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March 16th, 2022

We launched ZFoundr on November 1st, 4.5 months ago.

For those of you who are new here 👇

ZFoundr is a weekly newsletter that covers up and coming Gen-Z founded startups and venture news. If you don’t subscribe yet, you should here!

We are thrilled to share that we have featured 100 Gen-Z founded companies across 20 verticals!

And these companies are awesome — industry disrupting, generation defining, with some surely on their way to becoming the next unicorns.

We share write-ups for all 100 companies below (definitely check them out!), but here are some summary stats.

🛠 Stage

  • Pre-seed - 18 companies
  • Seed - 49 companies
  • Series A - 7 companies
  • Series B - 2 companies

🗺️ HQ Locations

  1. San Francisco - 26 companies
  2. NYC - 18 companies
  3. Los Angeles - 14 companies
  4. London - 6 companies
  5. Seattle - 5 companies

📆 Year Founded

  • 2017 - 2 companies
  • 2018 - 6 companies
  • 2019 - 16 companies
  • 2020 - 38 companies
  • 2021 - 38 companies

[disclosure: all company details reflect the most current information at the time we covered them in the newsletter. Since then, several have gone on to raise additional funding rounds]

Travel Tech 🗺️

1. Unfound – community-driven discoveries in new places

  • 🖥 Website: unfound.app
  • 🧰 Product: Unfound is an online community where travelers around the world share and discover unique places. Users are able to create a profile, upload content on various places they visit, and engage with other users via their recommendations. To date, Unfound has amassed 16k users spanning 90 countries.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-first institutional round.
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2.  Wander – luxury smart home vacation rentals

  • 🖥 Website: wander.com
  • 🧰 Product: Wander is a platform that allows users to book smart homes for their next workcation, vacation, or anything in-between. Wander selects high quality homes, signs contracts with owners, and makes them available for short term rent for travelers looking for a luxury stay. Wander currently features five properties on their platform, all of which come with fast WiFi, a full work-from-home setup, and a Tesla as part of the stay.
  • 🤑 Funding: Series A. Backed by a16z, Authentic Ventures, Redpoint, Fifth Wall, Thirty Five Ventures, and others.
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3. Explorastay – accommodation aggregator with B2B features + integrations

  • 🖥 Website: explorastay.com
  • 🧰 Product: Explorastay is an integration tool that enables companies to help their travelers book travel stays. Explorastay has built out a map interface that lets customers search and book housing, primarily for extended stays. Their platform aggregates listings from multiple sites and offers options across all budgets and amenities.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-first institutional round.
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4. DayTrip – curated local attractions for day trips

  • 🖥 Website: daytripapp.com
  • 🧰 Product: DayTrip is a local discovery app that recommends places from unique perspectives of city experts like architects, designers, travel writers, and photographers. DayTrip recommends spaces nearby and showcases new spaces in cities across the world. Users are able to follow curators and plan daytrips to nearby cities on the app. DayTrip currently operates in New York City and Seoul.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Goodwater Capital, BASS Investment, Mirae Asset Venture Investment and others.
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5. Baryl – personalized travel itineraries in any city

  • 🖥 Website: baryl.io
  • 🧰 Product: Baryl helps travelers create personalized itineraries by identifying activities aligned with their preferences and tastes. On the platform, users can generate itineraries in any destination for any occasion. They are in the process of launching their first beta cohort of travelers.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-first institutional round.
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NFTs & NFT Tools 🌱

6. Jadu – AR gameplay that brings NFT avatars to life

  • 🖥 Website: jadu.ar
  • 🧰 Product: Jadu is an Augmented Reality game-world built around virtual items owned by its community of players. Jadu’s mobile app allows for Next-Gen AR gameplay in which NFT avatars become playable characters that can understand their surroundings, interact with the real world and use virtual objects.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by General Catalyst, Coinbase Ventures, Sound Ventures and more.
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7. Defy Trends – data-driven crypto and NFT intelligence platform for investing

  • 🖥 Website: defytrends.io
  • 🧰 Product: Defy Trends is building an AI and data-driven crypto and NFT analytics platform to make smarter investment decisions. They incorporate both on-chain data, such as sales volume, minting activity, and wallet tracking, and off-chain data, such as social sentiment and community growth to help users find undervalued NFTs and coins.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Panoramic Ventures, LD Capital, Shima Capital.
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8. Bonfire – community platform powered by NFTs and social tokens

  • 🖥 Website: trybonfire.xyz
  • 🧰 Product: Bonfire is developing a custom Web3-native platform intended to turn audiences into communities powered by NFTs and social tokens. Their platform specializes in developing a token-enabled digital homepage, monetizing through NFT membership passes, and rewarding engagement through tokens. They also provide tools to generate greater token utility through features like airdrops, bounties, and token-gated experiences.
  • 🤑 Funding: NA.
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9. Monument – tokenized storytelling with moments recorded as NFTs

  • 🖥 Website: monument.app
  • 🧰 Product: A Monument is a collection of significant moments within a creator's journey. Each moment is represented by a collectible NFT that can be bought and owned by a creator's closest supporters. Owning moments unlocks unique creator rewards & incentives and signifies you as an early backer/supporter of the creator.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-seed.
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10. Reasoned Art – curated exhibitions of CryptoArt

  • 🖥 Website: reasonedart.com
  • 🧰 Product: Reasoned Art is building a digital art gallery intended to create a decentralized ecosystem to sell CryptoArt. The company's platform merges the potential of blockchain and NFT technology to select the best digital artists worldwide, curates physical and virtual exhibitions and certifies the authenticity of works allowing their sale through NFTs. This enables artists to sell their artwork with transparency, security and traceability.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-seed. Backed by LVenture Group.
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HR Tech 👩‍💻

