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Middleman Startup Ideas

5 years ago

The India-based company wants to remove the middleman from B2B commerce by allowing businesses to create individual shopping carts and price all their goods without an agency setting charges.

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4 years ago

The startup is developing a system for remote workers that would allow employers to pay employees using a card that cuts out the middleman bank.

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4 years ago

A platform that helps big companies manage their supply chains, taking on the role of a middleman between suppliers, distributors and consumers.

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3 years ago

A middleman for buying and selling secondhand clothes, bringing buyers and sellers together.

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3 years ago

A startup in Singapore that plans to replace the human middleman in real estate transactions with an AI-powered software platform. It’s currently running a pilot in Singapore, and plans to launch in Australia next year.

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5 years ago

A startup that acts as a middleman between your friends and their travel agent so they can pay and set up their travel arrangements online.

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4 years ago

The startup is building an app that makes it easy for people to buy and sell used clothing online, cutting out the need for a middleman like eBay.

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5 years ago

If you’ve been to a restaurant in the United States, chances are you’ve left a tip. But what happens to that tip What if that tip was shared with the next person who dined at the same restaurant Farbric’s app cuts out the middleman, allowing the restaurant to keep more of that cash.

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4 years ago

A tool that helps content marketers find the most effective ways to promote their work. The startup wants to make content marketing cheaper by removing the middleman and letting companies choose what works best for them.

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4 years ago

A platform that sells data to insurers. They want to act as a middleman between the insurance industry and the data they use to calculate risk, and they want to do it in a way that’s transparent and easy to understand.

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5 years ago

A booming business for managing and cutting out the middleman when buying and selling real estate. The company has raised $32 million to date.

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5 years ago

A company that aims to build a web-based, third-party curator for Amazon. The startup’s founder says that by offering a third-party curator of Amazon, a company can take advantage of the huge inventory of products that Amazon offers and cut out the middleman.

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3 years ago

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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5 years ago

The startup, which has raised $15 million in funding, aims to help consumers save on energy by acting as middleman between big energy providers and consumers.

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5 years ago

A platform that connects people looking to buy or sell their homes with real estate agents. The startup wants to be the middleman between owners and agents.

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5 years ago

A company that wants to help people buy and sell property more efficiently, to cut out the middleman.

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5 years ago

A startup that wants to be the middleman between the growing number of small-scale contractors and the big-contractor industry

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4 years ago

A coalition of companies is trying to build a system for small businesses to buy and sell goods on the internet without a middleman.

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5 years ago

This startup is building an app that allows users to buy and sell local goods to each other directly in person, without going through a middleman.

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5 years ago

A startup for freelance designers that takes sticker prices and eliminates the middleman.

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2 years ago

A peer-to-peer marketplace where people can buy and sell things locally without going through a middleman. Currently, it works with people in New York City, but the startup plans to expand to other cities soon.

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5 years ago

A blockchain-based invoice financing platform. The company wants to lower the cost of capital for the global invoice financing market. It’s using the blockchain to replace the middleman and make the process more transparent.

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5 years ago

An online marketplace for buying and selling used items and goods. The company is using a technology called RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) to allow consumers to scan an item and find out what they’re worth on the platform, which they say is a cheaper way to buy used goods, and helps sellers by cutting out the middleman.

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3 years ago

A startup for home cleaning professionals — with a plan to take away the middleman and give customers a better deal.

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4 years ago

A company that helps people buy and sell things on the internet. The startup wants to create a marketplace to help people buy and sell things faster and easier, without the middleman.

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4 years ago

A new way to sell and manage mortgage loans. The company wants to disrupt the industry by using artificial intelligence to manage home loans and lower cost by removing the middleman.

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4 years ago

LendingClub is a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending company that aims to cut out the middleman lending market by allowing borrowers to connect with each other directly. The company’s P2P model is based on an algorithm designed to match borrowers with lenders. P2P loans were responsible for $2.7 billion in loans in 2017.

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4 years ago

A “middleman” for moving foreign currency between banks, the startup will offer a service that automatically transfers a customer’s funds from a U.S. bank account to a foreign bank account.

