Top Consumer Startups in 2024

Knock is a caring group of people who came together from across the industry with the belief there had to be a better way to serve people in the journey between homes. We offer a first-of-its-kind Knock Bridge Loan™ that gives everyone in the process more convenience, certainty, and competitiveness. Founded in 2015, we have earned the industry’s trust: an A+ Better Business Bureau rating and relationships with more than 120,000 real estate agents in our 75 markets across the US. Launched by founding team members of Trulia, we are funded by industry leading investors, including Foundry Group, Greycroft, RRI, Parker89, and The National Association of Realtors who serves 1.6 million members. We’re most proud of the stories from people we’ve helped get their new home, and the five star Zillow rating from over 750 reviews. To learn more, Knock.com

We founded The Athletic with this simple mission: produce smarter coverage for die-hard fans. It’s what we set out every day to do and our world-class full-time writers, alongside talented contributors and freelancers, have produced thousands of in-depth articles for The Athletic’s subscribers. Our employees are talented writers, editors, engineers, designers, marketers, brand strategists and more, who are excited about building the next great sports media company. Founded in 2016, The Athletic is a direct-to-consumer subscription media company offering local and national sports coverage. With a presence in more than 47 markets in the US, Canada and the UK, The Athletic's world-class editorial team has produced thousands of in-depth articles as well 
as a newly released lineup of podcasts and videos. Our headquarters is in San Francisco, we have offices in New York and London, and our 
300+ editorial employees are based in their respective markets.

Captions is a creator studio that uses AI to help creators through the entire process of content creation, from scripting to recording to editing and sharing. Our app offers a video editing interface that allows you to create videos faster.

Nova Credit is the premier cross-border credit reporting agency. Lack of a domestic credit history keeps millions of immigrants in the United States from realizing their dreams. The award-winning fintech helps newcomers apply for financial services using their international credit history from countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Mexico, Nigeria, South Korea, and the UK. Nova Credit translates international credit data into a U.S.-equivalent score and report in a format familiar to American underwriters, who use it to evaluate applications for credit products.

Zumper is the largest privately owned rental platform in North America with more than 175 million visits per year. We’re proud to have been named a 2021 Best Startup Employer by Forbes and a 2021 Best Place to Work/Company with the Best Benefits by Built In SF. To date, we’ve raised over $150 million from Kleiner Perkins, Goodwater Capital, Headline, Dawn Capital, and the Blackstone Group. Changing the way the world rents requires passion, bold ideas, and bright minds. Join us in building the future of renting, today! Apply on our careers page: zumper.com/jobs

Cirkled in is an award-winning, cloud-based, 21st-century recruitment platform matching colleges and universities to high school students based on students’ detailed rich portfolio. Colleges spend over $10 Billion every year on recruitment of High School students with only 1% return. They struggle to meet their enrollment goals and diversity and equity goals. And we know how excruciating and painful the process is for students. Cirkled in is a recruitment platform for colleges to get the holistic view of students’ achievement, strengths, and talents, identify the best-fit candidates for their institution and recruit them. Using proprietary data analytics, Cirkled-in will match colleges with the best-fit candidates. Cirkled in puts every student at the center of the circle, empowers them to showcase themselves in the best possible way and get discovered by colleges. Just like LinkedIn has revolutionized corporate recruiting, Cirkled in will revolutionize the college recruiting!

Upwave plans, measures, and optimizes brand marketing. With our Brand Campaign Measurement and Instant Insights products, we provide a software data platform to the world’s largest brand marketers. Our customers are Fortune 500 companies across multiple verticals - including CPG, food, beverage, consumer technology, telecom, and financial services - as well as the world’s largest advertising agencies and media platforms. We are unapologetically supportive of brand advertising, and work hard every day to prove its value; we know if companies can measure the value of those dollars, they’ll spend more. Brand advertising pays for not only the movies we watch and music we hear, but the journalism we read and the information we access. In short, brand advertising supports the free flow of information through society. So, we’re proud to be the first company dedicated to using data science to show enterprises the true effectiveness of their brand spend. We are backed by leading venture investors (Y Combinator, Uncork Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Initialized Capital, PivotNorth, Ridge Ventures, Industry Ventures, Conductive Ventures,) and leading MarTech founders & CEOs. We’re a humble but ambitious team that takes its work seriously but never ourselves. Come join us.

Our mission at Jobscan is to empower job seekers and help them land more interviews. We analyze resumes and LinkedIn profiles against job descriptions, helping our users stand out against the competition. Our users love us - we’re completely user-funded, profitable, and growing exponentially. We're on a mission to give the power back to job seekers by building the best tools. - Revenue-positive and profitable with exponential growth - Focused on the fundamentals - Users from 212 countries - Customers include job seekers, universities, governments, resume writers, and recruiters. - Solving a real need

SpotHero is an on-demand app for parking that allows drivers to reserve their perfect spot right from the web and their phones. We partner with garages, lots and valets to get drivers discounted parking spots all across the US. We make life easier for the daily driver.

Thanx is a leading provider of digital guest engagement for offline businesses. Brick-and-mortar retailers, restaurants and malls are facing an unprecedented crisis in the aftermath of COVID-19; Thanx helps these businesses embrace digital purchasing, capture greater customer data, and take action on that information to personalize every interaction with their guests. Our proprietary integrations with credit card networks (e.g. Visa) provide the volume and accuracy of purchase data which sits at the core of every product we build.