's platform provides an interface for customers and associates to track the contents of their shopping carts, as well as provides analytics to help the retailer better understand their customers.

175
4 years ago

An “Uber for dog walking”, which the founders say is “like the Uber of dog walking”. The company is planning to bridge the gap between the gig economy and the traditional dog-walking industry.

175
3 years ago

• How the founders of two startups from opposite sides of the world are working together to solve the same problem of how to find and hire talented engineers in remote areas.

175
4 years ago

A “conversational robot” that can access the web, read and understand the news and answer questions.

174
2 years ago

A German startup that’s building a library of public domain content for publishers to help them better understand their audience.

174
5 years ago

A startup that provides a service to help people understand the job market in the country they are traveling to

172
5 years ago

Builds a retail website for selling products via Instagram. The startup’s founder says that the website is “the world’s first” to use the social platform to sell physical products online.

172
4 years ago

A health system of doctors and nurses who can provide virtual care. The company plans to open 1,000 clinics in underserved areas.

172
5 years ago

If you own a home in the US, you can log into an app and see what the utilities are costing you in real time. However, the founders say that households throughout the world can benefit from a similar application.

171
4 years ago

According to the 2017 Global Startup Ecosystem Report, there were over 2.4 million startup founders working in the United States.

171
3 years ago

A product developed for the Department of Defense to help soldiers train for their jobs under simulated conditions. The startup wants to connect with both military and civilian facilities, so it can create virtual training environments and simulate real-life scenarios.

171
5 years ago

Startup founders are being more aggressive in the US, with a few companies in the last year getting VCs to fund them at seed or Series A-level, when they may have previously been too early.

170
5 years ago

A credit card for the underbanked. It eschews traditional bank systems and instead relies on direct deposit.

170
5 years ago

A marketing tool for crowdfunding platforms that helps founders and project managers track projects and keep track of fundraising progress.

170
4 years ago

A startup that helps brands to understand their customers better. The app tracks the behavior of users with a large focus on the word "love".

170
4 years ago

A “Trump-proof” tax reform calculator that’s pre-populated with the latest tax brackets and deductions to give individuals a better understanding of the proposed tax changes.

169
3 years ago

A startup that wants to build out a suite of consumer-facing services and products that can help users understand their health data and make decisions based on it.

169
5 years ago

A solution for startup founders to find and hire technical talent.

168
5 years ago

The startup is building a tool that allows companies to build a website for their services or products without them having to understand how to code.

167
5 years ago

Founders: Austin, Elsie. They are building a platform for Facebook data scientists to easily access data in the form of lakes, rivers, and mountain ranges, and make data-based decisions to improve their products.

167
5 years ago

A startup that builds software for Facebook Ads that helps marketers understand how their ads work and how they perform.

167
5 years ago

A “big data” solution that helps food companies track their supply chain and predict how much food they’ll need to produce. The startup’s founders say they’ve already signed up over 500 clients, including Walmart, Nestle, and Cargill.

167
5 years ago

This is a mobile application that helps entrepreneurs find, vet and manage teams. It was built by Y Combinator’s own team and is a set of tools that help founders navigate the startup ecosystem.

167
4 years ago

The founders want to build a way for people to monetize their work through a new, more transparent, and more scalable model.

167
5 years ago

A platform for micro-transactions for online merchants. The startup wants to eliminate the need for credit cards. The startup has its first pilot under its belt, with $300,000 in monthly revenue.

166
5 years ago

This is a financial platform for the “urban poor” that helps track their income, expenses, and savings. It connects people to financial services and also helps them understand how to make savings and investments.

166
5 years ago

A startup that makes it easier for hotel guests to use their credit card on property. The company’s founders came up with the idea at a conference where the hotel they were staying at had a similar feature, and thought there was a better way to do it.

166
5 years ago

A startup that uses machine learning to identify fraud and money laundering in transactions between banks.

166
4 years ago

A startup that wants to use AI to help brands better understand how customers engage with their product.

166
3 years ago

The Startup Grind is a podcast network that highlights the best stories in business, technology and startup news. The podcast is produced by TechCrunch, and features interviews with entrepreneurs, founders and investors.

166
5 years ago

A secure, automated email-based system for handling sensitive transactions. They’ve built a tool that uses the public keys of people’s email accounts to take payments and even file taxes. The founders tell us they have $6 million in funding from participants in Y Combinator and have received an undisclosed amount of seed funding from YC.

165
5 years ago

The startup is building a platform that is able to recognize a set of facial expressions and, in real-time, translate them into emotions. It also translates any other language into emotions. The company promises to keep an eye on emotions in real-time, helping businesses avoid misunderstandings and improve customer service.

165
5 years ago

A tool for working with data in order to understand the real world. For instance, a medical researcher can use it to investigate how much stress the human body can handle, or to understand how people interact with their surroundings.

165
5 years ago

This startup is building a platform with just under 1,000 clients that allows people to create their own version of the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and frozen yogurt – with the added benefit of being vegan.

165
5 years ago

This startup is building a self-learning platform to help teach people the fundamentals of coding. The startup’s founders say that the product they have built is already powering over 20,000 students in 300 schools.

165
4 years ago

A startup that helps people track the money they’re spending online, including all their subscriptions and subscriptions to services like Netflix. The startup’s co-founder said it’s been profitable in the past year.

165
3 years ago

The big promise of this startup is a way to make your company’s data more usable. The founders say they can help companies get their data out of spreadsheets and into a platform they can actually use.

165
5 years ago

A last-mile delivery service for restaurants. The startup's founders say food deliveries are a $21 billion market and it's growing 15-20% per year.

164
5 years ago

Cofounder Alex Zabludowicz co-founded this fintech company with his brother, Alex. It wants to make payments faster, cheaper, and more secure, with a focus on the developing world.

164
5 years ago

The Startup Genome is a biannual report on the state of entrepreneurship. It is produced by a team of researchers from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. The report is based on interviews with founders about their businesses, the challenges they face, and their plans for the future. The report is intended to give entrepreneurs, investors, and other stakeholders a comprehensive overview of the startup ecosystem in a particular country, and to help predict trends between countries.

164
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 travel app that claims to be fully integrated with Airbnb. The startup’s founders say they’ve already been in talks with Airbnb about using their platform.

164
4 years ago

A visual way to understand what your network of friends and contacts are doing, which the startup says will eventually include things like board games, sports, and other group activities.

164
4 years ago

The company’s founders have been called "the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs of the Indian startup scene" by a reporter in Quartz.

164
3 years ago

A predictive analytics tool that helps restaurants better understand their customers and plan accordingly.

164
3 years ago

A platform that helps you understand your payment and credit card data and helps you use it to make smarter financial decisions.

164
5 years ago

A company that works with agencies to improve their digital marketing and optimize ROI by helping clients understand how their digital marketing is performing.

163
5 years ago

Startup that aims to make it easier for retailers to monitor and understand how their products are selling in real time.

163
5 years ago

A startup to help you understand your current credit card’s reward programs

163
5 years ago

The annual list is compiled by a group of judges, including founders and investors such as Paul Graham, Michael Arrington, Fred Wilson, and others.

163
5 years ago

A system that tracks a person’s location and data for the purpose of health management. The startup wants to make it easy for people to have a better understanding of how their data is used.

163
4 years ago

The company is building a platform for managing citizen dialog on local issues. The cofounders say that more than $6 billion is spent on lobbying each year, and the platform would make it easier for citizens to have their voices heard in government.

163
5 years ago

From the founders of digital agency All Day I Dream About Food, a platform aimed at helping restaurants and chefs improve food quality and service.

162
5 years ago

A chatbot that aims to help people better understand their credit score and make more informed decisions about credit.

162
5 years ago

A startup that’s building a tool to help schools estimate their energy costs. The startup’s founders say they want to make it easier for schools to measure and manage their energy costs, but they also want to make it easier for them to implement energy saving measures.

162
4 years ago

This startup is building a digital bank account in India. The founders say it’s a simpler, cheaper alternative to the physical ATM cards found in most cities.

162
4 years ago

A startup that provides customers with the ability to pay bills, bank transfers, and other expenses with their mobile phones. The company’s founders say they’ve already signed up 300,000 users and are working to expand their service to other countries.

162
3 years ago

A platform that takes a person’s social media data and combines it with their location data to identify how people regularly move around. The startup is selling to brands and agencies who want to track and understand how people use their products.

162
3 years ago

A pitch from a pair of former YC founders, who say they’re using self-driving cars to help Detroit’s homeless.

162
5 years ago

A startup that wants to help people in Latin America track their expenses and grow their credit score The company’s founders say that after launching in early august, they’re already working with over 3,000 retail accounts

161
5 years ago

A product that helps customers compare different financial products to understand which is best for them.

161
5 years ago

A platform that allows developers to take their app and run it via IP. It's aimed at mobile apps, but its founders say it can run desktop programs too.

161
5 years ago

A startup that works with large finance companies to build a tool to help them understand their customers’ credit scores.

161
5 years ago

A platform that enables people to interact with their favorite brands through video. The startup’s founders say they have 40,000+ customers for the product.

161
5 years ago

A visual analytics tool that helps non-technical people understand what their data means. The startup is backed by Y Combinator.

161
4 years ago

The founders of an AI-powered dating app want to use their product as a platform for investors to invest in AI startups.

160
4 years ago

A startup that wants to help banks with payments in Peru. The startup's co-founder says they have more than 1,000 business accounts as of September.

160
3 years ago

This startup is building a “social streaming” feed that allows users to track how others are watching videos or articles on their social media profiles. The founders say this is a way for brands to see how their content is being consumed without having to ask for permission.

160
2 years ago

The startup has created a service that uses AI to help companies understand their customers’ expectations, analyze their data to understand what works best for them, and automatically send that information to users.

160
5 years ago

Another company built by former Quid co-founders, this one is building a suite of tools to make it easier for women to own businesses in emerging markets.

159
3 years ago

A startup that wants to help companies manage inventory, shipping, and other logistics through game-like mechanics. The startup wants to help people track their inventory via a mobile app and understand what goes into making a sale.

159
5 years ago

A tool that helps small businesses connect with customers. The company’s founders say that the company’s users have saved over $500,000 by using the tool.

158
5 years ago

This startup is building a way to find homes to rent on a per-minute basis for under $1 a minute.

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
5 years ago

A mobile app that helps people make better decisions about their health. The startup’s founder says they are on track for $1 million in revenue in 2019.

158
5 years ago

A new type of event registration system, which is a hybrid of Google Apps and Eventbrite. The company’s founder says that while it currently is free, it will be a subscription model in the future. The startup was founded in June.

158
5 years ago

A tool to help broadcast companies understand how their content is being consumed. The company is currently seeking $5 million in funding, and is looking for a $2 million seed round.

158
5 years ago

"The world’s first social dating app for underrepresented groups,” which is to say, people of color.

158
5 years ago

Alluvium is a company that makes artificial intelligence software for image recognition. The founders say it’s better than other tools because it was built from the ground up to work with the way humans think, rather than the way machines work.

157
5 years ago

A crowdfunding platform that aims to help entrepreneurs pitch their projects on a more intimate level. It’s a tool to help founders speak directly to the crowd without the need for a large team of people. It’s currently in private beta.

157
5 years ago

Media startups are often built on the back of a single product, such as Skype or YouTube. The company’s founders say its technology can help companies figure out whether a new product is worth the investment.

156
5 years ago

A health-maintenance company for the elderly, focusing on their social needs. The company’s founder and president, Alejandro Ortiz, said that for many older people, social engagement often goes missing, making it harder for them to stay healthy.

156
5 years ago

Chargeback is an online platform that helps users dispute utility bills. It’s a B2B startup catering to utility companies. The founders hope to build a worldwide network of users.

156
5 years ago

A startup that’s building an online platform for people who want to build and sell their own custom iPhone cases. The startup’s founders say that about 1% of the cases sold in the US are custom-made, and a handful of startups have tried to build their own platform for selling such cases, without much success.

156
5 years ago

A new company that wants to help people in need, particularly those who can't afford to buy an iPhone. The founders say that for a typical customer, "you'd have to work about 30 years to pay off a plan that costs $350."

156
5 years ago

A startup that wants to make open-source software for 3D printers. The founders are tech veterans who have built digital fabrication tools before.

156
5 years ago

A platform to help companies build working group meetings that promote collaboration and shared understanding.

155
5 years ago

A do-it-yourself insurance company for self-employed people. The company, which launched a year ago, is using tech to help people underwrite their own risks.

155
4 years ago

A platform that helps people with no credit understand how credit works.

155
4 years ago

This startup aims to help people use AI to understand their financial and professional performance and improve their earnings.

155
4 years ago

A platform that sells data to insurers. They want to act as a middleman between the insurance industry and the data they use to calculate risk, and they want to do it in a way that’s transparent and easy to understand.

155
3 years ago

Founders of this two-person startup are the former founders of the startup that made the popular budgeting app Due.

155
5 years ago

A venture for helping people find and book cheap flights on both domestic and international flights. The startup is a spin-off of co-founder and CEO Zachary Mider’s previous startup, which is also focused on domestic flights.

154
5 years ago

A platform where users can create virtual islands for multiplayer gaming. It launched in 2014, with the founders saying that it’s on track to reach $1.5 million in annual revenue.

154
3 years ago

A product that helps managers and HR to identify employees who are underperforming and get them new jobs.

154
3 years ago

A credit card application for the underbanked, where users pay a small fee to use the card and earn credit line rewards.

154
5 years ago

A startup that helps people find the best deal on a car insurance policy. The founders say they’ve already signed up 20,000 users and have been accepted to Y Combinator.

153
5 years ago

A tool for creating tools. The startup’s founders say they’re building a tool that allows users to distribute GitHub tools, like their own GitHub for Excel, by other users.

153
5 years ago

Online brokerage which helps consumers better understand their investment products and gives them access to a licensed broker.

153
5 years ago

The founders say that their product is “the best place to get the news, weather, and video you want.”

153
3 years ago

SaaS for small businesses to better track and understand all their expenses, like shipping, insurance, and taxes.

153
5 years ago

A credit card for people who are underbanked. The company offers a line of credit that doesn’t require a credit check, allowing people to put down as little as $1.

152
5 years ago

A company that helps software engineers gather data from the Internet of Things and bring it in a common format, allowing them to better understand what their end-users are doing.

152
5 years ago

A startup that helps you organize your life and write to-do lists (similar to Wunderlist, but aimed at parents).

152
3 years ago

The startup is building an AI platform to help brands and publishers better understand how users interact with their content, and how content affects their purchase decisions.

152
5 years ago

This company’s founders were previously in the gaming industry, and want to help make that industry more inclusive. The startup is building a platform to help game developers with user acquisition and retention by building in features for “people of color, women, and LGBTQ people.”

151
5 years ago

This company wants to teach people how to be a good entrepreneur. The company’s founder is Anand Rajaraman, who ran a business development and strategy practice at Amazon and Google for more than a decade.

151
5 years ago

Giving Demo Day startups advice can only go so far. So Y Combinator does a bit more to help startups. YC has created a forum for startup founders to share information and advice with one another. They also host “Ask-Me-Anything” sessions for founders to talk about their companies.

151
5 years ago

A startup to allow people to get a quote for a car lease in under a minute

151
5 years ago

This startup is building an enterprise-level analytics platform within an insurance company. The software helps insurance companies better understand claims and assess risk.

150
5 years ago

Two founders left YC to build a $10 per month service to help food delivery services become more cost effective and more like an on-demand service. It’s available in a few cities in the US, and it’s simple: a “geofenced” area with a few delivery zones that are cheaper than a full city block.

150
5 years ago

A tool for organizations that want to manage their data. The founders say they’re working with several large companies.

150
5 years ago

This startup is working on a platform that helps app developers understand how users click, swipe, click, and tap on their apps.

150
5 years ago

A technology that helps companies understand what customers are looking at on their mobile devices.

150
5 years ago

A company that helps restaurants deliver delivery right to customers’ doorsteps. The founders say they have over 200 restaurants, including Shake Shack, that they’re working with

150
2 years ago

A way to help employers understand and make better decisions about employee experience.

150
5 years ago

A venture capital firm that invests only in female founders, focusing on early-stage companies that focus on women’s health.

149
5 years ago

The startup’s goal is to help scuba divers understand the visibility of their masks, how to optimize their gear, and get the best fit for their face and face shape.

149
5 years ago

A startup that’s building an end-to-end GPS-based tracking app to help college students stay safe when they’re out on the town. The founders say that they’re already working with a number of colleges on their app, and that it’s been saving students from dangerous situations.

149
5 years ago

The Startup Grind podcast is a weekly podcast about entrepreneurship, hosted by founders of SBJ’s own portfolio companies.

149
5 years ago

A startup that aims to help people understand the underlying code of their favorite apps, and how to improve them.

149
5 years ago

A company that wants to build a way to understand the meaning of phone calls (through audio) and help courts make educated decisions on them.

149
5 years ago

Fintech company for unbanked and underbanked customers in Latin America and Brazil.

149
4 years ago

Helps online retailers understand which products are hot, and which are not, with their innovation platform

149
5 years ago

An adtech startup that provides a way for publishers to target users based on their browsing history, to help them understand their behavior and improve their ad content.

148
5 years ago

A company that provides software to help people make money while they sleep. The company has raised $2.6 million from a number of investors, including the founder of Origo.

148
5 years ago

A startup that helps companies like Amazon and Google better understand their customers. The startup is taking a deeper look at the data that companies have about customers in order to optimize their products and services.

148
5 years ago

The startup’s founders say that since launching a year ago, they’ve had over 6,000 paying customers.

148
5 years ago

A B2B service for the financial industry that helps banks identify potential customers and understand their spending habits.

148
5 years ago

This startup aims to help people identify the underlying cause of their pain and then sell them an app that’ll help them treat it.

148
5 years ago

The founders of this startup are building a device to help you identify the origin of your food. It can be used to eliminate food fraud, and help the world’s poorest populations.

148
5 years ago

An AI-based system that helps companies better understand new hires by collecting data on their personality traits.

148
3 years ago

A startup that helps people find roommates. It’s currently only in San Francisco, but the founders hope to expand to other cities.

148
2 years ago

This startup makes it easy for teams to track and manage their expenses. The startup’s co-founder says that she runs a tight household and she uses the app to keep track of different expenses for her family.

148
5 years ago

A market research app that helps companies understand the wants and needs of their consumers better. It’s paid for by a company like SurveyGizmo or SurveyMonkey that charges a small fee every time a survey is completed.

147
5 years ago

A payment technology company that works with online retailers and e-commerce platforms. The startup uses blockchain technology to enable payments between the retailer and the customer. It has been featured on the “top 10 under-the-radar blockchain startups” from CB Insights.

147
5 years ago

A startup for startups looking to grow internationally. It’s a more self-serve approach than other startups, but the founders believe that they can provide the best service for a given price.

147
5 years ago

A company that is building a tool that allows consumers to make use of the data from their fitness tracker to better understand what they’re eating and how they’re exercising. The company is working with fitness trackers like Fitbit and Jawbone, and has also been working with the makers of the Nike+ FuelBand.

147
5 years ago

A digital platform that provides what its founders call a “dynamic ‘recipe’—a step-by-step process that guides users through every step of the creative process from start to finish.”

146
5 years ago

A system of devices that can detect if an employee is over-committing or under-committing to projects, and adjust a person’s work schedule accordingly.

146
5 years ago

An AI-based platform for helping companies measure and understand the impact of their employees’ spending and behavior.

146
5 years ago

A tool that helps you find the best interest rates for your credit card. The startup says they have more than 1,000 users and are growing by 100 users a month. The founders say they’ve raised $1.3 million in funding from angel investors.

146
5 years ago

A B2B startup that’s building a SaaS platform for wholesalers to help them manage inventory — allowing them to identify mispricing, under- and over-supply and other issues that could affect their bottom line.

146
3 years ago

A startup building a peer-to-peer voice over IP (VoIP) app that lets you call anyone in the world on the same app, even over mobile. The founders said they’ve already signed up over 35,000 users, who can call each other for free.

146
5 years ago

A tool that helps the deaf and hard-of-hearing understand the information they’re hearing.

145
5 years ago

A company that provides a toolkit for self-storage facilities to manage their inventory. The startup was developed by former YC founders.

145
5 years ago

An online platform for sharing and selling small tools like screwdrivers, wrenches, and other DIY goods. The company’s founders say they want to make it easy for people to find and sell their tools, and the startup is planning to add more categories and tools in the future.

145
4 years ago

A startup that wants to use AI to create a more natural color palette in fashion. The company’s founder says that the color palette industry is “a $20 billion market, and it has been a very low touch market.”

145
5 years ago

A startup that offers a platform for digital nomads to rent out their homes in a peer-to-peer fashion. It’s in the early stages of development, but the founders say it will be “like Airbnb, but also a concierge service and protocol for renting out your home when you’re away”.

144
5 years ago

Allows teachers to create lesson plans for their students, and customize them to their unique needs. The founders are hoping to recruit teachers to be the company’s first customers.

144
5 years ago

A platform for photography that lets users sell photos against their copyright. The startup’s co-founder, Jake Sion, says it started as an homage to the Instagram addiction many have to sharing their photos.

144
5 years ago

The founder of a company that re-skins the Windows operating system has launched a company that wants to make it possible to put Windows 10 on your phone.

144
5 years ago

An algorithmic startup that is a marketplace for job board ads, allowing companies to target their job search to a specific demographic. The company’s founders say they’ve raised $1.6 million in a round led by Greycroft Partners.

144
5 years ago

An accountant tool that helps companies understand their expenses and track when they should be paid.

144
5 years ago

A company that aims to build a web-based, third-party curator for Amazon. The startup’s founder says that by offering a third-party curator of Amazon, a company can take advantage of the huge inventory of products that Amazon offers and cut out the middleman.

144
5 years ago

A “fintech for the legal industry”. It wants to make legal contracts easier to understand and fill out, so they don’t need lawyers to review them.

144
5 years ago

A product that helps companies understand their brand’s performance in the market.

144
5 years ago

A tool for procurement managers that helps them understand their spend and reduce costs.

143
5 years ago

The startup is building a toolset to help people in the UK understand their personal finances and see how they stack up against the national average.

143
5 years ago

A platform that helps companies organize their email, Slack, and other messaging systems. The startup’s founders say it can save companies 5% to 30% on their monthly email costs, and that it’s used by companies like MercadoLibre, Zappos, and Expedia.

143
4 years ago

A startup that helps companies get a better understanding of their customers by using read receipts, call recording, and pop-up notifications to get real-time feedback.

143
3 years ago

A tool to help small businesses access business loans. The company’s founders claim that they have already signed up 450 companies in a week, and plan to grow to over 10,000 by the end of the year.

143
3 years ago

The founders are looking for a big bank to partner with them on a new service that uses artificial intelligence to help people take better care of themselves.

143
5 years ago

A startup that helps caregivers create their own day-to-day schedules for their patients to ensure they’re not over- or under-scheduled.

142
5 years ago

Tech that helps build companies in the US that are startups in other countries. The startup’s founders say that over $500 million is being raised in new funds in the US, but only $10 million is being raised in these other countries.

142
5 years ago

A market research and recruiting tool for the beauty industry. The startup’s founders say they have already worked with brands like Revlon and L’Oréal.

142
5 years ago

A startup that wants to bring the benefits of the web to under-resourced countries, equipping them with internet access.

141
5 years ago

An artificial intelligence-powered system that lets businesses see how their employees are performing. The underlying AI platform is able to understand the inner-workings of a company. The company recently closed a $4 million Series A funding.

141
5 years ago

A platform that helps small businesses buy and sell excess inventory. The startup’s founder says that they have over 15,000 businesses using the platform and over $1 million of inventory moving through the system.

141
5 years ago

is a new startup that wants to help HR departments keep track of employee performance. The company has raised $7 million in Series A funding from investors like Accel, Founders Co-op, The Battery Ventures, and others.

141
5 years ago

A SaaS-based email marketing tool with an emphasis on design. The startup’s founders have raised nearly $500,000 in seed funding, including from Y Combinator, and have been named as YC’s top-ranked summer 2019 company.

141
5 years ago

A solution for the $4 trillion global oil market where producers don’t have reliable inventories and retailers don’t have a clear picture of demand or low prices. Oil can be stored in underground tanks and is more valuable if it’s in the right place. Oil Tracker aims to connect all the different stakeholders in the oil market.

141
4 years ago

A company that helps people live longer, healthier lives by providing health tech to doctors. The startup’s founders say they’ve already raised $7.5 million, with plans to launch in early 2018.

141
3 years ago

A startup that helps with recruitment. Founders have a hard time finding good developers to hire and have had to spend hours sifting through LinkedIn profiles, applying to jobs, and then waiting for responses.

141
5 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses understand how to use social media to help them reach new customers

140
5 years ago

The founders of this company hope to make it easier for people to book professional services online, allowing them to book a haircut from a stylist or a plumber from a service rep.

140
5 years ago

A platform that connects people looking to go back to school with students willing to help each other out with things like homework, tutoring, and test prep. The founders say they’ve already helped more than 6,000 students fill out their applications and get into the class of their dreams.

140
5 years ago

A company building analytics software to help e-commerce companies better understand their customers and their buying habits.

140
5 years ago

The company’s founders say they plan to push a “geo-federated” app to help people spend time virtually in a place they’ve never been.

140
5 years ago

A company that helps people understand how their salary compares to others in their industry.

140
5 years ago

A crowd-funded project to bring the benefits of underfloor heating and cooling to the underdeveloped world. The startup’s founders came up with the concept for a client-focused project as a way to combine the technology with other humanitarian efforts.

139
5 years ago

A platform for professional book authors who want to sell their books through Amazon. The startup’s founders say they’re working on integrations with other retailers like iTunes and Google Play and are making it easier for authors to sell their books to readers.

139
5 years ago

A platform that enables fans to interact with players and teams to better understand their interests. The startup is currently in a partnership with the NBA; it’s also in a partnership with the A’s to help fans in the Bay Area get better access to the team.

139
5 years ago

A B2B company specializing in helping companies understand and manage the risks of their sales and operations.

139
5 years ago

What’s a startup to do when they’ve secured $500,000 in funding and they don’t know what to build Unity is a tool that helps founders go from idea to prototype to product, all in a matter of weeks.

139
5 years ago

A text messaging service that uses automated language translation to translate the words of a conversation between two people in real time. It was started in 2012 by a group of PhD students and has raised just under $5 million in funding.

139
5 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.

139
4 years ago

The founders walked away from their jobs in the technology industry to focus on food, and built a tech app that makes it easier and cheaper for restaurants to source from local farmers.

139
4 years ago

The startup is building a platform for companies to manage and track their insurance agents and sales reps. The founders say they have partnerships with over 200 insurance carriers.

139
3 years ago

A startup that makes smart contracts more usable by creating a visual editor, the startup’s founders say, a way to visually build out the functionality of a smart contract instead of just a programming language.

139
5 years ago

A platform for small business owners to rent their property out. The company is a joint venture between a local business incubator and the co-founder of Airbnb.

138
5 years ago

This startup is building an all-in-one platform for Fintech services, with the goal of bringing them all under one roof.

138
5 years ago

A startup that helps people who are self-employed or in small businesses understand their taxes. It’s building a better tax calculator and tax software for small businesses, with some initial funding from Accel Partners.

138
5 years ago

A startup that helps people understand their credit score and how to use it to their advantage

137
5 years ago

An AI-powered analytics engine for games that helps developers understand players. The startup is trying to revolutionize the way game developers track and analyze their players.

137
5 years ago

A marketing software service for small and medium-sized companies. The company’s founders say they’re seeing a huge demand for the service from companies after a number of competitors have fallen by the wayside.

137
5 years ago

A platform that helps a person’s insurance company manage assets and payments. The startup wants to help the more than 2 trillion dollars of assets under insurance in the US.

137
5 years ago

A B2B company that helps banks take advantage of underutilized data in their systems. The company claims its technology can help banks save up to $500m a year.

137
5 years ago

A firm that helps B2B companies understand their data. They’re also in the process of building a tool for companies to create a B2B team.

137
5 years ago

An online platform that allows people to rent out their homes while they travel. The company’s founders say that the business is growing rapidly.

