Marketplace Startups

Tarjimly built a mobile application and language-access software combining AI and human volunteer translators to connect refugees and limited-English speakers with interpreters in healthcare, legal, and social services settings. The nonprofit was acquired by CLEAR Global in 2025.

1 investor

Taste operates a marketplace where customers can purchase prepared meals from restaurants and have them delivered nationwide, providing an alternative to home cooking or conventional takeout for at-home dining.

1 investor

The Mercer Club is a private network for founders and operators that uses AI and machine learning to match investment opportunities with members based on sector, stage, and geography, combining algorithmic scoring with human curation to filter deal flow.

1 investor

Tsenta automates job applications by monitoring 50,000+ career pages across major applicant tracking systems and submitting tailored, ATS-optimized applications within minutes of job postings. The platform serves active job seekers seeking to increase application volume and speed while maintaining quality application materials.

1 investor

Tupelo is a marketplace and platform for buying and selling businesses, serving business brokers, buyers, and sellers. The platform enables deal flow management, business valuation, NDA signing, and connections between market participants to close transactions.

1 investor

Tuxebo operated an online marketplace for equipment rental, connecting people who wanted to rent items. The company is now inactive.

1 investor

UpBanx is a mobile app that provides financing, invoice management, and financial reporting tools for content creators. The platform offers invoice financing with low fees and aggregates multiple financial products in a single interface designed for creators' needs.

1 investor

Value Voting builds political targeting software aimed at advocacy groups, with the goal of countering political extremism through strategic primary efforts.

1 investor

Vayable operates an online marketplace where travelers can discover and book unique local experiences and activities offered by independent companies and local experts worldwide.

1 investor

Venuetastic operates an online marketplace for discovering and booking event venues, helping event planners filter spaces by budget, location, and size. It targets people organizing events in the event-planning industry.

1 investor

Vobi is a project management and invoicing platform for construction and home improvement professionals that consolidates product catalogs, billing, task tracking, and client communication in a single workspace.

1 investor

Volaren offers an AI-driven investment platform that turns individual investors' market views into trades, portfolios, and back-testable strategies using fundamental and quantitative models, and explains the factors driving each position. It aims to make institutional-style hedge fund analysis available to retail investors.

1 investor

WheelStreet is an aggregator-model marketplace for renting two-wheelers in India, offering scooters, commuter bikes, sports bikes, and premium bikes with flexible rental durations, home delivery and pickup. It serves individual consumers looking to rent motorbikes.

1 investor

Yardbook offers free software and a marketplace for landscaping and yard-care businesses, handling scheduling, estimates, invoicing, payments, and timesheets. It serves small landscaping business owners in the US.

1 investor

yhangry is a platform that connects private chefs with customers for hosting dinner parties and events. The service enables people to book chefs for private dining experiences and provides chefs with opportunities to operate as independent food entrepreneurs.

1 investor

Zanbazaar let people create curated catalog pages of products to recommend to others, with authors earning a share of referral bonuses on products sold. The service was shut down in 2007.

1 investor

Zidisha is a crowdfunding platform that connects low-income entrepreneurs in Africa and Asia with backers worldwide who fund their small-business projects. Instead of repaying as loans, funded entrepreneurs "pay it forward" by funding other entrepreneurs on the platform, and backers interact with entrepreneurs directly through chat, photos, and project updates.

1 investor

Zipio operated a deal search service, aggregating deals for consumers to find.

1 investor