50 startups

Repeat founders are building a cloud based facial recognition/security solution. I worked for a startup in this space in 2015, so color me biased.

Husband/wife duo are teaming up to build a marketplace and business management platform for nail salonz. B2B SaaS marketplace, but can they scale fast enough to be venture backable?

Mobile app is helping people train their hearing. Very positive business, the question is how they can grow to become venture backable.

Alternative meat industry meats (heh) alcohol—alternative alcohol industry is creating mocktail liquor and going d2c. Doesn't even have to go through Drizly!

WeWork for van life has arrived. Former Intersection/Sidewalk Labs alum is starting a network of physical sites for van life participants to get all the benefits of fixed housing and supplies with all the mobility of van life.

SaaS company wants to sell an energy monitoring solution to businesses to help reduce their utility bill.

AI company wants to help you see what a piece of clothing looks like on you before you buy. Pretty ambitious stuff, indie version of Amazon Look.

In the months following Fleeting, a new trucker-on-demand marketplace has emerged with higher revenue, lower valuation, but also, smaller team and less institutional investors. Who will win the Uber for trucker driver war?

Two Harvard alums are teaming up to make a subscription model Robinhood. Can they build the media strategy to pull off a third commission free brokerage?

B2C2B Company wants to build the next professional learning/coaching marketplace. Can it learn from Coursalytics, whom I covered in summer 2019?

Technologists have created a novel way to predict earthquakes ahead of time. Can this team build a business model to monetize on the damage prevented?

VR company is building hardware/software/production house for VR experiences for the elderly. Strong recurring revenue for selling to elder care communities.

Food and science executives have come up with a new way to test food for safety that can bring testing from days to hours. Pre-revenue and has a good deal of questions to answer in the quest to monetize.

Bitcoin powered real estate investment platform with also a rent to own feature. Product still in development, pre-revenue.

B2B SaaS marketplace for... partial counter tops? Very cool Texas startup that is going after the inferior market and eventually trying to get a cut of all countertops raw slabs sold.