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2 years ago

A company that makes a tiny camera for cell phones that can see around corners and capture 1080p video. The startup says it’s making a better m18, one of the most popular cameras in the world.

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4 years ago

Amazon Web Services is popular for its cloud computing capabilities, but its AI-powered e-commerce system has not made it to market. Their SaaS product, Amazon Machine Learning, is intended to help companies use AI to improve their own products.

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4 years ago

A community marketplace for buying and selling second-hand goods. It is very similar in kind to the popular site OfferUp, but with a community-focused twist

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4 years ago

"These were the most popular ideas from the 9th batch."

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4 years ago

Shopify is one of the most popular Shopify-based e-commerce platforms.

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5 years ago

A tool that analyzes popular Twitter hashtags to show trends on trending topics.

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4 years ago

A startup building an “Uber for food” app that lets you order delivery from popular restaurants that are rated online by others.

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4 years ago

A product that helps companies automate the process of signing up new employees. Currently the app signed up the team behind the globally popular app Ima Robot.

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3 years ago

An AI-powered platform that lets media teams shorten the time they spend on content creation by identifying which pieces of content will be most popular, as well as predicting the best time to post it.

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4 years ago

Marathi version of the popular web series Watsi, and continues to air on Jaihind TV.

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5 years ago

A startup that lets users search for random words and phrases to get a list of the most popular results.

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5 years ago

A company that documents and shares the most popular requests for charity and non-profit organizations with the goal of “democratizing” the process for donors.

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5 years ago

A startup that aims to build on the popularity of the #hashtag, by adding a way for users to add hashtags to their tweets.

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5 years ago

A social network for the deaf, modeled after its popular iPhone app. The company has expanded its offerings to include audio versions of the app for the deaf and hard of hearing.

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3 years ago

Founders of this two-person startup are the former founders of the startup that made the popular budgeting app Due.

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5 years ago

A startup that helps companies find and pay contractors and service providers across the world. The company will use the P2Pool tech popularized by bitcoin to help larger companies find and pay out thousands of contractors more efficiently.

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5 years ago

This startup is building a new way to access and use the world’s most popular programming languages. The company is now working with Google on its Material Design language team.

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5 years ago

An online marketplace that has a very different approach to selling than Amazon or eBay. The startup focuses on selling unique items and brands, and is based on a marketplace model that is increasingly popular in China.

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4 years ago

A digital voice assistant, or digital assistant, that can be used by anyone to enter tasks, appointments and a slew of other information. A digital assistant is a common consumer feature on many of the most popular smart speakers today.

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5 years ago

This startup is building a white-label version of the popular dating app Hinge.

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5 years ago

The startup says it’s a better version of the traditional “pay-once-and-get-everything” package that’s popular with consumers, which works well for a lot of products but can be hard for more high-tech products.

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3 years ago

One of the most popular travel websites in Germany, weka.de is the best-known example of a startup that built a successful website and was then acquired by the the German travel agency TUI.

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4 years ago

A bank account for small business owners that builds off of the popular social network Huddle. The startup is building a way for small businesses to connect with each other and build relationships with banks, suppliers, and other businesses with which they do business.

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2 years ago

The startup is looking to build a rating system to help customers find and purchase the best products at the most popular retailers.

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5 years ago

A startup marketing app for apps with mobile games, created by the team behind the popular mobile game Clash Royale.

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5 years ago

A platform for creating social connections around events, which is currently a popular form of entertainment. The startup wants to help users curate real-world events and build a community around them.

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5 years ago

A texting platform for groups of people to communicate efficiently. The startup wants to leverage its popularity in the soccer world to make the company a household name.

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5 years ago

A decentralized platform for supply chains. The platform builds on a blockchain technology, which is a way of managing digital assets which is mainly popular in the crypto world. The platform is meant to help companies automate their supply chains and manage their inventory better.

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5 years ago

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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5 years ago

A digital assistant for Real Estate Agents. The startup’s reasoning is that online agents are more popular than in-person agents, but the latter are still more profitable.

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5 years ago

A search engine that ranks content by relevance rather than popularity.

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5 years ago

A crowdfunding website with a different twist. Currently popular in the UK, the platform allows users to use online loans for funding instead of just credit cards.

