Plurchase Alternatives and Competitors Compared in Consumer Apps

NewsBlur is a personalized news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument.

Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone. Two principles guide our efforts. First, be the most trusted company in our domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use.

Submittable is a growing social impact platform used by thousands of companies, governments, and philanthropic organizations to manage their social impact programs and maximize their impact. Submittable has helped big and small organizations worldwide run 134,000 programs and collect nearly 22 million applications to date, and is backed by Accel-KKR, Next Coast Ventures, True Ventures, Next Frontier Capital, StepStone Group and a few other amazing investors.

At Mattermark, we’re accelerating sales and deal making through data and automation. Mattermark collects and organizes comprehensive information on the world’s fastest growing companies. In minutes, get actionable data that lets you pinpoint the companies and people you need to know or do business with. Today, over 500 companies use Mattermark to discover high quality leads, prioritize prospects and increase conversion rates.

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VoiceGem

Consumer Apps

VoiceGem is a SaaS solution focused on Messaging. Founded by Y Combinator alumni, this platform provides innovative tools and services to help companies streamline their operations and achieve their goals. Built with modern technology and user experience in mind, VoiceGem offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

BackerKit is crowdfunding like you’ve never experienced, the only end-to-end platform built for today’s serious creators. BackerKit empowers creators to successfully manage and grow their crowdfunding campaigns. Since 2012, we've partnered with creators to build tools, such as the BackerKit Pledge Manager, that simplify campaign management for platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. In 2022, we launched our own crowdfunding platform, offering a seamless end-to-end solution for creators and backers alike. We believe that it’s time that creators got more from crowdfunding, More fans. More funds. And waaay more fun. Keep a look out as the BackerKit team continues to innovate in the crowdfunding space: https://www.backerkit.com/for-creators

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Benchling

Consumer Apps

Biotechnology is rewriting life as we know it, from the medicines we take, to the crops we grow, the materials we wear, and the household goods that we rely on every day. Biotech R&D is radically transforming our world, but to move at the new speed of science, scientists need better technology. Benchling’s mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The world’s biotech leaders and innovators use our R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products and accelerate time to milestone and market.

Flightfox is a travel management platform for organizations with complex travel needs. We combine technology with human expertise to plan, search, book, monitor and manage global and group travel. We typically work with study abroad programs, humanitarian organizations, and other organizations with global reach.

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Coco Controller

Consumer Apps

We're building a tactile gaming controller for mobile phones.

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Tastemaker

Consumer Apps

Tastemaker aims to make interior decorating affordable and accessible to everyone. We believe that everyone should have a beautiful home, and that a little help from a pro can make all the difference in the world. Our mission is to make hiring an interior decorator easy, fun, and affordable.

GoScale is a SaaS solution focused on SaaS, Cloud Computing. Founded by Y Combinator alumni, this platform provides innovative tools and services to help companies streamline their operations and achieve their goals. Built with modern technology and user experience in mind, GoScale offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

The first wedding registry to co-operate with independent retailers & big box stores, RegistryLove lets you register products and services from anywhere & consolidate them all onto ONE registry. From traditional department store items, to local gems you wouldn't find anywhere else, to your dream honeymoon & activities, RegistryLove is a service tailored to _you_.

Credictive is a SaaS solution focused on Analytics, Advertising. Founded by Y Combinator alumni, this platform provides innovative tools and services to help companies streamline their operations and achieve their goals. Built with modern technology and user experience in mind, Credictive offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

MicroEval will help you create modern, helpful performance reviews. It’s the day of your annual performance review. You’re nervous, and rightfully so! After this meeting you’ll know whether or not you got that raise, if your work has been acceptable or if you should start looking for a new job. No one likes them. In fact, we didn’t even like them...that is until we decided that they didn’t have to be this way. Why shouldn’t performance reviews be helpful? Why shouldn’t they help you improve and grow your skillset? Exactly what we thought. Inspired by personal experiences, our team came together to help transform the performance review process into a worthwhile, meaningful and easy process. Who are we to take on this challenge you ask?

Everyday.me is an automatic journal that helps you to record your life and store it forever.

