Top Consumer Startups 2023

Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world — online or from a mobile phone. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences, at any price point, in more than 33,000 cities and 192 countries. And with world-class customer service and a growing community of users, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to monetize their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions. No global movement springs from individuals. It takes an entire team united behind something big. Together, we work hard, we laugh a lot, we brainstorm nonstop, we use hundreds of Post-Its a week, and we give the best high-fives in town. Headquartered in San Francisco, we have satellite offices in Dublin, London, Barcelona, Paris, Milan, Copenhagen, Berlin, Moscow, São Paolo, Sydney, and Singapore.

Instacart is the North American leader in online grocery and one of the fastest-growing companies in e-commerce. Instacart’s same-day delivery and pickup services bring fresh groceries and everyday essentials to busy people and families across the U.S. and Canada in as fast as an hour. Since its founding in 2012, Instacart has become an essential service for millions of families, while also serving as an immediate, flexible earnings opportunity for hundreds of thousands of shoppers across North America. The company partners with more than 350 retailers and delivers from more than 25,000 stores across more than 5,500 cities in North America. Today, Instacart is accessible to more than 85% of households in the U.S. and more than 70% of households in Canada.

Founded in 2013, DoorDash is a San Francisco-based technology company passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. Today, DoorDash connects customers with their favorite local and national restaurants in more than 600 cities across the United States and Canada. By building intelligent, last-mile delivery technology for local cities, DoorDash aims to connect people with the things they care about — one dash at a time. Read more at blog.doordash.com, and find us on Glassdoor.

Matterport is an immersive media technology company that is shaking up the 3D / VR world. Our team has built the first end-to-end system for creating, modifying, distributing, and navigating immersive 3D and virtual reality (VR) versions of real-world spaces on web and mobile devices. Matterport offers the world's most inexpensive and simplest way to capture 3D spaces. Our products include: - Matterport Pro Camera for capturing real spaces in 3D. It collects accurate visual and spatial data to map entire areas in minutes and is all about automation and ease of use. - The Matterport Cloud for processing and hosting 3D models - Matterport Portal, our system for viewing, editing, and managing models; collaborating with colleagues; and sharing models with others - Matterport 3D Showcase, a browser-based 3D media player, which allows anyone to view 3D models in their browser with no additional software - Matterport Core VR: All Spaces can be converted to VR and experienced on Samsung Gear VR or Google Cardboard (in beta), with additional device support coming soon. Matterport 3D media solutions power industries from real estate (residential, multi-family and commercial) and travel and hospitality (hotels, vacation rentals, and venue booking), to business listings, architecture, engineering and construction, news and entertainment, and everything in between. We’re growing fast. If you’re passionate about solving cutting-edge problems in computer vision and hardware design and creating order-of-magnitude improvements in the ability to easily create and share 3D models of real world spaces, we want to talk to you. See open positions at matterport.com/jobs. Try Matterport for yourself at matterport.com/try.

OpenSea is building the world’s most trusted and inclusive peer-to-peer NFT marketplace. OpenSea makes minting, purchasing and selling NFTs frictionless, and offers multi-chain options for creators and collectors of all kinds to own and shape their relationships directly. Headquartered in New York, the OpenSea leadership team comes from Google, Palantir, Lyft, Uber, Stanford and Berkeley. Investors include a16z, Paradigm, Coatue.

Founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, Reddit is an online community where users submit, vote, and comment on content, news, and discussions. Nicknamed "the front page of the internet,"​ Reddit is one of the top ten sites in the United States (source: Alexa), with hundreds of millions of users each month on desktop, mobile web, and our official Android/iOS apps. Interested in joining our growing team? Check out about.reddit.com/careers

Rappi is a mega high growth, Series B, consumer tech StartUp looking to be the everything store of Latin America. We are a marketplace that connects users who want to purchase prepared foods, groceries, clothes, and more with contractors who fulfil them. Think of Rappi as a Doordarsh meets Delivery meets Instacart. We are venture backed by top VCs in the world including Sequoia, DST, Andreessen Horrowitz and YCombinator. Management consultant skills are highly valued and one of the founders and three of the company's top leaders are former top tier management consultants. We are across Argentina, Brasil, Mexico, Colombia and are aggressively growing in these markets and all throughout LatAm.

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in the U.S., connecting buyers and sellers in real-time across any category – from collectibles like trading cards to comics, fashion, sneakers, and more. Founded by collectors, the platform couples rigorous seller vetting with unmatched buyer protection to create a trusted and welcoming space for people to share their passions with others. Whatnot is the fastest growing marketplace ever in the United States and has raised $485M from YC, A16Z, Capital G and others.

GOAT Group represents the leading platforms for authentic sneakers, apparel and accessories. Operating four distinct brands–GOAT, Flight Club, Grailed and alias–GOAT Group has a global community of over 50M members across 170 countries. We are backed by some of the leading names in venture capital including Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Matrix Partners, NEA, SV Angel, Upfront Ventures, Webb Investment Network and Y Combinator.