11. Klorah – payment management for creative freelancers/gig workers

  • 🖥 Website: klorah.com
  • 🧰 Product: Klorah is building an invoicing tool for freelancers and gig workers to be paid efficiently and on time, while making it easy to budget based on their needs. Their software offers clients an array payment methods, and makes it easy for freelancers to manage tax withholdings, health insurance, and retirement investing. They currently work with a community of ~3400 freelancers.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-first round. Participated in Envision Accelerator (cohort 4)
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12. Lendtable – cash advances to maximize employer benefit contributions

  • 🖥 Website: lendtable.com
  • 🧰 Product: Lendtable works with enterprise clients to provide employees an easy way to increase their company's 401k contribution. Lendtable offers cash advances to allow employees to take full advantage of their 401(k) match all at once without needing to use any of their own money. Once their money has been vested, Lendtable takes a cut of the profit earned.
  • 🤑 Funding: Series A. Backed by Y Combinator (S20), Softbank Opportunity Fund, Valor Equity Partners, Foundation Capital, Josh Richards and others.
  • 👥 Founders:
  • Sheridan Clayborne | Linkedin | Twitter
  • Mitchell Jones | Linkedin | Twitter

13. CodeGem – insights and tools to improve engineering culture

  • 🖥 Website: codegem.app
  • 🧰 Product: CodeGem integrates with common software engineering tools (GitHub, Slack, Jira) to extract and aggregate data and analytics, insights, and actionable recommendations for the team. Codegem is designed to give managers a holistic understanding of team productivity, collaboration, and engagement.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-seed. Backed by Garage Capital, CaptialIT and others.
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14. Resume Inc – blockchain and AI-based resume builder

  • 🖥 Website: resumeinc.com
  • 🧰 Product: Resume Inc is using blockchain and AI technology to improve the hiring process for job applicants and employers. For job seekers, they have developed a platform to easily create resumes that also offer advanced tracking analytics for helpful insights. For employers, Resume Inc's NFT resumes make it easy to track changes and verify key data, so employers can always confirm an applicant's skill set and work history.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Undisclosed investors.
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15. Litebulb – automated onsite technical interviews

  • 🖥 Website: litebulb.io
  • 🧰 Product: Litebulb makes it easy for engineering teams to run high-quality technical interviews without sacrificing valuable engineering time. When a team wants to hire, instead of having their engineers sit through multiple interviews a day, they can conduct interviews via Litebulb. Litebulb interviews  by simulating regular development work and extracting a candidate's technical skills data from their interview.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-seed. Backed by Y Combinator (W22), Village Global, SHL Capital and Expa.
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Community Tech 💫

16. Pallet – infrastructure for community-driven hiring

  • 🖥 Website: pallet.com
  • 🧰 Product: Pallet is an infrastructure product that enables communities and creators to build their own recruiting platforms, tapping into the talent that natively hangs out in their internet communities. On Pallet, community leaders can monetize via posting jobs to their audience or recommending candidates from their group directly to businesses.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Behind Genius Ventures, Unpopular Ventures, Backend Capital, and more.
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17. Fanhouse – platform for creators to build exclusive subscription-based communities

  • 🖥 Website: fanhouse.app
  • 🧰 Product: Fanhouse is a subscription social media platform where creators share the behind-the-scenes of their lives and engage with their closest fans. This guarantees creators a recurring income stream and provides a channel to tap into monetization opportunities with their 'superfans.' Fanhouse takes a 10% cut of all transactions, and creators have already earned over $1 million on the platform.
  • 🤑 Funding: Series A. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Chapter One Ventures, Mantis VC and more.
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18. Glow Labs – a place for communities to create loyalty rewards programs

  • 🖥 Website: glowlabs.io
  • 🧰 Product: Glow Labs is a white-label loyalty rewards program on the blockchain. They currently have 3 rewards offerings: 1) Gas Back, gift gas back to those who bought your NFT collection and reward them after mint, 2) Early Adopters, give back to those who invested in your project from the initial drop day, and 3) Loyal Holders, reward the minters who still hold your NFT collection.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-seed. Backed by Human Ventures.
  • 👥 Founders:
  • Annie Reardon | Linkedin | Twitter
  • Renee Russo | Linkedin | Twitter

19. Intros.ai – platform to help people communicate within a community

  • 🖥 Website: intros.ai
  • 🧰 Product: Intros is a white-labeled community tool that focuses on connecting people with people, not content. They bring communities together through low-touch text or email introductions; these are decided with a customizable algorithm that allows community managers to choose the factors and weights that lead to member matches.
  • 🤑 Funding: Angel round.
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20. CrowdPad – a tokenized community building tool for the everyday creator

  • 🖥 Website: crowdpad.io
  • 🧰 Product: CrowdPad provides communities with the tools to incentivize engagement through custom tokens. The more of your coins a member holds, the greater access to your community they would get. Managers can select tiered rewards and benefits for members holding certain amounts of tokens, with early backers benefitting as the community grows.
  • 🤑 Funding: Currently in ODX.
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Media Tech 🎥

21. Continuum – web3 social + education platform connecting creators and learners

  • 🖥 Website: continuum.xyz
  • 🧰 Product: Continuum is building the web3 social platform to share and learn creative skills. On the app, top creators post actionable short-form content that collectively make up courses; users earn tokens and achievements as they engage with the content (and thus become better creators themselves).
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-first round.
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22. Lalabox – mobile app for live-stream and social shopping

  • 🖥 Website: lalabox.io
  • 🧰 Product: Lalabox is a mobile app that is making it easy to shop while watching video content. The app allows thousands of creators and brands to share and promote products on the app by livestreaming. Users are able to engage through games, share content with their friends, create profiles, follow others, get notifications and more.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by YCombinator (W21) and Acequia Capital.
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23. Glass – web3 video platform allowing video creators to directly own and monetize their content