Celery emerged from Y Combinator in 2012 with one goal: to help you sell your great ideas, better. Filling a void in e-commerce, Celery has become the single-stop for innovative brands, large and small, to take pre-orders, crowdfund independently, and to continue selling before and after items are in-stock. Today, Celery has helped thousands of businesses launch their way by providing the tools to crowdfund and pre-sell independently. Celery is founded by a team crowdfunding and e-commerce experts and alums from MIT, Stanford, Groupon, LinkedIn and Foursquare, and is venture-backed by Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Elementum Ventures, Max Levchin, SV Angel, and other top investors.

A LITTLE ABOUT VIROOL Virool is a video distribution platform for brand marketers that leverages programmatic technology to reach key influencers, making content more engaging and the ability to share easier than ever. Having served more than 75,000 global campaigns, Virool’s robust ActivView product suite and in-article native unit, deliver fully transparent and insightful analytics that offers viewability guarantees, emotional resonance and fraud protection. Within our platform, users can leverage a proprietary DMP of 450MM unique profiles to build custom, addressable audience segments across all screens. More than 100,000 multi-channel sites have activated video content from Virool via partnerships including Rubicon Project and direct native placements. Founded in 2012, Virool has raised $18.62M in funding from a collection of top VC firms and angel investors, including $6.62M in its seed round. It is the biggest seed investment that anymore Y-Combinator graduate has ever received.

Parallel Universe, a Y-Combinator startup, helps developers utilize the most out of their hardware. With a server side stack developed for easy concurrency programming, you can ditch the extra servers and write simple multi-threaded code.

viaCycle brings affordable, sustainable transportation to areas that need it most. Our revolutionary bike sharing technology can create a bike program anywhere, in days rather than months. ViaCycle is committed to the ideals of sustainability, enduring economic prosperity, interconnected, sustainable mobility, and a healthier way of life. We combine new ideas in transportation with cutting edge IT to achieve these ideals and open new channels for people to live and work the way they want.

Assorted Bits is a SaaS solution focused on Calendar. Founded by Y Combinator alumni, this platform provides innovative tools and services to help companies streamline their operations and achieve their goals. Built with modern technology and user experience in mind, Assorted Bits offers scalable solutions for teams of all sizes.

Scoutzie is the best way to find the right designer for your project. We connect top designers from around the world with customers seeking professional design services. -------------------------------------------------- Finding the right person to help you solve a problem shouldn’t be about knowing that person in your circle of acquaintances. The world is getting more and more connected. Everyone should have access to the world’s talentpool. Scoutzie connects you to designers with proven portfolios. We enable you to collaborate directly with some of the best design talents that the world has to offer. We are an exclusive community where each of our members is represented solely through the merits of their work.

Vastrm Fashion™ (pronounced vas' trum) Vastrm was started to solve a basic problem: Shirts that don’t fit well! Mass produced shirts were meant to accommodate a wide variety of body types with one standard size, and different brands have different sizing standards, making shopping difficult--many men must shop in 4 - 5 different stores before finding a shirt that actually fits! By providing a home try on program and giving the ability to make custom fit adjustments to all of their apparel, Vastrm allows its customers to finally hone in on and find the perfect fit for their unique body types. Tang came up with the idea for Vastrm, which is a Sanskrit word for cloth, when a customer told him he had purchased a perfect shirt in Italy and has never been able to find the same fit again. He was considering flying back to Italy to track the shirt maker down, but Jonathan managed to adjust Vastrm shirts to the same fit.

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Double Robotics

Consumer Apps

Double Robotics is the creator of Double, the world’s leading telepresence robot. We help telecommuters feel more connected to their colleagues by giving them a physical presence wherever they need to be. Having your own Double in the office means you can be free to roam around anywhere without scheduling a call or meeting. Double takes everything you love about video calls on an iPad and places that on a mobile base that puts the remote worker in control. By combining cutting edge technology with an intuitive, elegant design, Double is the ultimate tool for telecommuters. Our mission is to connect the world through remote experiences. http://www.doublerobotics.com [email protected]

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Study Edge

Consumer Apps

Study Edge is a leading education company that develops and distributes customized content (primarily video) for courses at the middle-school, high-school, and collegiate levels, in partnership with universities, state education agencies, and other institutions.