Founded in 2014, Bellabeat is a data-centered wellness femtech company behind some of the most fashionably designed tech-powered wellness products and one of the fastest-growing wellness subscription services for women. Throughout the years, Bellabeat built the go-to wellness brand with a compelling ecosystem of solutions and services focused on women’s health. The success of the Leaf and Ivy wearables enabled the brand to expand to international markets and kickstart industry discussions on the importance of innovating in the design and development of tech products. Today, Bellabeat is leading the market shift with hyper-personalized holistic wellness offerings aligned with a women’s menstrual cycle.

We’re a customized beauty brand at the intersection of tech and beauty, setting out to democratize custom beauty and truly empower individuality. There’s no one size fits all with us.

Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers. More than 100 million gamers gather every month to broadcast, watch and chat about gaming. Twitch’s video platform is the backbone of live and on-demand distribution for leading video game broadcasters including casual gamers, pro players, tournaments, leagues, developers and gaming media organizations. Twitch is leading a revolution in the gaming community, working to create a participatory experience that transcends gameplay. Learn more at http://twitch.tv.

We deliver groceries in 10 minutes through a network of optimized micro-warehouses or 'dark stores' that we build across cities in India. We're currently doing hundreds of millions of dollars in annual sales with best-in-class unit economics - come join us!

Squire is a booking and payment platform that connects people with great barbers worldwide. Squire makes it easy to discover and book the best barbers wherever you are, in just a few taps. Squire is also the premier management platform for barbershops. Using Squire, barbers are able to engage their customers, process bookings and payments and better market their business through Squire’s “barbershop discovery” capabilities. Fully integrated with a point of sale, inventory management and payroll systems, Squire is a one-stop solution for barbershop owners to efficiently operate their business. With headquarters in New York and a presence in major cities in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada, Squire has quickly become a market leader in technology solutions for the barbershop industry worldwide. For more information, please visit getsquire.com or download the Squire iOS app from the App Store.

Gather is a video chat platform designed to make virtual interactions more human. Our mission is to create opportunity and connection for everyone, no matter where they are. We do this by building the Metaverse, a virtual layer over the physical world where people can work, socialize, and learn. Since we launched in May of 2020, Gather has brought millions of people together. We have raised a total of $77 million in Series A and B from Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, and more. We’re a small, friendly team based out of a state-of-the-art virtual office, where you can work whenever and wherever suits you. Come join us! https://www.fastcompany.com/90692692/gather-inclusive-metaverse-vr

Goldbelly is an online platform for specialty food makers and artisans. We discover America's most unique handmade foods and ship them to your door, anywhere nationwide.

Yassir is the leading super App in the Maghreb region set to change the way daily services are provided. We currently operate in 45 cities across Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia with recent expansions into France, Canada, and Sub-Saharan Africa, with backing (~$200M in funding) from VCs from Silicon Valley, Europe, and other parts of the world. We offer on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery. Building on this infrastructure, we are now introducing financial services to help our users pay, save and borrow digitally. Helping usher the continent into a digital economy era. We’re not just about serving people - we’re about creating a marketplace to bring people what they need while infusing social values.

The Athletic is a direct-to-consumer digital sports media company committed to helping subscribers experience storytelling in a whole new way. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, The Athletic has over 600 full-time employees and covers more than 250 professional sports and collegiate teams in the US, Canada and the UK. The Athletic’s newsroom has produced thousands of in-depth articles along with more than 120 podcasts and premium video content. The Athletic is a remote-friendly company as we have offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, and Melbourne.

At Shef, we’re rebuilding the food system from scratch, redefining who can participate in the food economy, and returning personal connection to the making, eating, and sharing of food. Shef is an online marketplace for local, food safety certified cooks to connect with customers in their community and earn a meaningful income selling homemade dishes. 75% of shefs are women and 80% are people of color. Together, they represent nearly 100 countries around the world, from Algeria to Korea, to India and Venezuela. Shefs are aunties and abuelas, immigrants and refugees, stay-at-home parents and restaurant dreamers. They’re passionate local cooks in your community who are doing what they love most — sharing their food and culture with you. Shef is also part of a growing movement to build a more inclusive food system for all. We are proud to support and champion advocacy efforts to expand home cooking laws across the country so that talented cooks everywhere can earn a meaningful income from their own kitchens. Join us: https://jobs.lever.co/shef

Marketplace for experiences starting with mass participation sports events

Scribd gives you access to millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts, and more — all in one place, for one price. OUR VISION Inspire the world through stories and knowledge. OUR MISSION Build the largest and most accessible library connecting storytellers with their audience. If you love working with smart, motivated people, you’ll love working at Scribd. We value our employees, we demonstrate accountability, and we take action. We’re one team with a common goal: helping our customers flourish.

With FightCamp you get access to world-class boxing and kickboxing trainers, studio-quality equipment, and performance-tracking technology — all from the comfort of your home. The key to a FightCamp workout lies in our Punch Tracking technology — we allow you to measure every strike, deliver real-time stats and fuel your competitive side.

Skip the line, collect points and send gifts to friends 🎁 Snackpass is an app that makes ordering food more convenient, affordable and social.