  • 🖥 Website: glass.xyz
  • 🧰 Product: Glass is a decentralized video platform designed to distribute video infrastructure and allow creators to own their own content. Their decentralized infrastructure allows anyone to earn money in exchange for video storage, bandwidth, and transcoding. They also are giving the community ownership over their content, allowing easy access to an entire ecosystem of decentralized media.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-first round.
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24. Giggl – making it easy to browse  & watch movies with anyone from anywhere

  • 🖥 Website: giggl.app
  • 🧰 Product: Giggl is a platform that makes it easy to collaboratively browse the web, or watch movies with friends. The company's platform offers a real-time shared browser that allows users to create or join portals remotely, thereby enabling users to connect with each other through screen sharing, voice, or video chat.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Craft Ventures, Crush Ventures, EGR Partners, and United Venture Capital.
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25. UnforgettableAI – personalized audio and video for marketing

  • 🖥 Website: unforgettable.ai
  • 🧰 Product: UnforgettableAI is making it easy for companies to deliver personalized audio and video messages for marketing and brand awareness.  Using their AI, UnforgettableAI helped one client create and ship over 150,000 professionally produced and personalized rap songs for their customers.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-first round. Currently in YCombinator (W22).
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DAO Tooling 🛠️

26. Utopia Labs – payroll and payments OS for DAOs

  • 🖥 Website: utopialabs.com
  • 🧰 Product: Utopia Labs is building an OS for DAOs to manage payment requests, payroll, and reporting. Their platform enables DAOs to: automate payroll, manage expenses, organize contributors, maintain transparency and ensure compliance. Utopia already counts leading DAOs like FWB, PleasrDAO and Yield Guild as customers.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Kindred Ventures, Fourth Revolution Capital, Distributed Global, Coinbase Ventures.
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27. Syndicate – transform any wallet into a web3-native investing DAO

  • 🖥 Website: syndicate.io
  • 🧰 Product: Syndicate is building the infrastructure for investing DAOs. These are DAOs where the core action is the pooling and investing of capital with the intention of generating financial and/or social returns. Their platform allows anyone with a crypto wallet to quickly create an investing DAO, accept deposits, set up legal entities, create DAO legal docs, and more in just a few clicks.
  • 🤑 Funding: Series A. Backed by a16z, Weekend Fund, IDEO CoLab Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Table Management, Variant, CoinFund and more.
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28. Station – on-chain infrastructure for a new genre of work

  • 🖥 Website: station.express
  • 🧰 Product: Station's vision is to create an on-chain labor marketplace, where tech is used to provide comprehensive, verified evidence of your web3 work so people can evaluate you based on your output, not your job title or credentials. They operate under the following principals: 1) contributors must be able to port their body of work across organizations, 2) contributions and credibility must be interoperable and fluid, 3) power and authority in the contributor economy must be emergent, not assigned.
  • 🤑 Funding: Undisclosed.
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29. Boardroom – governance management platform for DAOs

  • 🖥 Website: boardroom.info
  • 🧰 Product: Boardroom is a DAO discovery and governance platform that simplifies and standardizes the governance process for stakeholders of crypto native ecosystems. They aim to enable stakeholder-owned platforms to scale while upholding the interests of all their constituencies, and provides users with an interface to interact, signal and vote on governance proposals.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Standard Crypto, Variant, CoinFund, Framework and Slow Ventures.
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30. Orca Protocol – people and talent management tools for DAOs

  • 🖥 Website: orcaprotocol.org
  • 🧰 Product: Orca Protocol makes governance accessible by creating tools around a DAO’s most basic primitive: people. Their first tool – Pods – is designed to help DAOs scale. Pods are small working groups within a DAO, usually centered around one expertise. Each pod has its own multi-sig wallet that is controlled by the pod members. By creating a pod around an expertise, certain elements of a DAO can be hardened. This means that it is possible for a DAO to codify specific roles and responsibilities within its ecosystem.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Robot Ventures.
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Mobility Tech 🛴

31. AeonCharge – one app to book and pay for any EV charger in the US

  • 🖥 Website: aeoncharge.com
  • 🧰 Product: AeonCharge is building a universal mobile app for EV drivers to locate, activate, and pay for EV chargers across different providers. They're providing a solution to the inevitable problem in the EV space— juggling several apps and accounts to charge your vehicle. AeonCharge’s platform provides the necessary integration of all EV charging tools in one streamlined universal passport.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Y Combinator (W22) and raised equity crowdfunding on Wefunder.
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32. BlueDot – charge and earn rewards on EV driving with a single card

  • 🖥 Website: thebluedot.co
  • 🧰 Product: Bluedot is enabling EV drivers to make EV payments and earn rewards on one debit card. The Bluedot Visa card allows drivers to track their charging history and carbon footprint, while earning 'oxygen points' as rewards. The Bluedot 'oxygen points' return up to 10% cash back on charging payments and also offer discounts at nearby retail outlets while the vehicle is being charged.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Dorm Room Fund, Driventure, and APX.
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33. AirGarage – a tech platform to improve parking lot utilization

  • 🖥 Website: airgarage.com
  • 🧰 Product: AirGarage works with parking real estate owners, and offers a full-stack software and management service for their lot or garage. AirGarage handles everything from installing signage to collecting payments, and even providing parking enforcement. The company also collects data on all the parking sites in order to offer things like dynamic pricing, and advertising services. AirGarage currently operates more than 200 locations across 30 states.
  • 🤑 Funding: Series A. Backed a16z, Founders Fund, Abstract Ventures, Weekend Fund, Floodgate, and Worklife
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34. Handle – campus delivery in 15 minutes with EVs

  • 🖥 Website: handledelivery.com
  • 🧰 Product: Handle provides campus delivery of snacks, beverages, ice cream and other convenience items in under 15 minutes for a flat delivery fee. Their university-wide deliveries are made by college students on campus, who bring students their items on electric scooters. Handle currently operates at USC and Chapman University.
  • 🤑 Funding: undisclosed.
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35. Strive – supporting emerging music artists by advertising through rideshare drivers

