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Funded Startup Ideas

5 years ago

A tool for automating and streamlining the many steps it takes to launch a startup. Currently focused on the US, they want to help companies “bootstrap faster, raise better and get funded more easily.”

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5 years ago

A credit card that is funded by users rather than banks, with a cap on monthly spending.

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2 years ago

A startup that aims to make driving easier by predicting how long it will take you to get to a destination. It currently has 1,000 users and is funded by a $20 million investment from Blackstone.

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4 years ago

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

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4 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses take advantage of a new type of insurance: self-funded insurance.

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2 years ago

A startup and mobile app for selling tickets to events, which can be refunded if a show gets cancelled, or resold if there isn’t enough demand.

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4 years ago

A California-based startup that makes a low-cost, low-power, solar powered charger for phones and other devices. It’s a rival to the crowd-funded Fission, which offers a similar product.

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4 years ago

A tool that helps manage grants and contributions for non-profits. The company has been funded by YC and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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4 years ago

A tool for managing crowdfunded products, focusing on the last mile of crowdfunding, helping scalability and distribution.

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5 years ago

A consumer credit card that’s crowd-funded

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5 years ago

A crowdfunded service that helps people get their photos on the TV screen with their voice.

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5 years ago

A tool for stores to sell goods online, funded by an angel investor.

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5 years ago

A self-funded, fast-growing accelerator for retail ventures and consumer brands.

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4 years ago

TinyDesk is an online service that lets remote workers have “a desk in their pocket”. This is a product that helps employers manage their remote workers’ desks, and allows employees to take their work with them. The startup is funded by Y Combinator and CRV.

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3 years ago

In the past year, the startup has funded a bunch of startups, including the one above, and has been the largest VC in Philadelphia since coming to the city in 2014.

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5 years ago

A venture-funded mobile app that helps users book hair and makeup services.

151

3 years ago

A crowdfunded site that connects first responders and community members with volunteers to assist in the aftermath of disasters and natural disasters.

145

5 years ago

A tool for setting up radio stations, which is self-funded, but a side-project.

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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.

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5 years ago

The following are the companies that Y Combinator has funded.

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5 years ago

A free digital interface for app developers, allowing them to create virtual machines for testing. It was crowdfunded by the company’s own customers.

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5 years ago

A crowdfunded loans startup that helps credit unions offer small business loans to their members. It partners with Fiserv and its lending platform.

131

5 years ago

The company is a funding-and-dissemination platform for science projects. It’s funded by Y Combinator, and has raised $2.6M in seed funding.

131

3 years ago

Taking a very different approach to the app idea, Crowdbucks is a crowdsourcing app for business owners that wants to help them get funded, with a credit card-based payment system and payment feature.

127

5 years ago

A web-based platform that offers customized reports and analytics for projects that are funded or in progress.

124

4 years ago

A crowdfunded fundraising platform for startups. The startup wants to help startups get better funding, and wants to do it by bringing together investors and startups.

120

3 years ago

A platform that allows kiosk users to pay for parking remotely with their credit card, and be refunded the money in their account immediately.

119

5 years ago

This is an app that allows people to pay their taxes with bitcoin, in a program that’s funded by Coinbase.

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5 years ago

"This list of startups is a non-exhaustive collection of the best companies funded by YC. It's not intended to be a comprehensive list of all startups funded by YC. Regardless, we'll be publishing additional startups funded by YC at a later date."

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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.

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5 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier for new startups to get funded by providing an online platform for finding investors.

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3 years ago

A new kind of crowdfunding platform that operates as an app, with a huge focus on rewards and perks. It’s also a new model for getting money to creative projects, which are often poorly funded.

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4 years ago

This company is making it easier for small businesses to invest in their own ventures, by providing them an online platform for managing investments. The seed round has already been funded, and the company is looking to the next round to help it scale.

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4 years ago

A platform for makers to connect with people who want to make their products. The company is funded by Maker’s Mark and Breyer’s among others.

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4 years ago

A software platform that helps companies manage the customer data and retention process. The startup says it’s been customer-funded for 2 years and raised seed funding for another 6 months.

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4 years ago

A “crowd-funded credit card” for people with bad credit.

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4 years ago

A self-funded startup that’s looking to solve the problem of acquiring large amounts of data without having to pay a lot for it: they sell data as a service.

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3 years ago

A startup for peer-to-peer lending for small business loans, currently funded by Y Combinator.

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3 years ago

A digital file that can be printed in minutes. The startup was funded in September.

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3 years ago

The Startup Battlefield has also been judged by the number of companies that have been funded by YC alumni, who are the most successful of the Y Combinator alumni. In the first year of the event, Y Combinator provided around $240,000 in funding to the winning companies in the Battlefield. In later years, that number has climbed to around $700,000.

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3 years ago

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

81

4 years ago

A company that works with local governments and nonprofit organizations to help them get free, city-wide WiFi for their residents. They have funded and built their own network in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and expanded to New Orleans, Detroit, and Indianapolis.

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4 years ago

The following companies have received funding from 500 Startups, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley with over $1 billion in funded companies:

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3 years ago

A way for businesses to manage their employee benefit plans more efficiently, especially for those that are self-funded.

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3 years ago

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

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3 years ago

A personal trainer that can be accessed from the app. It’s being funded by a $12M series A.

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4 years ago

A crowd-funded business that seeks to build a “smarter” retirement system for Americans.

72

3 years ago

This is a B2B company that helps companies structure and automate their recurring payments. They’re seed funded and have a customer base in the military.

