Top Crowdsourcing Startups in 2024

Synack, the most trusted crowdsourced security testing platform, delivers smarter penetration testing to security teams who need a scalable, efficient way to test their attack surfaces on a continuous cadence and get actionable results. Synack’s crowdsourced penetration test is powered by the world's most skilled and trusted ethical hackers and augmented by AI-enabled technology to give customers the best of human intelligence and machine intelligence. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with regional offices around the world, Synack protects leading global banks, federal agencies, DoD classified assets, and close to $1 trillion in Fortune 500 revenue. A 4-time CNBC Disruptor 50 company, Synack was founded in 2013 by former NSA security experts Jay Kaplan, CEO, and Dr. Mark Kuhr, CTO. For more information, please visit synack.com.

Cobalt is the new way of doing application security. Cobalt leverages a global intelligent community of security researchers to help modern SaaS organizations uncover security vulnerabilities. We run agile pen tests.

Minted is a lifestyle brand and design marketplace connecting you with the world’s best artists to create something one of a kind. Minted crowdsources graphic design and artwork from a global community of independent artists and sells these as products addressing the $10 billion stationery market, $48 billion art market, and $100 billion home decor market. Minted’s mission is to enable the design independence of both consumers and artists around the world, and the company is a platform for the strongest emerging artists in the world to be seen and discovered. We aim to build a lasting brand representing the most commercially successful design community in the world. Minted was founded by successful serial entrepreneur Mariam Naficy.

Farmers Business Network connects farmers and their data through our independent agronomic network. We seek to improve the livelihood of farmers by making their data useful and accessible. Farmers Business Network (FBN) provide farmers with product performance, yield analysis, yield benchmarking and predictive analytics based on real world performance data from thousands of fields. FBN utilizes data science and machine learning to provide members with insights about each of their fields, powered by billions of data points from our network.

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.

Scribie is AI for audio/video transcription. We convert recordings of interviews, meetings, calls, webinars, podcasts, etc. to text with very high accuracy. Our service is used mostly by market researchers, videographers, podcasters, journalists, authors, etc. The big problem with audio/video transcription is that majority of the work is done manually as computers are not very good at conversational speech, yet. We have built a online system where we crowdsource the transcripts from home based freelancers and use a 4-step process to achieve high accuracy. We also use AI based tools to increase the productivity of our transcribers. We are faster, better and more efficient than our competitors.

All software contains security flaws, and there are more bad guys attacking the companies that depend on this software than there are good guys defending them. According to PBS, upwards of 209,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. are unfilled, and postings are up 74 percent over the past five years. This number will rise dramatically over the next 10 years as technology trends like public clouds, enterprise mobility and IoT make our businesses and lives more vulnerable to attackers. So who will meet these security demands? Bugcrowd is the premier marketplace for security testing on web, mobile, source code and client-side applications. Taking the leads of Facebook, Paypal and Google's crowdsourced bug bounty programs, we've developed a platform and community that combines a proprietary vulnerability reporting platform with the largest crowd of security researchers on the planet.

Candid is a world renowned social discovery platform that delivers cutting edge user-generated media experiences to improve engagement for brands. Candid provides marketers with the suite of tools needed to easily weave on-brand user-generated media into their own marketing and advertising experiences. Our intuitive content management system allows brands and publishers to inject social proof into branded websites and ads, enabling a richer exploration of products and services that improve conversions and sales. Candid is 4 years old and winning against US incumbents that are 10X or larger. Our elite team is comprised of hungry digital marketing professionals on a mission to reshape social marketing and advertising with a focus on the strategic deployment of stunning, authentic, community content to drive business results. Candid powers marketing solutions in every major corner in the world for brands like Roots, Shangri-La, Estee Lauder, Holt Renfrew, Everlast and over 400 others.

Munch is the developer of the Brainwave Interference Protocol, a cryptocurrency designed to regulate a planetarily-correct evolution of the constructive and destructive communication cycles that build up and break down the planet and its life by incentivizing phasic alignment between a life's brainwaves and the ionospheric or "Schumann" resonance.