World Startup Ideas

5 years ago

A startup that wants to bring personalized tutoring to the world’s most remote regions, including rural India.

1,764

5 years ago

Idea: A platform for connecting students with mentors from the world's top universities

1,689

3 years ago

A team of designers that makes beautiful things for the world.

746

2 years ago

A digital native bank that lets you deposit and withdraw money from anywhere in the world.

698

5 years ago

This startup aims to help people around the world donate their excess stuff to the needy. The startup helps people donate excess stuff to those in need by finding charities that accept donations.

680

4 years ago

A network of tutors across the world that get paid per student, with students able to take lessons from anyone.

653

5 years ago

A startup that collects data on the world’s 4.5 billion-odd cellphones and builds a giant map of their locations with all the phone data available.

625

3 years ago

A messaging app that helps people in the UK and Europe communicate with those in the UK, Europe, or the rest of the world.

531

5 years ago

Build a database of every tree in the world, using satellite imagery.

510

2 years ago

A company that makes a tiny camera for cell phones that can see around corners and capture 1080p video. The startup says it’s making a better m18, one of the most popular cameras in the world.

494

5 years ago

“Together, dreamers and doers can do more than ever before.” It’s a “startup for humanity” that wants to provide rapid solutions that “help change the world for the better”

463

5 years ago

This startup is building a platform for American farmers to sell their goods to consumers worldwide. The startup aims to use a mix of digital store fronts and technology to deliver to consumers in countries like India and China, where the rural population has been growing.

456

4 years ago

A decentralized worldwide marketplace where members can buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.

355

5 years ago

A startup for finding and reserving gyms, as well as a digital membership card. The startup wants to be the world’s first digital gym, using an app to track and manage memberships.

334

4 years ago

This is a water purification company that wants to provide clean, safe drinking water to poor people in the developing world.

320

5 years ago

A startup that wants to help you save money on your toilet paper, but also wants to be the company to make the best toilet paper in the world.

319

5 years ago

A software company delivering software to keep track of the world’s trash.

308

2 years ago

A startup that wants to help schools, libraries, and museums share their books and other media with the wider world via the web.

308

4 years ago

A global marketplace for local goods that requires zero inventory or storage costs. The startup says it can deliver goods from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world within 48 hours.

299

4 years ago

A way to help teams manage their work from any location across the world.

274

5 years ago

“An online platform that provides the opportunity to discover and hire top talent from around the world. They are already generating $4 million in annual revenue with a team of 8.”

259

5 years ago

A startup that builds "the world’s first decentralized, open source, student portal.” Its goal is to connect students around the world to their professors through a global network of university digital classrooms.

252

4 years ago

A company that specializes in developing innovative products to help the visually-impaired. The company has developed a range of solutions to help blind users interact with the world around them.

246

4 years ago

A new way to buy and sell items in the world of cryptocurrencies

239

4 years ago

A new startup that wants to make the world’s smallest USB hub, allowing users to plug in multiple USB devices (keyboards, monitors, etc) into a single port

237

2 years ago

Founded in 2011, with offices in Venice, San Francisco, and New York, Seed&Click is a global online marketplace for art. They offer art and design services from artists around the world. The platform was built specifically for art and design professionals who need a safe, secure and professional environment to advertise their skills to the world.

233

4 years ago

A company that tries to make the world's best artificial intelligence-powered chatbot.

228

4 years ago

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

228

3 years ago

A credit card designed for use in the developing world that charges low interest rates and has lower transaction fees.

226

4 years ago

A company that makes a comprehensive, searchable database of the world’s universities.

225

4 years ago

A blockchain-based solution for streaming Chinese TV to the world

224

4 years ago

A news application that focuses on sports games and the sports world.

223

5 years ago

This is “a healthcare startup for the world’s largest democracy” – India. It aims to help patients get their prescriptions filled at the lowest prices possible, and is already working with several pharmaceutical companies in India for a $3 million revenue run rate.

222

4 years ago

SaaS business that provides a platform for companies to manage their payments and invoices from anywhere in the world.

220

4 years ago

A “social network for the professional dog groomers in the world”, allowing them to connect with customers and each other.

219

5 years ago

A startup that is building a platform to help the two billion people in the world who don't have access to the Internet or smartphones.

217

4 years ago

A book about the startup world, due out in October 2019.

217

5 years ago

a social network for people who want to learn about the world. The startup has over 100,000 users, and now has clients in the US, Europe, China, and India.

213

5 years ago

A software platform that lets brands communicate with marketing departments around the world — making workflows easier and more cost-effective.

212

4 years ago

The startup wants to bring the cloud to the world of physical data. It claims it can build a data warehouse out of any physical machine in the world — even from a broken down machine.

212

4 years ago

A startup that lets you track your mileage on a car, bike, or moped. It’s like a mileage tracker but for the world’s most commonly owned modes of transportation.

212

3 years ago

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

212

4 years ago

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

211

5 years ago

6,000 employees worldwide use this company’s service to connect with, and manage, their boss’s calendars.

207

4 years ago

The world’s first interactive robot taxidermist. It combines 3D scanning technology and a robotic arm to automatically fuse together a stuffed creature out of real animal parts. The startup says the process is simple for consumers to use, and can be done from their homes.

206

2 years ago

A mobile-first, web-first platform for capturing and analyzing the decisions of consumers on-the-go. The platform allows consumers to share their personal data with brands, streamlining the process of capturing data from the real world, and making it actionable.

202

4 years ago

A software company that powers the world’s largest video sharing platform. The startup helps users watch videos on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and others. It has over 2 billion daily active users.

200

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make “banking for the world’s poor” easier by providing access to financial services.

198

4 years ago

This startup is building a “cloud” of data centers around the world, so that the data center closest to the user is the most reliable. It’s similar to Amazon Web Services, but more localized.

196

4 years ago

A database of all the world’s public companies, which includes their stock market valuation and most recent transactions.

196

4 years ago

It’s a game for the modern age. It’s a fully 3D world that feels like a “world of computer generated reality.”

195

4 years ago

An online platform for hiring and managing temps. The company wants to be the platform that bring together the world of temp agencies and temps to make it easier for employers and employees.

193

4 years ago

A tool to help people find out what’s going on in the world, or what’s happening around them.

193

4 years ago

A calendar for the corporate world.

193

4 years ago

A software company that makes “tools that help the world’s leading brands and agencies build and run their multi-channel customer engagement programs.”

192

5 years ago

A startup that sells Android phones in bulk to the developing world

189

5 years ago

A digital currency for the global market. It’s first product is a stablecoin for local currency payments in the US and across the world.

189

4 years ago

This startup wants to bring the vision of autonomous cars to the world of batteries and energy.

189

5 years ago

Big Data maps the world’s food. The startup analyzes agricultural data in real time to help farmers make more informed decisions about which crops to grow, where to plant them, and when to sell them.

187

5 years ago

A platform for helping the developing world manage the increasingly important issue of climate change.

187

4 years ago

This startup wants to make it easier for people to create their own videos, with the goal of helping them share their stories with the world. The platform can be integrated into other services or used standalone, and has a number of corporate customers including the likes of Airbnb.

183

4 years ago

A platform that lets you explore the world’s top events, including tickets, business deals, and travel itineraries.

183

5 years ago

This company is building technology that combines the best practices of the world’s ride-sharing companies into a single platform.

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

One of the two startups in the Finalist batch to make the Demo Day pitch, Haptik is another VR system that allows you to create VR-based simulations of the real world. Haptik is targeting the market for VR training simulations, which is an idea that’s already working for real estate agents and other companies.

180

4 years ago

A platform to help employees and startups navigate the legal complexities of the corporate world.

180

5 years ago

A startup that aims to be the Wikipedia of the veterinary industry, by building a community for vets across the world.

177

5 years ago

A startup that is working on a location-based ad platform. Their pitch is that they are the only ones building a smart ad stack that works across all channels, including the web, apps, and the physical world.

177

5 years ago

A platform to help the world’s refugees find homes. It’s currently in beta.

176

5 years ago

This startup is building an “interactive map of the world” and wants to be the Uber of mapping.

176

5 years ago

A startup that helps engineers manage the full lifecycle of their software projects. It’s a B2B SaaS platform serving developers worldwide.

176

5 years ago

A SaaS platform that uses machine learning to optimize lead generation. The startup’s customers include Monster Worldwide, the world’s largest job site, and the US’s largest insurance company.

176

4 years ago

A startup that is a search engine for the world's best creative work.

175

4 years ago

QuickBooks for the cryptocurrency world

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

5 years ago

A startup that makes it cheap and easy to order products from around the world

174

5 years ago

A new company changing how people think about the world.

173

4 years ago

An online platform for buying and selling tech products. The startup says it’s the only tech company in the physical world, allowing people to buy tech products from other tech people.

173

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

5 years ago

A tool for sharing your portfolio of creative work with the world

172

3 years ago

A company that builds satellite-enabled internet connectivity for rural areas of the world.

172

2 years ago

A startup that aims to be the official platform for the “world’s leading conversational commerce platform”.

172

5 years ago

A physical token that can be used to unlock any door in the world

171

5 years ago

A platform that helps recruiters find and screen candidates in cities around the world.

171

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

This machine learning startup is building a program to identify problems in the world’s food supply

171

3 years ago

In this product, you pull up a map of the world and it shows you the closest ATM to your location.

171

2 years ago

A company that helps businesses get cash quickly from any bank in the world

171

4 years ago

A startup that helps people explore the world through photography and film. It wants to help people find the “right shot” for their travel photos.

170

3 years ago

A world-changing language that enables people to program computers like they do with smartphones.

170

5 years ago

A startup that wants to make the process of bringing a new child into the world as seamless as possible.

169

4 years ago

"We're a team of entrepreneurs who formed to create a company that helps the world's most powerful brands get more relevant and influential messages sent their way."

169

4 years ago

This company is building a platform for global NGOs to better track and respond to the needs of vulnerable people around the world.

169

4 years ago

The company is building a new kind of augmented reality headset that pairs with your phone, allowing users to see the real world blended with computer generated images.

169

3 years ago

A startup bringing a piece of the hotel-management world to the Airbnb world.

169

5 years ago

A startup that creates a database of all of the world’s music and helps musicians get discovered

167

3 years ago

A network for the world’s most influential people and organizations to share ideas, knowledge, and impact

167

5 years ago

Jurassic Park came out in theaters 20 years ago. Its sequel Jurassic World was released in theaters two years ago.

166

5 years ago

A company that helps people around the world make online donations to charities

166

5 years ago

A digital platform for managing and monitoring medical and health records in the developing world.

166

4 years ago

A company focused on the web and mobile performance, making the world’s largest distributed network for web and mobile services.

166

5 years ago

As of 2016, accelerator programs are across the world, from Silicon Valley to London, with India, China, Singapore and Israel also hosting their own.

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

A platform for self-hosting, on-demand virtual reality content, allowing users to access VR worlds without a headset.

165

5 years ago

A platform that powers “digital stores” in the physical world

165

5 years ago

An educational tool that helps students in the US get certificates from universities around the world. The startup helps students get their credits in real time, with a guarantee that their credits will transfer to the school they’re attending.

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

A New York-based startup that claims to be the first in the world to offer a virtual reality-based storytelling course designed for the music industry.

164

5 years ago

A mobile app that connects people to other travelers and hosts. The startup wants to use technology to make the world’s hotels and hostels more efficient and make it easier for people to find a place to stay.

163

5 years ago

A startup that helps people get their minds around the idea of “a world without cash”

163

5 years ago

A startup that helps people explore the world to learn new things

162

5 years ago

This startup is building a digital banking platform for the developing world, enabling mobile banking across all of Africa.

162

4 years ago

A platform to connect suppliers to restaurants with the goal of increasing food security in the developing world.

162

3 years ago

Meantime wants to make it easier for the world’s farmers to connect with the global market.

161

5 years ago

A startup that uses artificial intelligence to predict where companies will be in three years. They’re based in Philadelphia but working with clients around the world.

160

5 years ago

A system that helps connect people across the world who are interested in doing freelance work, such as writing, editing, and design. The startup was founded in March and is looking to raise seed funding.

160

4 years ago

A “mission-driven” startup that works to provide education to low-income kids in third-world countries. It’s working with a social enterprise in the Dominican Republic.

159

5 years ago

A startup that helps people explore the world around them by allowing them to connect with those who live near them and share their local knowledge

158

5 years ago

A startup that wants to “make the world a better place” by helping small farmers sell their crops for fair prices.

158

5 years ago

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

158

4 years ago

A startup that brings a digital experience to the world of yoga and fitness. The startup wants to build a community for “yoga enthusiasts”, which it says is a huge market.

158

3 years ago

A startup that collects data on the world’s grains to help companies monitor and improve sustainability.

158

5 years ago

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

157

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 platform for the design and manufacture of solar cells. The startup wants to make solar cells more accessible for people in the developing world, with a focus on the Middle East.

156

5 years ago

This startup started in the Y Combinator summer 2017 batch and has a goal of “empowering people around the world to express their identities, express their gender, and be accepted for who they are.”

156

4 years ago

A platform for sharing and curating the world’s best startup teardowns.

156

3 years ago

A tool for people who want to make an extra $300,000 a year doing what they love and earn an average of $20,000 a month by teaching others how to do the same. It’s a freelance teaching platform that allows anyone to make money teaching web development, programming, and more for clients around the world. It’s a flexible, scalable option for people who want to reach their personal goals.

156

5 years ago

A platform for sharing and tracking all of your fitness activities. The company developed a stand-alone iOS app called MyFitnessPal in 2011, which has over 150 million users worldwide. In 2017, they launched the fitness tracking and calorie logging platform Fitbit.

155

5 years ago

A platform for families to connect and communicate with other families around the world.

155

5 years ago

A company that’s building a detailed map of the world’s supply chains, put together using new satellite technologies. The startup wants to create a more efficient and transparent supply chain for all manufacturers.

155

5 years ago

A startup that wants to connect the world’s waste to buyers.

155

4 years ago

A startup that helps you learn the dates of birth of the world’s most famous people.

155

5 years ago

A startup that helps companies find and pay contractors and service providers across the world. The company will use the P2Pool tech popularized by bitcoin to help larger companies find and pay out thousands of contractors more efficiently.

154

5 years ago

In June 2018, the Startup Genome Project released data on the 100 most active venture-backed startups in the world. Of the top 100 startups, 12 were based in the San Francisco Bay Area. That was more than any other single city in the world.

154

5 years ago

A question-and-answer startup where users can ask questions of and then be answered by people all over the world.

154

5 years ago

A startup that provides merchants with a secure, spam-free e-commerce platform to sell their products and access marketplaces in the US and around the world.

154

5 years ago

A startup that makes and sells a $25 hardware device that plugs into your smartphone and lets you make maps of the world.

153

3 years ago

A platform that aims to teach people using “word of the day” style lessons, by using the words they know in a real-world context.

153

5 years ago

A new app that helps fans book flights, hotels, and other travel services from any location around the world.

152

4 years ago

A digital escrow service for Bitcoin that built upon a similar service for fiat currencies. The startup says they’ve already signed up 15,000 customers and are working on launching around the world.

152

5 years ago

This startup is building a new way to access and use the world’s most popular programming languages. The company is now working with Google on its Material Design language team.

151

5 years ago

A tool to help people navigate the world of legal marijuana through a simple, easy to use interface.

151

5 years ago

Building a decentralized model to connect businesses across the world, with a focus on the $3 trillion international business-to-business market.

150

5 years ago

A startup for hiring and retaining freelancers that allows businesses to find, hire and pay people from anywhere in the world.

150

5 years ago

A startup that helps people build their own websites so that they can share their content with the world

149

5 years ago

A virtual assistant that predicts the weather for cities around the world, including New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris, Tokyo, and Mumbai.

149

5 years ago

A startup building an app that helps companies manage their international workflows. The solution is aimed at companies that have multiple different offices around the world, be they full-time or digital nomads.

149

5 years ago

A chatbot that helps you navigate the world of digital marketing.

149

5 years ago

A startup that helps small-business owners around the world get paid for the work they do — and then get paid again for the work they do on the side.

149

5 years ago

A company that pays people in the developing world to write content for a fee. They’ve already signed up one client (Watsi, a non-profit that helps poor people in medical emergencies) and expect to sign up another soon.

149

5 years ago

A platform that helps people manage their contact lists. The startup says it’s dealing with a half-billion contacts with 70% of the world still not connected.

149

5 years ago

A market for the world’s farmers, specifically those who want to start selling their excess produce in bulk.

149

4 years ago

A platform that provides data about how your phone is being used. The startup aims to tackle a problem that is increasingly important as the world becomes more connected: How exactly is my phone being used

149

5 years ago

Collaborating with organizations like the United Nations and the World Bank, Geotime provides demographic, economic, and climate data in a user-friendly way that’s useful for businesses.

