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A platform for buying, selling, trading, and renting bikes. The company’s API provides access to data on bikes, stores, and repairs, and it currently has 30,000 bike listings.
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This startup tackles a problem that many startups and venture capitalists face: how to manage the startup’s finances. The startup wants to be a one-stop shop for accounting, taxes, and financial planning for startups.
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A company that’s building software for restaurants that helps them manage their menus, guest lists and food orders.
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List of startups created by or for Indian Americans
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A simple interface for writing down grocery lists.
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A platform that offers a variety of content for moms and babies, from playlists to educational videos.
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A productivity tool for managing your to-do list and keeping track of your tasks.
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Pitchbook, a media company that covers the venture industry, has released a list of the top Y Combinator companies to watch. It includes several companies from the summer batch, including the following:
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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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A startup that lists jobs for students interested in jobs during the summer
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A startup for merchants to sell merchandise with the ease of a Craigslist or Amazon marketplace.
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A restaurant discovery app that caters to the Indian market by listing only Indian restaurants.
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A company that helps brands do email marketing by making it painless for them to set up a local mailing list.
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A real estate software company for agents. The startup develops a platform for agents to book appointments, send out listings, and manage client relationships.
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A smart checklist of things to do.
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A digital to-do list that syncs across devices.
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The company is building a platform that will allow people to land on a page with a listing of homes for sale, to create a profile, and then receive a personalized email to show homes that match their preferences.
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Building a product to help journalists stay safe from fake news and social engineering.
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An online marketplace that matches consumers with home sellers. The startup is looking to take the model of Airbnb, and allow people to list their homes for sale, or rent them out.
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A startup that aims to unify the real estate market by making it easier to bid for real estate listings across multiple platforms.
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A software-as-a-service platform for realtors, allowing them to manage and sell their listings online.
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This startup wants to help realtors create a digital database of property listings.
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The following companies were selected as semi-finalists in the 2014 Y Combinator Winter batch:
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A car sharing startup that lets people rent cars by the hour or by the day. In July, the company had 13,000 people on the waitlist for their limited-time $500,000 raise.
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A subscription-based service that allows people to get their medical records from their primary care physician to a specialist at their choice for a fee. The company also claims that it can help people find specialists within a certain time frame.
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This startup wants to bring more transparency to online rental listings by creating a search engine that sorts and ranks homes based on their location, amenities, and price, as well as the number of reviews they have.
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A company that aims to simplify the process of buying and selling used goods online in the US, and in the UK, with the aim to make it easier than eBay or Craigslist. The startup currently has 2,000 members, each paying a monthly fee.
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A startup that provides a service to help people create a bucket list of things they want to accomplish
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This list was gathered from the following sources:
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This is an app that allows users to create lists of their favorite things and have it automatically update to their current location.
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A startup that allows you to select when and where you’d like to get your car washed, from a list of viable times and places.
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A startup that helps make your everyday tasks more efficient, such as scheduling a meeting, creating a shopping list, or tracking a package.
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A startup that connects people who have excess inventory they don’t want to sell with people who want to buy it (eg I have 50 cases of extra inventory I need to get rid of I have it listed online and you can come pick it up)
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A startup that makes it easier for journalists to “report from space” by providing access to relevant satellite imagery.
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A 3D facial recognition app that helps you find the closest barbershop or stylist.
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A sorting system for online shops, similar to Amazon’s Wish list.
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It’s a lifestyle music service, where you can access your library from any device and listen to the music in whatever order you want. You can also pay for a subscription to get access to a wider library.
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It’s a Chrome extension that helps you create a to-do list and also adds a new to-do item to your calendar. The startup has raised $2.2 million so far.
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A startup that wants to build a platform that allows companies to create online courses in minutes and distribute them to email lists or social media. They currently have one client with a course on web design that had over 1,000 people sign up for it.
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A social news app for young people aimed at boosting the career prospects of teen journalists.
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A new startup focused on helping readers access the best content in their area. The company offers a monthly subscription of a curated list of articles that interest a person. They want to launch in early 2020 to allow people to take a break from their phones.
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A bot that can automate the process of selling products on Craigslist, on Craigslist, and on other sites where it can be sold. The product is geared towards online retailers.
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A mobile app for real estate agents to help them track their listings' performance on Zillow.
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An online marketplace for people to list real estate in their homes for sale or rent.
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A startup that turns grocery shopping into an interactive game, where users can create and share grocery lists with friends.
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A tool to help people organize their to-do list, allowing them to see everything they need to do at a glance.
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A voice recognition software that turns any video into a voice-activated digital music playlist
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A startup that helps people optimize their email lists with personalized emails and messages
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A “citizen journalist” for the Philippines that uses photos and videos to report on the country’s news and social issues.
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A startup that provides software to help people with Alibaba listings
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The list, in reverse-chronological order.
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A podcasting platform that allows you to listen, rate, and share podcasts.
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A web app for people to create and manage to-do lists.
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The startup is building a platform to help people to buy and sell gently used items, like cars, without having to go through a third party like eBay or Craigslist. They have a plan in place to expand into new categories in 2020.
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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.
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A startup that wants to help people find and use better alternatives to plastic bags, by helping them make shopping lists in their phone’s email. The startup has only been live for a week, but is already seeing a 30% conversion rate.
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A B2B company that will help real estate companies manage their property listing data.
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A “digital to-do list” for all the tasks you need to get done.
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A company that helps managers and employees to communicate effectively. It’s a private messaging app with a long list of partners that is easy to use and lets people stay in touch with coworkers.
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A tool for helping journalists track news stories across different platforms and different sources.
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A tool to create a photo-realistic simulation of an office environment with a 3D avatar. Its founders say it’s the first 3D avatar platform that is both accessible and real-time.
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This on-demand laundry service offers a simple and fast solution for cleaning clothes. The service works with a list of preferred dry cleaners and delivers a package of clean clothes.
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A startup that wanted to combine the ease of Instacart and the ability to order from local stores on the web. The app lets you order groceries from local stores, but also from a list of your favorite local restaurants.
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A tool to help you do a better job of selling. You can either search for people to sell to, or build a list of your own contacts. The company charges $3 per lead, $10 per contact, and $10 per sale.
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A platform that allows real estate agents to list properties for sale and rent via a mobile app. The startup is trying to connect home sellers and renters directly, rather than using a broker.
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This startup is selling a database where people can see a list of all the people who have asked them out.
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This is a product delivery platform for real estate agents to manage their clients' listings. The idea, according to the startup, is to give agents a way to manage the listings that they do, as well as receive and administer online-only payments for the listings.
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A startup that sends users curated lists of events in their area. It currently has 1.3 million monthly users, and works with “hundreds of thousands” of events/parties each month.
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In August 2018, Crunchbase reported that there were over 150 venture-backed startup accelerators in the United States. The list of top accelerators in the United States was as follows:
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A digital assistant that helps doctors keep track of their patients. The startup is building a mobile app that makes it easy to manage a doctor’s patient list.
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A company that helps home builders like ApartmentPlace, ApartmentGuide, and Zumper create a single-page listing that embeds all of their properties into an app that they can distribute through the Apple Store and Google Play.
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A startup that uses blockchain to rank and pay journalists for their work online.
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A startup that lets users search for random words and phrases to get a list of the most popular results.
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In addition to the main list above, a number of companies that were not selected for the finals were chosen for a special list of honorable mentions in three categories: Technology, People and Process. The Bottom Line is the only company that was not chosen for the finals from this list.
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A tool for teachers to look for suppliers of the classroom supplies they need. The startup, which was founded in July, is building a list of suppliers that are listed on Amazon.
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A startup that does "reverse auction" for restaurant, bar, and retail seats. It charges a fee to the seller for the listing, and pays the buyer a percentage of the sale price.
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A real estate website, with listings for apartments, houses, and condos, as well as a guide to nearby amenities and things to do in the area. The company wants to be one of the tools that helps people buy a home, and then helps them settle in.
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A startup that helps people get around their cities by providing to-do lists, and letting them chat with others to help them get around.
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They’re the modern version of a “grocery store”, with a storehouse of over 400 in-demand items that can be added to a wish list. They’re free for consumers, but can have a fee for businesses with 500 or more items in stock.
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A startup that wants to provide a platform to help social networks like Instagram and Twitter track their users’ whereabouts. It has a list of “verified” users to help set it apart.
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The annual list is compiled by a group of judges, including founders and investors such as Paul Graham, Michael Arrington, Fred Wilson, and others.
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A startup that allows real estate agents to quickly create free listings and customize them.
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This company builds debt crowdsourcing platforms for lending companies. Borrowers can list their credit availability and a company can decide whether they’re a good fit for a loan.
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A startup with a list of tools that let you replace your phones with a single device. It’s a bit like a phone, a bit like a tablet, and a bit like a computer.
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Note: This list is not comprehensive, and does not include all the companies that applied to YC in 2017.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevekim/2017/10/08/the-startup-list-for-october-2017/
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A startup that lets real estate agents manage their finances and “build” their listings on a SaaS platform.
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A startup that helps people find apartments to rent. They are using machine learning to scan Craigslist ads, notify people that there are apartments available, and suggest the best rent/price range.
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A personalized shopping list application that focuses on grocery ordering.
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The idea of the startup is to create a sort of "one stop shop" for all the different tools and products needed by a citizen journalist.
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WayUp wants to combine job listings with social recruiting to help connect job seekers with employers.
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A tool that helps you buy and sell stuff on Craigslist.
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A tool to make managing Salesforce-style customer lists easier for small businesses.
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A tool for building “segmented” email lists, with a focus on helping B2B companies find more customers through email.
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A startup that makes it possible for anyone to use Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as a customer service call center without having to re-enter their information. The company has already secured funding from Y Combinator, AngelList, and Techstars.
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A platform for people to sell their old belongings on Craigslist. The startup wants to take the pain out of selling your things while also guaranteeing that they’ll show up at your doorstep.
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A tool that allows you to create a ‘Checklist’ of actions to accomplish quickly. “Checklists are the most efficient way to execute a set of commands,” the company says.
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A company that helps small businesses and restaurants list and promote their restaurant on Yelp.
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A startup that helps users connect and collaborate on documents, without the overhead of a traditional email list.
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A tool for managing and growing your email list. If you ever wondered how to harvest your email list and use it to grow your business, Jato is an easy solution.
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A platform for employers to share their job listings, allowing them to see which candidates are the right fit for the role.
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Most of the startups in the Top 50 list are in the US, with others in Europe, Japan, Canada, the UK, and Australia.
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A tool to help startups with the cost of raising seed funding, that seeks to integrate the big four of Kickstarter, AngelList, DigitalTilt, and SeedInvest in one platform.
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A $1 cloud-based platform for sharing your music, where friends can listen to it for free. The app is already on the Apple Store, and the company is looking to expand to Android and Windows.
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The startup is building an online tool that helps connect customers to real estate agents for property listing, and a tool that helps real estate agents find listings.
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A startup that simplifies the process of selling online, allowing anyone to list items on multiple shopping sites. The idea is that doing so is more cost-efficient than having to curate items individually on each.
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This list does not include every startup that has accepted into YC, but only the startups that have launched since the program started.
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Each week, the startup curates a list of 3-10 new books, videos, podcasts, and articles from the industry and the web that it thinks are worth reading and listening to. The startup also curates a weekly newsletter.
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A platform that offers classified ads, event listings, and other business listings.
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A tool for journalists to research and structure pitches and stories
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This startup wants to be the Amazon of the home. The idea is to make a marketplace for house-goods, where sellers can list what they have and buyers can filter options and place orders.
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A startup that helps you organize your life and write to-do lists (similar to Wunderlist, but aimed at parents).
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A two-sided marketplace for artists and clients to make work together. The idea is that artists can make money while building their client list, and clients can get access to a large network of artists.
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This startup wants to use machine learning and cryptocurrency to make “recommendations” based on what you might want to listen to.
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In the past year, the startup has grown to have over 500 media outlets and over 1,000 reporters and editors, covering everything from sports to politics, and local to international. They’re aiming to grow that to 10,000 members and double the number of journalists that cover the news.
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This is a platform for connecting brands and retailers. The company is building their own online marketplace for brands to sell merchandise, and brands can also get list of retailers and products they can sell to. They have over 10 brands on their platform.
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A startup that takes a tax-prep checklist and places it online, so that people can use it to prepare their taxes at any time.
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This startup is building a platform for biopharmaceutical companies to build a custom prescription drug formulary, or a list of drugs that doctors are allowed to prescribe to patients.
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A company that helps small businesses buy and sell all their equipment in one place, avoiding the disadvantages of Craigslist and other marketplaces, with a process that’s automated and secure.
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A platform that helps users buy and sell rental properties on a peer-to-peer basis. It’s an alternative to traditional real estate listings sites where users browse and search for rentals through a portal.
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A startup that helps you buy and sell used cars, with listings on the app and an app you can use to manage them.
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The list is not all-inclusive, but we've tried to include a representative sample of the many companies, startups, and other organizations in the Philadelphia tech scene.
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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.
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A startup that helps realtors and agents manage their listings more effectively, by allowing them to create a calendar of appointments, and turn it into a marketing tool.
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Smartphones are great for task-tracking but lack any standalone tools to do things like keep a grocery list or plan a meal. Synapse is an app that takes all your shopping/cooking/meal plans and puts them into one place.
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The following startups were all listed in the “premier” category at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, but didn’t make the final cut to the demo stage of the event.
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Online to-do list app that runs on Slack
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A B2B company that helps people sell their homes by taking photos, sending listings, and handling payments.
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A startup that helps artists and bands promote online, connecting them with fans and listeners. The company charges artists a commission for promoted posts, and users pay a flat monthly fee for the service.
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"Idea 2.0 is a tool for entrepreneurs to help them learn about new technologies in the market and network together. It’s the Uber of technology conferences. The conference is in its second year and has had over 1,000 attendees and 300+ speakers from 45 countries. The conference’s format is based on the model of Airbnb, where the host gets to pick the guests. The guest list is highly curated and the speakers are handpicked by the company’s CEO. The conference has been very well received by attendees and has been named a Top 10 conference in the US in 2018.