  • 🖥 Website: strive.fm
  • 🧰 Product: Strive allows emerging artists to advertise their music by paying rideshare drivers to play it for their passengers. Strive's AI compiles a playlist of songs that a rideshare driver might enjoy, and pays the drivers $.01 per stream. The passengers act as the DJs, switching through songs on their QR-scanned remote. Strive allows emerging artists to grow their presence, and in the process, can pay rideshare drivers up to $140 per month.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-seed. Backed by Behind Genius Ventures and Unshackled Ventures.
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Retail Tech 🛍️

36. Heat – platform offering luxury fashion mystery boxes

  • 🖥 Website: heat.io
  • 🧰 Product: Heat offers curated luxury items delivered as a mystery box. Each mystery box drop allows their young audience to access cool and desirable streetwear brands, through a circular model and at more affordable prices. They have two options: a $400 box for 2-3 products worth $675, or $675 for 2-4 products worth $1200. They have sold 20,000 boxes in the last two years, equivalent to over 100,000 products.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by LVHM Luxury Ventures, Antler, Stefano Rosso, the Hermès family and other top angels
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37. Lula – platform for convenience stores to build, expand, and manage their delivery operations

  • 🖥 Website: luladelivery.com
  • 🧰 Product: Lula is an all-in-one delivery platform for convenience stores. They partner with existing platforms, like Uber Eats and DoorDash, to delivery items directly from local stores to the customer's doorstep. They hope to enable existing brick and mortar operations to compete with emerging dark stores like GoPuff and Jokr.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Ripple Ventures, Juno Capital, SOSV, Exelon
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38. Alloy – no-code automation platform for e-commerce brands

  • 🖥 Website: runalloy.com
  • 🧰 Product: Alloy is building an automation platform to help e-commerce businesses reclaim time and focus on growth. They connect and integrate sales, marketing, customer support and messaging applications and then creates automated workflows without code. They also have over 100+ app integrations, with top platforms like Shopify and Magento.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Y Combinator (W20), Bain Capital Ventures, BoxGroup, Index Ventures, Soma Capital and more
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39. Wearloom – aggregator of secondhand listings across popular resale sites

  • 🖥 Website: wearloom.com
  • 🧰 Product: Wearloom uses AI to improve the search & discovery of secondhand fashion across popular sites like Depop, eBay and Poshmark. They help users save up to 75% off average resale prices (95% off retail), and up to 5kg+ of CO2 per item.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Jason Calacanis' LAUNCH accelerator
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40. Locale – marketplace that offers local food products from far-away farms, restaurants and bakeries

  • 🖥 Website: shoplocale.com
  • 🧰 Product: Locale is a marketplace that delivers the best food from up to hours away, all in one box. They currently partner with 80+ of the Bay Area's most iconic eateries to deliver orders anywhere between San Francisco and Santa Cruz. To date, consumers retain 70%+ month over month with more than $105 average order value.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Y Combinator (S21), Decent Capital, Goodwater Capital, Alarko Ventures
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Health Tech 🧘‍♀️

41. Maslo – one-stop-shop enabling people to achieve health and fitness goals

  • 🖥 Website: joinmaslo.com
  • 🧰 Product: Maslo combines accountability, personalized planning, and expert coaching to help people improve on specific health metrics over a period of time. Upon signing up, users meet with a team of experts who craft a plan and help monitor progress. Trackable metrics include weight, body fat percentage, cholesterol, nutritional intake and more.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-seed
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42. Bioloop Sleep – a digital sleep-health platform offering personalized, data-driven sleep coaching

  • 🖥 Website: bioloopsleep.com
  • 🧰 Product: Bioleep Sleep is a mobile app that connects to sleep trackers such as an Oura ring to provide insights on sleep-related health metrics. With the help of the latest sleep scientists, Bioloop offers personalized coaching and programs based on variables such as melatonin, magnesium, exercise, consistent scheduling, caffeine intake and more.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-first round
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43. Anja Health – a preventative care brand providing umbilical cord blood and placenta banking

  • 🖥 Website: anjahealth.com
  • 🧰 Product: Anja Health makes it easy to store blood and stem cells for future use, in case children or family members get sick or need regenerative cartilage, tendon, or ligament treatment. Anja delivers easy-to-use kits to be brought into the delivery room to store samples immediately after birth, after which the samples are sent to their testing facility for safekeeping.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-first round
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44. Reframe – a neuroscience-backed app to help people develop healthier drinking habits

  • 🖥 Website: joinreframeapp.com
  • 🧰 Product: Reframe is an app for people that want to cut back on drinking. It brings together an evidence based behavior-modification program, community support, personalized goals, accountability tracking and world class coaches on one gamified platform.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Y Combinator (S21), Atlanta Ventures, and others
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45. Juna – replacing awkward lab visits with at-home STI testing and treatment

  • 🖥 Website: heyjuna.com
  • 🧰 Product: Juna aims to do away with awkward STI testing processes by sending customers at-home STI testing kits. After customers receive their testing kits, they ship their samples back to Juna, where a medical lab team reviews the results and prescribes treatment and necessary behavioural health support.
  • 🤑 Funding: Undisclosed
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Consumer Social 🦋

46. Callin – a social podcasting app

  • 🖥 Website: callin.com
  • 🧰 Product: Callin operates as a social podcasting app that lets you create, discover, and enjoy live and recorded content all in one place. Callin has similar live audio functionality to Clubhouse or Twitter Spaces, but sets itself apart by allowing users to save their live recording and edit it into an episode of a podcast.
  • 🤑 Funding: Series A. Backed by Sequoia, Goldcrest and Craft Ventures
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47. Showtime – the web3 social network where creators and collectors show off their NFTs

