Marketplaces Startups

SimpleCar offered a vehicle subscription with a fixed monthly price that bundled a car, insurance, roadside assistance, maintenance, and pickup/drop-off service, with no credit checks or upfront payments. It served everyday drivers such as young professionals, students, and relocating families, but has since shut down after failing to secure scaling capital.

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Sofive operates a network of indoor soccer facilities across the United States, offering pitch rental and organized play for recreational and competitive players. The company also manages youth travel soccer clubs and has expanded to 22 centers across 9 states.

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SportSource is an online marketplace for booking sports court and gym space by the hour, letting users search venues by neighborhood, date, and time without accounts or memberships. It also lets facility owners list their courts to earn revenue, and is launching first in Los Angeles, California.

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Spotfund is a crowdfunding platform that enables individuals, nonprofits, and organizations to raise money for medical expenses, emergencies, memorials, education, and community causes. The platform facilitates both personal fundraising campaigns and recurring donations for various charitable purposes.

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Stash is an on-demand, full-service storage company that picks up, catalogs, photographs, stores, and redelivers customers' belongings, letting them manage their stored items online and request returns within 24-48 hours. It serves consumers seeking an alternative to self-storage, including students and people downsizing, with service noted in the Charleston area.

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SupplyKick manages brand presence and sales on Amazon for both internal brands and partner brands, leveraging direct marketplace expertise. The company builds and operates its own product lines across multiple categories while providing consulting and management services to other Amazon sellers.

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Tailgreeter operates a marketplace that connects sports fans with tailgate gatherings, letting them join hosted tailgates at games. It provides hosts with tools to charge for entry, manage guest lists, send mobile notifications, check in guests, and find sponsorship opportunities.

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TenantBase is an online marketplace that connects business tenants with commercial real estate space, offering search, leasing, and management tools. The platform serves small businesses and startups seeking to lease commercial properties across the United States.

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Thryv provides a small-business management platform that automates everyday business functions along with local search and online listing brands including Superpages.com, DexKnows.com, Yellowpages.com, and Yellow Pages directories. These products connect consumers with local, regional, and national businesses through listings, maps, reviews, and advertising, serving small businesses primarily in the U.S.

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URComped connects casino players with comped travel offers by matching their play history and loyalty tier levels to available complimentary bookings. It provides access to comp offers at casinos and cruise lines and includes a comp calculator tool.

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Vansanity provides medical aesthetics practitioners with training, prescription products, treatment rooms, and device rentals so they can run their own independent aesthetics business. It serves aesthetic entrepreneurs, with locations in Boston and a planned Dallas site.

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Walk Score provides walkability and commute information to help people find apartments and homes near the places they want to be. Rental listings link out to partner site Redfin across major U.S. cities.

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The Wardrobe Essentialist helps men build professional wardrobes through a curated online shopping experience, starting with dress shirts, addressing the gap between casual modern dress codes and inefficient traditional apparel retail.

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Wescover runs an online marketplace connecting shoppers and businesses with over 3,000 vetted independent creators offering small-batch, made-to-order, custom, and commissioned decor and design pieces. It positions itself as an alternative to mass-produced decor by sourcing directly from the makers.

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Wyndy connects families and churches with vetted college babysitters and nannies through a mobile platform, using background checks and student verification to ensure safety and trust.

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