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A pair of heavy-equipment spare parts specialists in the Midwest. These guys help companies find used equipment, they’ve made over 200 sales to date.
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A platform for creating, sharing, and selling apps for businesses, including a marketplace where people can list and sell their own apps.
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A mobile app for finding parking and other services near your destination, with a built-in contact list to save you time. It’s inspired by Uber’s surge pricing and lets you set your own price and availability as well.
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This is a website for buying and selling used computers. The website automatically searches for computers that are listed by sellers.
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A list of smartphone apps that offer free or discounted parking spots, and will eventually allow users to select parking spots on their own.
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A free tool for journalists and journalists to help them cover protests in real-time. It’ll be free to use, but will always be free to use.
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A podcast network with a focus on “unscripted” storytelling, by people who are not professional journalists. It’s designed to free creative people from the pressure of telling stories they’ve been told to tell.
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Service that helps people set up a mortgage loan and provides them with personalized mortgage advice from a specialist.
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A startup that provides a service for people who want to sell their stuff The service will come to their home and photograph their stuff and list it on online marketplaces
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Crowdsourced reports that help companies assess the capital needs of their startups in order to raise money from angel investors and venture capitalists.
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This is an app that helps consumers find an apartment for rent by allowing them to search and compare all listings in San Francisco and beyond.
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A startup that lets you create a wishlist for your favorite products, then automatically sends you emails when prices drop on those items.
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A SaaS business that lets companies create and share “hierarchies”, or lists of tasks, in a format that’s easy to share and track. The goal is to help teams get organized and collaborate.
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A startup that produces a checklist for people who are going on vacation Gives them a list of things to do before they leave and things to do when they return
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A platform for online job listings that helps users find the right job for them. It’s also trying to fight discrimination by allowing users to see what the company’s algorithms predict they’ll be paid before submitting a resume.
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A way for people to upload to their Amazon wish list from their phone
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The first online marketplace for small businesses to buy and sell inventory, with all items listed and priced by the owner.
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In addition to the startup projects listed here, some startups have been incubated at Techstars in its program.
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The following startups were named to the list of top startup ecosystems for the sixth year in a row.
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An Uber-like app that helps people find reliable childcare. The startup is based in San Francisco and already has hundreds of parents on its waitlist.
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A platform for making lists and reminders. The startup is led by the former CEO of a company called Reminders, which was acquired by Google in 2010.
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A health care marketplace for patients to connect with physicians and specialists.
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A startup that creates a platform for businesses to manage a list of service providers, from accounting services to IT consultants.
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A company that helps companies and organizations raise money from new and existing investors, including Angel investors, venture capitalists, family offices and more.
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A startup that wants to help the fashion industry eliminate the middleman. The company is developing a platform that lets fashion brands list their merchandise directly to consumers through their websites and apps, eliminating the need for a stockist.
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The founders of this company hope to make it easier for people to book professional services online, allowing them to book a haircut from a stylist or a plumber from a service rep.
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"Wired" magazine named the list of the "75 Smartest Entrepreneurs in Technology" on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the magazine.
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A computer vision startup that wants to be the “Google of facial recognition”. The company uses algorithms to analyze people’s faces, generates “a list of face-matching identities”.
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A startup that provides a service for helping people with Alibaba listings
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A startup that helps companies track and manage their energy usage through a holistic approach, rather than through a series of individual utilities.
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A startup connecting businesses with people looking to rent/share their space, in the form of a Craigslist-like website.
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A business software platform that helps real estate agents sell their listings online.
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A platform for selling and buying things on your phone, similar to eBay and Craigslist, but with more personalization and a focus on local finds. In beta as of July, the company is not yet profitable, but has already signed up over 500 beta testers.
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A company that makes therapy robots that listen to you and respond in a range of ways, from “screaming” to “fawning.”
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A platform that lists and prices the inventory of a business
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A startup that is building a “social to-do list” for small- to mid-sized businesses. The startup is currently working with 250 businesses in San Francisco, and plans to expand to other U.S. cities. It charges $20 per month for its platform.
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A way of making food shopping more efficient, like a digital grocery list, but with a “personal shopper”.
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A free site and app designed to help college students save money. The site and app is designed to help students save money by finding deals, saving money on textbooks and other things, and building a list of things they need to buy.
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A software company that helps companies grow their email list, using automation and artificial intelligence.
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This startup is building out a news aggregation platform for journalists and bloggers to gather content from sources like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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The company wants to be the software company that helps you create a shopping list and keep track of it on your phone.
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A startup that wants to use artificial intelligence to help improve the lives of aging parents. The company's first product is a watch that listens to the wearer's heartbeat and detects a change in heart rate caused by a number of possible issues. It then sends help via text message.
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A tool for streamlining internal communications for teams, including lists, tasks, and documents.
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This startup wants to be the directory for the global freelance market, listing opportunities for all kinds of services, through a mobile app. Users can go through the app to see who would be the best match for a particular job.
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In addition to the list above, Y Combinator also supports a variety of other companies through its investments.
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SaaS marketing platform for e-commerce retailers, with tools for product listing, collection, payment processing, shipping, and customer support. The startup wants to make e-commerce more efficient.
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A startup that wants to help retailers and brands find new customers by taking their email lists and feeding them into an algorithm that matches them with potential customers.
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A startup to help people find a doctor with a doctor in their neighborhood. The San Francisco-based startup, which was launched in May, is a crowd-sourced network of doctors and patients that offers a list of doctors who accept Medicaid.
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A real estate platform that allows users to quickly create their own home listings and sell them to investors, to be completed in 30 days.
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Stem is an app that lets you create a virtual assistant to help you with work. Users can ask the virtual assistant to do things like send an email, remind you to call a client, or read your calendar. The virtual assistant can even help you out with tasks like creating a to-do list or learning a new language.
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Causes that want to communicate with people on Facebook and other social media platforms can now do so through a Facebook-style private messaging platform that will allow users to send and receive messages through a growing list of apps and services. The company says the community is growing rapidly and has over 200,000 members.
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A company that helps stylists create looks for clients, from a number of different sources.
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Silicon Valley's Hottest Startups for 2016 (List)
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A tool that helps journalists find the best pictures to illustrate articles. Users are currently able to search and sort through thousands of images in less than a minute.
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A startup that helps users organize their to-do list in a manner that’s most useful to them. It’s like a digital planner, but it also handles things like reminding you of deadlines and counting down the days until a big event.
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A startup that helps you create customized “sampler packs” of music. The startup wants to build an algorithm that lets users produce personalized mixes, or albums, without the need to upload music. Instead, users create a “profile” of songs and artists they like, and the system then chooses other songs the user likes and creates an album, including tracklists. The service is currently free, with plans starting at $5 per month for premium features.
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A startup that’s building an app that will help users to change their appearance in real time, combining the optically-corrective benefits of makeup and the photorealistic capabilities of CGI.
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A goal-oriented task list app that helps you achieve your goals by tracking your progress and mapping it to a calendar.
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A note-taking app that has a tab for the pen you’re using, making it easier to switch from pen to pen, and to save lists and sticky notes.
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A startup that builds a hiring platform that allows users to fill a job description with a string of keywords and get a list of candidates who match.
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VentureBeat's list of 2016's 50 hottest startups in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, including a number of YC companies
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For the past two months, the startup has been building a platform that helps people find jobs, with a focus on the job seeker. The solution is built on an AI that scours through job listings, and a platform that allows job seekers to better manage their resumes.
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The startup is developing a personalized learning platform that connects students with academic experts, helping them identify their strengths and weaknesses and to improve their grades. In a space that typically focuses on grades, the startup is looking to provide a holistic approach to learning.
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A SaaS platform that takes the pain out of doing things like setting up a blog, managing a mailing list, and publishing content online.
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A tool for helping to make sure your website is secure, with features like a blacklist of bad sites and features for checking a website’s SSL certificate.
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An email marketing service built to help small businesses, startups and freelancers grow their email lists and boost their sales. It offers a free plan for businesses with up to five contacts.
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A startup that aims to simplify the creation of email marketing campaigns. A typical campaign might include dozens of email addresses, personalization, and a list of recipients. The startup empowers marketers to create a single email campaign, and include as many personalized variables as they want.
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A digital personal assistant app that helps users build a list of people and things they want to do. The startup wants to use the platform to build customizable travel itineraries.
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Given that it was the first company to launch in the YC Demo Day, the list below is the most complete list of all of the startups that have been accepted into YC.
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A startup that helps businesses that make a lot of money on Etsy — but that don’t have the time to manage their product listings.
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A personal assistant that helps you pack a suitcase. Users can use the app to create a packing list and the app will suggest items based on where you’re traveling and which items are available at your destination.
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A startup that wants to help people make money off their pets. It’s in early stages, but has already raised $145,000 in seed funding from AngelList.
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People use the app to share their taste in music, movies, and other media. This is done in the form of collaborative playlists, which allow users to contribute music or art to a playlist, either anonymously or by providing a title and a description.
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A tool that will allow marketers to connect with journalists to report stories with the ability to collaborate on the story’s delivery. The company wants to be a go-between that can provide access to journalists in order to make the story more valuable.
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A video platform that helps small businesses create slick video content without hiring a video specialist.
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A delivery service that gives customers the option to order a dozen or so items from a list of popular restaurants, which will be delivered to the customer’s home or office within an hour.
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A startup meant to let sellers manage their online listings, the company is building an automated platform to help sellers manage their listings. The team raised $5 million in funding in 2014.
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A company looking to build a better version of the “wish-list”, where items can be added and removed while shopping.
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A platform that aggregates various data sources like social media, web traffic, and others to help content creators create a more holistic view of their audience.
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A company that makes using real estate listings data more accessible to the public.
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A tool that uses AI to make video playlists. The startup wants to make it easier for users to find new music and combine it with other types of media.
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A virtual assistant for your phone that helps you deal with your to-do list.
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A way for people who need to move into a new apartment to take a photo of their living room or kitchen and quickly see a comprehensive price list of what it would cost to remodel it. The startup says it’s profitable and has a $150,000 monthly revenue run rate.
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A company that brings down the cost of guest-listing events, from $20 for a single ticket to $20 for a guest list, to $5 for a guest list.
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A startup that wants to help people who are looking to sell their home listed on Zillow or Trulia.
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A way for people to find a great hair stylist
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A tool for managing multiple organizations with a single account. "Everything listed above, but for business."
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A tool that helps journalists make sense of complex data sets.
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They are building a website for buying and selling used cars in the US that allows users to create and manage a car listing. They also have an app for users to find cars for sale (which they claim would be the first app of its kind to gain Apple approval.)
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A company that allows people to make “tweets” from their phone, or a software program that’ll be able to take a list of contacts and create a list of tweets to send to them.
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A startup that aims to help realtors automate their sales process, using a digital agent that keeps track of the status of a property and opens real estate listings on the internet. The startup is pitching the service as a way to drive down “the average home sales cycle” from six months to two.
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A messaging app that uses AI and machine learning to automatically generate text. After generating a list of the most common questions and phrases that people send, customer support can use this tool to pre-write responses.
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A data platform for the music industry. The company, which was founded in 2014, is building out a platform that connects artists and labels with data about their fans and allows them to create customized playlists, from which they can then sell song downloads.
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A podcast that focuses on the intersection of technology and business, including interviews with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
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A mobile-first digital platform for buying and selling used cars, meant to be an alternative to Craigslist and other online classifieds.
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A 4-year-old company that makes a programmable, connected-home appliance that can be programmed to do things from turning the AC off and on to turning lights on and off to listening to music and turning the TV on and off. The company has raised $7.3 million in funding.
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The startup is building a tool to help people find the best TV deals in their area. It’s a list of TV channels and websites that aggregate the best prices for TV channels. The startup is based in the UK, and is also looking to expand into Europe.
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A digital concierge that helps people find the best options for a variety of services, including the best hair stylist, the best car service, or the best restaurant.
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A company that’s building a mobile app to allow travelers to search for hotels and airbnb listings in cities they’re visiting.
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A music subscription service that pays artists based on how much music people listen to. The company is already in talks with artists to create original content and bring it to their platform.
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The top 10 list of the most common ideas was based on the number of pitches submitted by companies.
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This startup is creating a marketplace for L.A. real estate agents to connect with renters looking for apartments. It's an online marketplace that connects renters with agents and offers a page where agents can post listings for rent on their own website.
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A platform to help patients with diabetes manage their condition and track the progress of their condition. The startup has raised $2 million in seed funding from venture capitalists from Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
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The list above is a small sample of the companies YC companies have invested in. Below is a complete list of companies YC invested in.
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BuildOn is a tool that helps small businesses list their products on Amazon. The company is part of Y Combinator’s Class 5.
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A startup that makes it easier for people to search for events. They have over 50,000 active events listed on their site, and are focusing on events in the B2B space.
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This startup is building a service that automatically generates an article and blog post for a journalist based on their content.
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What it is: A chatbot that lets people find and hire freelance specialists. The platform aims to work with a wide variety of professionals, including interior designers, virtual assistants, and even personal trainers.
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A tool to help marketers build email lists with the click of a button.
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"It’s in the works," said Guy Kawasaki, a venture capitalist who has invested in the company. "We’re thinking about a lot of things that I can’t talk about today."
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It’s a hybrid marketplace for B2B, where sellers can list products and buyers can browse and purchase them.
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A health data startup that connects patients to the right medical specialists, saving them time and money.
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The company is building something called “Zero-Effort”, which allows you to get a lot of stuff done at once without actually doing anything. When you get the app, you get a list of tasks that have been done for you.
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This is an ongoing list of startups that have raised funding. This list is compiled from Crunchbase and other news sources.
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A file storage service for people who need to store large amounts of data, including for human rights activists, journalists and whistleblowers.
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A B2B company that helps companies manage and find service providers. Like a concierge, it helps companies build a list of vendors, and then makes those vendors available to companies on demand.
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Many of the startups on this list have been mentioned in other lists of the best startups in other countries.
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A tool for creating mobile apps that takes a person’s mood and tempo, and uses that to create a playlist.
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A desktop-based email client for journalists, connecting to their Gmail accounts, and using the same tools as their editors.