  • 🖥 Website: showtime.io
  • 🧰 Product: Showtime is building a new social network focused on making NFTs appealing to the end user. Long term, Showtime is aiming to be a creator-owned, decentralized social media protocol. This will let any developer build millions of social networks on top of a global, open social graph.
  • 🤑 Funding: Series A. Backed by Paradigm, Robot Ventures, Dragonfly Capital Partners
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48. Bubbl – a place to create discoverable group chats that lead to IRL shared experiences

  • 🖥 Website: usebubbl.app
  • 🧰 Product: Bubbl is working to lead the next generation of social apps, centered around creating meaningful real-life shared experiences. To do this, they are building a platform for ephemeral, discoverable group chats that lead to IRL experiences. Current use cases include activities from studying and working out together, to social hangouts and parties.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-first round
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49. SageSpot – social platform for creators to transform passionate followers into paid subscribers

  • 🖥 Website: sagespot.com
  • 🧰 Product: SageSpot is a subscription-based social platform for creators that have a meaningful following on legacy social but are tired of chasing ad deals. SageSpot transforms creators’ most passionate followers into paid subscribers who form a dedicated community where they can consume exclusive content and interact with like-minded individuals.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Khosla Ventures, Fama Venture, Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald
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50. Lolly – social dating app that uses short-form content to allow people to express themselves

  • 🖥 Website: thelollyapp.com
  • 🧰 Product: Lolly is a feed-based social dating platform that uses short-form content to allow users to express themselves - think TikTok meets Tinder. If you enjoy someone's video, you can "clap" back at it, which notifies the creator. And if you're interested in chatting, you can "crush" them, giving the creator the option to accept or deny your request.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Sequoia Scout Fund, SV Angels, Correlation Ventures, Crescent Fund
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Crypto + Web3 🔑

51. Invezo – investing in stocks and crypto with social media data

  • 🖥 Website: invezo.com
  • 🧰 Product: Invezo is an analysis tool for stocks and cryptocurrencies that integrates social media data with classic market data for better investing. Invezo is going after young retail investors who don’t care as much about traditional financial data, but instead invest based on what's trending or going viral.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-seed. Backed by Y Combinator (S21).
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52. 2Cents – creating an internet community based on contributing valuable content

  • 🖥 Website: join2cents.com
  • 🧰 Product: 2Cents is an Ethereum protocol for internet communities that turns users into ‘network owners’ when they post valuable content. 2Cents currently has a waitlist open for when they release their beta.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-seed. Bakced by Y Combinator (S20).
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53. Bridgesplit – bringing liquidity to NFTs through fractionalization

  • 🖥 Website: bridgesplit.com
  • 🧰 Product: Bridgesplit combines DeFi with NFTs to free up capital for NFT owners. NFT owners today need to sell their NFTs entirely in order to see a profit, gain liquidity, or discover their true price. Bridgesplit uses an NFT fractionalization protocol to turn NFTs, or collections of NFTs, into fungible tokens. This enables NFT owners to free up liquidity, without losing complete ownerships of valuable collectibles and artwork.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Jump Capital, Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano, Coinbase Ventures, Coinfund, and Solana.
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54. Hedge – collaborative investing for web2 and web3 assets

  • 🖥 Website: hedgeinvest.io
  • 🧰 Product: Hedge allows users to invest in stocks and crypto assets as part of an investing community. Hedge offers users to join web2 and web3 communities, which are a more organized take on existing communities that currently sit on Twitter, Reddit, Robinhood, Webull, and other platforms. Hedge enables community members to pool money into group portfolios, discuss trades, vote on which assets to invest in, and then to profit together.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-first round of institutional capital. Launching private beta in Q1 of 2022.
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55. Algofi – faster and cheaper crypto lending on the Algorand blockchain

  • 🖥 Website: algofi.org
  • 🧰 Product: Algofi is building a fast and low-cost lending market on the Algorand blockchain that enables retail investors to earn interest, access leverage, and borrow against their cryptocurrency assets. Existing decentralized networks are more expensive and slower, which makes lending inaccessible to the majority of crypto owners. Algofi aims to be the first crypto-native bank that bridges the gap between traditional and decentralized finance.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Y Combinator (S21), Arrington XRP Capital, Formulate Ventures, Pillar VC, Shine Capital, and Union Square Ventures.
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Future of Work 🏢

56. LifeAt – virtual workspaces and productivity tools for Gen Z

  • 🖥 Website: lifeat.io
  • 🧰 Product: LifeAt is building a new world of virtual spaces and productivity tools for Gen Z. Users can choose from a variety of spaces that range from calming backdrops to timed beats with influencers, or contribute videos of their own space. To make the workspaces more dynamic, users can also add productivity widgets to their screen. They have 150k followers on TikTok and 90k followers on Instagram.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-seed. Participating in the upcoming Y Combinator W22 cohort.
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57. Ladder – professional community platform for the next generation to grow their careers

  • 🖥 Website: ladder.to
  • 🧰 Product: Ladder is an online professional community platform designed to grow the career of students and professionals. Members can join interest-based communities, consume high-quality career content, engage in fun discussions, land their dream job, and form meaningful relationships with peers and mentors. Download their app to get started.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Forerunner Ventures, Seven Seven Six, Pear VC, Harry Stebbings, and more.
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58. Puzzl – platform for freelancers to manage their business

  • 🖥 Website: puzzlapps.com
  • 🧰 Product: Puzzl is a full stack platform for freelancers to manage their business. They have a CRM, communication and document sharing features, and recently launched a payments hub that enables freelancers to accept crypto. They also work directly with freelancers to determine the right price they should charge clients.
  • 🤑 Funding: Participated in Berkeley's SkyDeck Fall '21 accelerator.
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59. Let’s Level Up – platform for industry experts to teach the next generation of skilled professionals

  • 🖥 Website: letslevelup.io
  • 🧰 Product: Let's Level Up is training early professionals by connecting them to industry rockstars. They offer a combination of fellowships, masterclasses and free workshops, and have started with a focus on graphic design. LLU differentiates themselves with a community-driven and experiential approach to learning, boosting completion rates and retention levels.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-first round of institutional capital (founded Q3 2021).
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60. Stable – a virtual address and mailroom for remote-first companies

