Top Consumer Internet Startups in 2024

Recently acquired by Fortune 500 company the Adecco Group and voted #1 Most Innovative Company in Education and #28 Most Innovative Company by Fast Company in 2015, General Assembly is a world leader in the higher education space, offering innovative digital skills training to help prepare businesses and individuals for the workforce of the future. We offer a variety of online and offline classes, workshops, and long-form courses, as well as a thorough alumni network with exclusive resources, benefits, and networking opportunities. Our model has enabled us to scale to 20 campuses, 50,000 alumni, and over 300 Fortune 500 clients.

Created in 2009 by Yael Aflalo, we design and manufacture the majority of our limited-edition collections in our factory headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. All other garments are produced by responsible manufacturing partners here in the U.S. or abroad using sustainable methods and materials. We source sustainable fabrics and vintage garments while incorporating better practices throughout our supply chain to make beautiful styles at a fraction of the environmental impact of conventional fashion. It is our mission to lead and inspire a sustainable way to be fashionable.

We’re the New York-based startup that pioneered video on the web. Now, we’re busy innovating for the future. Our flagship product, JW Player, is live on more than 2 million sites and streams billions of videos each month, across all devices — phones, tablets, and desktops. JW Player powers online publishing, with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 companies to individual bloggers. In addition to the player, our services such as video hosting and streaming, advertising, and analytics, help companies optimize their video workflows, and monetize smartly. Together, we’re imagining what comes next, while serving millions of businesses, users, and viewers throughout the world.

We are an operating system development team and a global provider of integrated financial information, analytical applications, and industry-leading service. We enable you to build multi-window desktop apps that look and feel just like native installed apps so you can maximize your desktop real estate. We are now used to deploy thousands of industry apps to over 1500 sell-side and buy-side firms.

Givebutter is the #1 rated fundraising platform on G2, powering $300M+ in donations for more than a million Changemakers worldwide. Nonprofits use Givebutter to replace multiple tools so they can launch fundraisers and events, use donation forms and donor management (CRM), send emails and text blasts—all in one place. Instead of charging a traditional SaaS subscription fee, Givebutter is completely free to use with a 100% transparent tip-or-fee model. Givebutter has been certified as a Great Place to Work® in 2021 and 2022, and its founders Max Friedman, Liran Cohen, and Ari Krasner were recently featured on Forbes’ 30U30 list for Social Impact. For more information on Givebutter, visit givebutter.com.

Blade Urban Air Mobility, Inc. is a rapidly growing global urban air mobility platform utilizing a technology-powered, asset light model with unrivaled brand recognition. Blade recently announced that it will become publicly listed via a merger in order to accelerate its transition from conventional aircraft to Electric Vertical Aircraft (“EVA”), expand new air mobility routes, grow our network of captive passenger infrastructure, and continue to develop our consumer-to-cockpit technology stack. We believe in hard work. It drives our growth, fortifies our core competencies, and differentiates our competitive stature. We are accessible to our colleagues, partners and fliers 24 hours a day enabling us to provide unmatched service every day. We understand that details matter. Whether it's improving the strength of our brand or working to improve flier experience, we demand precision in everything that we do. We assess our performance in real-time. We are never stagnant and own our failures and our successes at the company, team and individual level.

Shareaholic is transforming the way content is distributed, discovered and engaged with across the web. We're growing quickly. Over 300,000 websites have Shareaholic products installed and over 450 million people globally interact with our services each month to discover and share content which makes Shareaholic one of the largest and fastest growing networks of long-tail website owners. For more information, visit shareaholic.com →

LawnStarter is an online platform for outdoor home services. Our user-friendly app connects outdoor service pros with homeowners in 120 U.S. markets. Through technological innovation and top-tier talent management, LawnStarter has experienced exponential growth. As the name suggests, we began as a lawn care marketplace but have expanded into other vertices, including: Pest control Pool care Gutter cleaning Tree care Roofing

CardFlight is committed to making payment acceptance easy for business owners. SwipeSimple, our signature product, is used by more than 100,000 small business across the US. Ten of the top 30 merchant acquirers in the US recommend SwipeSimple because the products easy for businesses to use. CardFlight takes pride in building SaaS solutions that are ahead of the curve in technology, reliability, and user experience. Delivering simple payment solutions and quick response to industry shifts, has made us one of the fastest growing companies in America. To learn more about our company and team, visit our website.

ProducePay is helping farmers feed the world by solving the two deepest pain points in the agricultural industry: access to working capital financing and produce procurement. Our product is at the intersection between tech, finance, and agriculture. Based in Downtown Los Angeles, we’ve raised over $85MM to create the agricultural trade’s first ever online trading platform for perishable food and have built a financial solution for hundreds of growers, distributors, and receivers across the world. Produce Pay is changing the produce industry, an industry as old as human civilization, for good. We’ve built a team of insanely talented, ambitious problem-solvers to do so and we’re just getting started. Come be part of our amazing journey!