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A company that helps you find medical specialists who are willing to collaborate with you on your research.
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The social network for stylists offering them a place to collaborate, share ideas, and build relationships. It’s a network for stylists, but it’s not like a LinkedIn. It’s more like a Facebook for stylists.
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A company that’s building an app that can manage the list of expenses of a household or individual.
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The following startups are featured in Inc.’s 2019 Inc. 5000 list, a ranking of the 5,000 largest privately held companies in the United States.
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It’s an online platform that helps people find doctors and specialists in their area.
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This is a tool that helps journalists and reporters publish their work on Medium. It’s meant to help journalists write the same stories over and over again.
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A startup that lists the best deals on a given topic, for example, “The best pizza in San Francisco”
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A startup that helps journalists publish content without going through Facebook’s “disengagement” process
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A startup that’s building a machine that can read your medical records, listen to your voice, and communicate with you in non-verbal ways.
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This company is building a platform to give people the ability to make money by buying and reselling items on the same day they are listed for sale.
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A mobile application that helps users track and listen to their favorite musical artists.
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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.
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(Note: This is an ongoing list, and I’m adding to it as soon as I hear about new startup pitches every week. I’ll keep updating when necessary.)
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This is a “virtual personal assistant” that helps users with things like scheduling, shopping lists, and budgeting.
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A startup that wants to replace the standard “credit score” with a better, more holistic one.
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A platform that connects a marketer’s email list with their website’s email opt-in form, allowing users to automatically sign up for emails when they arrive on the website.
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A tool that helps you manage multiple to-do lists, in different formats, all in one place, with cloud-based syncing across all your devices.
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A startup that provides paid services that enable businesses to build better online marketing campaigns. The startup sells services such as creating an email list, creating a Facebook ad, or creating a web page.
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This is a startup that wants to help people sell their old stuff on Craigslist, using their own photos and descriptions to sell their items without the hassle of eBay or Craigslist.
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A tool that builds customizable online guides for listing services like Airbnb and Etsy.
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Fusion is a real estate software company that allows real estate agents to list their listings online and receive notifications whenever a home is sold.
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A tool that helps people re-list their homes faster. The startup has a software as a service model for homes in the Northeast and wants to use an automation tool to make homes look more appealing to potential buyers.
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This startup is building a way for people to find and research the best deals on things like discount travel, apparel, and more and build shopping lists from it.
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This is a company that makes solar powered bike lights for cyclists to use on dark streets and trails.
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A new startup that creates “micro-apps” for Web sites and apps, which are small pieces of software that can be embedded into a site or app to do powerful things like pull data from an external API and present it in a way that’s easy to use. For instance, one startup called Jingo lets small-business owners track employee schedules by giving them a “checklist” embedded in their website.
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"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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A tool for journalists to research and report on influential people. The startup is also looking for a way to approach “digital discovery” for these subjects, which it says is a significant problem.
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A virtual assistant app that listens to users’ conversations and suggests answers to their questions.
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A company that aims to help people find the best local plumbers for their needs. It’s a service that lets people in the US and Canada search for local plumbers on a list of vetted pros.
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A startup that helps people get the most out of the 1.5 million items they have stored in their kitchen and pantry with a web-based software that allows them to create shopping lists, organize items, and track purchases. They’re also developing a separate mobile app.
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A tool that helps you manage your Christmas card list, and order cards from different suppliers.
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A startup that sells a tool where you can upload a video and it gives you a list of things that could be wrong with it to help you figure it out
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This startup is building a platform to help journalists write better. It’s best for longer writing, and it lets you know which writing styles and topics are best for you.
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The product is a hardware device that uses machine learning to help you take the best shot of a face. The startup uses AI to learn faces and pair them with photos of them taken by users. It’s the company's first product, which was launched in June, and was a finalist in the class of 2018.
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A platform that helps people hire a cleaning and housekeeping service on Demand. The startup also plans to launch an app for people to list their housekeeping services.
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A startup that helps patients get more accurate diagnoses of their conditions by providing them with a collection of data from specialists via an app on their smartphone.
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A platform for homeowners looking to sell their homes, allowing them to easily list their properties for sale and hire a virtual agent to show the property to interested buyers.
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A way for team leaders to keep track of the progress of their team with simple checklists. The app is a free to share checklist and the team can customize the checklist with be customizable.
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A startup for selling outside of Ebay. The company is building out a marketplace for manufacturers and suppliers to list their goods for sale.
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A web-based service that aggregates and provides access to public data about real estate, letting people search for information and data about everything from price and listing inventory, to property tax rates and construction information.
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A startup that helps brands publicize and monitor social media marketing campaigns. The startup provides analytics tools that track responses to social media posts, and offers an “automated plan” that gives brands a list of potential customers who would respond to a Facebook post. They’re currently working with a few companies.
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A digital assistant that helps you manage your health, and links with doctors and other services to provide a holistic view of your health. The startup wants to be the “Apple Health App for the body”.
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A podcasting app for journalists that aims to help them tell stories more effectively, so they don’t have to spend weeks on each episode.
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Launch is a period of intense growth and expansion, and the companies listed above are just a drop in the bucket. As the startup ecosystem continues to grow, a lot more startups will have good ideas. Here are the top startups that have launched in 2019, according to TechCrunch.
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A company that’s building a next-generation email list for software startups, based on the idea that most startups have similar problems in the user experience of their product.
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A streaming music service for LGBTQ listeners that aims to provide a safe space to listen to music without being judged.
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A digital assistant to help connect you with property managers. Heaps of interactions are handled through email, and real estate professionals can be added as contacts to help users find listings.
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A tool for real estate agents to manage their listings better. They aim to make the whole process faster and easier.
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A music app that lets you share a playlist with other people in real time, rather than sending them a link to a Dropbox or Google Drive copy.
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Some of the ideas listed in this section are not considered to be ideas per se but instead products in development.
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This startup is building a new way to buy and sell real estate, by creating a marketplace that can help people find listings and agents, and to connect sellers and buyers.
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A company that wants to allow consumers to rent out their home or space to earn an income. They’re building out a platform, including a search system for listing, rental rates, insurance, etc. and a platform for decision-making for renters, with plans to expand into other areas.
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A telephone hotline for women in the US to call for tips and advice on sexual assault and harassment. It lists hotlines, counselors, and rape centers and people can also search for a group in their area.
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Enter a city’s zip code, the app will give you a list of local LGBTQ-friendly businesses, including restaurants, bars and bathhouses.
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This is a service for musicians to more easily manage their fan base. Artists can use the platform to manage their email list, promote and manage their music, and more.
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A network of over 80,000 household journalists who work for free in China to report on local government, events, and news.
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A platform that helps companies build their own “anchor stores” — the “experiences” that people want to do in a particular city. For example, a company like Amazon might want to open up a store in San Francisco, but they’re not the first company to do so. The startup builds out a list of all the other stores in the area, and allows companies to apply to open up a new one.
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A tool to help a team collaborate more easily by giving them a “Morning Scrum” checklist up front and allowing them to complete the checklist in the morning.
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A startup that lets users share status updates with the press and other stakeholders. The startup wants to become a single point of contact for journalists and other stakeholders, allowing them to build relationships with journalists, send them updates, and more.
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People who want to sell their old furniture can list it on the site, which acts as a kind of garage sale, then buy it for a dollar.
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A visual editor for news articles, where journalists can add their own photos and graphics to the content.
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The following is a list of companies in the batch who have been accepted into Y Combinator’s Summer 2019 class.
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An online platform for people to sell their old cell phones on. It has about 100,000 people already listing their phones, most of whom are in the U.S.
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A virtual assistant that helps you manage your to-do list, schedule, check email, and more.
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A company that helps other companies make more money by helping them grow their email lists.
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A SaaS that helps merchants personalize their customer experience in the checkout process. The startup wants to design a checkout experience that's “like using a personal stylist”.
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A B2B specialist that connects global buyers with local manufacturers. The company is building a supply chain management platform for businesses that is meant to be faster and cheaper than traditional methods.
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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.
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A startup that helps small businesses find and train new employees. It’s sort of like a LinkedIn for small businesses. In the past year they’ve hired over 300 people through the job board, and have a waiting list for others.
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A startup that lets you find a job by location, offering an extensive database of job listings, in addition to job postings from companies and government agencies.
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An on-demand beauty service that functions like a concierge or personal stylist, who will help you pick out a new outfit for the day, book a manicure or massage, or help you pick out a gift for a friend. The startup is currently focusing on the UK, with an international expansion in mind.
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A post-production tool to help journalists and videographers manage their workflows. The startup hopes to launch a desktop app in the spring of 2019, and a web app in fall.
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A web-based, cloud-based app that helps organized people, called “Mavens”, manage their life, including shopping, to-do lists, etc.
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A system that helps people make and share lists, with the goal of creating more shared lists than the traditional email/Google Docs/etc. style of list-making.
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This startup is building a tool for companies to manage user permissions in their app by creating a “whitelist” of applications that can be approved for access, and a “blacklist” of apps that can’t be approved.
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A company that hires a team of journalists, photographers, videographers and social media managers to create content for companies to share on social media.
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There are many more we could list, but these are some of the bigger startups that have launched in the last few months.
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This platform, like the others on this list, is focused on the Indian market.
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This startup is founded by former Google employees and aims to be the “Uber of recruiting”, allowing companies to list their job openings for remote employees.
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An online platform for finding a stylist that works with your budget.
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Local startup that uses AI to help consumers find real estate listings and make offers.
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A mobile app that lets users choose from a curated list of brands of choice, then gets them rewards when they spend money with them.
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A stylist who can do men’s hair, with a focus on short cuts and beard trims.
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A list-management app for restaurants. The company is focused on bringing a reasonable price to the market for customers who want to see a list of all the restaurants in their area, and offering a platform to send out reminders to the wait staff.
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A music service that lets individuals create and share their own playlists, with access to curated lists of songs and playlists.
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Seed funding was provided by First Round Capital and AngelList.
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A web-based packing list maker that helps consumers stay organized during travel.
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In this video, a startup founder runs through a list of companies:
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A startup that helps you setup and manage your online network, from email lists to calendars to Gchat.
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A “home sale app” to help people buy houses within the first 30 days of listing, with the hope of helping them close deals more quickly.
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A search engine for journalists and content creators.
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A tool that simplifies the process of selling online by providing a white-label platform for sellers to list their products.
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A company that helps teachers create lesson plans and 10 minute lessons that work on iPads, while the students listen and watch and learn
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A startup that helps landlords list their buildings for short-term rentals. The company says the B2B market for short-term rentals is “growing exponentially”.
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The list is far from exhaustive and reflects what a lot of people in Silicon Valley are talking about.
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A music-streaming app that encourages users to make their own playlists.
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A company that aims to bring a more holistic experience to recruiting through its candidate experience software.
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Wrapping up our list of the best startups in Y Combinator’s class of 2020, we've selected 5 startups from the batch that had the best business ideas and the best execution. (If you're curious, we'd recommend checking out the list of the top Y Combinator startups of 2019 here .)
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A startup focused on user-friendly music discovery. The startup wants to create a desktop experience around music discovery that will allow users to browse and listen to songs, and also see what others are listening to.
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"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".
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A music streaming service that focuses on music discovery. Co-founded by former Rdio and Spotify engineers, the startup will offer a curated “radio” experience, as well as a social experience where users can follow artists and share what they’re listening to.
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An HR startup that helps companies hire and manage software engineers. They focus on a unique interview process of tracking answers and listening to the answers and use machine learning to sort candidates, give feedback, and determine how to move forward.
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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.
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This is the list of companies that have been acquired by other startups in the past year.
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A smartphone app that provides a list of nearby unclaimed or abandoned items.
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A company that wants to make it easier to find the right real-estate agent. The startup’s software allows users to filter through listings with a variety of other criteria they choose like the number of bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage, and price.
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A tool for real estate startups, helping them list and market their properties
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A tool that allows hotels to create custom lists of their guests for marketing.
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A startup that allows you to explore open house listings for sale and for rent.
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Time has released a list of the top Y Combinator companies to watch, including five from the summer batch and seven from the winter batch.
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“A cross between LinkedIn and Twitter”, used by businesses to post job listings and engage with employees.
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The startup will deliver custom-made soundtracks to the home, so you can listen to it in your own car, or at work.
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A B2B business that lists items for sale on the web, allowing users to take advantage of the millions of people who are selling on Amazon. The startup has already made a $100,000 sale.
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A web-based platform for organizing your life, sharing with friends and family, and managing your daily activities. Notable for its “paperless” interface, which lets you create to-do lists and share them with others.
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A company that provides a way to manage and standardize your to-do lists across different tools.
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A tool for audio signal processing that can help vocalists learn new notes faster, with a similar approach to techniques used in speech therapy.
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A chatbot that helps people find the right job. It uses a “listening algorithm” to match job seekers with companies with the right fit. Currently focused on the UK.
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This startup is building a service for individuals to control the music they listen to and set their own personalized playlists.
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A chatbot for your shopping list.
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A platform for users to connect with “experts” about their symptoms, so they have a list of potential people to consult with.
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This startup wants to make professional photography payments more transparent, listing all of its expenses on a single invoice.
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A software company that will help you plan out your day and manage your tasks and to-do list.
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A way to help companies grow their email lists, helping them get more money and engagement.
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A “smart helmet” that helps cyclists avoid cars while riding their bikes
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The company is a contact-management app that is free but also has a free plan that is a bit more limited in features. The paid plan offers more robust features like a calendar and a list of contacts.
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A calendar app that pays people to listen to the audio version of their day.
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A platform for creating a series of documents that can interact with one another, like a shared to-do list.
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A platform that enables journalists to “do journalism by postcard” by sending a link to a story to a friend, who then comments on the story and sends a link to a friend, etc.
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A startup for cosmetics, where people can list and manage their inventory.
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A tool for managing a household’s information, from bills to schedules to grocery lists to recipes. The startup is building out a family social network.
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A startup that is creating a free, encrypted messaging app for journalists and human rights workers who need to communicate while under threat.
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This list has been updated as of December 2018.
