Marketplace AI Startup Jobs

Fever is a live-entertainment discovery and ticketing platform (owner of DICE) that helps users find and book concerts, festivals, immersive experiences, and other local events. It operates in 55+ countries and reached unicorn status in 2022.

Leland is an education and career coaching marketplace platform that connects users with expert coaches, courses, and community resources to achieve their education and career goals. The platform serves over 100,000 users across 70+ countries with access to coaching across 50+ categories including MBA admissions, career transitions, and professional development.

CookUnity operates a chef-prepared meal delivery marketplace that connects independent chefs with home diners across the US and Canada. The company sources meals from a network of chefs and delivers them directly to consumers, and closed a Series C round in March 2026 alongside $250M in non-dilutive financing from General Catalyst.

Quince is a direct-to-consumer e-commerce company selling affordable apparel, home goods, luggage, and accessories by manufacturing products and shipping them directly to consumers without traditional retail markups. Founded in 2018, it has grown into a unicorn with a $10.1B valuation as of its 2026 Series E.

SonderMind operates a technology-enabled mental health therapy network that connects patients with licensed therapists and psychiatric providers, integrating with insurance to make therapy more accessible. The company also provides measurement-based care tools for providers.

Epic Games is a video game and technology company best known for Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Epic Games Store. It develops both consumer games and the underlying 3D development tools/engine licensed across the games and media industries.

Mercor uses AI to match talent with high-skill work and to provide the expert human data and evaluation infrastructure used to train and improve frontier AI systems.

Gopuff is an instant commerce and convenience delivery company operating in the US, delivering food, household essentials, and convenience-store goods to consumers' doors. Founded in 2013 by Drexel University students, it has grown into one of the largest on-demand delivery platforms in the country.

Blank Street is a Brooklyn-founded coffee and matcha chain operating small-format cafes across the US and UK, using high-tech espresso equipment and mobile ordering to keep costs low. Founded in 2020, it has grown to 100+ locations and roughly 1,300 employees, backed by investors including General Catalyst, Tiger Global, and General Atlantic.

Beast Industries is the media, entertainment, and consumer products company founded by Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson, encompassing digital content, CPG brands like Feastables, and philanthropic initiatives. Led by CEO Jeff Housenbold, it raised a $200M equity investment from BitMine Immersion Technologies in January 2026 at a reported ~$5B valuation.

Wellhub (formerly Gympass) is a corporate wellness platform that gives employees one subscription for access to gyms, fitness studios, mindfulness apps, therapy, nutrition and sleep services worldwide. Founded in Brazil in 2012, it has grown into a unicorn serving tens of thousands of corporate clients across multiple countries.

ShopBack is a Singapore-headquartered cashback, rewards, and payments platform serving over 50 million shoppers across 13 Asia-Pacific markets. Founded in 2014, it partners with 20,000+ merchants and powers over half a million transactions daily.

Perle is an AI training data platform that combines human expertise with adaptive workflows to help companies collect, annotate, and evaluate specialized training data for generative AI, LLMs, and RLHF. Their vetted global network of domain experts provides modular solutions for data annotation, enrichment, and adversarial robustness assessment.

Nourish connects patients with registered dietitians for insurance-covered nutrition counseling, using telehealth and care coordination to support long-term behavior change.

Headway operates a three-sided marketplace that lets therapists and psychiatrists accept insurance without the administrative burden, handling credentialing, billing, and claims on their behalf. Patients search the network for in-network providers and book virtual or in-person sessions online. The company covers all 50 states with tens of thousands of in-network providers across 40+ health plans.

Misfits Market is an online grocer that sells discounted, surplus, and "ugly" produce along with pantry staples and other grocery items direct to consumers, aiming to reduce food waste. Founded in 2018 and based in the Philadelphia/New Jersey area, it has grown into a unicorn-valued e-commerce grocery platform with investors including Accel, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and D1 Capital.

Real-time patient booking and experience platform serving as an open data layer on top of EHRs, connecting patients, doctors, and healthcare developers with online booking, messaging, and payments.

Beacon Software is a Toronto-based permanent holding company that acquires and grows essential subscription software businesses serving niche markets such as campgrounds, concrete makers, and youth sports operators. The company integrates acquisitions onto a shared platform, deploys engineering support, and embeds AI agents to automate customer tasks. It operates as a rival to Constellation Software, targeting profitable, entrepreneur-led SMB software vendors with at least $1M in annual revenue.

All-in-one online ordering and restaurant marketing platform that helps independent restaurants build commission-free websites and apps, manage CRM and loyalty programs, and automate marketing with AI agents.

Fora is a modern travel agency platform that trains and empowers independent travel advisors to build their own businesses. It provides tools, technology, and support for advisors to sell travel experiences and earn commissions.

Creator monetization and affiliate marketing platform connecting brands with influencers through curated storefronts, commission tracking, and data-driven creator partnerships.

Whop is a social commerce and software marketplace that helps creators and internet businesses sell digital products, memberships, and community access with integrated payments and growth tools.

Maven Clinic is a virtual clinic for women's and family health, covering fertility, maternity, postpartum, pediatrics, and menopause through on-demand telehealth visits with 30+ types of providers. It sells primarily to employers and health plans as a benefits program, pairing virtual care with dedicated care advocates and payments tooling for fertility benefits. Founded in 2014 in New York, it reached a $1.7B valuation with its 2024 Series F.

