500 Startups just announced its latest class minutes ago. There are 28 companies in this group, and 11 of which have at least one woman on the founding team, and 18 have at least one foreign‐born founder. They came from NYC, SF, LA, Canada, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Ten haven’t raised money yet, and all but four are already generating revenue.
CLICK HERE TO MEET THE 4 STARTUPS FROM NYC
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Mind My Business
Mind My Business lets brick and mortars know what’s happening outside and around their store, and their risks for fines and other factors that may have an impact on their bottom lines. This analytics and consulting company take open government data and make it useful for mom and pop shops. Founded by a husband and wife team who met at a failed startup in 2008, the third one may just be the charm (marriage counts!).
Revivn
Revivn takes unused computers and repurposes them by building computer labs in underserved communities. Once the benefiting communities receive the technology, their story empowering stories are shared with the world. share their empowering stories with the world. Revivn has already provided technology to communities all over the world including places like Kampala, Uganda, and Keboan in the East Java region of Indonesia. Go, Mets!
TrustCloud
Think if it as the trust engine for the sharing economy. TrustCloud makes sharing work by providing trust (of course), safety and performance guarantee products for peer-to-peer networks. Fun fact about the team: They ate ramen noodles and peanut butter for four years. Note, that’s ramen noodle and peanut butter, not ramen noodles with peanut butter, or are we being too trusting here?
WeDidIt
WeDidIt – and they did. Made it to 500Startups, all the way from Brooklyn. The thing that they did to get them there was provide an online platform that organizations use to raise money and research their donors’ capacity to give by mining social and financial data. We provide an online platform that organizations use to raise money and research their donor’s capacity to give. Fun fact: Every member of the team has either a) played collegiate sports, b) is a music fan, c) indulges in Brooklyn hipsterdom and/or d) isn’t ‘Brooklyn histerdom’ redundant? Just checking.