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A virtual assistant that can handle your “to do” list while you’re away.
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A web-based music streaming service that gives you a chronological playlist based on your “music DNA”
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A platform that helps businesses create customized shopping lists. It’s free for early users, with a premium option available.
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A mobile app for real estate agents to help them give listings to homes quickly and easily. It employs an algorithm to understand the data the agent has on the listing and create the exact right message to sell to the agent’s client.
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A startup that helps users find a local barber or stylist. The app has a “Hot Spots” feature that lets users find a barber in their neighborhood by searching for “barber” in the app and then selecting “hot spots” from a map.
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A startup that wants to be the Uber of home-sharing. It offers homeowners the ability to list their living space on a platform meant to match interested guests with the right homes in the right locations.
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This is a list of selected notable companies in the Startup Battlefield. The list is made up of the companies that have been most successful in winning the Battlefield.
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This list is incomplete as there are many other startups that have not yet been featured here.
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The following is a list of notable consumer product startups in North America that have raised venture funding, according to Crunchbase and its sources.
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This startup helps customers find and book a doctor or specialist online.
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An AI-powered “digital concierge” that helps companies manage customer interactions. The B2B startup has a client list that includes Netflix and IBM.
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A startup that wants to make it easier to browse the web securely. The startup’s API can help users whitelist websites, encrypt their data, and mask their IP address.
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A portable, solar-powered “newsroom” for journalists covering breaking news.
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A platform that helps people find a stylist to help them choose a style that fits their personality and lifestyle, while helping them find and book a stylist.
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"Discovery" magazine has included the Y Combinator companies in their list of the most innovative startups.
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A tool for journalists to gather information from a variety of public sources.
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A social app that helps users find restaurants, bars and other local businesses on their phone, with a list organized by category like food and drink or nightlife.
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A platform that lets users book appointments with doctors and specialists who can help them with medical issues.
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A startup that helps health care organizations make more effective referrals to specialists. It’s currently being used by a network of 20 hospitals in Boston, with plans to expand to the rest of the US within the next six months.
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The company is building the first unified real estate listing management platform.
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A web service that uses machine learning to find sales and discounts around you. Users can build customized lists of products to save money on, and the service sends them notifications when they’re on sale.
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A startup that helps users find and review local health specialists by allowing them to search by location, specialty and more.
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Built for small-to-medium sized retailers, a shopping list app that can be synced to a phone and can also sync with a website.
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A startup that helps small-to-medium-size businesses send sales emails with photo-realistic pictures.
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A platform for real estate agents to easily manage multiple listing services (MLS) listings on behalf of their clients, charging a small percentage of each sale.
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a startup building a search engine that crawls the internet for duplicates, then presents a list of options to the user. They’re building a free version that’s already available in the Chrome store, and a paid version that’s not yet.
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A company focused on helping companies sell their products across the web. The startup wants to be the LinkedIn for products, helping companies list their products, track their prices, rank them, and more.
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A startup that helps users organize their calendars, including reminding them about things, creating to-do lists, and setting up events
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A way to find homes for sale in your area, with listings from landlords as well as customers themselves.
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After using Spotify to find songs, users can use the startup’s platform to find artists they like and set up custom playlists of the music they like.
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The company is building a platform for trying out new music, allowing users to listen to new songs for free before paying for them.
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A startup that enables you to “stop your thinking, just listen” and collaborate on ideas. It encourages you to “try a thought experiment” and think through how it would change your life.
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This startup is building an app that aims to help people get a job. It aims to provide job listings and opportunities in your area. The startup is working with the US government to use their algorithm for job placement.
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A startup that helps you manage the logistics of your home-owning life. For instance, it helps you plan for holiday guests, help with shopping lists, discover new places to eat, and more.
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This startup is building a tool that makes it easier for journalists to find sources in the Middle East.
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A startup where people can list, sell, and buy used vehicles online. In the United States roughly half of vehicles are cars that have been owned for less than a year.
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A digital marketing agency built to help businesses compete on social media. The company wants to help businesses build lists, track engagement and build loyalty.
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A company that lets you find and book the right stylist for your next haircut, without having to leave your desk.
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A digital tool to help people plan and organize their lives by aggregating all of their online calendars and to-do lists into one place.
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The startup is building a way to make it easier for the average person to sell their used goods on the internet. They’re currently crowdfunding a product that helps you list your used goods and get paid immediately via PayPal.
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SaaS company that helps employees stay organized with choices like task-lists, notes, and to-do lists.
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Startups that fit into multiple categories, where founders have multiple roles — co-founder, CEO, CTO and CIO, or just the founder and CTO — are a bit more common today, but still rare. The challenge is that it can be difficult to measure how much of the company’s sales and profit go to the founder. Here’s a partial list of startups that fit into that category:
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A startup that wants to create an API for doctors to capture, store, and share patient data. The app would let doctors send patients’ data to specialists and insurance companies, and keep track of bills, insurance claims, and other documents. The company says it’s already been used by doctors in the US and India and has revenue of $300,000 a month.
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A tool to help you save, manage, and organize all of your tasks, notes, and things you want to do. It’s like a to-do list that can be viewed as a calendar or spreadsheet and helps you keep track of all of your projects.
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A startup that wants to create a marketplace for the private sale of used cars. It's a Craigslist-like service, except the cars are owned by the users, not the site, and are sold between users.
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A place for people to find events that work for them. You’ll see a map of the city and nearest parks. You can also add events to a “todo list” and have the map and todo list sync up.
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The startup launched in March, and has since focused on getting its holistic health and wellness app into the hands of people in the U.S.. The startup is currently working with more than 100 health providers across the country.
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A startup that lets people create online resumes, store them online, and export them to other formats like Craigslist.
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A “social productivity app” that makes it easy to create a to-do list, track your tasks, and keep track of things you need to do.
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A company that helps small businesses in Chile to buy and sell online. It’s a marketplace that allows sellers to list their products and offers a number of tools for buyers to find and purchase their products.
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A startup that helps companies with talent acquisition and retention. The company employs a “holistic” approach to recruiting and retention, with tools for companies to evaluate candidates, share a common language and culture, and establish a graduated hierarchy for managers.
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Most startups listed here do not have any seed funding.
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A startup to help shoppers explore local markets, find deals, and build lists of what they’re interested in.
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A startup that helps marketplaces list and sell their items, with a focus on selling high-margin items that are hard to find.
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A “hyperlocal food delivery service” that wants to be a “Uber for food” – a company that gives you a list of local restaurants and gives you a choice of what you want to eat, with a pickup time and a location.
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A startup that helps local businesses communicate with their customers by providing a shared inbox and contact list. A startup for small businesses that wants to bring in new customers.
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Builds a tool that helps streamline how journalists find and make use of public records.
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A music-streaming startup, including a free music streaming service, a paid service that offers features like genre-based playlists, and an iTunes-like subscription service
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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.
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A startup that helps you be a better listener. A podcast-focused app that allows users to listen to a podcast or podcast episode on their phone, and then scroll over text to see what was said, or share the audio with someone else.
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The book was published on July 17, 2011, and made the New York Times Best Seller list on July 22, 2011, and remained on the list for two weeks.
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A startup that makes it easy to follow the progress of people on your contact list.
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This list is based on the CrunchBase data.
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A tool for finding and buying used books online that helps provide more information about the seller, and helps keep prices low by only listing books from places with a known track record of selling books.
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A way to monetize and organize digital content. With StoryIt, you can create and manage reading lists, track which books you’ve read and where you got them, and mark books as “read” or “currently reading”.
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A tool for building custom shopping lists for the home
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A startup that helps you organize your life, like a DVR for your podcast listening.
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This startup wants to build a “one-stop-shop” for publishers, letting them set up a website, create an email list, and start monetizing their traffic.
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A solution for human resources recruiters to help companies find the right employees. They classify recruiters into two categories: “job search specialists” and “job finders.”
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Startups that made the list last year but haven't expanded to the US yet
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A new kind of online marketplace for buying and selling used cars. Instead of going to a dealer, it's a platform where people can bid on cars and sellers can list them on the site.
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A platform that helps law firms and real estate agents sell homes that they didn’t actually list on the MLS.
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The company’s client list includes brands such as BBDO, Union Bank, Accenture, and Yahoo, and its primary product is a service that helps webpages load faster.
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In addition to everything on this list, there were also a handful of other companies that were pitched that I didn’t write about.
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A startup that curates a list of the best apps for you, whether you are traveling, a student, a parent, or just looking to discover new apps.
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A startup for making and sharing lists of things you need to buy, like groceries, cleaning products, and software.
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Connects with a user’s Evernote account to create a pivot table, with a map or a list.
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Wanted is a job listing site that allows companies to post jobs and then create a live feed for applicants, as well as company pages for employees to keep up with job openings.
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A free web-based platform for musicians to share their music with fans. The app lets musicians upload their music to the platform, and users can listen to it, vote on it, and make requests. Fans can also buy music directly from the app.
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A crowdfunding platform for startups, allowing people to invest in entrepreneurs as a way to get access to a new product before it’s ready for the market. Borrowing the model of Kickstarter, AngelList connects people with startups without the need to make a down payment.
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As of November 2017, Tastebuds was a top-2 startup in the food & beverage category on AngelList. Tastebuds is building a way to share tasting notes, recommendations, and experiences in a social network for restaurants.
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A web and mobile app that helps anyone interested in buying a home. Users can search for homes, find listings, and get contract details before making a purchase.
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A real estate startup that helps agents find roommates and list their rooms for rent.
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A side-hustle marketplace that allows freelancers to list their gigs, manage their rates, and find and compare gigs with ease. The startup aims to make it easier for local businesses to hire local talent.
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A web app that lets users create their own recipes using ingredients from a curated list of ingredients, and then share them on social media or email.
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Starts with a wish list on Amazon, then sends the link to the gift recipient who can then pick out items. The company wants to build a personalized gift registry service on Amazon that’s easy for shoppers to use.
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Startups can’t always get funding from venture capitalists and angel investors.
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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.
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A content distribution platform for journalists that makes it easy to pitch and pitch journalists.
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A platform that allows people to share products that they use, things they want to try, or things they have on their wish list.
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A way to make more realistic food on Instagram
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The companies featured above have either been accepted into YC or are in the application process. Other companies on the list below have not been accepted into YC, but are still in the running.
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An AI-based startup that lets you listen to your favorite songs without any advertising. However, the company has not yet launched any products or services.
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A startup that wants to help people buy, sell and ship items without having to worry about inventory. The startup is building a platform where you can list items for sale, then have them packaged and shipped directly to someone else.
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A smart suit that monitors a cyclist’s body and sounds an alert if the cyclist is having a heart attack. Geekster’s founders say that it’s a much cheaper alternative to an electrocardiogram, and only takes a few seconds to measure a person’s heart rate.
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This startup is building a better way to buy clothes, with a simplified and more secure checkout process, and direct access to a virtual stylist.
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A startup where people can list their cars for sale. The company has raised $500,000 in seed funding, and says it has 5,000 cars listed.
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A team of cyclists who want to take a different approach to a dating app.
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A tool for managers to better manage teams and tasks. The B2B startup has a client list that includes Netflix and IBM.
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A company that offers a new way to invest in real estate. The startup’s platform offers monthly payments of invested capital with a fixed rate of return on a pool of real estate investments. It’s a p2p lending platform, and its first customers are on a waitlist.
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A platform for renting and selling goods on Airbnb, with tools to help hosts manage their listings and reduce costs.
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This is a list of the most promising companies that didn’t meet the criteria for inclusion in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
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A company that wants to help people in the real estate industry easily share their listings online. It currently has 1,000 listings on its site, and is looking for other real estate agents to join them.
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Wired Magazine has a list of the top startups to watch in 2016, including three from India (Tango, Farmako, and Minimum) and two from the US (Clew and Zuddl)
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A software solution that helps companies digitize and streamline their process of onboarding new employees. The software is meant to be a bridge between HR and the new hire. Venture capitalists are already funding the startup with a $3 million seed round.
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A startup that acts as a matchmaker between consumers and local businesses — now.com. Customers can search for businesses and read reviews, while businesses can list their items, pricing and contact information. The company is based in San Francisco.
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Below is a list of startup pitches and other company announcements by city.
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A machine learning company that helps people analyze their music listening habits to figure out what kind of music is going to be most enjoyable to them.
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The startup wants to turn to-do list apps into more of a “next action” list, replacing the need for a separate todo list app.
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This startup is building an app that generates personalized content recommendations for TV shows, movies, podcasts, and more. The app can suggest content based on what a person has watched or listened to in the past, and then recommend similar content in the future.
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A company that makes it possible to share real estate listings and photos with the potential buyers and renters.
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A tool to aggregate and syndicate news articles to multiple social channels. The startup wants to help journalists write articles first and post to multiple sites.
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A platform that helps small businesses manage their online advertising campaigns, with a focus on getting more people to sign up for email marketing lists. They charge $239 per month.
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A startup that turns Facebook into a universal customer service ticketing system for companies. There are no fees for companies to get their tickets listed on the platform and brands can post customer service conversations on the site.
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A secure, anonymous messaging app for consumers, privacy advocates, and journalists.
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A tool for home sellers to easily list their properties on the internet. It’s a hybrid of the real estate listing sites Zillow, Trulia, and Redfin, with a few other features.
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One that provides an AI-powered tool to help companies identify and hire the best candidates. The startup’s tool allows recruiters to identify top talent from a shortlist of candidates, and then helps manage their recruiting process. There are no guarantees of success in the recruiting landscape, and a startup like this is a way for recruiters to get ahead.
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A startup that makes it easy for anyone to find a stylist and has them book an appointment on the spot.
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A tool to help you navigate and organize your life, and make sure you’re working toward your goals and not getting distracted. The founders say they want the tool to be the “GPS for your life” and they want to make it easy to add things like workouts and to-do lists.
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A tool for helping journalists report their stories, eliminating the time it takes to manually transcribe interviews.
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A way to build video games with a minimalist interface, aiming to give designers and programmers a more productive way to develop games.
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The app will make it easy for customers to book trips and delivery orders by selecting from a shortlist of the three most popular services, such as Uber and Postmates, and using a booking code to complete the purchase.