Prolific runs a research and human data platform that connects AI labs, enterprises, and academic researchers with a vetted global pool of participants for surveys, behavioral studies, and model training/evaluation data. Its proprietary tooling handles recruitment, screening, payment, and quality control, and it has paid out over $100M to participants. Customers include Stanford, Google, and generative-AI developers sourcing human feedback data.

Multiverse is the UK's first EdTech unicorn, providing an alternative to university through professional apprenticeships in AI and tech skills. Partnered with over 1,500 companies in the US and UK.

Thatch is a modern health benefits platform that enables employers to offer Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRA), giving employees a monthly allowance to choose their own health insurance plans. The platform has onboarded over a thousand companies and integrates with payroll systems like ADP to streamline benefits administration.

A web-based platform that provides mobile game developers with integrated commerce, live operations automation, and payment solutions.

CloudKitchens provides kitchen infrastructure and software that enable food and beverage operators to expand delivery, pickup, and food production with lower upfront capital and time.

Agentio is an AI-native ad platform that enables brands to buy creator-led advertising as easily and scalably as Meta or Google ads. The platform automates sourcing, pricing, contracting, delivery, and measurement of creator marketing campaigns across YouTube and other platforms. Over 100 leading enterprise brands including Uber, DoorDash, and CashApp have shifted paid media budgets to creator campaigns built on Agentio.

Airalo offers a global eSIM-based connectivity platform for travelers, providing affordable international mobile data packages.

Andela operates a global talent marketplace that connects enterprises with vetted remote technologists—engineers, AI specialists, product managers, and designers—across 135+ countries. Originally founded in Lagos, Nigeria to train African software engineers, it has evolved into a fully remote, AI-era staffing and upskilling platform serving clients like GitHub, Goldman Sachs, and Cloudflare.

Casa is a subscription-based home maintenance platform that pairs an AI-driven concierge with a network of vetted handymen to handle repairs, projects, and proactive upkeep for homeowners. It uses lidar scanning and AI to catalog a home's systems and schedule maintenance, sold as a monthly membership (~$200/mo). Founded by ex-Uber/CloudKitchens operators Michael York and Michael Mizrahi, it currently operates in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.

Recruiting marketplace and platform that matches companies with specialized recruiters and AI-powered hiring workflows.

CFTC-regulated prediction market exchange where users trade on real-world event outcomes across economics, politics, weather, and other markets.

Marketplace and tooling for transferable clean-energy tax credits, extending into broader climate finance.

Novig operates a peer-to-peer sports prediction market where users trade directly with one another instead of against the house, eliminating hidden fees and biased odds. Founded in 2021 by Jacob Fortinsky and Kelechi Ukah and backed by Y Combinator (S22), it has become the fastest-growing platform in the U.S. sports prediction category. In February 2026 it raised a $75M Series B at a $500M valuation to compete with Kalshi and Polymarket.

Fours (formerly Suger) is an end-to-end cloud marketplace revenue engine that helps SaaS companies manage product listings, contracts, billing, and metering across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Patreon is a membership platform that helps creators run a subscription business, providing tools for creators to communicate with fans, deliver exclusive content, and receive recurring payments. It serves millions of creators across video, music, podcasting, and writing.

Phantom is a leading multi-chain, self-custodial crypto wallet supporting Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Base, and Polygon with over 15 million monthly active users. The platform offers token swaps, staking, NFT management, and cross-chain capabilities.

Olipop is a prebiotic soda brand creating healthier alternatives to traditional sodas, using plant fiber and botanicals to support digestive health while delivering classic soda flavors.

Padel Haus is a premium indoor padel club operator blending courts, coaching, food and beverage, and community programming across major U.S. cities.

Passionfroot is a Berlin-based platform that helps creators and media companies monetize their brand through sponsorship management and brand partnerships. It serves modern GTM teams to plan, run, pay, and measure creator-led growth end to end.

Posh is a New York-based events, ticketing, and social-discovery platform (posh.vip) that lets organizers create, sell tickets to, and grow communities around live events while users discover experiences via a 'Netflix-style' feed. It has issued ~25M tickets across ~50,000 organizers and ~8M users. This is distinct from posh.ai, the conversational/voice-AI provider for banks and credit unions.

Scan.com operates a technology-enabled medical-imaging network connecting patients, payers, and employers to a national network of imaging providers with transparent pricing. The platform streamlines patient-referral workflows and is expanding across the US after building the UK's largest self-pay MRI marketplace.

Ande is an AI-native operating system for corporate entertainment, letting enterprises book, manage, and reconcile client dinners, events, and experiences through a network of 93,000 vetted vendors and venues. Customers include Cloudflare, Salesforce, and McGraw Hill, with over $400M moving through the platform annually.

Jack & Jill is a London-based startup that puts AI voice agents on both sides of hiring: Jack represents job seekers through career-coaching conversations, while Jill represents employers by digging into what success in a role looks like. The two agents negotiate matches and arrange direct introductions, bypassing traditional applications and resumes.

Picsart is an AI-powered creative platform for photo and video editing with over 150 million monthly active users. It provides AI-driven tools for content creation, background removal, and design for both consumers and businesses.

Planned provides an AI-enabled source-to-pay platform and managed service for corporate meetings, travel, and events, combining venue and vendor sourcing, approvals, contracting, payments, attendee management, and program reporting.

Protege operates a governed marketplace platform for ethical sourcing of multimodal, real-world AI training data with compliant data exchange capabilities.

Swap (Swap Commerce) is a global commerce operating system that helps international retailers manage cross-border payments, landed cost calculation, tax compliance, and logistics on a unified platform. The company serves online brands expanding across borders with automated duties, taxes, and returns infrastructure.