Nobell Foods is creating cheese and other dairy products from plant-derived dairy proteins for the 99% of people who are unwilling to compromise on taste and price.

Career Karma helps job training programs find qualified applicants. We're starting with coding bootcamps. They pay us ~$1,200 per placement. 375 million people will switch careers by 2030 and we are focused on the 16 million Americans who enroll in trade schools every year.

Eight Sleep is the world's first sleep fitness brand with a mission to fuel human potential through optimal sleep. Founded in New York City in 2014, Eight Sleep leverages thermoregulation, data, and technology to design products to restore individuals to their peak energy every morning. Eight Sleep was named one of Fast Company's “Most Innovative Companies of 2018 and 2022”, and recognized by TIME's Best Inventions of 2018 and 2019.

Joy is a software platform with a mission to help the world celebrate better together. Our software helps everyone plan and remember all of life's events. Big or small, Joy is there every step of the way.

Live data powers everything we do—from our global, multiplayer mobile games to our mobile ad buying to our live data ecosystem, Satori. MZ is creating new futures for people, enterprises, cities, and countries. The possibilities are endless.

We are building Pinduoduo for Indonesia by enabling community leaders to become retailers within their communities, starting by selling daily products through the Super app. We use technology to: 1) Help community leaders find the best price 2) build the lowest cost logistics network 3) facilitate communication for this social buying behavior

We're building a mobile and wearable digital wallet that makes interacting with payments, identity, and authentication seamless, fun, and empowering. Acquired by OURA in 2023

Burrow is the clever, direct-to-consumer furniture company reinventing the way people furnish their home. In 2018, Burrow was named one of the 10 most innovative retail brands in the world by Fast Company, and the Burrow Sofa was named one of the 50 best inventions of the year by TIME. Burrow products ship within a week, assemble and disassemble easily, and are sustainably made to be more comfortable, functional, and durable than the rest of the industry.

Tovala is a Chicago-based food-tech company with a smart, countertop steam oven that is paired with a weekly meal delivery service.

Breadfast is Egypt’s leading online grocery brand. We operate a fully vertically integrated supply chain, delivering 3,500 SKUs on-demand in under 60 minutes. Our selection includes a range of freshly baked bread, coffee, fruits, vegetables, eggs, dairy, meat and poultry, alongside a range of CPG staples designed to serve a household’s daily and weekly needs.

Avo is powering the future of "building commerce". We have found a way to embed consumer goods and services in the largest physical point of sale in the world - residential and office buildings. By offering a virtual marketplace solution for residential and commercial buildings as a world class amenity, Avo has unlocked a new channel to deliver everything from groceries to cleaning services to millions of people, while avoiding costly CAC and last mile delivery fees. By consolidating deliveries and services and leveraging the building operators to acquire their tenants as customers, Avo has driven exponential revenue growth in large cities across the US. We are backed by Y Combinator, Kleiner Perkins, Insight Partners, JLL Spark, Box Group and strong angel investors who backed Facebook, WeWork & Uber at an early stage. We currently operate in New York, Chicago, Houston, and Israel. Our rapidly expanding customer list includes Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox, MongoDB, Calendly, Cushman&Wakefield, Extell, Related, LeFrak, and 1000+ more locations.

The top of mind for pets, the “one-stop shop” market in LATAM. A pet ecosystem that combines On and offline platform where pet owners will find a solution for all their needs, including products & services. Currently, to meet the needs of their pets, people must go to different places and platforms. To find products, they go to one place; for services, they go to several others; and for healthcare, a few more. In Colombia, in average, a person must visit or consult more than seven places per year to meet the needs of their pets. We built a digital platform where users don’t have to go anywhere else to meet said needs. With two main sections; products and services. In the products section, we have more than 4,000 references (among which you can find most of the brands of food, snacks, medicines, accessories and others). In the services section, we have more than 17 services, all the healthcare, beauty and entertainment services. All of the above delivered straight to your home and with the flexibility of choosing the date and time on and at which you wish to receive the order, including same-day deliveries for the main cities and accepting all payment methods, both online and cash on delivery.

Plan & produce studio-quality video and animation in minutes with cutting-edge deep learning video technology. Moonvalley is led by the former head of product growth at Zapier (and former computer vision researcher), and backed by Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, FJ Labs, Pioneer Fund, Soma Capital, and a number of other investors. (HQ: Canada)

Yummy started as the first food delivery app in Venezuela, and expanded into multiple categories including ridesharing, groceries, pharmacy and tickets for events. After doing over 700,000 monthly orders the business Yummy is now becoming an e-commerce enabler in Venezuela and Bolivia through payment infrastructure for merchants and a fintech for consumers.

Have you heard of Ready Player One? Well, we're building it for real people: We're building the next reality featuring an infinite universe where millions of people can build new lives together in a gorgeous, cyberpunk and inspired world. We're starting with Zenith, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game that is cross platform for VR, desktop, and console. Ramen VR was started in early 2019 in the Bay Area by Andy and Lauren, gaming tech engineers with decades of combined experience at Google, Unity, OpenFeint, and some very successful mobile and social games. We're funded by some of the best investors and gaming entrepreneurs in the world including YCombinator, The Makers Fund, Twitch COO Kevin Lin, and Kabam Cofounder Holly Liu and also the most successful VR Gaming Kickstarter of all time. We believe great games change the world for the better. Great games inspire creativity, teach grit, and most importantly, build community.