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A “social network for music lovers” that connects fans to each other and to the artists they’re listening to.
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A digital platform for journalists to gather information from sources and then turn it into a story.
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A startup that provides a digital assistant to help with the everyday tasks on your to-do list. It helps you organize your schedule, pay bills, plan your meals, and even get personalized recommendations for restaurants.
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Metronome is a plugin for Spotify that helps you navigate playlists better by highlighting the songs you haven’t heard yet.
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Many startups on the list came from India, a country that has been a "fintech powerhouse" in recent years. The country has a large population of engineers and a growing consumer base, and the availability of capital and technology has led to a boom in the number of startups in the country.
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A startup that aims to improve the way people search and book travel, by giving them a “wishlist” of destinations they might want to visit in the future.
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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.
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A product for people with a laundry list of complaints about the finance industry
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A startup that’s buying up small companies, in an effort to create a list of “deal-of-the-day” companies in the UK. The company buys these companies for an undisclosed price, and then sells them to consumers via its website.
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A startup that wants to help you stay organized with a tool that helps you create, group, and manage to-do lists.
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A tool that promises to automatically create a shortlist of candidates and automate the process of collecting feedback on them. It uses crowdsourcing to make an AI-based list, and provides coaching to the candidate to see if the feedback is accurate.
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A company operating in the travel space with a host of different products, including an app that predicts which airline seats are best for you, an app that lets you create wish lists, and an app that tracks your travel expenses.
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A startup that aims to make it easier for people to sell their homes to others. The company helps sellers navigate the paperwork, create a listing, and finalize their sale in as little as two weeks.
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A digital health startup that provides more holistic care for women’s health, combining tests with recommendations.
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A personalized music streaming service, focused on artists and listeners who are passionate about their music and share some sort of social connection with the artist.
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A real estate brokerage software startup that enables brokers to work with multiple listing services (MLSs) without having to manually enter each property into multiple systems.
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This list is based on companies that have raised a Series A, B or C round. Crunchbase tracks companies that have raised funding. It does not track companies that have acquired companies, or those that are now defunct.
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This startup is building a platform that allows you to track your running and cycling data, as well as a community of other cyclists for comparison.
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A solution that helps companies manage their guest-list and check-in processes and prevent mistakes.
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A software for managing music in a p2p fashion, allowing users to create and share playlists across platforms.
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A voice-activated bot that helps you manage your to-do list, including reminders, and the ability to share and collaborate with other users.
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In addition to the last column, each company’s founders would be listed in the “people” category. In the case where a company has multiple founders, alphabetical order is used.
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A tool that lets companies list their equity to the public.
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A startup that helps women manage their periods, including tracking symptoms, taking notes, and creating a shopping list.
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A chatbot meant to help automate the process of having a new product idea. The chatbot begins by asking users questions about their product goals and then uses those insights to generate a list of potential product ideas that could be relevant to their needs. The startup says over 50% of their user-generated data is generated by their chatbot.
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The startup helps consumers in cities post short, free listings, and to pay rent via the same platform. The startup uses its data to give advertisers accurate analytics on customers and their preferences.
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This startup is designed to help people become better at generating ideas. It’s a software platform that builds a list of random words and phrases, then works to match them to ideas in your head. The startup says it’s working with a client that has over 1,000 different words that it uses to generate ideas.
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A “full-stack freelance marketplace” that lets users browse and connect with freelancers. The startup’s first product is a white label product for brands, but it’s also working on displaying job listings directly on a company website.
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Allows users to create a listing for their house or rental, then rent out their spare room or entire apartment.
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A platform that lets people purchase goods online from a list of merchants using a single payment.
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The Talent Ally platform helps restaurants and hotels identify and hire the best employees. The startup is working with over 1,300 restaurants and hotels to offer training, job listings, and improvements to their business.
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A tool for brands to grow their mobile email list without having to pay for Facebook.
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A startup that allows people to have a list of things they’re grateful for. Once the user’s state of mind changes, the app will notify them.
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SeedLabs is a SaaS for seed stage companies, which the site says are “fast growing, high-potential companies that are too early to be listed on the stock market”. The site is meant to make it easier to find and connect with the best seed stage companies.
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A SaaS platform for helping home sellers list properties online. The startup wants to be the place where you can go to sell your home online.
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“E-commerce for professionals”, in which professionals can shop from a curated list of services from a website, rather than from a giant marketplace.
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A $20 earpiece that you can use to listen to music and make phone calls.
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A startup that aims to make it easy to purchase and promote products on Amazon. It’s a sort of Etsy for Amazon listings.
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A startup that is building a mobile app that can guide cyclists through repairs to their bikes, helping them keep their bikes in good shape.
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A startup that lets you create and store a personalized list of favorite TV shows, films, and actors.
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A tool for home-sharing platforms to manage the ratings and reviews that the hosts of their listings get from the renters.
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A tool for planning and coordinating a conference, conference call, or meeting. It allows you to invite attendees to the event, schedule times for the event, and manage speaker and panelists.
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A real estate listing app that lets you “list your stuff” and sell it on Craigslist.
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In addition to the companies listed below, Y Combinator has also worked with:
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A simple-to-use app for booking a hotel room. It’ll make digital bookings with the help of a travel agent and then show a user a list of options and the price range.
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A group of entrepreneurs in San Francisco who are building a tool for managing the logistics of selling a house. The app, called Apprise, is meant to help sellers manage their home and prepare it to list on the market.
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Pitch: Drawing from its roots as a real estate company, Urban Green is building a platform that allows real estate agents to use AI and services like text messaging to manage listings and customers. The company is also building a marketplace for agents to use to find and book listing agents.
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A platform that leverages a “social network” of local restaurants to help you find what’s nearby with a “localist” approach.
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A SaaS platform for agents to automate the registration, listing, and management of the sale of a home.
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A startup for finding and buying used cars, designed to be a hybrid of Craigslist and Carvana.
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A software platform that helps brokers find buyers for their listings, and new listings find their buyers.
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A P2P tool that connects patients with specialists to find the right doctor.
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A startup that helps health care professionals and other professionals with client management and billing. The startup says they have 100,000 customers, including specialists in the health industry, medical practices, and dental practices.
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Tapping into the underutilized expertise of the hotel industry, a startup is building software that helps hotels find and hire the right employees, from housekeeping to front desk to maintenance. The software aggregates online listings from local job sites, and then works with a candidate’s information to determine the best fit for the opening. The startup is also working with the hotel to get the word out about the opening to their customers.
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A tool to help employees organize their to-do lists so they can focus on the important ones. It’s currently available as a Chrome extension.
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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.
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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.
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A tool that helps people find and hire employees. JobsYouNeed crowdsources employee and job listings and brings them to the right employer.
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A digital assistant that provides a list of things to do when you get home on the weekends.
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This year’s shortlist was announced in February at the annual Demo Day in New Delhi, where startups pitch their ideas to investors.
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A startup that helps retail stores create a single business listing for all their brands, allowing shoppers to shop for one site and all the brands for a single order.
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A platform for public radio stations that allow listeners to donate to their programming.
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A startup that lets you create your own virtual assistant from a list of pre-made commands, built by other users.
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A company that makes it easier for people to learn new languages. The startup aims to allow users to learn on demand via a program that allows people to listen to native speakers of the language.
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A to-do list app for teams, available on iOS and Android. The app uses a collaboration model, where people can sync their lists across devices, and can edit others’ lists.
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A subscription-based service that helps independent journalists and writers monetize their work by selling subscriptions to their content. It’s a competitor to Medium.
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This startup is building a platform that connects companies in the food industry with people who are gluten free. Users can use the platform to create a grocery list or order groceries, or to buy items from a local restaurant or bakery.
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A push notification system that alerts users to things like a lost phone, nearby deliveries, and more. The product is only available in the UK right now, but the team says they’re adding US and Canada to their list of countries soon.
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This is a company that’s building a digital sales force that can travel to businesses, who sign up for the service and get a list of qualified prospects who might be interested in a service.
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A startup that aims to help people manage their Spotify accounts by giving them a dashboard to view their music history, listen to playlists, and search for new music.
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A home-services startup that connects customers with vetted experts in a variety of fields. Customers can book appointments with specialists, such as plumbers and electricians, via the platform.
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A startup for home security systems, where sellers can list their products for sale.
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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.
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A group chat app for real estate agents that allows them to quickly chat in groups about listings, compare notes on listings, and even set up meetings in the same app.
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A startup based in Sweden that wants to build on the user behavior data from people who are already using the company’s products. It has a product for people who want to listen to music, and a product for people who want to watch TV shows.
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A tool for journalists to help them do quick research, build up their own databases, or crowdsource articles.
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A company that helps advertisers try out new ad formats and measure their effectiveness. For a small fee, advertisers can use the startup’s service to generate a report on their campaign's success. The company claims to have a list of over 100 clients, including large fashion brands and big insurance companies.
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A startup for people to connect for shared interests. People can suggest what movies and music are being talked about and vote on a list of suggestions.
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A company that aims to make it easier for music-lovers to discover new music by organizing music playlists. The company allows users to create playlists that are automatically updated with new music put out by artists.
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A decentralized trading platform for digital currencies, built on blockchain technology. It aims to make the digital asset exchange process easy and secure. The company is currently developing a desktop app for the blockchain and is in talks with the US Securities and Exchange Commission about getting listed on a US exchange.
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a way to help housewives manage their grocery lists
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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.
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A tool for news junkies that helps you quickly find and follow your favorite journalists. It’s available on iOS and Android.
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A company building a database of real estate listings that can be used to search for roommates and find roommates online.
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A security startup that’s building a marketplace for on-demand security work. The company offers a new way for companies to outsource security work. The startup’s first customers are on a waitlist as well.
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A recent engineering graduate who landed his first job at Airbnb after dropping out of college. He’s building a startup that helps homeowners manage the process of selling their homes after leaving their landlords. Clients work with Clew to clean out their homes, give professional photos, publish their listing online, and receive bids.
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A “cloud-based global network of journalists” to help local newsrooms publish faster and more cheaply by connecting them to international partners.
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The company is building an “internet-to-vehicle” platform to allow you to control your car over the web — like you can a TV or PC. Drivers can get directions, listen to music and use their mobile device in the car.
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A mobile app that helps hoteliers list their rooms directly on Airbnb.com without the need to host their own website.
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This startup is building a way for people to listen to their favorite podcasts, music and audiobooks in the car. It’s the only car audio system that can also process voice commands from Siri.
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A startup that helps people manage their digital health data, including blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol in a more holistic way. It launches with a blood pressure and blood sugar monitor.
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This is a startup that wants to help journalists get more out of their data, so they can produce better results and get a more accurate picture of what their audience wants to read.
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A startup that helps you find, manage, and improve tasks in your todo list.
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This is a digital platform for real estate agents to sell their listings, allowing for real-time bidding and more.
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A system that recommends what’s next on your to-do list
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A tool for building and scaling events for schools, sporting events and similar. It’s built on top of the same chat and to-do list features of Slack, but is designed to be more scalable.
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The judges have chosen their 20 finalists.
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idea: A retail platform that helps brands and small retailers manage inventory and product pages across multiple sites. The startup helps brands manage product listings and marketing on a single user interface by combining real-time analytics and inventory management.
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"A social network for your diet", offering nutrition advice, recipes and lists.
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A startup that wants to help businesses find and hire the best talent. They’re building a “talent marketplace”, where businesses can list their needs and make hires.
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Transrecovery is building a platform that helps people better interact with their social media, helping them to find more personal, intimate and realistic content.
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A startup that wants to let you determine what kind of car you want without having to go to a dealer. Given a list of cars, you can split them up into different categories. You can then go to a dealer and pick the one that suits you best.
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A platform designed to help independent musicians, record labels, and music supervisors build digital distribution platforms. It hosts collectives, which are essentially websites for independent bands, allowing artists to share their music, playlists, and receive royalties.
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This company is a tool for sharing shopping lists with friends and family.
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A digital platform that pairs journalists with startups, non-profits and institutions that need help with their messaging.
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A potentially life-saving medical device that turns a patient’s blood into a gel that they can inject into their bloodstream. It’s currently being tested on a few hundred people with a waitlist of thousands.
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A platform for marketing professionals to be able to more easily build and manage their own email lists, with a modern, simple interface.
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A small business loan platform that helps companies create credit criteria and collateral checklists to reduce the risk of non-performing loans.
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A system for keeping track of and organizing your food, in the same vein as the company’s app, Wunderlist. The company says the app is used by 75 million people.
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A startup that helps companies make their data more transparent to share with the public. It’s meant to give journalists and researchers data to help them uncover facts not often displayed on company websites. The startup says they’ve developed a prototype to help journalists and researchers get data that is more often than not hidden from public view.
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A startup that helps developers prioritize and track their projects. Instead of a long list of tasks, developers can create multiple tasks that run in parallel, with the app keeping track of their order. Other startups in the space include Asana, Basecamp and Trello.
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Idea: A startup that wants to bring online tutoring to India It’s working with teachers and tutors, and aims to provide a marketplace where teachers can list their services
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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.
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The San Jose, California-based startup offers an introduction to basic accounting, billing, and invoicing. The startup launched in San Francisco in December and was one of 10 finalists in the TechStars New York program.
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This startup wants to help consumers find the right beauty products. The startup focuses on the US and Canada, and is starting off with a $1,000+ list of beauty products to help users find the right one.
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A startup that allows home sellers, who typically have a lot of personal information on their listing, to provide an online quote that sellers can easily adjust. The seller can see how much the buyer wants to spend, and change the price of the inventory.
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A platform that takes all the individual data points you need and puts them into one list, allowing you to make quick decisions about your business like “which of these two leads should I focus on”
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A personal assistant that works with your schedule and to-do lists to help you get stuff done.
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A startup where people can buy and sell their used clothes. The startup is converting people’s worn-out clothing into a secondary retail market. It’s something like a Laundry List but for clothing rather than household items.
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A Slack-like chat for newsrooms, for the purpose of “helping journalists get the word out about their work”.