A24 is an independent entertainment company producing and distributing films, television, and related consumer media products.

Fomo (fomo Labs) is a mobile-first, cross-chain crypto trading app that lets retail and crypto-native users buy, track, and trade tokens across chains like Solana, Ethereum, Base, and BNB Chain without bridging. The platform layers in social features, letting users follow friends and top traders, view their activity, and copy trades.

Partiful is a social event planning platform that makes it easy to create, share, and manage invitations for parties and gatherings, named Google's Best App of 2024.

Question-and-answer platform that connects people to share knowledge across millions of topics, featuring AI-powered Poe chatbot platform

Redo is a post-purchase platform for e-commerce brands offering returns, exchanges, and purchase protection.

Seven Starling is a virtual women's behavioral health clinic specializing in perinatal mental health, treating conditions such as postpartum depression and anxiety across fertility, pregnancy, pregnancy loss, and early parenthood. It combines specialized therapy, peer support groups, and psychiatric medication management delivered via telehealth. The company operates in 18 states through partnerships with 1,500+ OBGYN practices and plans to reach 30+ states by end of 2026.

222 is an AI-powered social platform that accelerates in-real-life chance encounters, helping users form, deepen, and maintain meaningful relationships through curated offline experiences. Using psychological data and machine learning, the platform matches compatible people for intimate social events at curated venues. Backed by Y Combinator, General Catalyst, and Upfront Ventures, 222 is rebuilding social connection in the age of digital isolation.

Bugcrowd operates a crowdsourced cybersecurity platform that connects organizations with a global network of security researchers for bug bounty, penetration testing, and attack surface management programs. Founded in Australia in 2012, it is now headquartered in San Francisco and Sydney.

Contra runs a commission-free professional network and hiring marketplace where independents showcase work, find projects, and get paid without platform take rates.

InHouse is a marketplace and AI-powered design platform that helps short-term rental hosts and property residents furnish and design their spaces. The platform combines AI floorplan analysis with professional design recommendations and offers exclusive pricing on products from premium brands.

Members-only home swapping network enabling a travel-rich lifestyle at a fraction of hotel costs, with 220,000+ homes worldwide where 90% are primary residences, requiring members to host to travel.

Nowadays is the first AI-native platform for corporate event planning, automating everything from venue sourcing to vendor negotiations. Built by MIT engineers, it leverages a database of 400,000 global venues and AI agents that contact venues by email and phone to manage end-to-end event logistics.

SF Compute provides rentable, large, low-cost GPU clusters for AI pre-training workloads. The platform operates as a marketplace connecting AI teams with on-demand high-performance computing capacity, offering flexible access to supercomputing-scale infrastructure with InfiniBand interconnects.

Luxury vacation rental platform combining curated hotel-quality smart homes with proprietary AI-powered operations technology, scaled to over 1,000 homes with industry-leading NPS of 85.

GrubMarket is an AI-powered technology and software platform for the food supply chain, combining e-commerce marketplace operations with industry software tools.

Community-obsessed live shopping platform for rare plants, vintage decor, fashion, beauty, and unique goods through daily live shows from trusted sellers, empowering creators and collectors to build thriving businesses.

Duetti is a New York-based music financing platform that buys catalog rights and individual master/publishing tracks from independent artists, using data-driven valuations to price deals. Artists receive upfront cash while Duetti monetizes and markets the acquired catalogs. Founded in 2022, it has since expanded into publishing catalog deals and new funding programs for indie creators and songwriters.

Intro is a marketplace for booking one-on-one video calls with in-demand experts across business, wellness, design, and lifestyle categories. The platform connects users with celebrity advisors and industry professionals for personalized advice sessions.

Platform scaling unified climate action by helping organizations source, purchase, and manage carbon credits with efficiency, transparency, and rigor. API-first infrastructure for the voluntary carbon market.

Rove is building the first universal airline mile, a loyalty program that lets users earn and redeem miles across dozens of international airlines and hotel chains worldwide. Through a Chrome shopping extension and hotel booking platform, Rove enables travelers to earn transferable miles without needing credit cards. The Y Combinator-backed startup partners with airlines including Air France-KLM, Qatar Airways, and Finnair.

Community-driven fitness platform that allows users to discover and host in-person fitness classes, events and experiences. Transforms gyms and studios into social hubs with over 1 million monthly users across 24 US cities.

Blockchain-based loyalty and payments platform for restaurants, letting diners earn $FLY cryptocurrency rewards at participating restaurants. Built on Coinbase's Base layer-2 protocol.

Houzz is an online platform connecting homeowners with home renovation and design professionals, offering project photos, product marketplace, and software tools for contractors and designers. It combines a social community with e-commerce and SaaS tools for the home improvement industry.

Modern Life is a New York-based, technology-enabled life insurance brokerage that gives financial advisors access to 30+ carriers across term, permanent, annuity, disability, and long-term care products. Its platform combines instant quoting, data-driven and AI-assisted underwriting assessments (including instant "Express Decision"), digital applications, and end-to-end agency management. Founded by fintech veterans Michael Konialian (ex-CoverWallet) and Jack Arenas (co-founder/CTO of Petal), it has raised $35M from Thrive Capital, New York Life Ventures, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, and Allegis.

New Generation, also known as New Gen, builds AI-native commerce infrastructure that turns static product catalogs into structured data, generative storefronts, and conversational shopping experiences for brands and agents.