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

4 years ago

A tool that lets you explore the world of retirement savings without having to read financial statements or do any complex math. As a nudge to get you started, it’s free.

148

3 years ago

A platform for the new, heavily-interconnected world of AI. The startup wants to allow artificial intelligence to leverage the data it’s constantly retrieving from the internet.

148

3 years ago

A startup that provides a platform for government agencies to collaborate on information sharing, which helps agencies across the world make better public policy decisions.

148

5 years ago

A startup that lets you compete in a virtual world against other players to become the best trader

146

5 years ago

A startup that wants to enable connectivity to the Internet in the remotest parts of the world. The company wants to bring affordable Internet to the world’s most remote places.

146

5 years ago

"We believe that the world’s 2.5 billion farmers deserve access to information they can trust. We believe that everyone deserves an opportunity to improve their lives. We believe that, in the long run, this is good for the planet."

146

5 years ago

A platform for connecting with an expert on the other side of the world, contracting workers from global markets.

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

3 years ago

A social network that helps people with disabilities share photos, videos and events with those without. It’s a self-contained platform that helps those with disabilities get social media posts and content out to the world.

146

5 years ago

A startup that makes learning about the world more accessible to people around the world

145

5 years ago

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

145

5 years ago

A company that sells “the world’s first wearable data science platform”.

144

5 years ago

A startup that’s building a personal assistant for people across the world, and has conducted interviews with over 100 individuals for the role. The company wants to build a team that’s available 24/7 in every part of the world.

144

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help businesses more easily collaborate, share, and delegate work from all over the world. The company is building a desktop app and a mobile app for all different stakeholders to use for project management.

144

5 years ago

A “Kiva for the world”, allowing investors to crowdfund for loans to entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

143

5 years ago

This startup is building a platform for all of the contract recruiters in the world, connecting them to employers and customers.

143

5 years ago

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

143

3 years ago

A video platform with a focus on user-generated content from around the world.

143

5 years ago

New York - New York City is home to the largest financial district in the world, but the cost of living for interns in this area is so high that it’s difficult for companies to entice young talent to stay. This startup, known as Give, wants to make it easier for companies to hire interns.

142

5 years ago

A company that provides a platform for the ability to manage, track and process all of the data generated by the billions of sensors that are embedded in the world’s devices.

141

5 years ago

A tool that helps anyone in the world track their spending in real-time. The startup is building an app for users to report their spending and personal finance habits.

141

5 years ago

Caringo is a startup that is building a new category of Internet of Things (IoT) device – a SaaS platform that lets you create a device of your own with a few simple clicks, and then deploy it into the world as a service.

140

5 years ago

A startup that lets you buy, organize, and sell artwork from artists around the world, with the option of searching for art by artist or subject. ArtGen is based in New York City.

140

5 years ago

A free chat app for developers. The company has already raised $5.5M in funding from some of the largest VCs in the world, including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and more.

140

5 years ago

A tool used to connect small businesses with customers and suppliers, allowing the businesses to manage their finances from anywhere in the world.

140

5 years ago

Sphere is a new approach to online education based on the idea that online education is too expensive for many students and doesn’t provide high enough quality instruction. Sphere offers a free, high-quality education to anyone in the world.

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 startup that wants to bring a similar UI to the world of online banking, except that instead of generic banks, the startup offers a wide array of financial products.

139

5 years ago

A startup in the heart of one of the biggest tech hubs in the world that wants to help startups find genius.

139

3 years ago

A platform that lets people who want to help others organize where they can find the best of these groups. The company wants to help people see where others are doing good in the world.

139

3 years ago

The top US accelerator is Y Combinator, which has been the top accelerator in the world for the past three years.

139

3 years ago

A group of people who want to see a company that’s doing good things for the world

139

5 years ago

A startup that launched in May, Empowered Launchpad is a marketplace for a variety of services including legal, accounting, and engineering, with the goal of making it easier for startups to get off the ground. They’re already working with 100 companies around the world.

138

5 years ago

A company that maps the world’s urban areas using satellite imagery. It’s currently working with six cities: London, New York, San Francisco, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Hong Kong.

138

5 years ago

A “worker-owned cooperative” that will put a new spin on the working world, pairing freelancers and clients with each other to help them co-create a working space, and to help members through a “micro-retirement” plan.

138

5 years ago

A startup looking to make the world’s best desktop security software, and taking advantage of the increasing need for it as the world becomes more connected.

138

5 years ago

A startup to allow people to send money from their smartphones to a family member, no matter where they are in the world.

138

5 years ago

This startup wants to build a marketplace for the world’s most trusted brands.

138

5 years ago

A company that’s moving the power of the “internet of things” from the world of large manufacturing plants and factories to the world of small-scale manufacturing and manufacturing at home. The company is working with over 50 manufacturers to make it easier to connect their products to the Internet.

137

5 years ago

A startup that helps people find and book flights around the world. "We're not trying to be a travel booking site but more a package." The platform lets users see prices and deals from a variety of airlines, which is useful for travelers.

137

5 years ago

An API that lets customers pay any merchant in the world, directly through their website, with no credit-card processing fees.

137

3 years ago

A platform for maintaining a database of information about the world’s languages, the language you’re speaking, where you learned it, and so on. The startup aims to create a common repository of knowledge across the W3 community.

137

2 years ago

A LBS product meant to help blind people navigate the world, and has more than 50,000 users. It’s a smartphone app that uses audio changes of traffic sounds to detect obstacles ahead and helps guide users to their destination.

137

5 years ago

A “Global Credit Network” where you can borrow money from anyone in the world — no credit checks and no collateral. The startup is building the infrastructure to make international microlending easy.

136

5 years ago

A company that helps companies access the best people in the world to fill their IT needs

136

5 years ago

A platform to recruit and hire remote developers and designers from any location in the world.

136

5 years ago

The creators of this startup want to bring the world a universal, open-source, and non-profit search engine.

136

5 years ago

A hub for sharing the locations of all the world’s bike-share bikes

136

4 years ago

"We are a group of experienced marketers and developers who believe in building companies that are powered by users and not investors. We want to move from a world of transactional businesses to ones that are built on relationships. Our mission is to build a platform that allows people to create and share their own content in the same way that they share links or photos on Facebook."

136

3 years ago

This startup is building an app to help people explore the world of subscription-based services and subscriptions in a way that’s more helpful and less overwhelming than the usual options like Mint or Mint.com

136

5 years ago

This startup is building a browser for the startup world. Its goal is to create a simplified version of the startup experience with tools for research, fundraising, and community engagement.

135

5 years ago

A startup that builds apps based on data from the real world. For example, the startup has a tool for data scientists to visualize the conversation of a crowd and see what words and concepts are trending, and a tool for the government to monitor traffic.

135

5 years ago

A startup building an online platform for people to sell their used electronics. The idea is to be a free marketplace where sellers can sell and buyers can buy used electronics from people all over the world.

135

5 years ago

A platform for people to connect, share and discover the hidden world of hiking, backpacking, and camping.

135

3 years ago

A startup that uses artificial intelligence to make the world's largest database of geographic information.

135

5 years ago

This startup wants to create a new digital currency that’s backed by a bank, and that can be used to pay for transactions in the physical world.

133

5 years ago

A platform for creating social connections around events, which is currently a popular form of entertainment. The startup wants to help users curate real-world events and build a community around them.

133

5 years ago

A texting platform for groups of people to communicate efficiently. The startup wants to leverage its popularity in the soccer world to make the company a household name.

133

5 years ago

The idea of this startup is to fill the void that the daily news leaves out. By aggregating and creating content from the hundreds of sources they partner with, they aim to provide a complete picture of the news events happening around the world.

132

4 years ago

A free app that helps people keep track of coming up with ideas, with the goal of helping them get their ideas out of their heads and into the world.

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

A startup that brings in a freelance marketer from anywhere in the world, and pays them a commission for their work.

131

5 years ago

A “collaboration platform for freelance workers,” allowing them to find one another and take advantage of their “world of expertise”

131

5 years ago

A project management tool built for teams that want to organize their projects. It’s already been used by a lot of the world’s biggest brands.

131

5 years ago

A startup that wants to process the world’s raw materials into finished products. The startup currently has $8.5M in funding.

131

5 years ago

The e-commerce company wants to be the Amazon of the professional world.

131

4 years ago

“The world’s largest decentralized flight management system”, helping pilots and air traffic control systems coordinate location and navigate flights. The startup says that its technology is already replacing “50% of an airline’s total operations” with a fleet of more than 30,000 aircraft.

130

2 years ago

A startup aiming to create a map of the world’s public transit systems.

130

5 years ago

In an effort to identify people who are interested in starting a business, the Y Combinator Summer School offers select entrepreneurs the opportunity to learn from Y Combinator fellows while also receiving mentorship from Y Combinator partners. Since the school’s launch in 2011, over 400 students from around the world have participated.

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 decentralized platform for supply chains. The platform builds on a blockchain technology, which is a way of managing digital assets which is mainly popular in the crypto world. The platform is meant to help companies automate their supply chains and manage their inventory better.

129

5 years ago

The accelerator is based in New York's Brooklyn neighborhood, and was founded in February 2015. It is sponsored by MasterCard, and has attracted companies from around the world, including Colombia, Kazakhstan, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

129

5 years ago

A bridge between the two worlds of professional and amateur soccer.

129

5 years ago

A startup that helps connect the world’s food supply chain, from farmers to factories to distributors and restaurants. It will also offer apps to help track and improve inventory management.

129

5 years ago

Produces maps of the world’s street address systems, using data from the U.S. Census, U.K. Post Office, and Google’s Street View.

129

5 years ago

A startup that wants to teach young people in the developing world about money management and financial literacy. It hopes to do this through written workbooks, games, and a messaging platform that supports peer-to-peer learning.

129

5 years ago

A company that wants to move the world from centralized to decentralized data storage.

129

5 years ago

Loft, a startup that collects and compiles a range of industry data about startups, has named YC as one of the top three organizations in the world that are "helping to produce the next generation of startups."

129

5 years ago

A startup that helps companies in the most remote areas of the world expand their operations, and most of all, connect with customers.

128

5 years ago

A startup that offers a tool for consumers to use to shop for and compare real-world products. The startup says it is the only shopping service that allows users to buy online-only products, while also allowing customers to see products in person and try them for free.

128

5 years ago

A product that helps businesses scale their operations across the country and around the world.

128

5 years ago

A digital assistant that helps people find their way in the world, using location-based search and mapping.

128

5 years ago

This startup wants to make the world’s most durable tablet, one that can withstand a drop from a boat in the ocean, or a puddle of coffee.

128

5 years ago

A platform for planning and executing projects, often in the developing world, that are too expensive or too risky for governments or charities to take on.

127

5 years ago

A startup that helps guide companies through the often confusing world of employee equity.

127

5 years ago

A startup that builds a new kind of chair, with the goal of being the first chair in the world to help with back pain and to be completely customizable.

127

4 years ago

A software platform that allows small businesses to “pay anyone in the world in less than a second”.

127

5 years ago

“The most comprehensive digital personal assistant in the world”

126

5 years ago

A fix for the “gig economy”, offering a comprehensive insurance package for independent workers. Their product is designed for the future and will work for any independent worker, anywhere in the world.

125

3 years ago

A startup that wants to improve parking in cities around the world. The startup currently focuses on San Francisco.

125

5 years ago

There’s a huge amount of open software in the world, but there’s also a huge amount of open source software. The company has built a platform that curates open source projects, allowing others to easily see what’s out there. The team is currently working on a browser extension, and says they’ve had “hundreds” of companies use the platform to create software.

124

5 years ago

A company that aims to help marketers adjust their Facebook ads in real time based on the user’s interests. The startup is working with various marketing teams all over the world to build out a proprietary algorithm.

124

5 years ago

This startup is building a platform for doctors to take care of their patients in the digital world. The company wants to create a better patient experience, and help patients get the right information faster.

124

5 years ago

A digital service that let’s you connect your job in the digital world to your real world job. The startup helps HR departments better manage the digital talent they’re hiring, and helps companies that are hiring use the digital world to recruit better. The startup has raised $110,000.

124

5 years ago

A project of the World Economic Forum, the Global Shapers Community is the largest global network of entrepreneurs, young professionals, and innovators. The network’s purpose is to connect the global network of young professionals with the global community of entrepreneurs. The network was founded by the World Economic Forum and Swiss Re in January 2016, with the first annual Global Shaper Summit taking place in Davos, Switzerland. Over the summer of 2016, the World Economic Forum announced that it would be partnering with the Global Shapers Community to create the World Economic Forum Young Entrepreneur Council, which completed its first meeting in October 2016.

124

5 years ago

Record your thoughts, and then share them with anyone in the world without ever leaving your couch.

124

5 years ago

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

123

5 years ago

A company that plans to create a new kind of payments system that is more secure, transparent, and consistent across the globe. It aims to be a way for the entire world to transact in cash.

123

5 years ago

This startup is building a toolset for HR managers that lets them manage their company’s “Human Resources” from anywhere in the world.

123

5 years ago

A company that uses computer vision to detect objects in the real world and allows the user to zoom into them to see a live-updated model of the object.

123

3 years ago

This is a platform that helps software engineers build and test their own apps, giving them the tools they need to test their ideas in the real world.

123

5 years ago

A company that wants to build a “blockchain for the real world”, allowing users to build things on Ethereum based on real-world things like physical spaces.

122

5 years ago

A startup that wants to help companies around the world use robots to move goods from warehouses to retail stores.

122

4 years ago

A startup that wants to build a system to help people in the developing world manage and track their food using a mobile phone. It’s building a platform that allows customers to buy and sell food using a mobile phone and a credit card.

122

5 years ago

A startup that helps users create digital assets and manage them. It's a sort of self-hosted Dropbox for the digital world.

121

5 years ago

A startup that provides a SaaS platform for SaaS companies to build high quality content. The startup is backed by some of the largest tech companies in the world, including Google, Microsoft and Twitter.

121

3 years ago

A digital curator for the art world, connecting galleries and collectors.

121

4 years ago

A startup working to democratize credit in the developing world, creating a new financial product that would give people access to credit in a way they haven’t had before. The company, which was founded in India, wants to make it more affordable for people in the developing world to use and maintain credit.

120

4 years ago

A way for students to learn about the world’s best universities while earning college credits.

120

4 years ago

A company that makes the world’s first smart fabric for outdoor clothes.

120

5 years ago

A tool that lets you make an image that looks like you’re looking at a phone, but in fact you’re looking at the real world through a video camera.

119

3 years ago

A startup that aims to bring a free, ad-free alternative to the world’s most popular lifestyle app, Tinder.

119

3 years ago

A platform for social impact investment (a funding model that invests in companies that benefit the world) that focuses on early stage startups and entrepreneurs.

119

3 years ago

This company’s goal is to create the “Google for movies”. They aim to be the largest movie database in the world.

119

5 years ago

A company that’s looking to disrupt the insurance market by providing a platform for users to buy and sell insurance plans across the web, essentially creating the world’s largest market for insurance on the internet.

118

5 years ago

The startup is looking to help people who are disabled take advantage of the online world to improve their lives, whether it’s a wheelchair-bound person who needs more information on how to use YouTube or a blind person who needs better search tools for the web.

118

5 years ago

A startup that offers entrepreneurs support and advice on their business idea in the form of a “venture coach”. They’re working on a way that their coaches can help entrepreneurs with their projects from anywhere in the world.

118

5 years ago

A company that wants to make the world’s largest database of solar data. The company says it has built a platform that helps companies like Google and Amazon make billions of dollars in sales from solar power.

117

3 years ago

“The world's most powerful account reconciliation tool.”

117

5 years ago

In India, startups are still mostly in the B2B space, with a few exceptions. India’s largest startup is Flipkart, which is the world’s largest online retailer. It was founded in 2007 by Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal.

116

5 years ago

Startup seeking to make the world’s first computer small enough to fit into your pocket.

115

5 years ago

A startup that connects women to special events and activities around the world, such as virtual tours, culinary classes, and pop-up shops. Women can choose from a list of events and activities and be notified when they’re ready for them.

114

5 years ago

A startup that aims to create the Google search for the physical world. The company is building a search engine for the physical world, and is currently in the process of building a prototype.

114

5 years ago

This startup is building a closed social network for people who are physically or emotionally unable to socialize with others in the same way as most of the world. The idea is that they’ll want to be part of a social network, but they can’t be fully active because of a physical or emotional impairment.

114

5 years ago

The company behind the $500,000 World Cup prize pool, FanDuel is building a baseball-based fantasy game. FanDuel has a head start in the US and UK, but will need to grow in other countries to have an impact.