137
5 years ago

A startup that helps people understand and track their employee performance

136
5 years ago

A payment processor for small businesses that provides low-cost ATM withdrawals and cash-back payments. The company wants to partner with ATMs that have locations in underserved areas that have a high concentration of cash-carrying customers.

136
5 years ago

Founders: Marta, Ryan. The two want to build a tech hub for the Latin American startup community. They want to give startups discounted office space, mentorship, and access to capital.

136
5 years ago

A startup that offers a service to organize a team of employees. The startup’s team members are former YC founders, and they say they have over 1,000 customers.

136
5 years ago

A startup that helps people understand their finances by helping them compare their spending to income, spending history, and trends. The startup wants to make people more aware of their personal finances.

136
5 years ago

A company that helps companies book tours and events at museums and galleries. The startup’s founders previously worked at the Louvre, and want to help them grow their business in the UK, US, and Canada.

136
5 years ago

A platform that integrates with healthcare providers to find communities and provide feedback on their needs. Its goal is to bring community health and quality of life to this underserved population.

136
5 years ago

A crowdsourced research platform focused on helping companies understand their customers.

136
5 years ago

This is a company that helps companies connect with their customers to better understand their needs and market to them. Clues is looking to provide companies with a new way to engage with customers that goes beyond traditional marketing. It’s a platform that allows companies to create a “Stitchable”, a custom product and experience that is all about a customer.

136
5 years ago

 Startup building software for farmers to help them understand weather patterns and predict crop yields. It also plans to create a bank for farmers, and expand into a larger platform for farmers to exchange information.

136
5 years ago

A startup that helps businesses better understand their data and make data-driven decisions. The startup is building a platform for businesses to aggregate, visualize, and visualize their data.

136
4 years ago

Software that helps people understand and calculate their personal risk of missing out on the next big thing.

136
4 years ago

A logistics platform for food-delivery services. The startup’s founders are now working with a number of food and beverage companies in the Bay Area, including Temescal Brewing.

136
4 years ago

A startup that helps companies like Adidas and Under Armour connect with their customers by building out personalized shopping experiences.

136
5 years ago

A student-driven airline that’s been in operation for less than a month. Its founders are trying to get the airline off the ground by asking students to fund the startup, but now they’re asking for $25,000 to accelerate growth.

135
5 years ago

A new app that allows users to “virtually” connect with a well-known psychologist. The app was launched in April and is being used by students and their parents to help them better understand their experiences with mental illness.

135
4 years ago

A startup that helps sales reps in the insurance and banking industries better understand their clients.

135
5 years ago

A startup for on-demand car services in Singapore. The startup’s founder says he’s been offering the service with Uber for the past year and says it’s a $1 billion market in Singapore.

134
5 years ago

A customer support and engagement platform for businesses aimed at the Millennial generation. The startup is focused on helping companies improve customer support and engagement, but its founders say it can be used across the board.

134
5 years ago

A company that builds products that help people understand their finances and save money. It saves customers money in the form of lower interest rates and lower cost of credit, and it pays interest on all savings in a person’s bank account.

134
5 years ago

A tool to help people understand their finances, in the form of an app that takes a person’s income and expenses and tells them how much to spend each month. The startup is also building a tool to help people understand their credit scores, and is working with several credit scoring agencies.

134
5 years ago

A software company that aims to help employers and HR departments manage the cost of employee benefits. It aims to make it easier for employers to understand what they’re paying and how to improve it. They’re currently in talks with banks to offer a new product.

134
5 years ago

A mobile app that connects people looking to buy a new home with a realtor who can help them get an offer in writing. The founders say they’re already working with over 100 companies in real estate, including Robinsons Homes and Landmark.

134
3 years ago

An AI-powered help desk that connects to 3rd-party apps and services and is meant to help companies understand how their customers are using their products.

134
3 years ago

A data analytics platform that helps companies understand the relationship between customers, sales, and other metrics. The platform crawls through hundreds of thousands of data points and runs machine learning models to predict what should happen next in a customer’s behavior. The startup is still in beta.

134
5 years ago

This startup is building a platform that connects landlord’s with tenants in need of a place to live and gives them a credit score. The startup’s founders say that there are already over $90 billion worth of real estate assets currently sitting idle.

133
5 years ago

A B2B company that helps companies understand their supply chain data and make it actionable.

133
5 years ago

The co-founders of the company Seers are trying to undo the stigma of the “office dog”. They had their first pup, Mitzi, on the playground of Spotify's offices, and the company asked them to bring her to work. Now, she’s a dog who visits office visits from time to time to make sure that everyone is having a good time.

133
5 years ago

This platform helps tech companies that would like to sell software as a service (SaaS) to clients. The platform allows for businesses to reach their clients directly, and also helps them understand how much money their clients are spending on software.

133
5 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.

133
5 years ago

A startup that helps companies manage their supply chains by automatically matching products in inventory to orders. The founders have raised $1M in seed funding, with plans to expand to Europe.

133
4 years ago

A tool for teachers to visualize and understand the student body

133
5 years ago

A new take on digital advertising that seeks to take over the desktop space. The founders say it’s the first product that can put advertising on every desktop screen. It’s also intended to be a “frictionless” experience for users, removing the need to navigate multiple ad networks or pay for ads.

132
5 years ago

A tool for understanding the human impact of a new product

132
5 years ago

A search engine for things that have been read. The company’s co-founder was a former search engine developer who was frustrated with the state of the industry.

132
5 years ago

is a startup that helps businesses understand how much their employees are earning, what their biggest expenses are, and what their financial goals are.

132
5 years ago

A platform that connects users to the right data and people to do the right work for them. The company’s founders say the tool will help companies build and scale their business more efficiently.

132
5 years ago

A system that helps people connect the dots between their physical and digital lives, that helps them understand the world around them. People can use the app to find out if someone has talked about them on social media, see if they’ve visited a particular location, and snap a photo of an item they want to buy and see if they can find it elsewhere.

131
5 years ago

An analytics platform for blue-chip companies. Redpulse is designed to help companies understand their customers and find them relevant information.

131
5 years ago

A B2B marketplace where big companies can hire sub-contracted workers for under-the-table projects.

131
5 years ago

A tool for high-frequency traders to help them build algorithmic strategies. The startup also wants to make the process of building algorithms easier for researchers to understand.

131
5 years ago

To better understand the needs of its users, a startup is gathering data from people who buy and use its products.

131
3 years ago

GraphQL is a way for developers to query a database in a more structured, and easy to understand way. The company says it already has over 50 customers in the finance, social media, e-commerce and music industries.

131
5 years ago

Decentralized social network where people can get paid to publish stories. The startup is open source and free to use, and the founder says it has a "small amount of daily active users."

130
5 years ago

Israel-based startup Narayana Health is developing a machine learning product that helps doctors and nurses better understand and treat patients.

130
5 years ago

This startup is building a student loan calculator for borrowers, to help them understand how much they will need to borrow in order to fund their degree.

130
5 years ago

A platform that offers financial services, with a focus on the unbanked and underserved.

129
5 years ago

This is a company that makes a way to map the physical world of information. The startup is building a suite of open data products and services that will allow users to visualize and understand the world around them.

129
5 years ago

A startup that helps large retailers streamline their supply chain and avoid prices from being undercut by competitors.

129
5 years ago

A platform that helps people create “e-vites” for any event. The company’s founders have approached companies like Slack and Apple about integrating the company’s service into their products.

129
4 years ago

A tool for companies to better understand their large customer base and build better products.

129
5 years ago

Data is siloed across different departments at a company, preventing anyone from understanding how their company stacks up against the competition. This startup is building a map of various types of data within a company, allowing users to search across multiple data sets at once.

128
5 years ago

A tool to help users understand the credit and risk of the costs of their insurance plan.

128
5 years ago

A digital marketplace for freelance designers. The startup’s founders want to build a marketplace that helps businesses and designers work together on projects.

128
5 years ago

A startup that makes a mobile app that helps you understand the legal troubles of your friends. The company hopes to teach people how to manage their legal problems via a mobile app.

128
5 years ago

In the US, there are a lot of jobs that pay the minimum wage. The startup is based in the Philippines, and its founder says it’s easy to get a job there for the minimum wage, but hard to get paid more.

128
5 years ago

A tool that allows people to create their own digital currency, or “pre-sale tokens”, then sell them to investors. The startup’s founders say they’re already working with a handful of early-stage startups.

128
3 years ago

The Startup Battlefield match-up features three teams and one team will win the prize of $50,000. The winner of the Battlefield will also receive a $25,000 investment from the founder of Groupon, Andrew Mason, and if they are successful, the winner will also have the option to have their company reviewed by Groupon.

128
5 years ago

A maker of software to help create and organize personas for online marketing. It’s currently available for free, though the founders are looking to go premium.

127
5 years ago

A digital marketplace for office space. The startup is a spin-off of co-founder Aditya Kripalani’s previous startup, which is also focused on office space.

127
5 years ago

A new kind of “under-the-radar” startup that creates and maintains “micro-cities” for renters, like Uber for apartment complexes.

127
5 years ago

A tool that measures a company’s chances of going under based on their current financial situation.

127
3 years ago

A tool that helps businesses get a better understanding of social media mentions and understanding the potential for customer service issues.

127
5 years ago

A single platform to help companies understand and engage with their customers, and act on that data. The startup is testing out a platform designed to serve the needs of small-to-medium-size companies, and then help them scale as they grow.

126
5 years ago

A simple, intuitive app for buying and selling on Quora. The app’s founder says they have 1,800 active users and are planning to begin selling advertisements soon.

126
5 years ago

A platform that provides data-driven analytics to help guide companies in making the right decisions. They’re currently in early seed, with the founders describing their value as helping companies “make better decisions with less data”.

126
4 years ago

A startup that aims to use AI to automate tasks like loan underwriting, automating more human aspects of the process.

126
3 years ago

A mobile app for the economically underprivileged in India that will help them apply for micro loans. The startup has already provided over $400,000 worth of loans.

126
5 years ago

A software company built to help streamline the process of creating marketing messages and tracking the results. Its software can make it easier for companies to share their messages on social media, help them track how effective their marketing messages are and allow them to better understand what customers are saying about them.

125
5 years ago

CEO and co-founder, Josh, is a self-proclaimed "Serial Entrepreneur." He's built startups in the past five years, including a few that were acquired by larger tech companies.

125
4 years ago

A set of business-focused events for women. The company wants to start with a small group of founders in the SF Bay Area.

125
3 years ago

A platform for creating and managing events for artists. The idea is to bring all the different parts of the artist’s life under one roof.

125
3 years ago

A platform that allows users to swap/sell/trade their data. The startup is looking to use the data to help people understand and make decisions about their health. The company is looking to build out a full-scale health platform.

125
5 years ago

A platform for tracking which email and social media inboxes people check, and which ones they just don’t. Their Co-founder says they’re already working with more than 1,000 customers, and their first product in the works is a “personas” platform for businesses, which helps brands better understand who their customers are.

124
5 years ago

A startup that sells a tool for customers to book travel for themselves and their friends at the same time, and to help them understand the cost of what they’re booking. The startup has built a system that allows them to share the itinerary with friends, and helps them navigate and understand the cost of their own travel.

124
5 years ago

A startup that helps organizations manage and use data in a more meaningful way. The startup’s founders say their first product will be an app that helps people with diabetes manage their blood glucose.

124
5 years ago

A tool for VPs to book travel for their teams. The founders say it’s best suited to larger companies like CPGs and banks, but the idea could have broader applicability.

124
4 years ago

A company that helps geospatial companies like Uber and Lyft better understand the best routes and pricing to reach customers by using data from their phone to track their location.

124
5 years ago

A self-hosted online classroom for teachers, allowing them to bring their classes online. They’re looking for co-founders to help build out the platform.

123
5 years ago

A seed-stage medical tech startup focused on helping patients undergoing surgery and managing their pain through a smartphone app. The founders say they’ve been featured on 60 Minutes, and have raised a $1 million seed round

123
5 years ago

A tool for finding out how many people have downloaded your app, and how many have used it in the past week. The founders say that it’s been integrated into 75 different apps, and that they’ve seen a 20% increase in user retention and engagement once they started using it, with a 50% increase in revenue.

123
5 years ago

The founder of this startup grew up in a remote village in India and remembers a time when he was able to get a computer for the family and a year later they were able to get the internet. The founder realized the internet had brought a lot of connectivity to the country, but the next step was to bring connectivity to the millions of people who still didn’t have it. That’s what led him to start Jana, a startup that aims to give 1.5 billion people in India access to the internet.

123
5 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.

123
5 years ago

The idea is to be an online marketplace for companies to buy and sell their parts. Each part has a unique identifier that allows them to track their whereabouts. The founders say they have raised $8.5 million to date and are already working with over 10 companies.

123
4 years ago

Personal financial management system for businesses that want to understand what their clients’ lives are like, and what products they’re buying, and help them manage their money.

123
2 years ago

The startup is building a tool that automatically analyzes a company's marketing and sales data to help them improve their ROI. It's a cloud-based tool that offers a variety of services, from understanding what your current customers are buying and what else they might like to marketing to build loyalty and sales.

123
5 years ago

A digital assistant for doctors to help them understand their patients’ needs and respond to questions. The startup is also working to develop tools to help patients track and understand their medical progress.

122
5 years ago

The company is building an app that helps companies to purchase and sell used cars. The company’s claim is that it’s the only app that allows you to purchase a used car in under 90 seconds.

122
5 years ago

B2B companies are more likely to use YC-backed startups as employees, as compared to one where the founders are located in the Bay Area.

122
3 years ago

We’re all connected and we’re all looking for ways to simplify things. The founders of Disconnect are looking to bring together all these different systems into one place and make it all work together. This is a familiar idea that’s been around for a long time and has had a few iterations over the years. The idea is that you get more done with less effort and it’s all because your apps are all working together.

122
3 years ago

An idea from a co-founder, the startup is a tool to make software development easier for the non-technical people on a team, which often includes everyone from customer support to marketers to sales.

122
5 years ago

A healthy, fast, and affordable way to get food delivered. It’s a millennial company, with the founders calling themselves a “health-food lifestyle brand”.

121
5 years ago

A platform that helps companies manage their product lifecycles and is currently being used by “leading global brands,” as per the founders.

121
3 years ago

The startup is pitching their platform as a tool for sports teams to manage their data, to help them understand their players, their performance and their get-up-and-go.

121
5 years ago

A San Francisco-based startup that’s helping teams communicate by answering questions and getting help from a system that understands what each person is working on.

120
5 years ago

The founders of this startup are serial entrepreneurs. They’ve raised $4.5 million to build a platform that can help brands and agencies build better ads and work with customers directly to improve their marketing efforts.

120
3 years ago

A platform that helps non-profits measure their impact and reach donors. The startup also offers a service for nonprofits of all sizes to produce impact reports, generally a 6-month to 1-year undertaking for a nonprofit.

120
2 years ago

A startup that lets people book a ride on a private vehicle in New York City. The founders developed the business after realizing that most of the trips they made were less than 10 minutes, but the few they spent longer in took too long to book.

120
5 years ago

A startup that’s building a dashboard for hospital-level data. The startup wants to provide the hospital’s data and analytics in a simple and easy-to-understand format.

119
5 years ago

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

119
5 years ago

A digital assistant that helps teachers manage grading. The founders say it has an “A+ grade” and is already being used in twenty schools.

119
5 years ago

Predictive modeling technology that can help marketers understand where consumers are and what they’re interested in at any given time.

119
5 years ago

This wearable device generates a heat map of the area around the wearer’s head, allowing him to better understand his environment.

119
5 years ago

An ad network that focuses on under-served demographics, focusing on users who are under 18 and worth around $600 to advertisers.

119
5 years ago

A consultancy that helps retailers and brands understand the demand for new products, and help them figure out which products will be hits.

119
5 years ago

A web app for making artisanal soap, in which users can set up recipes and create their own soap. The startup’s founder says it’s like an online Tupperware party for soap-makers.

119
5 years ago

A software company that helps businesses better define and measure the impact of their marketing campaigns. The company’s founders say their platform has already helped businesses like Blue Apron and Fandango “get more value for their marketing dollars.”

119
5 years ago

A startup that turns trash into building materials in under a month

119
5 years ago

A solution for restaurants to manage their daily operations, including ordering, inventory, and payroll. The founders say that they currently have over 80 customers, including Chipotle and Starbucks.

119
5 years ago

The founders of this startup are former execs from major media companies including Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters. They’ve built a tool to help brands and agencies keep up with the news, and have launched in over 2,000 companies.

119
5 years ago

A platform that connects lenders to people who have bad credit to pay loans back on time. The company’s cofounder, David Leon, says the company is profitable, has more than $1.3 million in loans, and has been servicing loans for over a year.

118
5 years ago

The company’s founders have raised over $400,000 in funding to date, making it one of the fastest-growing startups in the space.

118
5 years ago

A new product by the founders of a popular open-source project, allowing people to see all of their files on file servers and get them to sync with their desktop.

118
5 years ago

A startup that lets users find and order food in the Bay Area in under five minutes.

118
5 years ago

In 2018, the founders of OpenTable were awarded the National Venture Capital Association’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Consumer Products and Services category.

118
5 years ago

A software company that wants to help the legal profession connect with attorneys across the country. The company’s founder says they’ve already signed up over 2,000 lawyers and are working on a nationwide expansion.

118
5 years ago

A startup to help people find and hire affordable child care. The founders say their model of the business, which has a token-based system, is open to regulation.

117
5 years ago

A complete package of functionality for startups to implement into their iOS and Android apps. Its founders say that it’s different from a framework in that it is its own full stack.

117
5 years ago

A set of tools that help people raise money from friends and family to finance their businesses. The startup's founders once raised nearly $600,000 from friends and family in just 48 hours.

117
5 years ago

Y Combinator alum Dan Ellis and co-founder Andrew Conway came up with the idea to make an app that would help people use Microsoft Excel more efficiently. The startup, which has raised $1.3 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz , works with large companies to help them get their work into Excel faster.

117
5 years ago

A device that allows people to sync and manage their home energy usage, with an app to help users understand their energy usage and plan expenditures.

117
5 years ago

A tool for the hospitality industry to manage attendee profiles. One of the founders previously worked at Airbnb.

117
5 years ago

In the meantime, the company’s founders have named the ghost town of Dry Fork, North Carolina.

116
5 years ago

A platform that helps people make music together using the tools they’re already using. The startup has raised $1.6 million in seed funding from investors including Union Square Ventures, SV Angel, ZipCar founder Robin Chase, and Dropbox founder Drew Houston.

116
5 years ago

A food delivery app in the US that is working with a handful of restaurants to get deliveries in under an hour. It has already raised $6M.

116
5 years ago

"A company that helps businesses go from idea to profitable reality. We help founders build ideas from day one and help them launch them successfully."

116
4 years ago

A startup that helps artists understand the financial value of their works, the value of their brand, and how much they should charge for their work.

116
4 years ago

A tool for quick and easy online payments. The startup’s founders say that customers are demanding a more efficient way to pay. They are planning to launch a product in the next few months.

116
5 years ago

A live broadcast company for athletes and sports teams. The founders say they want to focus on live streams because of the way they’ve grown in the past few years. Their product is currently a free service, but the founders say they plan to add a paid service to compete with Facebook’s suite of sports and entertainment streams.

115
5 years ago

A tool for helping companies understand which parts of their supply chain are inflating costs.

115
5 years ago

This startup and its founders were inspired by the story of their friend who had to wait two years to get a colonoscopy. They want to make the process easier.

115
4 years ago

This startup is building a data visualization platform for retailers to better understand how shoppers browse, use product tags, and make purchases.

115
2 years ago

A company that aims to help Chinese retailers deliver certain goods to their customers via e-commerce, such as appliances and furniture. The company’s founder recently noted that the company is already working with “100,000 sellers.”

115
5 years ago

An e-commerce for the under-served, aimed at those who want to buy a good but don’t have the means to do so. The founders believe that “goods are the new money”, and that the startup has the chance to be a “new currency” for the poor.

114
5 years ago

A sassy, sarcastic assistant that works on mobile. The startup’s founder, after building a small app for the same purpose, decided to build a full-fledged assistant, which works on mobile.

114
5 years ago

A mobility platform that connects businesses with the right tools to make it easier for drivers to earn income by delivering packages and other items. The startup’s co-founder, Alex Boussard, says they’ve already seen interest from a number of major companies and has even managed to raise a few million dollars in funding.

114
5 years ago

The Y Combinator summer school is a four-week program that teaches computer science fundamentals to top-tier high school students. The program was launched in 2010 by Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator.

114
5 years ago

An automated way for companies to build their own mobile applications. The startup’s founders say that it allows companies to create applications without having to hire developers or design them from scratch.

114
5 years ago

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

114
5 years ago

A platform for tracking and understanding the health of small businesses. The platform incorporates data from disparate sources like patient feedback and third-party surveys to provide real-time insights into the health of a business.

114
3 years ago

A startup to help homeowners manage and monetize their homes, which the founders say has a high growth rate in the U.S.

114
5 years ago

A platform that helps people find the best and cheapest healthcare, based on the best information available on what treatments are effective, and what providers are best. HealthMap is targeting big cities in the US that have good healthcare options and are currently underserved by them.

113
5 years ago

This startup makes it easy to integrate customer data from various sources into a single platform. The company’s co-founder was formerly a product manager at Google.

113
5 years ago

A cloud-based platform that helps businesses better understand how they can use their locations to improve sales.

113
5 years ago

A technology company that creates “smart” thermostats for home and business use, allowing homeowners to control their thermostats via their smartphone. The company is led by CEO and founder Rajat Pahuja, who previously built a business in India called Shubh Loans that went “very profitable,” according to Pahuja.

113
5 years ago

Cofounder of the company, a former commercial real estate agent, says she knew nothing about the fintech industry until she started researching it in 2017.

113
5 years ago

A travel health insurance company for the U.S. market, which is trying to cover a profitable market with an under-insured customer base. It’s currently in the UK, and is looking to expand to the US.

113
4 years ago

A startup that helps people find the closest taxi service on demand. A company called Taxi Magic will match you up with a cab in under 5 minutes, and if there's not one nearby, you can request a car to come pick you up.

113
5 years ago

A startup for bands to put out their music for sale without the hassle of a label. The company is based out of Philadelphia, and is backed by the founders of the label of the same name.

112
5 years ago

An API for the U.K.’s government’s Open Data platform, which is released under a Creative Commons license. It allows users to interface with the data in a variety of ways, including filtering by utility.

112
3 years ago

A startup that wants to build an online marketplace for labor and skills. The company’s founders say that the $2 trillion global services market is underserved by the $200 billion services market that already exists, and the company wants to fill that gap.

112
2 years ago

A startup that wants to make it possible for anyone to tap into the power of AI through an online API and the work of a machine learning community. The founders say they’re already working with several billion-dollar companies that use their API to run their entire data operations.

112
5 years ago

The startup’s founders say they want to be the company that “solves the ‘I can’t find my team’ problem.” It wants to be the new way of tracking employees, replacing spreadsheets and HR systems with a single, secure system.

111
5 years ago

A company that wants to help underpaid fashion designers have control over their intellectual property.

111
5 years ago

A vertical website that allows people to write about their experiences with different products and services. It was built by the founders of HackerYou, a startup that helped people connect with each other and build software in the same way Facebook and other social networks did.

111
5 years ago

A web app that helps teachers organize their lessons, then share them with colleagues. The startup’s founders are veterans of the education sector and the product is meant to serve as a kind of “Google Docs for teachers.”

111
4 years ago

A set of tools to help make a mobile app. The startup’s founder, Sam Om, has been working on the startup for over a

111
4 years ago

A product that makes it easier to manage and understand your credit.

111
3 years ago

A startup that has built a platform that enables companies to create mobile apps. The founders are veterans of a number of mobile startups, including several that have been acquired by Facebook.

111
3 years ago

A startup that’s building out a platform for people to post information about the condition of the ground underneath their house.

111
5 years ago

A company that helps improve the efficiency of service delivery for restaurants. Their model is to use automation to eliminate the costs of inefficient or underutilized staff and equipment, allowing restaurants to focus on creating more value.

110
5 years ago

A startup offering a platform to help brands and retailers better understand their customers.

110
5 years ago

An online hub for people who are visually-impaired and hard of hearing. The site’s founders say that they’re currently in talks with hearing suppliers to help them build a suite of apps for users.

110
4 years ago

The startup uses machine learning to help companies better understand and prioritize their marketing spend

110
4 years ago

SaaS that brings mobile banking to underbanked businesses, with a freemium model that starts at $20 per month. It offers a mobile app with check-deposit functionality, but also wants to build out a premium platform for mid-sized businesses.

110
4 years ago

 The startup wants to be a marketplace for people to sell their used stuff. Its focus is on new-to-market products, but founders say they’d be open to selling used products as well.

110
5 years ago

A business plan for a startup is like a sales pitch. It’s vague. It’s hard to see its potential. And it’s hard to know if it’s worth checking out. So many founders miss out on the chance to grow their business because they don’t have this thing called a business plan that explains how they’ll do it. The goal of this startup is to make it easy for anyone to write that plan. It’s currently only available in the Bay Area.

109
5 years ago

A startup that builds a “virtual assistant” to help companies understand how their customer support teams are helping customers.

109
5 years ago

A dashboard for enterprise organizations to better understand the impact of their products, and how to make them better. It’s a tool designed to help people understand how to build stronger products, and how to change their products to help them make more money.

109
4 years ago

A startup from the founder of Tumbr, which helps companies to engage with customers on Facebook.

109
4 years ago

The company’s founders speak of a future where the internet of things (IoT) and the internet of everything (IoE) converge, allowing users to control the devices in their homes directly from their phones.

109
3 years ago

A company that has created a device designed to keep people active under the guise of being a “gym ball.” The startup is currently focused on helping people age 65 or older maintain their fitness level, and the founders say they’ve sold over a thousand of the devices so far.

109
3 years ago

While the founders of Glossier didn’t originally come up with the idea for their beauty products, they’re now building a company that sells their products to others.

109
5 years ago

 The coworking space is part of a larger effort to help women get into technology, either by connecting them to mentors or allowing them to work at an office without the need for a co-founder.

108
5 years ago

A startup that helps users keep track of their transactions, making it easy for them to make sure that they don’t over- or under-pay for mundane items.

108
5 years ago

An analytics tool for sports teams that helps them understand where fans are coming from and how their fanbase is growing over time.

108
5 years ago

A platform for helping people find their dream homes. The founders say they’ve helped people find their dream house in as little as 10 days.

108
5 years ago

An HR platform for startups and solo founders, offering a way to track progress on team building goals, and check in on how everyone is doing day-to-day.

108
5 years ago

A company that helps other startups find a founder, as well as help them with the process of finding a co-founder.

108
5 years ago

A company that offers a tool to help users with depression and anxiety make better decisions. The company’s biofeedback tool can help users understand their brainwaves, moods, and other patterns that signal when a decision is best, and when they should stop or change.

108
4 years ago

This startup is building a way to connect merchants and consumers to their products and services through a deeper understanding of their personal needs and habits.

108
4 years ago

A platform to help people understand the costs of their health insurance, very similar to the OpenHealth platform.

108
4 years ago

A platform connecting founders with investors for seed-stage funding.

108
3 years ago

A big data startup focused on making it easier to understand the risks associated with financial products to make more informed decisions.

108
5 years ago

A tool for students that helps them track their progress and see how they’re doing in class. The company’s founders say they’re already working with a variety of colleges across the country.

107
5 years ago

A software company that’s helping people organize their finances on their phones. The software was built by the founder of a financial services company that was acquired by VC firm Andreessen Horowitz.

107
5 years ago

A web app and blog aimed at helping companies and people with a “better understanding of their political beliefs”.

107
4 years ago

A software-as-a-service company that helps B2B companies automate and secure their supply chains, a niche the founders say is worth $50 billion.

107
3 years ago

A startup that allows you to pay your bills from your phone. It’s meant to be a more cost-effective option than traditional billing software. It’s being built for small businesses, but the founders plan to expand to larger clients in the future.

107
3 years ago

This startup is building an enterprise-grade Slack competitor. The company’s founders say that they’re building a “complete messaging solution”, including bots and integrations.

107
5 years ago

A platform that helps connect female entrepreneurs with investors. Its founders are hoping to reach 1 million female founders in the next 10 years.