AI-native investment bank for small and mid-market businesses, using AI agents to match buyers with acquisition targets in days instead of months, focusing on M-M revenue companies.

Torch Dental is a NYC-based B2B platform that digitizes dental supply procurement, letting practices discover, order, and pay for supplies from 100+ vendors in one place with price transparency. It also handles inventory tracking, spend analytics, and back-office ordering workflows, saving practices an average of ~16% on supplies. Founded by brothers Khaled and Yassine Boukadoum after watching their dentist sister struggle with manual ordering.

0x (0x Labs) builds decentralized exchange infrastructure and trading APIs for DeFi, powering swap and liquidity aggregation for wallets, apps, and its own consumer product Matcha. Founded in 2017 by Will Warren and Amir Bandeali, it is backed by Greylock Partners and Jump Crypto.

Climate tech company building a carbon-smart wood supply chain and marketplace for reclaimed timber.

Doji is an AI fashion shopping app that creates a personalized avatar so consumers can try on real apparel products, explore looks, and share style ideas before purchasing.

Gridline provides a digital wealth platform enabling investors to access alternative investments with top-tier fund managers across venture, buyout and real assets.

Hotplate is an online ordering and drop-selling platform for independent chefs, bakers, and food creators. Sellers set up a storefront in minutes, schedule timed food "drops" (events), and coordinate local pickup or delivery with hundreds or thousands of customers. Founded in 2020 and part of Y Combinator's Summer 2020 batch, the company is based in San Francisco.

EdTech platform enabling experts to create and teach cohort-based online courses with real-time community interaction, achieving 75% course completion rate compared to 7-10% for traditional MOOCs.

Vivrelle is a membership club that gives subscribers access to a shared closet of designer handbags, fine jewelry, and diamonds for a monthly fee, with tiers ranging from about $45 to $309/month. Members can borrow items indefinitely, swap them, or buy pieces they love at member-only discounts. Founded in 2018 by Blake and Wayne Geffen, the company operates a NYC showroom plus a multi-city partnership with Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.

Marketplace helping small business owners find qualified buyers and navigate the acquisition process.

Fay connects patients with insurance-covered dietitians and provides AI-powered infrastructure that helps nutrition practices deliver preventive, longitudinal care.

GoTu is a dental talent marketplace that connects practices with verified dental professionals for flexible staffing.

Digital investment platform providing commission-free access to global equity markets, ETFs, and multi-currency savings across European countries.

Public (Public Holdings, Inc.) is a New York-based fintech company operating a multi-asset investing platform where users trade stocks, options, bonds, ETFs, crypto, and treasuries. It offers AI-powered tools such as Alpha and agentic investing automation, with brokerage services provided through its FINRA/SIPC member subsidiary.

Consumer investing platform that lets users automatically mirror public trades and strategies from high-profile investors and politicians.

Bonfire Studios is an independent video game studio in Irvine, California developing Arkheron, a team-based PvP game. Founded by veteran game developers, the studio focuses on creating multiplayer worlds and live game experiences with a hybrid, craft-oriented development culture.

Caro is an HR and workforce management platform focused on home-based care, connecting caregivers with families and care agencies. It streamlines scheduling, compliance, and payroll for home care providers.

Chestnut Carbon develops and manages U.S. nature-based carbon removal projects, primarily through reforestation and afforestation on farmland and degraded land. The company uses proprietary MRV (Measurement, Reporting, and Verification) technology and data modeling to identify optimal land parcels, accelerate carbon measurement, and reduce monitoring costs. Projects adhere to Gold Standard verification and span 37 states, conserving over 200,000 acres and targeting removal of over 100 million tons of carbon over project lifetimes.

Choco builds ordering and commerce software for food distributors, restaurants, and suppliers, using digital workflows and AI to modernize wholesale food operations.

Gravity operates an AI-native advertising network that places contextual and sponsored content inside AI chatbots, assistants, and agents, including ChatGPT and a range of smaller AI products. It also runs an agent-to-agent advertising product that feeds product catalogs directly to AI shopping agents rather than human users, with advertiser clients including Best Buy, Target, Vercel, and MongoDB.

Gym Class is a leading VR sports game by IRL Studios for Meta Quest, allowing players to play basketball, baseball, and football in virtual reality. With a 4.9-star rating and 69K+ reviews, it counts the NBA and Golden State Warriors among its investors.

MUBI is a global movie streaming platform and production company that curates and distributes arthouse and independent films.

Onton is an AI-powered product search and discovery engine that uses neuro-symbolic, multimodal search to help shoppers find the right product. Originally focused on furniture (formerly Deft), the platform is expanding to apparel and consumer electronics. It aims to dramatically shorten shopping decision time compared to traditional e-commerce browsing.

Freelance management platform connecting high-skill freelancers with employers, providing tools for workforce orchestration, contractor compliance, and talent acquisition at scale.

&Open is a certified B Corporation providing a powerful corporate gifting platform that makes it easy for companies to send thoughtful, sustainable gifts at scale, serving notable clients including Airbnb, Spotify, and Intercom.

Audius is a decentralized, blockchain-based music streaming platform that lets artists upload and monetize music directly without centralized intermediaries, competing with Spotify and SoundCloud. Founded by Stanford alumni Roneil Rumburg and Forrest Browning, it runs on Ethereum and Solana with an AUDIO governance token and a backer cap table including Katy Perry, Nas, and The Chainsmokers.

Augment Market operates a FINRA-registered marketplace for buying and selling shares in private companies, enabling pre-IPO stock transactions starting at 0,000. The platform connects investors and shareholders for seamless private stock transactions in the secondary market.

