Top Local Startups in 2024

We’re the essential technology platform used by hundreds of thousands of homebuyers and sellers to partner with top real estate agents and win at any step of the real estate journey — whether that’s finding a top agent, securing a competitive mortgage, or ensuring on-time, easy close. Every year, we facilitate billions of dollars of real estate on our platform. HomeLight empowers people to achieve better outcomes during one of life’s most important events: buying or selling their home. Our vision is a world where every real estate transaction is simple, certain, and satisfying.

Thumbtack is a technology leader building the modern home management platform. Through the Thumbtack app, homeowners can effortlessly manage their homes — confidently knowing what to do, when to do it, and who to hire. Bringing the $500 billion home services industry online, Thumbtack empowers millions of homeowners to fix, maintain, and improve their most valuable asset. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Javelin Venture Partners, Baillie Gifford, and Capital G, among others.

Though the vast majority of renters live outside of New York, San Francisco, and LA, those top markets continue to be the focus of nearly all innovation in the outdated world of apartment search. ABODO changes that. ABODO creates first-of-their-kind, localized rental marketplaces for underserved, tier 2 U.S. cities. Our platform combines the largest, most accurate and up-to-date inventory of local apartments available for a given city with a mobile-first, seamless search experience. This combination of unmatched local marketplace liquidity, and a delightful search experience, has helped ABODO grow from Madison, WI to 15 additional cities in the last 18 months, and from thousands of users to millions. With millions of renters now using ABODO across the web, iOS and Android, we're obsessed with continuing to make the process of finding your next apartment effortless, especially in cities outside of New York, San Francisco and LA.

Wonolo, which stands for Work Now Locally, is disrupting the $70bn temporary staffing industry. Founded in 2014, Wonolo is a remote-first company with three regional hubs: San Francisco Bay Area, Nashville, and Toronto. We have built a tech-enabled marketplace that connects, within minutes, businesses in need of front-line workers on a temporary or seasonal basis, with 300,000 underemployed workers in local markets all across the country. Our mission is to empower the in-demand workforce by providing flexible and fulfilling job opportunities for everyone. We are backed by leading investors including Sequoia, Bain Capital, PivotNorth, and Base10. We’re passionate about solving tough problems with a technology platform that empowers people to choose work that works for them instead of the other way around. Wonolo is a Great Place to Work Certified company for delivering a consistently high-trust experience for all employees. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment. We provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. #23 in Fortune's Best Workplaces in Technology 2020 (Small and Medium) #16 in Fortune's Best Workplaces in the Bay Area 2020 (Small and Medium) #40 in Best Small and Medium Workplaces 2019

BuildZoom is a marketplace that connects property owners to construction companies. We're building a powerful recommendations engine that considers the attributes of millions of contractors before suggesting the ideal fit for a specific construction project. We're adding transparency to an industry that is notorioulsy plagued with information-assymetry; we're making it easier to hire reliable contractors for virtually any constructon project - commercial or residential; and we're making it easier for great craftsmen to grow their business by building trust and gaining access to lucrative projects. We've expanded nationally but you can get a feel for some of our work on this list of the Top 10 General Contractors in San Francisco : buildzoom.com/san-francisco-ca/general-contractors

Slice is the easiest way to order authentic local pizza. We serve the $40 billion U.S. pizzeria market in two ways: by providing a pizza-centric mobile and web ordering experience for consumers, and by empowering local restaurants with technology that grows their business and helps them compete with Big Pizza. Can you imagine what a local pizza shop could achieve with the resources of Domino’s?

At Housecall Pro, we're focused on making the everyday lives of home services professionals better by helping them to incorporate mobile software into their workflow. The home services industry remains vast ($700b+) but untouched by technology and unencumbered by a dominant competitor. The 3M+ mobile businesses in home services are facing dramatic change as the world shifts from offline to online. Along this journey, we are quickly becoming the backbone operating system for service labor across the US and Canada. We’ve rocketed from MVP to the #1 ranked SaaS software platform in just over 2 years.

CookUnity is the first-ever chef-to-consumer platform. Connecting a diverse group of talented chefs with busy food lovers, we’re elevating the at-home dining experience. On a quest to unlock the world’s best food creators and bring their meals to the masses, CookUnity is home to more than 35 of NYC and LA’s most talented chefs. Through a weekly subscription, consumers can select from a robust and ever-changing menu of handcrafted meals that cater to a wide variety of palates and dietary preferences. Delivering more than 3.5M meals per year and growing 5x YoY, CookUnity is also helping Chefs double their income and build their own teams under their personal brands. Believing that healthy food fuels stronger communities, CookUnity contributes to an ongoing partnership and donation with the Food Bank For New York City, the city’s major hunger-relief organization working to end food poverty across all five boroughs. A growing startup with kitchens in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, CookUnity reaches subscribers throughout the country, with ambitious expansion planned for 2021. Join Us!

Podium exists to help local businesses win. Using Podium’s technology, local businesses are able to simplify the way they build their business and modernize the way they communicate with their customers – from collecting payments, facilitating online reviews, launching marketing campaigns, and much more. Our work and focus on local business and helping them to build thriving businesses has been recognized across the industry, including Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, Forbes’ Cloud 100, the Inc. 5000 (#13), and Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies. For more about our product, watch this video. Podium has a positive, inclusive, and supportive culture and was recently named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces for 2021 (4 years in a row). We look for people who are curious, creative and are willing to do the work to be a little better every day. We also embody our company values in all that we do, which always starts with being Customer Obsessed, followed by Be a Founder, Zero Drama, and Enjoy the Ride.

ChowNow stands out among the typical platform in the world of online food ordering. We help local restaurants thrive by offering the sharpest digital tools and services to grow in the modern world. Everything we design puts local restaurants and their diners first. Our products include: websites, custom-made apps, access to the most popular online ordering hubs, marketing tools, and valuable customer data. Most importantly, our business revolves around principles of fairness and sustainability—when we say commission-free, we mean it. Diversity, teamwork, and mutual respect are among our core company values. We provide support and create opportunities for everyone on the ChowNow team. To this date, we’ve build over 20,000 apps for our restaurant partners—a first for our line of business.