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5 years ago

A platform for building mobile applications for small businesses, with an easy-to-use dashboard. The startup is looking to compete with popular platforms like Square and Stripe.

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4 years ago

A beefed up and improved version of the popular Kanboard, which is meant to be a collaborative/database platform for multi-team workflows.

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5 years ago

A more modern and mobile version of the popular Telegram messaging app.

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3 years ago

A startup that aims to bring a free, ad-free alternative to the world’s most popular lifestyle app, Tinder.

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5 years ago

This free service lets customers track every step they take on their website. The company charges a fee for more advanced analytics, but the free version is very popular.

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5 years ago

Startup that allows users to send secure messages from the popular messaging app WeChat to their friends, family, co-workers and other contacts.

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5 years ago

A new product by the founders of a popular open-source project, allowing people to see all of their files on file servers and get them to sync with their desktop.

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5 years ago

A new version of the popular private messaging app for Android, to be released in early 2018. It will have new features and a re-designed interface, and will allow people to purchase and download stickers and other content from the company’s partners.

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5 years ago

A new startup that aims to bring the popular online chats of Twitch, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter together into a single video-based chat platform. They’ve built a Chrome extension that lets you embed Twitch, Reddit, or Twitter into a video chat.

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2 years ago

A startup that helps companies buy and sell gift cards online. The startup wants to make gift cards a less popular retail item, which is currently used for 70% of all retail transactions.

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5 years ago

A platform that allows small business owners to create and market coupons to their customers. The platform is growing in popularity for in-person coupon-based events.

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5 years ago

An AI-powered platform that helps travel companies and agents book seats and deals on the most popular airline websites. The startup's proprietary technology is a SaaS product that can be integrated with any travel site.

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5 years ago

A Chinese startup that wants to help people learn English faster and easier. The startup writes questions and answers on cards and puts them on a string, which people can play around with. And their idea is proving popular in China, with a million cards sold in three months.

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3 years ago

A startup that is building a “mobile-first” version of the popular website Reddit. They want to make Reddit more social, making it easier to find what you want and to interact with the community.

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5 years ago

This August, TechCrunch reported that Instagram was in talks with Facebook to acquire the company for as much as $1 billion. Instagram, which was founded in 2010, is based in San Francisco, and is a popular photography app that has more than 300 million users around the world. It was acquired by Facebook in 2012, and Facebook has since used Instagram to promote its other products, including Instagram Stories, and advertisements. Instagram has been a big investment for Facebook, and many think it has been one of the company's most successful acquisitions. However, Instagram's popularity has led to a lot of negative press coverage about the user data that Facebook has access to.

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2 years ago

A startup building an open source platform to help people plan their trips with an experience similar to that of the popular TripIt app.

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3 years ago

A tool that lets users design their own QR codes, one of the most popular QR codes on earth.

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4 years ago

A crowdfunding app that helps raise money for popular movies.

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3 years ago

A tool that allows a user to visualize the most popular and trending stories across social media in real time.

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2 years ago

A software startup that wants to combine a podcast with an interactive show, similar to a popular game show style.

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4 years ago

The founders of this startup are best known for building the most popular and successful startup accelerator in the world. They’re now moving into a new area, with a new accelerator format that’s aimed at helping teams build products for specific industries.

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4 years ago

Popular with millennials, GroupMe is a messaging app geared towards sharing content. It’s also popular with influencers, with some celebrities using it to share content with their fans.

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3 years ago

A tool for companies to track which of their products/services are the most popular with customers.

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4 years ago

A startup that wants to use machine learning to predict the next trends in fashion. The startup uses machine learning techniques to predict everything from what style will be popular next week to what brands will be the most popular in 3 years.

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4 years ago

Build a game that helps you visualize where you’re going on a road trip, using a case study of the most popular game in China.

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4 years ago

Sites like Coursera and Udacity are popular for learning to code, but the Code Academy wants to do it better. It’s a specialised course for those who have already graduated from bootcamp.

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2 years ago

Like the popular messaging app Slack, only for teams of developers.

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4 years ago

A platform that makes it easy for developers to ship their apps to a wide number of popular devices, from iPhones to Android, Windows and Samsung. Its marketplace offers a library of the software’s apps and plans to add new devices each month.