BallerTV is a Pasadena, California-based subscription streaming platform for youth and amateur sports, offering live coverage, replays, and highlights of thousands of games to help families stay connected and student-athletes get recruited. Founded in 2016 by co-CEOs Rob Angarita and Aaron Hawkey with EVP Sandeep Hingorani.

Beacons builds an all-in-one business platform for creators, combining link-in-bio websites, audience management, analytics, email marketing, monetization, and storefront-style tools for creator-led businesses.

Blessed is a fast-growing tech company dedicated to empowering Christian communities with cutting-edge digital technology through its app. The platform offers Bible reading, daily devotional content, guided prayers, and AI-assisted Bible Q&A features, with approximately 2.3 million monthly downloads.

Board is a face-to-face game console that blends video games with the tactile feel of board games. Built around a 24-inch interactive touchscreen that recognizes touches, gestures, and physical game pieces, it is designed for 4-6 players to gather around a table together. Founded by Brynn Putnam (founder of Mirror), Board launched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 at a $499 price point with 12 original titles.

Boardy is an AI networking product that uses conversational workflows to introduce founders, operators, investors, and other professionals who should know each other.

Super app platform enabling companies to embed lightweight mini-apps into existing mobile applications for payments, remittances, eSIM, lending, and marketplace features.

Channel3 is building a universal, API-driven product graph—a database of every product on the internet—so AI agents can reliably search, recommend, and purchase products. Its catalog already spans 50 million products and includes built-in commission-based monetization for developers building agentic commerce experiences.

High-protein, better-for-you meat snacks available across major US retailers.

CoinList is a platform for investing in onchain assets, including crypto token sales, pre-IPO stocks, and funds, connecting verified investors with early-stage crypto and blockchain projects. It has facilitated over $1.2B raised across 85+ token and equity raises, with notable past launches including Solana and Ondo.

Flash-frozen specialty coffee capsule company that delivers barista-quality coffee to consumers, requiring no machine — just add water or milk to enjoy.

AI-powered shopping platform building a more personalized way to discover, compare, and buy products online.

Debbie is a consumer fintech mobile app that rewards users with cash and points for building savings and paying down debt rather than for spending. It partners with banks and credit unions—who pay to acquire and engage younger consumers—and layers on a marketplace and in-app financial-literacy modules. The company has surpassed 200,000 users who have collectively earned over $2.3M in cash rewards.

Digs is an AI-powered platform that converts residential construction documentation—plans, specifications, selections, approvals, and warranties—into a shared digital record and workflow for builders, suppliers, and homeowners. Based in Vancouver, Washington, the company partners with major building-products distributors to digitize the homebuilding lifecycle.

AI-powered commerce platform that lets independent sellers and creators launch community-driven marketplaces with live selling, auctions, and paid communities.

Drift (formerly Safara) is a selective travel agency for high-producing luxury travel advisors, pairing concierge-style service with AI-drafted bookings and trip tools.

Duffel provides a powerful API that enables developers and businesses to search, book, and manage flights and other travel products without the complexity of legacy travel infrastructure.

DZINLY is a virtual exterior design platform that helps homeowners visualize and plan home renovation projects. The platform provides professional design services and 3D renderings, allowing users to experiment with color palettes, materials, and upgrades before committing to physical changes.

Ethos is an AI-powered expert-matching platform that scours hundreds of millions of profiles to identify niche experts by analyzing their academic work, code, portfolios, and podcasts. Used by over 25 global investment firms and consultancies, the platform enables paid consulting calls on-platform, connecting private equity firms, hedge funds, and consulting companies with domain experts in minutes.

Everyrealm (formerly Republic Realm) is a New York-based metaverse holding company that invests in, develops, and manages virtual real estate, NFT assets, and gaming infrastructure across platforms like The Sandbox and Decentraland. It raised a $60M Series A in February 2022 led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Fanatics sells licensed sports merchandise, trading cards, collectibles, and betting products, operating an e-commerce platform serving major sports leagues and teams. The company has expanded into Fanatics Collectibles and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, with offices across the US and Europe.

Female Invest is a subscription-based e-learning platform dedicated to closing the financial gender gap by educating women on personal finance and investing. The platform has empowered over 500,000 women across 100+ countries with accessible financial education, courses, and community support.

Fifth Door is an AI-driven platform that enables individuals to create, share, and play games by converting gameplay concepts into web-accessible formats. Founded by Daniel Kan (co-founder of Cruise), the company aims to democratize game creation without requiring technical skills. It has secured $20 million in seed funding and is based in San Francisco.

Fika Jobs is a Stockholm-based video-first hiring platform that runs personalized AI-agent video interviews (currently powered by Google's Gemini) and compiles candidate responses into short video profiles, letting employers assess communication and personality beyond resumes. The platform is free for job seekers and charges employers 10% of a successful hire's first-year salary. It raised a $4M pre-seed in June 2026 led by Luminar Ventures.

Fourthwall is a creator commerce and membership platform that lets creators build self-branded websites, sell merchandise, and run memberships and tipping, handling sourcing, production, and fulfillment through vetted partners. Trusted by 500,000+ creators and companies including MKBHD and Vox, and backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Social platform for fractional ownership of real estate, enabling investment clubs to pool capital and make collective decisions with automated LLC compliance, bookkeeping, and tax filings.

Game Jolt is a social community platform for Gen Z gamers that lets users share and discover indie games, livestreams, fan art, and other gaming content. Originally launched in 2004 as an indie game hosting site, it has since grown into a broader creator and community platform headquartered in Seattle.

