Consumer Startups

Ridwell offers a door-to-door subscription service that collects hard-to-recycle household items such as plastic bags, snack packaging, wine corks, and old clothes, and routes them to vetted recycling and reuse partners. It serves residential consumers in the United States with a monthly or per-bag pickup plan.

4 investors

Rinse combines technology and hospitality with science-based dental care to provide preventive oral health services through modern studio experiences. It aims to modernize dentistry by addressing fragmented industry practices and outdated approaches.

4 investors

RISE Brewing Co. produces canned nitro cold brew coffee and dairy-free oat milk lattes in flavors such as black, vanilla, mocha, and salted caramel. The company sells ready-to-drink coffee beverages directly to consumers.

4 investors

Rob's makes flavored popcorn sold directly to consumers in varieties such as original, truffle, and Indian spice mix, along with branded merchandise. It is a consumer food/snack brand selling online.

4 investors

RoomClip is a Japanese interior and home decor platform where users share and browse over 6 million real photos of rooms, DIY projects, and products to find home ideas and shoppable items. It offers a mobile app and an online shopping feature, organizing content by room, style, brand, and floor plan.

4 investors

Roomi is a platform that connects verified renters looking for roommates or available rooms in their area. It serves individuals searching for shared housing.

4 investors

Rubbrband is a video production agency that creates advertisements for emerging brands, leveraging Hollywood-level production expertise.

4 investors

SafeWill is an Australian online platform for creating and updating wills without the cost or complexity of traditional legal services. The service targets individual Australians seeking affordable estate planning tools.

4 investors

SalonScale offers backbar management software that lets salon owners track the exact cost of products used, manage inventory, and improve profitability. It serves independent stylists, team salon owners, and multi-location salon brands, primarily in North America.

4 investors

Samosa Party is an Indian food brand offering 15+ varieties of samosas alongside items like burrito rice bowls, wraps, chole bhature, chaats, pav bhaji, and desserts, all made fresh and preservative-free. It serves customers via online delivery through its own app, Swiggy, and Zomato, as well as dine-in restaurants across Bangalore, Hyderabad, and New Delhi NCR.

4 investors

Sastaticket is an online travel booking platform serving customers in Pakistan, offering flight and travel reservations with 24/7 customer support. It operates in the online travel agency category.

4 investors

Sauron builds a home security system that combines hardware like LiDAR, night vision, two-way audio, and spotlight tracking with facial recognition and an in-house security team to identify and deter threats. The system includes a mobile app showing a real-time 3D model of the home, currently serving the Bay Area and Southern California.

4 investors

Scout is an AI-native reporting and analytics platform designed for CPG (consumer packaged goods) sales teams, automating the conversion of POS and syndicated data into dashboards, reports, and narratives for retail negotiations. The platform serves brand-side sales and category teams in natural, conventional grocery, mass, club, and specialty retail channels.

4 investors

SellRaze is a mobile app for reselling secondhand items online, letting users create listings from an image, text, or barcode and crosslist them across marketplaces like eBay, Poshmark, Depop, Mercari, and Facebook. It also provides tools to track inventory value, monitor listings, and find local buyers.

4 investors

Sesh+ manufactures nicotine pouches as a smoke-free alternative product for adult consumers seeking discrete, flavored nicotine delivery options.

4 investors

Seven Stars is a mobile game studio that develops casual games, including "Castaway Isle," a merge-and-restore game with a mystery narrative. It targets mobile players.

4 investors

Seven Sundays makes breakfast cereals produced with real food ingredients, avoiding artificial or natural flavors, dyes, and preservatives. The consumer brand sells its products directly to shoppers online with a focus on health and sustainability.

4 investors

Sevenhugs developed the Smart Remote, a universal smart remote control (Smart Remote, Smart Remote X, and Smart Remote U) for controlling infrared, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi connected home devices. The products have been discontinued and are no longer sold, manufactured, or supported as of June 2021.

4 investors

Shoppable operates a distributed commerce platform that lets transactions happen outside a retailer's own site. Its patented universal checkout technology can be embedded in paid search, display ads, social media posts, publisher content and mobile apps, serving advertisers, retailers and publishers that want purchases to close where the shopper already is.

4 investors

Shortbread develops AI-powered tools for creators to produce serialized visual stories (comics and web series) faster and at lower cost, then distributes them directly to consumers via a mobile platform. The platform combines an AI studio for rapid narrative creation with a reader destination featuring romance and dark fiction series.

4 investors

SHOWROOM operates a live-streaming service where viewers interact with performers in real time through gifting and comments, aimed at supporting entertainers and creators. The Japanese company also runs VR live and vertical video platforms and produces entertainment IP and branded content for businesses.

4 investors

Simba sells sleep products such as its adjustable Hybrid pillow, which uses removable foam Nanocubes, thermoregulating Stratos fabric technology, and recycled Simba Renew fibres to control height, firmness, and temperature. The company markets its bedding directly to consumers and highlights sustainability through B Corp status, recycled materials, and a recycling/refurbishment service.

4 investors

Simply is an app that teaches music (piano, guitar, drawing) and creative skills to learners worldwide using real-time adaptive feedback.

4 investors

SimplyCook offers meal kit boxes with pre-portioned ingredients and recipes designed for quick (20-minute) home cooking, targeting busy UK consumers who want to expand their cooking repertoire without expensive or time-consuming meal preparation. Each box contains four recipes with accompanying ingredient kits priced between £2-£6 per person.

4 investors