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4 years ago

A company that tracks fashion trends and provides a service to help consumers know which styles will be popular in a given season.

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4 years ago

The startup is building a product that helps people pay for their next drink with a tap on a table or a QR code. The startup’s founder, Rajan Rajan, was the founder of the popular brunch spot, The Blind Barber.

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4 years ago

A startup that allows anyone to rent a table at popular festivals at a discounted rate.

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3 years ago

A startup that wants to create a new way for people to buy and sell in-game items for the world’s most popular video games

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4 years ago

As of today, one of the most popular tools for building website themes is WordPress. The startup is looking to take that power of customization and commoditization to the mobile web.

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4 years ago

Pitchbook presents two popular pitch events: the "Pitch It" event and the "Pitch It" event.

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4 years ago

A company that uses an algorithm to identify the most popular pieces of content on Instagram, YouTube and Reddit, and connects advertisers to those users.

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4 years ago

Founded in 2015, this is the company behind the popular, free, and open-source development platform app-builder App-Builder-Platform .

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4 years ago

A platform designed to help businesses manage employees via integrations with other popular workplace tools like Slack, Asana, and Confluence. It also offers 30+ support agents to help businesses with problems.

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4 years ago

A web-based version of the popular strategy game “The Settlers of Catan”.

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2 years ago

Real-time data for online videos, allowing users to see what’s most popular and trending on YouTube.

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4 years ago

A game of strategy that’s similar to the popular board game of the same name, but with all of the complex rules of video games. Players will compete to collect the most points by trading, farming, and battling each other.

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4 years ago

A higher-end version of the popular Always on, Always Connected (AoAC) earbuds.

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4 years ago

A startup that’s building a more private messaging service based on the popular Signal protocol for secure messaging.

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4 years ago

One of the most popular products on Slack is the “Giphy Bot.” The bot allows users to search for GIFs, which are the popular Internet meme, and add them to their Slack conversations. Giphy is working on turning the bot into an actual application and is launching it in Slack users’ Slack-ified app stores.

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4 years ago

An alternative to the more popular sharing apps like Snapchat, where people can share videos with friends, but also keep their messages private.

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4 years ago

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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3 years ago

A platform for dating that claims to be better than popular app Tinder in part because it’s based on mutual interests rather than proximity, and uses a “personalized algorithm” to match you with someone based on first impressions.

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3 years ago

Periscope is a video hosting platform, popular with people who want to broadcast a live video stream from an iOS device. They launched in July and have been growing quickly, hosting over 20 million videos to date.

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3 years ago

A SaaS company that helps publishers distribute their content, with a product that allows companies to create their own branded versions of popular sites like reddit, upworthy and Hacker News.

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3 years ago

A product launched by the founder of the popular Foodspotting app, which aims to make it easier for people to find and share tasty food photos.

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3 years ago

An ecommerce marketplace where sellers can upload their products and buyers can search for them. The search results are sorted by product popularity and reviews.

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3 years ago

A mobile app that helps people track the best deals around them, from the deals their friends are getting to the deals that are most popular in their area at the moment.

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3 years ago

A startup that curates user-generated content from many of the most popular social networks.

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3 years ago

A web-based database of the world’s most popular web programming languages, with a database of over 6 million pages.

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3 years ago

A business simulation game where you can create your own startup, and compete to get new customers, build your product, and grow to be the most popular business.

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4 years ago

An iOS app by the founders of the popular Evernote business note-taking app that allows users to write and save notes on their phones.

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4 years ago

Sellout is a collaborative video editing platform that aims to build on the more popular iOS app Procreate. In addition to the apps, the team behind the app has launched a website and a community forum to promote and discuss the project.

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4 years ago

A company that helps businesses, especially ones with physical products, sell their wares. It’s using the same sort of predictive analytics to help consumers identify which products are the most popular, and use that information to help optimize their personal shopping.

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3 years ago

A software platform that helps companies create and manage their own versions of the popular “reviews from real people” site Yelp.

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3 years ago

A startup that helps popular artists like Beyoncé and Pharrell connect with their fans.

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3 years ago

One of the most popular ways to stay in touch with friends and family has to be through text messages. The company wants to build a texting platform that is both secured and private.