Gamefam is a Los Angeles-based video game developer and publisher that creates and operates branded gaming experiences on Roblox, Fortnite, and other UGC platforms. Founded in 2019 as the first professional Roblox-dedicated studio, it partners with major IP holders like Mattel, Netflix, and the NFL to produce branded games and metaverse campaigns.

Gatsby is a San Francisco-based on-demand consumer platform for humanoid robot cleaning services, operating under parent entity West Egg Labs. Founded in January 2026 by Aron Frishberg, the company is robot-agnostic and builds the consumer distribution layer for humanoid robotics rather than competing on hardware. The service is live in San Francisco via an iOS app.

GetMyHome (now operating as RealKey.ai) is an AI-powered home buying platform that combines licensed brokerage services with AI agents to streamline the homebuying process. The platform offers AI-based home valuation reports, SWOT analysis, and real-time buyer Q&A to help buyers avoid overbidding.

GigFinesse is a live-entertainment operations platform that connects venues and hospitality groups with musicians and manages the end-to-end live-performance booking workflow — talent discovery, contracting, scheduling, payments, logistics, and performance management. The AI-powered, white-glove platform has powered tens of thousands of shows across 70+ U.S. cities and now handles over 1,000 events per month.

Gild is an AI-native workforce operating system for the skilled trades, connecting leadership with field workers across hiring, scheduling, dispatching, and job costing. Its product Forge uses conversational AI and SMS/voice agents so managers can dispatch crews and field workers coordinate in their preferred language.

Gordian Software builds APIs that enable the world's leading travel organizations to increase revenue by seamlessly selling airline ancillaries and add-ons, serving over 60 million passengers monthly across 100+ airline partnerships.

Direct-to-consumer premium olive oil brand known for its signature squeeze bottles and high-quality, single-origin Spanish olive oils designed for everyday cooking.

Gumroad is an e-commerce platform that lets creators sell digital products, memberships, and services directly to their audience, handling payments, licensing, and delivery. Founded in 2011 by Sahil Lavingia, the company now operates with a very small human team, using an in-house AI agent (Gumclaw) to handle support, operations, and engineering.

Highstock operates an AI-driven B2B marketplace connecting consumer brands holding excess or unsold inventory with vetted global wholesale buyers, handling matching, logistics, compliance, and payments. Founded in 2024 by former Instacart executives Camille van Horne (CEO) and Sean Cashin (CTO), it started in beauty and personal care and is expanding into apparel.

iCapital operates a fintech platform that powers the alternative investment marketplace, enabling advisors, wealth managers, asset managers, and banks to access, evaluate, and manage private market and hedge fund strategies for their clients. The company also provides technology for structured investments and fund administration.

Italic is a consumer commerce platform that sells unlabeled luxury goods directly from the same manufacturers behind premium brands.

Keychain is an AI-powered platform for CPG manufacturing that connects brands and retailers with a global network of over 30,000 vetted manufacturers. Its KeychainOS operating system helps manufacturers manage production cycles with AI-driven compliance, planning, and traceability modules.

Launchpoint builds an AI-powered creator marketing platform for brands to discover, manage, pay, and measure large networks of creators. Its software automates campaign workflows, compliance, fraud detection, and content distribution for enterprise programs. The New York startup serves hundreds of customers and a network of more than 30,000 creators.

Liquid Death is a better-for-you beverage brand selling canned water, iced tea, and sparkling energy with a sustainability-focused, entertainment-driven consumer brand.

Luma is an event management platform that makes it easy to host, promote, and manage delightful events online and in-person. The platform provides beautiful event pages, effortless invites and ticketing, and attendee management with integrations like Zoom.

Lunchclub is an AI-powered social networking platform that matches professionals for 1:1 video introductions based on shared interests and goals. Founded in 2017, it is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Mangrove builds a decentralized exchange with an on-chain order book and programmable liquidity for DeFi traders and market makers.

Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (Cost Plus Drugs) is a Dallas-based public benefit corporation co-founded by Mark Cuban and radiologist Alex Oshmyansky that sells generic and branded prescription drugs at transparent cost-plus pricing, cutting out pharmacy benefit manager middlemen. The company has expanded from direct-to-consumer online pharmacy into B2B employer/payer programs, wholesale distribution (Marketplace), and its own sterile injectable manufacturing facility in Dallas.

Mindtrip is an AI-powered travel planning platform that combines conversational AI with a proprietary knowledge base to generate personalized, collaborative itineraries, recommendations, and bookings. Founded in 2023 in Silicon Valley by CEO Andy Moss and a team of serial entrepreneurs, it has since acquired travel-creator e-commerce platform Thatch.

Mirror Mirror AI is a San Francisco-based marketplace founded by Yusan Lin, a former fashion model turned AI research scientist, that lets fashion brands generate AI campaign and e-commerce imagery using the licensed likenesses of real, agency-signed models. Models earn compensation each time their likeness is licensed for a generated image, with consent and usage terms built into every booking. The company was accepted into the a16z Speedrun accelerator and raised $1 million.

Miso is a personal agentic travel AI that enables high-frequency travelers to curate, book, change, and cancel flights, hotels, rental cars, and experiences through simple text messages. The platform maintains contextual awareness of previous bookings, preferences, and requirements to deliver a personalized travel management experience. Miso searches both cash and award inventory to optimize the cheapest mix for every booking.