106
5 years ago

A San Francisco-based startup that wants to help patients understand and manage their health with a mobile app that uses artificial intelligence to help users track and manage their health data.

106
4 years ago

An online community for entrepreneurs and innovators. With over 3,000 members, it’s hosted by a number of founders, including Evan Williams. The startup has raised $8M to date.

106
4 years ago

A “one-stop shop for credit” that aims to help people from underbanked backgrounds to get access to credit. The startup is currently in talks with banks and credit unions to work out a partnership.

106
4 years ago

A social network for Indian language users. The app is focused on users in India, but the founders say it could be used in other regions with large populations of people who use other languages.

106
5 years ago

The company is developing an AI platform that uses machine learning to provide on-demand video content for brands. The platform is designed to help marketers better understand their customers and find opportunities to engage them.

105
5 years ago

A startup that helps businesses put in place nightly automated processes. The founders say their product helps companies be more efficient and automate processes like payroll, warehouse operations and inventory control.

105
5 years ago

A SaaS platform that uses machine learning to help retailers understand how customers are shopping online, which products they are buying, and their aggregate shopping patterns.

105
5 years ago

A mobile app that helps workers better organize their tasks on the go. The company’s co-founder believe that most of the information workers have on their phones isn’t being used.

105
4 years ago

A software company that helps retailers sell their products on Amazon.com. The founders say they are seeing 100% conversion rates on Amazon and “super-high” sales numbers.

105
4 years ago

A cryptocurrency exchange for non-accredited investors. The company’s founders have said they’d like to build a decentralized exchange for non-accredited investors.

105
4 years ago

A mobile app that helps people understand their personal relationships with debt. The app is designed to help people understand their relationship with debt and make decisions about how to manage it.

105
3 years ago

A startup that sells to the Indian market, which has a huge, under-served market for low-cost long-distance plans, where monthly plans are cheaper than mobile data in the US.

105
2 years ago

A startup that aims to bring online learning to underserved populations in India.

105
5 years ago

 This startup helps retailers better understand their customers in order to offer better personalization suggestions to them.

104
5 years ago

A “non-traditional” startup that focuses on the aftermarket. It focuses on a market that’s typically difficult to reach because of the need for a deeper understanding of a customer’s business and needs.

104
5 years ago

This startup is building a tool that helps you connect with lenders who can provide you with capital for your business. Notable for being a woman-founded startup (two of the three founders are women).

104
5 years ago

An HR startup that wants to help companies optimize their HR workforce by giving them a better understanding of their talent pipelines.

104
5 years ago

The founders of this cloud-based recruiting startup say that they’ve discovered that many people don’t have a good idea of what their job responsibilities are. They’re building an application that can help people figure that out, and then identify the best fit for each position in the pool.

104
4 years ago

A social network for college students with over 20k students currently enrolled. Its founders are looking to build a student-focused influencer platform that’s optimized for mobile, with a focus on gaming and video content.

104
4 years ago

A group of founders from NYC, San Francisco and Mumbai came together to solve the challenge of securing data in the cloud. The startup provides a way to encrypt and decrypt files and data in the cloud that’s compliant with HIPAA and GDPR standards.

104
4 years ago

An underground “mixing” app that uses the concept of the blind date to pair people up based on shared interests and provide a means for them to meet.

104
4 years ago

A company that wants to build out a “citizen army” of robots that can do warehouse work and increase efficiency. The founders claim they can do the same work in half the time by pairing robots with humans.

104
3 years ago

A real-time analytics tool for hospital nurses and doctors. “Our goal is to provide real-time data,” said co-founder Will Graziani. “If your nurse needs assistance with a patient, you can go to the app, log in, and see the patient’s vital signs.”

104
3 years ago

A company that wants to use machine learning to help companies understand their shopping behavior. The startup says it can help retailers predict what products to sell, what stores to open and when.

104
4 years ago

A startup for underwriters of auto insurance in the EU. They’re working to expand across the United States.

103
4 years ago

One of the startup’s cofounders, Sumeet Singh, was born in India, raised in New Jersey, and still regularly wears a turban. Harsh and Singh met as PhD students at MIT.

103
3 years ago

A messaging app that allows users to interact in real-time with voice, video and text. The company launched in 2014, but is now pivoting to private messaging, said co-founder and CEO, who has a background in robotics and robotics technology.

103
5 years ago

A startup that helps foreign companies find workers in the US. The startup’s founders say they’ve already had over 25,000 job postings on their platform.

102
4 years ago

A company that builds a way to observe and track the movement of people in real time through a smartphone application. It’s a way to keep celebrities safe at festivals and other events. The founders say they’ve already been approached by several celebrities to use their product.

102
3 years ago

A startup that helps users find the best doctors and dentists in a given area, especially in underserved areas.

102
5 years ago

A plan to build a messaging app that’ll be a hybrid of Slack and WhatsApp. The founders say that messaging apps are the fastest growing apps in the world, and that they want to create something that’s better than both.

101
5 years ago

The company plans to be the first in the world to bring 5G mobile to the masses. Its founders want to offer the first 5G mobile internet service in the world, with the first cities getting service in early 2019.

101
5 years ago

This is an app that aims to help people understand their credit score and how it can affect their future. “The app provides a user-friendly credit score calculator that is designed to give you a quick and easy understanding of your score. The calculator gives you a score based on your credit history and helps you understand how your credit score is calculated, how it will change, and what it means to you,” the company says.

101
5 years ago

This startup is building a platform for small businesses to create pricing structures and track their revenue, giving them a tool that will allow them to understand their revenue streams, cut costs, and increase revenues.

101
5 years ago

The founder of Code.org, a nonprofit working to make computer science education more accessible, wants to create a foundation to encourage high school students to learn software and programming.

101
5 years ago

A platform that allows merchants and brands to focus on their core products and services over general marketing efforts. The startup’s co-founder is the co-founder of the company that created Yo, the first social network for mobile devices.

101
4 years ago

A startup for ordering local delivery food from restaurants, with delivery promised in under 30 minutes. The startup has raised $1.6 million in pre-seed funding.

101
5 years ago

A money transfer service for the African market. The startup is launching in Cameroon in August and will expand to other countries as it progresses. The founders say their product is already being used in more than 60 countries.

100
5 years ago

A startup that will make it easier for companies to take their vacation time. Founders say it’s designed to be a more affordable alternative to the likes of Voyageur, which charges $50 for the service and $99 per person.

100
4 years ago

A startup that wants to build a decentralized banking system. The founders say that banks are creating systems that are too expensive and too clunky to be used, and that the market is underserved — especially by credit cards, which are used by everyone in the world, but for which there’s no good way to transfer money across borders.

100
4 years ago

A startup that’s bringing Bitcoin into the physical world, with a prepaid debit card and a physical debit card. The founders want to make Bitcoin universally usable, and are building a physical card to use at stores, ATMs, and anywhere else.

100
3 years ago

A tool to help startups figure out if they need to hire another member of their team, and what they should pay them. The startup wants to charge a small fee (between $10 and $50 per month) to help startups understand if they have too many employees, and if so to help them find the right level of staffing.

100
5 years ago

The founders say their startup is building a more useful version of the Skype-like messaging platform Slack. Businesses use the platform to send documents or share information.

99
4 years ago

A subscription-free, open-source messaging platform for teams. The startup’s founders say they want to transform how groups collaborate.

99
4 years ago

A startup that helps businesses manage their payments and invoices, which the founders say is significantly more effective than spreadsheets. It aims to be a full-stack solution for companies in need of a better way to manage their accounts receivable.

99
4 years ago

An open banking platform that helps banks understand their consumers.

99
4 years ago

A startup that helps connect a person’s home energy use to the company they work for. The startup’s founders say they’ve already been able to help a customer save $100 a month.

99
5 years ago

An AI-powered platform for understanding and automatically classifying IoT data.

98
5 years ago

A startup that wants to make live video marketing as simple as possible for brands. The company’s founders say they’ve already helped over 1,000 brands, and are having success with brands like Best Buy.

98
4 years ago

A set of tools to help build out a mobile app without having to know a lot about how to code. The startup’s founder, Sam Om, has been working on the startup for over a year, and says they’ve already secured $300,000 in funding.

98
4 years ago

In this video, a startup founder runs through a list of companies:

98
3 years ago

This is a mobile app that allows users to share the results of their home energy usage with other users. It’s currently being used by 2,000 users in the UK, and the founders plan to expand to the US in the next few months.

98
2 years ago

A platform that provides a better way to manage your personal finances, allowing users to get a better understanding of how they spend their money.

98
5 years ago

A company that focuses on customer engagement for retailers and restaurants. It’s currently in beta for 10,000 users, and the founders say they’re looking to expand to markets outside the US.

97
5 years ago

A software company that makes it easier for you to spend your money. The startup helps you find the best product for your needs, combining data from social media, news, and reviews to understand what you like and dislike.

97
5 years ago

The startup wants to build a way for people to manage their digital assets via their mobile device. The startup says they’ve built a mobile app that can be used to create a digital presence for local businesses and brands. Co-founders say they’ve been doing extensive research on the best way to adopt blockchain technology.

97
5 years ago

A news product built to help people better understand the world they live in.

97
4 years ago

This is a platform that helps companies manage their risk, allowing them to measure and control their exposure to risk, in an easy to understand way.

97
4 years ago

A startup that’s building a platform to better understand the efficacy of different digital advertising formats

97
4 years ago

A startup that helps people get a better understanding of their sleep habits and why they should be sleeping.

97
3 years ago

A company that helps you better understand your insurance policy by giving you a grade for your policy, based on the likelihood you’ll have a claim.

97
3 years ago

A healthy food delivery service, currently operating in New York City. The founders describe their service as more of a meal service than a food truck, with meals prepared and delivered to customers, who can choose to pick it up at a designated spot or have it delivered to their home.

97
5 years ago

Pint is a voice-controlled home assistant meant to help users keep track of things like what’s in the fridge and the weather. The startup aims to have a voice assistant that can understand what you mean and act on your behalf, with a smart speaker also available.

96
4 years ago

A startup that helps companies understand their customers and increase sales. They’ve raised a $1.8M seed round.

96
4 years ago

This startup, based in the US, is building a way to connect brands and their customers. The company’s co-founder says they’ve already had over 1,000 customers sign up.

96
4 years ago

A “smart” speaker that works like a smart home appliance, but which can also control your smart home appliances (like your lights and thermostat). It can work with a variety of IoT devices, and the founders say it will be in the market in the next 12 months.

96
4 years ago

A way to get food delivered from the market to your doorstep. Founder Josh Wilson says he’s already signed a deal with a local deli to deliver.

96
3 years ago

A startup that helps companies understand their customers by sending them surveys and collecting their responses then using the data to improve the customer experience.

96
2 years ago

A startup that will let anyone who’s ever sold an item on Amazon understand whether the customer paid.

96
5 years ago

"The Definitive Guide to SaaS for CMOs: Understanding the Business Model and Marketing Value of Software as a Service" (2018)

95
4 years ago

The story of how the founder of a company that makes protective filters for mobile devices moved to China, raised funding, and founded a rival company.

95
4 years ago

This startup designs and builds a line of “smart” showerheads that the founders say lets users control the temperature and pressure of the water through a smartphone app.

95
3 years ago

A way to bring all of a business’s marketing channels under one platform.

95
3 years ago

A language learning app. The founders say that the app is built for the Indian market and not for international markets.

95
3 years ago

A company that provides real-time GPS mapping for construction projects. Founder/CEO Sreenivasan has worked at companies such as Mapbox and Mapzen, and was the founding CEO of the open source platform OpenStreetMap.

95
5 years ago

This startup is building a network of thousands of assistants who are the point of contact for people who need help with their health. The startup’s founders wanted to create a version of Amazon’s Alexa that could help people manage their health.

94
5 years ago

The founders of this company want to build a more connected and secure version of Amazon’s Alexa, one that can work with smart home devices and allow users to access the internet through their voice.

94
4 years ago

A company that helps small businesses get off the ground, with a library of tools that help companies with marketing, accounting, and sales. Company founders started it after seeing that many small businesses are launching on Facebook and taking on extra expenses to grow.

94
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.

94
4 years ago

A company that helps small businesses understand their spending patterns and make decisions about how to spend their money.

94
3 years ago

A company that makes wayfinding software for cities. It helps city planners create maps and understand where people go.

94
2 years ago

This startup is building a tool to help Indian companies connect to US investors. The goal is to help US investors better understand the Indian economy and the Indian market.

94
5 years ago

A virtual assistant that helps people make sense of their social media profiles and other profiles. It’s meant to help people better understand their network and meet new people, and it’s already being used by some of the most successful entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.

93
5 years ago

A platform that links together online marketplaces, shopping carts, and inventory management. The startup’s founders say it’s a better fit for small businesses than existing solutions.

93
5 years ago

A startup that’s working to bring mobile-first design to the web. The company’s founder says that on desktop, responsive websites are too complex and hard to work with. On mobile, the opposite is true: sites are too simple and often hard to use. Sway is working to change that with a product that uses all the same features on mobile as it does on desktop.

93
4 years ago

The founders of this startup are best known for building the most popular and successful startup accelerator in the world. They’re now moving into a new area, with a new accelerator format that’s aimed at helping teams build products for specific industries.

93
4 years ago

This company helps consumers compare credit cards, and also helps retailers understand the costs of credit cards on their in-store cards. The company charges an annual fee, but it’s so far been able to build a strong network of merchants and credit card issuers.

93
4 years ago

A system for collecting and organizing data from multiple sources to help people get a deeper understanding of how their customers respond to different offers.

93
4 years ago

The founders have a vision of a world where everyone can pay rent or a mortgage, and have a constant stream of income without having to get a job.

93
3 years ago

A concierge for ride sharing, which according to the founders is a $500 billion market.

93
2 years ago

A tool for companies to understand and communicate with their customers in a more scalable way.

93
5 years ago

A system that allows companies to track data for their employees to help them understand where they’re spending their time and money. The startup is currently in beta.

92
5 years ago

 A group of women who teach other women how to be more confident in being sick. The founders say that their videos have over 1 million views.

92
4 years ago

A startup that lets companies receive real-time feedback on their customer service. The founders say that customer feedback is the number one driver of company growth.

92
4 years 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.”

92
4 years ago

A startup that uses AI to help retailers understand how their customer demographics are changing. The company says it can help retailers identify who their new customers are, and how they’re growing.

92
4 years ago

A startup that wants to help HR/recruitment/HR department leaders in the US to run their businesses more like startups. The founders say the company helps HR departments get more efficient by putting HR processes on rails and sharing best practices.

92
4 years ago

A money management app for the underbanked that allows them to perform all their regular banking tasks in one app.

92
3 years ago

The startup works with the government of India’s Ministry of Defence to help small businesses in India get their hands on Defense Ministry-related contracts. The startup’s founder, Sumit Goel, is a former officer in the Indian Navy.

92
5 years ago

Transports data around the world in under a second and converts it into a visual format for users.

91
4 years ago

A tool for creating more efficient, effective marketing campaigns for small businesses. Its founders say that a lot of small business owners could improve their marketing by using better tools.

91
4 years ago

The founders of this company started it to help people in the US and UK keep track of their medication. It’s currently available for iOS.

91
4 years ago

The company is now offering a free version of its software that handles data collection to help the public understand the safety of local honey.

91
4 years ago

A tool to help people better understand their insurance, and figure out if they’re paying too much.

91
4 years ago

According to its founders, this startup wants to be “the first social network to build a community of financial advisors”, helping advisors find clients.

91
4 years ago

A company that hopes to win the $2 billion global insurance market by reaching underserved populations and saving billions on claims.

91
3 years ago

A digital currency for underbanked Singaporeans. The startup builds a platform that enables individuals to join the mainstream financial system. Right now, it’s restricted to Singaporeans, and the founders are working on getting it to the wider Southeast Asian and Indian markets.

91
3 years ago

A startup that makes it easier for Hispanic families to open a savings account for their kids, particularly the latchkey kids who aren’t old enough to have a bank account at their school. The startup’s founder says that he wants to keep his children from having to share their smartphones to stay in touch with friends, and that his kids understand the importance of saving money in order to achieve their aspirations.

91
5 years ago

Profile’s founders say it’s like Pinterest, but for the fashion industry.

90
4 years ago

This New York City startup is building a subscription service for the restaurant industry. The founders behind the company believe that the industry is plagued by high costs and a lack of execution.

90
4 years ago

This is a startup that wants to help companies understand and make sense of their data by providing a digital repository of all their data. The company’s technology automates the process of gathering, cleaning, and storing all of the data, which is then accessible to employees through a dashboard.

90
3 years ago

The founders of this startup are building a platform to connect “tech people who want to do things but can’t afford to buy equipment” with people who want to give them advice.

90
3 years ago

A startup that helps small-business owners get a better understanding of what their customers want. The startup provides clients with a tool that allows them to analyze their website’s data.

90
2 years ago

A tech company that helps automate software testing, and makes tools for managing testing. The company is currently executing on a $2.5 million seed round, with an additional $1 million from the founders.

90
5 years ago

The startup’s cofounders say they want to be the company that takes “the unknown hassle out of hiring” by eliminating time-consuming steps like job applications and paperwork. It also wants to help small businesses scale by removing the need for a HR department.

89
4 years ago

A tool that helps smaller tech companies understand their technology costs and profitability

89
4 years ago

A company that aims to make affordable internet for the poor in India, from a base in Delhi. They plan to provide a complete bundle for under $20 per month.

89
4 years ago

A platform that brings together all the health data of a single individual into one place, to help them better understand their health.

89
4 years ago

An artificial intelligence that can understand your mood, amplify your happiness, and then re-share it with the world. The AI is used to make positive social media posts, rather than negative ones.

89
4 years ago

A way to find and hire the best contractors in San Francisco, the founders say.

89
4 years ago

A B2B company building a platform that helps energy companies manage their energy spending and present it in a way that’s easy to understand.

88
4 years ago

A SaaS platform for digital advertising, which allows advertisers to manage their budgets and deliver more personalized ads by understanding the intent of the consumer. The startup says they have $5-6k in revenue since launching in May.

88
4 years ago

A platform for sharing knowledge and expertise. The founders say they have a database of 500,000 consultants in 1,000 categories.

88
4 years ago

A book publishing platform by the founders of Medium, which has raised $23.5M to date. The company wants to automate book publishing, and focus on short books.

88
4 years ago

A “sales funnel that helps you understand if your leads are ready to buy from you”.

88
4 years ago

A software platform for financial services. The startup aims to make the process of understanding numbers easier.

88
4 years ago

An AI-driven tool for helping banks detect fraud and other financial crimes, and for the public sector to visualize and understand their finances and data.

88
3 years ago

A startup that wants to bring insurance to the world’s unbanked and underinsured populations. The company is building an app that allows people to get a variety of insurance policies from a variety of different providers without having to deal with the paperwork and documentation required to get a traditional policy.

88
3 years ago

This startup is trying to make the process of buying a car more transparent by helping consumers understand their financing options.

88
4 years ago

“From the outside, our team is probably the most diverse in the YC batch [of the past five years],” says cofounder Raman Harsh, an MIT alum. “There are no limits on race, ethnicity, religion, or gender.”

87
4 years ago

The company’s founders say they’ve developed a product called The Future of Productivity, which is a way for people to map their processes to a set of rules, and to share their achievements with a community of peers.

87
4 years ago

An insurance company for the under-35 market. The founders say they have a 20% conversion rate for under-35s.

87
4 years ago

Catch a Yacht is building a service that acts as a virtual concierge for wealthy travelers — it helps them book travel and manage their money. The company’s founders are former Facebook employees.

87
4 years ago

A voice-activated OS that allows you to speak into your phone and have your device understand what you’re saying.

87
4 years ago

A startup that wants to use AI to figure out who has a change in behavior is an addict and who has other underlying illness like depression. The startup uses data science to work out what’s causing changes in behavior and figure out whether it’s a symptom of a mental illness.

87
4 years ago

A mobile app for real estate agents to help them give listings to homes quickly and easily. It employs an algorithm to understand the data the agent has on the listing and create the exact right message to sell to the agent’s client.

87
4 years ago

A platform for small businesses (under $100k in annual revenue) to manage their online presence, including website building, SEO, email marketing, etc.

87
4 years ago

A startup that is creating a free, encrypted messaging app for journalists and human rights workers who need to communicate while under threat.

87
4 years ago

The founders of Rancher Labs are using the data they’ve collected to build AI tools for companies to manage their infrastructure.

87
3 years ago

The startup helps customer understand what the customer is ordering before they even make the purchase.

87
3 years ago

Farmers markets have a dedicated following of consumers and it’s a fairly small, but growing market. Andres Uribe and his co-founders are building a marketplace that allows farmers to sell directly to consumers. The company is currently in beta.

87
4 years ago

A new way for startups to launch, with a “pay-as-you-go” model for founders and employees. It allows companies to grow without having to engage in the long, expensive process of raising a round.

86
4 years ago

A startup that helps companies better understand their customers by combining data from a variety of places to provide a 360 view of a person.

86
4 years ago

A SaaS platform that helps companies create, manage, and get feedback on their campaigns. It’s currently being used for over 100 campaigns, raised over $30 million in funding, and the founders have spent over a year building it.

86
4 years ago

This idea is to provide an integrated platform that allows people to sync their calendars with their phones. The founders created a prototype that allows users to view their calendar from their phone. The company plans to have a beta version of the app ready by the end of 2017.

86
3 years ago

A VR simulator that lets people learn about and understand how to drive a car, for when their licenses are up.

86
3 years ago

The startup is building an AI-based platform to help people understand the difference between SEO, PPC, and content marketing.

86
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to be like a “mini-LinkedIn” for Indian startups, with a focus on helping founders build their brands

85
5 years ago

Cofounder of the company, a former financial industry analyst, began researching the fintech industry in 2017. She found a dearth of female founders in the space. In her startup’s pitch deck, she highlights several female founders as part of the company’s advisory board.

85
5 years ago

The startup's founders say they help companies in the $50B+ technology industry find top technical talent and make sure they spend the right amount of time and money on the right people.

85
4 years ago

This company is working on using AI and data to customize pricing for businesses. The founders say they’ve already signed up hundreds of businesses, and are looking to roll out an API and dashboard soon.

85
4 years ago

A startup that wants to be a one-stop shop for all the things that a small business needs to do to get paid and do business. The company’s founders say that companies that use their platform spend up to 80% less time on account-related tasks.

85
4 years ago

A digital sales channel for small retailers with sales under US$2 million.

85
4 years ago

One of the co-founders of Loosecubes was one of the first people to use Flutter.

85
4 years ago

A digital store for renewable energy equipment, which the founders say is the only one of its kind in the US.

85
2 years ago

This company is selling a service that allows customers to manage their daily errands using AI algorithms. The company’s founders say that they have already attracted over 300,000 signups.

85
2 years ago

In late 2013, Y Combinator launched a course in the field of web development. The course is taught by Sam Altman, founder and president of Y Combinator. Some of the instructors are Sam Altman, Paul Graham, Chris Dixon, Michael Seibel, and Jared Friedman.

85
4 years ago

A tool for various health-related startups. The startup helps startups on the cusp of launching gather advice from experts in the field. It charges a small fee starting at $99, but founder Alex Goodyear says it’s worth it for the experience.

84
4 years ago

In December 2018, a short video was released on the startup’s Twitter feed in which co-founder Isaac Lee described the company’s culture as “our culture is that we’re always going to be one step ahead of you.”

84
4 years ago

A platform for advertisers to manage pay-per-click campaigns for digital media, including banner ads, video ads, and native ads. Its founder, Michael Poulsen, says he’s brought in $10,000 in revenue since its inception in May.

84
4 years ago

A startup that wants to help people clean up their bank accounts and credit card debt by helping them understand their credit report.

84
4 years ago

A platform that helps companies build and manage travel and expense management apps. One of the founders, who worked at Expedia, was frustrated by all the apps and services they used. So they built a better expense reporting system

84
4 years ago

A startup that helps restaurant chains create loyalty program. The company’s founders want to use the same tech that powers the loyalty program at Expedia to help businesses like Chipotle and Panera create their own.

84
4 years ago

A new-generation online video platform that aims to compete directly with YouTube. The company’s co-founders say they’re already seeing traffic and engagement numbers that rival the video platform.

84
3 years ago

An AI for sales reps that can help them understand their customers quickly, build rapport, and find prospects as a result.

84
3 years ago

A software company that is building a tool that helps employers understand the skills that their employees need to be successful.

84
2 years ago

A personal assistant that understands and understands your voice, and can answer user questions and read the news to you

84
4 years ago

A platform for trading cryptocurrencies. The company has raised $1.3 million from investors including Y Combinator, Foundation Capital and Founders Fund. The company has raised $2.2 million total.

83
4 years ago

A facial recognition service that the founders say is “unparalleled”, and that has raised over $1 million in funding. The company is currently hiring, but declined to disclose numbers.

83
4 years ago

A $15,000 tool to help people purchase and sell their cars, alongside their current vehicles, and get the most money for both. The founders of this startup say that people are willing to spend up to $80,000 to get a new car, but are not willing to spend the same amount on their current ones.

83
4 years ago

Based on the startup’s founder’s work at Kiva, a nonprofit that helps people in poverty create micro loans, the startup wants to expand its service to provide people in the US loans at a lower cost. It currently serves small businesses in 30 US cities.

83
3 years ago

A manual for doctors on how to treat patients at a hospital emergency room. The startup wants to help ambulance services, which are often understaffed, treat patients more quickly.

83
3 years ago

A new online community for college students. The founders want to help the over 6 million students who study in the US to stay connected.

83
2 years ago

An iOS app that helps you understand your credit score and make use of debt management plans.

83
4 years ago

A toolkit for managers to help them understand and talk about the problems that their employees are having. The toolkit is designed to help managers understand their employees better and fix problems faster.

82
4 years ago

A company that helps small businesses improve their marketing. The startup’s founders say they’ve built a “universal marketing plan” that helps small businesses launch new products and services and grow sales quickly.

82
4 years ago

Co-founders said they were inspired by the success of Airbnb but found themselves frustrated by the startup’s inability to deliver on its promises. Rival hotel booking site Hotels.com filed for an IPO in April 2016.

82
4 years ago

A startup that wants to take the pain out of booking a flight. The cofounders, who hail from three different continents, say they’ve been able to eliminate the pain in booking a flight by combining the data from various travel sites.

82
4 years ago

The founders of this startup say they can produce a beer with only water that tastes as good as Budweiser. The company’s first product is a line of craft beers it describes as “India Pale Ales.”

82
3 years ago

Co-founder of iOS app startup that analyzes yoga poses.

82
3 years ago

Startups that fit into multiple categories, where founders have multiple roles — co-founder, CEO, CTO and CIO, or just the founder and CTO — are a bit more common today, but still rare. The challenge is that it can be difficult to measure how much of the company’s sales and profit go to the founder. Here’s a partial list of startups that fit into that category:

82
5 years ago

A tool for companies to better understand their employees’ geolocations. The company uses machine learning and computer vision to analyze geolocation data.

81
4 years ago

A startup that’s building a dating app for people over 50. The app lets users browse by interests, post photos, and build their own profiles. Money is kept separate from the app, so the founders don’t have to have people have to delete their profiles if they don’t want to date.

81
4 years ago

A software company that provides a visual tool to visualize and understand communication flows.

81
4 years ago

A web-based tool that helps companies bundle and manage their data, from backups to backups to backups. The founders say it saves companies from having to set up a full-blown data center.

81
4 years ago

A way for people to make money by sharing the things they already own. The founders say that with the average American household owning over 70% more items than they actually use, this is a $130 billion market that enables people to make money from the stuff they already own by selling it to others.

81
4 years ago

The company was founded by founder Tom Galvin, and was originally part of the Y Combinator Winter 2017 class.

81
4 years ago

A startup that wants to disrupt the global shipping industry by building a platform that allows anyone to send packages directly to a customer. The startup’s founders say that the company has already built a beta product and has started a pilot program with USPS.

81
4 years ago

This startup is building a national database of design professionals. Designers have a habit of being underpaid, and brands are often unaware of who they should hire. The startup is creating a national database of qualified design professionals, and after a year of beta, is planning to expand to other professions.

