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4 years ago

A company that wants to help members of the LGBTQ community and other minorities get affordable health insurance. HealthForceOne has been in the market for almost a year, with a client list that includes the New York City Department of Health and the LGBT Center.

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5 years ago

A way to help human resources departments get a better picture of how workers are doing and whether they are happy in their jobs. The startup is looking to help HR departments with new tools to reduce turnover and better focus on employee retention.

271

4 years ago

A new online service for monitoring food safety by connecting restaurants to their city’s local health department, so they can get regular reminders about things like food safety.

217

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

A startup that makes it easy for small businesses to use a centralized accounting system to keep track of their finances. Redbooth is designed to be a tool for small businesses that don’t have an accounting department and may not have even started keeping track of their finances yet.

195

5 years ago

A software platform that helps human resources departments manage their employees' healthcare.

190

4 years ago

A government-backed startup that analyzes data from the Boston Police Department’s body cameras and uses those statistics to help police departments across the country innovate their own policies around body cameras.

185

4 years ago

Another B2B company that wants to help companies and their HR departments manage benefits for employees.

178

4 years ago

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

171

5 years ago

An IoT service that helps hospitals track and monitor patient care across different departments.

170

2 years ago

A cloud-based solution for HR departments to manage contracts that manage travel schedules for their employees.

170

5 years ago

A team from Stanford University’s Computer Science Department is building an app to help college students study and stay on track. The app is meant to help students learn by learning with others, while also helping the company recruit more students.

169

4 years ago

Software that is designed to make it easier to use the state's Department of Motor Vehicles

169

5 years ago

A startup that wants to repurpose drones to help monitor traffic patterns and street corners for the police, fire department and other public safety agencies.

168

5 years ago

This startup is building an app that connects farmers with their local food bank. The farmers will use the app to schedule deliveries of food, and the food bank will use the app to get the food delivered to their warehouse. The startup is building the platform with the help of a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

162

5 years ago

A startup that helps companies create quick spreadsheets for their different departments

162

5 years ago

A way to monitor, measure and prevent “cybercrime”. The startup is currently being used by the United States Department of Defense to fight cybercrime.

159

2 years ago

A startup focused on helping firms with in-house legal departments with disputes

159

5 years ago

This startup offers an “unbiased” way to tell which colleges are the best for a student based on his or her preferences. The company uses data from the U.S. Department of Education to compare institutions based on various metrics like peer competition and graduation rates.

155

5 years ago

A platform for businesses to manage their HR — hiring, payroll, training, and more — from the cloud. The company’s pitch is that the platform can be used by all kinds of businesses, not just HR departments.

155

5 years ago

A tool for companies to manage their various customer support departments. The company has been around for a few years and is active in the UK marketplace.

155

5 years ago

A B2B software product for companies that manage and maintain their IT and IT-enabled departments.

155

5 years ago

This startup wants to make it easier for emergency departments to synchronize patient data with EHRs. They want to make it easier for patients to access their records in an emergency.

154

5 years ago

A joint project of the US Department of Agriculture and the National Park Service, which is trying to create a mobile payment system for parks.

154

5 years ago

A tool that helps HR departments streamline hiring.

154

5 years ago

A digital agency that helps companies manage their social media, PR, and digital marketing. The startup is aiming to tackle the gap between everyday businesses and the marketing departments that need to manage them.

151

5 years ago

Data analytics and visualization platform for high school and college level teams and departments.

150

2 years ago

A company that enables companies to make decisions about their employees by measuring the impact of their work. The startup is building a tool for HR departments looking to get a better picture of how their employees are performing.

148

5 years ago

Ride-sharing for the elderly. The startup is working on a ride-sharing service for seniors, called Seniorly. The company is also in talks with the US Department of Transportation to develop a pilot program for a level of autonomous driving.

144

5 years ago

A startup that builds a data analysis system for the US Department of Defense. The company's software helps the military keep track of weapons, ships, and personnel.

144

5 years ago

A company that lets the corporate legal department take direct control of hiring, firing, and training new employees.

144

3 years ago

A cloud based CRM for small to medium sized enterprises. The startup is building a platform to help sales and marketing departments keep track of sales leads, contracts, customers and projects.

144

5 years ago

Loose talk among friends and coworkers about work and life. You can learn a lot about people by what they’re discussing, and what they’re saying is more than just idle chatter. This startup wants to make that sort of content available to employers and HR departments.

142

5 years ago

A B2B platform that serves the needs of HR and finance departments to manage their rosters and payrolls.

