Young Startup Ideas

2 years ago

A startup that helps students and other young professionals find other people their age who want to live together

3,141

1 month ago

This startup is building a platform for young people to build their own applications on top of its API, without having to learn programming.

1,080

2 years ago

A startup that helps young job candidates get a sense of what’s going on within the company they’re applying to so they can tailor their cover letter and resume toward what’s expected.

304

2 years ago

A platform for young adults to take a break from college and earn money.

240

11 months ago

A company that will provide sexual health education to young people in developing countries.

211

1 year ago

A life insurance company that’s trying to make it easier for young, vibrant people to buy life insurance.

178

2 years ago

A travel site for teens and young adults.

154

2 years ago

This startup is building a money-making product for the younger generation.

154

2 years ago

The concept of the accelerator is a young one, with the first accelerator programs emerging in the late 1990s in Silicon Valley and New York. In general, accelerators help startups get off the ground, providing capital, mentorship, and networking opportunities.

143

2 years ago

A web platform “for young people to start their own businesses.”

138

1 year ago

A team of young data scientists who are building a platform to help companies build digital tools to make their customers’ lives easier.

136

2 years ago

A digital platform that helps young professionals find a way of earning extra income while also spending time with their families.

134

1 year ago

This app is building a vast community of builders. The startup’s goal is to make building fun again, for young people, who are driving the construction industry.

130

1 year ago

A social news app for young people aimed at boosting the career prospects of teen journalists.

129

2 years ago

A startup that aims to make online payments seamless for millennials and other young people who are not interested in traditional banking It is now part of PayPal

127

2 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.

126

2 years ago

A community for young adults that wants to help them get into finance and grow their careers.

125

2 years ago

An online dating platform for young people that focuses on their education and career. The company wants to normalize youth dating by making it easier and more attractive to have a career as well as a dating life.

124

2 years ago

A chat app for the former French colony in West Africa, the Ivory Coast. It was launched in August 2015 and has already built up a following among young people.

121

2 years ago

Young startup that’s building a self-driving, electric semi-truck. Traveling 80 miles on one charge, the truck is meant to be used for local deliveries.

121

2 years ago

A portfolio app for young entrepreneurs, giving them a place to showcase their work by way of a digital portfolio.

119

2 years ago

A startup that is building a SaaS platform for young people to find jobs on college campuses. The company is using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to help students and employers connect.

115

2 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.

111

2 years ago

The soft-spoken CEO of Young Living believes that as the industry gains more attention, it will lose the stigma it once had — and that “the stigma will fall like a rock”.

108

9 months ago

A startup for young children with autism, helping them improve their social skills and communication.

107

2 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.

104

2 years ago

A health insurance alternative for young adults. It’s a $1 per month plan that is affordable and has low out of pocket costs for patients.

102

2 years ago

A group of young filmmakers with a collective vision to build a film studio from the ground up, and will use the Y Combinator seed money to hire a chief operating officer and other staff to help them do it.

100

2 years ago

The company aims to be a “banking for millennials” that offers high-yield savings accounts. It’s a way for younger consumers to build their savings without having to pay a premium for the privilege.

97

2 years ago

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

96

2 years ago

A home rental platform. The startup wants to let people rent out their homes. It’s a very young company, so it’s not clear how they’ll get the number of renters needed to make a dent in the real estate market.

93

2 years ago

A product that aims to change the way people save for retirement. Its main product is a small savings account for younger people, with a plan that pays out a percentage of future earnings.

93

2 years ago

A team of young women who are building an artificial intelligence system to help teachers teach students.

92

10 months ago

The startup is building a set of tools for HR managers to manage the hiring and onboarding process, including emailing candidates and scheduling interviews. It’s a small and young startup based in Somerville, MA, with a 13-person team.

92

2 years ago

A space for young entrepreneurs to share and develop their ideas.

85

1 year ago

A video messaging platform for young people, with the goal of connecting users to one another for relationships, friendship, and dating.

70

1 year ago

A product designed for students and young professionals, where one can send a request for a meeting, and the other can respond with a time and place. The company was founded in March, and is working on a handful of deals in Silicon Valley for the product.

68

1 year ago

A startup that wants to give young adults a place to nurture their entrepreneurial spirit. The company looks to bring together startups and would-be entrepreneurs to help them make the leap.

68

1 year ago

A platform that connects young entrepreneurs with mentors and customers. The startup works with businesses in the creative sector, and has worked with other startups including Airbnb and Coinbase.

