Marketplaces Startups

Instavest is a platform where investors publicly list their trades — including the company, share amount, and rationale — and other users can invest alongside them. It operates as a social investing marketplace, with users encouraged to share a portion of profits with the investors whose trades they follow.

2 investors

InsuranceDekho is an Indian online platform for comparing and buying insurance and investment products, including ULIPs, endowment plans, child plans, money-back plans, and fixed deposits from various Indian insurers. It also offers personalized investment advice and calculators to help individuals plan for goals such as retirement, children's education, and wealth building.

2 investors

Interintellect is a platform for hosting and attending intellectual conversations in online and offline salon formats. It serves creators, thinkers, and intellectuals seeking community-driven discussion spaces on topics spanning literature, technology, philosophy, psychology, and economics.

2 investors

Invaluable is an online marketplace for fine art, antiques, and collectibles, partnering with over 5,000 auction houses to let collectors discover and bid on items. The platform serves buyers and sellers globally and offers features like online bidding, a mobile app, and art-scanning technology through its acquisition of ARTMYN.

2 investors

IPF is a peer-to-peer marketplace connecting families across India to buy and sell children's products with payment protection and dispute resolution. The platform promotes circular economy practices while building a community of parent networks.

2 investors

Ishan Song is a same-city on-demand delivery platform specializing in one-to-one dedicated courier service across 298 Chinese cities. It serves individual users, merchants (food, flowers, retail), enterprises, and developers with services including documents, groceries, gifts, and parcels delivered by a single assigned courier in average 26 minutes.

2 investors

Value Investing FM is a Spanish-language podcast hosted by Paco Lodeiro and Adrián Godás about stock market investing using the value investing method, featuring monthly market recaps, listener Q&A, and interviews with fund managers and investors. It aims to help listeners grow their savings through investing.

2 investors

Jago provides mobile coffee retail to neighborhood vendors in Indonesia, enabling street sellers to offer quality fresh coffee at affordable prices to mass market consumers.

2 investors

Jamble operates a mobile marketplace where buyers and sellers trade secondhand clothing through live-streaming and video features, targeting the secondhand fashion community.

2 investors

JamesEdition operates an online luxury marketplace where dealers and private sellers list high-end goods such as exotic and classic cars, real estate, and other luxury products for an international audience of affluent buyers. The platform connects luxury sellers with a global demographic of qualified purchasers.

2 investors

Jaranda operates a platform that matches families with vetted teachers ("Jaran-ssem") for childcare and education activities such as language learning, tutoring, play, and pickup/drop-off support, using accumulated customer data and recommendation algorithms. It serves parents and children in South Korea and also runs Kids Zone childcare spaces for working parents.

2 investors

Jayride operates an online marketplace for airport transfers and ground transportation, connecting travelers with transport companies for pre-booked rides across dozens of countries. The company (ASX:JAY) serves both direct travelers and travel agents, working with thousands of ground transport providers globally.

2 investors

Jibu is a for-profit social enterprise that finances, equips, and trains entrepreneurs in emerging markets to run franchises producing safe drinking water through multi-step filtration, along with other essential products such as LPG and fortified porridge. Its franchisees purify local water sources and distribute within walking distance in high-density urban and peri-urban communities.

2 investors

Jinka is a real estate aggregator that centralizes property listings from thousands of agency sites, filters out scam listings, and sends users real-time alerts by email or app to help them find rentals or homes. It serves renters and buyers in the French real estate market.

2 investors

Jobdoh (職到) is a mobile app-based recruitment platform that connects workers with short-term and on-demand jobs, such as waiting staff and promotional roles, while helping employers quickly hire staff. It serves job seekers and businesses in Hong Kong.

2 investors

Jobizo is a healthcare hiring platform designed to connect qualified medical professionals with employers in the healthcare sector. The company prioritizes quality, trust, and transparency in every aspect of its recruitment service.

2 investors

Jobrapido is an online job search engine that aggregates job listings and lets users search openings by title, industry, company, and location. It offers email job alerts for candidates and job-posting tools for employers.

2 investors

JOE provides an operating platform for independent coffee shops covering back-of-house operations, front-of-house experience, and growth tools, priced as a capped percentage of loyalty revenue. Through its nonprofit incubator Awake Innovation Labs, the company runs an industry-owned model that routes value back to shop operators and coffee growers.

2 investors

JOOPITER is a digital-first auction house, marketplace, and private sales platform for collectors, curators, and creators focused on rare objects and cultural artifacts. It combines curated sales with original storytelling around the items it offers.

2 investors

Journee is a travel service that matches users to personalized trip recommendations based on a Travel Profile built from a short questionnaire. It focuses on offering non-touristy, personally vetted destinations and itineraries explored by its own team.

2 investors

Joxko is an online service and mobile app for topping up prepaid mobile phones, letting users send airtime, internet data, and communication packs to over 550 operators across 125 countries. It also offers European prepaid recharges, gift cards, and food vouchers, and is used mainly by people abroad who want to recharge phones of family and friends in their home countries.

2 investors

Jubilee Homes offers a land-lease homebuying model in which the company purchases the land while buyers buy the house, lowering the upfront down payment for homeowners in high-cost markets. Buyers pay a mortgage on the home plus monthly land rent, with the option to buy the land or recombine and sell at any time.

2 investors

Kactus operates an online marketplace where companies find and book verified venues and event service providers, request and compare multiple quotes, and manage team events. It also offers a corporate offering for large enterprises to manage MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences, events) spending, with end-to-end logistics and attendee coordination.

2 investors

Kapu is an online supermarket and grocery service where customers order goods online and collect them at nearby agent stores with free delivery to store. It targets price-conscious shoppers and small retailers, offering low prices and cashback savings, primarily in Kenya/East Africa.

2 investors