  • 🖥 Website: usestable.com
  • 🧰 Product: Stable provides businesses with 1 permanent address for all of their company documents and mail. They provide guidance on how to compliantly switch a business address and integrate with tools like Slack, Dropbox and Drive. Early adopters include companies like OpenPhone, HipCamp and Streak.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Y Combinator (W20), Hustle Fund, Remote First Capital, Lombardstreet Ventures, and TwentyTwo.
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FoodTech 🍽️

61. Snackpass – gamified food ordering at local restaurants

  • 🖥 Website: snackpass.co
  • 🧰 Product: Snackpass allows users to order food for pickup from local restaurants while engaging with friends. On the app, users can send friends gifts, see what their contacts have recently ordered, and unlock rewards through points. Snackpass is one of the leading companies at the intersection of food and social commerce.
  • 🤑 Funding: Series B. Backed by Y Combinator (W18), a16z, General Catalyst, First Round Capital, BoxGroup, and more.
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62. Glyde – mobile restaurant menus for ordering and payment

  • 🖥 Website: joinglyde.com
  • 🧰 Product: Glyde helps restaurants streamline the food ordering and payment process. They provide restaurants with custom QR codes that are attached to a digital menu, which customers scan to order and pay directly from their phones. Glyde even makes it easy to split the tab between friends or continue ordering food after placing an initial order.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Village Global, Asymmetry Ventures, and Permian Bank Capital.
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63. Jupiter – weekly meal planning and grocery delivery

  • 🖥 Website: jupiter.co
  • 🧰 Product: Jupiter is aiming to make cooking meals easier and less stressful. They personalize meal plans based on a nutrient and taste preferences, and deliver all the necessary ingredients to your doorstep. They have hundreds of recipes to choose from to help users get excited about new meals and stay on budget.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Y Combinator (S19), NFX, Switch Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and others.
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64. Hotplate – shopify for independent chefs

  • 🖥 Website: hotplate.com
  • 🧰 Product: Hotplate is a one-stop solution for food operators to efficiently grow and manage their business. Hotplate allows users to setup a storefront, create a menu, receive and manage orders, and offer delivery in an organized fashion.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Y Combinator (S20)
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65. MealMe – a search engine for food and grocery delivery and pickup

  • 🖥 Website: mealme.ai
  • 🧰 Product: MealMe allows users to search and compare prices and delivery times across all the major food and grocery stores. Users can set a budget, see what their friends are ordering, and browse recommended meals before placing their order. Checkout and payment is done directly through the MealMe app.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Techstars, Slow Ventures, 10X Capital, Palm Drive Capital, CP Ventures, and others.
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The Metaverse 🏖

66. Gather – customizable virtual spaces for the future of work

  • 🖥 Website: gather.town
  • 🧰 Product: Gather is the developer of a social platform intended to create virtual spaces for human connections and interactions. They allow individuals or companies to create custom 2D virtual spaces that has use cases for virtual offices, conferences, weddings, album release parties and more.
  • 🤑 Funding: Series B. Backed by Y Combinator (S19), Sequoia, Index Ventures, Next Play Ventures
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67. Islands – NFT passport to the Metaverse

  • 🖥 Website: islands.xyz
  • 🧰 Product: Islands is an NFT trading platform designed to facilitate art curation and form a community of traders. They allow users to create a gallery of all their NFT artwork regardless of which wallet or blockchain they are issued on and creates token-gated threads to keep up with verified owners.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Seven Seven Six, Human Ventures, and Plug and Play.
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68. Muse – Squarespace for 3D websites

  • 🖥 Website: muse.place
  • 🧰 Product: Muse is a 3D website design platform intended to help people to transform their 2D websites into 3D web experiences. The company's no-code editor enables web creators and brands to transform their static website into a virtual world.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-Seed. Backed by Y Combinator (S21).
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69. Wellnest – an open world environment for people to find peace-of-mind

  • 🖥 Website: wellnest.co
  • 🧰 Product: Wellnest is building an open world virtual environment for people to find peace-of-mind by answering daily reflection prompts. People can plant their most important reflections in the ground as flowers, talk to inspirational characters, and earn rewards including avatar accessories and new flower types. Read more here.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Progression Fund, Banana Capital, Rough Draft, Austin Rief.
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70. Jigen – luxury NFTs for the Metaverse

  • 🖥 Website: jigen.app
  • 🧰 Product: Jigen is the first NFT Gateway for Fashion and Luxury items in the Metaverse and Gaming ecosystems. They focus on solving problems for brands (such as counterfeiting) with blockchain, while allowing players in the fashion industry to share digital art and unique designs using NFTs. Jigen has introduced the $JIG token as fuel for its internal economy.
  • 🤑 Funding: Early stage.
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Productivity Tech 🚀

71. SigmaOS – a web browser for enhanced productivity

  • 🖥 Website: sigmaos.com
  • 🧰 Product: SigmaOS is a web browser designed for founders, researchers, and content creators to get work done faster and better. SigmaOS includes features like tab management, split screen, instant collaboration, distraction warnings, better keyboard commands and more.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-seed. Backed by Y Combinator (S21)
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72. Pareto – on-demand outsourcing for busy work

  • 🖥 Website: hellopareto.com
  • 🧰 Product: Pareto helps you delegate tasks across sales, hiring, and marketing to operators augmented by machine automation. It works by connecting individuals and teams to a Pareto Partner, to whom concise tasks can be sent at any time via Slack or Email.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-seed. Backed Envision Accelerator, StartX, Foothill Ventures and SoGal Ventures.
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73. Superpowered – a centralized dashboard for notifications and meetings