142

5 years ago

A tool for companies to execute marketing campaigns in an automated fashion, with the ability to tell the marketing department what to do and what to ignore when it comes to email program design. Idea is also originally a software company, but now a marketing software company.

141

5 years ago

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

141

3 years ago

A software platform that helps employers, recruiters and IT departments find job candidates. The company is working with Y Combinator in addition to startups.

141

5 years ago

A startup that provides people with a way to connect with coworkers/colleagues in other departments

136

4 years ago

A B2B company that builds a platform for sales departments to build sales forecast models and forecast dashboards with the help of AI.

135

5 years ago

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

134

5 years ago

A startup that uses AI to automate the process of scheduling, tracking and managing meetings. Their software is available on the market, with customers including the US Department of Defense, Coca-Cola and Walmart.

130

5 years ago

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

128

5 years ago

A 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

This company makes a predictive analytics tool for human resources departments.

123

3 years ago

A way for companies to communicate with multiple departments (engineering, procurement, etc.) without having to send emails back and forth. The startup wants to automate a lot of the work that’s currently done by hand.

123

3 years ago

In the United States, the U.S. Department of Labor has created the Job Corps, a program that provides free job training to people who have little or no experience in a certain field. The program offers a wide variety of job training opportunities,

122

5 years ago

A software-as-a-service business which automates the process of helping human resources departments create, manage, and track benefits.

121

3 years ago

A project management app for building better working relationships between departments.

114

5 years ago

In mid-2016, the US Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics launched a data-driven blog, “The BLS Blog”, to provide updates and analysis of the state of the American economy. The blog is written by an editorial team of BLS economists and content managers.

109

5 years ago

A startup that helps employers and HR departments manage the hiring process and recruitment. They’ve raised $1.2 million to date, and their 10-person team has already signed on to work with 500 startups.

105

5 years ago

A startup that helps B2B companies automate their expenses. The company’s software is built to be used by the finance department to track expenses, and to automatically reconcile them with the appropriate accounting system.

102

3 years ago

A company that lets you create a profile on a website that tells you when your employers, friends, and other people you know are going to leave their company. The company says they have a network of “hundreds” of websites, including the NBA, the New York Times, the New York City Fire Department, and the New York City Police Department.

101

4 years ago

A company that helps HR departments with the onboarding, training and development of their employees.

98

4 years ago

A platform to improve the efficiency of a company’s human resources department.

95

4 years ago

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

93

4 years ago

A startup to help employers and HR departments easily keep track of who’s working and when.

91

3 years ago

Marketing software for the beauty industry that helps by making the customer experience easier for both customers and beauty brands. The beauty industry is growing at a 40% rate, but is plagued by archaic processes. For example, the industry is split into about a dozen different channels, each with its own customer service department and customer support teams.

91

5 years ago

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

89

4 years ago

A cloud-based accounting software that helps companies simplify their accounting, with a focus on helping retailers and other small businesses that don’t have a full-time accounting department.

88

2 years ago

A startup for insurance providers that wants to make the insurance buying process more transparent and accessible. The company claims to have over 3,000 companies as clients, including the government of India and the Department of Defense.

88

4 years ago

A management platform for managing the data of people on your team, making it easily accessible to all team members. It’s currently used by organizations like the Department of Defense, the Leukemia Lymphoma Society, and the National Park Service.

87

4 years ago

A startup that seeks to solve the problem of employees jumping from company to company, working with different managers in different departments. The company lets employees create profiles, giving the main manager a chance to see who they’ve worked with and what they’ve done in their previous jobs.

86

4 years ago

A solution for tracking and managing all your technology purchases, so you know if you’re getting the most value from your IT department.

83

4 years ago

A company that helps human resource departments manage their benefits program, with a focus on giving employees more control over their benefits. It’s currently in stealth mode, but raised $750,000.

81

4 years ago

This healthcare startup is building software to help doctors manage their patient care. It’s working with the Department of Veterans Affairs, which is using it to manage care for veterans.

81

3 years ago

A company that provides AI-assisted facial recognition software. The idea is that businesses can use the app to scan the faces of anyone who works for them and determine if they’re doing their job well. The app is currently being used by the University of Texas, but has also been pitched to police departments.

81

4 years ago

A platform that makes it easier for employees to request time off. The startup is looking to partner with the HR department of a company to help employees request time off. It has raised $2.3M in seed funding.

80

3 years ago

According to a study done by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), the Indian startup scene has over 8,000 startups, with over $10 billion in funding.