Eclipse Foods is building the future of dairy using micelles (the microscopic magic of milk.) Eclipse has developed the world's first plant-based dairy platform which makes plant-based products with the taste, texture, and functionality of conventional dairy. We are transforming the $500B dairy industry and have raised over $60M from leading investors such as Y Combinator, the chairman of Beyond Meat, the founder of Reddit, the creator of Gmail, Forerunner Ventures, Sozo Ventures, Initialized Capital, and more. Our mission is to create a more sustainable, healthy, and humane food system by making plant-based foods that require no sacrifice.

OMGPOP is a leading developer of social games for facebook, iphone and the open web. With games on multiple social networks as well as its own destination site, the company is recognized as a leader in creating real-time game experiences. Based in New York City, OMGPOP is funded by Spark Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners.

Soomgo is a local services marketplace that connects providers with new customers across 1,000+ services such as moving, piano lessons, wedding planning, and more.

Thalmic Labs is pioneering new ways of interacting with digital devices. With a mission to merge people and technology, the company is revolutionizing how we will interact with technology in the future. Its first product, the Myo™ armband, measures electrical activity in muscles to wirelessly control computers, phones and other digital technologies, resulting in seamless interaction between humans and devices. Founded in 2012 by three graduates of the University of Waterloo's mechatronics engineering program (Stephen Lake, Matthew Bailey, Aaron Grant), Thalmic Labs has grown to a world-leading team of engineers, researchers, and creators committed to building the future of wearable technology. Thalmic Labs has raised over $140M USD to date from investors including Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Y Combinator, and others.

Volley builds the best voice AI games and entertainment experiences for Amazon Alexa, smartphones, and TVs. Popular Volley voice games include “Song Quiz”, “Jeopardy!”, and “The Price Is Right”. Our voice apps are used by millions of people every month. We believe voice control will become the main way people access entertainment in their bedrooms, kitchens, living rooms, and cars, and our goal is to become the "Netflix of Voice" for this emerging category of devices. Volley was founded by Max Child and James Wilsterman in 2016. We're a hybrid remote/in-person company, headquartered in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco.

MyScoot is a marketplace platform to discover social experiences where you meet new people & make meaningful connections. You can either attend interest-based experiences or host one to earn money while building your micro-community and having fun. It can be used to find new friends, look for dates, or network for your business. We're a team of 3 co-founders who have expertise in business strategy, product, operations, and marketing/growth (for marketplaces). Looking to add some dynamic engineering team members.

LifeAt is your space to focus and complete tasks. Our mission is to help the 100M+ knowledge workers get into their flow state with video content and task management. Our customers get through their daily tasks twice as fast while feeling great at the end of the day! Well funded by Meta (Facebook), Line, Y Combinator, Goodwater, and other top VCs. Loved by over 1M+ users across the world and shared by over 500K+ followers across Tiktok/Instagram/Twitter. Come shape the future of focus and productivity!

Pointhound makes it easy to earn and redeem your credit card points for free flights. We're driven by our mission to make the world more accessible through travel.

Storyboarder is a tool and a platform for anyone to create, share, and sell webcomics. In East Asia, the webcomic (or digital manga) industry is an $12B market and rapidly growing to the rest of the world. Webtoon, the largest company in the space, generates $100M / month in revenue. However, their addressable market is limited by their content creators, who need know how to draw. Readers are desperate for a greater variety of stories in webcomics. Through years of working with filmmakers, we’ve built extremely easy to use storyboarding software that has 700K users. We’re democratizing visual storytelling to everyone. We’re working on the next generation that, through advances in video game interfaces, ubiquitous 3D compute, and AI, will allow anyone to easily create scenes, pose characters, to create webcomics. Storyboarder is backed by Y Combinator (W23), David Karp (Tumblr Founder), Andrew Kortina (Venmo Founder), and other product focused investors.

Fam is a group video calling social network to talk with your friends and make new friends. Fam was part of Y-Combinator’s Summer ’17 batch under FriendSpot.

The Essential is e-commerce 2.0. What we do We make and sell the single best version of all your essentials, at the best price possible. How we do it We're not an "everything store."We sell only the essentials, we're members-only and we only sell our own brand. We cut out the middlemen, the brands, the physical stores and the markups — to make products cost a lot less, all while paying the producer more. Why we do it To add meaning to people’s lives through products they use and love, made by people who know and care, with stories that matter, and means that are honest.