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A company that helps people find the people they want to hire, turning job boards into a place where people can express interest in a job rather than looking through disparate listings.
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A video platform that allows businesses to broadcast to all of their customers, whether they’re watching, listening or just browsing on the mobile Web
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A digital assistant for real estate agents. The startup is building a tool for agents to use to listen to their clients, email and schedule meetings.
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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.
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A company that helps retail businesses get the most out of their point of sale systems, with a library of free apps, including one for tracking customer giveaways, making grocery lists and more.
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A startup that helps users manage their "digital assets" including photos, music, text, and documents. The company says they already offer the ability to manage tasks, or "chores" in their app, which allows users to specify a daily or weekly routine, and the app tracks their progress. The company also offers a service that allows users to build "to-do lists" out of their digital assets.
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A personal assistant that helps you get your work done. (“The app helps you focus on your work through a notifications system, a daily task list, a to-do list and a do not disturb mode.”)
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A music streaming startup that has developed a recommendation engine for artists to see where their fans are listening.
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Kallax helps you organize all of your notes, photos, and to do lists and makes them easy to reuse across multiple platforms.
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A platform that allows people to create and sell merchandise, including a to-do list and a loyalty program.
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A platform for educators to share content, listening and other materials for students, teachers and parents.
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A company that makes a portable, minimalist wallet.
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A digital marketplace for real estate services where people can list, rate, and review homes.
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Leaders are listed in alphabetical order.
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A secure messaging app for journalists that allows them to send messages to sources and colleagues without exposing their phone number.
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A startup that finds local businesses listed in Yelp and Zomato, and allows users to connect with them for food orders.
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Say goodbye to the physical shopping cart. Instead, this startup is using the phone’s GPS and cameras to track an item’s journey and build a shopping list, which is later synced to a digital shopping list.
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A chatbot that helps users create a playlist of songs on Spotify, Instagram, YouTube, and iTunes.
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A tool for finding data on a map. The startup says it’s easier to find the right house (or car, or whatever) by using a map than by looking at a bunch of house listings that don’t match your criteria.
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A company that helps people find a place to live, which they say is a more efficient use of time than going on Craigslist.
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A platform for the sharing of apartment listings and rental properties, with a focus on the UK. Rental one is currently effective in the UK, Canada and Australia.
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A platform for the rental market in which a person can host a party, choose their own playlist and invite their friends.
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A wearable device that listens to noise and activity levels and sends alerts to the user’s phone when they are too quiet, which they say can help the hearing impaired get a full night’s sleep.
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A startup for sellers to sell stuff on a one-time-use basis. It’s like a Craigslist for things. It’s a B2B company.
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First, the company creates a list of all the respondents to the survey, then it allows them to respond to the survey from a mobile device, web browser, or desktop computer.
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This startup aims to help open source projects find developers by second-hand posting their job listings to the site.
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A solution to the problem of constantly interrupted meetings with video calls and screens, the app offers a way to replace the typical status meeting in which people check in and listen to voicemails with a real-time video call and an instant messaging channel.
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A startup that’s trying to create a new way to crowdsource real estate listings by leveraging the real estate market’s existing data.
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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.
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A marketing service for startups, with tools for content marketing, email list building, and influencer outreach.
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A B2C app that enables consumers to create a shopping list using an app and then intelligently fill it.
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A company that hopes to help developers collect and manage their email lists. It’s a “one-stop-shop” for building, managing and publishing email lists, and let’s you test the effectiveness of various email campaigns.
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The company says it is “building a decentralized sharing economy” that is “platform agnostic” and “anti-monopolistic”. The startup wants to build a platform that integrates the sharing economy into everyday life.
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A startup provider, where subscribers can get their hands on a curated list of products based on their preferences, instead of having to sift through so many options.
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The mobile app for the monthly subscription box service. Bowel gives users a shopping list, then uses AI to buy the rest of the items. Bowel is looking to use the company’s AI to help determine the best items to buy to help users save money and time.
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An online tool that helps journalists find accurate and reliable information about current events without sifting through tweets, Facebook posts, and other unreliable sources.
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The competition is judged by past members of the YC Fellowship, YC partners, investors and journalists. Past judges include:
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An API for programmers to look up and analyze the quality of different products, with a curated list of top 10 ratings.
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A startup that is looking to use AI to create “routine checklists” and “manuals” for doctors to help improve patient outcomes.
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At the end of the day, this list is far from exhaustive, and there are a number of other startups that may be worth some extra research
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A startup for organizing and tracking your “earthly possessions” with a modern minimalist design. The company wants to make a tool that helps you organize your thoughts and your stuff.
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A $2,000 tool for helping journalists track their sources.
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Idea: A tool that helps you send emails to your users without needing to manage a list. The company says its software can send emails to millions of users without having to manage a list of them.
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https://venturebeat.com/2017/01/22/this-list-of-decentralized-startups-is-getting-longer-than-a-long-list-of-cryptocurrencies/
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A startup that lists all the things you’d like to buy, but haven’t been able to find. The startup’s founder says his product is like a “Netflix for Amazon” and that it earns him around $10,000 a month.
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A company that builds “smart” tools for home cooks and foodies. They’re looking to develop a web-based platform for those who want to cook, with a calendar, shopping list and recipe editor.
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A digital marketplace for real estate agents to find and manage listings
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A version of Airbnb for restaurants. The startup offers a way for restaurants to set up a listing and accept reservations, and to group reservations into a calendar of events to manage.
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A startup that provides members with a list of local grocery stores, restaurants, and other merchants that deliver.
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A startup that builds a “supercharged” mailing list of all the people who want to be a part of your content. The startup allows you to send targeted emails to all of your followers, creating a supercharged, targeted list that you can use to grow your email list.
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A startup for stylists, with a focus on the creative lifestyle sector
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According to this article, "This is the most comprehensive list of YC companies by their partners."
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A way for people to set up their own eCommerce sites and sell products that they’ve made themselves. The app is designed to be easy to set up, with a drag & drop interface that lets you set up your product listings and pricing.
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This startup helps people to organize their photos on their phones, using a to-do list to edit and add filters to the images.
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A company that makes it easy for people to buy and sell things on Craigslist. Sorta like Gumtree and Letgo, but with a focus on local business purchases.
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Forbes and Matter were the only two to feature SMU in their 2017 and 2018 lists of the Top 50 Under 50.
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Sinfero is a real estate startup looking to provide digital options for realtors. The company has built a web-based tool that allows realtors to manage their listings and get notifications when a property is under contract.
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A software platform that helps people create and manage the soundtrack to their life. The software allows you to search and dig through your collection of tunes, create playlists, and categorize them.
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Another app aimed at helping SMBs get started with sales and marketing. The app brings together a customer’s contact lists, notes, quotes, and leads and allows them to be organized into a CRM-like system.
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A local search platform for small businesses in particular, which is looking to “blend the best of Facebook and Yelp”. The startup wants to make it easy to find local businesses, giving them a list of all the businesses in their neighborhood.
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Winner of the 2018 Hackathon, this idea is to build an app that allows people to create an "ambient" playlist of songs from their own personal music library that automatically plays when they are in an Uber.
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A retail brand management solution, they charge by the month per location and list a lot of different categories.
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Idea: A text messaging app to help women in Afghanistan stay safe from abuse. It works as a “panic button” that calls a preselected list of family and friends when pressed.
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"Idea" is a weekly feature on The Verge's technology podcast, The Vergecast. Every week, we ask a question about a company or a topic at the intersection of technology and culture. You can listen to previous episodes here . You can read more about the show at our dedicated hub . You can reach us at
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A data-driven marketing company that focuses on the health care industry, using analytics to provide a more holistic picture of a customer’s health.
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A tool that helps workers find cleaner, cheaper ways to get around. The startup provides a real-time price list for deliveries, allowing users to compare the best options for their route.
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A startup that works with a property management platform to help users automate their rental listings, allowing them to capture more of their rental income.
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A web-based platform for real estate agents. The company wants to help agents outsource their listings and find the right client to buy or rent their property.
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A program that helps government agencies run background checks efficiently and collaboratively. The startup claims that it saves 10-30% of the time it previously took to run a background check, with a process that’s “10x faster than manual checklists”.
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A podcasting app for listening to or making podcasts
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3 years ago
This startup is building a platform for the medical industry to communicate with each other. The company has processed about $20,000 in medical records for cancer patients, who often can’t afford to travel to a specialist to see a doctor.
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3 years ago
A startup that will help retailers and brands send marketing directly to their customers, eliminating the need to get approval from each individual on the list. The startup is working with Walmart, and plans to launch in the summer of 2017.
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3 years ago
This startup is building a way for people to quickly and easily send encrypted messages with any messaging app. The startup is targeting the social media and dating industries, but is also looking to create a way for journalists to securely communicate with sources.
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3 years ago
A product that helps people to manage their food allergies and reactions. Once you set up a profile, the company creates an interactive shopping list, which can be sent to your phone as a notification.
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3 years ago
A platform that lets users share their real estate listings and bookings, with a picture and price attached.
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3 years ago
A $25 monthly subscription service that delivers highly curated content to users, including a daily news brief, a curated list of articles and videos, and a curated selection of articles and videos for mobile.
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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.
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3 years ago
The startup is building out an online auction marketplace, similar to eBay, but with a higher ticket price point for its auction listings.
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3 years ago
A SaaS startup that aims to streamline the process of buying, selling, and trading real estate. The company is partnering with local real estate agents to help them sell their listings, and is working with Brokers as well to help them with inventory management, and building out a platform that would allow people to have a fractional ownership of a condo or house.
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3 years ago
A platform for sharing daily tasks, it’s a little like the old “to-do list” and “agenda” apps, but it is much more flexible, with the ability to start a “task” and add details, like a deadline, location, or notes. It’s a B2B app — it’s aimed at retailers and small companies.
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3 years ago
The brainchild of two former Facebook employees, Yerdle is a next-generation market for goods and services. Yerdle has an app that allows merchants to list goods and services available for sale and to buy and sell their own goods and services.
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3 years ago
A B2B company that helps companies manage their investments and achieve a holistic view of their portfolio. It’s led by former startup employees at Betterment, Upromise, and Investable.
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3 years ago
The startup has a platform to help groups of people organise events through booking software, a Facebook-like to-do list, and a website to book tickets. The founders are also building an event organiser machine learning engine, which they plan to use to help them build a better booking engine.
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This startup is building a database of real estate agents and brokers, allowing users to search for a property for sale and get a list of agents to contact.
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The list is based on data curated by Crunchbase, which has been a source of inspiration for other lists like the 10 most valuable startups in Africa.
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2 years ago
A startup that crowdsources sound effects to help filmmakers create realistic audio for their projects.
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2 years ago
A new app for Spotify users that lets them create playlists on the fly, or browse through curated playlists created by other users.
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3 years ago
A tool for finding external funding that’s not tied to your domain. Clique is a competitor to AngelList, a site where individuals can post up their startup and ask for funding. The advantage is that it’s not tied to a specific domain, allowing it to work for any industry.
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A company that wants to bring real estate into the cloud, redesigning the way we do things like list homes for sale and track listings.
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3 years ago
A way to manage your Airbnb listing from your phone
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3 years ago
A platform for homeowners to organize their real estate listings and see how much their houses are selling for in an area.
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3 years ago
A virtual assistant that can help with the basics of staying organized, like scheduling workouts and creating to-do lists.
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2 years ago
A company that helps consumers determine what to buy based on seasonal sales and discounts. It’s basically a shopping list generator on steroids. It hooks up to the people’s favorite retailers and uses their data to identify the best deals and send users notifications.
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2 years ago
A startup that lets you create a wish list of items you’d like to buy and have them shipped directly to you
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5 years ago
Idea: A startup that is building a “daily deal for venture capital”. Users pay $10 per month to get access to a curated list of venture capital funds, startups and VCs.
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3 years ago
A tool that helps journalists streamline the reporting process by letting them search and filter news stories by category.
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3 years ago
It’s hard to focus on one thing when you’re in college and have a million responsibilities. Middleman helps you organize your life by letting you create a “bucket list” of things you want to accomplish, and then organizing those around your schedule.
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3 years ago
A startup that lets you create a “list of lists” for your brand. Tappk lets you create a list of lists for your brand, including lists for your company, for people who work for you, for customers, etc.
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3 years ago
A platform that simplifies the process of selling and buying real estate. It partners with agents to bring listings to users’ phones, and also lets users find homes by searching for neighborhoods.
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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.
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3 years ago
A startup that helps people who have difficulty losing weight by giving them a recipe and a shopping list to make all of their meals ahead of time. People can choose which recipes to follow, and all the ingredients and their costs are included.
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3 years ago
An iOS app that allows a user to easily create and share a list of items or activities they want to do.
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2 years ago
A startup for selling and buying used cars that’s different from eBay and Craigslist
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5 years ago
A startup that provides people with a list of top wedding photographers in their area
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3 years ago
Makes a visual guide for streamlining the process of writing a feature story in the newsroom, with a dashboard and dashboard buttons to help journalists easily mark things they want to focus on.
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3 years ago
A startup that allows people to share their Spotify playlists with friends, and other users to add them to their own playlists. The startup is also building a music recommendation service.
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3 years ago
A tool for hiring software developers, using a similar model to marketplaces like AngelList.
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3 years ago
A startup that wants to build a “personal newsroom” for journalists. It allows users to curate news based on their interests and set up alerts for breaking news.
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3 years ago
A software platform for a number of industries including journalism that helps journalists learn from each other.
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3 years ago
The company says it’s a productivity app that makes it easier to organize your to-do list.
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3 years ago
A specialist in helping startups unify their data. The startup’s technology is primarily focused on helping businesses unify their data, but it also makes it easier for individual consumers to do the same.
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3 years ago
This is a startup that lets people rent out their homes in a similar fashion to Airbnb. The startup’s CEO, Will Yang, was recently named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list of rising young entrepreneurs.
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3 years ago
A home-sharing app that allows tenants to manage their properties and post listings.
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3 years ago
A platform for people to create and share job listings in a simple, intuitive way.
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2 years ago
A startup meant to help real estate agents promote their listings to interested buyers using location-based marketing
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3 years ago
A way to help consumers create a custom playlist.
