Marketplaces Startups

Urban Company is a marketplace platform that connects customers with vetted service professionals for on-demand home services including beauty, cleaning, maintenance, and repairs across India and the UAE.

1 investor

UrbanPro is an Indian online marketplace that connects students, parents, and professionals with verified tutors, trainers, and institutes for 1-to-1 live learning across 1,000+ categories, including school tuition, exam preparation, language learning, and professional upskilling. Learners can compare educators, attend free demo classes, and pay through the platform, while tutors and institutes use it to receive enquiries and grow their teaching practice.

1 investor

UrBox operates a corporate gifting platform in Vietnam, offering vouchers usable at 20,000+ stores, physical gifts from 1,000+ brands, and premium services. It serves businesses running employee rewards, customer loyalty, and sales promotion programs.

1 investor

Uride operates a ride-hailing and transportation service connecting riders with drivers across cities in Atlantic Canada, including New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. The company runs a Good Deeds Program that donates a portion of each trip to community initiatives such as free rides, meals, and tuition support.

1 investor

Uru Sports operates a platform connecting former and transitioning athletes with employers seeking talented professionals for career opportunities. The company serves athletes exiting professional or collegiate sports and organizations looking to hire dedicated talent.

1 investor

URX was a mobile deep-linking startup that built technology for linking between apps and surfacing relevant in-app content and actions. It was acquired by Pinterest in 2016 in a deal focused on its engineering team.

1 investor

Usadosbr is a marketplace for buying and selling used cars and motorcycles in Brazil, connecting buyers and sellers through a digital platform with direct WhatsApp contact and financing options. The platform processes over 1 million monthly visits and handles more than 120,000 vehicle sales annually.

1 investor

Uswitch is a UK price-comparison service that helps consumers find and switch energy, broadband, mobile, and credit card deals. It also offers a mobile app for tracking home energy usage and finding ways to reduce bills.

1 investor

Utrain is a mobile booking app for basketball trainers that lets them manage schedules, handle client bookings, collect session payments, and communicate with athletes. It also offers features like a free booking website, in-app messaging, location-based trainer search, and organization accounts for multiple trainers, serving the basketball training market in the United States.

1 investor

Utsav is a religion-tech platform that lets Hindu devotees book authentic pujas and rituals performed by qualified pandits at temples across India, watch them live, and receive consecrated prasad delivered to their doorstep. It also provides temples and pandits with digital tools to reach devotees and generate revenue, serving worshippers in India and abroad.

1 investor

Uzum operates an integrated digital ecosystem for Uzbekistan combining an online marketplace, express delivery from cafes and shops, digital and traditional banking, BNPL/instalment payments, a car buying-and-selling platform with online loan approval, and an all-in-one app for entrepreneurs. It serves individuals and SMEs across Uzbekistan.

1 investor

Online platform for booking and purchasing vaccines in Brazil, offering individual vaccines organized by age period and preventable disease, as well as vaccination plans and packages. It connects users to nearby clinics and laboratories via postal code (CEP) and also offers vaccination solutions for companies.

1 investor

Valence provides a trading terminal that unifies execution across prediction markets including Kalshi and Polymarket, routing orders intelligently across multiple venues to achieve optimal pricing. The platform serves traders and liquidity providers with real-time market data, customizable workspace, and risk management infrastructure.

1 investor

Valia is an online platform that connects people looking to buy, sell, or rent property with real estate agents, using historical sales data and reviews to rank professionals by performance and experience. It serves both property owners/buyers and real estate agents seeking clients.

1 investor

Value Voting provides software that helps advocacy organizations identify and target voters during primary elections.

1 investor

Vamos facilitates the purchase of interprovincial bus tickets through digital channels, primarily via WhatsApp. The service operates as a digital terminal in Ecuador, allowing customers to book routes across cities without visiting physical terminals.

1 investor

Vamos is a Spanish online car-leasing (renting) platform that lets individuals, freelancers, and businesses lease a new car with a fixed monthly fee covering insurance, maintenance, breakdowns, roadside assistance, and taxes. It offers a 100% online booking process with free home delivery across mainland Spain and the Balearic Islands, including SUVs, electric, hybrid, urban cars, and vans.

1 investor

Vardera Labs offers AI models and an API that identify, authenticate, grade, and value collectible and high-value items such as coins, trading cards, toys, and luxury goods from photos. It serves marketplaces, auction houses, and authentication and grading bodies looking to automate intake processing and launch new categories without hiring category specialists.

1 investor

Variegate operates a platform that connects farmers and landowners with capital and risk-assessed diversification options, while linking investors to impact investment opportunities and technology providers to farms ready to adopt their solutions. It serves the agriculture sector as a marketplace matching on-farm diversification needs with funding and technology.

1 investor

Varsapp is an online marketplace for renting consumer products such as sporting goods, camping gear, cleaning machines, and VR headsets, with delivery by cargo. It serves consumers in Turkey looking to rent items for short periods.

1 investor

Vast.ai operates a marketplace for on-demand GPU compute, offering pricing set by supply and demand across 20,000+ GPUs and 40+ data centers with API, CLI, and Python SDK access. It provides GPU Cloud instances, serverless inference endpoints, and dedicated multi-node clusters for developers and AI teams running training, inference, fine-tuning, and rendering workloads.

1 investor

Vayable is a marketplace that connects travelers with locally-offered experiences and activities from independent operators around the world.

1 investor

VDES is an online platform for searching and requesting quotes for event venues and services. It connects users organizing events with suitable venues and service providers who can join as partners.

1 investor

Veed.me operates a marketplace connecting businesses with an international network of professional videographers for video production. The company has joined Fiverr, redirecting its creators and clients to Fiverr's video category.

1 investor