Our mission is to take cars off the road by making it safe and easy to vanpool in the post Covid world. A vanpool is a group of people who commute together, usually in a shared van. It’s an excellent, cost effective way to commute, used by hundreds of thousands of Americans, but the industry is largely offline. It’s difficult to find, join, and start vanpools. We build software that fixes this, making vanpooling simple and flexible. We believe that in a post Covid world, it will be more important than ever to rethink shared transportation and make it more adaptive. Our customers are organizations like transit agencies and employers who have existing vanpool fleets. We provide these customers with our SaaS platform that manages their vanpool programs. We capture real time information about open seats, then make those seats available to book through our app. We also make it easy for people to crowdsource and start new vanpools.

Leapclub.in is bringing farmer’s markets online. With us customers can order fresh, healthy, pesticide & preservative free food from carefully vetted producers and get it delivered within 12 hours of harvesting or baking. This gives families a wide range of assortment to shop from. We believe at Leap Club we can leverage technology to bring fresh healthy groceries and guide consumers to make choices that are good for them and the planet.

Tappity is building the world’s largest library of interactive lessons for kids—starting with science! Find every science topic kids love in one place taught by the world's most entertaining instructors.

Dropezy - delivering groceries in 15 minute in Indonesia. Today, our vision is to revolutionize Indonesia's $116Bn grocery landscape by making e-Groceries fast, convenient, affordable and accessible for all through strategically placed dark-stores. We replicate they typical Indonesians offline purchasing behavior by enabling them to purchase daily needs online in smaller quantities, at higher frequencies, 24/7 whilst ensuring operations efficiency. Midnight cravings? House party but got no beer? Or simply annoyed with the headache of buying daily needs offline? We got you! Simply select products, make payment, and receive it instantly - It's that EaZY #Crazyfast

Dex is a personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch with the people you would otherwise forget. Dex helps turn your acquaintances into your allies. Going beyond the superficiality of social networks requires commitment. If you remember to keep in touch thoughtfully, you can turn the interesting person you met at a networking event into a friend that has your back. I built Dex after failing to keep up with the tools I tried (Airtable, Notion, etc) for relationship management. Installing an actual CRM like Hubspot felt like a wrong fit for my informal relationships -- these people were 'my team,' not customers. Dex is a lightweight personal CRM that’s easy to stick with. Key to Dex is a Chrome extension that enables you to manage relationships while you’re in Facebook, Messenger, Twitter, and the social apps you already use. Dex can also send you actionable reminders (daily, or based on your calendar events) to log your interactions for next time. By using Dex, you can: - Build stronger relationships, by sending you a nudge to follow-up. - Be more thoughtful, by helping you remember where you left off. - Become a superconnector, by making connections you wouldn’t otherwise remember.

We believe that the automotive industry will change more in the next five years than it has in the last 50. The gas station was invented in 1910 and has not changed substantially since then; traditional lube and mechanic shops have not evolved much either. To enable this industry transformation, the infrastructure required to fuel and service vehicles must evolve as well. Since the total spend for all fuel and maintenance can more than double the cost of ownership of a vehicle over its lifetime, the impact at stake is huge. This is where we derived our mission: To help our members to keep moving in the safest, most efficient, and planet-friendly way possible, while delivering unparalleled customer service. Start Yoshi. Keep Moving.

Novig is a commission-free sports betting exchange that guarantees bettors the best odds and eliminates the need for traditional sportsbooks. We do this by enabling users to bet directly against friends or the market, rather than against the house, making the betting experience more efficient, fair, and, most importantly, profitable. We stand out by ditching the traditional revenue model of retail sportsbooks and leveraging cutting-edge technology to ensure our exchange is liquid and frictionless.

Our mission is to empower everyone to build the internet. Universe is a magical new way to build websites –– it’s the first website builder designed for phones. Our app makes it easy for anyone to make a great looking website and start selling online in minutes from your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. And we make it as fun as playing with Legos! Give it a try: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1211437633 Explore sites made on Universe: https://onuniverse.com/explore We are a remote-first 20+ person company with people all over the US. We were YC W18 and have raised $17.2MM in funding from Google Ventures, General Catalyst, Javelin Venture Partners, Box Group, and more top investors. We value individual agency and ownership –– which guides our product design and our company’s culture. While other companies offer lots of perks, we prioritize your freedom: work from anywhere, in the way you’re at your best. We believe that an individual’s capacity for growth is far larger than most understand, and we’ve designed an environment to support rapid, continuous learning. Ideas here come from everyone, initiative is respected, and quality matters. We are here to build something special and enduring.

Chow Central is building virtual restaurant chains for Africa. We partner with under-utilised commercial kitchens to scale brands and serve customers with 10x lower costs than setting up traditional brick-and-mortar restaurants. We make $105K monthly revenue with 30% gross margins. Our customers love our delicious recipes and they love our faster & cheaper deliveries. Wanna know our secret recipe? Contact: founders@500chow.com

Decohere makes it easy for anyone to create videos with AI in minutes rather than hours. Today, we enable artists, musicians, and creators to quickly generate animations that matches their content.

AvairSense is building the smartest AI-enabled cameras ever. We believe cameras are one of those products that really have not evolved over time. Our first product is Sense 1, a smart home camera that has AI built in to analyze on the edge and create a seamless viewing experience of real-time video and audio from their smartphone. We are a smart camera company that believes every environment requires a different camera. AI Cameras for Homes. Restaurants, Factories, Dealerships, and many more. We aim to own the data pipeline from start to end and give utmost importance to data security and privacy.