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4 years ago

The idea is to take the already-popular “Rich People’s Guide to Paris” and make it more accessible to people who don’t have a lot of money.

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4 years ago

The “Hacker News of the South” is a regionalized version of Hacker News, the popular tech news aggregation website.

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4 years ago

A tool that helps developers test their websites and apps with real users rather than using simulated user data. It’s a concept similar to the way that Netflix uses its own data to test which titles are most popular.

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4 years ago

In July 2019, the company began selling a credit card-sized device called a “pocket hacker” that can replace a key fob with a Bluetooth-connected device that allows you to lock and unlock your vehicle without a key. The pocket hacker has been a popular product at tech and automobile trade shows, and customers pay $99 a month to use the device.

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4 years ago

A startup that wants to simplify the process for hiring and connecting talent to the right employers and employees. The startup wants to re-create LinkedIn and Linkedin is a popular networking site for professionals.

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4 years ago

A startup helping people sign up for their tuition. Similar to the popular site, College Ave. helps users manage their college applications by automating the application process.

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3 years ago

A streaming video platform that lets you keep up with the world's biggest TV shows and movies, with live streams and on-demand access to popular shows.

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3 years ago

The premium version of the popular chat client Discord. The founders are building a product that helps smaller, independent developers book services and manage their own store. The company says it’s the only app that lets users build their own store.

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2 years ago

A software company that makes a client-side tool for managing popular social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, in a single interface.

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3 years ago

We’re in the middle of a renaissance of public speaking, with the rise of social media, and a rise in the popularity of TED Talks. But there’s a gaping hole where public speaking training and public speaking coaching should be. The founders of VLIVE want to solve the problem by providing live public speaking training and coaching to individuals based on their level of comfort.

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3 years ago

A startup that wants to provide a more unified experience for using Slack, a popular chat app. It wants to take this message board-like service one step further by integrating with other services like Trello and Asana.

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3 years ago

A membership-based service that helps both individuals and businesses manage their health data. They’re a popular choice for employers.

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3 years ago

A B2B company that allows restaurants to take payments in Bitcoin, one of the more popular types of cryptocurrency, to avoid the fees associated with credit card transactions.

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2 years ago

GoodSpring is a company that helps people create their own personal equity investment portfolio, like the kind that's popular with millennials.

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3 years ago

The most popular city for the founders of the top 50 startups, based on talking to founders, was New York. The city was home to 10% of the startups and the rest are spread across the US, including Silicon Valley and Seattle.

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3 years ago

A crowdsourced platform that helps companies hire designers, where anyone can submit designs and the most popular ones get selected.

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2 years ago

A top-of-the-line DJ who focuses on mixing genres that have yet to be popularized by EDM.

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4 years ago

This startup is looking to augment the popular “find a mentor” model in the startup world with a program that will help people find mentors in their local area as well as people who have a history of mentoring other people.

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3 years ago

Local competitor to the popular Groovebook alternative, which is also working on business analytics for travel.

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3 years ago

This is a new way to help small businesses track the quality of the products they sell online, counting the items sold and the number of clicks to determine which products are the most popular and effective.

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3 years ago

The startup is building a platform that allows people to aggregate some of the most popular content on the web and create original content that’s relevant to them. The content creator gets paid in cryptocurrency, and the tool allows users to filter content based on their interests.

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3 years ago

WeChat is a messaging app popular in China that’s being developed by a company that’s not even based in China, instead choosing to base itself in Hong Kong. The app is similar to Whatsapp, but with a focus on shopping and gaming.

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3 years ago

A startup that brings a “GIF-ified” version of the popular virtual reality game, Pokémon Go, to the real world. In the game players collect virtual creatures called “Pokemons” by moving around in the real world. The startup is building a mobile app that uses your phone’s GPS and camera to track your movements and turn them into Pokemons.

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2 years ago

A startup that allows you to create a personalized map of your phone’s network usage and destinations, with info on the speeds of each connection. It’s already a popular app with 1,000,000 installs.

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3 years ago

A startup that allows you to easily find freelance designers. Currently the most popular design marketplace in the UK.

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2 years ago

One of the most popular dating apps in the world, OkCupid is small but has a lot of room to grow.