114

5 years ago

A company that gathers data from 10 million office spaces around the world and uses AI to predict how offices will be used in the future. The startup, which launched in May, will use this data to help companies with building out spaces in the future, by using it to determine which workspaces are most needed.

114

3 years ago

A company that wants to aggregate and standardize data on the world’s diamonds, and help people buy the diamond they love.

114

3 years ago

This startup, being spun out of the MIT Media Lab, is building a way to tell if a video is real by looking at the physical world around images. It uses a combination of color and motion to detect if you’re watching a real video or a fake, and is currently in early alpha.

114

4 years ago

A platform for companies to send and receive money from customers and suppliers very cheaply. It aims to be the PayPal of the developing world.

113

3 years ago

A bicycle sharing system in cities worldwide. The startup plans to launch in the UK in early 2016.

113

3 years ago

A tool that lets people share files with other people across the world, using the BitTorrent protocol.

113

5 years ago

Image-based gaming that’s “a big, open world role playing game experience” that lets you explore and interact with other players.

112

5 years ago

A startup that wants to help farmers in the developing world sell their produce, and thus increase their income.

112

5 years ago

A company that wants to help people create their own virtual reality worlds.

112

3 years ago

A digital wallet for Mexico and Central America. The company wants to be the “world’s first digital wallet” to help people move money.

112

4 years ago

A platform that allows people to find and buy products throughout the world. The startup is developing a global marketplace for goods and services.

111

4 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses around the world hire employees and find talent.

111

5 years ago

Building a tool to help women navigate the world of work and start their own businesses, with a focus on Africa.

110

5 years ago

A startup focused on, of all things, helping travelers navigate the world. The company wants to help you book hotels, flights, rental cars, and other travel arrangements using an app, a website, and a mobile messaging platform. (1)

110

4 years ago

A start-up that maps the world’s food systems, trying to create a “living resource” map of where food grows.

110

5 years ago

It’s a brand new concept in the world of advertising, using the “perks” of a travel-based credit card to show you ads you’d be interested in on a flight.

109

5 years ago

A startup that has built a visual, crowd-sourced map of the world’s nuclear weapons.

109

4 years ago

This startup is building an app that helps you browse and buy clothes in a world where it’s hard to find a style you like. At launch, the app will feature over 1,000 brands from across the world, but the plan is to expand to everything.

109

5 years ago

A wearable device meant to help people with visual impairments navigate the world. The startup is looking to deploy its product in the US and UK, and has raised $2.5 million in seed funding so far.

108

4 years ago

A platform that helps small teams get paid for sharing their research and results with the world.

108

2 years ago

This startup is building a platform for businesses to advertise products and services, but the business doesn’t necessarily have to be in the company’s physical space. The startup wants to bring the physical world online by creating a virtual storefront for physical businesses.

108

5 years ago

This startup is building a digital revolution in the world of trash. Trash2Use converts waste into useful products, and gives you the opportunity to pay for the items you use.

107

3 years ago

A startup that wants to build the system to manage US military-funded humanitarian aid to the world. The company wants to build a “Google for relief”, building a system where donations come in a bottom-up approach and then the money can be distributed to the people in need.

107

5 years ago

A platform that aims to build a “bespoke” container for goods between any two ports in the world. They’re working on building a tool to help ship companies quickly and cheaply move stuff across the ocean.

106

5 years ago

The startup is working to create an interface for the entire world’s supply chains, creating a single, centralized map that can be used to track and manage everything from production to delivery.

106

5 years ago

A product that allows people to share their ideas with the world, giving the idea a vote of confidence and possibly even funding.

106

3 years ago

A news aggregator and content discovery app for the Middle East, pitched as “one place where you can find the latest news, and your favorite articles from across the Arab world.” The startup is working with the Saudi Arabian government and hopes to expand to other countries.

106

5 years ago

A platform that makes it easier to sell and ship products online. CEO Jairaj Habbal has raised $100,000 in seed funding and says he wants the company to be the eBay of the e-commerce world.

105

5 years ago

Startup looking to make it easier to receive medical care in the developing world.

105

4 years ago

In the world of artificial intelligence, there’s always one who’s ahead of the curve.

105

5 years ago

A new OTT video platform that wants to merge the video world of YouTube with the viral nature of Snapchat.

104

5 years ago

A platform that allows users to sign in to various apps, and then track and monitor their health and fitness through their device. The startup, which launched in 2017, is now in over 30 countries across the world and has over 100,000 members.

104

4 years ago

A startup that lets you move money between your bank accounts anywhere in the world, including in real time

104

3 years ago

A startup that wants to bring a tactile interface to the virtual world, allowing users to see and interact with holograms.

104

5 years ago

The world of finance is changing dramatically, and there’s a lot of confusion around how new technologies like fintech will impact financial services. Fintech can take the form of apps, startups, and platforms, or it can be composed of a mix of all three. Fintech is a catch-all term that can include everything from cryptocurrencies, to artificial intelligence, to machine learning, and more. Fintech startup solutions help companies navigate these changes.

103

4 years ago

A platform to make it easier for farmers to sell their crops. It helps them organize themselves and sell their produce, and also connects them with buyers all over the world.

103

3 years ago

A company that manufactures a line of cheap smartwatches aimed at the developing world. The majority of its customers are in Latin America.

103

5 years ago

A startup that brings together the digital and physical worlds to make sure you’re prepared for any situation. Exos is a communications platform that will help you be ready before an earthquake hits, a hurricane hits, or a tsunami strikes.

102

5 years ago

Of course, that’s just a sampling. And some of these companies are still in the idea stage, so they might not turn into actual businesses. But this list shows that there’s a lot of revenue to be made building new tools for the online world. Now it’s up to entrepreneurs to decide what sorts of products to build.

102

5 years ago

This August, TechCrunch reported that Instagram was in talks with Facebook to acquire the company for as much as $1 billion. Instagram, which was founded in 2010, is based in San Francisco, and is a popular photography app that has more than 300 million users around the world. It was acquired by Facebook in 2012, and Facebook has since used Instagram to promote its other products, including Instagram Stories, and advertisements. Instagram has been a big investment for Facebook, and many think it has been one of the company's most successful acquisitions. However, Instagram's popularity has led to a lot of negative press coverage about the user data that Facebook has access to.

102

4 years ago

This is a software platform for building customized software. The startup claims to have more than 1,000 clients worldwide, including HP, AT&T, Nest, and Dreamworks.

102

4 years ago

A startup that’s building a text-based payments platform for the people of the developing world. The company offers an alternative to Venmo for users in countries like Kenya, Nigeria, and India.

102

3 years ago

A startup that helps users find and authenticate their identity in the real world.

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

Open data platform that lets people create and discover data visualizations. The startup has built a platform that allows people to create data visualizations and share them with the wider world.

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

4 years ago

A platform for sending money to people who don’t have bank accounts, allowing users to send money to anyone in the world.

101

3 years ago

A startup to help you, your friends, or your family members get the best price on an insurance claim. Based on the idea that insurance companies are using the same pricing models across all of the world, the app claims to provide a personalized experience.

101

3 years ago

This is a collective of startups that want to use the power of the internet to build an open-source marketplace for physical goods. The startups will join forces to offer goods from around the world at low prices to anyone in the world. There’s a lot of competition in the space, but it’s an interesting idea.

101

5 years ago

This is an online platform that tracks the top-grossing films worldwide

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

2 years ago

This startup is building an AI-based platform that helps organizations aggregate and visualize data about the world’s supply chains.

100

5 years ago

A decentralized encrypted messaging platform for the world’s 2.4 billion unconnected citizens. Decent has built a messaging app that uses its own cryptocurrency, BitShare, as the medium.

99

4 years ago

A company that gives businesses a way to buy and receive custom work from people around the world. It’s selling the ability to have a new logo, website, or app design delivered in 15 minutes.

99

4 years ago

A startup that’s building a “self-serve” payment system for restaurants. It’s a product of the food-tech world, with the goal of streamlining the process of paying for orders.

99

4 years ago

A wearable for the visually impaired, which uses machine learning to convert a video of the world, like a restaurant or a landscape, into an audio guide.

99

2 years ago

A platform that connects companies and customers around the world by way of video and artificial intelligence.

99

2 years ago

An open-source platform that lets you shop for insurance, credit, and loans anywhere in the world.

99

5 years ago

A startup that is working to build the world’s first augmented reality grocery store. The idea is to create a way for users to scan a barcode to get an augmented reality display of what a product looks like in a store, before they’ve even left the house, with a camera view of what a product looks like at their homes.

97

5 years ago

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

97

5 years ago

Idea: Put a camera in the kitchen and tell the world about what you make

96

5 years ago

A tool that lets neighborhoods around the world participate in a mobile barter system, where a group of neighbors can trade items like furniture they no longer use or tools they no longer use. The startup has raised $8 million in funding to date.

96

5 years ago

A startup that’s building a way for people to explore and explore a world of their own around their city. It lets you drop in for a day, look around, and get a sense of the neighborhood without having to physically travel to it.

96

5 years ago

This startup is building a storage system for virtual reality developers that allows them to create large-scale worlds that interact with each other and with users.

96

3 years ago

A $25 credit card that connects to your bank account that can be used anywhere Visa and Mastercard are accepted. The card can be used anywhere in the world.

96

5 years ago

Idea: Bringing the first new generation cryptocurrency to the real world

95

5 years ago

A platform that lets users book vacation rentals around the world.

95

4 years ago

A SaaS platform that helps companies raise capital more easily. It’s like the Uber of the fundraising world.

95

4 years ago

An API for funding startups from the world’s largest banks.

95

5 years ago

A card that can be used to withdraw cash from ATMs in over 200 countries in the world, with no fees and no limits on how much a person can withdraw. The startup is currently testing in the UK, and wants to go worldwide. It’s a competitor to non-native cards like the Delta SkyMiles card.

94

4 years ago

"FastCo" lists the top startups in the world every year. The list is based on revenue, but also factors in the startup's presence on other "fast-growing" lists, including those published by "Forbes", "Inc." and "Forbes Europe".

94

4 years ago

A company that claims to have the world’s smallest solar power system. It’s for homes, but can be used anywhere.

94

4 years ago

In this world, your phone knows what song you’re listening to, when you’re at work, when you’re in bed, when you’re in a restaurant, and when you’re in a grocery store. The startup wants to turn that into a single app that can be used to control your music.

94

4 years ago

A startup that will allow you to “track your position in the world of work” by allowing you to track how you’re doing in your job search.

94

3 years ago

An international service that helps people find the best price and best flight to Mexico, whether they are planning a vacation or relocation. The startup’s product is a comparison engine that pulls flight data from the world’s leading travel website and aggregates it into a set of user-friendly comparisons. Users can search for and book flights, hotels, and car rentals, and check the price of a flight against competitors.

94

3 years ago

Launched by former Googler Ricardo Baeza-Yates, who led Google’s mobilefirst, responsive web initiative, this startup is building a search engine for everyone, with a focus on helping users find great content from the world’s most trusted sources.

94

3 years ago

A startup that lets you hire a lawyer without having to go to an office or pay a lawyer. It offers a legal tech solution for small businesses, and has signed on about 100 customers worldwide.

94

4 years ago

The company wants to become the Amazon of US foreign aid. It wants to help US citizens save money on international travel and give non-profits and governments more money to spend in the developing world.

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

Tapping into a $30bn market, the startup wants to create “e-commerce for the developing world.”

93

4 years ago

A startup that helps companies find and recruit talent anywhere in the world. The company says they have over 1,000 clients ranging from top Fortune 500 companies to startups to large AIs.

93

4 years ago

A way to organize Facebook groups, particularly those that take after the real-world meetup and community model

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

5 years ago

A startup that aims to connect the world through the Internet of Things at a global scale. It aims to use the Internet of Things to enable the connected devices in homes and businesses to communicate with each other and the world while offering new services for consumers.

92

4 years ago

A finance startup with a focus on microloans. It wants to connect the world to tiny credit that they can use to make small purchases like groceries or pay small bills.

92

4 years ago

A bike sharing app for bike rentals in cities around the world.

92

4 years ago

A portfolio site for illustrators that lets creators sell their work to the world.

92

4 years ago

A startup that’s building a platform that’ll enable you to give a speech, or even just share your thoughts with the world, without ever having to write something down.

92

3 years ago

A mobile game that teaches kids about the world.

92

3 years ago

A project management startup that aims to bring project management concepts from other industries to the tech world, by basing its software off of concepts like "flow" and "constraint management."

92

3 years ago

A way to help children explore the world through a virtual world. Kidoosh wants to create a place where kids can explore and learn without fear of other kids.

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 that helps teams work together in real time, across the world.

91

4 years ago

A startup with a camera that allows you to snap a photo into a virtual world. This lets you snap a photo of your friend’s room, for instance, and then walk into that room in VR and be able to explore it.

91

4 years ago

A company that tracks the health of the world’s forests

91

5 years ago

The Brooklyn-based coworking space is a community of startups and entrepreneurs working to change the world. It’s located at 625 Kent Avenue, and has a membership program that ranges from $50 to $250 per month.

90

4 years ago

A solution for managing and storing information in the physical world, from paper records to files to folders.

90

4 years ago

A social network that allows users to chat and play games with their friends who are currently hanging out in the physical world. Users can also play games against friends at home, meanwhile.

90

4 years ago

This startup helps people connect and collaborate with others across the world, so they can get better at their job.

90

4 years ago

In the last decade, the number of startups has continued to grow, making the San Jose area "the best place to start a business in the world."

90

4 years ago

This company is constructing a virtual reality gaming platform for users to play games together in a virtual world.

90

2 years ago

A company that aims to improve the design of the physical world by creating a digital blueprint of the world that enables anyone to 3D print anything.

90

5 years ago

A web and mobile app for restaurants, allowing them to manage their kitchen operations from anywhere in the world. The startup also works with the restaurant delivery companies Postmates and DoorDash.

89

4 years ago

A credit card processing tool for people in developing countries. The credit card can be used to buy goods online from retailers all over the world.

89

4 years ago

Innovation in the US has become a flashpoint for the rest of the world. From its inception in 2010, the French government has invested in French Tech. In France, startups have received €4.5 billion in funding in recent years, according to INSEAD.

89

4 years ago

A platform that helps the 500,000 companies around the world with their live events. It helps them find, book and pay for speaking engagements, build an event calendar, and create a speaker’s profile for their attendees.

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

3 years ago

A startup that focuses on creating the world’s first video game for the blind.

89

3 years ago

A startup that connects you to the world’s best doctors, who are vetted based on ratings on a website.

89

3 years ago

A startup to help big businesses manage their legal contracts from anywhere in the world. Hubdoc takes legal contracts, translates them into natural language, and then translates them back into legal language for the user. Hubdoc says it has $1.6 million in funding.

89

2 years ago

This company has a card that is a smart card that you can use anywhere in the world to get on a train or pay for a cup of coffee on the street. It has built a platform to allow airports to charge for any amount of time left on the cards.

89

4 years ago

A startup that enables users to create a ‘vision profile’ and share it with friends. Created by a couple in their twenties who wanted to know how other people were making it in the world.

88

4 years ago

A solution for companies to provide real-time expense tracking and invoicing from anywhere in the world. The company is currently charging for the early access of its beta, but plans to launch publicly in early 2019.

88

4 years ago

A company working to connect “smart cities” around the world, hoping to connect smart devices and smart city infrastructure.

88

4 years ago

A startup that aims to “make it easier for everyone in the world to have a home internet connection” with a hardware product that plugs into an electrical outlet.

88

4 years ago

A company that connects people in small cities with jobs in big cities. It’s trying to solve what it sees as a low-density problem around the world.

88

4 years ago

A social networking tool for the fashion industry. The company says the platform will allow the fashion world to make more informed decisions about buying, selling and marketing.

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

5 years ago

A new platform for data analysis and processing. The company’s platform is built on a decentralized network of computers that run on smart contracts, directly connecting scientists with researchers across the world.

87

4 years ago

A startup that is building a website that allows users to look at the world like an architect.

87

4 years ago

A startup that wants to take a person’s health, from a doctor’s perspective, and put it in a dashboard. It’s a “free radical”, a company in San Francisco, California, that wants to change the way the world thinks about health. It has a commercial in production with a director who’s won a couple of Oscars, and a book in development.

87

4 years ago

Citymapper is a map app that helps people navigate cities around the world.

87

4 years ago

This startup is building a new kind of store for farmers around the world, where farmers can sell directly to consumers at a discount.

87

4 years ago

An online marketplace for beauty products from around the world. The startup helps people find the best products from all over the world, and gets a commission on the sale.

87

3 years ago

A startup that aims to connect cities around the world through a virtual trade show.

87

3 years ago

A credit card that converts to cash at any ATMs in the world

87

4 years ago

A micro-loan company that converts energy into cash for the poorest people in the world.