Siglo is a wireless ISP for communities in urban Latin America offering a faster, better, and easy-to-pay service.

Intro to Orbillion Bio: https://youtu.be/Rql0eteqQ-o Orbillion Bio will be the first company to bring premium lab grown meat to the market. We will replace prime beef and wagyu with an ethical alternative that tastes amazing. The founders Patricia Bubner, PhD, Samet Yildirim, MSc, MBS and Gabriel Levesque-Tremblay, PhD have over 30 years of combined experience in business and product development, bioprocessing and biopharma. After only 4 months of development time, Orbillion has four different flavorful meats growing in the lab: wagyu beef, elk, sheep and American bison. Using their proprietary platform technology, Orbillion is rapidly decreasing the cost of cultivated meat. Major investors in our pre seed round were Y Combinator, New Protein Fund, Joyance Partners and Venture Souq. https://www.orbillion.com/

beU delivery is an on-demand food delivery service in Africa. We offer a great selection of local restaurants and door-to-door food delivery that allows the customer to have their favorite food from the comfort of their home or office. We are the #1 food delivery service in Ethiopia, deliver at significantly cheaper rate than our peers, making food delivery affordable for the mass. We plan to expand our services to new markets and eventually become the super app of Africa.

Ozone is the world’s first collaborative video editor in the cloud. We are making the world a more creative place by building the next generation of creative tools.

Soteri Skin is D2C skincare for chronic skin conditions like eczema. We’re the only non-prescription product proven to provide long-lasting relief for the 30 million Americans who suffer from eczema. How it works: Skin surface pH is constantly in flux, and many of your daily activities can throw it out of balance. People with chronic skin conditions such as eczema have a harder time regulating their skin's pH. Soteri's patented pH/LOCK™ locks skin in at a therapeutic pH for 12+ hours, which is shown to help break the cycle of skin sensitivity, whether you have eczema, psoriasis, or just a bad sunburn. Our formulations are aesthetically elegant (non-sticky, sit well under makeup, etc), safe for anyone to use, and don't require a prescription. Most people see skin health improvements within the first few weeks of application, even for tricky, chronic skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis. With Soteri Skin, anyone can enjoy healthy, glowing, pH-enomenal skin!

Vendoo is a software that was created to solve the daily pain points of the millions of sellers in the steadily growing reselling industry. Our goal is to save sellers time and help them make more money. The user friendly interface allows sellers to crosspost their items onto multiple marketplaces in a fraction of the time that it takes to do so manually. Users can currently list items onto 10 marketplaces, including eBay, Poshmark, Etsy, Mercari, Facebook Marketplace and more. The software also provides other conveniences for sellers, like the ability to easily import their existing listings, delisting and relisting items with one click, and inventory management features like easy sorting and searching. Vendoo also provides sellers with business data and analytics to help them make calculated decisions to grow their business.

LegionFarm lets gamers pay to play with professional players, helping customers have more fun playing, learn to be a better gamer, and conquer difficult parts of video games. Legionfarm Pros want to monetize their skills by turning their hobbies into real careers. They are the top 1% of players. They have a massive impact on the success of gaming companies - and we want to allow these top players to hold their dream jobs in virtual worlds. Over the past year, Legionfarm organized over 400,000 gaming sessions with our 7,000 Pros. Legionfarm provides access to unique entertainment on a global scale while creating new jobs in virtual worlds at the same time

AmpUp provides the simplicity and reliability enabled Tesla experience EV charging solution in private commercial locations where vehicle dwell times are 6 hours and longer; EG, workplaces, MUDs, and fleet depots. Within 2 years, it achieved 8th in ranking in market share in the commercial level 2 charging sector in the US. AmpUp is growing even faster now with their dominant growth channel in the commercial lighting vertical set to take off at the end of 2023 and early 2024.

VacationHomeRents helps users explore and compare vacation rental options across many listing platforms such as Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, etc.

Shortbread (formerly known as Kurukuru) helps you create comics with AI in minutes. On a mission to help anyone create their own comics, manga, or webtoon 💛

Aviron, a Y-combinator company, is a connected rowing machine built on an advanced gaming platform. We are excited to grow our team and share our vision of creating a leading fitness entertainment platform that motivates our community via game psychology and tech.

Our SaaS product solves the different problems that job seekers face in the process of finding a new job - creating an efficient resume, writing a cover letter/email, updating their LinkedIn profile, applying to suitable jobs, interview preparation... It's the 1st time in history that we've been able to create resumes using technology that surpass human made resumes. This is a novel way to add active job seekers to our database of resumes as none of the incumbents are focussing on candidates' problems. 100k+ new active job seekers are added to our database every month, growing rapidly. As the next step, we are launching a recruitment marketplace to close the loop.

Sketchbox is like WordPress for VR training simulations, we’ve built the underlying infrastructure that makes creating and updating VR training simulations fast. We primarily work with Fortune 500 companies, and all of our training sims include full student analytics and no-code scenario editors. All training simulations designed with Sketchbox work on the next generation of portable VR headsets, which are battery powered, don’t require a laptop and cost $400.