81
4 years ago

This startup is building a way to create a personal news feed in which you can share posts and photos, while also making it easy to search and browse the feed. It's best known for co-founder Daniel Kottke's parody of Facebook, which he called "The Facebook."

81
3 years ago

A startup to buy and sell mobile phones and accessories. The startup wants to provide a space for people to sell their old phones, keeping them out of the dumpster. The company says it is focused on helping the “unbanked” and the “underbanked”.

81
3 years ago

The founders of this startup say their technology will “democratize access to capital”.

81
3 years ago

A $10-20 billion industry that’s undergoing a massive shift in the way it’s being made. The startup wants to be a large part of that change.

81
3 years ago

An in-house talent acquisition platform for under-resourced companies.

81
2 years ago

A platform for business, enabling companies to add and manage their suppliers on-demand. The company’s founders, who came from a marketing background, say the product is targeted at companies in the $1-10 million range.

81
2 years ago

Y Combinator has been criticized for sometimes playing a role in the demise of startups that they have nurtured. The company has been accused of being "too good" to startups, providing the founders with too much money and support and thus suppressing the risk of failure.

81
4 years ago

A platform to help advise and manage small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The startup’s founder says he wants his product to be like a “low-cost version of Facebook for SMBs”.

80
4 years ago

A startup that allows companies to deliver a customer service experience that is both efficient and personable. The startup is a spinoff of a company called Customer.io, where the founders had to implement a customer service software for a customer support company.

80
4 years ago

A text messaging platform that lets people talk to their family and friends in a language they understand.

80
4 years ago

This startup is building a chatbot to help employers and employees connect with each other, and help employers better understand their employees' needs and how they can help them.

80
4 years ago

A startup that makes a camera that works in underwater settings and can take 1080p video underwater. The startup has launched a $50,000 Kickstarter campaign for a “Nemo” camera.

80
4 years ago

A startup that helps employees in Europe better understand the UK tax system, which has a complicated structure of tax bands and rates.

80
3 years ago

 A dating app that connects singles in the same city. The app works with the two users to schedule a date, with a free trial of the paid service. The founders are former Google employees.

80
2 years ago

The company’s founders are veterans of the music industry, having worked for Sony, Warner, and EMI, and they’re building an artist-management platform.

80
2 years ago

A company that’s building an on-demand food delivery app. It has a few dozen employees and a few dozen customers already, but its founder says he’s eyeing a national launch and plans to grow to hundreds of employees and thousands of customers.

80
4 years ago

A startup that’s building a platform to help retailers better understand their customers. The idea is that retailers can use the platform to track customer behavior, and then use that information to better understand what’s going on inside stores and why customers are making the decisions they do.

79
4 years ago

A San Francisco-based startup that’s building a next-generation financial services platform for the growing population of financially underserved people.

79
4 years ago

An AI-powered product to help companies understand the sentiment around their products. They’re currently working with 100 small and medium sized companies.

79
4 years ago

 A  company that  builds  a  personal  and  professional  portable  credit  score  for  people  who  have  an  unsecured  credit  card  (UCC)  and  don’t  have  the  equipment  to  install  a  credit  card  reader.  For  the  most  unsecured  credit  card  holders,  commonly  known  as  under-banked,  the  company  will  build  a  simple  and  secure  online  credit  application.

79
4 years ago

A tool for merchants to better understand their customers and build out personalized loyalty programs based on their shopping behavior.

79
4 years ago

A platform for selling books in the Philippines, in the same way that Amazon does for books in the US. The startup’s investors include Facebook’s David Marcus, CEO of Coinbase Brian Armstrong, and the co-founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman.

79
4 years ago

A tool that helps organizations track the energy consumption of their buildings. The startup also builds custom-made software to help organizations understand their energy usage.

79
4 years ago

The startup is building a product that helps people pay for their next drink with a tap on a table or a QR code. The startup’s founder, Rajan Rajan, was the founder of the popular brunch spot, The Blind Barber.

79
4 years ago

A company that is building a platform to help restaurant owners and workers manage logistics and inventory. The startup’s founders say their focus is on reducing waste.

79
4 years ago

This startup, founded in May, has a tool that helps companies better understand their financial health. The startup’s software goes through all of a company’s expenses, tracks revenue and profitability and gives employees a report on where all the money is going.

79
4 years ago

A suite of tools for startup founders interested in crowdfunding.

79
4 years ago

A tool to help companies bring their products to market faster. The startup’s founders believe that the traditional development process of building a product from scratch can often be too long and slow.

79
3 years ago

 A free tool for finding, tracking, and understanding the flow of money through a business.

79
2 years ago

Xenti is a product meant to help people generally describe or understand the character of their own data.

79
5 years ago

A platform for connecting people to their favorite foods, which will help people find new foods they might like. The startup’s developers have been known to check out new restaurants and talk to restaurant workers to understand the space.

78
4 years ago

"The market is underserved, and the time is now."

78
4 years ago

A platform to help talented people find jobs in the tech industry. Its founder, Aaron Jaffe, says he’s working with a number of the Valley’s most prominent startups.

78
4 years ago

A company that helps veteran owned businesses get military contracts. They’re looking for a co-founder to help scale their operations.

78
4 years ago

 “The world's most powerful way to compare health care plans.” The startup wants to be the Google of health insurance with their free platform, which covers most people under the Affordable Care Act.

78
4 years ago

A SaaS platform that helps businesses manage their phone calls with a single dashboard that can be accessed from any device. The founders say they’ve already had over 400,000 calls a month through their platform.

78
4 years ago

A credit reporting platform designed to make it easier for borrowers to understand their credit scores and learn from their spending. It was built by a team of three grad students from MIT and TWC Labs, and was launched in July.

78
4 years ago

The company is currently in beta, and the founders say they’re focused on helping businesses with their HR needs.

78
3 years ago

A company that wants to make it easier for people to navigate their social networks, providing a platform for discovering content and communicating with others. The startup also wants to better understand how people see and use social networks. They’re working on a platform that’ll combine all your social media, messaging, and location data.

78
3 years 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.

78
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps brands and agencies plan out their Instagram marketing strategies. The founder is a former head of marketing at Instagram (who worked on its mobile app) and says that brands still have a hard time figuring out how to adapt their advertising to the platform.

77
4 years ago

A startup that creates a digital trail of products for consumers to track and manage, from an item of clothing to a car. The founders aim to make it easy to track your life’s possessions.

77
4 years ago

Has launched in the past year in the US, in areas in which cannabis has been legalized in the past year in states like Ohio, New Jersey, Texas, and California. The company’s founders say they can apply their technology to any state/state-regulated cannabis industry, and are already in business in the US.

77
4 years ago

A startup that lets you ship almost anything to almost anyone in under one day. It’s kind of like Postmates but it’s for people who are buying in bulk.

77
4 years ago

A startup for families to coordinate care for seniors. The founders hope the platform will help caregivers manage care, so they can do things like remind care-givers when the person’s medication needs to be refilled.

77
4 years ago

A digital platform that gives brands the ability to curate, share, and promote content across multiple channels. It’s like Facebook’s “Explore” but for Instagram. The founders say they’ve built a team of over 100 people and are looking to raise $15 million.

77
4 years ago

A 3D printing service for businesses, which promises to bundle all the 3D printing services together so customers can find everything they might need under one roof. The 3D printing startup, which was founded in September 2018, is based in Silicon Valley.

77
4 years ago

In addition to being a founder, Zebra has also built and launched eight startups in the past.

77
4 years ago

A digital tool that helps you know where your car is, even if it’s parked in an underground garage.

77
4 years ago

A machine learning tool that helps people get a better understanding of their data, using machine learning algorithms to spot patterns in data and provide actionable insights.

77
4 years ago

A crowdsourced search engine for finding people to hire for remote work, like the founder of this startup did.

77
3 years ago

 A tool that helps lawyers and small businesses write wills in under an hour

77
3 years ago

A startup for companies to find new employees. The startup’s founders say that their data shows that people are interested in learning about their jobs and company, but don’t know how. The startup’s job posting app helps these people find a new employer.

77
3 years ago

An email marketing platform for retailers, including the ability to auto-calculate discounts. The startup’s founders explain that their goal is to “make the web of the retailer’s customer the same web of the retailer’s customer.”

77
3 years ago

A company that builds Bitcoin mining hardware and wants to make building your own custom mining equipment easier. The founders built the first Blockchain-based mining device over a year ago.

77
5 years ago

A business designed to help musicians market their music and manage it across the web. It’s a unique approach, but the founders say that they’re already working with over 150 artists.

76
4 years ago

A B2B software company that helps hardware manufacturers and distributors sell to retail stores. The company’s founders say that in the past year it’s already signed and closed on 125 deals and has more in the pipeline.

76
4 years ago

A platform that helps people in developing economies get around the inefficiencies of the current financial system. Its founders say that their platform is “an order of magnitude cheaper” than other existing alternatives.

76
4 years ago

The startup’s goal is to “make it easier for people to understand and use automation”. The company’s first product will be a set of educational robots.

76
4 years ago

A software platform that helps recruiters and hiring managers find and hire employees more efficiently and accurately, and helps them understand up-to-date employee data.

76
4 years ago

The startup is a sort of hybrid between a healthcare concierge and a personal shopper. It’s meant to help people who want help with the nuts and bolts of healthcare, like understanding their insurance or talking to doctors.

76
4 years ago

A startup that helps farmers get more out of their sales. The founders say 80% of farmers they work with have never used a website before.

76
4 years ago

A tool that lets brands get feedback from their customers. The startup is building out a platform to let brands understand how their customers are interacting with their brand, which leads to a better customer experience.

76
4 years ago

A digital platform for women, who are often underrepresented in the tech industry, to access and develop their ideas.

76
4 years ago

A health insurance company for under-insured individuals. The startup is building an income-based health insurance plan to cover people who make up to 400% of the federal poverty line.

76
4 years ago

A startup that wants to bring self-driving delivery and home service robots to your home. It’s a simple 3-step process to get a robot to bring you a clean or cooked meal in under 30 minutes.

76
4 years ago

The founder of this startup has said she’s working on “blockchain-based insurance”, which she has described as “insurance without the middleman”.

76
4 years ago

A startup that “connects healthcare providers with patients with different needs,” according to the founders.

76
3 years ago

A software company that provides data and analytics to help businesses better understand customer buying behavior and other key metrics.

76
3 years ago

• How the founders of two startups from opposite sides

76
3 years ago

A mobile-first investment firm with $1 billion under management.

76
3 years ago

 A platform for tutors that helps students better understand how to study for tests by using AI-driven video reviews.

76
4 years ago

A company that helps you better understand your social media habits, so you can better market yourself and your business.

75
4 years ago

Dedicated to helping businesses in the medical device industry, the startup helps manufacturers understand the regulatory landscape for selling medical devices in the US, Canada, and Europe.

75
4 years ago

A startup that uses AI to help companies understand the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns, and change them accordingly.

75
4 years ago

 A platform that helps brands engage with their customers by understanding what they are looking for, their needs, and what they are willing to pay for it.

75
4 years ago

A smart suit that monitors a cyclist’s body and sounds an alert if the cyclist is having a heart attack. Geekster’s founders say that it’s a much cheaper alternative to an electrocardiogram, and only takes a few seconds to measure a person’s heart rate.

75
4 years ago

In 2018, the United States has the largest number of startup founders in the world, and has been for the past few years.

75
4 years ago

This startup is building a platform to help renters manage their finances and manage their utilities. The company’s founders say they want to build a tool that’s cheaper and faster than a traditional bank account and are seeking seed funding.

75
4 years ago

A startup that tracks and analyzes purchase data to help brands understand their customers' spending habits, allowing them to optimize their ads.

75
3 years ago

A new business accelerator based in Silicon Valley, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, that targets African-American tech founders with the goal of “helping them grow their businesses so they can help build the next generation of African-American tech leaders”.

75
3 years ago

A tool that helps small businesses with marketing automation and analytics. The founders say they have 4 clients and 100,000 users.

75
3 years ago

A SaaS platform for enterprise HR teams. The startup is a full-stack service for recruiting and onboarding, but the founders want to add more features to the platform.

75
3 years ago

A tech company that connects customers with small businesses in a particular geographic area to get small-business items delivered to their door in under an hour.

75
3 years ago

A platform that connects home-based businesses, including services like furniture assembly, with customers. The company’s founders say it’s not a home cleaning business, but rather a better solution for customers who need help organizing and scheduling their home cleaning services.

75
2 years ago

A startup that uses computers to teach kids about computer science. The founder, who was a 7th grader when he started, previously built an app that teaches kids about the Internet.

75
4 years ago

 A startup helping startups focus on users, not investors. Mow is a VC that creates a seed round for a startup, but only if the founders agree to give themselves away for free to customers for a year.

74
4 years ago

A tool for real estate agents to help clients make smart decisions about buying houses. The startup is building a toolkit for agents to help their clients follow the market, understand the value of different homes, and make smart decisions.

74
4 years ago

A tool for automating email marketing for businesses. Its founders, having previously built a small email marketing SaaS for startups, were looking for a way to automate the process.

74
4 years ago

A 3-day conference for both founders and investors. It’s a conference for people who have acquired startups at some point in their career and want to learn from others.

74
4 years ago

FuturePundit helps companies in the US and Europe to better understand how consumers’ online comments and reviews will affect their sales, and how such sentiment can be used to decide on future marketing and sales strategies.

74
4 years ago

This is a list of the most promising companies that didn’t meet the criteria for inclusion in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

74
4 years ago

 The founder of this startup is the CEO of a successful full-service SEO consultancy. The startup aims to take the SEO knowledge he used to build his practice and apply it to online marketing.

74
4 years ago

A food delivery app for the under-served neighborhood in the US where food can be delivered to with a minimum amount of driving.

74
4 years ago

A company that lets you tag the notes you take on your computer by voice. It’s a product of a collaboration between the founders of the video editing app Snagit and the note-taking app Evernote.

74
3 years ago

A software company that is looking to build out a data management platform for hospitals and other healthcare institutions, offering a full-stack solution that helps hospitals gain a better understanding of their data.

74
3 years ago

The company’s founders say they are trying to build an affordable solution for people to pay for their dentist and doctor visits in the US.

74
3 years ago

A startup to help customers buy and maintain cars in the US. The company’s investors include Google Ventures and the founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

74
3 years ago

An API for data-driven marketing, connecting resellers and advertisers to understand marketing data in real-time. It’s an infrastructure that sits between the data-providers (like Google or Facebook) and the marketers (like the NFL or Nike) that allows them to access this data easily.

74
3 years ago

A smart and flexible data platform for self-driving cars. Their proprietary technology and algorithms enable cars to understand the world around them. Through a combination of sensors, machine learning, and computer vision, the platform provides a level of situational awareness that’s currently only available to humans.

74
3 years ago

A company that aggregates content from other sites and translates it into different formats to make it easier to consume. For example, if a company wanted to provide their employees with a video training course, they could hire the founders of Istok to help out. It’s a way to make content more accessible to those who can’t read or watch the language of the original site.

74
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that lets you gift someone the ability to see the world, rather than a specific destination. The startup has 2 mentors and 7 founders, all of whom have traveled the world and are building an online community of people who are making the world a better place.

73
4 years ago

A company that promises to make owning a house a more transparent and understandable process for consumers via their online platform known as RealtyShares. The company is a real estate marketplace that uses blockchain technology to help potential home buyers and sellers compare properties to find the best deals on the market.

73
4 years ago

A company that helps companies better understand their user base. They help companies understand where their users are coming from and how they’re interacting with their product.

73
4 years ago

A support tool for the “millennial workforce”, a term the founders use to describe anyone born in the 1980s and 1990s.

73
4 years ago

An anonymous messenger for LGBT teens, aimed at the Mormon community. The startup’s founder says the startup’s customer base is made up of LGBT Mormons who feel the need for a safe place to talk about their sexuality.

73
4 years ago

A software development company that wants to fix the “diversity gap” in Silicon Valley. The company’s co-founder says that men make up around 80% of the tech workforce, and women only 4% (and that the industry is even worse in other parts of the world).

73
4 years ago

A company that provides an online profile management tool. The startup is also working on a beta version of a layer of security around user data. The company's founder originally pitched the idea at Y Combinator in 2014, but the founders decided to pivot to a more stable revenue stream.

73
4 years ago

 A startup that helps healthcare professionals and patients collaborate to improve patient outcomes, and it’s powered by an AI bot. The company’s founders tell us it does all of its work by sending patients personal questions and tracking their responses to them, building a database of their responses to doctors and clinicians.

73
4 years ago

A platform that aims to help marketers understand their customers better by tracking their data, including things like their age, income, education, and location.

73
4 years ago

A startup for hiring cabin cleaners and maids, similar to TaskRabbit. The company's founders say that with the average cleaning job taking about 45 minutes, a service like theirs would be a huge boon to busy modern families.

73
4 years ago

A company that helps companies better understand the psychological data that their customers are taking. The startup is still in its beta phase.

73
3 years ago

A platform to help companies better understand their customers’ demand. The platform looks to be a direct competitor to companies like StrongMail and Marketo.

73
3 years ago

The startup’s founders have held senior roles at Google and LinkedIn

73
3 years ago

This is a software startup that helps people get health insurance. It connects people to health insurance plans, and helps them understand how to use the benefits.

73
4 years ago

This startup makes a paid email system that helps companies avoid GDPR fines. The company’s founders say they’re working with over 100 large European e-commerce sites. It’s currently in private beta.

72
4 years ago

A company that combines data and knowledge to give people a better understanding of their personal data and what they do with it. The startup helps consumers better understand the data collection and usage involved with services like Amazon and Facebook.

72
4 years ago

A startup aimed at helping clients and healthcare providers connect, and make it easier to see data and understand patients.

72
4 years ago

A “smart” contact lens that tracks glucose levels in real time, sending alerts to users’ smartphones. It’s currently in the clinical trial phase, but the founders are working on a commercial version that will be released in 2020.

72
4 years ago

A tool for HR professionals to create training programs on the fly. The company’s co-founder went through a lot of frustration finding training programs for employees, so he wrote his own.

72
4 years ago

A company that makes a looping video meant to be watched from the user’s couch. They’ve raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from investors including Airbnb and Airbnb co-founder, Brian Chesky.

72
4 years ago

A startup that allows users to pay bills and data plans by sending SMS messages. The founder used to work at Groupon and is raising $1.4 million in seed funding.

72
4 years ago

A tool to help you navigate and organize your life, and make sure you’re working toward your goals and not getting distracted. The founders say they want the tool to be the “GPS for your life” and they want to make it easy to add things like workouts and to-do lists.

72
4 years ago

An AI that helps companies discover and understand meaning in text and voice. The product is used by companies like Duolingo, and the startup says it’s profitable and growing.

72
4 years ago

A product for business owners, in which you can sell your products directly in your Shopify store. The company’s founder says there are over 25,000 people in the US using his app.

72
4 years ago

Their product, Mint, is making it easier for people to track their spending, saving and investments and does it in a visual way that helps people understand the effects of their choices.

72
4 years ago

A startup that wants to understand the relationships between different cities to see what will be the most lucrative business opportunities.

72
4 years ago

The idea is to bring together self-employed people under one roof, enabling them to access services like health insurance, taxes, and retirement planning at a discounted price. A&M currently has 10 people signed up and plans to expand to 40 in the next few months.

72
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

An “organization of organizations” that claims to offer an alternative to traditional venture capital, with a focus on helping founders bring their products to market.

72
3 years ago

A chatbot that helps users create a “smart contract” based around their personal preference. Founder David Chen tells me that the bot was built to be a “simple and fun way to teach people about smart contracts and blockchain.”

72
3 years ago

A tool for understanding the impact of your health care spending on your lifestyle and health. A bit like Mint for healthcare, and HealthifyMe for groceries.

72
3 years ago

The Startup Visa allows founders of startup in the U.S. to be able to work in the country for up to 2 years, and is funded by the National Science Foundation.

72
3 years ago

A startup that makes a smart thermostat that uses machine learning to let you know when it’s over- or under-heating.

72
2 years ago

A way to make it easier for non-tech people to code, which they say is a “massive” problem. The company’s founder says that a person with no coding background can be trained in three weeks.

72
4 years ago

A digital platform for the organic food industry to sell directly to customers, with its current focus on e-commerce fulfillment. The founders envision a future where they can send one of the world’s most trusted brands of food directly to your doorstep.

71
4 years ago

“A new way to get into the market,” according to the founders. It’s a mobile app that lets people instantly buy everything they need to get started selling on Amazon.

71
4 years ago

Tachyon is a tool for monitoring and managing service-level agreements. The company’s founders say they’re already working with over 100 customers, and they’ve raised $1.7 million in seed funding.

71
4 years ago

A software product that automatically sends out marketing reminders for things like follow ups, social media posts, and store store openings. The startup’s founder claims that most startups have missed out on the marketing effort because they have forgotten to do marketing.

71
4 years ago

A company that helps retailers manage the inventory they sell online by helping them understand their customer data.

71
4 years ago

A startup that connects consumers and brands to help them buy products online. The founder is a former Google engineer who was a co-founder of Instacart, a grocery delivery service, before launching this startup.

71
4 years ago

This startup’s founders say that the federal government’s tax-reporting process is too complex and that it’s difficult for people to pay their taxes. They’re building a simple, modern, easy-to-use tool that they hope will be used by millions of people.

71
4 years ago

A platform that enables retailers to grow their business, build a community and be profitable. The company is backed by True Ventures, Amazon, and Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield.

71
4 years ago

A chatbot that helps users understand the ins and outs of their retirement accounts.

71
4 years ago

The startup is building a tool that will allow sales teams to better understand and manage customers. Storyline works to allow sales reps to better understand their prospects, their sales processes and their customers.

71
4 years ago

In addition to the last column, each company’s founders would be listed in the “people” category. In the case where a company has multiple founders, alphabetical order is used.

71
4 years ago

Based in New York, this startup uses blockchain to secure a direct bond between two people who want to be financial partners. A single digital bond is created, secure and licensed by law, that can be traded and used like a stock. The company is backed by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin.

71
3 years ago

A platform for building and selling internet of things products, with focus on security and ease of integration. The startup’s founder and an ex-Facebook engineer are both ex-Google employees and are currently expanding to the US.

71
3 years ago

A platform that helps small businesses and consumers understand where their food comes from.

71
3 years ago

A B2B platform for companies that need to track product inventory at the point of sale for customers. The founders say it’s the biggest product in their portfolio and that it’s “growing like crazy”. They’re currently wrapping up a $1.5M seed round, and working with companies like Shopify and Zendesk.

71
3 years ago

A product launched by the founder of the popular Foodspotting app, which aims to make it easier for people to find and share tasty food photos.

71
3 years ago

A SaaS startup that manages the entire process of creating and distributing digital marketing content. The founders are former Google employees.

71
3 years ago

A platform that helps users track the use of their credit cards to help them understand their spending habits. The company has a product that they’ve been using for a few years and is now pivoting to a new version.

71
4 years ago

A digital representation of a physical card game for the internet, replacing the physical card deck with a virtual one. The startup’s founder says they’re close to the top 500 in the iPhone app store. They have a few hundred users.

70
4 years ago

A tool that teaches people how to be more productive, launching in the fall of 2019. The founders describe their product as a "Netflix for productivity".

70
4 years ago

The founder of this startup wants to bring the benefits of the Internet of Things to the point of sale. The company is building a system that will allow consumers to interact with products in a more intuitive way.

70
4 years ago

A tool for salespeople to generate new leads. The company’s co-founder used to go on sales calls where he’d be asked to generate leads, but then sit on his hands for days while he waited for new leads to appear. So he built a tool that automated this process, which has already generated 500 leads.

70
4 years ago

Plaid is a startup that wants to help companies get a better understanding of their customers through social media like Twitter and Facebook. The company wants to build a product that helps companies understand who their customers are, what they like, and if they should be spending money on ads.

70
4 years ago

This company is building a platform that connects real estate agents with short-term rentals, making it easier for agents to make money. The startup's founders are both previous Airbnb employees.

70
4 years ago

Focusing on the production side of the cannabis industry, Vite helps growers track their crop through harvest, packaging, labeling, shipping, and aging. Co-founder Pravin Patel says they built the software for half a million dollars in seed funding, and are working with other cannabis companies to deliver their software.

70
4 years ago

The Startup Genome is a resource for founders and investors. It covers early stage startups and is a non-profit that helps entrepreneurs, investors, and mentors. The Startup Genome aims to improve the ecosystem by providing entrepreneurs with data to help guide their decisions and spread best practices.

70
4 years ago

The company’s co-founder, who is also a partner at Y Combinator, tells us “If you have a lot of money, you can go to the beach. If you don’t, you can go to the beach.”

70
4 years ago

A startup that’s building a subscription service for which tech-savvy people share their homes for short periods of time to help make them more affordable for other people. The founders already have over 1,000 customers.

70
3 years ago

A startup that, according to its founders, is “building the best platform for marketers to use data to create great campaigns and experiences.”

70
3 years ago

The founders of this startup want to change the way we think about the trustworthiness of online reviews. The way reviews are currently created and used has been a problem for a long time, and it’s only going to get worse.

70
3 years ago

The founders of this startup are trying to create a platform that allows users to share their favorite moments from movies.

70
3 years ago

A product for doctors to use in the exam room to help them understand what their patients need and how to provide it.

70
3 years ago

In 2018, YC Labs selected a total of 36 startups from the batch to continue on to the next phase of the program. The majority of the founders were based in the US, with three from Israel, two from Canada and one each from Germany, Singapore, Thailand, Netherlands, Hong Kong, France, Hungary, India and England.

70
3 years ago

A video analytics app that helps companies understand customer and product engagement.

70
4 years ago

A company that provides software to help companies keep track of and make sense of their data. The company aims to help companies understand their data and make better decisions.

69
4 years ago

A ‘smart’ dog collar that monitors your dog’s vital signs remotely. It has built-in sensors for walking, running, walking backwards, walking on a treadmill, walking in the rain, walking up hills, walking down hills, walking indoors, walking under water, walking into the street, walking into the pool, walking into the lake, walking into the ocean, walking into the lake, walking into the pool, walking backwards, walking inside, walking backwards, walking indoors, walking backwards, walking backwards. Also has a voice recognition system, so you can talk to your dog at the same time.

69
4 years ago

A startup that works with brands to help them better understand their customers, providing data science and AI solutions for things like email marketing, customer service, etc.

69
4 years ago

 Slack is a chat app for team communication. The company’s founders want to build a Slack app that integrates with other platforms, such as Basecamp or Asana.

69
4 years ago

A software company that helps companies better understand their customer data and make customer service more effective by starting with their customer journey.

69
4 years ago

A replacement for the “shitty” conference call or conference voice chat apps that clutter your phone. The startup wants to use a sophisticated system of algorithms to filter through all of the crappy conference calls that happen in your daily life. The company’s founders say these calls are distracting, and in some places illegal.

69
4 years ago

A tool for recording what you eat and understanding its effects on your body.

69
3 years ago

A startup that uses artificial intelligence to create “magic” applications that can read and interpret data in multiple formats and present it in visual and understandable ways.

69
3 years ago

This startup is building a tool for companies to connect with their customers and employees, using AI to help them understand the conversations happening in their networks.

69
3 years ago

The founders of this startup are veterans of the tech industry, and they want to help veterans get jobs in tech, using their network of connections who know companies looking for talent.

69
3 years ago

A place where people can shop for high-end, cheap, and secondhand sunglasses. The startup’s founders are a pair of optics industry veterans with an idea for a pair of industry-focused sunglasses, and a desire to sell them directly to consumers.

69
3 years ago

A utility that helps businesses track and understand their employees’ energy and water usage. As a startup in the energy sector, it's aiming to "help businesses save money, increase energy efficiency and reduce pollution."

69
3 years ago

This startup is building a “utility-style” credit score, combining three common traditional credit scores into one. It’s meant to be a “definitive score” that’s transparent, easy to understand and is suitable for non-traditional credit.

69
2 years ago

A company that tracks a person’s productivity and helps them understand how they can be more productive. It’s a digital productivity coach.

69
4 years ago

“A platform that connects people with the power of AI to help them understand their financial position in real time.” The startup wants to help users make smarter financial decisions.