86

4 years ago

A company that’s building a “worldwide”, “unified” payments system for the oil and gas industry.

86

4 years ago

A platform that aggregates the content and deals of all of these deals to help investors get a comprehensive picture of deals happening across the world.

86

4 years ago

An AI-powered app for pairing workers with projects around the world.

86

4 years ago

A platform that lets people book air travel using their phones, with a focus on connecting people on opposite ends of the world.

86

3 years ago

"Personalized video products for customers in the US. The company's technology is focused on making videos as engaging as possible, and it has already built technology to personalize videos for TV channels, but is now bringing it to the world of online video."

86

2 years ago

Translating text into the “world’s most human-friendly language”.

86

4 years ago

This startup is building a platform that allows anyone to post a video of their favorite place anywhere in the world, then share the link with their followers.

85

4 years ago

A publishing platform for the world’s top brands that allows them to create branded iOS app experiences. Branded apps are those which have full access to the app’s functionality, enabling brands to create exclusive experiences for their customers.

85

4 years ago

A startup that allows you to request a specific craft beer from any bar in the world and get it shipped to your home for free.

85

4 years ago

A new way to build apps. The startup is building a way to build apps that are triggered by sensors in the real world.

85

3 years ago

The next generation of the world's largest social network and one of the world's largest messaging platforms, with 1 billion monthly active users. Facebook is the largest social network in the world and has over 1 billion monthly active users or MAUs with over 2.8 billion daily active users or DAUs.

85

3 years ago

A startup that helps groups of people find free concerts in cities across the world. The startup, which was founded in May, has been featured on Forbes and has 2,000 users for the app.

85

4 years ago

A startup that allows you to type out a tweet, then share it with the world, letting it be picked up by any message platform, including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or Instagram.

84

4 years ago

The idea is that this is a kind of online “buddy system” that helps people get out of the house and out into the real world. The startup has an event calendar and a forum for users to share what they’re up to.

84

4 years ago

A startup that launched in January that aims to add augmented reality to the world of dating. The startup plans to take things further than just showing potential dates using AR to hang out, and give users the ability to see what the one other person is seeing in the real world.

84

4 years ago

A startup that allows photographers to share their work easily and collaborate, with a focus on the travel photography world.

84

4 years ago

The world’s first ad-free news app, designed to be a more ethical and trustworthy alternative to services like Facebook, Google and Twitter.

84

3 years ago

This startup is building a new type of monitor that can be worn while exercising or working out to help you see the world in 3D. The company says the technology is like a Google Glass or Oculus Rift, but is made out of plastic and has a lightweight frame. It also comes with a built-in Bluetooth speaker.

84

2 years ago

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84

4 years ago

A product-focused company that helps companies in the developing world get products manufactured locally.

83

4 years ago

A startup that uses the blockchain to help the World Bank manage the crises in the developing world.

83

4 years ago

A startup that aims to create an app that lets people create, share, and curate content, with the goal of making the creative world more accessible.

83

4 years ago

This startup makes the “world’s first build-it-yourself” device that connects to a mobile app to consume, record, and transmit data from various medical devices to a mobile phone.

83

4 years ago

This startup is building a “connector” for B2B companies to get their voice and image out to the world and get their products and services in front of the right people.

83

3 years ago

This startup is building a platform to let businesses and consumers take advantage of the data from the billions of sensors embedded in our world.

83

2 years ago

Hitting the $1 million to $2 million mark in funding over the course of 12 months is fairly rare for a startup. But it’s true in the world of payday loans. Money Mart has managed to do it for the past two years. They’re a next-generation bank that offers storefronts, mobile apps and online banking as well as traditional loans. They’re growing in Canada, the UK and the US.

83

4 years ago

A mapping tool that helps users find their way around the world.

82

4 years ago

a startup building the world’s first platform for online dating.

82

3 years ago

A startup that provides a platform for users to publish, organize, and share all kinds of files. The startup is aiming to use a mobile app to help rebuild a fragmented world of file sharing and content.

82

3 years ago

A tool for creating and publishing online courses, with the goal of simplifying the way the world learns.

82

4 years ago

A company that provides software for companies to track the performance of their employees. The company’s software is currently serving more than 30,000 organizations around the world.

81

3 years ago

A platform for students to take classes and tests online, with a focus on education in the developing world.

81

3 years ago

A platform that allows users to design and build their own virtualized world, including 3-D building tools, scripting, and mesh networking.

81

3 years ago

A startup that has crowdfunded a device that translates the physical world into digital code

81

3 years ago

The startup claims to be the only startup in the world to manufacture their own smart phone. eCanter is a ruggedized, waterproof, and dustproof smartphone that can withstand drops from up to two meters and has a waterproof case.

81

3 years ago

A startup that wants to organize the world’s supply chains using blockchain. The idea is to track each step of a product’s journey from raw materials to final packaging to shipment.

81

2 years ago

The Glance app aggregates and analyzes Instagram data, allowing users to take a look at the trends in the world of fashion and food.

81

4 years ago

A way to bring the B2B world back together in the form of a platform for companies to manage the sales process. Proposer uses a local sales rep to act as a “gatekeeper” who can then go out and talk to customers on behalf of the company.

80

4 years ago

A platform for people to explore and share the best restaurants in the world

80

4 years ago

A startup that is offering a graphical way to explore the world’s most epic landscapes in 3D, including the Alps, Everest, and Kilimanjaro. It’s an easy-to-use 3D modeling platform that lets users build their own worlds, or explore places like Machu Picchu, the Great Wall of China, or the Falkland Islands.

80

4 years ago

A “truly decentralized Internet”, where all of the data is stored on computers that are spread across the world, and none of the data is stored on any single computer.

80

4 years ago

A startup developing a “mobile-first” platform that allows people to search through publicly available data about the world. One example is a tool that uses machine learning to find your address by looking at where you are based on Google Maps.

80

4 years ago

A platform for connecting job seekers with employers, where employers can find cheap, skilled labor from around the world.

80

3 years ago

Settle is building a service that hosts a curated list of cities across the world and allows users to search for anything from the cheapest hotels to the best places to visit.

80

3 years ago

This is a mobile app that analyzes and organizes restaurant reviews, with the goal of simplifying the notoriously impenetrable world of online restaurant reviews.

80

4 years ago

A consumer mobile banking mobile app for the developing world. It’s meant to bring mobile banking to consumers in places where banking infrastructure isn’t robust, and where there are often mobile networks that are poor quality or nonexistent.

79

4 years ago

A startup that aggregates all of the world’s data on climate change and presents it in an easy-to-digest format.

79

4 years ago

A content platform that helps keep people in the loop about social movements across the world.

79

4 years ago

A hardware startup that’s building a ground-based sensor network to monitor air pollution, with an eye towards monitoring air quality in the developing world.

79

4 years ago

A marketing platform to help companies measure their impact on the world by tracking their impact on the environment.

79

4 years ago

A startup that aims to bring the world of cryptocurrency to the mainstream. The company has already built a mobile wallet and the company is now working on an exchange platform that will make it easy for people to buy and sell their digital currencies.

79

3 years ago

A startup that builds a landing page for bus tickets and allows users to buy bus tickets to any city in the world.

79

4 years ago

Another product for running virtual meetings, this time focused on the enterprise. The startup helps companies organize large-scale conference calls even though they could be anywhere in the world.

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 world map for VR/AR, which is made up of 3D scans of cities and landmarks.

78

4 years ago

A way for anyone to build an app for their network of friends. Everyone can build the exact app they want, from the look and feel, to the functionality, and get it out to the world.

78

4 years ago

A photo processing startup in the LA area that wants to build the world’s first AI-powered photo editing tools

78

3 years ago

A green energy startup that wants to provide electricity to people in the developing world.

78

3 years ago

A startup that helps companies in the world’s fastest growing markets manage, store, and share documents.

78

3 years ago

A startup that wants to create a new way for people to buy and sell in-game items for the world’s most popular video games

78

4 years ago

A live-streaming community for teachers to share lessons and questions with the world.

77

4 years ago

A company that provides the top digital marketing agency in the world with a digital presence outside of their clients’ websites.

77

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier for business owners to use the same tools to run their business online as they do in the physical world. For example, users can use a smartphone camera to scan a QR code on a package and automatically get the package’s tracking info.

77

4 years ago

A startup that wants to connect the world of freelance services with the growing number of companies that need to build, manage and pay freelance workers on the fly.

77

4 years ago

A company that wants to add more social and emotional intelligence to the world’s financial system

77

4 years ago

A digital alternative to the physical world for worker training, meant to allow companies to become more efficient by paying their employees to work at home.

77

4 years ago

A startup that wants to use the power of the internet to sell and distribute books across the world.

77

3 years ago

A company that connects people with events around the world in the hopes that their events will reach more people

77

3 years ago

Decentralized marketplace that pools freelance services, making it easier for businesses to get things done around the world.

77

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that lets you buy, hold, and sell Bitcoin, without having to deal with the complexities of the cryptocurrency world

76

4 years ago

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

76

4 years ago

A platform to help people find and rent quality private and shared apartments around the world. It helps renters and owners find and rent apartments, and connect with other renters and owners in real time.

76

4 years ago

A platform for online shoppers to compare prices from different stores. The company’s CEO says they have a large database of IP addresses from all over the world. The startup helps people find the lowest prices on products they’re looking for.

76

4 years ago

An online database of marine retailers. "Yachters" can find other yachties from all over the world by rating their experiences. The startup launched last month.

76

4 years ago

This list is not a comprehensive list of every startup in the region. We have excluded startups focused on a single vertical in a city, startups founded in a certain part of the world, and startups that are only based in one city.

76

4 years ago

A startup that brings the best talent from the world's best schools to teach you how to be a better coder. The startup is an elite teachers program that has sold out its next batch of spots to students from the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, and Israel.

76

4 years ago

A web-based marketplace for the sale of used goods. The startup wants to expand into the US and eventually worldwide.

76

3 years ago

A company that’s building a new way to help patients access medicine in third-world countries.

76

3 years ago

A way to track your bike while it’s out in the world.

76

3 years ago

A startup that connects physical and digital worlds, creating a space to share and work together.

76

4 years ago

A platform that allows users to stream live video on their site, making it easy for customers to see what’s happening in the physical world.

75

4 years ago

A startup that makes accurate, high-resolution 3D models of the things in the world. The company charges designers and architects in-person visits in which they can see prototypes in person and get one-on-one feedback.

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

A startup that is building a “social credit system” for the digital world, allowing people to rate each other based on “trustworthiness”.

75

3 years ago

A platform for managing patients' health information. The startup is building a "world's first" patient-centered platform to make it easier for patients to control access to their health information.

75

3 years ago

A vision detection system to help blind people navigate their world.

75

4 years ago

An online tool that helps employers with their recruitment process. Employees can apply and receive feedback on their online profiles, but can also be asked to complete real-world interviews with employers.

74

4 years ago

A company that wants to bring AI into the world of translation and translation AI.

74

4 years ago

The company’s site claims that it is “one of the world’s largest network of independent, self-employed freelance professionals”, and that they’ve built a platform to “connect professionals to customers via a global marketplace”.

74

4 years ago

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

74

4 years ago

The startup is building a tool for companies to track employee travel. The goal, according to the team, is to level the playing field for organizations who can’t afford to fly their employees all over the world.

74

4 years ago

A product that uses a smartphone’s camera to scan the world around it, providing context and data in real time.

74

3 years ago

World Rugby is building a digital platform that lets fans follow their favorite team and save highlights of games and other content. The company says it can also offer more ways for fans to engage with the team, and has a team of rugby enthusiasts for their first major customer, the New Zealand Warriors.

74

3 years ago

In-home health care is a $100 billion industry in the US and $5 trillion worldwide. Startups like Health2Go and TeleCare are trying to make it easier for health care workers to provide medical services at home.

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 startup that can track the air quality in any city in the world. The startup is announcing a new partnership with the World Health Organization to help people track their own health and the health of their children.

74

3 years ago

Food delivery workers in India are some of the worst paid in the world, with daily wages of as little as $1.25. Slice aims to provide them with a way to make higher wages with improved service and convenience.

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 startup that allows users to create and edit high-definition 3D models of real-world objects

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

The startup wants to make it easy to zone out of the world around you, tucking into a zone on your phone where you can focus on the tasks at hand. It also wants to make it easy to track your progress.

73

3 years ago

We’re at a point where almost all of the world’s population is using mobile phones. But most of the world’s adults and teens don’t own a credit score. Vaya wants to help them get one, and also helps lenders target them for loans.

73

3 years ago

A digital banking startup for the developing world.

73

3 years ago

A company that puts a human face on the world of data with an interactive map and tool.

73

3 years ago

A company that builds out the infrastructure for building a new car. They work directly with the auto manufacturing industry, which they say is the only industry in the world that doesn’t have a good online way for customers to assemble the car they’ve bought.

73

3 years ago

A new startup that wants to bring a bit of the world of online multiplayer gaming to board games.

73

4 years ago

A startup that wants to use the blockchain to help create a system that collects and tracks all your data to build a “trusted record of the world’s food supply.”

72

4 years ago

A startup that aims to help people make more money with less effort. It wants to build a tool for the “social selling” world that helps salespeople find companies to work with and then helps them find the products and clients they need.

72

4 years ago

TechCrunch’s startup of the day, which aims to be a tool for people to share their discoveries of what’s next in the world of tech and business.

72

4 years ago

This company is building the world’s first platform for people to support their favorite artists. The startup is uniting artists with fans, fans with artists, and artists with fans, to create direct connections that allow fans to directly support their favorite artists.

72

4 years ago

A financial technology company that helps comprehensive research in the world of growth investing.

72

4 years ago

This startup is building a toolset for big brands (like Coca-Cola and Red Bull) to use to test how their products are performing in different marketplaces around the world.

72

4 years ago

A video game that lets you play with your friends in a virtual reality world.

72

4 years ago

A startup that wants to help women claim their achievements in the world of business.

72

3 years ago

As the name suggests, this is a group of people who want to help you find your best friends in college. The company is targeting colleges right now, but will eventually expand to the rest of the world.

72

3 years ago

An online platform that connects schools and businesses, allowing students to learn about careers by shadowing professionals for a day in their workplace. It’s a great way to introduce young people to the working world.

72

3 years ago

“Imagine a world where you could pay your favorite artists directly, whenever you wanted to.”

72

3 years ago

A tool for curating and sharing the best in the world work that’s happening right now around the world.

72

3 years ago

A software platform for sending and receiving money from anyone with an email address anywhere in the world.

72

3 years ago

A web software for kids to learn about science and math by teaching them about the world around them.

72

2 years ago

A mobile app that makes spending on your phone more interesting. It’s a tool that makes it easier to find and buy the things you want, as well as learn about them. It’s like Foursquare but for the world of goods.

72

4 years ago

A company that helps teachers all over the world teach students about animals in the natural world outside of school.

71

4 years ago

A platform for sharing and discovering new perspectives on the world, the tuneup is a collaborative platform for journalists, storytellers, and artists to share their work.

71

4 years ago

A live-action game that lets users watch their characters interact with the real world and interact with others through the game

71

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 company that helps companies manage the wide range of sales taxes and tariffs in their portfolio of products. The company does it by “cross-referencing” products with tax and customs regulations across the world.

71

4 years ago

In a world run by robots, where job postings are automated, a new startup is building a kind of “job board” that allows people to post jobs and receive recruiters through the app.

71

4 years ago

This startup helps enterprises adopt the best of both worlds, the information security practices of the US government, while working with the local government to keep their citizens safe. It’s a way to make government services more efficient.

71

4 years ago

A platform that connects TV networks to content creators in order to monetize their content. The company says they have $30 million in funding, and are already working with networks from around the world. It’s available on the web and on iOS.

71

4 years ago

A digital cash wallet that allows users to pay for things in the real world with a digital token.

71

3 years ago

A tool that aims to make it easier to get surveys to people in the US and Canada. SurveyMonkey is already a household name in the marketing tech world.

71

3 years ago

This app helps users find open jobs at companies all over the world. The startup also provides job search services and career advice for people already employed.

71

4 years ago

A video game that helps users learn about the world’s major religions

70

4 years ago

A “Starter’s Guide to Getting Into the Tech Startup World”

70

4 years ago

is a new way for your patients to get access to your medical records. "The idea is to make it easier for patients to get their medical records by allowing them to access them from anywhere in the world, including from their smart phones."

70

4 years ago

A distributed worldwide network of unsung heroes, who can perform tasks in the name of the US government, like an Uber for the US military. First launched in 2016, it’s already deployed on more than 100 bases and is partnered with more than 100 federal agencies, including the US Department of Defense, NASA, and the Department of State.

70

3 years ago

This company aims to be the first in the world to use blockchain (in their case the Stellar blockchain) to create a new gold standard for data integrity and security.