68

4 months ago

A messaging app for young people, trying to eliminate the need for a smartphone in order to communicate.

68

10 months ago

A network of young designers who use their own personal resources to make a product that can be sold online. The company offers a “design-to-order” service for consumers, who can choose from a number of product options, including customization of colors, fabrics, and packaging.

64

1 year ago

The company makes a point of celebrating the diversity of its employees, regardless of background. They’re relatively young — the company is the youngest in YC to go from demo day to $1 million in revenue — and more than half of the team is female.

63

1 year ago

A personal finance management tool for young entrepreneurs. It helps users track their net worth, investments, and expenses, and is compatible with any financial product.

63

1 year ago

This is an investment platform for young early-stage companies to raise money. Menlo Park-based Platform Capital is investing in 10 startups at a time and is launching a $10 million fund this summer.

61

2 months ago

A social network that hopes to attract the same sort of younger users that have been flocking to Yik Yak, but with a more conventional design.

59

1 year ago

A company that helps startups and young companies find talent and talent management.

58

10 months 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.

56

22 days ago

A startup providing financial planning and budgeting services for “millennials”, with a focus on students and young professionals.

56

1 year ago

In these polls, the respondents were asked to pick the most innovative young companies in San Francisco Bay Area.

53

1 year ago

A tool that helps students plan their courses and track their progress, with a focus on younger students.

52

11 months ago

A platform that lets parents of young children create a detailed daily schedule and itinerary of activities, with the ability to share it with the child's caretaker(s). The idea is to allow parents to be more hands-off and focus on the more important things in life: the kids and dinner.

52

5 months ago

A startup that aims to help young people learn to code by teaching them to build games. The startup’s app allows kids to build games directly on the iPad.

51

1 year ago

A recruitment app that helps young professionals find jobs. Based in the UK, the company is working with employers to help them recruit young talent.

50

1 year ago

A digital library and museum in the cloud that brings history to life for young students and their families.

49

1 year ago

Young people will be able to use blockchain to help them share data and communicate.

49

8 months 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.

49

7 months ago

A platform that helps companies and brands market to young people aged 12-18.

48

1 year ago

A startup that provides weekly financial planning and budgeting for young adults

47

1 year ago

The startup is building a digitally-connected community for young professionals, with the goal of helping them get and keep jobs. The idea is that the startup will be able to offer its services to companies that aren’t able to offer labor to millennials, like construction companies.

45

5 months ago

A type of food delivery that promises to deliver to your door in under 30 minutes. It’s building a mobile app to target college students and young professionals who want to order a pizza, but hate waiting around in line.

43

1 year ago

The founders of this startup have been working on a mobile-first platform since 2010. Now they’re building a mobile-only social network focused on young urban professionals.

41

8 months ago

This startup is building an open source platform for young people to learn to code. The startup is based in Mountain View, California.

41

2 years ago

Idea: A mobile app trying to solve the ‘rejection’ problem that young students face when applying for jobs and internships A person can apply for jobs via the app and be notified if they’re not qualified, but it’s aimed at helping young people get over the shame of being rejected

40

10 months ago

Form is a way to make payments online, with a focus on making it easy to use. It’s a web-based service that allows people to pay their bills online, with a focus on people who are still too young to have a credit card.

40

6 months ago

A robo-advisor for youngsters to help them save for an education.

40

2 months ago

A social network for women in the US and India that helps young women find the role models they want, speak to them, organize group events and share stories.

40

1 year ago

A mobile app that offers a “micro-budgeting” service for young entrepreneurs.

39

5 months ago

A platform that matches young entrepreneurs with investors. Currently focused on Southeast Asia.

37

7 months ago

This is a startup that lets people rent out their homes in a similar fashion to Airbnb. The startup’s CEO, Will Yang, was recently named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list of rising young entrepreneurs.

35

1 month ago

This startup builds digital credentials for teens and young adults at risk of dropping out of high school, aiming to help them learn essential skills like reading and math, improve their confidence, and help them graduate. It’s being used in Washington D.C. and in schools in the Bronx.

35

18 days ago

A permission-based, ad-free social network for young people.

33

11 months ago

A brand new startup, not on YC, that focuses on providing toys to families with young children.

32

23 days ago

They’re building an app that connects members of the millennial generation to local restaurants, bringing a way to connect younger workers to their first jobs.

32

7 months ago

A new social media platform that aims to reach the younger generations with a spoof of an old-school blog that lets users create posts, track them, and read them in real time.