  • 🖥 Website: superpowered.me
  • 🧰 Product: Superpowered is a mac app designed to compile calendar meetings, zoom invites, slack notifications, and more into a centralized dashboard on their desktop. By using the keyboard shortcut Command+Y, users are able to stay on top of their calendars and messages, and join meetings without having to go to their calendar.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Y Combinator (W21), Formulate Ventures, and Soma Capital.
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74. Motion – all-in-one time management platform

  • 🖥 Website: usemotion.com
  • 🧰 Product: Motion is an all-in-one calendar platform to help manage tasks, schedule meetings, find focus time, achieve deep work state, and more. Motion uses AI to compile tasks and meetings into one calendar, and helps users prioritize between the two, so they're never left wondering what to work on and when.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Y Combinator (W20), 10X Capital, and Calm Ventures.
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75. Contenda – content management for creators

  • 🖥 Website: contenda.co
  • 🧰 Product: Contenda allows creators to automate content management to build their communities more efficiently. By enabling creators to easily identify, tag, and transform content by topic, medium, or speaker, Contenda reduces the back-end work required to upload. With Contenda, creators of all kinds can transform conferences to blog posts, video streams to TikToks, and more. Check out a Day-in-the-Life video they recently launched here.
  • 🤑 Funding: Undisclosed funding. Backed by Envision Accelerator.
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EdTech 📚

76. Epihub – shopify for online educators

  • 🖥 Website: epihub.com
  • 🧰 Product: Epihub offers educators an all-in-one platform for scheduling, billing, and teaching online. Their product includes a webpage builder, CRM, custom intake forms, scheduler for appointments, virtual event management, virtual classroom, payment processing, and progress reports.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Y Combinator (S20), Softbank Opportunity Fund.
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77. Gajo – next generation career building and exploration platform

  • 🖥 Website: gajo.app
  • 🧰 Product: Gajo is a creator platform for professionals to shed light on their journey and jobs to connect with young people figuring out their next steps. They are currently testing a beta product and will launch in early 2022.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-first round of institutional capital.
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78. Path – financial aid advising platform for Gen-Z (fka ScholarMe)

  • 🖥 Website: usepath.com
  • 🧰 Product: Path is a platform that provides students in high school and college with a custom plan on how to pay their college education. They also help users apply for all of their financial aid (scholarships, FAFSA and student loans) directly on the platform.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Y Combinator (S19), Rough Draft Ventures, K50 Ventures, Pioneer Fund, GSV Ventures, and high profile angels like Paul Graham.
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79. Kadama – Gen-Z learning app and educational social media brand

  • 🖥 Website: kadama.com
  • 🎬 TikTok: tiktok.com/@kadama
  • 🧰 Product: Kadama is a next-gen learning platform where students can get instant homework and essay help, and then earn prizes for their progress. They have also built an education social media following, with 1.7 million followers on TikTok.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Grishin Robotics, Alliance of Angels and participated in the Jones + Foster Accelerator.
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80. Edlyft – support platform for college students in STEM

  • 🖥 Website: edlyft.com
  • 🧰 Product: Edlyft is a paid support platform for college students in STEM. They help students through their toughest STEM classes, starting with computer science, by offering online group tutoring, study groups, and content on navigating computer science.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Y Combinator (W20), Kleiner Perkins, Village Global, January Ventures, Backstage Capital.
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Fitness tech 🏃‍♀️

81. Cadoo – fitness challenges that get you paid

  • 🖥 Website: cadoo.io
  • 🧰 Product: Cadoo is an app that incentives completing exercise challenges by turning fitness into a betting opportunity. Challenge participants pay to enter a walking/biking/running challenge, and challenge winners earn a share of the loser's admission fee.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Dorm Room Fund, Apollo VC, Pioneer, Cloud Money Ventures, and Wintech Ventures.
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82. Conquer – connecting athletes for pick-up competition

  • 🖥 Website: conquer-us.com
  • 🧰 Product: Conquer is a mobile app that facilitates participation in athletic competition. Users are able to create and join local pick-up sporting events and competitions where individuals are ranked regionally and nationally based on their performances.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-first round of institutional financing.
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83. Quell – fitness through active gaming

  • 🖥 Website: playquell.com
  • 🧰 Product: Quell is a unique software platform that allows users to get fit by playing video games that require intense activity. Resistance bands and controllers enable players get fit while fighting their way through a virtual game.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. YCombinator S20. Backed by Khosla Ventures, Heartcore Capital, Naval Ravikant, Tencent and others.
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84. Steppen – TikTok for fitness workouts

  • 🖥 Website: steppen.fit
  • 🧰 Product: Steppen is a social fitness app that allows members to share their own workouts, and discover others' in a TikTok-like scroll. Creators on the app can also get paid based on their likes and engagement.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-seed.
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85. Fitic – connecting fitness users and creators

  • 🖥 Website: fiticapp.com
  • 🧰 Product: Fitic is a marketplace for fitness content. Fitic allows users to have reliable, organized workouts, while providing fitness creators the opportunity to monetize workouts. Creators post workouts for users to perform, save, track and get paid from on engagement.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-first round of institutional financing.
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FinTech 💸

86. Alinea – investing app for Gen-Z

  • 🖥 website: alinea-invest.com
  • 🧰 Product: Alinea is an investing app for Gen-Zs who want to understand the companies they are investing in. They explain how each company makes money, how they treat their stakeholders, and their environmental impact on the world so customers can buy stock in companies they believe in.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Y Combinator (W21), Harvard Management Company, Goodwater Capital, Dragon Capital, Kima Ventures.
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87. Pigeon Loans – peer-to-peer lending platform for loans between friends and family

  • 🖥 website: pigeonloans.io
  • 🧰 Product: Pigeon Loans operates a peer-to-peer lending platform designed to facilitate borrowing and lending between friends and family. The company's platform offers a space where users can negotiate the terms of their loans, create and sign a legally binding contract and set up payment reminders and alerts.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-seed. Backed by Fox Ventures and crowdsourced financing on WeFunder.
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88. Fizz – debit card for college students that builds credit