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3 years ago
A bi-weekly newsletter for entrepreneurs and businesses, written by a former business journalist. The newsletter is free and comes out the first and 15th of every month.
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3 years ago
New York-based startup is building an app that allows users to post and exchange photos and short videos together. The startup is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures and other notable venture capitalists.
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3 years ago
A new startup that wants to bring together the best local real estate agents in the US with the best local marketing teams to help landlords get the most out of their listings on the MLS.
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3 years ago
A platform for startups to get advice from investors, which includes access to venture capitalists and other investors. They’re looking for investors to fund seed and early stage companies.
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3 years ago
A tool that allows users to create a single destination for all of their online wishlists, enabling them to save time by only having to check one place instead of multiple ones across multiple platforms.
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3 years ago
A way for journalists to be paid for their work in digital currency.
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3 years ago
A B2B company that builds software for the real estate industry, including listing agents, appraisers and underwriting companies.
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3 years ago
A mobile phone app that lets you set up a private listening room in your home. Available on iOS and Android.
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2 years ago
A startup that lets you listen to a podcast in the car. The startup will let you download podcasts onto your phone or listen to them on the go.
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5 years ago
Idea: A data-driven advisory service for venture capitalists
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Y Combinator’s waiting list is a list of companies that are accepted into the program but haven’t yet received funding. The list is kept in a secret room underneath Y Combinator’s offices in Mountain View, California. The list is closed to the public and is generally used as a way for Y Combinator to vet companies that are accepted into its program.
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A startup that helps users get the most out of the free food and other freebies they get from companies in exchange for signing up for their email list.
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3 years ago
A content management system for journalists and other writers, designed to make their writing process more efficient.
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3 years ago
A startup for restaurants to track customer behavior, like “which panelists are eating the most often, and how many times they’re ordering”.
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3 years ago
The CEO of the company said that their three co-founders thought of the idea as a “wish-list”. They wanted to help people find the right car for their lifestyle, so they built out the tool to give car buyers a breakdown of the total cost of buying the car and the monthly cost of ownership.
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2 years ago
A tool that allows users to tag and organize their social media and search accounts into virtual “buckets”, allowing them to quickly search for and pull up a list of accounts.
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This was a list of the startups that participated in the YC Winter 2018 Fellowship, as of January 2018.
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A startup that creates a new way of selling homes by allowing people to list their homes online, provide a video tour, and get a full-price offer from a buyer before they move. Currently operating in the UK.
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2 years ago
A tool that helps people set up lists of restaurants, chefs, and cuisines to help them make smarter restaurant and food choices.
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2 years ago
A contact management app that helps you take notes in the form of lists and photos.
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3 years ago
A tool that helps people build and rank their own personal lists. Users can put together lists based on their interests, social connections, and other criteria.
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3 years ago
A product that takes the place of a subscription service like Spotify, but which can be used to listen to music on an unlimited basis.
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3 years ago
A tool that helps people implement the “5-5-5” approach to their to-do list, which consists of “small, specific, measurable, time-bound, realistic and doable” tasks.
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3 years ago
A startup that helps real estate agents find listings and make offers. The startup is working with real estate agents in the San Francisco area.
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2 years ago
A company that wants to make it easier for travelers to track their flights, providing tools to help them “track frequent fliers, airport waitlists, and lost baggage”. They’re looking to expand beyond travel to other industries, too.
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2 years ago
A company that’s building a search engine for global real estate listings, with 10% of the listings in the US.
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This company is building a shopping list app that uses AI to automatically suggest products based on a user’s shopping history.
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List of companies that received seed funding between January and July 2019.
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A platform that allows users to quickly put together a full-service event from a list of things they’re interested in. The startup helps event organizers boost ticket sales by having an earlier and more direct relationship with potential attendees.
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2 years ago
This is a mobile app that keep track of your to-do list. It’s similar to Wunderlist in that you can add tasks, notes or lists and share with other users. The app is built for iOS and Android, and integrates with your email, calendar, contacts, and other apps.
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2 years ago
A platform that helps you sell or give away your used stuff on Craigslist, Etsy, eBay, Facebook Marketplace or any other marketplace.
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2 years ago
A startup that connects buyers and sellers of housewares and home goods, allowing people to post listings from anywhere and get commission for each sale.
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These are the companies that are finalists at the YC Demo Day. A few startups are also in the YC batch of companies that did not raise capital.
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Music for kids, with a dedicated app for parents, an account on the app store that allows parents to input a song list, and get notifications when their kids have chosen a song.
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2 years ago
A podcasting startup that shares in the ad revenue from each podcast episode, rather than charging listeners.
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Idea: A co-working space in Colombia that is growing quickly The company is currently in a few pilot locations and is looking to expand rapidly They have a waitlist of over 50 companies
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A chat service for mobile journalists, relying on a community of journalists to help distribute breaking news.
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3 years ago
A “digital assistant” that helps you with different tasks, like monitoring your sleep cycle, creating a shopping list for your grocery store run, or getting directions.
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3 years ago
A multi-functional tool for managing TV shows, currently in beta, with a focus on binge watching. The app lets users create a watchlist and then track how many episodes they’ve watched, and how many are left.
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3 years ago
A platform that helps users describe their needs and get the best possible service from a specialist in a given field.
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3 years ago
A company that takes a page from the SaaS business playbook, offering a B2B service with a SaaS component. The company’s API helps businesses manage their own e-mailing lists.
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3 years ago
A tool that searches for and provides job listings from sites like LinkedIn, AngelList, and Indeed.
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This company is developing a “Mission-oriented AI”, which they claim is capable of “seeing, listening, understanding and acting like a human”.
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3 years ago
A home-sharing company that allows renters to take a picture of any room in their home, and immediately see who else has listed the same room.
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2 years ago
A “dynamic” online marketplace for short-term rental listings, with pricing and user reviews.
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2 years ago
A digital platform for journalists to syndicate their work. Features include original content and interviews as well as customization of the look of articles for different publications.
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2 years ago
A startup that pulls data from a variety of sources to create an AI-powered shopping list.
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2 years ago
A solution for users to get their Spotify recommendations based on music they’ve listened to.
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3 years ago
A company that helps employers create online job applications. The company says its software costs employers $10 per user and that their customer list includes 84% of the Fortune 1000.
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The list is not comprehensive. The above startups represent some of the more notable applicants that have been accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch. For a full list of all the startups accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch, see here.
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This is a web-based network for real estate agents to share listings and view properties, which is a growing trend in the industry.
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A platform that lets users share content on social media, and see a list of who they’re sharing for on Twitter and Facebook.
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5 years ago
Idea: A startup for used goods, where resellers can list any item they want for a flat fee. The startup wants to remove the hassle and fees of selling used goods online.
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A B2B company that helps businesses in the SaaS space with marketing automation. The startup has a large partner list that includes Salesforce, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, Google and others.
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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.
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2 years ago
A fitness wearable that tracks heart rate and movement, with a built-in speaker that allows users to listen to music or podcasts.
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2 years ago
A startup that aggregates thousands of art, design, and manufacturing job listings into a single portal to help people find the right job for them.
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A company that wants to be the Amazon Prime of the food delivery industry, offering customers access to a curated list of goods and services, with a focus on curbside pickup.
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2 years ago
A platform for viewing data, as well as a form of social networking, for journalists to share and discuss reporting and analysis.
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2 years ago
A digital newsroom for the media company, providing editing and publishing tools for journalists to create and share stories.
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2 years ago
The startup is building a “professionalized” version of Craigslist, meant to be less of a “garage sale” than a more professional place for people to find things to buy and sell.
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3 years ago
A startup that helps people find a new apartment by putting them in touch with a property manager. The startup wants to compete with Craigslist and Apartments.com, but with a smaller per apartment fee.
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2 years ago
A social network where you can hang out with friends in a virtual space and for pay, the company wants to become something like a virtual nightclub where you can listen to music, play games, chat with other users, and engage in live chat.
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2 years ago
A video streaming app for kids, where parents can create playlists and have them automatically played to their kids.
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2 years ago
DailyPicks solves the problem of building a daily list of things to do by aggregating all the different daily lists you’ve saved into one place.
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A company that’s helping businesses hire low-cost specialists to streamline their work.
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A tool that helps generate real estate listings automatically on a Craigslist like platform.
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2 years ago
A tool for journalists, writers, and publishers to manage their workflows and track those of their contributors.
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2 years ago
A startup that makes it easier for people to run their own marketplaces, with analytics and a marketplace management dashboard that helps sellers manage their listings.
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2 years ago
A platform that helps space companies reduce costs by streamlining the list of people that can access the company’s data.
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2 years ago
A startup that lists off the best classes for a person’s interests, kind of like Netflix but for professional development.
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2 years ago
This startup is building a digital assistant that can do things like compile a list of fire-safety requirements for a building or check the status of a particular project.
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This builder connects homeowners to rental properties on a daily basis. The company’s site has over 1,500 listings, with 200,000+ users and 22 million page views per month.
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A shopping list and grocery delivery app.
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A team of blockchain specialists is building a decentralized platform for managing a city’s economic activity. The platform is meant to be a middle ground between the government and the market.
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A startup that provides a shopping list and shopping cart for people who want to grocery shop online.
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A “frictionless” grocery delivery service for retailers. The site offers customers a curated selection of local merchants who have partnered with the service. It has a store locator and curates a list of merchants. The startup says it has already signed up 1,000 local merchants.
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This is a list of companies that have received venture funding. The companies are listed in alphabetical order.
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An online marketplace for hair extensions. The startup has signed up 30,000 stylists in the US, but plans to expand internationally in the coming year.
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A way for people to filter through the local real estate listings in their area, and then get in-person quotes from local agents.
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5 years ago
A startup that lets people buy and sell homes with cryptocurrencies, says it’s already working with several real estate agents to list properties for sale with Bitcoin
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Idea: A startup that makes it easier for people to sell or donate their clothing. Users take a picture of their items and it’s automatically listed on a number of different online marketplaces.
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Idea: An AI voice assistant that listens to you at work and helps you organize your day, from setting reminders to adding appointments to your calendar.
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In August 2019, M3 was named one of five finalists for the second annual Disrupt SF Investor Pitch Competition for its work developing a tool that helps companies create newsletters, sales events, and discounts.
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A startup that makes it easy for companies to host their email lists, helping to make their email marketing more efficient.
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2 years ago
A startup for restaurants to list (and track) their current menu items, and to let customers know if and when a dish is sold out.
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A system that allows real estate agents to sell listings without using an agent.
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2 years ago
The next generation of podcasts, pitched as a “YouTube for podcasts”. The startup’s app aggregates all the different podcasts you listen to (which includes podcasts that aren’t on Spotify).
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A platform that allows users to pay for their own personal assistants. The assistants can be used for everything from shopping lists to scheduling to doing the dishes.
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A toolkit that helps homebuyers find the best mortgage for their needs, and allows sellers of real estate to list their properties with a single, unified website.
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2 years ago
A new way for businesses to sell product on Amazon. It has a large catalog of products, and charges sellers a flat fee of 5% or less of the list price.
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A startup that helps nonprofits get more involved in their communities by providing services such as fundraisers, lists of people in need, and donation processing.
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A startup that helps you find and follow your favorite podcasts, and you can even listen to them on the go.
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2 years ago
A tool that helps marketers find high-value customers in their email lists based on their propensity to buy.
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2 years ago
A machine learning platform for email marketing. The startup is seeking to become a data-driven email marketing platform that helps its clients increase their email open rates and deliver more relevant messages to better convert their email list.
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2 years ago
A way to manage, organize and track your everyday to do list. It’s free to download and uses the new Apple Watch to add tasks to your day.
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2 years ago
A company that provides a credit score, which they say provides a more holistic view of a person’s financial health than just their FICO score.
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2 years ago
A startup that’s building a browser-based real estate listing platform based on HTML 5 and CSS. Its first product is a tool that helps people buy and sell real estate.
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If you’re a freelance journalist, you’re likely doing your job in a room with a bunch of computers. The startup is building a way to take all the great content that journalists produce and put it in one place, so freelancers can benefit from a bigger audience.
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The following are just a few of the companies that have been the subject of media attention and/or venture capitalist funding.
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The startup’s technology enables users to download their own music and listen to it on their private headphones. The idea is that they can find their music on a playlist of known Spotify playlists. The company takes a small commission on each track, which is used to pay artists for their work.
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The following list contains a mixture of ideas created by graduates of Y Combinator's summer program, and other companies that YC-backed startups have turned into full companies.
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A health tracking platform that helps users create to-do lists for their health goals.
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The first version of the Startup List will be released in early December. The Startup List is an ongoing project by the Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
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A startup that allows you to take a picture of your restaurant receipt and upload it to the web for a listing on TripAdvisor, Yelp, and similar listings.
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A music streaming platform that’s focused on the Indonesian market. The startup allows users to create playlists of their favorite songs.
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A startup that allows customers to buy products in bulk via a “grocery list”.
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A real estate listing platform that aims to make it easier for people to buy and sell homes in a local market. They’re currently in a public beta, with plans to launch in Q4.
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This app helps employees stay organized with a daily task list suited for their environment.
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A platform for sellers to list items for sale directly from their smartphone, with the ability to sell items on behalf of the buyer.
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This startup has a few important products that allow for the creation of automatic video interviews. They’re used by professional journalists but are now being adapted for the masses.
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A system for people to crowdsource their favorite Spotify playlists, which is then used to create recommendations for the music service.
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A startup that helps people with agoraphobia by selling them a list of places where they can go and not be bothered
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This company is building a platform that helps small businesses advertise on Craigslist, connecting them with the site’s users through text or voice messages.
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A self-promotion platform for makers, makerspaces and makerspaces. It offers services like a blog, a newsletter, and listing on websites like Etsy, and the tools to make any item sold via the platform.
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A decentralized marketplace for buying and selling property listings from property management companies, “making it possible for small property managers to offer listings to potential buyers.”
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A company that wants to make it easier for non-tech companies to design and sell their products and services on their platform. The startup already has a listing of more than 200 companies that’ve used their platform.