MoldCo is a clinician-led digital health platform focused on mold toxicity, combining virtual care, lab testing, and protocol-driven treatment to make diagnosis and recovery more accessible.

Monid is an agent-native tool router — often described as "OpenRouter for agent tools" — that lets AI agents discover, inspect, run, and pay for external tools and APIs at runtime through a single integration and shared balance. Its catalog spans 1,700+ tools across search, SEO, lead generation, e-commerce, market data, social data, and image/video/audio/3D generation, accessible via MCP, CLI, or HTTP API. The company reports over 4 million agent transactions processed.

NORI Robotics is a San Francisco-based startup building affordable bimanual home robots. Its flagship NORI L2 is a two-armed household robot starting at $1,288 that autonomously handles chores like loading the dishwasher, folding laundry, and cleaning, with a skill-sharing marketplace and remote-operation support. The robot is made in the US and slated to ship summer 2026.

Offcall is a career and financial platform built for physicians, offering salary benchmarking, compensation transparency, and financial education tools. The platform helps doctors navigate professional mobility, work planning, student debt, retirement, and taxes. It also provides a HIPAA-compliant referral network and clinician messaging for care coordination.

On Deck (rebranded as ODF, standing for On Deck Founders) runs a founder fellowship community that helps aspiring entrepreneurs find co-founders, pressure-test ideas, and gain conviction to start companies, culminating in an intensive in-person week in San Francisco. It takes no equity and offers a 3,000+ member alumni network whose companies have collectively raised over $2B.

Ordo is America's fastest-growing K-12 school food service platform, operating a marketplace that pairs schools with local chefs to deliver fresh, homestyle meals. It serves 100+ schools across 15+ states.

Ornn builds financial infrastructure for GPU compute, including pricing indices (the Ornn Compute Price Index), market data, and cash-settled futures and derivatives that let buyers and sellers trade compute like a standardized commodity. Its OCPI benchmark is built from live GPU spot transactions (H100/H200/B200/RTX 5090) and distributed on the Bloomberg Terminal. The company is building toward a regulated compute futures exchange.

Othership operates immersive sauna, cold plunge, and breathwork clubs and digital experiences focused on emotional wellness, recovery, and in-person community.

Oway turns unused truck capacity into nationwide freight infrastructure so businesses can book lower-cost pallet shipping with AI-powered coordination and automated partial truckloads.

Palico operates an online marketplace for private fund secondaries, helping institutions and investors buy and sell fund positions with improved transparency and process efficiency.

Parrot Finance is a social investing platform that lets users follow and replicate portfolios managed by top financial influencers, asset managers, and hedge funds, making institutional strategies accessible to everyday investors.

Paymob is a Cairo-founded payments infrastructure company that gives merchants access to more than 60 payment methods through a single integration, serving over 390,000 merchants across Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Oman. It offers payment gateways, POS terminals, SoftPOS, and payment links for online, in-app and in-store acceptance.

Podimo is a subscription-based podcast and audiobook platform based in Copenhagen, offering exclusive and curated audio content across multiple European markets. The platform enables creators to monetize their content while giving listeners a premium, ad-free experience.

Pogo empowers consumers to unlock value from their personal data by providing cashback rewards in exchange for purchase data, helping merchants gain real-time consumer insights while enabling over 3 million users to earn and save money.

Clinical trials access platform that matches patients to studies and streamlines enrollment for healthcare providers and life sciences teams.

Qida provides home-care services for older adults in Spain, supported by a technology platform for care coordination.

Rayon is a Paris-based, browser-first design platform that lets interior designers and architects draw floor plans, mood boards and specifications collaboratively, positioning itself as an alternative to legacy CAD/BIM software. Users can import DWG and PDF plans and convert scanned floor plans into editable drawings using AI, with 3D capabilities launching alongside its V4 release.

Recess (legal entity Collaboration Studios, Inc.) runs an online homeschool community where kids ages 8-16 join small interest-based "squads" for mentor-led classes, clubs, and project-based learning. The platform pairs live instructor-led sessions with a social feed and parent coordination tools for families educating outside traditional school. Founded in 2024 and based in San Francisco.

Reebelo operates a global marketplace for refurbished consumer electronics and lifestyle products. The platform connects buyers with vetted sellers across phones, laptops, and other devices, focusing on affordability and sustainability in the circular economy.

Refer is a Bay Area AI recruiting platform (Public Benefit Corporation) founded in 2024 by Andre Hamra that flips traditional recruiting by making job seekers the primary customer through an AI career agent named Lia. Lia learns a candidate's experience and preferences, matches them to roles, and makes direct email introductions once both sides are interested, with candidates paying 20% of their first month's base salary only after they are hired. The platform reports ~2,000 companies, ~7,000 open roles, and 5,000+ facilitated interviews.

Global employer of record platform that enables companies to hire, manage, and pay employees and contractors in over 180 countries without establishing local entities.

Republic is a New York-based fintech platform that democratizes access to private markets, letting individuals and institutions invest in startups, real estate, crypto, and other alternative assets. Founded in 2016 as a spin-off from AngelList, it has grown into a global investment and tokenization platform used by millions of members.

YC-backed procurement platform simplifying indirect spend management for operations teams in 3PLs, distributors, and retailers with real-time pricing from 100+ industrial vendors.

Rintin is an AI-powered B2B commerce platform in Mexico that lets small retailers and resellers source inventory directly from manufacturers and wholesale importers, with 15,000+ SKUs across apparel, cosmetics and stationery. It bundles embedded credit, nationwide logistics and digital selling tools into a single marketplace serving 12,000+ micro-entrepreneurs. Founded by Argentine entrepreneurs Quinto Van Peborgh and Gastón Greco, it is headquartered in Mexico City.