80

2 years ago

A digital assistant for employers, allowing them to manage their employee’s time logs from their mobile device. The startup is currently focused on managing time at the office, for businesses that have in-house HR departments.

80

2 years ago

This startup is building a way for HR departments to access their company’s data, which they say is “a massive problem”.

79

4 years ago

A management tool for start-ups that helps them manage their finances, HR, and marketing departments.

78

3 years ago

A tool designed to help HR departments manage new employee onboarding.

77

5 years ago

A platform that helps businesses like accounting, legal, and human resources departments manage the paperwork, invoicing, and payments for companies all in one place.

76

4 years ago

A chatbot for HR departments to help workers at companies sign up for benefits.

74

4 years ago

This is an app that helps police departments make their cities safer. It’s a service that alerts officers when there’s a body in the street, fires in the air, or a carjacking in progress.

74

3 years ago

A tool that helps HR departments create targeted recruitment ads for job-seekers.

74

4 years ago

A platform for HR departments to provide employees with feedback on their performance, as well as access to other company data.

73

2 years ago

A startup that simplifies the hiring process for human resource departments, making it easier to track applications and turning HR into a more nimble, responsive organization.

73

4 years ago

A tool for HR departments to help their employees find and apply for jobs, ranging from sales to marketing.

69

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.

69

4 years ago

This startup is building a marketplace for services with an emphasis on helping companies build out their marketing departments.

68

4 years ago

On July 29, 2018, Y Combinator announced that it is working with the United States Department of Defense on a $120 million Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) grant. DIUx is a new unit within DoD that is focused on bringing together startups and the military to develop cutting-edge technologies that the military can adopt for use in the war and defense arenas.

68

4 years ago

A company that helps states build a network of local dispensaries. The startup currently provides software to the Colorado Department of Revenue, which they say has led to the creation of 2,000 jobs.

66

4 years ago

The team at Fuzzy is building a team management platform that’s designed to help more than just HR and finance departments — they say they’re building it for anyone that manages teams.

63

4 years ago

A startup that allows employers to bill employees for their time via the company’s payroll department.

63

3 years ago

A way to help HR departments put their job postings into a searchable database. The company has multiple contracts with employers, and is focusing on shift workers in the US.

61

3 years ago

A B2B platform that helps IT departments support their business users.

61

3 years ago

This startup wants to build a platform that makes it easier for companies to scale their customer service department, and has already signed up 20 paying customers.

59

3 years ago

A web application for managing workers’ schedules and wages, which built out of an internal tool used by the company’s HR department. The software is used by thousands of workers and their employers.

59

3 years ago

This startup wants to help HR departments make better use of their technology and handle tasks with fewer errors.

59

3 years ago

A digital agency that builds software for government agencies, including the tax department.

57

3 years ago

A B2B company that provides a digital toolset for companies to manage their human resources. The company is using the product to help the HR departments of a firm in Germany hire over 1,000 new employees in the next 12 months.

56

3 years ago

A tool that will help HR departments to manage their employee policies and onboard new people, including the legal aspects of what employers need to do to comply with HR regulations.

56

3 years ago

This is a time-saving tool for companies that have to manage their own IT infrastructure. The startup gives them an easy way to manage their IT departments.

55

4 years ago

A tool that helps human resources departments and HR leaders manage their compensation packages, including offering benefits and compensation. The platform helps companies manage the entire process of compensation, including the stack and data management.

54

2 years ago

A way to make collaboration between teams and departments easier. The startup is looking to make communication faster and more comprehensive, and also is developing an AI-based tool to help with decision-making in corporate settings.

52

3 years ago

The Digital Philadelphia program is sponsored by the Philadelphia Department of Commerce and Economic Development and supported by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Office of the Secretary of Commerce and Economic Development, the Pennsylvania Academy of Comic Art, and the University of Pennsylvania.

51

3 years ago

A digital calendar for cities and governments. The platform has a partnership with San Francisco that includes the city’s 311 service and departments like Human Resources. It’s also building data-driven dashboards for the city.

50

2 years ago

A startup that wants to solve the problem of customer acquisition by providing “an analytics engine that digs into customer data and helps you, the marketing department, understand how companies in your sector are acquiring customers and how often.”

50

3 years ago

A scheduling software for human resources departments. Their users include companies like Comcast and American Express.

49

3 years ago

This startup is working with the Department of Homeland Security to develop a strategy to help companies fight cyberattacks and hack attempts.

48

3 years ago

Viable is building a platform for employers to manage their employee health plans. It’s a B2B operation, with its first customers being large employers like the Department of Defense and United Parcel Service. Viable is profitable and growing in the Philadelphia area.