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3 years ago

A tool for helping developers and designers build interactive videos. It’s meant to be used alongside Adobe’s popular suite of video editing tools.

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3 years ago

This is a tool that helps you find a product’s best price and most popular reviews, based on a variety of factors.

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2 years ago

Goods are distributed to shoppers in China through the use of WeChat, a popular messaging and social media platform. The company wants to provide that same service in the US.

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3 years ago

A podcast manager for users of the popular podcast app Overcast.

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3 years ago

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

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2 years ago

A startup that is building a web-based version of a popular gamification platform, using a much more intuitive and visual interface. The company offers social networking, leader boards, and ability to play games with friends.

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3 years ago

User-friendly internet plant databases that have been around for decades. The Startup is looking to compile a bunch of the most popular plant databases into one online platform for both gardeners and growers.

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2 years ago

This startup is trying to solve the problem of finding and keeping up with the most popular and relevant music content on the web.

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2 years ago

The company behind the popular open source status app, Open Weather Map

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2 years ago

A company that’s changing the way people buy furniture online by only showing couches in a photo that are the most popular with real buyers.

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2 years ago

A tool for organizing and sharing your ideas and files across devices and platforms. It’s similar to popular project management apps like Trello and Asana, but was started by a former Pivotal Labs employee.

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2 years ago

This idea was the most popular of the first-round startups, according to the WSJ. The startup looks to be a full-stack backend for the idea of a ride-hailing service.

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3 years ago

A company that collects and aggregates data about TV shows, movies, music and other entertainment content. It can tell you what movies are popular, who is watching them, and which shows have the most buzz.

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2 years ago

A company that coaches children and teenagers on how to be more popular

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3 years ago

A startup that helps small businesses build their own branded credit card readers by leveraging off the popularity of the card readers they offer.

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2 years ago

A more advanced version of the popular

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2 years ago

This startup wants to build a platform for small businesses to provide services and sell products. It’s looking to build on the popularity of TaskRabbit and Instacart to get small businesses to provide services to consumers.

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2 years ago

If you want to know what’s popular at a restaurant or a bar, you could go to the restaurant and try to guess based on social media buzz.

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2 years ago

A competitor to the popular online tool Zola.com, which provides same-day delivery of groceries and household items. The company is looking to get a piece of a $20 billion market by building out same-day delivery on its own, without Zola’s existing network of grocery stores.

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2 years ago

One of the most popular places people turn to for tips on how to get a job or career is Glassdoor. The startup, which was launched in April, is building a website where people can share their side hustle, review their employers, and find mentors.

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2 years ago

Privacy is a hot topic as of 2018, and there are a number of people making big promises when it comes to keeping your information private. Some of the more popular privacy companies include:

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2 years ago

A platform for Chinese food delivery that uses AI to learn what’s popular and offers discounts, especially during certain hours of the day

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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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2 years ago

The following are the most popular YC-backed companies by category.

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2 years ago

A “digital wallet” for the U.S. based on a contactless payment system that’s already popular in Europe.

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2 years ago

A San Francisco-based startup that’s building a platform for businesses to easily send and receive payments via video chat. These kinds of services are already popular in the Philippines, where the Unipay platform has over a million users.

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2 years ago

A version of the popular To-Do app that also has a calendar on top.

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2 years ago

This company is building a “brick and mortar” version of the popular messaging app Slack. It’s currently working on a beta version of its app, which is available to invitees.

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2 years ago

A company that uses machine learning to recommend videos to you that are “most likely to go viral”. It’s based on an algorithm that learns from the most popular videos on YouTube and Facebook.

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2 years ago

A repurposing of the popular online dating app where people can create a profile, see what they’re interested in, and, if they’re interested, send a message to see if their interests are mutual.

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2 years ago

An e-commerce site for sunglasses, designed to be like Warby Parker. The startup sells one of the most popular styles of sunglasses by Oakley and offers a few of its own.

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2 years ago

Founded by a former Googler, this startup aggregates and compares the best deals on popular items, from travel to sports to tech and more.

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5 years ago

Idea: A social media app that uses a multi-level, multi-person game mechanic to help people try to figure out who in their friend group are the most popular.

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