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The company is hoping their device can help journalists, and other newsroom professionals, do their job more quickly and efficiently.
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A company providing an API to help producers and marketers identify relevant ads by tracking user interactions and other data from social media. The API returns a list of users who have interacted with an ad, along with a list of their social media profiles.
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An investment they’re funding personally with this round, social finance firm Monzo is a bank focused on making personal finance easy and accessible, with a minimalistic, simple interface and a rewards program that emphasizes savings. They’re experimenting with new products like peer-to-peer lending and a prepaid debit card.
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A platform for journalists to create, schedule and publish their own newsletters and newsletters to their readership. The company says the app is for "digital publishers who want to reach their audiences, not just with text but with imagery and video to tell their stories."
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A digital notebook that’s a combination of a diary, planner, to-do list, and address book all in one. It’s meant for entrepreneurs and other companies to manage their daily tasks.
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A startup for used cars, used trucks, and used machinery. The company wants to be an alternative to eBay and Craigslist for selling used assets.
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A digital assistant for home cooks. The startup wants to create a way for people to find recipes and grocery lists online, and use voice commands to bring them to life.
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A way to send money without fees. The startup began as a project from Spark, a YC startup that was acquired by PayPal, and then spun off of PayPal. The startup uses a mobile device to scan an item’s barcode, compare it against a list of unique codes, and automatically send money.
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The 2017 list was compiled from a total of 135 nominations. The winner of the 2017 list was announced on June 4, 2018. The 2018 list was compiled from a total of 195 nominations.
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5 years ago
A startup that provides a service where you can hire someone to go shopping for you (you provide a shopping list and the startup will send someone to the store for you)
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2 years ago
A video chat app that has a “magnetic selling” feature built in. When you start a conversation on the app, you get a list of the other person’s friends, who you can reach out to to see if you can chat with them as well.
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2 years ago
A startup for dental care, where companies with a dental license can list their services and patients can book appointments.
20
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2 years ago
A tool for managing email lists that is “like Gmail, but better”.
20
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2 years ago
A startup that helps you pick from a bunch of books, or from a personalized reading list, based on your interests. Once you’ve picked a book, it’ll send you a notification when it’s been published.
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2 years ago
An online marketplace for owners of start-ups to list their businesses for sale, along with a range of associated services.
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2 years ago
This company is building a mobile app for radio stations, offering on-demand music for listeners, and a revenue-sharing revenue model.
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2 years ago
A to-do list that also lets users create a mini-moment when they complete a task and sends a push notification.
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2 years ago
A startup that helps real estate agents manage their listings, from the initial photos through to the sale.
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2 years ago
Flippa, a startup that helps sellers list and promote their items on the site, is one of the top 10 most popular sites on Airbnb. Flippa is one of a handful of startups built on the idea that on-demand goods should be just as easy to sell as on-demand services. Flippa’s sales are in the hundreds of millions.
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5 years ago
A startup that provides a website where people can list items they no longer need and sell them to other people
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2 years ago
A platform that enables users to buy and sell real estate online by allowing them to create virtual homes and listings. The startup claims to have nearly $100 million in annual transactions.
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2 years ago
A startup that let’s you make a daily “to-do” list, with a feature that lets you block items
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5 years ago
A startup that creates a customized list of things a newlywed couple needs to buy for their new home
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5 years ago
Idea: A startup that aims to build a marketplace of “expert” services for small businesses. The startups is meant to help small businesses stay competitive by hiring specialists for tasks like bookkeeping or marketing.
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2 years ago
A startup that helps B2B companies manage and grow their customer lists by connecting them with relevant business owners and connecting salespeople with buyers.
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2 years ago
A way to buy and sell real estate without using a broker (or close to it). The startup is building a service that allows you to create a listing transaction in under 5 minutes, listing an apartment, condo, or house.
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2 years ago
All ideas listed here are in some way connected to the "Y Combinator" startup accelerator, which has been running since 2005, and is known for its "democratized access" to seed capital for startups.
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2 years ago
A sharing economy platform for brick-and-mortar retailers to list and rent out their spaces. The startup is working with over 200 retailers already, with plans to expand globally.
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2 years ago
The following list of companies was not included in the pitch competition but we think they are worth mentioning.
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2 years ago
A company that allows you to stream video from a web browser and listen to it on your phone or tablet.
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2 years ago
A new way to buy and sell domains that is cheaper and faster than the traditional method, with sellers able to see the daily list price of the domain they’re selling.
16
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2 years ago
This startup is trying to build an AI that is able to listen to the way people speak and understand what they’re saying. The company says that its technology is able to understand the context of a conversation faster than a human can.
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2 years ago
Is a platform that connects people with the homes they love. After signing up, users can view homes in their area and select one to contact the listing agent about buying.
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2 years ago
A tool to help recruiters go into a job interview with a list of questions tailored for that specific candidate. The company does this through a crowdsourced database of questions and answers.
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2 years ago
A platform that lets businesses manage their large email lists, including segmenting them by interests or location, adding “organic” content (i.e. pro-team messages), and more.
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5 years ago
A tool for helping companies manage their vendor information on their website. The tool creates a standardized list of vendors and allows employees to update it as necessary.
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2 years ago
A company that wants to make it easy for people to print out a list of the places they want to eat before they go out to eat, and then book those reservations at the same time.
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2 years ago
A company building a virtual assistant for hospital nurses and doctors, combining the functions of a virtual assistant and a doctor. The idea is that instead of having to type in a medical query, you’d speak to a nurse, who would then use a series of keystrokes to pull up a list of answers.
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2 years ago
A product development app that provides users with a list of local resources to solve a problem. The company describes it as “Uber for local products.”
14
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2 years ago
A “Nextdoor for real-estate”, where people can post and review local real estate listings, shared by the people in their neighborhood.
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2 years ago
This startup wants to make it easier for customers to get a hold of their suppliers. Since the startup’s founding, it has grown to a list of more than 100,000 suppliers, and aims to expand to 500,000 over the next few years.
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2 years ago
The 2018 list was announced on August 22, 2018. The winner of the 2018 list was announced on September 4, 2018.
14
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2 years ago
A tool for making Spotify playlists on the fly.
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5 years ago
Idea: A company that converts real estate listings into interactive videos to help people better envision what a home would look like in person.
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2 years ago
An AI-driven platform that helps teachers identify students who may need extra help. The AI platform will put out a list of students who are struggling in certain areas and will help teachers pinpoint which students should be taken out of class early to help them catch up.
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2 years ago
The startup is a fully-automated assistant for organizing tasks. It can listen to its user (via voice or text) and complete tasks, like email and conference calls.
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2 years ago
A tool that lets you keep track of your favorite music and artists, and is powered by your music listening history.
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2 years ago
A tool to help recruiters manage their job listings. It’s free for recruiters with fewer than 100 job listings, and $10 per job listing per month after that.
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2 years ago
A startup that will let people listen to music using a heads-up display, including Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, and internet radio.
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5 years ago
Idea: This is a real estate startup that wants to help people find homes to rent. They’re looking to target people who’ve been priced out of the market and need to rent instead of buy. The startup’s pitch is that it’s better than Craigslist because it focuses on neighborhoods and can recommend specific apartments.
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2 years ago
A three-minute app that helps you “tame your to-do list”
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2 years ago
A platform that connects social media influencers with brands to deliver a holistic marketing experience.
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2 years ago
A team of real estate agents that is building a platform for easy property listing.
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5 years ago
Idea: A startup for creating and tracking to-do lists, but also automating micro-tasks like moving a cart from one aisle to another
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2 years ago
A software platform for VR and interactive content that allows brands to embed content within their own VR experiences. It’s currently backed by Google, who recently brought the startup on their “Emerging Technologies” list.
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18 hours ago
B2B tool that automates compliance checklists for restaurants, scanning menus and supplier docs to flag allergen risks and licensing gaps.
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11 days ago
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A startup that uses AI to automatically transcribe, summarize, and tag every voice note, meeting recording, and podcast you listen to, creating a personal searchable knowledge base across all your audio.
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2 days ago
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Service connecting freelance linguists with e-commerce brands to localize product listings in real-time for emerging markets like Southeast Asia.
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1 day ago
A platform for AR try-on of furniture in real estate listings, letting renters visualize IKEA hacks or custom pieces in empty apartments before signing leases.
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4 days ago
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A startup digitizing vintage family recipes into interactive cookbooks with AI-generated variations, nutrition tracking, and grocery list integration for modern kitchens.
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15 hours ago
An AI-powered service helping e-commerce brands in Southeast Asia optimize product listings for local marketplaces like Shopee by auto-translating and culturally adapting descriptions.
0
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5 years ago
A startup that provides a service for people to have a list of companies they’ve applied to sent to them every month so they can follow up
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5 years ago
A startup that provides a service where someone can provide you with a custom list of things you need to do to prepare for a big life transition (ie getting married,
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5 years ago
A startup that provides a service where people can pick up and drop off items they are selling on Craigslist
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5 years ago
A startup that helps people who are going on a cruise put together a packing list and guides them through the packing process
-1
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5 years ago
A startup that helps people with their taxes and provides them with a list of potential deductions and credits that they qualify for
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5 years ago
A startup that provides people with a list of their credit report and credit score for free
-1
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5 years ago
Idea: A startup to organize your to-do list
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5 years ago
Idea: A startup to help sellers list items on Amazon, eBay, and Shopify
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5 years ago
Idea: Mention is a tool for tracking news about your company The startup says it’s a service for journalists who want a way to quickly search through news sources to see what’s being said about a company
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5 years ago
Idea: A startup that enables people to automatically record the music they listen to on their phones and stream it to a connected speaker
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5 years ago
Idea: A solution for sending out targeted marketing messages to specific segments of a customer list, or the entire list
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5 years ago
Idea: A business that helps companies build and manage lists of users who are interested in a particular product The company has a subscription model, and its largest customer is in the pharmaceutical industry
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5 years ago
Idea: A solution for helping people buy and sell used items on Craigslist easier, converting the site into a full-on marketplace
-1
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5 years ago
Idea: A mobile app that helps people take the slow out of slow travel. It offers curated lists of local experiences, and helps users book rooms and other experiences with hosts.
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5 years ago
Idea: A company with an app that allows people create their own visual shopping lists and share them with friends and family.
-1
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5 years ago
Idea: A startup that wants to bring an end to email spam. It works by helping companies send their email marketing campaigns through a sort of whitelist system where known email addresses get through, while spam goes straight to the junk folder.
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5 years ago
Idea: A company that helps people find, buy, and sell secondhand goods. The startup wants to be a Craigslist-like platform for local goods.
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5 years ago
The following is an incomplete list of major startup acquisitions:
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Smart pantry inventory app that scans groceries via phone camera, predicts expiration dates, and auto-generates shopping lists with recipe suggestions.
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1 day ago
An AI tool that auto-generates personalized workout playlists synced to real-time fitness tracker data for gym-goers.
-1
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2 days ago
A startup connecting freelance linguists to create instant, culture-specific translations for e-commerce product listings in emerging markets.
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1 day ago
GigWardrobe connects freelance stylists with event attendees for last-minute outfit rentals and on-site fittings, targeting festivals, weddings, and corporate galas.
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3 days ago
Virtual reality job simulator for blue-collar trades like plumbing and welding, letting trainees practice on realistic digital job sites before real-world apprenticeships.
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6 days ago
A platform that uses AI to generate personalized workout playlists synced with your exercise pace, pulling from Spotify and fitness trackers for real-time tempo adjustments.
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6 days ago
A startup providing on-demand virtual staging for real estate listings, using AR to furnish empty rooms instantly for remote buyers.
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5 days ago
Collaborative playlist builder for virtual events, allowing hosts to crowdsource music from guests in real-time with mood-based AI recommendations.
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5 days ago
A startup that builds a voice-first podcasting platform for WhatsApp groups in emerging markets, letting creators host live audio rooms and monetize via listener tips and sponsorships.
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7 days ago
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A SaaS tool that automates compliance checklists for small solar installation companies, streamlining permits and inspections to speed up backyard renewable energy adoption.
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7 days ago
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A startup that builds AI-powered voice notes for construction workers, converting site instructions into searchable blueprints and task lists via wearable earbuds.
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7 days ago
4 views
Automated compliance tool for e-commerce sellers that scans product listings across Amazon, Shopify, and Etsy to flag regulatory issues like safety labels or tariff changes in real-time.
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9 days ago
1 views
AI-powered voice notes app that auto-transcribes, summarizes, and tags rambling thoughts into actionable to-do lists for busy professionals.
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9 days ago
4 views
An AI-powered app that scans your fridge contents via photo and generates personalized weekly meal plans with grocery list auto-orders from local stores.
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10 days ago
1 views
A platform that automates compliance checks for small e-commerce sellers in the EU, scanning product listings against GDPR and new digital product rules to avoid fines.
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8 days ago
3 views
A platform that uses AI to generate personalized workout playlists synced to real-time heart rate data, partnering with music streaming services to boost user retention in fitness apps.
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9 days ago
1 views
A startup that builds AI-powered virtual staging software for real estate agents, instantly furnishing empty rooms with customizable 3D decor based on buyer preferences to boost online listing engagement.
-94
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11 days ago
A platform that turns family recipe books into interactive cooking apps with AR guidance, voice commands from grandma's recorded instructions, and automatic grocery list generation.
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11 days ago
A startup that turns family recipe books into interactive digital experiences, complete with AR cooking guidance, shopping lists, and shared family cooking sessions.
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11 days ago
A startup that turns family recipe books into interactive digital experiences, allowing users to scan handwritten recipes and get step-by-step video guidance, ingredient substitutions, and shopping lists.
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10 days ago
2 views
A platform that automates compliance checks for small e-commerce brands selling across multiple international marketplaces, flagging regulatory issues in real-time before listings go live.
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10 days ago
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A startup that automates compliance checks for small e-commerce sellers on platforms like Etsy and Shopify, using AI to scan listings for legal risks like IP infringement or false claims.
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10 days ago
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A startup that builds a Notion for field service technicians, letting them create dynamic checklists and job reports that sync with GPS and inventory in real-time.
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