30

1 month ago

A young company that wants to build a platform that allows phone calls to be “re-routed” to a different number.

29

6 months ago

An online real estate marketplace in Argentina with a focus on young buyers and sellers. The startup’s founders have local names, and say they’ve already had over 40,000 unique visitors per month.

27

5 months ago

A funding platform for young companies, pitching itself as a startup investment club.

26

6 months ago

An online-only financial planning service for young professionals. It charges $10 per month, and provides a set of tools to help young people prepare for their first home purchases.

25

2 years ago

A startup that provides affordable vehicle insurance to people under 25. The startup wants to become the go-to resource for young drivers and disrupt the current auto insurance industry which targets only the high-risk demographic.

3

2 years ago

A startup that is a service for businesses to hire young people from poor countries to do web design and website maintenance

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2 years ago

Idea: Our solution is a device for the living room that uses machine learning to capture the attention of kids and young adults, while at the same time, it also monitors and protects them The device allows parents to stream media to the TV, including YouTube and Netflix, while also monitoring TV time and detecting any inappropriate content

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Young Startup Ideas

A startup that helps students and other young professionals find other people their age who want to live together

This startup is building a platform for young people to build their own applications on top of its API, without having to learn programming.

A startup that helps young job candidates get a sense of what’s going on within the company they’re applying to so they can tailor their cover letter and resume toward what’s expected.

A platform for young adults to take a break from college and earn money.

A company that will provide sexual health education to young people in developing countries.

A life insurance company that’s trying to make it easier for young, vibrant people to buy life insurance.

A travel site for teens and young adults.

This startup is building a money-making product for the younger generation.

The concept of the accelerator is a young one, with the first accelerator programs emerging in the late 1990s in Silicon Valley and New York. In general, accelerators help startups get off the ground, providing capital, mentorship, and networking opportunities.

A web platform “for young people to start their own businesses.”

A team of young data scientists who are building a platform to help companies build digital tools to make their customers’ lives easier.

A digital platform that helps young professionals find a way of earning extra income while also spending time with their families.

This app is building a vast community of builders. The startup’s goal is to make building fun again, for young people, who are driving the construction industry.

A social news app for young people aimed at boosting the career prospects of teen journalists.

A startup that aims to make online payments seamless for millennials and other young people who are not interested in traditional banking It is now part of PayPal

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.

A community for young adults that wants to help them get into finance and grow their careers.

An online dating platform for young people that focuses on their education and career. The company wants to normalize youth dating by making it easier and more attractive to have a career as well as a dating life.

A chat app for the former French colony in West Africa, the Ivory Coast. It was launched in August 2015 and has already built up a following among young people.

Young startup that’s building a self-driving, electric semi-truck. Traveling 80 miles on one charge, the truck is meant to be used for local deliveries.

A portfolio app for young entrepreneurs, giving them a place to showcase their work by way of a digital portfolio.

A startup that is building a SaaS platform for young people to find jobs on college campuses. The company is using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to help students and employers connect.

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.

The soft-spoken CEO of Young Living believes that as the industry gains more attention, it will lose the stigma it once had — and that “the stigma will fall like a rock”.

A startup for young children with autism, helping them improve their social skills and communication.

A health insurance alternative for young adults. It’s a $1 per month plan that is affordable and has low out of pocket costs for patients.

A group of young filmmakers with a collective vision to build a film studio from the ground up, and will use the Y Combinator seed money to hire a chief operating officer and other staff to help them do it.

The company aims to be a “banking for millennials” that offers high-yield savings accounts. It’s a way for younger consumers to build their savings without having to pay a premium for the privilege.

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

A home rental platform. The startup wants to let people rent out their homes. It’s a very young company, so it’s not clear how they’ll get the number of renters needed to make a dent in the real estate market.

A product that aims to change the way people save for retirement. Its main product is a small savings account for younger people, with a plan that pays out a percentage of future earnings.

A team of young women who are building an artificial intelligence system to help teachers teach students.

The startup is building a set of tools for HR managers to manage the hiring and onboarding process, including emailing candidates and scheduling interviews. It’s a small and young startup based in Somerville, MA, with a 13-person team.

A space for young entrepreneurs to share and develop their ideas.

A video messaging platform for young people, with the goal of connecting users to one another for relationships, friendship, and dating.

A product designed for students and young professionals, where one can send a request for a meeting, and the other can respond with a time and place. The company was founded in March, and is working on a handful of deals in Silicon Valley for the product.