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3 years ago

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

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4 years ago

In September 2014, Y Combinator announced a second batch of companies it funded, including the following:

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4 years ago

An accelerator that helps women in tech get funded

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3 years ago

A company that helps users track and manage their cryptocurrency assets, in a manner similar to their competitor Coinbase. The company is funded by the founders of Bibox, a Chinese exchange that has been involved in controversy before and has had expensive legal battles against the IRS.

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2 years ago

A crowdfunded project for a custom, self-driving electric skateboard

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that is building an end-to-end solution for businesses making hardware to help them get funded and bring their product to market. They want to automate a lot of the backend work needed to launch hardware like creating a company and getting funding.

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3 years ago

A payment platform that allows customers to send money to their friends and family, just like Paypal. The startup is funded by investors including Google Ventures and Thrive Capital.

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3 years ago

A VC-funded London-based fintech startup that helps people use digital currency to make and receive international payments.

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3 years ago

A tool for code writing that helps teams collaborate and code more efficiently. The startup was funded in May.

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3 years ago

A web-based payroll and recording service for independent contractors. The startup is being funded by a number of angel investors and is looking to launch its first product later this year.

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3 years ago

A company that wants to use its machine learning to help you find the best deals at local stores. The company is self-funded and has already built a prototype. The company says it will use the funds from YC to scale its team and move into a warehouse in San Francisco.

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3 years ago

Scentria is a startup that creates a scent for different environments, using chemicals to create smells for its products. The startup is funded by the likes of Google Ventures and Comcast’s Innovation Fund.

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2 years ago

A small business lending platform for those who want to grow their business. The startup so far has funded over 300 companies with their credit platform to make loans.

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3 years ago

This is one of the first of the non-bank digital payments startups to be funded by the super-investors of Silicon Valley — Peter Thiel. The company is building a payments platform for financial institutions, where they can send money overseas and allow their customers to pay using cryptocurrency.

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4 years ago

A company that sells a “price guarantee” guarantee that if a store’s price is lower than a customer’s online price, the latter will be refunded.

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2 years ago

A startup that specializes in helping small businesses get funding. The startup is working with the Small Business Association and the SBA’s Venture Office to run workshops for small businesses on how to get funded.

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3 years ago

A credit card that eliminates overdraft fees by using a line of credit, which is funded by a credit card so the user can pay their bills without paying interest.

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3 years ago

A digital platform for matching philanthropists who want to give their time to charities. It claims to be international in scope and that it has already funded over 100 projects.

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3 years ago

Indiegogo's projects are ranked by the number of backers they have, with each project required to have at least 1,000 backers before they are eligible for the “Most Funded” ranking. The number of backers is determined by the number of times the project has been funded.

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3 years ago

A worker-owned cooperative for testing, which is funded by Kickstarter.

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3 years ago

A company that acts as a “voice of the customer” to help businesses improve the quality of their products. The startup, which launched in July, is funded by Foundry Group, and has a team of experienced consultants.

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2 years ago

To be launched in the third quarter of 2019, that the startup says is already the most-funded startup in the U.S.

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3 years ago

A company that creates a platform for groups to create and fund student hackathons. The startup is looking to capitalize on the popularity of hackathons by providing a platform for students to get funded for projects.

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3 years ago

The founders of Fundable are building an app that lets small businesses manage their business expenses in one place. They’re funded by Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management.

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2 years ago

A crowdfunded robot that “helps people overcome their fears and gives them freedom”.

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2 years ago

A startup that helps programmers debug their code faster and easier. They’re funded by Y Combinator and have been bootstrapping for two years.

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3 years ago

A self-funded startup that’s building a tool for communicating with your insurance company, allowing you to check what’s covered and when.

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3 years ago

A company that’s started a $1 million series A to fund its own VC-backed accelerator. The accelerator aims to help startups find product-market fit, and has already funded a few companies.

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3 years ago

A tool for finding and keeping up with the most useful and relevant content on the web. Envato’s editor-in-chief, Jellyvision, says it’s another tool for publishers to find and share the best content in a very crowded space. The startup is funded by the venture capital firm Ycombinator and aims to be a one-stop-shop for tools, content and plugins.

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2 years ago

A file synchronization system for desktop apps. The startup is building an open source alternative to Dropbox, and is funded by Andreessen Horowitz and Collaborative Fund.

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2 years ago

If this company’s products are as good as its founders say, it’s possible that their launch is overblown. But let’s go into this anyway, because it’s obviously a big deal for entrepreneurs to get funded, and it’s rare for them to get funding from the founder’s mom.

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2 years ago

This company is building a platform for small businesses to easily manage their risk and compliance efforts, including audits and loan applications. It has been funded by Silicon Valley’s Institutional Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, and others.

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2 years ago

After a founder saw a local family in need of a shelter, they started doing research and realized that there was still a need for a local shelter for homeless pets in San Francisco. As a result, the startup found a way to raise money for a local shelter to help homeless pets, and is now funded to run the shelter itself.

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2 years ago

Y Combinator has funded over 1,150 startups since 2005. Notable startups that have come out of Y Combinator include:

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2 years ago

A startup that offers debit cards to college students, with funding from the Gates Foundation. The cards are funded by money that comes from the students’ tuition.

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5 years ago

Idea: A software company that sells a free version of its software for up to 10 team members. The software helps teams track their time and sell their products or services. The startup is self-funded and

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup providing free credit scores to customers, funded by a paywall around their credit report They believe this will generate better engagement than the traditional credit monitoring model, which pays customers to read their credit report

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