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We help get compensation for air passengers that have experienced delayed, cancelled, and overbooked flights. We make the claim process much faster, easier and less painfull because the airlines won't. We love new challenges! As a start-up, we’ve been through it all and thanks to this our AirHelpers have developed the skills to deal with it all, and more, all while remaining passionate about what we do – helping ordinary people – as flight delays can happen to anyone. What helps us continuously develop, is our combination of talent, passion and persistance. What makes us different? Every single one of our employees can make an impact on the future of AirHelp – come up with an innovative idea – and we’ll help you implement it at AirHelp. This is an experience you can gain in very few places! If you’re looking to develop new skills, make an impact on not only global business, but ordinary, everyday travellers, and take risks developing and implementing new projects – what are you waiting for? Come join us today! With a variety of departments to choose from: tech, product, legal, finance, human resources, customer service (and the list goes on!) - you don’t have to narrow your horizons, just take your pick. Pick what you’ve got a knack for, and most importantly, what you enjoy! AirHelp. We're here to help!

MTailor is an ipad or iphone service for men to capture their shirt size dimensions and have tailor made shirts made and delivered.

Community Phone Company YC W19 built a simple cloud phone system that runs inside of landlines Our solution lets a business or family get all modern voice features (re-route if busy, greeting menu and IVR, programmable caller ID, cloud voicemail, etc) on their existing desk phone and existing cell phones. All employees onboard instantly, no wifi required, no app to download.

Gym Class is the most popular sports experience in virtual reality - and the best way to play basketball with people from all over the world. Make friends, break a sweat, and become a superstar. Our mission is to connect the world by simulating it.

Shoobs offers event organisers with a convenient and powerful platform to sell tickets to their events. A couple of years ago we got thinking that selling tickets should be QUICK & EASY! So, we decided to create Shoobs to help event organisers sell out their events efficiently! Shoobs is the leading destination to discover and book great urban culture events in the UK, such as Hip Hop concerts and RnB club nights.

Pure is the first transparent marketplace for the $11B Rare Coins Sector & $55B Precious Metals sector. We make it easy to buy & sell authenticated rare coins and precious metals such as Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium & Rhodium. Pure does this by having the largest database of auction records, historical prices, and premium values, allowing us to provide accurate price estimates. Pure goes beyond just the data, as we analyze the condition and eye appeal of rare coins to provide valuable collector insights. Pure is founded by a new generation of collectors and has created a community of over 1,000 members that actively scan, analyze and list their items to transact on the platform. Feel free to contact us at founders@collectpure.com with any inquiries.

At Tab, we’re revolutionising the way travellers discover, plan and book a trip. The Guide lets travellers find and book anywhere — with helpful recommendations from friends & local experts, rather than bland listings with endless reviews. Planning your trip should be a joy, not a chore! We help people to travel responsibly, by booking direct instead of using traditional booking sites. Travellers get the best price and they help local businesses avoid unnecessary fees. Travel experts, content creators and the friends you always ask for recommendations can use The Guide to showcase their favourite places to stay and things to do. When you book one of their recommendations, you’ll get a discount from the business and they receive bonus credit to say thanks. The Tab platform gives independent tourism businesses the tools to improve their online presence, be discovered, take direct bookings — and also to take payments. Our payment platform is uniquely designed for tourism businesses, handling over 100 currencies natively, and every payment type securely and easily. As travel returns after a difficult period, it’s time for a fresh approach. That’s why we’re building a social commerce platform for tourism — helping to spread the benefits of tourism far and wide, and helping travellers make the most of their precious time abroad. We're headquartered in London, and backed by Y Combinator (the investors behind Airbnb, Dropbox and Stripe).

We partner with top Bay Area restaurants to bring you prepared meals that stay fresh all week. Meals are delivered weekly and ready in minutes. Since starting in 2020, we’ve delivered 100K+ orders and are backed by a16z, Y-Combinator, Goodwater, Decent Capital, and other top investors.

Rex.fit (formerly BabylonAI) is an AI fitness and nutrition coach. We use computer vision and AI to create interactive gamified workouts (sign up and try at https://www.rex.fit). We also offer a nutrition chatbot that simplifies food logging through natural language processing, making it as easy as texting a friend to track your dietary intake (try it out on telegram http://t.me/rex_nutribot).

Rivet is a multiplayer development platform that provides managed game servers, matchmaking, and DDoS mitigation that lets game developers focus on building their games. Developers can use simple APIs to deploy multiplayer games with any major game engine in 4 lines of code with 1-click deploys.

Mooji Meats 3D prints plant-based steaks that look, feel and taste just like the real thing. We build a highly scalable manufacturing process that overcomes today's trade-off between authentic textures and scalability. We close the gap in taste, look, feel, nutrition, cost between meat mimics and real meat, tapping into an $1 trillion market opportunity.