70

3 years ago

A startup that makes an app called the “World Cup of football” that lets users swap trading cards with other users.

70

3 years ago

A company that tracks data from cameras around the world to spot patterns and build out a framework around that data. The startup will use data from its network of cameras to detect and respond to crime, as well as generate business intelligence for all sorts of retailers.

70

3 years ago

A startup that owns and operates an offline library, which will soon be open to the public. It’s the world’s first library of digital books that can be made available in a physical space.

70

3 years ago

India is the world’s fastest growing market in the food delivery business, and this startup is building an app that wants to take advantage of that. It’s looking to create an on-demand market for delivery drivers, who can earn $20 to $30 an hour.

70

3 years ago

A platform that connects the world of wine to the world of food, allowing restaurants to sell wine to customers directly.

70

4 years ago

A platform for building virtual reality content with human-scale interactions. The company wants to build virtual reality content where people can walk around, sit down or interact with their virtual world.

69

4 years ago

A tool that allows anyone in the world to spend time in the United States in the same way they do in their home country. This startup wants to make it easy for people to live in the US temporarily, which they say would create about 15 million jobs.

69

4 years ago

Motion is a startup that aims to bring “a world of motion” to the world of digital art. It wants to make it easy for video creators to create video art and animations from the comfort of their home.

69

4 years ago

A way to make it easy for people to send money from their bank account to their friends and family across the world. The startup is only in the US currently, but aims to expand internationally.

69

4 years ago

Our team is trying to disrupt the world of product development by creating a platform that allows startups to focus on great product ideas instead of building the product itself.

69

4 years ago

“The most affordable and fully featured machine learning platform on the market, from the creators of the world’s best-selling machine learning book,” the startup says.

69

4 years ago

The Cappasity app, which gives you a stereoscopic 3D view of various types of real world objects (like wine bottles, art, or landmarks).

69

4 years ago

A company that helps people share their experience of their favorite music and artists with the world, through video and photo sharing, stories, and music.

69

4 years ago

Helps companies get closer to their customers. The service has been used by some of the top names in the world, including Amazon, Uber, Google, and MasterCard.

69

3 years ago

A B2B company that’s building asset-management software for companies with multiple offices around the world. The company is helping employees manage the company’s assets from different offices around the world.

69

3 years ago

An API that generates content for entrepreneurs and startups on the subject of marketing, building out a platform for content creators to share their knowledge with the world.

69

3 years ago

A startup that’s working on a way to bring the world’s first fully integrated digital platform for e-commerce.

69

3 years ago

A mobile app for the people who design, build and maintain the world’s communication networks, from the ground up. It’s meant to give them a better way to plan, build, and operate networks around the world.

69

3 years ago

A platform for supporting and growing the micro-enterprise sector in the developing world.

69

3 years ago

A global platform that helps facilitate the sale of user data on the dark web. The company’s clients include hundreds of the world’s largest brands.

69

2 years ago

A start-up that wants to help people in India or other third-world countries get a bank account and credit card. Instead of a bank account, they want to offer a virtual one.

69

2 years ago

A platform for finding a ride in any city or country in the world.

69

4 years ago

A startup that is building an augmented reality platform to allow people to place virtual objects on top of real-world objects.

68

4 years ago

A company that helps clients manage the relationship between their brand and the people who use its products. The startup was originally built to help the non-profit World Vision, but they found they weren’t a good fit and pivoted.

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 startup looking to make the world’s best, high-end machine parts with a focus on precision machining. Their idea is to build a factory that can produce any size and shape part, anywhere in the world, with high precision and great quality.

68

3 years ago

Lending platform for micro-lending for people in areas of the world where banks don’t work. Empowering people with capital where it is needed most. The company wants to lend $1 billion in the first year.

68

3 years ago

A web-based database of the world’s most popular web programming languages, with a database of over 6 million pages.

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

A B2B marketplace for merchants to easily procure goods and services. It has been dubbed the “Amazon of the Third World” by the press.

68

2 years ago

As the world’s largest online furniture retailer, Wayfair has open data on over 80 million pieces of furniture products. The startup wants to make it easier to access and analyze this data by making it accessible through APIs.

68

2 years ago

For example, Imagine a clothing store that could (with the tap of a button) bring inventory from all over the world to a single retail location.

68

4 years ago

A platform that helps small businesses manage their bank accounts. The company is based in New York, but serves companies in other states and countries around the world.

67

4 years ago

A startup that wants to bring machine learning to the world of financial trading, using advanced computer vision and AI to help traders make better investment decisions. It's raised $3.4 million to date from investors like GV and Flatiron.

67

4 years ago

A SaaS company that provides software to allow brands to send targeted text messages to customers with an opt-in, in order to acquire new customers. The startup is currently working with a number of marketing programs around the world.

67

4 years ago

A mobile app that uses machine learning to help people learn Spanish, French, English, Italian, German, and Spanish. The company says that “Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world after Mandarin, and it’s the second most spoken language in America.”

67

4 years ago

A company that offers financial training to people around the world.

67

4 years ago

A startup that wants the world to know about the good work that nonprofits are doing

67

3 years ago

A “hotel concierge” that enables guests to book the rooms they want without worrying about the hassle of dealing with the front desk. The startup’s flagship product is “Rooms”, a website that allows users to book rooms at hotels around the world.

67

3 years ago

The company wants to help the world cut down on food waste. The startup’s name is a play on the word ‘re-up’, which is what people say when they have to re-order their favorite food

67

3 years ago

"A startup for augmented reality games, where players can play games together regardless of their location or device, and compete for world rankings."

67

3 years ago

The startup is building a system that helps companies allocate data centers around the world more efficiently.

67

3 years ago

A startup to help people find the most attractive real estate properties in the world.

67

2 years ago

A startup that wants to build a world-class engineering team in India.

67

4 years ago

A tool for building a list of people to invite to a job interview. The startup had a good response from the hiring world after it was featured in the New York Times.

66

4 years ago

A social network that lets users share their content with the world, which they can then rate, comment upon, or share.

66

4 years ago

This startup is building a way to see and explore the world’s natural wonders and landmarks through data and visualization, and is partnering with the National Geographic Society to curate and track the most iconic and historic places in the world.

66

4 years ago

The list of 30 companies below is generally regarded as the best of the best in the world at the time of the nomination, but they have since been acquired or sold, or have left the market.

66

4 years ago

A tool that allows users to generate, edit, and share Minecraft worlds (sort of like the world of Terraria except on the web). Users can create worlds with custom dimensions and dimensions on a per-world basis.

66

4 years ago

The startup is building a platform that creates a social network for people who have moved abroad. It's also an online marketplace for goods from around the world.

66

3 years ago

SaaS company that brings an online experience to the physical world, like a social networking service to a coffee shop.

66

3 years ago

Cloud-based productivity apps that make it easier for people to work from anywhere in the world.

66

3 years ago

A business that helps young professionals around the world save their money for future goals and use it for their immediate needs. The company wants to help people with their finances and give them the opportunity to build a portfolio of financial products and services.

66

3 years ago

A dapp that lets people create a virtual reality world where they can play games, watch videos and share photos with friends.

66

2 years ago

A startup that is building an app that helps employees of companies all over the world communicate and collaborate.

66

4 years ago

Is a way for people to wirelessly charge their Apple Watch. The startup has been shipping Apple Watch chargers to customers around the world, and recently received a $1.2 million investment from a group of angel investors.

65

4 years ago

An online database of the world’s natural resources, sourced from over 2,000 experts, that lets users search, compare, and learn about the world’s natural resources.

65

4 years ago

What do you do when you have the typical set-up of an L.L.Bean outfitter in a small town in Maine, or a small-town biker shop in South Dakota, or a local bike shop in New Hampshire You could build a mobile app, or you could build out a small physical store in that town, or you could build out a membership program to then sell memberships in that store. This startup works with local machines to do that, delivering a local bike shop experience to the wider world.

65

4 years ago

An AI-powered, real-time news site that helps users stay up to date on what’s happening in the world.

65

3 years ago

A digital network that connects businesses in high income countries with those in lower-income countries. They’re working with the UN’s World Food Programme to address food security.

65

3 years ago

This year's list of the top 20 startup accelerators in the world is compiled by CB Insights, and includes new additions from the US and Europe, including two accelerators from the UK.

65

3 years ago

A food-delivery service that hopes to take on both the on-demand world and traditional restaurants.

65

3 years ago

Startup that focuses on the needs of people with disabilities in the developing world, especially in India. The company wants to build a digital library of books and apps for the blind, deaf and disabled in India.

65

4 years ago

A company that uses machine learning to help brands analyze social media data to increase their ad spend. They have over 12,000 clients worldwide, including Disney, ESPN, and Coca-Cola.

64

4 years ago

The company wants to build a world-class video platform that’s easy to use but has the same functionality as a large-scale, professional video studio.

64

4 years ago

A daily e-newsletter for journalists that sends out a story every day, with a new one every weekday. The company says it’s already signed up 1,000 journalists from all over the world.

64

3 years ago

The best ideas are usually the simplest. And in the startup world, simplicity and finding a way to solve a problem is not easy to execute. We’ve selected the best ideas from the last two months to help you jumpstart your next idea. We’ve grouped them by market.

64

3 years ago

A SaaS product that converts your world map into an interactive game.

64

3 years ago

A platform for helping the world’s unbanked and underbanked via mobile banking.

64

3 years ago

A tool that helps people in the US and UK set up a direct debit from their bank accounts, and pay their bills from anywhere in the world.

64

3 years ago

A “name your price” platform for short-term rentals. For example, you can rent a bike or a car on demand in any city in the world, so long as it’s in a major metro area.

64

3 years ago

WeTransfer is a business that allows people to send and share files from anywhere in the world, for a fee. The company has over 100 million users.

64

3 years ago

A new way of organizing the world’s data, with a decentralized set of data hubs.

64

2 years ago

a 3D-printing startup from India. The company is building 3D printers for the developing world — it has machines for $500, $800, and $1,400.

64

2 years ago

A startup that wants to use AI to help people make more informed decisions and learn from the best in the world. They currently have a 5% conversion rate on their website.

64

4 years ago

"A new platform for making your company's software more accessible to the world. Your software's code will be available for anyone to see, download, copy, and run without the need to sign up for anything."

63

4 years ago

A payroll startup in the UK focused on the in-person world. The company is looking to change the way employers pay their employees.

63

4 years ago

A new startup that wants to take the same data-mining modeling that drives some of the world’s biggest hedge funds and apply it to the world of investing in art. The company wants to help savvy investors find the next big thing in art.

63

3 years ago

The idea is to create a product that helps the community of health professionals in a particular area access to the latest research and technology and connect with the world’s leading scientists.

63

3 years ago

A 3D virtual reality headset company that wants to make the world’s most comfortable VR headset. The company is trying to solve the “over-customization” of the current Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets.

63

3 years ago

A platform allowing users to order and pay for carbon offsets. Carbon Cow is a Boston-based startup that focuses on helping companies and organizations get involved in climate change. Currently the company is working with organizations like the World Wildlife Fund and Environmental Defense Fund.

63

3 years ago

A company that built a database of all the world’s airports and helps navigate customers through their travels.

63

3 years ago

The company’s vision is a world where patients have a single doctor, at a time, and that doctor works with the patient’s medical records.

63

3 years ago

A startup for business owners who want to run their business from anywhere in the world.

63

2 years ago

A phone-based digital concierge that lets users order food, which is delivered by someone who’s already at the restaurant. The company says it’s already working with some of the world’s largest restaurants.

63

4 years ago

The startup aims to disrupt the Ubers and Lyfts of the world by creating an app that allows rideshare drivers to make money by making their own deliveries.

62

4 years ago

A mobile app for graffiti artists. Currently in beta, the app lets people find and connect with local artists all over the world, see what they’re working on, and reach out with requests.

62

4 years ago

A new way to help consumers buy environmentally-friendly products. The startup is a small team that’s looking to build a better way for consumers to get their hands on environmentally-friendly products from all over the world. While it’s not quite a marketplace, it does offer a centralized marketplace that connects the consumer to one online store for all their environmentally-friendly products.

62

4 years ago

This startup is building a platform to bring better, more efficient financial services to the world’s unbanked. They’re currently in talks with a major bank to launch their service in the fall.

62

3 years ago

A crowdsourcing platform that helps you search part of the world to find people who are in the same situation as you.

62

3 years ago

A company that claims to be "the world’s most automated job application platform."

62

3 years ago

A tool for the world’s leading companies to track and measure employee time, with the goal of creating a better, more productive workforce.

62

3 years ago

While it’s still in the works, this company is building an AI-powered assistant that would allow people to speak to it and get personalized recommendations on what to do in cities around the world, sort of like the way Pandora is personalized music.

62

3 years ago

The 2018 TechStars World Demo Day featured more than 300 startups from all around the world.

62

3 years ago

This startup is trying to bring the convenience of online shopping to the offline world by creating a physical store that uses the internet and robots to deliver. The store would do the same things you can do in the online shopping world, but in a more physical space.

62

3 years ago

A company that wants to bring health insurance to the world’s poorest. The startup is already in talks with the government of the Philippines about expanding the product, and is sending representatives to India to talk about it too.

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

An online marketplace for social enterprises and nonprofits aiming to build a “world-class movement of activists and organizations”

62

3 years ago

Given that over 40% of the world’s food is lost or wasted, the startup wants to help farmers sell the food they produce and not have to throw it away. They’re building an app that finds buyers with the best price for their produce.

62

4 years ago

A non-profit that is building a strategic communications and social media campaign to help bring clean water to the world’s poorest people.

61

4 years ago

A company that is building a voice assistant for the blind, which is meant to be easier to use than others. “We are designing a system that makes it easier for blind people to navigate their homes, speak to their family and friends, and learn more about the world around them.”

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 social enterprise that provides equipment and support to the developing world for the production of sustainable, high-quality, locally-sourced products.

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

This is a virtual reality platform that creates virtual worlds tailored to help with education, training and the military.

61

3 years ago

A digital news company that covers the world of cryptocurrency, investing, and technology.

61

3 years ago

This is a shop that’s trying to bring the best of a physical bookstore to the digital world. The startup is currently working with a handful of brick-and-mortar stores and wants to use partnerships with retailers like Barnes and Noble’s and Amazon to bring their digital storefront to those physical stores.

61

3 years ago

A company that helps people make phone calls anywhere in the world using the internet.

61

3 years ago

This startup is building a “blockchain-enabled” supply chain logistics platform to enable companies to “tap into commerce with the world”.

61

3 years ago

A streaming video startup that wants to improve how we view and interact with the world.

61

2 years ago

A startup that lets you share your garage door with the world, which can be rented out to others.

61

4 years ago

A health insurance platform that uses blockchain to provide worldwide health insurance, allowing consumers to cover themselves with a single app.

60

4 years ago

This is what happens when the team behind Meetup, the platform for organizing local events, turns their attention towards the more consumer-focused side of the world. It’s a platform that helps merchants sell directly to their customers and serves as a hub for sales, marketing, and support.

60

3 years ago

Data visualization for video games, powered by the world’s largest video game database.

60

3 years ago

This is a tool for journalists to create and share their work. The startup isn’t just a service, but a way to enter the content world of journalism.

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

A startup that claims the world’s most powerful medical marijuana extraction machine, to make edibles

60

3 years ago

The startup wants to use artificial intelligence to create a platform that will allow people to easily create data visualizations of all the data and data points they have stored in the world, then use those to communicate with their customers.

60

3 years ago

A tool for helping the many people in the world who are visually impaired to read documents.

60

2 years ago

A way to collaborate with others on an audio recording, which is then sent out to the world. It’s a combination of Google Music and Skype.

60

2 years ago

Connecting businesses to the world’s best brands with a “one-stop shop” online platform. The startup is a digital agency with an eye on technology and mobile.

60

2 years ago

A way to find and hire a freelancer anywhere in the world.

60

4 years ago

An agreement among the world’s largest banks to offer payments to businesses in developing countries via SMS.

59

3 years ago

This startup is building an AI-powered tool for marketers to monitor and optimize their campaigns. The company says they’re delivering “the best performance of any AI-powered agency in the world”.

59

3 years ago

A streaming video platform that lets you keep up with the world's biggest TV shows and movies, with live streams and on-demand access to popular shows.

59

3 years ago

A tool that helps design stores based on real-world data.

59

3 years ago

The startup is building what it calls an “AI platform for the internet of things (IoT)”. It aims to digitize and make programmable the world of the internet of things, which is fraught with security issues, power consumption issues, and the need for ultra-low cost.

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

A digital platform that creates “the world’s first bot-free messaging app” with a focus on private, encrypted messages.

59

2 years ago

A startup that hopes to raise $1M to build a new kind of multiplayer game experience that allows players to build a neighborhood and interact with each other within that virtual world.