A startup that wants to give young adults a place to nurture their entrepreneurial spirit. The company looks to bring together startups and would-be entrepreneurs to help them make the leap.

A platform that connects young entrepreneurs with mentors and customers. The startup works with businesses in the creative sector, and has worked with other startups including Airbnb and Coinbase.

A messaging app for young people, trying to eliminate the need for a smartphone in order to communicate.

A network of young designers who use their own personal resources to make a product that can be sold online. The company offers a “design-to-order” service for consumers, who can choose from a number of product options, including customization of colors, fabrics, and packaging.

The company makes a point of celebrating the diversity of its employees, regardless of background. They’re relatively young — the company is the youngest in YC to go from demo day to $1 million in revenue — and more than half of the team is female.

A personal finance management tool for young entrepreneurs. It helps users track their net worth, investments, and expenses, and is compatible with any financial product.

This is an investment platform for young early-stage companies to raise money. Menlo Park-based Platform Capital is investing in 10 startups at a time and is launching a $10 million fund this summer.

A social network that hopes to attract the same sort of younger users that have been flocking to Yik Yak, but with a more conventional design.

A company that helps startups and young companies find talent and talent management.

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.

A startup providing financial planning and budgeting services for “millennials”, with a focus on students and young professionals.

In these polls, the respondents were asked to pick the most innovative young companies in San Francisco Bay Area.

A tool that helps students plan their courses and track their progress, with a focus on younger students.

A platform that lets parents of young children create a detailed daily schedule and itinerary of activities, with the ability to share it with the child's caretaker(s). The idea is to allow parents to be more hands-off and focus on the more important things in life: the kids and dinner.

A startup that aims to help young people learn to code by teaching them to build games. The startup’s app allows kids to build games directly on the iPad.

A recruitment app that helps young professionals find jobs. Based in the UK, the company is working with employers to help them recruit young talent.

A digital library and museum in the cloud that brings history to life for young students and their families.

Young people will be able to use blockchain to help them share data and communicate.

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.

A platform that helps companies and brands market to young people aged 12-18.

A startup that provides weekly financial planning and budgeting for young adults

The startup is building a digitally-connected community for young professionals, with the goal of helping them get and keep jobs. The idea is that the startup will be able to offer its services to companies that aren’t able to offer labor to millennials, like construction companies.

A type of food delivery that promises to deliver to your door in under 30 minutes. It’s building a mobile app to target college students and young professionals who want to order a pizza, but hate waiting around in line.

The founders of this startup have been working on a mobile-first platform since 2010. Now they’re building a mobile-only social network focused on young urban professionals.

This startup is building an open source platform for young people to learn to code. The startup is based in Mountain View, California.

Idea: A mobile app trying to solve the ‘rejection’ problem that young students face when applying for jobs and internships A person can apply for jobs via the app and be notified if they’re not qualified, but it’s aimed at helping young people get over the shame of being rejected

Form is a way to make payments online, with a focus on making it easy to use. It’s a web-based service that allows people to pay their bills online, with a focus on people who are still too young to have a credit card.

A robo-advisor for youngsters to help them save for an education.

A social network for women in the US and India that helps young women find the role models they want, speak to them, organize group events and share stories.

A mobile app that offers a “micro-budgeting” service for young entrepreneurs.

A platform that matches young entrepreneurs with investors. Currently focused on Southeast Asia.

This is a startup that lets people rent out their homes in a similar fashion to Airbnb. The startup’s CEO, Will Yang, was recently named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list of rising young entrepreneurs.

This startup builds digital credentials for teens and young adults at risk of dropping out of high school, aiming to help them learn essential skills like reading and math, improve their confidence, and help them graduate. It’s being used in Washington D.C. and in schools in the Bronx.

A permission-based, ad-free social network for young people.

A brand new startup, not on YC, that focuses on providing toys to families with young children.

They’re building an app that connects members of the millennial generation to local restaurants, bringing a way to connect younger workers to their first jobs.

A new social media platform that aims to reach the younger generations with a spoof of an old-school blog that lets users create posts, track them, and read them in real time.

A young company that wants to build a platform that allows phone calls to be “re-routed” to a different number.

An online real estate marketplace in Argentina with a focus on young buyers and sellers. The startup’s founders have local names, and say they’ve already had over 40,000 unique visitors per month.

A funding platform for young companies, pitching itself as a startup investment club.

An online-only financial planning service for young professionals. It charges $10 per month, and provides a set of tools to help young people prepare for their first home purchases.