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5 years ago

There are hundreds of small companies and startups that help businesses find partners for all kinds of things, whether it’s for data analysis or marketing. Liminal thinks it can be more of a middleman, helping businesses find more opportunities to partner with other companies.

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4 years ago

The founder of this startup has said she’s working on “blockchain-based insurance”, which she has described as “insurance without the middleman”.

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3 years ago

A startup that’s building a digital library platform for museums and libraries. The startup aims to cut out the middleman, by allowing users to create, curate, manage and share museum exhibit collections with no programing needed.

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4 years ago

A startup that’s working on a new way to connect startups with investors. The startup is building a marketplace where startups will be able to connect directly with VCs without having to go through a middleman.

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4 years ago

A company that tries to make it easier for consumers to barter with one another. It uses social connections to make it easier for people to exchange goods and services without going through a middleman.

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3 years ago

It’s a solution to remove the middleman from the process of selling a house. It’s currently focused on helping first-time homebuyers find their dream homes.

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4 years ago

A software platform that serves as a middleman between businesses and their customers. The startup enables businesses to send messages to customers via text, email, or text-to-speech. It says it has monthly recurring revenue of $45,000 and has onboarded 150 businesses in the past year.

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4 years ago

This startup wants to help students pay for college by cutting out the middleman. With EnrollMe, students can set up online accounts at their schools, then buy the school's textbooks, pay for the school's dorms and student meal plans, and then transfer those funds directly to their school.

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3 years ago

A platform for exchanges of equity on the blockchain. It’s a way for buyers to get stock from sellers without a middleman, and for sellers to get capital from buyers.

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3 years ago

A company that provides companies with their own custom branded credit card that they can use to pay for goods and services in the US. It’s a way to cut out the middleman and save on additional fees.

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3 years ago

When a user clicks a link to a website, it’s often followed by a URL shortener being used to shorten the link to keep it from being found. It’s a tool used by SEO companies to rank websites. Sovereign wants to cut out the middleman and allow users to use the URL shortener directly on its platform.

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3 years ago

In the US, many people live in places with multiple local currencies. Arbitrage builds a platform that allows people to buy and sell these different currencies, with the platform acting as the middleman for a profit.

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3 years ago

A company that wants to make it easier to send money globally using the trustless system of “atomic swaps.” It’s a digital currency created to allow people to directly exchange assets, cryptographically, without a middleman.

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3 years ago

A company that helps you buy anything from a store using a digital shopping cart. The startup wants to use a digital currency to cut out the middleman and make micropayments for a wide variety of services and goods.

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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’s aiming to “cut out the middleman and make it easy to buy and sell cars,” by bypassing dealerships and dealers. It’s a startup that wants to let you sell your car and buy a new one from a variety of dealers in your area, with a quick appointment to test drive and a seamless payment process.

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps companies discover the talent they need. It’s the middleman that does the work of finding jobs that need to be filled.

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2 years ago

A local real-time search engine for the US which aims to cut out the middleman and help people decide where to eat, go out or get an Uber when they’re in a hurry.

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3 years ago

A digital marketplace for buying and selling goods and services, with a middleman removed.

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3 years ago

The startup is a marketplace that connects suppliers and customers, and acts as a middleman for both. The company is also working on a blockchain-based marketplace for car sales.

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2 years ago

A digital payments platform, allowing businesses to send payments without the need for a middleman. The startup plans to work with ecommerce retailers and services to simplify their payment processes.

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2 years ago

A company that looks to serve as a middleman in the travel industry.

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2 years ago

A company that is building a platform for online businesses to sell their products to merchants in a new way that cuts out the middleman and helps them reach shoppers more efficiently.

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2 years ago

A text-message-based platform for hiring truck drivers and delivering food. The company doesn’t actually own trucks, but instead acts as a middleman to connect drivers with restaurants and other businesses that need to deliver food.

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2 years ago

A company that provides a way to get a loan for women in the Philippines without the aid of a middleman. The startup is working with existing local banks to test its model, and they’re looking for a US partner to help them get the green-light to expand to the US.

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2 years ago

A digital music distribution tool that lets users pay for music without paying the middleman. The company is looking to build a company that’s “a Spotify for indie,” only for independent artists.

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2 years ago

This startup is creating a way for brands to sell directly from their sites without having to sell through a middleman.

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