59

2 years ago

This startup wants to help small businesses create natural products. The app will help users choose from a list of natural ingredients and ingredients from around the world and then the app will automatically create a custom recipe using the chosen ingredients.

59

4 years ago

A new way to organize and share knowledge across the world, connecting people who have similar interests and experiences.

58

4 years ago

The company’s goal is to “put the attention economy to work for people, not for advertising.” Or, as they put it: “Imagine a world where the people who you want to be connected to are the ones who know you best – your friends – not the people who pay the most.”

58

4 years ago

A company that wants to make a bank card that can be used across the world

58

4 years ago

Most of the world’s money is stored in centralized banks, but these institutions are often unreliable. This startup wants to build a decentralized banking system that is as robust as the banks themselves.

58

4 years ago

A video conferencing app that works across different devices, costs a few dollars per month, and allows you to talk to people on the other side of the world

58

4 years ago

A startup that wants to bring modern “artificial intelligence” to the art world

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

3 years ago

The creators of this startup are known for creating the first climate change website in the world, with a few other companies in their portfolio. Their new startup is a smart platform that helps companies track and measure their climate footprint, and also a tool for nonprofits to fundraise.

58

3 years ago

A team of students from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, have built a bitcoin ATM in their dorm room and are now taking orders from students around the world. The students are hoping to raise $10,000 to bring their ATM to the next level.

58

3 years ago

The company wants to create a service where a user can use their phone to create a virtual reality experience, and then capture it for viewing on other devices. Their product is a $3,000 kit that lets you “download” a 3-D model and bring it into the real world.

58

3 years ago

The idea is to build an “app store” for the personal finance world, allowing people to build tool to manage their finances in one place, with visualizations and tools to help them keep track of their spending.

58

3 years ago

A company that makes VR games and simulates real things in the real world, so kids can learn a science lesson without having to act it out.

58

3 years ago

A startup that helps people with spinal cord injuries receive a second way to communicate with the outside world. When users are able to communicate through a device, they’re able to send $15 to a researcher in the US, who uses the money to purchase a device to make the communication possible.

58

3 years ago

This is a startup building a tool to help visually impaired people to see the world through their smartphones and mobile devices. The startup is aiming to build into mobile devices some of the technology that blind people use to see and hear.

57

3 years ago

The first annual Startup Battlefield took place in 2016, and was hosted by the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive festival. The event brought together over 60 startups from across the United States and around the world.

57

3 years ago

A company that makes an iOS app that enables companies to send payments to and from any point of sale in the world.

57

3 years ago

A 3D modeling platform that lets people build digital models of real-world objects, with an SDK that lets you easily incorporate models into games and apps.

57

3 years ago

A social network for men, which launched in the UK in January and claims to be the largest in the world.

57

3 years ago

This startup helps companies create a ‘voice of their brand’ in the virtual world.

57

3 years ago

A distributed supply chain platform that tries to bridge the gap between e-commerce and the physical world. They’re a B2B company that builds things like industrial robots and 3D printers, and help them connect securely to the e-commerce infrastructure of Amazon and Alibaba.

57

4 years ago

A way to manage the world of digital assets — from the things you have to the things you want to own.

56

3 years ago

This startup is trying to bring the world of VR to productivity. VR tools can help with customer support, sales, and marketing. The company is building a toolset that allows businesses to “build, test, deploy and scale their virtual customer service agents with ease.”

56

3 years ago

The goal of this startup is to collect a network of people who can help students navigate the world of college admissions, from financial aid to college visits. The company wants to lower the amount of money students spend on college and make admissions decisions more transparent.

56

3 years ago

In a world where companies work with dozens of suppliers, sometimes on a daily basis, it doesn’t make sense to have to use multiple tools. This B2B company wants to help companies manage their suppliers on a single platform, making it easier for them to do business.

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 that provides small business owners with the tools to successfully manage their business from a remote location, enabling them to do their work from anywhere in the world.

56

3 years ago

A tool that helps you create a personal brand that can reach a larger portion of the world’s population than you live in.

56

3 years ago

A startup with $1.5 million in funding that is looking to bring the benefits of machine learning and AI to the world of human resources.

56

3 years ago

This startup, which was founded in March, is building a way to organize the world’s massive amount of health and fitness data into a more actionable format.

56

3 years ago

A startup that’s trying to build a single platform that wants to aggregate all of the world’s PhDs and turn them into “the world’s most advanced, most productive, most intuitive, and most connected PhD community”.

56

2 years ago

A tool to help people who are blind or visually impaired find their way around the world. The startup’s CEO, who is blind, says that her son was lost in a mall and was able to use the startup’s product to find his way home.

56

3 years ago

Designed for buyers of consumer electronics, this product helps users compare prices across hundreds of online retailers. The software scans thousands of consumer product listings from over 30,000 online retailers from all over the world. The company says it is already being used by over 1 million shoppers in the U.S.

55

3 years ago

A platform to help connect the world’s 1.5 billion people who use mobile to send money to each other, currently in the pilot phase.

55

3 years ago

A startup that’s building hardware that enables and tracks connected objects to collect statistics automatically. The company wants to make the world more “smart”.

55

3 years ago

A startup that helps arbitrage traders figure out where in the world to invest. The startup is backed by Y Combinator alum Sam Altman, who invested in the company’s seed round in November 2018.

55

3 years ago

A mobile application that allows users to share and discover other book enthusiasts around the world. Founded in 2014 by Jason and Saalim Ghose, the startup is based out of San Francisco.

55

3 years ago

A company that organizes and indexes news from around the world, so it can be accessed worldwide in one place. According to Who Pays for Content, the average cost of a year of access to the Who Pays for Content database is $10,000, with annual revenue of $1,000,000.

55

2 years ago

A tool that helps people find a program to work in. It’s a job board aimed at the non-technical side of the tech world.

55

3 years ago

A startup to help non-tech people get started in blockchain. The startup is looking to use its data and know-how to help people navigate the world of crypto assets.

54

3 years ago

A company that uses AI and machine learning to help retail designers and store managers create the best apparel and home décor in the world.

54

3 years ago

A remote control for computers and multiple mobile devices. The startup wants to build the world’s first remote that works with both PCs and phones.

54

3 years ago

A new way to view ads in the mobile app world. The startup uses a new technology called “visual search” to allow users to swipe through ads, rather than the traditional method of text-searching ads. It’s being tested with a few companies.

54

3 years ago

A company that sells off-the-shelf technology to help modernize smaller cities and villages around the world. They’re currently working in over 70 towns and cities in 15 countries.

54

3 years ago

Six Degrees is a startup that is building a platform that connects artists, curators and collectors to bring art to multiple cities across the world.

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 company that aims to help people make a living by selling their skills in online video games to fans of games like World of Warcraft, Counter-Strike, and League of Legends.

54

2 years ago

The South by Southwest Conference and Festivals is a large annual festival held in Austin, Texas. It is described by organizers as "the world’s premier technology, media, and entertainment festival and a must-attend destination for creative types" and also as a "celebration of music, film, and interactive experiences".

54

4 years ago

This is a company that wants to grow local food in the developing world, and has a product to help do that.

53

3 years ago

A platform that helps people monitor their health and fitness. The company wants to make the world a healthier place.

53

3 years ago

A blockchain-based marketplace for virtual goods. The company wants to create a marketplace where users can buy and sell virtual assets, with the hopes of building the first “worldwide marketplace”.

53

3 years ago

A startup that helps startups grow by giving them access to the biggest potential customer base in the world - the US government. The company's proprietary Fintech platform provides access to the US government's banking, insurance and finance systems.

53

3 years ago

Bringing a community of businesses and developers together, rather than relying on a single central developer to develop the app. InCommerce allows businesses to create a platform for their product and connect with other developers around the world to bring in new features and integrations.

53

3 years ago

A startup that wants to bring together and transform the world of physical retail with the power of the internet. The startup is building a retail platform that uses AI to help retailers discover trends and create winning products. The startup is also building a platform that will allow retailers to sell online from their physical stores.

53

3 years ago

A platform that helps brands test consumer products in the real world before they even go to market. The startup is building a consumer product testing platform where brands and retailers can test products in the real world to see how consumers react.

53

5 years ago

Idea: A community platform for the world’s freel

52

4 years ago

A company that wants to help people, businesses and governments coordinate emergency response, evacuation and shelter operations around the world.

52

4 years ago

HelloSensors is building a platform for collecting, storing and analyzing data about the world around us, enabling users to monitor and track the weather, detect earthquakes, or track the impact of a disease.

52

4 years ago

An idea to transform the world’s traditional volunteer work into a more efficient, tech-savvy model.

52

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier to share your training courses with the world, giving them a way to host and distribute training courses to a global audience

52

4 years ago

A startup that adds a layer of socialization and shaping to video games, allowing users to interact with other players and build group communities, while also allowing gamers to “build a real world persona” in the game.

52

3 years ago

A startup that helps software companies manage their security by providing a mobile application that allows people to connect to their accounts, sending them alerts when they log on from other places in the world, or when their account is accessed from a location that they didn’t specify. The company is currently working with 4 enterprise customers.

52

3 years ago

A startup that is building a commerce platform for the world’s $2 trillion restaurant industry. It helps restaurants create, manage and sell their menu.

52

3 years ago

A team of marketers in Silicon Valley developed a new way for companies to engage with customers on social media. WorldFace takes a team of human marketers who can comment on users’ posts and posts themselves to a Slack channel, where a bot then follows along.

52

3 years ago

A full-service security startup that’s working in the vein of a SaaS startup, with a team that includes a former VP of security at Microsoft. The company is building out a product that brings a SaaS-like service to the world of security, allowing companies to keep an eye on their employees and their devices remotely.

52

3 years ago

Best of both worlds, an online marketplace for teachers and a separate classroom management platform. The startup wants to help schools streamline their administrative tasks, ending the need for multiple platforms.

52

3 years ago

A digital assistant to help busy people around the world manage their finances. The startup compares itself to the digital assistants in both Apple’s Siri and Google Now, but with a different purpose built for managing finances.

52

4 years ago

A platform for companies to “scale across the world”.

51

4 years ago

Introduces the concept of “smart contracts” to the world of eCommerce. Essentially, it’s a smart contract that’s built on the Ethereum blockchain.

51

4 years ago

This startup is looking to augment the popular “find a mentor” model in the startup world with a program that will help people find mentors in their local area as well as people who have a history of mentoring other people.

51

4 years ago

A company with a simple mission: to help the world find the right oil. The company gathers data from oil fields to train a machine learning algorithm to determine whether a field contains oil, and then plots the data. The company is set up to collect data from all oil fields around the world, in part because of the increasing cost of oil extraction. The startup has a referral program that pays $1 per month to those who refer new clients to the service.

51

3 years ago

This startup is building a new way to interact with the world of digital assistants, allowing users to talk to them as if they were a person rather than an external app. The company has built a new AI that they say can answer questions while also listening and learning.

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 company bridges the gap between the physical world and the internet. It creates virtual objects that can be interacted with — like virtual roses.

51

3 years ago

A platform that helps fashion brands find emerging designers and helps them take their designs from “somewhere in the world” to “some place in the world”.

51

3 years ago

A startup that wants to change the way we earn money through automated investing. The startup says it wants to bring the same kinds of automated investing technologies to the world of charitable giving.

51

3 years ago

A platform for college students and graduates to rent offices. The company says it has flown over 100,000 students and graduates to over 900 locations around the world.

51

3 years ago

A startup that aims to be the Apple Store for the design world. Its goal is to provide design assistance to small businesses, including working on projects like a website, logo, or stationery set.

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 for event planning, with a focus on the corporate world. The startup, which was founded in May, has a focus on teams and their needs, with the app allowing them to create events, view reports, and track attendance.

51

3 years ago

A company that helps individuals and businesses track their spending habits to make better, more informed financial decisions. The startup is a spin-off of the world’s largest robo-advisor firm, Betterment, and previously worked on a consumer-focused app.

51

3 years ago

A startup that lets you check out the weather at any location in the world.

51

3 years ago

A startup that’s building a platform intended to bring more control and customization to the world of laundry detergent. Instead of having to buy the same product over and over again, users can create their own formulas for specific applications.

51

3 years ago

The startup looks to aggregate, curate and analyze all the world’s news and information, in real time, for a small fee. It’s currently in beta with 100 users.

51

3 years ago

A bit like Slack, but for work chat. It aims to help people from all over the world collaborate on projects.

51

2 years ago

A company that makes a product called “Aquaman” that cleans water with the help of the sun, but also uses intelligent algorithms to determine the best times of day to clean the water, what household items can be used to filter the water, and what types of water-cleaning products would be best to buy. Aquaman’s website says they’ve sold $2.75 million in their first four years of operations, and that they’ve serviced 200,000 customers worldwide.

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

2 years ago

A startup that wants to connect the physical world to the internet of things. The company aims to create a system where wearable devices can communicate with each other to let you know when your neighborhood is not as safe as it should be or if your car is running low on gas.

51

5 years ago

Idea: A software company that wants to build a platform for creating digital products that feels like you’re building in the real world.

50

3 years ago

A toolkit to help organizations track inventory around the world, with the goal of making supply chains more efficient.

50

3 years ago

A live-streaming video platform that aims to bring the same experience to the world of sports as to the world of TV.

50

3 years ago

This startup is building a mobile wallet for the unbanked. The company is focusing on the 1 billion people in the world who are unbanked and using cash for transactions.

50

3 years ago

A startup that wants to take over the world of home health care. It’s a direct-to-consumer platform that allows consumers to book in-home visits from nurses, physical therapists, and other health care professionals.

50

3 years ago

wants to be like LinkedIn, but for the world of work. It’s a targeted, global social network for businesses where data is shared automatically.

49

3 years ago

This startup is building a network for the sports world that helps athletes and teams collaborate on content, advertising and sponsorships.

49

3 years ago

A financial services startup that wants to try to bring some of the best practices we see in the investment industry to the world of fintech.

49

3 years ago

A startup building a reputation system for the digital world, which aims to provide a peer-to-peer verification system for “good” and “bad” actions. It’s a community for people to review, rate, and review each other.

49

3 years ago

A startup that gives people and businesses the ability to take advantage of public transportation in cities around the world.

49

2 years ago

This startup is building the world’s first AI-assisted digital art platform, which will be a “one stop shop” for artists to create original digital content.

49

3 years ago

A company that wants to put the “benevolent” in “artificial intelligence”: its robots are designed to help people work and live in the world in a more humane way.

48

3 years ago

A company that is building a tool that helps small businesses in the developing world sell more products by getting them listed on sites like Amazon.

48

3 years ago

The company is building a new approach to collection and analysis of data that builds on the vision of the Internet of Things, connecting devices in the real world to the cloud for analysis and control.

48

3 years ago

This startup is building an e-commerce platform for the world’s small manufacturers — including those in the US. They’re hoping to help 1 million small manufacturers by 2020.

48

3 years ago

A startup that wants to bring the world’s citizens together in a virtual reality space.

48

3 years ago

A company that’s building a platform that connects the credit card processors with merchants around the world, helping merchants get payments in a much more efficient way.

48

2 years ago

One of the world’s largest lead generation companies, with millions of email addresses on file, is launching a new way to nurture customers.

48

2 years ago

A tool for finding the cheapest flights around the world.

48

2 years ago

Doing well in the startup world means handling a lot of different responsibilities. Most startups don’t have time to hire full-time employees, which is why many of them rely on contractors to handle the bulk of the work. Why Because they don’t have the capital or staff to come up with solutions from scratch.

48

2 years ago

Canary is a service that aims to help people who are competing in the startup world, by giving them an opportunity to try out an app before it's fully launched.

48

2 years ago

This startup is taking the idea of a podcast and applying it to an ongoing series of videos looking at the intersection of large-scale technology and the world.

48

2 years ago

A startup that helps visually impaired users recognize and interact with objects in the real world.

48

3 years ago

A platform for entrepreneurs to manage their investments. Breeze lets you create investment portfolios and track their performance, and the startup offers tools for letting people manage their investments outside of the traditional brokerage world.

47

3 years ago

An introduction to the world of cryptocurrencies designed for non-techie business people looking to get involved in crypto.

47

3 years ago

A startup that provides a comprehensive history of the most influential and important people in the world, organized by year and decade.

47

3 years ago

A web and mobile app that helps small business owners navigate the often confusing world of federal tax rules.

47

3 years ago

A mobile payment platform that allows businesses to accept payments in one of over 200 currencies and in local currencies. The startup is focused on working with small businesses around the world, but has signed up thousands of merchants in the last year.

47

3 years ago

The company behind this tool is working to help small retailers around the world get a unified view of their inventory and shipping.