68
4 years ago

A digital insurance company, providing underwriting services for startups.

68
4 years ago

A tool for understanding what people are saying on Twitter and then helping them get more followers, for a price.

68
4 years ago

A company that uses machine learning to analyze the content of a person’s voice to figure out how they sound and what they’re saying. The company says that it can help companies improve customer service by understanding the context of a call and tailoring the appropriate response.

68
4 years ago

A new way to categorize the world’s natural resources, and the goal is to help governments better understand where the world’s resources are.

68
4 years ago

A medical device that can detect breast cancer, in a more affordable and less invasive way than current tools. It’s not FDA approved yet, but the founders say they have been talking to a number of medical companies that have expressed interest.

68
4 years ago

A company that helps business owners “sell their soul”. The startup turns businesses into franchises, allowing them to sell their brand to others, who buy the rights to use it. The idea is that the founders of the business “sell” them to a network of franchisees who can make money off it.

68
3 years ago

A SaaS company that aggregates information from different blockchain networks to help organizations understand which ones they should trust.

68
3 years ago

A platform that helps clients and teams track and manage project plans. The cloud-based platform is used by professional services firms, marketing agencies, and retail companies, with the company’s founders saying they’ve already grown to over $100 million in annual revenue.

68
3 years ago

A startup that builds and sells a tool for restaurants to manage their food costs, both inside and outside of their restaurants. The founder said it’s a complicated space, with lots of moving parts and big, regional differences.

68
3 years ago

A platform that helps businesses manage their financials and accounts, organizing information in a way that makes it easy to understand and use.

68
3 years ago

Twelve months ago, the founders of this startup were trying to find a better way to communicate with their patients. Today they’re launching a digital health platform that lets providers manage patient records, schedule appointments, and communicate with patients.

68
3 years ago

Building a system to help the underbanked get basic financial services

68
3 years ago

This company wants to bring “disruption to the world of academic assessment” with a service that integrates analytics and data from multiple sources, allowing students to have a better understanding of their grades.

68
3 years ago

Tapping into the underutilized expertise of the hotel industry, a startup is building software that helps hotels find and hire the right employees, from housekeeping to front desk to maintenance. The software aggregates online listings from local job sites, and then works with a candidate’s information to determine the best fit for the opening. The startup is also working with the hotel to get the word out about the opening to their customers.

68
3 years ago

A startup that is building a platform that allows users to manage their investments in a way that they’re comfortable with. The founders say they want to help people invest in stocks without having to think about it.

68
2 years ago

This startup is building a tool that helps retailers and their customers sort and track returns. According to the founders, the company is on track for a $1 million seed round.

68
2 years ago

A startup that’s building an e-commerce platform for start-ups in India. The company’s founders say they’ve already struck partnerships with more than 1,000 merchants and have more than 400,000 registered users.

68
4 years ago

A startup that helps users find the best rates on credit cards, loans, and insurance. They also provide tools to help people understand their credit score, get a financial plan, and get access to the best rates. The company is currently having trouble funding their expansion, but they are continuing to get new customers.

67
4 years ago

A tool that helps sales and customer service reps reconcile sales orders and invoices, and also helps them better understand and resolve customer complaints. It has over $1.7 million in funding so far.

67
4 years ago

 A company that helps companies with digital marketing by providing software and data to help them better understand customer behavior.

67
4 years ago

A company that helps companies build apps that understand the context of their users. The company has raised $2.5 million.

67
4 years ago

The founders of this toolset are building an app that lets drivers find gas stations in their area.

67
4 years ago

One of the founders is a former Google employee and the company is trying to make it easier to manage your VPS. They have a landing page that includes a free trial and a free account.

67
4 years ago

 Handscomb is building a “location-aware” dog collar that lets pet owners know when they leave their dog alone. The startup’s founders say the collar is more humane than a traditional shock collar, letting owners know when their dogs are alone.

67
4 years ago

A tool for designers to understand how to use their designs across different devices, with the visualizability of a tool like Photoshop.

67
4 years ago

A seed-stage seed fund that invests in startups in Latin America. The fund is building a $300 million fund with the goal of underwriting $100 million in deals over the next three years.

67
4 years ago

A platform for hiring and managing freelance workers. The founders want to create a platform that is more like Amazon Mechanical Turk than Upwork.

67
4 years ago

This is a service that helps businesses identify their most valuable clients in order to better understand what they want and need.

67
4 years ago

A software that helps brands and retailers to understand how their products and brand images are perceived.

67
4 years ago

This group of investors is working on a new kind of credit score that factors in a person’s ability to pay back a loan. The startup aims to help borrowers quickly understand and compare the information available to them in order to make their own credit decisions.

67
4 years ago

A company that helps people find the right credit union by asking them questions via text, with the goal of helping under-banked people save money.

67
3 years ago

A startup that finds freelance developers to build things for you, in a country where developers are an underutilized resource.

67
3 years ago

Issac Williams, cofounder of DevOps startup OpsGenie, is a serial entrepreneur who has founded

67
3 years ago

Building a platform that helps companies find and hire great talent. The founders spent years working on their own startup before realizing they needed to find a better way to hire workers. The platform has been used by companies like Paypal and Google to find talent.

67
3 years ago

A company that helps users track and manage their cryptocurrency assets, in a manner similar to their competitor Coinbase. The company is funded by the founders of Bibox, a Chinese exchange that has been involved in controversy before and has had expensive legal battles against the IRS.

67
3 years ago

A personalized research assistant that can help you figure out the traits of your best friends and understand human behavior, with data visualizations and quizzes

67
3 years ago

A mobile app for helping people learn Spanish. The startup is looking for a co-founder to help it grow.

67
3 years ago

A health management tool for physicians and patients alike. The tool uses AI to help users understand the importance of diet, exercise and other wellness metrics, which can help a patient track their health and make better lifestyle decisions.

67
3 years ago

A tool that helps people visualize and analyze their credit data in a way that simplifies the process of understanding their credit score and improving it.

67
4 years ago

An iOS app by the founders of the popular Evernote business note-taking app that allows users to write and save notes on their phones.

66
4 years ago

A startup that uses a “rules engine” to provide a predictive model for understanding the relationship between various risk factors and their effects on health.

66
3 years ago

Software that helps people manage the annoying and complicated practice of setting up a new home in the US. The company’s founder, who is an engineer in Brazil, built the app to help friends and family move.

66
3 years ago

A company that "helps you understand your investments by using your own data and not just the data of expensive investment banks."

66
3 years ago

A workflow tool for teams — helping to “increase the average person’s effectiveness by 20%,” in cofounder and CEO Russ Jones’ words.

66
3 years ago

A social sharing platform for bloggers and startup founders.

66
3 years ago

The founders of this startup want to use AI and machine learning to help people in developing countries gain access to medical services.

66
3 years ago

A crowdfunding platform for founders to raise capital from their network of friends and family.

66
3 years ago

An AI-based platform that helps businesses understand how they’re being paid, where they’re being paid, and which invoices are being paid first.

66
3 years ago

A tool that helps you re-use code across your web, mobile, and desktop applications, by allowing you to link your code to an API. The startup’s co-founder says that after launching in April 2019, they’ve already signed up 600 customers.

66
3 years ago

Helps consumers better understand their food, helping them pick out healthier options by analyzing nutrition data and providing nutrition information through easy-to-use tools.

66
3 years ago

A digital platform for understanding how customers interact with your product in order to drive new products and improvements.

66
3 years ago

A three-year-old startup that offers a social networking platform for people who are underrepresented in the tech industry — women and minorities.

66
3 years ago

A platform that allows players to build and play their own video games. It’s currently in its beta stage, but the founders plan to launch in 2020.

66
3 years ago

A cloud-based IT services company that provides managed cloud services to businesses. The company has $100,000 in monthly recurring revenue, according to the founder.

66
2 years ago

A company that’s building an on-demand, on-site car rental service for major cities in the US and the UK. It’s a bit like Zipcar, but the company’s co-founder says they’re focused on “long term” agreements.

66
2 years ago

A startup that creates apps that allow people to visualize their financial data in ways they can understand.

66
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that provides a full-stack CRM for nonprofit organizations. The founders claim the product has a 3x conversion rate compared to other major players, and is focused on helping nonprofits do more for less money.

65
4 years ago

Tired of waiting for your toothpaste to dry PictureTec wants to eliminate that problem with a device that heats your toothpaste up to allow you to brush it out completely. The device has a small fan that heats up to just under boiling, which they say keeps the toothpaste from drying out too quickly.

65
4 years ago

A startup that builds and manages websites for businesses. Barter.com is an online marketplace that allows vendors and buyers to connect. The company helps them understand and take advantage of the benefits of the marketplace and acts as a liaison between buyers and sellers.

65
4 years ago

This startup wants to make it easy for anyone with a bad credit score to get a loan. The company’s co-founder says that when running a small business, it’s likely that they know the person they’re dealing with personally. The company uses that advantage to provide a personalized loan experience.

65
4 years ago

The startup's founders have been driving customer growth for companies like Lyft, Instacart, and Delivery Hero. After the US, they're going global and they're looking to build a customer service app called Enter, which they say can help companies grow faster by building and managing customer relationships.

65
4 years ago

A software platform that helps businesses monitor and manage apps and data. The startup’s software helps companies understand how they’re using their apps to make better decisions.

65
4 years ago

A management platform for connecting sales reps with clients, currently only available in the UK. The company’s co-founder was previously the CEO of the UK’s largest recruitment search engine.

65
4 years ago

A company that aims to help retailers understand customer data and make better consumer decisions. They say they’ve built a platform for retailers to “assess buyer preferences”, and have gained the attention of big name retailers.

65
4 years ago

A startup that connects people who have similar goals and passions. The company has received $1.8 million in funding from a range of investors including Greylock, Greylock-backed Founder Collective, and Y Combinator.

65
3 years ago

A platform that helps the medical community make more informed decisions through data. HealthLoop cofounders are former Apple engineers who say they’ve built a prototype.

65
3 years ago

The company’s founders say they’re working with over 3,000 small businesses in the UK.

65
3 years ago

A journal of short fiction that tells the stories of founders, investors, and entrepreneurs on the Y Combinator platform.

65
3 years 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.

65
3 years ago

A tool to help power the operations of a new generation of Internet of Things devices. The company’s founders have been building IoT products for a decade but are now looking to bring their expertise to a new platform.

65
3 years ago

This is a service for designers, who have to put up with clients who don’t understand what they’re trying to say, who use technical jargon and who don’t really grasp how to communicate a message. So, they’re building a platform to help designers communicate more effectively.

65
3 years ago

A media company that helps content creators find sponsors for their work. The company’s founders are former employees at the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

65
3 years ago

An artificial intelligence-powered analytics platform that helps healthcare companies better understand their products, customers and communications.

65
3 years ago

The founders of Zapier want to make it easy to set up a set of apps to automatically trigger each other. They say they have over 35,000 users and are profitable.

65
3 years ago

A platform that helps companies hire talent. The business is aimed at companies with under 100 employees.

65
3 years ago

A business that helps people who are in professional roles in different markets connect over video. Its founders say that their product, which launched in May, already has more than 1,000 paying customers.

65
3 years ago

A company that helps big companies automate their marketing and sales teams. One of the co-founders used to manage the sales teams at Rackspace, and she noticed that the same tasks were being repeated over and over again.

65
2 years ago

The co-founders of the company are looking to create a “social network for gamers”

65
4 years ago

Borrower.io is a platform for lenders to manage their loan portfolios, helping them get a better understanding of their loan data and the performance of their loans.

64
4 years ago

A tool for supply chain companies to better understand the supply chain, make better decisions, and help with planning and forecasting.

64
4 years ago

A wearable device designed for women to track sleep. The founders say their design and concept is inspired by the experience of their own mothers, and specifically the struggles they had with sleep disorders.

64
4 years ago

A startup that helps digital marketers understand which of their customers are most engaged on social media, with tools to measure various factors.

64
4 years ago

A startup that sells data visualization software for businesses that helps them understand customer behavior and trends.

64
3 years ago

A startup that helps understand the benefits of a given ingredient, by tracking how it compares to other ingredients.

64
3 years ago

A data visualization tool that helps companies and brands understand social media conversations around them.

64
3 years ago

A 1-hour (or longer) video Q&A series where founders answer all of your developer questions, in a format that is short, fast, and to the point.

64
3 years ago

Mathematica is an analytics tool for schools that helps teachers track student data and improve education. The founders say that the company has already helped over a million students.

64
3 years ago

A $1-per-month app that helps users track their carbon footprint. Love.co is focused on helping users understand the environmental impacts of their daily habits, such as their food purchases, travel choices, and their energy usage.

64
3 years ago

A platform for helping the world’s unbanked and underbanked via mobile banking.

64
3 years ago

A tool created by the co-founders of Bazaarvoice that helps businesses better manage their marketing campaigns.

64
3 years ago

A supply chain management platform that helps companies discover when they are overstocked, and when they are undersold.

64
3 years ago

A company that provides business intelligence for SaaS software. The startup helps its clients understand customer churn and use that to optimize their customer acquisition efforts.

64
3 years ago

A tool to help small businesses manage their operations. The company’s founder says that the product helps companies lower their operating costs by as much as 15% and increase their revenue by up to 15%.

64
3 years ago

 After selling their hardware startup Linear, the founders of the company started SaaS software startup Level which is building out an integrated package to help people manage their finances. Level’s goal is to be a one-stop-shop for checking your credit scores and loans, and paying bills.

64
3 years ago

A company that wants to make a low-cost alternative to buying an iPhone. The startup aims to offer only unlocked iPhones at a lower price than the one that carriers charge. The founders say they've built a working model and have been selling the first batch of phones since June.

64
4 years ago

A meeting scheduler for small businesses. It’s designed to be easy to use for simple scheduling, and free for five people. The founders say that they’ve got customers in the Bay area, and plans to expand to the East Coast in the next year.

63
4 years ago

is building an AI platform that aims to make it easy for companies to understand the implications of the use of personal data.

63
4 years ago

A data science platform that helps companies understand their customers better with AI-based tools and AI-powered insights. The startup is based in New York City and is backed by Y Combinator and SV Angel.

63
4 years ago

A tool to help you figure out how to best measure a person’s data across their entire life, including health, work and leisure. The startup’s founders say they’ve already spoken to Fortune 500 companies about their solution.

63
4 years ago

A company building solutions in the area of AI, applied to consumer marketing, is looking to help salespeople close deals by asking them questions. The startup’s founders say that it helps salespeople become more efficient at closing deals by asking questions like “What are you looking for” and “What are you not sure about”

63
4 years ago

 A company that helps investors make money off the volatility of a company’s stock. The startup’s founders say the company has processed over $100 million in trades.

63
3 years ago

A startup out of the London School of Economics that’s building a platform to help startup founders create their own student organizations.

63
3 years ago

A virtual assistant that helps you to “learn more and do more”. It uses machine learning to automatically generate study schedules that help you understand the material, and then adapts them to your progress.

63
3 years ago

A startup that helps AI-powered personal assistants and smart speakers understand the spoken words and phrases of their users, and then build answers in response, rather than just answer questions.

63
3 years ago

 A web interface for translating websites and files. Translate.me was originally built by two Israeli engineers as a way to translate documents from Hebrew to English or English to Hebrew. Translate.me is currently free, but the founders say they want to move into a freemium model for larger teams.

63
3 years ago

A company that provides technology to help consumers manage their spend, helping them understand which brands they love and which ones to avoid.

63
3 years ago

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

63
3 years ago

This startup helps healthcare companies take better care of their employees and their families. They say they’re also working on making health insurance more accessible to the under-insured in India.

63
2 years ago

An online marketplace for buying, selling, and renting tech gadgets. Right now, it’s a platform only for selling gadgets, but the founders say they’d like to expand it to an online store for buying and renting gadgets.

63
2 years ago

The company’s founder says that “adding a photo is a process.” pic.twitter.com/LUY6dMtZH3 — Ryan Mac (@RMac18) August 9, 2019

63
4 years ago

a startup that wants to help people understand how they are spending their money. The startup wants to provide an easy-to-use dashboard of monthly spending to help people decide where to cut back.

62
4 years ago

A mobile app for hotels that helps them better understand and serve their customers. The app provides analytics and tools for marketing, and helps hotels improve their own offer by factoring in real-time data from the customers themselves.

62
4 years ago

A mobile payments app that lets people transfer money between their friends. The startup's founders say they're currently seeing over 5,000 users per month.

62
3 years ago

An AI-powered assistant for the deaf, built with natural language understanding and the ability to understand tone and context.

62
3 years ago

A platform for small business loans in Nigeria. The startup wants to offer loans within 24-hours in Lagos, Nigeria, by connecting underbanked micro and small businesses to banks.

62
3 years ago

A company that helps determine if a loan is worth making. Fundera’s technology is based on smart contacts, which match up borrowers and lenders and run predictive analytics to determine if a loan is worth making.

62
3 years ago

A software company that helps companies audit their supply-chains. The company’s founders say the startup has already helped clients like Target, Procter & Gamble, and DHL to save on several hundred millions in inventory.

62
3 years ago

This startup uses machine learning and big data to analyze hundreds of thousands of documents to help companies understand their global culture and make changes in the way they do business.

62
3 years ago

The founder of the company, a guy named John, started coding Windows in the 1990s, and has since been working with Microsoft as a technical advisor. He’s now building a new social media platform that aggregates all the social media sites from around the world into one place, with the goal of creating a single, unified platform for social media for the world.

62
3 years ago

1. Startup founders who were born in the 1980s that graduated from top universities

62
2 years ago

This startup is building a software platform that makes it easier for salespeople to get a better understanding of what their customers want and need.

62
2 years ago

A company that helps employers create a culture that’s “pro-inclusion”. The startup launched in early august, and the founders say they’ve already been contacted by organizations looking to use the tool.

62
4 years ago

A tool for compliance at a healthcare company to help them understand, control, and report on their compliance.

61
4 years ago

A startup that’s building a library management software for libraries. The company wants to cater to a market that’s been underserved by libraries and wants to provide them with a product that can manage the collections and the collections management of patrons.

61
4 years ago

Instead of using a team of people to go and measure your house, the founders of Wallflower have created a system that helps you take photographs of the interior of your house that you can post to social media with just the push of a button.

61
4 years ago

A data analysis tool for product managers and marketers, helping them to better understand what their customers are doing on their app.

61
3 years ago

A business intelligence platform for retailers, that allows them to better understand their customers, so they can make better decisions about what to sell and where to sell it.

61
3 years ago

A company that aims to help companies evaluate their sales pipelines, using data and predictive models to help businesses predict how they should allocate resources. A platform that helps companies understand how to optimize their sales pipeline.

61
3 years ago

A company that wants to move the world away from screen-based learning to more hands-on learning. Whether it be through a LEGO kit or the latest augmented reality app, they’re making the physical world easier to understand.

61
3 years ago

A tool designed to help restaurant employees track and manage tips. The startup builds a CRM for the restaurant employees that helps them manage and track tips and better understand their customers.

61
3 years ago

A system for keeping track of and organizing your food, in the same vein as the company’s app, Wunderlist. The company says the app is used by 75 million people.

61
3 years ago

A platform for bringing business-to-business companies together. The founders want to make blockchain-based business networks into the next generation of business.

61
3 years ago

Allianz is building a tool to help their agents and brokers better understand insurance policy details, helping them make decisions on complex policies.

61
3 years ago

A personalized, gamified tablet game that teaches science concepts and helps students better understand the world around them.

61
3 years ago

A “fintech” company that aims to help banks and their customers get a better understanding of their credit risks, and a better picture of the risk they’re taking on.

61
3 years ago

A company that builds a data platform for consumers, helping them understand what they're buying and how to get the most value out of their purchases. The company's team includes Los Angeles Times business reporter Scott Peterson.

61
3 years ago

A brand-new startup that offers a way for people to share their data with companies for research. The startup wants to incentivize more people to share their medical data with researchers who can use it to better understand how diseases spread.

61
3 years ago

A startup in the US that does “intelligence” for underwriters, helping them make better business decisions based on data.

61
3 years ago

A collaboration platform for teams used at companies like Facebook, Uber, and Airbnb. The company’s founder left his last job at Uber to work on the startup full-time.

61
3 years ago

A startup to help the underprivileged in the U.S. with legal aid.

61
3 years ago

A mobile app that helps you find a yoga studio in your area, and then book classes at the studio you want. Yoga studios often have limited space, but the founders say their app can help you find a spot if you don’t want to wait for your favorite studio to open up.

61
3 years ago

An analytics platform for credit unions that wants to help them understand their customers better.

61
3 years ago

An online marketplace for buying and selling of used medical equipment. The founders say that the market for medical equipment is $35 billion and growing.

61
3 years ago

A credit card processing startup that helps small businesses get their cards in under 12 hours.

61
3 years ago

A web-based learning platform to help people get a better understanding of how their health insurance works, and compare the cost and benefits of a variety of plans.

61
2 years ago

A startup for brand ambassadors to earn money on their social media channels. The company’s founders say that it’s growing quickly, and that they’re already working with 50 brands and have over 1,000 ambassadors.

61
4 years ago

In 2015, when asked about the app, founder and CEO of Asana, Dustin Moskovitz, said, "...it's not like you would have to go through and check every single piece of content on Facebook. It's not that hard to check if it's a link to a website. ... But we can't be 100% sure that the link is safe. And you want a social network that's not going to take you down."

60
4 years ago

The startup is building a visual interface to help people understand which businesses they’ve interacted with via email. It aims to make the process of collaborating with businesses easy and engaging.

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
3 years ago

 A software provider that helps companies with their data security and privacy. The founders say the company is growing fast, because the startup helps clients “focus on the things that matter”.

60
3 years ago

A B2B app that helps companies understand the best way to engage their customers and secure new ones.

60
3 years ago

A small team of founders in San Francisco who work on tools that allow people in the developing world to create mobile apps.

60
3 years ago

This company wants to help people understand their relationships with their health, from the medications they take to the doctors they see.

60
3 years ago

A startup for organizations to send job applications to applicants in one place. The founders say that their app is already in use by a large number of organizations.

60
3 years ago

A platform that helps parents manage their children’s everything from school and extracurricular activities to college visits and birthdays. The founders say they’ve launched a beta version of the platform that lets parents order and schedule activities, and set rules around cancelling and rescheduling. The founders also have a personal story about how their startup led them to discover their company’s mission.

60
3 years ago

The company’s team is remotely based in Costa Rica and the company’s co-founder is originally from Costa Rica.

60
3 years ago

A Chinese startup that wants to help companies understand the value of all the data they’re collecting.

60
3 years ago

The company’s co-founder and CEO, Ryan Williams, previously co-founded an online ticket co-op and a ticketing software company.

60
3 years ago

A virtual assistant that’s designed to understand the nuances of a particular business or industry and help customers find the right product or service.

60
3 years ago

A tool to help companies fundraise more effectively, including structured events where key people pitch to funders.

60
3 years ago

A delivery service for fresh produce and groceries, with a focus on the underserved health-conscious market. The startup is targeting both urban and rural areas as well as senior consumers.

60
3 years ago

A company that takes the messiness of personal finances and makes them simple and easy to understand.

60
3 years ago

A tool to help families with autism and their caregivers better understand how to communicate with their children.

60
2 years ago

A banking app for the underbanked in India. It’s like a money transfer app plus a savings account.

60
4 years ago

The founders of this startup have been working on a mobile-first platform since 2010. Now they’re building a mobile-only social network focused on young urban professionals.

59
4 years ago

 A startup that wants to help people use their own existing content as a source for their brands. It’s essentially a feed builder for social media, where a user can build a feed from their own feed. The startup’s founders say they’ve reached 10,000 users right after launching, and have doubled in size in the past month.

59
4 years ago

Part of Y Combinator’s revised application process, revised from the one from the summer, includes a video introduction from the founders. Some of the founders have also been blogging about their experiences.

59
4 years ago

A digital platform that brings together the power of brick-and-mortar shops, online orders, and customer loyalty programs under one roof.

59
4 years ago

A tool that helps organizations understand how marketing is performing and correlate it to the bottom line.

59
3 years ago

An analytics company that helps retailers, e-commerce companies, and brands understand all their marketing activity at a granular level to make more informed decisions.

59
3 years ago

Fancy brings together a range of services and products under one umbrella, with a focus on customer service and support.

59
3 years ago

Develops and delivers a solution to help people understand and visualize their online privacy and security.

59
3 years ago

A tool to help founders and engineers create and distribute their personal blog posts.

59
3 years ago

A way to find and pay for a plumber in under 15 minutes.

59
3 years ago

A company that builds a tool to help B2B marketers better understand their customer’s attitudes.

59
3 years ago

A tool that helps businesses better understand why they’re losing customers, and what they can do to fix the problem.

59
3 years ago

ScienT is a company that’s using machine-learning algorithms to help doctors understand how to treat cancer.

59
3 years ago

A tool meant for teams to create and manage action plans to increase productivity in the workplace. It’s a tool that organizes the information you need to be more productive in a way that’s easy to understand.

59
3 years ago

A direct-to-consumer platform for renting out unused or underused commercial space in your home or building, which can be rented at competitive rates through the website.

59
3 years ago

A “startup founded on the belief that everyone, regardless of their race or religion, should have a fair and equal opportunity to achieve success and wealth”. The founders say that their business is founded on a bottom-up, local and accessible model that would allow communities to help themselves. The company will start by focusing on the South and the Midwest as their first markets.

59
3 years ago

A suite of apps designed to help people with autism “manage emotions, manage relationships, and understand the world around them.”

59
3 years ago

The founder of B2B startup, which is building a texting app for the B2B space, gives the startup a lot of credit for the fact that it was able to raise over $30 million in funding in less than a year.

59
3 years ago

A tool for consumers to check the square footage of homes they want to buy, which the founders say has a large market in the U.S.

59
3 years ago

A blockchain startup whose sole focus is on the underbanked and unbanked in Peru. The startup wants to help families build savings accounts and get connected to financial services.

59
4 years ago

A startup that uses machine learning to help people build their own personalized itineraries. The company's founders say they have a lot of B2B customers. They currently have a few hundred paying customers.

58
4 years ago

A SaaS platform that helps multinational companies grow in emerging markets. The startup’s founders say they’ve had over 50% growth in the last six months.

58
4 years ago

A system that brings together everything from a company’s website, social accounts, emails, past financial records, etc. under one place.

58
4 years ago

A tool to help companies hire and manage a distributed workforce in the age of on-demand services. In a world of on-demand services, companies are looking for tools that will allow them to manage the people who work for them. Jobbird’s founders have already turned down $500,000 in investment.

58
4 years ago

Market research tool that gathers data on amateur athletes and coaches. The company’s founder says they’ve already signed up 8,000 coaches and they’re growing fast.

58
3 years ago

A crowdfunding platform for artworks, allowing backers to acquire and sell works in a market that is currently severely underserved.

58
3 years ago

The premium version of the popular chat client Discord. The founders are building a product that helps smaller, independent developers book services and manage their own store. The company says it’s the only app that lets users build their own store.

58
3 years ago

This a personal-finance app that helps people track their spending and come up with a plan for paying off loans. The founders say it’s one of the most active finance apps in Japan.

58
3 years ago

The founders of this B2B fintech startup aim to improve the way banks and other financial institutions provide financial planning advice. They aim to do this by connecting banks with the people who know best how to invest, how much to save, and how to invest.

58
3 years ago

The founders hope to start a movement to change the way doctors think about their relationship with their patients by creating a new way for people to manage their health, which could save millions of people from medical mistakes, unnecessary procedures, and more.

58
3 years ago

A health monitoring startup that aims to improve health by using smartwatch data to help understand the correlation between sleep, diet, and activity.

58
3 years ago

A financial services firm that helps business owners manage their finances. The firm’s founder, 19-year-old Christopher Cagney, says he came up with the idea after he saw a “bunch of people who had been ripped off” by their banks.

58
3 years ago

A tool for small teams to manage projects and projects. The founders say that they want to create a new class of company, the “Project Manager”.

58
3 years ago

Libra is building a platform to help over 100,000 publishers and digital publishers increase their revenue by a whopping 90% by helping them convert subscribers into customers. Libra’s founders say that the average revenue per user is around $10, and the service wants to help them grow that to $50.