If it isn’t bad enough that smokers don’t realize the scientific facts about nicotine, most non-tobacco nicotine products are poorly designed and unappealing to use. The leading gum is sold like a pharmaceutical drug, with flavoring and packaging to match. Vapes provide a cumbersome, over-the-top experience — with use as tightly restricted as cigarette smoking itself, but more juvenile, conspicuous, and highly addictive. People want, and deserve, a better way. Therefore, we want to deliver nicotine users a superior experience, and at the same time give them a way to transition out of feeling dependent. In a better society, people wouldn’t carry around the sensation that they’re stuck with an involuntary habit. Our mission isn’t to encourage nicotine use among people who haven’t started. Unlike certain vapes or other products, ours isn’t the sort coveted by underage users on social media. Our mission is to alleviate the harm related to tobacco — first and foremost, by switching people away from the most harmful products. So, at Lucy, we take an evidence based view of nicotine. Nicotine’s pleasurable properties make it an inevitable part of modern society. Therefore, minimizing harm in all nicotine products is key, in addition to giving people products and strategies for cessation. We feel that, as 1,300 people are dying of tobacco related illnesses every day in the US, the most important and immediate step toward a better society is giving nicotine consumers products they enjoy using that will cause less harm. Our first product is designed to appeal to smokers and encourage them to switch. And, looking ahead, we hope to secure approval in the future as a clinically proven smoking cessation aid, while continuing to participate in the FDA’s public hearings around how NRTs are best regulated. Our goals are simple: because harm reduction is a better strategy around nicotine delivery than abstinence or prohibition, we want to help improve public health — and reduce its costs — through a superior pure nicotine product.

We integrate solar, storage and energy trading for each home in one smart solution via our software platform. We’re starting in Spain which has the highest potential for solar and one of the lowest market penetration in Europe (0.1%). We will help 5M Spanish homeowners produce, store and distribute their clean energy ($50B market). We are backed by GFC, Liquid2 Ventures, Soma Capital, Y Combinator and other investors including Atomico angels.

Pigeonly is a subscription-based platform that makes it easy for people to search, find, and communicate with an incarcerated loved from anywhere in the world. Our technology cuts the cost of expensive prison calls by 80% and allows our customers to send their inmate printed photos, greeting cards, and more right from any cell phone, tablet, or computer. At the core of the Pigeonly business is our proprietary inmate API, Haystac, that searches and organizes millions of Federal, State, and County records in real-time to determine the location of 2MM+ inmates across all prison facilities. This makes it possible for our users to easily search, find, and connect with their incarcerated loved one using one or all of our 6 consumer-facing products. Pigoenly's target market usually has to settle for poor product design and is often the victim of predatory business practices. At Pigeonly, we focus on providing quality products at affordable prices; pair that with five-star customer service to achieve a superb customer experience never seen in the market. We understand just how important this is to our customer because we are our customer.

Tizeti provides broadband internet services to densely populated urban centers in Africa. Tizeti is leveraging the large wireless capacity available with Wi-Fi and plummeting cost of solar panels to create a low CAPEX/OPEX network of owned and operated towers to offer disruptive, customer-friendly pricing for unlimited internet service right across Africa.

Shred Video, a new startup launching out of Y Combinator, allows users to take footage from their iPhone, GoPro or drone and simply match it with a song from the user’s iTunes library. That’s all. Shred Video does the rest of the work. Taking into account the acceleration of the camera itself, Shred Video can pin-point the moments of action for surfers, snowboarders, skaters and other acceleration-based sports to highlight all of the coolest clips in your footage. And beyond that, Shred Video matches those epic moments with the beat-drop of the song.

FitHub is an online supermarket specialized in healthy products, currently operating in Colombia. We have a healthy and eco-friendly sourcing criteria for every product we offer. We are like Good Eggs for LATAM.

Circular is accelerating the adoption of the circular economy by making subscriptions the best way to access and experience tech: from smartphones, laptops, and headphones to gaming, VR and wearables. Our customers get their hands on the best tech through low-cost, convenient subscriptions. They can pay monthly, keep it as long as they want, and if they love it, buy it. If they return it, we carefully refurbish it and pass it on to the next loving owner - radically extending its useful life.

Bakool is the first group buying platform for fresh produce in Indonesia’s tier 2 cities. Our agent network allows customers to get produces cheaper than retail, delivered

Filta is the face filter NFT marketplace being built by veterans from Pixar/Oculus/Facebook. We partner with creators to release limited-edition filters for their fans to use on social media. It turns out: the face filters you see everywhere on Snapchat and Instagram are created by independent artists - not by the platforms. These artists ALMOST NEVER get money for their work - which is insane! Filta fixes this by giving these creators a marketplace and the best filter creation tool anywhere. Interested in working on the future of digital fashion, AR/VR, and web3? Hit us up. We're hiring.

Muse allows anyone to transform their static website into a virtual world. We do this through our no-code editor,. Our websites are quickly replacing traditional personal websites commonly built using Shopify, Squarespace, or Wix.

Glitzi provides at-home spa, beauty and grooming services for people in Latin America. We do this by connecting you to our network of high quality masseuses, manicurists and barbers.