47

3 years ago

A startup that brings a “GIF-ified” version of the popular virtual reality game, Pokémon Go, to the real world. In the game players collect virtual creatures called “Pokemons” by moving around in the real world. The startup is building a mobile app that uses your phone’s GPS and camera to track your movements and turn them into Pokemons.

47

3 years ago

This startup wants to help make sure your brand is on every device with a GPS in the world. PerfectSeat is building a way to track people's movements by using GPS and then using that information to target consumers. It’s aiming to replace companies like Nielsen with a product that monitors digital media.

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

3 years ago

A vision-based app that uses AI to help people with visual impairments. It’s a virtual assistant that uses a person’s eyes to navigate the world, and uses voice and gestures to navigate web and mobile applications.

47

2 years ago

A company that helps users find, book and pay for parking spaces or parking garages in major cities around the world, including New York City.

47

3 years ago

A tool to make it easy for people to get paid for their work, whether it’s for work on social media or work on the side, by automatically converting their time into credits that can be redeemed for real world goods and services

46

3 years ago

A tool for streamlining interactions with coworkers and other departments, with a focus on the corporate world.

46

3 years ago

A startup that covers the world of business and self-improvement, and enables users to earn money for their posts.

46

3 years ago

This startup is focused on helping children learn about the world around them, and is a spin-off of a university startup. They are working on a STEAM curriculum, which is a combination of science, technology, engineering and arts, and they have a proven track record of working with both parents and teachers.

46

2 years ago

A startup that wants to take the app store model and apply it to the world of event tickets.

46

2 years ago

A startup that helps people around the world make the most of their social media profiles, especially in countries where Facebook is blocked.

46

2 years ago

One of the most popular dating apps in the world, OkCupid is small but has a lot of room to grow.

46

5 years ago

Idea: A way to see the world through the eyes of a designer

45

3 years ago

A high-tech solution for deploying, monitoring, and managing the world’s largest supply chain.

45

3 years ago

After launching in 2014, the startup’s goal has been to help women get a leg up in the world of tech in the US. They’ve built a product and retained an early audience of 20,000 women.

45

3 years ago

A startup that creates travel guides on how to get around the world by car, bicycle, or on foot, designed to help travelers get better acquainted with the local culture and environment.

45

3 years ago

A company that helps medical professionals in the developing world identify and manage their patients’ symptoms with a mobile app.

45

3 years ago

A “social network for the most interesting, beautiful, and valuable things in the world,” according to the company.

45

2 years ago

A company that says they’re building a new kind of delivery app that allows for “doorstep delivery”, with a focus on cities in the developing world.

45

2 years ago

An autonomous car company that’s “taking autonomous vehicles into the world of mobility”.

45

2 years ago

This startup is building an online shop that sells and ships pre-made products from designers around the world.

45

3 years ago

Helping people analyze their credit scores to see how much they’re spending over time, and how they’re spending it. The startup is already working with some of the largest companies in the world.

44

3 years ago

A startup that bills itself as an online marketplace for sourcing, buying and selling of used medical equipment across the world.

44

2 years ago

The most frequent use of the term “blockchain” in the world is in the healthcare industry. This startup wants to use blockchain to help improve the entire process of care. It’s built on the assumption that the current system is broken, and that blockchain will help provide a more transparent and secure solution.

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

The startup is building a cloud based “data hub” specifically for social impact companies. It aims to “make it easier for social enterprises and nonprofits to integrate their data with the rest of the world, and for those people to access it.” The startup’s first customers are a group of nonprofits in the Bay Area.

43

3 years ago

A digital platform that allows you to share your interests with the rest of the world, so you can put your skills to use and earn money.

43

3 years ago

Civic is a startup that wants to create a digital identity system for a digital world. It’s building a system that helps people build a meaningful digital identity, something that can be verified and trusted. The startup is working with the US military, the US Department of Housing, and the US Department of Veterans Affairs.

43

2 years ago

A tool that helps remove the financial burden of the world's poorest when they make a purchase. The startup is leveraging a network of mobile money operators, such as M-Pesa, to help people move money for goods.

43

3 years ago

A way to organize and track your work and learning as you progress through your career. It’s essentially a LinkedIn for people in the working world.

42

3 years ago

A tool that lets your phone take care of the selling and buying process in the physical world, helping bring small businesses into e-commerce.

42

2 years ago

This company is building a “Netflix for digital videos,” with a focus on bringing low-cost subscriptions to the developing world.

42

2 years ago

A company that is building an enterprise-class, global accounting platform that was built from the beginning with mobile in mind. The company says it’s spent the last six years building a platform that can be deployed anywhere in the world.

42

2 years ago

Helping breweries and wineries around the world sell their products to customers who want to buy their product directly from the business. The startup is working with companies in Belgium, Italy, and France.

42

3 years ago

A London-based startup that’s building a new kind of currency that is designed with the goal of being able to be used globally (currently in beta). The company is working with Mastercard to implement a new type of currency that can be used anywhere in the world.

41

3 years ago

Managing a war room of employees from around the world, the bookkeeping service helps small businesses in developing countries manage their books via an online interface.

41

3 years ago

A digital payments platform that lets organizations send money to people anywhere in the world.

41

3 years ago

A group of companies with a shared goal of changing the world through IT automation. The companies use different technologies (like chat bots, AI, and machine learning) to automate many of the steps in business tasks and make them faster, cheaper, and more accurate. They’re all profitable, and they’ve turned down a bunch of acquisition offers like Slack’s because they want to keep their autonomy.

41

2 years ago

A platform to connect businesses across the world with clients who want to hire talent in their home country. The startup aims to help the US employers find workers in Europe and vice versa.

41

2 years ago

A startup that wants to create a “Dapp Ecosystem” around a set of Dapps that solve real-world problems.

41

3 years ago

Focusing on banking for the unbanked, the startup is building a mobile app that will allow small businesses around the world to access loans and banking services from their iPhones.

40

3 years ago

A platform that helps online merchants from developing countries sell their products to the developed world, where their customers are more likely to pay for them.

40

2 years ago

A hardware and software startup that is aiming to help manufacturers of the world’s most expensive cars develop and test their vehicles. The startup is working with Audi and Ferrari to make their cars more reliable.

40

2 years ago

A company that helps people connect with friends and family who live in different parts of the world.

40

2 years ago

This startup’s mission is to “make the world more free.” It wants to transform the way people use money by letting them pay taxes with crypto and offer other goods with Bitcoin.

40

3 years ago

A mobile platform for recruiting and retaining talent. WeWork has thousands of desks and thousands of teams around the world. The company lets companies rent these desks, which they can customize and use however they want.

39

3 years ago

A startup that enables video game developers to create and distribute their own titles. They say they work with over 50% of the top grossing developers in the world.

39

3 years ago

A platform for digitally connecting the “millennial generation” within the corporate world

39

2 years ago

A tool for learning about the world of cryptocurrencies and how to get involved.

39

3 years ago

Shopify’s first acquisition, Blinkist is a tablet app that allows users to listen to any book in the world, in real time, for free.

38

2 years ago

The startup is charging startups to help them navigate the venture capital world, providing them with financing, advice, and experience. It’s taking 5% of the startup’s total valuation.

38

2 years ago

A “credit score for the world” for 90% of the world’s remittance flows. Instead of relying on a single credit score, which may differ depending on where you live, IDream ventures wants to provide a global score that’s the same regardless of country.

38

2 years ago

A “new financial services network” for the developing world. The company is still early on its road map and has yet to raise funding.

38

2 years ago

This startup builds a series of products that make it easier to build connected objects, which can communicate with each other and the world around them.

38

2 years ago

A startup that uses data from the phones of everyday people to identify the most dangerous cities in the world.

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

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3247821/its-cake-order-ahead-solution-for-restaurant-customers-and-workers.html

37

2 years ago

An “Evernote for work”, which, in its own pitch, claims to be the world’s most used digital tool for work.

37

2 years ago

A startup that creates AI-powered chatbots to help you make sense of the world.

37

2 years ago

A new type of camera that uses the phone’s sensor to see the real world

37

2 years ago

This company is aiming to make it easy for companies to provide credit analysis, and it’s already working with one of the largest companies in the world.

37

2 years ago

BitMEX is the first regulated Bitcoin exchange in the world, offering a trading platform for professional traders to trade Bitcoins with leverage. BitMEX hopes to be a catalyst for Bitcoin’s rise to prominence, with hopes to increase institutional investment in the market.

37

2 years ago

A platform that helps people buy a house around the world. Their first customer is one of the world’s biggest home builders.

37

3 years ago

The company is a pioneer in the field of payment-as-a-service technology. TAPAS is a cloud-based payments service which brings payment and commerce to the world of mobile handsets, tablets, wearables and even smart-phones via a fast, secure and simple to use interface. TAPAS currently supports online retail, online games and online banking platforms. TAPAS is being used in more than 500 companies in over 40 countries.

36

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help businesses tap into the vast pool of knowledge in the world of data science, which they say is untapped. They’re building a platform to help data scientists collaborate, share, and build upon their collected insights.

36

2 years ago

A company hoping to save the world from the ills of e-waste. The startup wants to pay people to recycle old electronics.

36

2 years ago

A game that teaches kids about the world’s most successful public companies

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

In a world where millions of people browse the web every day, the average person spends less than 20 minutes on the internet every week.

36

3 years ago

WeWork is the largest shared workspace company in the world, with over $6 billion in funding and over 2 million members. WeWork wants to offer its members a range of services like gyms, cafes, and other add-ons that can help their members live healthier and happier lives.

35

3 years ago

A remote-work startup that helps people get work done from anywhere in the world.

35

2 years ago

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

35

2 years ago

A company that makes smart pens that can record everything you write and draw. The pen is an integrated camera, microphone, and speaker. A company press release described it as “the world’s first smart pen that enables you to capture the world around you.”

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

2 years ago

A lightbulb-changing market intelligence tool, with an iOS and Android app, and an API, where you can get access to “a wealth of data” about the worldwide lightbulb supply market.

34

2 years ago

"The world’s first global, open-source platform for managing the media in your life through a single source."

34

2 years ago

This startup is building a “smart” elevator that can help elderly and disabled people navigate the world around them.

34

2 years ago

A digital archive of the world’s cultural heritage.

34

2 years ago

A startup that’s building a digital identity system for the world’s poorest people. The startup has partners in Kenya and Nigeria.

34

2 years ago

A startup that wants to improve the sharing of knowledge from the world of science and technology. It wants to create a space where scientists and engineers can share their knowledge and discoveries in a way that’s more accessible to the public and the general public.

34

2 years ago

A startup that helps businesses in emerging markets get the most out of their mobile networks and save money. The company says 65% of the world’s internet traffic is mobile, but developing countries are only able to access 20% of that.

33

2 years ago

Future of work startup, with a focus on “automating” and “automating” the world’s jobs.

33

2 years ago

This startup is building a platform for mobile payments in emerging markets. The company says it’s making the world’s poor more prosperous, and has seen $11 million in transactions so far.

33

2 years ago

A microfinance platform for the developing world. It’s working with small businesses in Indonesia to help them track cash flow, debts, etc.

33

2 years ago

A start-up that seeks to provide utilities to the world’s poor and remote with an affordable system that would allow customers to pay a small monthly fee and have access to light, gas, water, and electricity 24/7.

33

2 years ago

This startup is building out a platform that connects people from around the world who want to work from home, with home-based workers. It’s currently working on a product that will allow you to do things like accept online payments, manage your inventory, and manage your home more efficiently.

33

2 years ago

This is a social network for inbound call center sales reps. It’s been used by more than 100,000 reps and is used by 75% of the world’s top 100 companies, including P&G, Coca-Cola and Apple.

32

2 years ago

Founded in 2012, the company is focused on building a platform for people to purchase, share, and sell photos from around the world.

32

2 years ago

A tool that helps nonprofits and other non-profits build campaigning strategies and get supporters around the world engaged in their cause.

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

This startup is taking a page out of the digital book-publishing world and selling ebooks and courses across multiple platforms, including mobile.

32

5 years ago

Idea: A startup for the creative community to buy and sell design content from the world’s best designers

31

2 years ago

A tool that helps people share their work with the world on a website or social media platform.

31

2 years ago

A robot that helps detect non-living objects in the world for things like furniture and flooring.

31

2 years ago

A “self-driving” system that helps people drink more water. A startup that wants to make water more accessible to people in the developing world. A startup that wants to make water more accessible to people in the developing world.

31

2 years ago

A “visual marketplace” for visual design, featuring over 100,000 design assets from designers around the world.

31

5 years ago

Idea: Aims to make it easier to do business in the developing world by removing the human element from contract management The company takes care of the legwork and legal formalities so that companies can do business with foreign suppliers without having to learn the ins and outs of local business processes

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

A platform to connect people across the world to share their skills, ideas, and knowledge.

30

2 years ago

Tendermint is building a new, proof-of-stake consensus algorithm to replace the existing one. Their goal is to make it usable in real-world systems like the cryptocurrency space.

30

2 years ago

A Y Combinator alum who previously built a startup that helps find new clients for software engineers, saying he’s “not sure what the world of business is like” for product marketing.

29

2 years ago

A startup that allows people to connect with a doctor or nurse around the world, at a fraction of the cost of a trip to the U.S.

29

2 years ago

A global marketplace for freelance translators and language schools. The company wants to help companies around the world find talent locally.

29

5 years ago

A startup that makes a mobile app that lets you know what is going on in the world based on your location

28

2 years ago

Paving the way for a new, more efficient way to manage the world’s supply and demand of natural resources. It helps companies like Shell and Unilever track the amount of oil or water they’re using, and what it costs.

28

2 years ago

A platform for online education that is both personalized and tailored to the individual. This is a startup that wants to make learning more social, with courses that can be shared not just among students and their instructors, but also with Facebook friends and the world at large.

28

2 years ago

A startup that wants to bridge the gap between dating apps and the real world. It’s building an app called “I Want You” that lets users select a type of date and then find their perfect match based on users’ preferences.

28

2 years ago

A secure, easy-to-use digital wallet and account for the developing world. The startup, which launched in March, says it has over $1 million in monthly transactions.

28

2 years ago

A global real-time payroll and HR service that’s used by many of the world’s largest companies, including Oracle, Netflix, and Baidu.

28

2 years ago

Using machine learning and artificial intelligence, it aims to build the world’s first “automated” ERP for companies.

27

2 years ago

A startup that wants to bring financial services to the developing world through a mobile app

27

2 years ago

When it comes to video, most of us are content to record and let the world watch. But companies need to have a way to watch the video themselves, too.

27

2 years ago

A company that helps people who are blind or low vision use their devices in a way that meets their needs, and also helps the visually impaired stay engaged in the digital world.

27

2 years ago

A company that wants to grow the world’s most valuable urban farm. They’re a customer acquisition platform that helps businesses find customers.

27

2 years ago

A startup that’s building a “digital library for the world”, enabling any device to access the world’s books and publishing content from the world’s writers.

27

2 years ago

A platform that allows consumers to “make money by sharing their idle computing power with the world”.

27

5 years ago

A startup that allows people to browse a map of the world to help them choose where to go on their next vacation

26

2 years ago

A startup that wants to improve VR’s interaction with the real world by allowing video chat to be as intuitive as a phone call.

26

2 years ago

A video platform that creates videos for its users to “share with the world.”

26

2 years ago

A startup that aims to create a software that helps users take their game-based conversations to a game-based platform. The startup is looking to build a platform where users can interact with others in a virtual world, creating a “world of worlds” that they can interact in.

26

2 years ago

TEDx is a series of independently organized TED-like events held worldwide, featuring local TEDTalks and other TED-like presentations. TEDx events are organized independently and are not affiliated with TED in any way.

26

2 years ago

A 3D printer that prints a layer-by-layer model of a structure, with support structures that can be cut with a laser. The startup says that their first product is the world’s first 3D printed bridge.

26

2 years ago

A new way of looking at the world. The startup wants to use virtual reality to create an interactive experience between humans and machines. And yes, it’s still a startup.

26

2 years ago

A short-term rental platform for small apartments around the world. The startup is currently in beta and working with 30% of the market. It wants to grow into an automation platform that will allow renters to make rental payments, view the unit, and schedule cleanings with software.

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 OpenText of the enterprise management world, this startup is building a platform to help companies manage their entire enterprise in one interface.

25

2 years ago

A group of Canadian entrepreneurs are building a way to let people in multiple countries share a single map of their city. The startup want to let people share their city with others, but most people in the world only have access to maps from their own country.

25

2 years ago

A global conference aimed at helping entrepreneurs from all over the world share and learn from each other.

25

2 years ago

A platform for the development of smart contracts for real world use.

25

2 years ago

A decentralized multi-pool betting platform, where users can bet on sports around the world, and choose when to take their winnings.

25

2 years ago

A free, open, and flexible platform for building experiences that use data to improve the lives of people around the world.