58
3 years ago

A free social networking app where users can connect with people and businesses they trust, with the goal of building relationships that could help them in the future. The founders believe their social network will also become a valuable tool for salespeople.

58
3 years ago

A pay-as-you-go delivery service that brings groceries straight to your door. Its founders say they’re currently profitable, but the plan is to raise more capital later this year.

58
3 years ago

“A platform for data-driven marketing”. It’s a platform that pulls from Facebook and Instagram and Google to understand what your family and friends are interested in, and makes a recommendation based on that data.

58
3 years ago

A startup that develops an algorithm that helps websites understand what people search for and display their results in ways that drive more traffic.

58
2 years ago

An AI-powered, self-learning personal assistant that handles the mundane, boring tasks of daily life. The company’s founders say it can organize your schedule, set reminders, and even order takeout.

58
4 years ago

A “smart” train that can read and understand which cars are unoccupied and stop them from being sent down the tracks.

57
3 years ago

A company that sells handcrafted greeting cards in a variety of designs and styles. The startup is one of the few that has the ability to make all of its designs from scratch, and its founders say that it has a very loyal customer base.

57
3 years ago

We’re in the middle of a renaissance of public speaking, with the rise of social media, and a rise in the popularity of TED Talks. But there’s a gaping hole where public speaking training and public speaking coaching should be. The founders of VLIVE want to solve the problem by providing live public speaking training and coaching to individuals based on their level of comfort.

57
3 years ago

A startup that wants to translate financial services paperwork into natural language so it’s much easier to read and understand.

57
3 years ago

The startup is building a platform for entrepreneurs to easily build and market their products. The startup's founder says that it can also provide financing to help scale businesses.

57
3 years ago

The startup is building a 3D printer for small scale production. The founders met at Techstars, where they were early on a Y Combinator batch.

57
3 years ago

A startup that “combines a credit card and a wallet” for users. In May the founder said it had $2 million in funding.

57
3 years ago

The company’s CEO, Will Clark, is a former member of the U.S. Air Force and a former personal trainer, and the company’s co-founders are also experienced entrepreneurs. The company, which launched in 2013, is looking to address a major issue in the fitness industry: it’s difficult, expensive, and time-consuming to get fit.

57
3 years ago

A startup that lets you track your steps, sit counts, and other metrics in an effort to improve your fitness and help motivate you to exercise. The founders met while working at a physical therapy clinic.

57
3 years ago

A company that helps online lenders like Lending Club and Prosper to credit and underwrite loans in a more consistent and transparent manner.

57
3 years ago

A platform to help people manage their credit scores that help them understand the effect of their credit on their lives.

57
3 years ago

A venture-backed startup that helps new companies get their name out into digital. It allows founders to create customized branded websites and blogs, and gives them tools to help them effectively communicate with their community.

57
3 years ago

This startup is building a tool to help small businesses easily build a 3D model of their locations. It’s a visual aid that allows companies to understand what’s going on around their business, and how to make it better.

57
3 years ago

After launching in the US in July of 2018, the startup wants to launch in Canada in late 2019. The startup’s founders say that their app helps you find the cheapest Uber rides as well as the best deals on flights, hotels, and restaurants and much more.

57
2 years ago

A wearable that measures blood pressure and heart rate at a user's fingertips. The startup’s co-founder and CEO is a former Apple employee with a Ph.D from Harvard; they’re looking to raise $100,000 on Kickstarter.

57
4 years ago

A survey tool to measure consumer attitudes and preferences. The startup is looking to build a mobile survey tool to help companies understand consumer needs.

56
3 years ago

A company that helps advertisers understand the demographics of the videos they’re running on Facebook. They’re currently working with 7 companies including Comcast, Nissan, and Advicent.

56
3 years ago

A tool for web developers to get an in-depth understanding of how readers are viewing their websites, and how to improve them.

56
3 years ago

Hedere uses a mobile app to help people make decisions about their health. The startup’s founder, a physician, helped people manage their health and make decisions through an iPad app.

56
3 years ago

A startup that builds predictive analytics for retailers. The startup helps retailers understand how consumers are shopping, and how to better target them with ads.

56
3 years ago

A tool to help people with e-commerce businesses better understand the return of their inventory and look at their data quickly and visually.

56
3 years ago

This startup is looking to bring the same capabilities to designing and building desktop UI’s that we have seen in mobile apps. The company says it can design and deliver a UI in under a day and has already delivered over 200 UI’s for companies like Google and Facebook.

56
3 years ago

A startup that wants to take the “ieatcookies” concept of delivery startups, and instead focus on food delivery for people with diabetes. The company’s founders say that in the past year they’ve already seen over 3 million “clicks” on their website.

56
3 years ago

A tool to help nonprofits understand their competitors and how they’re spending their money

56
3 years ago

A mobile analytics tool focused on helping brands understand their customer’s motivations, patterns and behaviors.

56
3 years ago

This startup is developing a new way for developers to build apps for crowdfunding platforms. It will build custom software for each project, and also work as a consultant for founders to make sure their campaigns are compliant.

56
3 years ago

The startup wants to help companies better understand their clients, build better rapport and their customers, and ultimately make more sales.

56
3 years ago

A group of photographers who create a “worldwide portfolio of travel images”, focusing on “underrepresented cultures”.

56
3 years ago

A startup meant to build out a cross-border payment system using Alibaba’s payment network. It’s currently an internal startup at Alibaba, but the founders have been in contact with several other companies interested in incorporating their technology.

56
3 years ago

A SaaS startup that helps companies build chatbots in under a month, with a focus on B2B chatbots.

56
2 years ago

A startup that creates “edible, actionable and contextual” data for app developers to better understand how their apps are being used.

56
2 years ago

A “SaaS platform for small businesses to manage their online reputation, built by the founders of the Reputation.com.”

56
5 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.

55
4 years ago

Zendrive wants to help employers and employees better understand where they are and what they’re doing by tracking their work patterns and emotions. The startup, founded in May, wants to build an app that can be used as an employee wellness tool.

55
3 years ago

A startup that helps people create, distribute, and sell music online. According to its founders, there’s a $30 billion music industry in the US, but it’s almost entirely untapped in the digital space.

55
3 years ago

This Atlanta-based startup has launched two products in under two years. The first is a “credit score simulator” that helps users see how they might fare in a credit crunch. The second is a mobile app that gamifies the process of paying bills.

55
3 years ago

A startup that lets you put your phone number on a business card and connect with friends, family, and colleagues. The founders of this startup say they’re selling a lot of business cards, with over 1,200 cards shipped in 24 hours and a $1,500 monthly recurring revenue.

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 startup that analyzes the overall health of a hospital and its staff. This startup helps hospital management and leaders understand how to correct a failing hospital.

55
3 years ago

A startup that helps you keep track of your daily vitamins and supplements. The startup wants to make it easier to understand what you’re taking, and to make sure you’re getting the right amount of the right thing.

55
3 years ago

Nivi is an online marketplace for buying used cars for under $10,000. The startup is based in San Francisco and has been operating in the US market for the past year. It’s profitable, and wants to expand to other markets.

55
3 years ago

A product that helps small businesses save money on insurance, by keeping them on auto-pay programs and putting their policy under a single roof.

55
3 years ago

A platform for creating, sharing, and selling wedding photo albums and slideshows, with a focus on the under-served LGBTQ+ community.

55
3 years ago

An analytics startup that helps companies understand how their customers are moving through the in-store experience and how to improve it.

55
3 years ago

This startup is building a credit score for consumers that are “easily understood” by a layperson. It’s meant to be a “one stop shop” for credit information.

55
3 years ago

A company founded by Amazon.com co-founder Jeff Bezos. The startup is working on a drone delivery system that could deliver packages to customers in 30 minutes or less.

55
3 years ago

A startup in the “marketplace for under-served people” space. It’s a marketplace for people who might otherwise be homeless.

55
3 years ago

This B2B startup provides a software platform for businesses to manage the data they produce. It helps companies understand their data and makes it easier to distribute it to the right teams.

55
2 years ago

A company that helps provide a replacement for cash/cards used by the underprivileged in developing countries.

55
2 years ago

The founder of The Modern Monk, a startup that sells clothing for people who like to live an ascetic lifestyle, launched a clothing line for women.

55
2 years ago

A group that makes it easy for homeowners to track and understand their home’s energy use.

55
2 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for businesses to understand their credit card transactions so they can make informed decisions about their bottom line.

55
5 years ago

Idea: A startup helping businesses in emerging markets manage inventory and orders using a mobile app and a desktop dashboard. The founders say they’ve already signed more than 50 customers in the past month (and have been accepted to Y Combinator,) and that the business has been profitable since it launched at the end of May.

54
4 years ago

A startup that helps brands track and measure their digital advertising effectiveness. They’re hoping to help brands (like Amazon or Walmart) pay for ads in real-time so they can better understand what’s working and why, and use that information to make better decisions in the future.

54
3 years ago

A startup that provides a marketplace for brokers and consumers to find, book, and pay for parking. The company’s founders are former employees of Parkingify, which they say is a prime example of the need for a parking marketplace.

54
3 years ago

A data platform that allows companies to better understand how their customers interact with their products, so they can adapt them to their needs.

54
3 years ago

The founders of this app want to build a tool for managing digital feedback. Instead of emailing feedback to a manager or leaving a comment on a blog post, users can send feedback directly to a specific employee, and the app’s smart algorithms will automatically highlight the most important parts of each comment so the employee can see it, reply to it, and move on without having to read through unnecessary comments.

54
3 years ago

A software platform that helps brands understand their audience, by making use of CRM, sentiment analysis, and other data and insights. They have over 50 customers with a combined annual recurring revenue of $10 billion.

54
3 years ago

A startup that lists all the things you’d like to buy, but haven’t been able to find. The startup’s founder says his product is like a “Netflix for Amazon” and that it earns him around $10,000 a month.

54
3 years ago

A startup that’s building a system that learns your child’s first words, to help parents understand if they’re on track to learning how to talk to their kids.

54
3 years ago

A chatbot for people who have been recently released from prison. The startup’s founders say that over 25% of the US prison population is in prison for drug-related offenses, and that nearly 70% of those incarcerated are people of color.

54
3 years ago

A social network for the under-educated and under-employed, aimed at the 18-25 demographic.

54
3 years ago

A micro-investing platform for the underbanked. Currently in closed beta.

54
3 years ago

The following people were named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Health Care in 2015.

54
3 years ago

A new way to manage a startup. The startup wants to create a way for founders to manage their startups in a “better way”, and to create a way for those who aren’t founders to still engage in their startups.

54
3 years ago

Building a shopping app for farmers and small businesses to track their operations, understand their market, and make more informed decisions about their products.

54
3 years ago

A smart, affordable, and easy-to-use healthcare service for the under-served in Africa. Their goal is to build infrastructure that is sustainable for the long-term with a focus on sustainability, and to make it affordable for everyone.

54
3 years ago

A type of food delivery that promises to deliver to your door in under 30 minutes. It’s building a mobile app to target college students and young professionals who want to order a pizza, but hate waiting around in line.

54
3 years ago

A social media platform that allows users to broadcast online without the need for a network connection, the founders claim it’s the first of its kind.

54
3 years ago

In November 2018, Crunchbase News highlighted the following companies and their founders:

54
3 years ago

A tool to help people more easily manage their finances, with a particular focus on those who want to save more money but don’t know how to maximize their current investments. The company’s founder is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor in Portland who has previously worked at Intuit and First Republic.

54
2 years ago

A company that allows people to manage their finances in a way that’s easy to look at and understand. “It’s the opposite of the internet finance world,” says co-founder.

54
2 years ago

A startup building a “beautiful” and “powerful” (as the founder puts it) AI assistant

54
2 years ago

 A company that builds predictive analytics for financial services companies to help them understand the financial risk of potential customers.

54
4 years ago

The startup is building a tool to help people remember and pass down the history of their family. It’s currently working with a range of clients, including one of the founders, who is working with his grandfather to create a history of the family.

53
4 years ago

Forbes and Matter were the only two to feature SMU in their 2017 and 2018 lists of the Top 50 Under 50.

53
3 years ago

This is a game-like tool for creating, connecting, and interacting with users in a group. Users can create their own rooms, and can invite others to join. The founders want to find a way to enable users to create and moderate spaces that are unique to them, and that can help them to connect with people in a larger community.

53
3 years ago

In an effort to better understand the impact of its product, Yext is conducting real-time behavioral tracking tests of its software and the effects of it being installed on the web. Yext already has a number of users and revenue from companies like Airbnb, Pinterest, and Yelp.

53
3 years ago

Sinfero is a real estate startup looking to provide digital options for realtors. The company has built a web-based tool that allows realtors to manage their listings and get notifications when a property is under contract.

53
3 years ago

A toolset to help companies understand how to identify, hire, and manage candidates.

53
3 years ago

Improving the delivery of savings products for customers who want to save for retirement. They’re currently focused on saving for retirement, but the founders say they’d like to expand to other areas.

53
3 years ago

The most popular city for the founders of the top 50 startups, based on talking to founders, was New York. The city was home to 10% of the startups and the rest are spread across the US, including Silicon Valley and Seattle.

53
3 years ago

A company that wants to help companies develop and improve their products by using data to understand their users and their actions.

53
3 years ago

A startup to help users in the US get a visa to visit Mexico. Currently, only the founder is using it to visit Mexico, but it’s growing each week and it’s easy to imagine a scenario where it becomes a full-fledged travel app.

53
3 years ago

A startup that sells products to help people sleep better, with a focus on reducing snoring. The founder told me they have no plans to make a medical device, with the product only being approved by FDA.

53
3 years ago

An online marketplace for the sharing of cars. Carpool is already in cities in the US and Europe, but the founders want to expand it to Africa and Asia.

53
3 years ago

A new kind of credit card meant to help families save money on groceries and other purchases. The startup’s founder says it’s working with a number of grocery chains and wants to build out a platform for other retailers.

53
3 years ago

A startup that provides free Wi-Fi in coffee shops, bars, and restaurants. The company’s founders say that they’re currently working with over 300 venues in London.

53
3 years ago

A company that makes a fertilizer for indoor plants. The company’s founders say that the product was designed specifically to save plants from the toxic chemicals in common houseplants, without over-stimulating them.

53
3 years ago

Cofounder who has worked at Google on the search team and at Yandex, a search engine in Russia that has been successful in serving regional markets.

53
3 years ago

A B2B platform that helps inbound marketing teams find, track, and optimize their campaigns. The company’s founders say that they’re already working with over 40 teams, and that they’re looking to find an additional 50 customers by the end of the year.

53
4 years ago

A startup that wants to use AI to help companies understand and predict human emotion, potentially improving the way they advertise, design products, and market their services and products.

52
3 years ago

A platform that helps people get a computer for under $200. The startup has developed a tool that allows people to ask a computer what its components are, and then use its own parts database to compare prices at various online retailers.

52
3 years ago

The idea came out of frustration as a consumer, and the founders wanted to create a product that would help others avoid the same problem.

52
3 years ago

A startup that helps people create and manage their personalized travel itineraries. The founders are former Google employees who left to work on this.

52
3 years ago

The startup has built a suite of cloud-based services for businesses to manage their HR needs. The founders, who previously worked for Google and Microsoft, say their services save businesses around $4 million a year.

52
3 years ago

The company is building a digital platform for credit risk assessment, which it says is significantly underutilized by banks.

52
3 years ago

A startup that builds software to help small businesses get better at online marketing, including helping them understand how to target their customers better.

52
3 years ago

A way to share and access health information, using the power of machine learning and natural language processing. The startup wants to build a way to use AI to analyze a doctor’s notes to understand their medical history.

52
3 years ago

The company’s founder tells Fast Company that a better way to sell & ship items would be to charge 20% less for the first month, 90% less for the second, and a savings of 50% for the third.

52
3 years ago

“We’re building a tool for the people who don’t think they can learn to code,” says founder and CEO Jonah Liebman. The company, which was founded in January, wants to help coders make their job easier.

52
2 years ago

A clean energy service that helps businesses and consumers save money on their energy bills. The company’s founders wanted to use the savings to help fund a nonprofit in a poor community.

52
3 years ago

A startup that brings the benefits of a “quiet studio” to people who live in buildings that aren’t as soundproofed. The company’s co-founder, who was previously a producer for The BBC, says he uses the studio for “super-advanced brain science and psychology research”.

51
3 years ago

Redefining the way the world looks at enterprise IT. As the founder puts it, "We're building a new kind of company where there's no hierarchy, no CTO, no CEO, everything is built from the bottom up."

51
3 years ago

This is a way to get your own personal assistant and manage your scheduling and calendar. The founders say they’re building a new company that will help other startups build a similar offering.

51
3 years ago

The founder of this startup is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management who wants to build a platform for entrepreneurs to come together to share what they’re learning, to connect with mentors, and to help each other.

51
3 years ago

A platform that matches people who need time off with freelance business owners who need help managing projects. It is being pitched by the co-founders as a way to bridge the “digital divide” between freelancers and employees.

51
3 years ago

“We’ve put together a chatbot that allows you to book a meeting in under one minute.”

51
3 years ago

An AI-based tool for giving context to text messages and other messaging, which can help humans better understand the context of messages and improve their impact.

51
3 years ago

The startups founders say they’re building a “Facebook for real estate” with a focus on non-MLS markets.

51
3 years ago

A secure messaging app that offers end-to-end encryption. The company was founded in 2014 by a group of WhatsApp co-founders as an alternative to Facebook’s Messenger service.

51
3 years ago

The startup wants to help content creators and marketers better understand consumer behavior and preferences by conducting a massive survey of over 100,000 people from all over the world.

51
3 years ago

A platform that helps companies get their products onto 300 million rideshare riders a month. The company’s founder Tom Morton said that Uber’s “huge R&D Lab in the Bay Area is a real weakness” in the startup’s plan to compete with the ride-hailing giant.

51
3 years ago

The founders of this startup are aiming to grow a marketplace for people to sell their unused clothing.

51
3 years ago

A company that helps retailers and brands to better understand what people are saying about them on social media, so they can better figure out how to engage with those people.

51
3 years ago

The startup has a platform to help groups of people organise events through booking software, a Facebook-like to-do list, and a website to book tickets. The founders are also building an event organiser machine learning engine, which they plan to use to help them build a better booking engine.

51
2 years ago

The founders of this company want to build a common platform for all of the communication tools that people use for their company. They’re working on making Huddle, Slack, HipChat, and other tools work together.

51
2 years ago

A company that wants to make home energy monitoring more accessible, so people can get a better understanding of their energy usage and get more accurate billing from their utilities.

51
2 years ago

A way to receive money from friends and family across the country using a phone call. The founders say it’s a bit like Venmo but with US banks available for people to transfer funds to.

51
2 years ago

The company’s founders say they’re building the world’s most effective customer acquisition platform and are already running campaigns with over 1,000 paying customers

51
2 years ago

A startup that helps women find and buy designer clothing and accessories at a discount. The startup’s founder says she’s already working with some of the biggest brands in the world.

51
5 years ago

A “digital resume” for freelancers. The founder wanted to make it easier for freelancers to acquire new customers and for clients to find them.

50
3 years ago

This is a new venture from the co-founder of the company that spent $8,000 on a round of venture funding to make a $400 smart phone. The company is building a home security camera that can use AI to alert its users of intruders. The founders were inspired by the startup that once owned their smart phone.

50
3 years ago

A free cloud-based platform that lets you chat with a lawyer in under a minute.

50
3 years ago

An AI-based assistant that helps people manage their activities and health goals in an easy-to-understand way.

50
3 years ago

The startup’s co-founder says that their professional-grade coffee is formulated for office workers to “get their caffeine fix without getting jittery” and comes in breakfast, lunch and dinner varieties.

50
3 years ago

A new kind of financial reporting system that helps businesses understand the role of their cash.

50
3 years ago

A platform that connects restaurants with caterers to get food delivered in under an hour. The startups founders say they’ve already found partners in 20 cities.

50
3 years ago

A startup that helps people and companies manage their travel and expenses. The company’s founders say they’ve saved clients $1 million in business expenses in the past year.

50
3 years ago

The idea is to create a “one-stop shop” for people who want to buy and sell used goods on the internet. The founders say that their software, which is available on Android, will become the first place for people to discover and buy used goods on the internet.

50
3 years ago

Self-service catering for restaurants in Europe, developed by the co-founder of OpenTable.

50
3 years ago

The startup provides an AI-based platform to help companies understand what’s happening with their customers’ data and make decisions based on that.

50
3 years ago

A SaaS solution for employers to help their employees better understand their needs and make a more informed decision about benefits. Its goal is to help companies cut down on expensive employee turnover.

50
2 years ago

 A mobile app that helps people determine if their app or website will be profitable before they spend time and money on it. The startup is still in its early stages, but its founders have built a number of successful iOS apps, including one for Puma shoes.

50
2 years ago

A startup that wants to solve the problem of customer acquisition by providing “an analytics engine that digs into customer data and helps you, the marketing department, understand how companies in your sector are acquiring customers and how often.”

50
2 years ago

 A startup by the founders of the Foursquare check-in app, which they say has a 2.5 billion monthly active user base. It allows users to make reservations for things like concerts, events, and private dinners.

50
3 years ago

A chat app for kids that infuses video into the app. The startup’s founders have a background in animation, with one of the founders previously working on the "Finding Nemo" sequel.

49
3 years ago

The founders at this startup want to help restaurant owners around the US increase sales and profits for their businesses.

49
3 years ago

"We are a software company that helps people who are under the influence to find a safe way home."

49
3 years ago

A startup that helps you create and manage “Zines,” a new way to record and share your life. The startup’s founders say that you can write a Zine with just a smartphone and a little bit of paper.

49
3 years ago

A software company that helps retail clients to manage their supply chains, by tracking and understanding their inventory, creating supply plans and offering predictive analytics to route the right product to the right person at the right time. The startup says it can help a retailer cut costs by 25%.

49
3 years ago

The company that the Founder of the company co-founded, has over 1.5M users. It’s an online music streaming service that he co-founded.

49
3 years ago

Big Data is important, and getting bigger. Tachyon is working to make Big Data easier to understand so people can take advantage of it to make better decisions.

49
3 years ago

A company that is building digital furniture for kids, with a focus on children under the age of six.

49
3 years ago

A social network for people in the legal industry that lets them discover and connect with each other, build profiles, and share information. The startup’s founders say it’s the “LinkedIn for the legal industry”.

49
3 years ago

This is a startup that wants to help the legal industry manage the ever-growing volume of litigation, and to do so by using AI technology to understand the law and churn out legal documents to customers.

49
2 years ago

The company’s founder says he started the company to build a “social network” for musicians.

49
2 years ago

The startup’s founder says his company is on pace to fund $2 million in revenue by the end of the year.

49
5 years ago

A startup that wants to provide access to early stage equity for founders who don’t have access to the traditional venture capital market

48
3 years ago

This app is a digital diary for kids, and the founders say that it’s only possible because of the way the app’s parental controls work. The app asks for the child’s age and gender, then shows a picture of the child and asks for a voice recording of the child’s voice. The app then classifies the voice recording and shows them on a map. The founders say that this is an important distinction, as it allows parents to be able to see which kids are in which areas at any given time.

48
3 years ago

A bank for the underbanked, targeting those who don’t have bank accounts, who typically live in rural areas, and are just too poor to be able to afford a bank.

48
3 years ago

A company that wants to help people learn about the science of aging. More on the science of aging: The idea is to help people understand the science of aging, and make that knowledge actionable.

48
3 years ago

A startup that helps financial institutions better understand their customers by making it easier for them to use the Internet of Things for data collection.

48
3 years ago

A startup that wants to help online merchants better understand the sales and purchases of their customers. Through a data-driven approach to marketing, they can provide meaningful and targeted messages that help a customer move forward.

48
3 years ago

A tool for creating websites and landing pages. The startup’s founders had built a similar tool for their own business, but realized that the majority of their work was spent on the “unfun” tasks of putting together a page.

48
3 years ago

A mobile-first loyalty platform that ties into credit cards, loyalty cards and spending patterns to better help users understand their spending habits.

48
3 years ago

A platform that helps users manage their money. The platform makes it easy for users to track their spending and understand who they owe money to.

48
3 years ago

A company that provides marketers with tools to identify, analyze, and understand their customers based on their behavioral characteristics and keywords.

48
2 years ago

A startup that aims to help shoppers find the right items at the right time. It’s billed as the “Uber of grocery”, connecting shoppers with nearby stores, with a particular focus on those in underserved markets.

48
2 years ago

The founders say they have a “machine learning approach,” but claim the service has been able to help companies manage their website’s security and performance by identifying and fixing faults and nagging bugs within their software.

48
2 years ago

A startup that looks to make online ordering for groceries in the U.S. as reliable and easy as ordering pizza. The startup’s founders say the startup has already tested its service in over one hundred U.S. cities, and is out in San Francisco now.

48
2 years ago

A startup where people can apply to be a startup’s co-founder.

48
5 years ago

Idea: A 3D audio startup that is trying to make podcasting more immersive by using binaural audio. The app has a pretty strong take on the future of podcasting, and its founder says that the company is profitable.

47
3 years ago

The founders of this marketing startup say they’re building a Facebook for blimps. Their goal is to fuel the growth of a new kind of “social blimp” that’s valuable for businesses and pro-social.

47
3 years ago

With the goal of building a “better experience”, ZagBank is creating a digital bank for underbanked Americans, with a focus on helping them save money. They’re also applying for a fintech charter in the state of New Jersey.

47
3 years ago

The founders of many of these startups have connections in the Philadelphia tech scene. Some, like Zuddle and Zpack, are backed by angel investors in the region. Others, like Farmako and Tella, were founded by students at the University of Pennsylvania.

47
3 years ago

A crowdsourced database of data and events. The company’s founders say that the database is “most trusted data source” in the US.

47
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
3 years ago

A company that helps marketers build apps that allow them to target not only specific demographics, but specific moments in time. The startup’s co-founder says that it’s “the first company in the world to do this”.

47
2 years ago

A platform for making special flights available to a select group of customers. The startup’s founder says that the goal is to decrease business travel in general.

47
2 years ago

A tool to help startup founders build their startup vision. It’s a virtual printer that allows you to build a full-scale prototype of your product with a few clicks of your mouse. The startup is looking to make prototyping a viable alternative to using physical models.

47
3 years ago

A company that has a “pay-as-you-go” on-demand concierge service for students and millennials. The company’s founders want to help students focus on schoolwork and leave the rest to others, and plan to launch in early 2020.

46
3 years ago

A payments-focused startup that’s working on a way to make payments more affordable for underbanked customers, including those in the US, Philippines, and Brazil. It’s working with existing banks and partnered with technology companies to make payments easier.

46
3 years ago

A startup that tracks the data that can be used to predict future events based on historical data. The startups founders say they have already proven the accuracy of the Georgia Tool Company’s algorithm that predicts earthquakes by looking at past earthquake data.

46
3 years ago

A company that helps online retailers like e-commerce companies understand how their products are performing in order to increase conversion rates, lower prices and sell more products.

46
3 years ago

This is a startup that lets people rent out their homes in a similar fashion to Airbnb. The startup’s CEO, Will Yang, was recently named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list of rising young entrepreneurs.

46
3 years ago

This startup is building a platform that connects doctors with patients in both rural and urban areas. It’s built on the premise that global health and healthcare spending are under-invested in and that an effective way to solve the problem is to partner with and incentivize local doctors to deliver care in underserved areas.

46
3 years ago

A startup that is building a software platform that lets you connect with other people in Springfield. The founders want to create a place for Springfielders to organize gatherings, meet up, coordinate and socialize.

46
3 years ago

A startup for what the founders call “digital assets”

46
3 years ago

A charter bus company that provides affordable transportation options to underserved communities in New York City

46
3 years ago

An online platform that tracks and analyzes the performance of online video ads. It aims to provide a tool to help digital video advertising companies better understand their customers.

46
3 years ago

This startup is building a tool to help lawyers draft documents and agreements in a way that’s clear and concise, but also in a way that’s legally precise. The founders created their own law school in 2014 and now run the firm as a for-profit business, but they plan to eventually make the tool available to all lawyers.

46
3 years ago

A company that helps companies manage their accounts receivables and payments. The founders say that their platform is used by major Fortune 500 companies.