47

3 years ago

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

46

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 company that helps employers and HR departments find and hire the best people. It works by having companies pay the startup to do a job search for them and then send the results to the company's HR team.

43

3 years ago

A data analytics company that looks to make it easier for companies to manage their disputes. The platform aggregates data on existing claims and disputes, standardizes data for employees, and then allows them to submit disputes to the right department.

42

3 years ago

A tool for HR departments to make better hiring decisions, using predictive analytics and human-curated data.

40

3 years ago

A data analytics and reporting platform for health care providers, with a focus on the emergency departments of hospitals. The startup wants to help solve the problem of “beds full of patients who have no one to talk to about their condition,” according to CEO Ken Dang.

40

3 years ago

A mobile-first, cloud-based system for managing patient records and care. They built on the backend of a similar system for doctors, and are now in a pilot with the Veterans Affairs Office of Patient Centered Care and Outcomes, and the Department of Defense to help improve the quality of patient care.

38

2 years ago

An HR platform that lets employers manage employee branding, including company-wide and department-specific branding, employee engagement, and recruiting.

38

3 years ago

It’s a design firm that takes a humanist approach to product. It’s clients include the New York Times, News Corp, and the New York City Department of Education. Clients include the New York City Department of Education and the New York City Department of Education

37

2 years ago

Using a service management platform, an IT department can create a single app that will handle the onboarding and management of all of the company’s new hires.

34

2 years ago

A platform for building and selling security-focused software. The startup helps software developers sell their code to the U.S. Department of Defense.

33

2 years ago

A company that helps companies connect their various communication systems together. Their product is used by the State Department to connect their email and other tools to the State Department's email system.

32

2 years ago

A company that helps human resources departments get the right employees for the job. Its algorithm matches candidates to companies, and is currently operating in the UK.

31

2 years ago

A “one-stop shop” for employers and HR departments to manage their employees, including onboarding, performance management, assessment, and deployment. In other words, an employer’s entire human resources system in one place.

31

2 years ago

ePlan is looking to be the alternative to the long-standing enterprise software market, which hasn’t seen much innovation since Oracle’s SPE software. ePlan wants to build the platform where a company’s HR and finance departments can collaborate on the same projects rather than compete.

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2 years ago

A startup that helps companies better manage data coming out of their IT operations. The idea is to use the startup’s software to run a distributed operations center, where developers and operations teams from different departments can work on the same data and build features and tools on top of it.

26

2 years ago

A collective of young, upcoming entrepreneurs in Philadelphia, the department aims to network its members and help them raise capital.

23

2 years ago

A company that helps businesses track their employees’ performance and get performance reviews up to human resources standards. The startup helps companies evaluate employee absences and work time, and offers HR departments analytics and reporting.

21

2 years ago

An HR app that was originally meant to help recruiters fill jobs, but is pivoting to become a tool for HR departments to manage their company’s benefits.

20

2 years ago

A tool for police departments to help them find the best places to deploy their officers. Think of it as a “Google Maps for police”.

20

2 years ago

Gives IT departments simple tools to monitor and manage their servers.

19

2 years ago

Greenhouse is a health insurance startup that offers high-deductible plans. The startup is approved to offer coverage in the US but is still waiting for the go-ahead from the Department of Health and Human Services. The startup has plans to be profitable in 2020 with plans for up to $250 million in revenue.

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2 years ago

This startup wants to connect retail outlets with their consumers in ways that will make both parties more profitable. It’s a startup that builds personalized shopping experiences on the fly, and has so far built a prototype for department stores with an eye toward expanding to other markets like Target.

17

2 years ago

An in-house HR software company that offers a video-based onboarding process to help HR departments create better onboarding documents for new employees.

15

2 years ago

A piece of software that allows companies to “work smarter, not harder” by tracking their time and expenses across their different departments.

12

2 years ago

An automated form of HR that acts as a replacement for the HR department. The company’s base product is a hiring and onboarding software, and its growth has been driven by their core B2B sales-specific product, which acts as an automated replacement for HR.

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2 years ago

A tool for HR departments to make hiring process more efficient. The startup is trying to solve the problem that HR has to navigate many different systems.

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5 years ago

Idea: A help desk automation tool that aims to help IT departments better understand and manage their infrastructure

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5 years ago

A software platform for helping HR departments with open jobs find the most qualified candidates. They’ve raised $2.2 million.

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A B2B service automating compliance checks for small food trucks and street vendors, integrating with local health departments to schedule inspections and flag violations in real-time.

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