25

5 years ago

Idea: Course builder for the World Economic Forum

24

2 years ago

Uncovering the truth in a data-driven world, with an AI-powered “newsroom” that uses data and text to find the truth in news stories.

24

2 years ago

A targeted retail platform for the world's poorest people. The startup is building out an app that allows people to connect with businesses that match their needs and interests, and will eventually connect with those businesses to automate the sales process. There are over 6 million people in the Amazon that don't have access to healthcare, and the team says that it can help improve health outcomes by empowering them to take control of their health.

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

This startup helps doctors in third world countries gather the right information and make the right health recommendations.

24

2 years ago

This startup wants to use AI to find and predict the next “groundbreaking” scientific discovery. The company wants to bring researchers from all over the world together to solve big problems, and has already attracted more than 1,000 researchers to its platform.

24

2 years ago

A startup that allows users to create and publish a virtual “book” of story ideas, which they can then delegate to creative professionals to turn into a reality. Upload your idea, and it’s instantly available to a team of creatives around the world.

24

2 years ago

A live video conference platform that allows users to broadcast their video directly to their audience, and then watch that live video from anywhere in the world.

23

2 years ago

A “GPS-enabled” app that connects riders to nearby bikeshare stations, giving them access to bikes and unlocking a whole new world of transportation options.

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

A crowdsourced model for hiring world-class experts, which they are leveraging to help companies outsource knowledge work.

23

2 years ago

A company that wants to help save the world by making more efficient use of water. It’s taking a similar approach to companies like Nest by offering up a system that’s able to sense when your faucet has been left on for too long and automatically turns it off.

23

2 years ago

A startup that makes it easier to find out what’s happening in the world and what you should be paying attention to.

23

2 years ago

This startup wants to build the world’s best bike share network, with coverage in 20 cities in the US and Europe.

23

2 years ago

The growth of tech startups in the Latin American region is driven by a number of factors, such as its young and growing population, the lack of a franchise restriction, and the lack of protectionist measures. Local politicians in some of the world’s smallest and most impoverished countries are eager to encourage the growth of technology startups.

23

2 years ago

A company that sells a verification system for business licenses. The startup is focused on helping businesses around the world keep track of their licenses and permits.

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

A company in the midst of building what they call “the world’s first decentralized, trustless, and scalable blockchain.”

22

2 years ago

A company that wants to help you find your lost phone. The startup aims to use its app to scan the world’s communications infrastructure for any phone-based communication, and helps locate it.

22

2 years ago

A startup working to transition the world to electric cars. It wants to lower the cost of the electric car by offering a “powerpack” that can charge two cars at once via a vehicle that takes only 30 minutes to charge.

22

2 years ago

A blockchain project that wants to solve the problem of counterfeit pharmaceuticals in the developing world. The company wants to make it easier for consumers to buy pharmaceuticals online.

21

2 years ago

It’s on a mission to connect the world’s 2.5 billion “smart fridges” to the internet.

21

2 years ago

A company that helps the world’s largest brands use data to provide better customer experiences.

21

2 years ago

A company that helps organizations on their journey to becoming carbon neutral. The startup has worked with over 1,500 organizations from all over the world, and has helped them achieve carbon neutrality.

21

2 years ago

Connecting the worlds of finance, accounting and payments.

21

2 years ago

A startup that aims to bring online payments to the world's remotest places by helping establish cash-based systems that can be adapted to remote locations.

21

2 years ago

A tool for the world’s largest subscription box company that uses live video from the studio to show customers exactly what they’ll get in their box.

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 tool that aims to help users manage their time better by creating a “project” for each thing they want to accomplish. The startup is targeting the corporate world with a tool for tracking hours and goals.

20

2 years ago

A startup that wants to use blockchain to help companies track the movements of their products across the world.

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 startup that shares reports on the health of the world’s coral reefs, using satellite data. They’re currently focused on Africa.

19

2 years ago

A software development platform and marketplace for businesses to find and hire remote developers from around the world.

19

2 years ago

Layers is a startup that comes from the world of pastels, building a tool that allows artists to easily apply pastel washes and other colors to the web.

19

2 years ago

A three-year-old startup that’s working to build a “worldwide, interoperable, decentralized, secure and privacy-protected digital identity system”.

19

2 years ago

A startup that helps brands create video content by letting them collect images and videos from all over the world to be used in their own branded content.

19

2 years ago

The startup will bring a new type of “social lending” model to the world, where businesses can raise capital by selling equity instead of debt.

19

2 years ago

A startup that connects the world’s biggest economies to span their trade, enabling everyone to do business with everyone.

19

2 years ago

Launched in May 2010, Y Combinator has been the primary source of funding for many of the most successful startup companies in Silicon Valley. The program has been called "the most prestigious startup accelerator in the world".

19

2 years ago

A B2B game that helps companies create long-term growth strategies by simulating the effects of real-world scenarios, such as a hackathon.

18

2 years ago

a tech company that wants to build a bridge between the virtual and physical worlds. The company wants to create a "virtual world" that allows users to observe their physical surroundings in a seamless way.

18

2 years ago

The world’s most successful startup for building an email marketing platform.

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

A “sales and marketing automation” platform for B2B companies. It’s especially focused on selling software, and is built for the B2B SaaS world.

17

2 years ago

"The world’s first free, no-cost, no-commitment, user-friendly, no-nonsense, no-hassle platform for finding and hiring top talent, managers, executives and CEOs for your business."

17

2 years ago

A startup that tries to make the world a more supportive place for entrepreneurs. The startup helps entrepreneurs get feedback from their team by creating a “feedback grid” that allows them to see what their co-workers think.

17

2 years ago

A multiplayer online game where players can experience the world of farming. The game is built on a virtual farm and allows players to learn about the different aspects of agriculture to help them become better farmers. The game allows users to go from beginner to expert so they can save their money.

17

2 years ago

The company aims to bring digital-only merchants to the physical world with a “smart vending machine”.

16

2 years ago

The startup is building a TeamViewer-like service for teachers, allowing them to remotely control devices from anywhere in the world

16

2 years ago

This project aims to bring the benefits of machine learning to the classroom and classrooms worldwide.

16

2 years ago

A software that lets people connect and collaborate around the things they own. The startup is building an app that lets you share and sell your stuff to others around the world.

16

2 years ago

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

16

2 years ago

A platform to connect and leverage people across the world to work together on projects, without them having to physically meet each other.

16

2 years ago

A startup that collects emails from around the world, and makes them available to anyone with an email address. The startup says it can help people discover new friends, gain access to new skills, and connect with potential customers or partners.

16

2 years ago

A platform that allows people to record the world around them in 360 degrees for consumption on various devices, including VR

16

5 years ago

Idea: This startup wants to be a “home away from home” for entrepreneurs who are looking to build their startups around the world The startup is building a platform for digital nomads, with features like work pods, coworking spaces and events They currently have 10 employees, and have raised $15M from an undisclosed VC

15

2 years ago

A company that wants to help the fashion industry with its supply chain and tracking problems. According to the startup, the fashion industry is the most opaque industry in the world.

15

2 years ago

A group that unites musicians from around the world to create and sell original music.

15

2 years ago

A digital, crowdsourced directory of everything in the world, from government documents to digital files

15

2 years ago

A global network for people interested in developing startups. It’s a first-of-its kind online platform that connects people from all over the world and helps them get together to learn, exchange ideas, and network.

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

A startup for buying second-hand goods from sellers around the world.

14

2 years ago

A company that “connects the world’s best content creators with a new audience of millions of people who love video,” according to their website.

14

2 years ago

This is an app that helps those looking to get a mortgage start the process earlier. It’s a way to bridge the gap between the types of mortgage you can get with a personal banker and the ones you can get in the cold, hard world of banks.

13

2 years ago

A private, secure, encrypted messaging service for people who don’t want their conversations to be shared with the world. It’s already using the same technology that lets you send encrypted emails.

13

2 years ago

On-demand, on-demand, on-demand. That is the mantra of a startup called Flexport, which helps companies send cargo across the world on the cheapest available route.

13

2 years ago

A new way to search for and evaluate data center space around the world.

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

OpenLedger is focused on the Russian and Chinese markets, with the goal of getting rid of the major middlemen and offering the most transparent cryptocurrency trading experience in the world.

11

2 years ago

A set of apps that make it easier for those in the entertainment industry to collect and manage their royalties. Currently working with 2,100 artists across the world.

11

2 years ago

A startup that helps companies drive real-world results by allowing them to visualize and engage with their customers and employees in real time.

11

2 years ago

A startup that helps consumers around the world to find local, independent retailers for their favorite items, whether it’s a pet or a piece of clothing.

10

2 years ago

A company that makes a video game called "Rotten Kingdom" that sends players to a post-apocalyptic world to fight monsters and collect resources.

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

Wyldtech was founded by John Smith in 2013. The company has won multiple awards and has worked with some of the biggest brands in the world, including General Electric, Cisco and Hasbro.

9

2 years ago

A SaaS platform for retailers that lets them capture data from the real world to drive sales.

9

5 years ago

Idea: This corporate wellness startup is building a platform that lets companies and their employees take their fitness out of the gym and into the world. Their first product, a smart wearable that tracks your steps and other activities, is currently being beta tested in the Bay Area.

5

5 years ago

Idea: A mobile ad network for the developing world

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5 years ago

Idea: World's first marketplace for insurance companies

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5 years ago

Idea: The world’s easiest way to build and ship mobile apps

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5 years ago

Idea: A WebVR world generator written in Haskell

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5 years ago

Idea: The world’s first self-hosted JavaScript IDE

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5 years ago

Idea: A platform for realtors to outsource some of their tasks to virtual assistants from around the world

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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

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5 years ago

Idea: A Google for the developing world — a voice-controlled search tool that provides all the same functionality as Google, but in a way that works for people who

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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

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that enables people to track and record their eating habits It is currently used by thousands of people around the world

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that wants to bring data-driven insights to the human resources world.

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps people with mobility issues navigate the world. It’s a website that aggregates all the information you might need to find a public restroom or get to a destination nearby

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5 years ago

A startuplication for helping the visually impaired navigate the physical world.

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A startup that wants to bring personalized tutoring to the world’s most remote regions, including rural India.

Idea: A platform for connecting students with mentors from the world's top universities

A team of designers that makes beautiful things for the world.

A digital native bank that lets you deposit and withdraw money from anywhere in the world.

This startup aims to help people around the world donate their excess stuff to the needy. The startup helps people donate excess stuff to those in need by finding charities that accept donations.

A network of tutors across the world that get paid per student, with students able to take lessons from anyone.

A startup that collects data on the world’s 4.5 billion-odd cellphones and builds a giant map of their locations with all the phone data available.

A messaging app that helps people in the UK and Europe communicate with those in the UK, Europe, or the rest of the world.

Build a database of every tree in the world, using satellite imagery.

A company that makes a tiny camera for cell phones that can see around corners and capture 1080p video. The startup says it’s making a better m18, one of the most popular cameras in the world.

“Together, dreamers and doers can do more than ever before.” It’s a “startup for humanity” that wants to provide rapid solutions that “help change the world for the better”

This startup is building a platform for American farmers to sell their goods to consumers worldwide. The startup aims to use a mix of digital store fronts and technology to deliver to consumers in countries like India and China, where the rural population has been growing.

A decentralized worldwide marketplace where members can buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrencies.

A startup for finding and reserving gyms, as well as a digital membership card. The startup wants to be the world’s first digital gym, using an app to track and manage memberships.

This is a water purification company that wants to provide clean, safe drinking water to poor people in the developing world.

A startup that wants to help you save money on your toilet paper, but also wants to be the company to make the best toilet paper in the world.

A software company delivering software to keep track of the world’s trash.

A startup that wants to help schools, libraries, and museums share their books and other media with the wider world via the web.

A global marketplace for local goods that requires zero inventory or storage costs. The startup says it can deliver goods from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world within 48 hours.

A way to help teams manage their work from any location across the world.

“An online platform that provides the opportunity to discover and hire top talent from around the world. They are already generating $4 million in annual revenue with a team of 8.”

A startup that builds "the world’s first decentralized, open source, student portal.” Its goal is to connect students around the world to their professors through a global network of university digital classrooms.

A company that specializes in developing innovative products to help the visually-impaired. The company has developed a range of solutions to help blind users interact with the world around them.

A new way to buy and sell items in the world of cryptocurrencies

A new startup that wants to make the world’s smallest USB hub, allowing users to plug in multiple USB devices (keyboards, monitors, etc) into a single port

A company that tries to make the world's best artificial intelligence-powered chatbot.

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

A credit card designed for use in the developing world that charges low interest rates and has lower transaction fees.

A company that makes a comprehensive, searchable database of the world’s universities.

A blockchain-based solution for streaming Chinese TV to the world

A news application that focuses on sports games and the sports world.

This is “a healthcare startup for the world’s largest democracy” – India. It aims to help patients get their prescriptions filled at the lowest prices possible, and is already working with several pharmaceutical companies in India for a $3 million revenue run rate.

SaaS business that provides a platform for companies to manage their payments and invoices from anywhere in the world.

A “social network for the professional dog groomers in the world”, allowing them to connect with customers and each other.

A startup that is building a platform to help the two billion people in the world who don't have access to the Internet or smartphones.

A book about the startup world, due out in October 2019.

a social network for people who want to learn about the world. The startup has over 100,000 users, and now has clients in the US, Europe, China, and India.

A software platform that lets brands communicate with marketing departments around the world — making workflows easier and more cost-effective.

The startup wants to bring the cloud to the world of physical data. It claims it can build a data warehouse out of any physical machine in the world — even from a broken down machine.

A startup that lets you track your mileage on a car, bike, or moped. It’s like a mileage tracker but for the world’s most commonly owned modes of transportation.

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

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

6,000 employees worldwide use this company’s service to connect with, and manage, their boss’s calendars.

The world’s first interactive robot taxidermist. It combines 3D scanning technology and a robotic arm to automatically fuse together a stuffed creature out of real animal parts. The startup says the process is simple for consumers to use, and can be done from their homes.

A mobile-first, web-first platform for capturing and analyzing the decisions of consumers on-the-go. The platform allows consumers to share their personal data with brands, streamlining the process of capturing data from the real world, and making it actionable.

A software company that powers the world’s largest video sharing platform. The startup helps users watch videos on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and others. It has over 2 billion daily active users.

A startup that wants to make “banking for the world’s poor” easier by providing access to financial services.

This startup is building a “cloud” of data centers around the world, so that the data center closest to the user is the most reliable. It’s similar to Amazon Web Services, but more localized.

A database of all the world’s public companies, which includes their stock market valuation and most recent transactions.

It’s a game for the modern age. It’s a fully 3D world that feels like a “world of computer generated reality.”

An online platform for hiring and managing temps. The company wants to be the platform that bring together the world of temp agencies and temps to make it easier for employers and employees.

A tool to help people find out what’s going on in the world, or what’s happening around them.

A calendar for the corporate world.

A software company that makes “tools that help the world’s leading brands and agencies build and run their multi-channel customer engagement programs.”

A startup that sells Android phones in bulk to the developing world

A digital currency for the global market. It’s first product is a stablecoin for local currency payments in the US and across the world.

This startup wants to bring the vision of autonomous cars to the world of batteries and energy.

Big Data maps the world’s food. The startup analyzes agricultural data in real time to help farmers make more informed decisions about which crops to grow, where to plant them, and when to sell them.

A platform for helping the developing world manage the increasingly important issue of climate change.

This startup wants to make it easier for people to create their own videos, with the goal of helping them share their stories with the world. The platform can be integrated into other services or used standalone, and has a number of corporate customers including the likes of Airbnb.

A platform that lets you explore the world’s top events, including tickets, business deals, and travel itineraries.

This company is building technology that combines the best practices of the world’s ride-sharing companies into a single platform.

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.

A platform to help employees and startups navigate the legal complexities of the corporate world.

A startup that aims to be the Wikipedia of the veterinary industry, by building a community for vets across the world.

A startup that is working on a location-based ad platform. Their pitch is that they are the only ones building a smart ad stack that works across all channels, including the web, apps, and the physical world.

A platform to help the world’s refugees find homes. It’s currently in beta.

This startup is building an “interactive map of the world” and wants to be the Uber of mapping.

A startup that helps engineers manage the full lifecycle of their software projects. It’s a B2B SaaS platform serving developers worldwide.

A SaaS platform that uses machine learning to optimize lead generation. The startup’s customers include Monster Worldwide, the world’s largest job site, and the US’s largest insurance company.

A startup that is a search engine for the world's best creative work.

QuickBooks for the cryptocurrency world

• 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.

A startup that makes it cheap and easy to order products from around the world

A new company changing how people think about the world.

An online platform for buying and selling tech products. The startup says it’s the only tech company in the physical world, allowing people to buy tech products from other tech people.

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.