46
3 years ago

The startup wants to help home owners create a single platform for all their home insurance needs, which would then be paid by whichever insurer they choose. The startup wants to help consumers easily understand their home insurance policy and get quotes.

46
2 years ago

A platform that helps users buy and sell secondhand goods, the product of a collaboration between serial entrepreneur and the cofounder of Urban Outfitters. The CEO says the company has 3,000 users, and is profitable.

46
3 years ago

The startup’s founders say they want to build a marketplace that connects farmers with buyers of locally grown, organic produce, with plans to launch in early 2017.

45
3 years ago

As the founder of a peer to peer marketplace for student tutoring, the founder of TutorPal aims to help low-income families, people with disabilities and others get access to help with their studies.

45
3 years ago

A startup in San Francisco that wants to help you track your data on your phone, through a “personal dashboard” that helps you understand and use data to improve your health. The startup’s primary goal is to build an app that will help people decide what medical procedures they want to have done today and in the future, and then be able to track the status of those procedures through an app.

45
3 years ago

A startup that helps users find their lost devices by helping them understand what data is important to them and what data might be on their devices, and then provides a way to recover those files.

45
3 years ago

A chat-based tool that helps people keep track of their employees and their whereabouts. The founders say they are also building an analytics platform to track employee engagement.

45
3 years ago

A company that offers online credit scores that are more comprehensive and accurate. It’s for companies looking to better understand the risk of lending to consumers.

45
2 years ago

A B2B company that builds software for the real estate industry, including listing agents, appraisers and underwriting companies.

45
2 years ago

A bitcoin-powered online marketplace and exchange. The company is focused on the underbanked in Latin America as well as on international transfers. It’s also working on a way to let users pay savings and loans with bitcoin. Launched in Brazil and Argentina.

45
2 years ago

A way to create and manage polls and surveys online. Founders say they want to make polls easier, more visual, and more fun.

45
2 years ago

A data analytics company that helps people understand the economy through its real-time database of the market and data.

45
2 years ago

A sustainable and affordable home that can be assembled in a few days. The founders say the market for these structures is worth $100 billion.

45
2 years ago

A way to help small businesses understand their large customers’ spending habits, as well as the potential of churn.

45
2 years ago

The founders say that they have the funds necessary to bring their idea to life. They will be launching a seed program in January 2021.

45
2 years ago

A personalized financial planner meant to help consumers understand their own spending, as well as the likely impact of their decisions on their financial health.

45
2 years ago

A payment processor that helps merchants accept payments in under a minute. The company had $54,700 in revenue in the previous quarter, up from $6,100 a year ago.

45
2 years ago

A startup that brings a personal touch to your online banking. It’s meant to be your “personal banker” and it’s like a more friendly, self-directed version of your regular bank. The company’s founder says it’s already working with 100 customers on their first product.

45
5 years ago

Idea: A peer-to-peer lending marketplace The startup offers an alternative to traditional banks, which the founders say offer high interest rates, but often have hidden fees

44
3 years ago

Building a system for lending on small business loans for microloans. The founders say it can help small businesses access capital and provide a better lending experience.

44
3 years ago

Y Combinator’s waiting list is a list of companies that are accepted into the program but haven’t yet received funding. The list is kept in a secret room underneath Y Combinator’s offices in Mountain View, California. The list is closed to the public and is generally used as a way for Y Combinator to vet companies that are accepted into its program.

44
3 years ago

A startup out of MIT that is building technology to monitor global temperatures to better understand how climate change is affecting the planet.

44
3 years ago

Build an online marketplace for people to buy used cars from other people. It’s a massive market with 30 million cars sitting in people’s garages every year, according to the founders.

44
3 years ago

Bosch is using AI to help elderly patients get more out of their medical appointments. The company uses sensors on the patient’s body to adjust their schedules, help them better understand their conditions and help them to be more active.

44
3 years ago

The CEO of the company said that their three co-founders thought of the idea as a “wish-list”. They wanted to help people find the right car for their lifestyle, so they built out the tool to give car buyers a breakdown of the total cost of buying the car and the monthly cost of ownership.

44
2 years ago

izo is building a digital wallet for the underbanked. The company also provides a “mobile payment kit” that helps merchants accept payments via a mobile device. It’s also the parent company of another startup called AppDynamics, which lets customers see how their apps are performing.

44
2 years ago

An AI-driven platform that helps to discover and understand music and music composition.

44
5 years ago

A crypto exchange that’s meant to serve people in the developing world. The startup’s founders say they only charge a small fee of 0.6% per transaction, compared to their competitors that charge 10% or more.

43
3 years ago

A platform that uses machine learning to automate the process of setting up and managing virtual desktops. The startup is currently in private beta, and the founders hope to soon release an open source product.

43
3 years ago

A startup that combines data from the web and from people’s cell phones to help organizations understand what kind of power they need and how to get it.

43
3 years ago

"We are a company that believes that people should be paid fairly, but we also believe that they should be able to save a little money to be able to afford that," said CEO and co-founder Chris Harvey. "We’re creating this technology that allows people to be able to save a little bit of money in the form of a small credit for the time that they are working."

43
3 years ago

The startup’s founders say they’ve had to raise over $14,000 to fund their efforts so far. The team is focused on creating a single management platform that can manage every aspect of a business, from HR to marketing to accounting to sales, and it’s already in private beta.

43
3 years ago

An online real estate marketplace in Argentina with a focus on young buyers and sellers. The startup’s founders have local names, and say they’ve already had over 40,000 unique visitors per month.

43
2 years ago

For over a year, the founders of a web development company have been trying to sell their client’s website to a company that specializes in this type of thing. They want to build a website builder for small businesses.

43
2 years ago

A cloud-based platform that helps healthcare organizations (hospitals, clinics, and doctors offices) reduce medical errors and improve patient safety at the point of care. CEO Justin Miller, former CTO of Radiology at Stanford Medicine, and CTO and co-founder of Machine Intelligence Watson, which was acquired by IBM.

43
2 years ago

A company that developed a tool to embed video on websites, which the founders say has been downloaded more than a million times. The founders also run a content distribution network that helps websites reach more people through social media.

43
5 years ago

Idea: A podcast player that's easy to use and understand

42
3 years ago

The company is building a team of “airline experts” that are on hand to review airline policies and help customers understand them.

42
3 years ago

The founders of Fundable are building an app that lets small businesses manage their business expenses in one place. They’re funded by Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management.

42
2 years ago

A way to talk to your car and get it to tell you when to do maintenance. The company’s founders say their technology will be able to detect when a car is losing its battery’s ability to hold a charge, and alert a driver to have its oil changed or brakes checked.

42
2 years ago

A company that wants to help businesses get an understanding of the customer’s habits and make sure they’re looking at the right things at the right time.

42
2 years ago

A company that wants to build a national, real-time, in-flight data dashboard. The startup wants to provide all airlines with real-time data to help them understand their passenger numbers.

42
3 years ago

Startup founders attend the firm’s "Founders’ Clinic", which is a series of one-on-one coaching sessions with founders. The clinic is limited to 20 startups each year and is usually held in New York in the summer. The clinic is currently led by founder of VC firm Y Combinator Paul Graham.

41
3 years ago

A pet insurance startup. Founder Alec Sharma says he wants to make it easy to insure your pet. “You can get insurance for your dog, you can get insurance for your cat, you can get insurance for your hamster.”

41
3 years ago

Kiva Fellows have highly specialized skills. For example, the founders of this startup are former surgeons who learned the medical terminology of the legal system. They’re helping the legal system to more efficiently write and understand contracts, which they say can save money, time, and lives.

41
3 years ago

The company’s founder, who is also a rapper and musician, wants to be the Spotify of rap music. The startup is building a platform for rappers to share their music for fans to stream and purchase.

41
3 years ago

For the last 40 years, a startup without a clear exit strategy has been a rare breed. But today, one in five startups are bootstrapped, and it’s become a viable strategy for founders, who argue that if you find a product that people love, you can always charge for it and if it works, you won’t need to raise funding. Spredfast wants to make this the norm.

41
2 years ago

A company that lets people rent out their extra space. The startup wants to build a technology platform for the underutilized bedroom.

41
2 years ago

This is a mobile app that keep track of your to-do list. It’s similar to Wunderlist in that you can add tasks, notes or lists and share with other users. The app is built for iOS and Android, and integrates with your email, calendar, contacts, and other apps.

41
2 years ago

A tool that helps you understand how much you spend on your phone and how to save without sacrificing too much quality

41
3 years ago

A workplace analytics startup focused on HR. The founders have built a system that allows HR teams to track employee performance, morale, and engagement.

40
3 years ago

This startup is helping smaller companies and individuals better understand the impact of their advertising spending. The startup has a product called "Advertising Metrics", which helps advertisers understand the impact of their ad spend.

40
2 years ago

A “credit score for people” that CEO says will help the company’s users understand how they’re impacting their credit.

40
2 years ago

A way to add a little human touch to a lot of data, using machine learning to understand the contents of emails and automatically categorizing them. The startup is building a system that will do the same thing, but this time with emails.

40
2 years ago

A digital courier service that makes deliveries in under one hour on the busiest days.

40
2 years ago

The startup’s founders say their goal is to “help any startup sell at least $100k a month,” through their web-based software. The platform, which uses a simple point-and-click interface, starts at $1000 and increases in price depending on the amount of features you want.

40
2 years ago

A platform for people to rent their homes via Airbnb, allowing owners to earn extra income. The founders say that their platform is the only one of its kind in the US, and that the site has already facilitated over $1 million in rental revenue.

40
3 years ago

One of the co-founders of Tailwind is a former employee of Uber, and their product is a platform that helps companies optimize their supply chain with AI.

39
3 years ago

A startup that helps develop a company’s “brand voice”, which is how different companies communicate about the same thing. The startup’s founders say they’ve already built a brand voice for 10 clients.

39
3 years ago

The company is building a system that finds and captures the most interesting, free and accurate information on the web, and delivers it to patients in a way that’s easy to understand.

39
3 years ago

This company is developing a “Mission-oriented AI”, which they claim is capable of “seeing, listening, understanding and acting like a human”.

39
3 years ago

A startup that builds AI tools for evaluating software applications and services. The startup wants to help build new products and services that earlier couldn’t be built due to an incomplete AI understanding of the problem domain.

39
2 years ago

The founders of this startup want to give people the tools to build their own guitars.

39
2 years ago

A startup that combines an Uber-style marketplace with a “mom and pop” retail store. The website allows customers to buy groceries and household items on-demand, with a built-in rewards program. The founder of the company, who previously worked at Amazon, says the company is on track to expand into 35,000 stores by 2020.

39
2 years ago

This is a project to create a platform to help companies figure out how to engage with millennials. They want to create a platform that helps companies understand the expectations of millennials and then act accordingly.

39
2 years ago

A community for people who are interested in understanding and overcoming financial struggles. The company was founded by a former professional road racer and WIRED editor.

39
2 years ago

The founders of this startup have been working in the tech industry for decades, however they have had no success starting companies. Some of their friends on LinkedIn have noticed that they have a lot of business cards and they don’t have a company. They wanted to build a company that helps other entrepreneurs — not just friends and family — to get off the ground.

38
2 years ago

A tool to help city officials collaborate with one another to visualize and understand data.

38
2 years ago

The founders of the startup had been using hammers for decades and decided to create a tool for anyone to use to make custom hammers.

38
2 years ago

The startup aims to help start-up founders scale their operations and make their businesses more efficient. The company is building a platform for start-ups to use to manage and run their operations, including their product, sales, finance, HR, and marketing.

38
2 years ago

A group of people who want to help startup founders by sharing their network (and the occasional beer) with them.

38
2 years ago

A company that will help HR teams understand how much money they can save by giving them access to a large database of employee data.

38
2 years ago

A product that helps underwater explorers communicate, share images, and track their mission.

38
2 years ago

 A digital tool that helps companies understand how customers use their products. It collects both structured and unstructured data, and then helps companies understand why users engage with their products in the way they do.

38
3 years ago

A SaaS service that helps retail companies better understand what their customers are doing online, and engage with them in real-time. It’s an extension of the company’s existing analytics offering, which helps retailers understand what their customers are buying, and then use that information to sell to them.

37
3 years ago

Crowdfunding platform for medical research. The company is building the first company-in-a-box or “CIBO” — a company that undertakes clinical trials, offers regulatory and financial support, manages clinical data and patient outcomes, and manages payments and compliance.

37
3 years ago

This is an AI-powered sales assistant for B2B companies, to help salespeople find leads and understand the value of different products and types of customers.

37
2 years ago

This startup will help hospitals and other healthcare providers understand the cost of hospital stays.

37
2 years ago

Multiply, which is working on a “social-mobile-games” startup, and is working on an experimental program called “Upside” that helps users better understand the “world’s biggest economic and environmental problems through social play.”

37
2 years ago

A data platform for developers that gives them access to a deep, real-time stream of traffic data from all over the web, allowing them to better understand how to optimize their sites for their users.

37
2 years ago

Lets you track the difference between different products you’ve ordered online, with a data analytics solution that helps you understand what’s working and what’s not.

37
2 years ago

A startup that helps family businesses stay on track. Co-founder Zachary Berg says that they’ve already sold to a private biz and a few nonprofits.

37
2 years ago

A new type of smartphone that can be controlled by a select group of people. The device is controlled by a few people who can call, text and video chat. The founder, Shai Bantum, was born with a rare heart defect that made it necessary for him to have a pacemaker. The company is in beta in the US and Israel.

37
2 years ago

The founders of a home service company in New York are using a combination of machine learning and human labor to keep track of thousands of random tasks like mowing lawns and taking out the trash.

37
5 years ago

Idea: A Chatbot for Lawyers that uses natural language processing to understand human input and produce relevant answers

36
3 years ago

The founders of this startup say they’re building software that better enables companies to maximize their Facebook and Twitter campaigns.

36
2 years ago

Signing up for a loan takes a lot of time. Zeedo aims to eliminate the need for a credit check and the underwriting process altogether by using a data-driven algorithm to match users to qualifying loans. Zeedo is backed by Lerer Ventures and Walden Ventures, and is currently in private beta.

36
2 years ago

 With the help of their software, people can scan their passport and automatically create an “e-passport”. The startup wants to use this to simplify issuing travel documents for the under-served.

36
2 years ago

A software solution for brands to easily manage their digital marketing and social media campaigns, helping them understand campaign results and their ROI.

36
2 years ago

The founders of this medical startup are trying to use their new, highly sensitive sensors to help patients better track their progress against their diseases. The sensors use the patient’s sweat to track their body’s movement, allowing them to see how they are holding up to their disease.

36
2 years ago

This startup is using text analytics to help fundraisers and non-profits better understand their prospects.

36
2 years ago

A startup that wants to help people save money on their phone bill by using their data more efficiently. The company’s founders say they’re “moving in the direction of pushing consumers to use the most expensive data plans and the most expensive minutes of data”.

36
2 years ago

A tool that helps healthcare providers pay for services under Medicare and Medicaid.

36
2 years ago

A way to help employees understand how their work impacts the bottom line.

36
2 years ago

E-commerce for the developing world. ShopJuhu is building an online marketplace specifically for consumers in India, which they say is currently underserved.

36
2 years ago

The startup is working on a platform to help businesses and consumers understand their carbon footprint. It uses machine learning and geographic data to determine the carbon footprint of products and services.

36
2 years ago

A platform for hiring temporary staff and growing businesses. The startup’s co-founders spent time in the US and UK and noticed a need to hire workers but couldn’t find them. With the help of the startup’s investors, they’re looking to hire a full-time team to build out the business.

36
2 years ago

A startup that wants to improve the way people manage their credit to make it more transparent, accessible, and easy to understand.

36
2 years ago

A tool to help e-commerce companies understand product data and improve their operations

36
2 years ago

A company that uses artificial intelligence to understand and classify images in order to help users identify objects in photos and videos.

36
2 years ago

A company that wants to help people build retirement accounts that are easy to understand and easy to use.

35
2 years ago

The founders of this startup are military veterans, and they’re building a service that helps people find the best mental health providers for them in their area.

35
2 years ago

A company that creates a platform to help companies to “uncover the hidden value of their data”. The company hopes to help companies understand value, uncover insights, and monetize their data.

35
2 years ago

A startup that tracks the amount of time people spend in each app, so companies can better understand how to monetize their apps.

35
2 years ago

Build a platform for companies to access, collect, and analyze their customers' data. The goal is to make it easier for companies to understand their customers and their data.

35
2 years ago

"The company's founders say that while they've always thought of themselves as a B2B company, for now they are focusing on providing the service they have to their own customer base of 600 firms. It will be interesting to see how the business develops as it moves this model into the B2C world."

35
5 years ago

Idea: A platform for building chatbots. The founders say their competitor, Maya, charges $3,000 per month while their offering is just $995 per month.

34
2 years ago

A startup that helps companies sync their systems with other companies. The startup is in the process of signing up companies, but the co-founder told us that they’re targeting companies with more than 1,000 employees each.

34
2 years ago

A startup for helping people understand the cost of their credit card bill. The company is also developing a feature that would let people track their spending by walking through a physical restaurant.

34
2 years ago

This startup wants to use AI to replace a lot of the cost of managing insurance claims, and is focusing on the underinsured.

34
2 years ago

This startup is building out a digital learning platform for workers in industries that need skilled workers, like construction, manufacturing, energy, and healthcare. The founders say the platform is already being used by some of the largest construction companies in the US.

34
2 years ago

This startup is building a way to track your data and find what information is most valuable to you. It aims to use machine learning to help you understand your data, and easily export it into other tools for analysis.

34
2 years ago

A neural network that generates text from images, which the founders say is able to create text that’s more “natural” to its speech-to-text domain.

34
2 years ago

A tool to help co-founders manage their early-stage startups (or startups they’ve been involved in) through a single dashboard.

33
2 years ago

Founders saw the need for a marketplace for responsible fashion and accessories, and created one. By selling in bulk, the startup can offer a $100 bag for $50.

33
2 years ago

This startup wants to build a market for a type of business insurance that pays out if a company can’t immediately pay a bill, like a missed payroll or a late credit card payment. They layer a layer of risk onto the underlying insurance policy.

33
2 years ago

a company that’s building a social network for flower growers. The founders say they want to build a community of people who have the same interests in growing flowers.

33
2 years ago

 A SaaS product which helps companies and organizations review their reputations in a way that is easy to understand.

33
2 years ago

A startup for people to get premium access to fitness and workout programs. The company’s founders say it’s a $2 billion industry.

33
2 years ago

A startup that’s building a digital asset management team to help investors and fund managers in the US understand how cryptocurrency tokens work, with a focus on their taxability.

33
2 years ago

A tool that helps teachers better engage their students. It’s a kind of personal assistant meant to help teachers better understand their students, and help students better understand themselves.

33
2 years ago

A startup to help you search for a job in the US in English, based on your resume. The startup helps you translate your resume into a format that employers can understand, and then matches you with the best job.

33
2 years ago

A team of three founders that want to create a comprehensive online platform for people who want to use their skills to build their own businesses.

33
2 years ago

A travel company based on the startup’s experience of selling Mexico vacations to Americans. The startup wants to help Americans understand their own nation’s history and culture through Mexico’s.

33
2 years ago

“The best way to get people to buy is to make them want to buy,” says the startup’s co-founder. “We’re making people want to buy.” Wayfinder is a travel company that focuses on helping customers buy their first vacation or their next vacation, and is currently selling its services to hotels, airlines, and cruise lines.

33
2 years ago

A startup that aims to provide more accessible, affordable and regulated credit to the unbanked in emerging markets. The founders say they’re aiming to close the gap between the poor and the middle class which in some countries is as much as 20 percentage points.

33
2 years ago

This platform automates the creation of a new website for a business. It provides templates and email templates so you can get your new site up and running in under an hour.

33
2 years ago

An AI-based platform for helping businesses understand the impact of their marketing spend. The company says its AI-powered algorithm delivers “more actionable insights than any other marketing intelligence platform”.

32
2 years ago

This startup is building a system for tracking and monetizing in-app usage of apps, which is an area that is currently under-monetized for developers.

32
2 years ago

A cloud-based platform for ad-hoc translation. The company currently supports the meeting of business and translators but plans to expand to other areas of translation. The founders are also working on translation startups in Russia and Thailand.

32
2 years ago

Story: A hybrid product that combines spaces for internal meetings and external events, built by the founders of Eventual, a startup that helps people organize events.

32
2 years ago

“We’re going to make the world’s best conference,” says Jeff Weiss, the startup’s founder. “It will be the biggest and most amazing conference you’ve ever been to.”

32
2 years ago

A startup that wants to provide a data platform for retailers that allows them to understand their customers better.

32
2 years ago

A company that uses AI to help companies gain a better understanding of their customers, and then use that insight to help them create a better product. The startup has found that “90% of marketing is wasted”.

32
2 years ago

A tool for companies to increase sales by helping them understand their customer base, and also reach out to them with marketing messages. The startups says that it will help businesses of all sizes, from large multinationals to small businesses.

32
2 years ago

A tool for lawyers that helps them understand customer’s needs, and helps them do their job better.

32
2 years ago

A digital marketplace for buying and selling used cars, with automated pricing and financing options. Its founders say they’re already working with dealers and banks to integrate their technology into existing processes.

32
2 years ago

Kalahari is a parcel delivery service that partners with couriers and delivery services to deliver packages across Africa. It has a base in South Africa, and its co-founders say that they have plans to expand to other African countries like Kenya and Nigeria.

32
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that is building a toolset to help merchants understand how to stop fraud in ecommerce, using a combination of machine learning and human analysis.

31
5 years ago

Idea: SaaS startup that helps hotels manage their rooms and guests, with a little bit of Netflix’s recommendation algorithms baked in. The idea is that hotels can use it as a booking engine to get more out of their rooms, and the company’s founders say they have a 75% conversion rate.

31
3 years ago

A crowdsourced platform that helps make sense of the data that companies generate. It’s meant to be a simpler way to understand a company’s monthly and quarterly metrics.

31
2 years ago

A system to help cities and states meet their goals under the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star program. It helps city governments track energy and water usage, and gives them the tools to implement energy efficiency and conservation programs.

31
2 years ago

A startup that helps people to incorporate in the UK. The company’s founders say there are around 100,000 new companies incorporated in the UK every year, but there’s no good way to keep track of them. So they launched a platform that lets people keep track of their companies’ incorporation histories in one place.

31
2 years ago

A company that helps companies and big companies like corporations to better understand their customers’ needs. The startup says that since it was founded, they’ve helped more than 3,000 companies.

31
2 years ago

A startup that’s building an AI that is able to read and understand medical images like CT scans and x-rays. They want to use it to bring diagnoses to people faster than they can get to the hospital.

31
2 years ago

A voice-activated assistant that responds to natural language. “It’s like Alexa, but it sounds like a person,” says the founder.

31
2 years ago

A startup that handles all the administrative tasks of running a nonprofit. The founder, Gaurav Mehlawat, works for the non-profit, acts as the company’s CEO, and is also the COO.

31
2 years ago

A startup that offers AI-based video analysis for startups to better understand audience behavior and based on that adjust ad campaigns.

31
2 years ago

Founder of the startup formerly known as 1Password, a password manager.

31
5 years ago

Idea: A digital market for general contractors in the Philippines. The founders say they’re solving a problem of trust, where contractors have to be trusted to show up on time and do the work. They’re currently processing $40,000 in monthly revenue.

30
2 years ago

If this company’s products are as good as its founders say, it’s possible that their launch is overblown. But let’s go into this anyway, because it’s obviously a big deal for entrepreneurs to get funded, and it’s rare for them to get funding from the founder’s mom.

30
2 years ago

A company that’s building a platform for monitoring and analyzing political campaigns, and a data analytics tool for tracking all of the money that goes into, and comes out of, political campaigns. The founders say they’ve tested their product with hundreds of campaigns, and are now focused on building out a platform for the public to use.

30
2 years ago

The startup’s co-founder, who goes by the name Jacob, says that the main problem with the current credit-scoring models is that they’re too old. The current models don’t consider the latest credit scores, he explains, and only look at how many credit cards a user has. Jacob’s co-founder, who goes by the name Tim, says that his startup is working to solve the problem with an algorithm that models a user’s credit score based on their behavior and also looks at their credit card usage.

30
2 years ago

A startup to help recruiters and hiring managers find candidates that have the skills they need. The company’s founders say that they’ve been hired to get data from competitors and use it to create a data set that helps them automate the process of building their own.

30
2 years ago

A startup that wants to create a database for all of the books in the world, and make them all easily searchable and available online. By the time the startup succeeds, the founders say that there will be 12 million books available online.

30
2 years ago

A platform for sharing and selling goods from all over the world, where the owners of the items can set their own price. The company’s founders are looking to launch in the US in the fall of 2020.

30
2 years ago

Wunder is building a platform that helps users organize their social media connections into teams and groups.

30
2 years ago

While there are many chatbots out there, none are as simple as the one being developed by the founder of the startup. The founder of Kibo, a chatbot that helps people understand, manage and adopt their investments, says that it is the easiest and most straightforward chatbot out there.

30
2 years ago

A company that helps food companies understand their customers and deliver personalized experiences. It has customers including Taco Bell, and has already delivered on projects for the likes of Chick-fil-A.

30
2 years ago

A startup that makes household cleaning supplies like scouring pads and sponges. The founders realized that they could cut down on the amount of plastic waste they were producing by making their own cleaning supplies.

30
2 years ago

This app’s founders want to encourage people to be more aware of the types of products they use on a daily basis. It’s a bit like DoNotPay, but for things you use every day.

30
2 years ago

A platform allowing people to grant others access to their email, calendars, contacts, and calendars. The founders call the product “the most social e-mail service you’ve ever seen.”

30
2 years ago

A social network for millennial women. It allows women to connect via their interests, with the app’s founders saying they have seen a 400% increase in users since launching the site in September.

30
2 years ago

The founders of this company say that it helps people who have a lot of data, but not much time to manage it. It’s a startup that wants to help people organize their data using a mobile app.

30
2 years ago

This is a group of medical experts who are building a subscription-based platform that will help people manage and understand their health.

29
2 years ago

A startup that wants to use artificial intelligence to help companies like IBM and Samsung understand how to design better consumer products.

29
2 years ago

This startup builds a platform to help companies understand the data they’re collecting through social media. The platform is designed to help companies understand the behaviors of their users, and the data they’re sharing.

29
2 years ago

Acme is building a community for people who want to learn about and put their money into cryptocurrencies. The company’s founder says it’s “built for the everyday investor,” and that it is “the first to offer the option to trade cryptocurrencies directly from a bank account.”

29
2 years ago

A mobile app that helps professionals find the right people to hire for jobs. The startup’s founders say they’ve been “working with more than 350 companies so far, with over 1,000 subscribers”.

29
2 years ago

Unmetric is basically a dating app for inventors. The founders say that over a quarter of patents are never licensed, and that a large majority of inventors are single. Unmetric wants to help connect inventors with others who may be interested in licensing or collaborating on an idea.

28
2 years ago

A startup that tracks assets, helping companies rapidly understand where their money is.

28
2 years ago

A healthcare startup that wants to be the Amazon of healthcare, which would be a massive undertaking. It aims to build a “hospital” that can deliver everything from labs to surgeries to nutrition to radiology.

28
2 years ago

A company that helps hospitals in rural areas and underserved communities manage their IT operations.

28
2 years ago

A platform for freelance designers, allowing them to earn money for their work, like the Google AdSense program. The startup’s co-founder said he’d be open to working with startups.

28
2 years ago

Instead of building a home, the founders say, this company lets people rent out their homes and instead make a profit on the hosting fee. It’s similar to Airbnb for personal use.

27
2 years ago

A digital assistant for doctors, designed to help them take digitals notes while they’re seeing patients. The startup’s co-founder says they’ve already built an app and are looking to scale.

27
2 years ago

A search engine that looks for visual content in text and vice versa. It's founders want to make it easier to locate information in white space.

27
2 years ago

A B2B company that helps financial institutions and insurance companies understand their data, and build models for predicting customer behavior.

27
2 years ago

A web-based service for student loan debtors, currently in beta. The startup’s founders had both student loans and were really frustrated by the lack of resources to address them.