  • 🖥 website: joinfizz.com
  • 🧰 Product: Fizz is building a debit card that helps college students in the U.S. start building out their credit. Better credit can help students with renting an apartment, buying a car, or getting lower rates on student loans. Users can also get weekly rewards and discounts at locations around campus.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-seed. Backed by Y Combinator (S21), SV Angels, and operators from Scale AI, Postmates, Snap, Eventbrite, Airbnb.
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89. Almonds – checking accounts that guarantee 3.75% APY or better

  • 🖥 website: usealmonds.com
  • 🧰 Product: Almonds is a smart banking startup that offers users checking accounts that guarantee at least 3.75% APY – way above standard banks. The first 10,000 sign-ups receive 5% APY for a year, and they charge users $0 in fees.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-seed. Backed by Berkeley's House Fund, Stanford's Cardinal Pitch Club, LD Capital, Crypto Angels.
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90. Finary – discord for investing

  • 🖥 website: finary.io
  • 🧰 Product: Finary is a social investing platform designed to build the digital community for the next generation of investors. On the platform, investors can chat with friends about their portfolio, discover new investing communities, and make trades on the market by connecting their brokerage accounts.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Y Combinator (W21), Upfront Ventures, Dash Fund.
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Sustainability 🌎

91. Remora – carbon capture for the trucking industry

  • 🖥 Website: remoracarbon.com
  • 🧰 Product: Remora has developed a device that captures the carbon emissions from the exhaust of semi-trucks. The carbon dioxide is extracted and sold to concrete producers and other end-users. Remora allows semi-trucks to cheaply remove carbon emissions and become carbon negative.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. YC W21. Backed by FullCircle.
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92. Recycleye – waste management tracking through data intelligence

  • 🖥 Website: recycleye.com
  • 🧰 Product: Recycleye couples software solutions with waste sorting robots to improve the waste management process. Recycleye's software identifies and classifies waste types by material, object and even brand and provides analytics on the recycling process. Their robotics hardware – Recycle Vision – then accurately sorts the waste to optimize recycled goods accuracy and quantity.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by Promus Ventures, Atypical Ventures, MMC Ventures, Playfair Capital.
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93. Wren – calculate and offset carbon emissions

  • 🖥 website: wren.co
  • 🧰 Product: Wren is a digital platform that allows individuals and businesses to calculate and offset their carbon impact to achieve net zero impact. Wren calculates carbon footprint based on survey questions and data, and then provides opportunities for users to fund projects that remove the same amount of CO2 they emit. Users then receive updates with data, and photos and stories about the projects that they have funded.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. YC S19. Backed by YC co-founder Paul Graham, Union Square Ventures, and ESO Fund.
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94. inBalance – price forecasting for improved renewable energy usage

  • 🖥 website: inbalanceresearch.com
  • 🧰 Product: inBalance has developed an ML-based software to accurately forecast changes in electricity prices. Reducing price volatility allows utility companies, energy traders, storage providers and other energy stakeholders to make the energy transition to renewable sources.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. YC W21. Backed by Lorimer Ventures and Knockout Capital.
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95. EcoCart – Carbon offsetting for e-commerce orders

  • 🖥 website: ecocart.io
  • 🧰 Product: EcoCart offers e-commerce businesses the option to include carbon offsetting as part of their checkout process. EcoCart's algorithm uses the unique characteristics of each order, including product type, shipping distance, and item weight to estimate the shipping emissions created by that order. The customer then pays an added 1-2% of the total cart cost to offset the emissions for the items purchased.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by 500 Startups, Base10 Partners, Sugar Capital, Longshot Capital.
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Creator Economy 🎙

96. Pillar – platform for creators to find brand deals

  • 🖥 Website: pillar.io
  • 🧰 Product: Pillar is platform for creators to build their own websites and access thousands of brand deals. With the brand deals, Pillar helps creators generate revenue from promoting links to their audience. The websites also serve as shoppable storefronts, with a showroom for their content, product links, merch, & online experiences.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. YC S19. Backed by Romulus Capital, Tribe Capital, Soma Capital, Global Founders Capital, Seabed VC.
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97. MediaKits – platform for creators to build media kits with real-time data and analytics

  • 🖥 Website: mediakits.com
  • 🧰 Product: MediaKits operates a platform for influencers, bloggers, and musicians to create a custom media kit with real-time data and analytics. Influencers can then use these kits to interface with marketing opportunities, reporters, and investors.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. Backed by top angels: Balaji Srinivasan (former Coinbase CTO), Michael Gruen (Sway House talent manager).
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98. F*ck You Pay Me – app for creators to review and compare brand deals

  • 🖥 website: fypm.vip
  • 🧰 Product: FYPM is an app that promotes financial freedom for creators by providing the tools they need to get paid what they're worth. The product helps users understand what brands are paying, what it's like to work with them, and whether people would work with them again.
  • 🤑 Funding: Pre-Seed.
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99. Jemi – platform to help creators sell experiences and merch to their fans

  • 🖥 website: jemi.so
  • 🧰 Product: Jemi is a platform that helps creators to build their own online stores and membership sites. On Jemi websites, creators can sell anything from online experiences to digital assets. In practice, they bundle Shopify x Patreon x  Linktree x Squarespace in one place.
  • 🤑 Funding: Seed. YC S20. Backed by East West Ventures.
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100. CLLCTVE – linkedin for creators

  • 🖥 website: cllctve.com
  • 🧰 Product: CLLCTVE is a platform for all types of Gen-Z creators to connect. Creators build their portfolio, discover other creators, and show their collaborators to other members on the platform. CLLCTVE also works with brands to help Gen-Z creators access monetization opportunities.
  • 🤑 Funding: Early stage. Backed by Gaingels, Techstars, Google for Startups.
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