River Markets is a San Francisco-based prime brokerage for prediction markets, giving professional and institutional traders a single interface to route orders and aggregate liquidity across venues like Kalshi and Polymarket. The platform provides execution software, market data connectivity, a Python SDK, and risk tools for managing large cross-venue orders. Founded by ex-BlackRock and ex-Morgan Stanley quants, it launched in May 2026 and is a Y Combinator Spring 2026 company.

Roam is a proptech platform helping buyers assume low-rate existing mortgages so home ownership can be significantly more affordable than new-market financing.

Rosie is an AI-assisted care-matching platform that helps families find and coordinate trusted care through SMS-first workflows and personalized matching.

Series is the first AI-powered social network, founded by Yale students, that uses AI agents called AI Friends to facilitate meaningful professional connections based on mutual value. Operating within iMessage, the platform has attracted 250,000 profiles, primarily Gen Z college students.

Sesame is a healthcare marketplace that connects patients directly with doctors, specialists, and labs at transparent, upfront prices — often at half the typical cost. The platform eliminates the need for insurance by enabling same-day appointments with board-certified providers.

Sitch is an AI-powered dating and matchmaking platform that combines concierge-style setup workflows with voice and messaging experiences to help users find intentional relationships.

Skims is a Los Angeles and Glendale-based direct-to-consumer brand making shapewear, underwear, and loungewear designed to fit a wide range of body types. Co-founded by Kim Kardashian, it has grown into a unicorn-valued apparel company with over 100 open roles and an active IPO watch-list presence.

Slate Auto is a Bezos-backed EV startup building a customizable, sub-$25,000 electric pickup truck. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Troy, Michigan, it has raised roughly $1.4 billion to date and targets the start of production by the end of 2026. The company reports over 150,000 reservations for its modular, accessory-driven truck.

SomaPix is a Rwanda-based photo-sharing platform that uses AI facial recognition to let event attendees instantly find and download photos of themselves from weddings, conferences, sports events and other gatherings. It also gives professional photographers a way to distribute and monetize their event galleries. The company is early-stage, founded by Bonheur Iraguha in Kigali, with a small founding team.

Stord is a cloud supply chain platform providing e-commerce fulfillment, warehousing, and freight logistics services across a network of facilities in Atlanta, Dallas, Las Vegas, Hebron, and other US locations. It serves thousands of brands with order management, warehouse management, and transportation management software.

SuperHi is an online education platform offering flexible, project-based courses in code, design, and project management for creative professionals and aspiring developers.

swsh is a consumer photo-sharing platform for live experiences, offering shared albums, AI-assisted photo discovery, and event community engagement tools.

Tesana is an AI game-creation platform that turns natural-language prompts into playable 3D games, using a proprietary engine (its closed-source Muranyi-3 model) that translates descriptions of environments, mechanics, characters and rules into structured game code. It ships a games marketplace, a desktop (Tauri) build and subscription tiers, and reported roughly 10,000 paying customers within its first weeks after demoing at GDC 2026. Co-founded by Johannes Vermandois (CEO) and Eric Heimer (CTO).

The Muse is a values-based career discovery platform that helps job seekers research companies through employer profiles, culture content, and career advice, while enabling employers to build their brand and post targeted job listings. Founded in 2011 in New York City, it also operates Fairygodboss, a career community for women acquired in 2022.

The Network is a people search engine that aggregates public online information to help the right people connect. Their first product, Signa, helps venture capitalists and professionals discover and connect with relevant individuals based on social data across the internet. Founded by former Deel early employees, the platform aims to engineer serendipity through meaningful human connection.

Tomorrow Health is a New York-based home healthcare technology company that connects patients, providers, payers, and home medical equipment suppliers on a single platform. It automates ordering, benefits verification, and supplier matching for home-based care so patients get equipment and supplies delivered faster. The company partners with health plans and health systems to manage the home care supply chain end to end.

Toptal operates a fully remote, exclusive talent marketplace connecting businesses with the top tier of pre-vetted freelance software developers, designers, finance experts, and consultants. Founded in 2010 and profitable since shortly after its seed round, it has never raised significant subsequent venture funding.

Twill operates a talent referral platform that helps companies hire through trusted introductions and lets candidates access roles through referral-driven recruiting.

Volta is an AI-powered B2B commerce platform that automates sales administration for distributors and wholesalers in Europe. The platform digitalizes product catalogs, automates order processing, and integrates with ERP systems.

Wabi builds a personal software platform where users can create, discover, remix, and share mini-apps without code. The product is positioned as a consumer-facing layer for lightweight personal software creation and distribution.

Global job platform transforming how people connect with work, offering employer branding solutions, job matching, and media content. Merged with Otta in 2024 to expand globally.

Wizard builds an AI-native shopping agent experience, covering conversational product discovery and checkout workflows for online commerce.

Yassir operates a super-app in the Maghreb region offering ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, and digital financial services across 45+ cities. Founded in Algiers in 2017, it became North Africa's first unicorn in 2022.

Zora (Zora Labs, Inc.) is an on-chain creator platform and Ethereum Layer 2 network built on the OP Stack, letting users mint posts, media, and profiles as tradable NFTs and ERC-20 creator tokens. Founded in 2020 as an NFT minting protocol, it has evolved into a SocialFi app tightly integrated with Coinbase's Base network, launching the $ZORA token in 2025.