27
2 years ago

The founders of Capital One’s Product Development team explain how they built a new computer vision API to help financial institutions determine whether a card was used for fraudulent activity.

27
2 years ago

A wireless data device that translates between human and machine language, in a similar way to the company’s previous product, the Speakit. The founders say they’ve sold $1.4m of the devices.

27
2 years ago

A social network to help artists promote their work, share knowledge, and connect with one another. The startup is connecting the underground music scene with fans and sharing knowledge.

27
2 years ago

A startup that is building a “complete” cloud accounting product to help organizations track and understand their business and costs.

27
2 years ago

The founder of Crest, a food delivery platform (and former YC company), is helping a new startup get off the ground with recipe software.

27
2 years ago

A computer vision company that’s developing object recognition and scene understanding AI technology to augment the capabilities of robotics, drones, and other automation systems.

27
2 years ago

A startup aimed at mitigating the need for self-serve gas stations. The startup’s founder says the idea is to make gas stations “a thing of the past”, saying “we have the technology to make that happen.”

26
2 years ago

A SaaS platform that helps banks comply with international banking regulations. The platform helps banks manage all the different regulations that banks are required to follow, like anti-money laundering measures and know-your-customer policies.

26
2 years ago

The founders of the Rainmaker platform are building a new kind of marketplace for employees, allowing companies to outsource any job to multiple independent workers, and manage them all more effectively.

26
2 years ago

This startup provides software to help companies get a better handle on their security spending. It can help businesses understand how their IT budget is being spent, so they can get more efficient with their budgeting.

26
2 years ago

Combines the power of analytics (like customer data) with the power of engagement (like online polls). The goal is to help customers better understand their customers.

26
2 years ago

A marketing platform for retail companies. The startup’s founder says he wants to aggregate all of the data a retailer has to make it easier to get in touch with customers.

26
2 years ago

 A social network for people who are interested in helping people find their lost pets. The founders say that they’re looking to build a platform that will allow pet owners to find the best possible service to help them recover their lost pets.

26
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps online businesses understand how their product is interacting with the real world It’s like an interactive version of Google Analytics The startup’s software is built on top of a distributed programmable database called BigTable and is currently selling to a handful of enterprise clients

25
2 years ago

The cofounder of a company called Too Good To Go is opening a new business that delivers groceries and other essentials in reusable boxes.

25
2 years ago

A startup for selling houses that’s based on a platform for renting the houses, called Rentalia. The founders say it’s like Airbnb, but for houses.

25
2 years ago

The companies were selected by the Startup Battlefield judges: Ankit Gupta, Founder and Managing Partner of Y Combinator; Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Partner at Y Combinator; and Brad Feld, Partner at Foundry Group, an investor in the Y Combinator portfolio.

25
2 years ago

A “modern day ‘Captain Kirk’,” according to the founders, who want to use smart home technology to make it possible for people to control their homes and businesses using voice commands.

25
2 years ago

The company’s co-founder, who has been running a successful events business for the last two years, says he wants to create a platform that helps small businesses like his make their events a little more profitable.

25
5 years ago

Idea: A B2B company that helps pull financial data from multiple sources and makes it available inside a CRM-style interface. The founders say they’ve already worked with a few dozen companies.

24
5 years ago

Idea: A tool for helping companies and employees build their own internal chatrooms. The founder says that the product has been used by YC for the past few years, and is now being offered to other companies as well.

24
2 years ago

A platform that allows users to see social interactions with brands and products, and helps brands to better understand their customers.

24
2 years ago

Smart is a company that wants to empower developers to build the next big ideas. The founders say that they want to build a platform for developers to build things that are “so powerful that they can’t be ignored”.

24
2 years ago

A way for users to connect their phone number to their email address and have it show up under email addresses on websites.

24
2 years ago

A marketing and analytics platform for online travel agents. The startup is built to target small business owners and travel agents with the tools to understand their customers and their own business.

24
2 years ago

This startup is building a tool to help social and ethnic entrepreneurs understand their market and how best to reach it. The startup offers demographic data, education data, income data and more.

24
2 years ago

One of the world’s largest companies is trying to upgrade its supply chain with robots, and the scale of this undertaking is enormous.

24
2 years ago

A startup that connects users to information on a given topic, helping users find and analyze information about a given topic, and then builds tools to help users understand and analyze that information. An example of this is Sports Canuck, which allows users to see what fans of specific teams are saying across Twitter and Facebook.

24
2 years ago

A startup that helps companies make sense of financial data that lives across multiple systems in order to gain a more powerful understanding of the business

24
2 years ago

“A personal assistant for kids,” as the founders put it. The app is meant to be fun but also offer a lot of value, like helping kids keep track of what’s happening in their lives and plan ahead.

24
2 years ago

A startup that allows customers to create their own iPhone and Android apps using APIs and a developer-friendly platform. The founders say that they’ve built the first iteration of the product, but are looking for $500,000 in seed capital to build out the product.

24
2 years ago

The latest app from the founders of Tagtile, this one’s focused on connecting shoppers to the products they’re looking for on Amazon.

24
2 years ago

A company that helps companies create and deliver digital marketing campaigns, social media and email campaigns. The startup’s founders say that they have been able to help companies save $2 million on their marketing budgets.

23
2 years ago

A platform that helps investors find and fund early stage startups. The startup’s investors are also the founders of the startups.

23
2 years ago

A platform for helping data scientists understand and better explore their data to make it useful.

23
2 years ago

An AI platform that takes complex legal documents and turns them into easy to understand, cleanly formatted content that is then automatically licensed.

23
2 years ago

Ashley Thayer, founder and CEO of the company, wrote that this product "aims to take the friction out of booking a rental and allows renters and landlords to book and pay for their rental experiences through a mobile app."

23
2 years ago

A way to create a name and tag for the people you meet on the road (a la Foursquare.) It’s also a way to track those locations on a map, and see what’s happening nearby. Its co-founder used to be a member of the Y Combinator batch.

23
2 years ago

The Y Combinator team consists of ten full-time employees, including both founders and managers.

23
2 years ago

A tool that helps companies understand how their products interact with customers around the world, which is important for international sales

23
2 years ago

There’s a lot of work being done by third-party developers to analyze and extract insights from customer data, but the challenge is that the data is often messy and inconsistent. Because of this, it can be hard to know how to use the data for good. Uniq is designing and building a data platform that will make it easier for brands to extract value from customer data and truly understand it.

23
2 years ago

The company is building an analytics platform that helps users understand how their content is being used across social platforms. The startup is already working with media outlets such as the New York Times and Forbes.

23
2 years ago

A global business conference and expo that brings together entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals who work in every aspect of the startup and early-stage business ecosystem. One of its founders is an investment banker and the other is a PayPal alum.

23
2 years ago

After a founder saw a local family in need of a shelter, they started doing research and realized that there was still a need for a local shelter for homeless pets in San Francisco. As a result, the startup found a way to raise money for a local shelter to help homeless pets, and is now funded to run the shelter itself.

23
2 years ago

A startup that looks to improve the way urban planning happens worldwide by using data analytics to reduce traffic jams in cities. The founders have the firm belief that traffic jams make cities less livable.

22
2 years ago

This product is designed to help people massage their muscles with light to help reduce pain and increase blood flow. It is the first product of its kind that uses a new kind of light therapy called near-infrared laser therapy. Cofounders Ryan and David Berger, both of whom have had shoulder problems, were the original inspirations for the product.

22
2 years ago

A startup that connects people who have a physical disability with those who can help them. The founders hope to allow people to earn money by helping out others.

22
2 years ago

A startup that builds a tool to aggregate and analyze data on a specific industry for a specific purpose. The founders say they built the company with the intention they’d raise a round of funding to grow the team, but they never found a buyer.

22
2 years ago

A startup that uses machine learning to help people visualize and understand the data that’s showing up in their inbox, making it easy to filter what’s important for their time.

22
2 years ago

This startup is building a luxury concierge service in the NYC area. The company’s founder has said he hopes to create a service that’s a bit like a concierge for the wealthy.

22
2 years ago

Kids need to have a place to exercise on-demand. The founders built a set of tools to help them do that at home, with one of the founders training himself to play guitar while wearing their product.

22
2 years ago

A company that helps business owners figure out their tax liability by helping them understand what their business is, what the tax implications are, and how to use the latest tools and technology to help them be more efficient.

22
2 years ago

Wealth is the founder of the app Wealthify, which was recently acquired by Citigroup. They’ve also recently launched a new financial platform called , which helps people manage their wealth.

22
2 years ago

A company that wants to create a data warehouse for companies, consumers and investors to better understand real estate trends.

21
2 years ago

A company that “brings a more visual way to understand your data”. The startup is building a platform that allows data to be visualized in cartoon form, which can be shared “easily with a link”. It’s also working on an app that allows users to make graphs, allowing them to “draw on a spreadsheet” and “share their graphs with others”.

21
2 years ago

This is a startup that helps brands and publishers track and understand the performance of their audiences on social media.

21
2 years ago

The Zimride founders are creating a social network to help Zimride users find parking and share rides to and from airports.

21
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that provides software for scheduling employees on factory floors, allowing them to match production capacity with demand and prevent under- or over-production of goods.

20
5 years ago

Idea: This startup simplifies the process of creating certificates of deposit for retail customers by creating a very simple web-based platform. The service is currently free, and the founders say they’re working on pricing.

20
2 years ago

A tool that helps brands understand what their sales reps are talking about in social media. The startup says their product is the same thing that recruiters use to track what’s happening at a job fair, but it can also be used to track what employees are saying on social media.

20
2 years ago

A platform for building a personal narrative in the form of a book that Dr. Lovell wrote to help people better understand the world around them. The book provides the reader with the details behind the science, the history, and the impact of science.

20
2 years ago

A platform that connects artists with brands and helps them join forces on projects. The founders say they are building a “digital agency on the blockchain” to make art more collaborative.

20
2 years ago

A financial data analytics startup that helps businesses understand their cash flow, track sales, and predict expenses.

20
2 years ago

A startup for doctors to share patient information and get paid for it. The founders built the app after realizing that patients usually don’t have access to all their medical records and that doctors often don’t have time to get everything together to send it to them. Dr. G is growing quickly.

20
2 years ago

A company that helps organizations understand their human capital, and share that data with external stakeholders and employers.

20
2 years ago

 A social media analytics company with an emphasis on civic engagement due to its founder’s background in political science and public relations.

20
2 years ago

Yet another startup that wants to help people manage their credit scores, helping them understand their credit health, and helping them manage it with a dashboard that provides personalized recommendations.

20
2 years ago

A startup that is building a database of all the items ever produced in the world, using a theory that companies should be able to search the database to understand where to find the right-sized parts to build something.

20
2 years ago

A software company in Utah that helps companies and not-for-profits set up web-based call centers with zero upfront costs. The founders assume that companies don’t want to spend on call center software since most of their deals are over the phone.

19
2 years ago

A startup that crowdsources the anonymous data of anonymous users to give companies a better understanding of their customers.

19
2 years ago

This startup helps clients manage their employee benefits with a mobile app, allowing them to view their benefits in a quick, easy-to-understand interface.

19
2 years ago

The founders of this company say their goal is to build a complete, social, and secure marketplace for buying and selling gold.

19
2 years ago

The startup helps designers prototype ideas, and is also in the business of creating websites and landing pages. The company’s founders say 40% of their business is with YC companies, and that they are expecting a $1 million revenue run rate by the end of the year.

19
2 years ago

A startup that helps women get a better understanding of their contraceptive options and has helped more than 1,500 patients receive information and make an appointment.

19
5 years ago

Idea: Fuctional programming is one of the frontiers of software development, and this startup is building a tool to help developers better understand the functional code they’re writing.

18
2 years ago

A self-hosted video platform built on top of YouTube. The founders say they want to ensure that creators can get paid fairly when using their platform.

18
2 years ago

A group messaging app that allows photos to be sent and shared in a group at a set time and date. The app’s founders say it’s built for events like weddings and birthdays, and that the group chat feature allows for a lot of customization.

18
2 years ago

This startup is building an AI-powered assistant that helps users understand where their data comes from and why it’s valuable.

18
2 years ago

A platform that allows users to order food from their favorite restaurants in the US, and have it delivered in under 30 minutes. The startup has been operating since 2017, and is based out of New York City.

18
2 years ago

A platform that curates and analyzes online conversations, helping businesses better understand their brand and customers.

18
2 years ago

A venture for social good that helps underprivileged and underserved people around the world start or grow businesses.

18
2 years ago

Co-founder at HotPlate, Gunawan is building a platform that allows mom and pop stores to bring their own payment systems to their businesses.

17
2 years ago

A startup that helps businesses understand what’s happening on their website, and then helps them make it profitable. It has about 1,200 businesses signed up, with the company’s first two customers being Levi’s and Cisco.

17
2 years ago

A way to buy and sell real estate without using a broker (or close to it). The startup is building a service that allows you to create a listing transaction in under 5 minutes, listing an apartment, condo, or house.

17
2 years ago

This startup is building a recommendation engine for underwriters to help them get the right people to apply for loans.

17
2 years ago

A startup for the underbanked that connects them with small loans.

17
2 years ago

A tool to help users understand the cost of the things they buy and create a budget for their future purchases. It’s a tool that helps people manage their money by showing them which purchases are costing them the most.

17
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that aims to help people learn to code through a combination of chatbots and online courses The company’s founders say they’re currently working on an AI-powered chatbot that can make coding exercises more interesting

16
5 years ago

Idea: An education platform for coding. With an estimated 1.5 million job openings in the next 5 years, the founders say they’ve got an opportunity to help provide the next generation of developers with

16
5 years ago

Idea: An AI-powered email platform that integrates with Gmail, with a focus on the “personal touch”. The startup’s founder says there’s a generation of people who grew up on AOL’s chat interface and have since forgotten how to write emails (because they’ve been using chat).

16
2 years ago

A startup that allows businesses to operate their own taxi (or ride-sharing) apps. The founders say they have $20,000 in monthly recurring revenue and have already signed up over 50 clients.

16
2 years ago

The founders of this startup are looking to build a user interface for the blockchain, a form of decentralized accounting.

16
2 years ago

The idea for a startup is to make something that solves a problem and can be sold. The founder, the vision, the product, the technology, and the business model have to be great.

16
2 years ago

 A startup that’s building a “contactless payment system” that automatically tracks the revenue a merchant is making. The founder says the system tracks revenues from the point of sale, not just the transaction.

16
2 years ago

A startup focused on helping companies in the credit card industry understand how their customers are using their cards. The startup’s founder is a former Bank of America executive.

16
2 years ago

Built on a Facebook Messenger chatbot, but with a focus on helping disabled people apply for jobs and services, and helping employers understand their applicants’ disabilities.

16
2 years ago

A data visualization tool for supply chain managers, providing a way to visualize and understand data in a more visual and actionable way.

16
2 years ago

A startup that wants to solve the problem of the boom in digital-native startups and the difficulty of finding and retaining staff. The startup’s founders say they’ve hired more than a dozen developers, designers, and customer success managers.

16
2 years ago

The restaurant and bar industry is highly fragmented. Bodega is a startup that’s working to bring all of the small businesses under one umbrella.

16
2 years ago

 A recipe app for the home cook, with a focus on the Asian market. The startup sells itself as a “hobby” — a term that the founders say is an important part of the company’s appeal.

16
2 years ago

A system for weaponized drones to understand commands

16
2 years ago

This startup is trying to build an AI that is able to listen to the way people speak and understand what they’re saying. The company says that its technology is able to understand the context of a conversation faster than a human can.

16
5 years ago

This company has built an analytics platform that helps online retailers understand how their customers use their product.

15
2 years ago

A virtual assistant for the under-30s, Monj is a virtual assistant meant to help millennials make their schedules, manage their relationships, and help them budget.

15
2 years ago

A company that helps companies create data-driven websites based on their business goals. The company’s founder is a former developer at Uber, so it has a good reputation in the area.

15
2 years ago

The company is looking to help insurance companies understand claims more deeply and more quickly. It’s currently in a pre-seed round with a partnership with the Philadelphia 76ers.

15
2 years ago

A B2B company that helps you connect with the right sales reps for your company’s products. The startup’s founders are software engineers who want to shift the responsibility for sales people’s calls to software.

15
2 years ago

Appels is a DNA-powered food platform, and its founders say that with the current cost of food and the low-quality of the data it’s often hard to figure out what’s in your food.

15
2 years ago

A startup that helps companies in the US and Canada comply with the new EU Money Laundering Directive.

15
2 years ago

A data analytics company that helps businesses understand their customers better. The startup has launched a new, lower-cost product that works with AdWords.

15
2 years ago

An analytics and data platform with an aim at helping companies and service providers better understand their users. Like Klout, it provides a score of user engagement, engagement and influence, which is based on a number of social signals.

15
2 years ago

Every year, one in three Americans will experience a mental health issue. Form is currently working on building a self-help platform that guides people through the process to understand their mental health issues and set up a treatment plan.

15
2 years ago

A startup with a strong data science background that allows employees to analyze and create models from massive amounts of data from things like social media, forum posts, blog posts, and more. The founder says that these data sets can be used to predict behaviors and trends for things like product development.

15
2 years ago

The latest startup from Eileen Burbidge, a founder of Zappos. A company that’s building a marketplace for “luxury” products.

14
2 years ago

A structured data and API-first CMS for websites. The startup’s founder grew up in the web development world but often found himself frustrated by the limitations of the standard CMSes out there.

14
2 years ago

In November 2018, "Return of Kings" founder Daryush Valizadeh, known as Roosh V, was banned from entry to the United Kingdom. Valizadeh published an article in "Return of Kings", titled "How to Stop Rape" which suggests that women are more likely to be raped if they stay in their home countries rather than moving to the United States or Europe. This article has been criticized by people as being misogynistic and conservative.

14
2 years ago

A payment app that allows a small fee to help a merchant securely accept card payments from a customer. "We started because the cost of accepting card payments was too high," says cofounder James Chen.

14
2 years ago

Builds financial advisory software for SMEs in the US by using behavioral insights on data collected from the S&P 500 to filter and identify companies that are under-performing their peers.

14
2 years ago

A company that helps build and scale products for organizations under a budget by leveraging a “bespoke” approach.

14
2 years ago

A “social lending” startup that aims to get personal loans from friends, family, and neighbours. The company’s co-founders have backgrounds in financial technology.

14
2 years ago

The founders say that they’re a “paint app for grownups.” They’re building a suite of mobile apps that let you create custom, edible murals.

14
2 years ago

A startup that helps companies understand the demand for their product and make better decisions by working with the customer to understand the problem.

14
2 years ago

A group of startup-minded undergraduates at UC Berkeley who want to connect students with interesting classes.

14
5 years ago

Idea: A micro-financing company that provides small loans directly to merchants in Kenya. It aims to bring a better online experience to the underbanked.

13
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to make it easier for the under-banked to get an online checking account. The startup is working with a number of different providers to make sure they have a bank account for the right price, no matter who you are.

13
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.

13
2 years ago

This startup is building a focus group-driven tool that helps teams to better understand their users.

13
2 years ago

A social network for teenagers, targeting those under 18. The startup says it’s 100% free and in private beta.

13
2 years ago

The startup’s founders say that they’re trying to “make the experience of owning a car enjoyable again.”

13
2 years ago

The startup is building a platform where retailers can sell their products directly to consumers by means of their personal networks. The startup is working with the mREIT to sell properties under their portfolio through this platform.

13
2 years ago

A startup that gives you the option to “cash out” your Amazon Prime subscription. The startup wants to undercut the “ongoing subscription” model that Amazon has in place, essentially allowing you to sell your membership.

13
2 years ago

Aug Q3 Insights provides a data-rich dashboard to help companies understand their audience.

13
2 years ago

A startup that wants to provide “a visual way to understand the current status of your application” by integrating with your monitoring system to show errors and warnings as a “live-updating inspection tool”.

12
2 years ago

A start-up that aims to make it easier and faster to start a tech company. "We're building an enterprise platform that makes it easier for people to start new businesses," said co-founder Maxime Côté.

12
2 years ago

Coding bootcamp for women, especially those who have been previously underrepresented in tech.

12
2 years ago

The startup is building a data management system for the construction industry, in which construction sites can be described, tagged, and followed in a way that makes it easier for contractors to understand where materials are coming from and how they’re getting to the job site.

12
2 years ago

A startup for people in need of medical care in the developing world. The startup’s founder, Sam Patt, has been working in the field for 15 years.

12
2 years ago

A web startup that wants to help business users get a better understanding of what the data they have collected about their business is telling them. The company has two customers that are currently in the pilot stage.

12
5 years ago

Idea: A podcast for entrepreneurs and small business owners. It’s called “Sales & Marketing” and it’s hosted by two former startup founders.

11
5 years ago

A startup that provides affordable vehicle insurance to people under 25. The startup wants to become the go-to resource for young drivers and disrupt the current auto insurance industry which targets only the high-risk demographic.

11
2 years ago

An online-only, mobile-only, and brick-and-mortar-focused bank for the underbanked. It focuses on low-income customers, offering a basic branchless banking service with no fees. It’s a new type of bank that allows customers to overdraw their checking account without charge and to access their savings account via an app.

11
2 years ago

An ATM for the blind – a mobile app that enables visually impaired people to carry out simple tasks like scanning and paying for items at vending machines. The cofounders say it’s their first startup and that they’re working on a way to make it more convenient for people who need to use it multiple times a day.

11
2 years ago

A startup that helps people manage their subscriptions. The founders think there is a lot of opportunity for the B2B market.

11
2 years ago

A startup that helps credit unions and other financial institutions provide loans and credit cards to under-banked members. The idea is to help underserved populations access financial services, including small business loans, disability loans, and credit cards.

11
2 years ago

A data platform for banks that helps them understand how transactions are impacting their profit & loss statements. The startup wants to help banks reduce the cost of manual reconciliation.

11
2 years ago

Social network for artists, with a mostly curated stream of content from the artists. Founder says they have over 1,000 artists on their platform.

11
2 years ago

The startup founder, Aarti Krishnan, had been a software engineer at Facebook for six years before deciding to start her own company. She was inspired by a friend’s experience of starting a business, and is helping women in the US start their own businesses.

11
2 years ago

The program provides seed funding, office space, and three months of access to mentors in exchange for a commitment of two years from the founders. The founders are expected to devote 40 hours a week to the company, and are expected to move to Silicon Valley for the duration of the program. The program is selective in its application process, accepting only the most promising companies, typically those that are first-time entrepreneurs and have bootstrapped their

11
2 years ago

A company that sells a tool to help companies learn and understand their patients’ needs, and then use the insights they learn at a later date to better serve patients.

11
2 years ago

A startup building a platform that helps users create personalized videos for their businesses. The company’s founder said the videos can be used to present to clients, potential partners, employees, or customers.

11
5 years ago

Idea: A business that provides an experience platform for making and organizing all kinds of lifestyle plans Co-founder Dan is the former head of product at Maker’s Market, the private label division at Walmart

10
2 years ago

A medical research technology company that uses machine learning to search for genetic mutations in tumors, giving doctors a better understanding of treatment options.

10
5 years ago

Idea: A voice-activated “interface for the real world”, like a “JARVIS for the physical world”. The founders say it currently “works with every major cloud provider”, and that they’re looking to partner with companies that need the technology to build in-house platforms.

9
2 years ago

A tool for remotely managing security and risk from a central location. It’s currently a B2B tool for insurance companies that want to manage their underwriting risk from one central location. The startup uses AI to identify risk and work with the algorithm to help companies develop a plan to mitigate risk.

9
2 years ago

A tool that helps the self-storage industry better understand its customers to make them more profitable.

9
2 years ago

This startup is building a tool for doctors to create digital videos to help patients understand their condition in a better way.

8
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that sells and ships cereal to customers. The startup wants to tap into an underserved niche of customers who want cereal that’s not available in stores.

7
5 years ago

Idea: Early stage, VC-backed uBiome is an open source citizen science biotech that makes it easy for anyone to analyze their microbiome The company is profitable and is scaling internationally, but its founders want more funding

5
5 years ago

Idea: A startup for startup founders to sell business ventures that are proven to be working.

1
5 years ago

Idea: Previously, the company was raising money under the name Tender, which would have been a food delivery service that employed the same “crowd delivery” model as Munchery or Peach Now, the company is simply called Tender, and will be an online marketplace for farmers

-1
5 years ago

Idea: Chat with a lawyer in under 5 minutes

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A software company that’s building a tool that helps lawyers and other legal professionals manage their case load It does this by building predictive models that help lawyers understand how they’re spending time, who they should be billing, and how to allocate their time more efficiently It also helps process payments The startup has $0 in funding and was founded in 2017

-1
5 years ago

Idea: The founders of Recruiterbox have started a new company called Proxee, which is a “CRM for recruiters” The app promises to help recruiters source and manage candidates

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A way to help companies and their employees understand what a raise means for them financially, and take the time to ask for one

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A social network for people who love to travel The startup’s founder is an active traveler who wanted to create a space for like-minded folks to find travel companions The startup says they have over 75,000 users

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A platform for small business owners, built to help them manage their business and provide finance and support for under-served communities

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A platform that makes it easy to rent out office spaces around the world The founders say they’re already making a profit

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps companies manage their tech stacks to ensure they stay on the bleeding edge of tech trends and have a clear understanding of their tech spending

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A software company that’s building a consumer-facing interface for the up-and-coming world of automated vehicles The company is meant to help people understand how to interact with driverless cars

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A data visualization company for enterprise companies It helps them understand data through graphs and charts so they can make better decisions

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A help desk automation tool that aims to help IT departments better understand and manage their infrastructure

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that is trying to provide a framework for understanding the “hidden” data that companies have about themselves The startup

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that connects German startups looking for co-founders with “potential employees” in the form of freelancers.

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that combines the idea of a social network with the idea of a dating app. People can follow each other and post content, but they can also chat with each other. The founders say that their users are posting content at a rate

-1
5 years ago

Idea: Improves the performance of ads by pinpointing the moment that a customer sees an ad and decides to buy. The startup is building machine learning models to predict conversion time, and the founders have already run $1m of ads through their product.

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that is building a platform for shared office space. The company’s founders say that it’s already profitable and has $2.8 million in revenue, with $10 million in annual recurring revenue. The company is installing $10 million in hardware in the next two years. It’s currently profitable.

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps people ship their used items to buyers. The founder says that she’s already sold $3,000 worth of items in her first two months.

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A startup for private label goods. The founder wants to make it easy for people to create their own private label brands, and is pitching it as a marketplace for startups to create their own version of a “Brands You Love But Can’t Find In Stores” store.

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A business that helps carpenters and plumbers schedule service calls. So far, the founders say they have $1,500 in

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A tool for keeping your software up to date. In a demo, the founder showed that the service updates a user’s phone to the latest version of Android.

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that is creating a marketplace for short-term rentals for living spaces in the US that are under-utilized. They’re currently working with hotel brands to provide these services to employees and other guests.

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps people living in countries with low credit scores get loans. The company claims to have an 80% approval rate for people with FICO scores under 550.

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A startup for custom mobile applications for companies and non-profits. It’s a well-known model that has been around for a few years. The founder says his company has $30k in monthly recurring revenue, working with 500 companies.

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to play matchmaker between people and moving companies. The founders say moving is a massive pain point, and there’s a huge demand for a simpler solution.

-1
5 years ago

Idea: This is the company behind the Bodega app, which calls itself a “Bodega box that comes with a free human.” The startup is building an app for small convenience stores in order to make shopping for milk, eggs, and other items more convenient. Its founders are betting that by bringing in a human to help customers, they’ll be able to differentiate from other convenience stores.

-1
5 years ago

Idea: A startup that’s building an enterprise-grade business intelligence product that allows companies to better understand and track their customer data. The company says it’s already working

-1
5 years ago

Idea: This startup is building a tool for people looking to understand their own credit and financial health. The app answers questions like “How much money do I need to retire” and helps them make projections for future expenses.

-1
5 years ago

Idea: Two-factor authentication for banking. The founders say that banks are terrible at protecting their customers’ information, and that they can do a better job with two-factor authentication.

-1
5 years ago

 A startup that offers a service to help people who are under financial stress manage their money better

-1
5 years ago

A network of physical offices for startup founders.

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