Top Marketplaces 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.

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

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outside of New York, San Francisco, and LA, those top markets continue to be the focus of nearly all innovation in the outdated world of apartment search.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.

Roofr is the single roofing software that has all the tools a roofing business needs to effectively run their operations. Manage measurement reports, digital proposals, invoicing, payments and more, all on easy-to-use platform. Roofr streamlines day-to-day operations so you can spend less time on admin and more time growing your business.

We know that an unforgettable trip is built on the special experiences you share with friends and family. Yet these activities are often difficult to find and even more challenging to book. Peek.com is changing this. We carefully curate our offering of high-quality activities, display them beautifully, and make them easily bookable online via computer, tablet or mobile phone. We’re dedicated to making travel planning enjoyable, so you can focus on what matters – creating memories that will last a lifetime. Peek Professional helps tour operators manage and grow their business.

We help nurses (CNAs, LVNs, RNs) find work that fits their schedule close to home. There are 4 million nurses (second most popular job in the US). There are tens of thousands of healthcare facilities (such as hospitals, nursing homes, rehab centers) who need nurses. We bring them together by working with our healthcare facility clients to find the nurses they need.

Hello, we're Cedar! Cedar is a patient payment and engagement platform that elevates the total patient experience beyond clinical care. Our technology improves the overall experience of patient billing and engagement, enabling healthcare providers to thrive in a rapidly changing environment while helping patients understand the cost of their care. Why Work with Us? Cedar offers the opportunity to work with a smart experienced team to solve an important problem that affects millions of patients annually as well as the chance to join a high-growth company at an early stage. We offer competitive pay, great healthcare and stock options, not to mention daily team lunch and unlimited snacks!

Quartzy is the world’s leading lab management solution for small- and medium-sized R&D organizations. Customers can manage their inventory, streamline purchasing communications, and consolidate ordering all in one place. Thousands of labs at pharmaceutical/biotechnology companies as well as hospitals hospitals and academic centers use Quartzy every day improve their requisitioning and procurement processes. Because the requisitioning process is linked to the Quartzy inventory, users know exactly where things are and when to order more. Quartzy also adds value to the suppliers in this large market by helping them reach their customers more effectively. This combination of a software platform plus a digital distributor results in a powerful and extremely convenient user experience that helps researchers focus on their research and accelerates the pace of scientific discovery.

Snappr is the one-stop-shop for visual content creation, including the largest on-demand photography and photo editing marketplace. Snappr Shoots is a self-service application to book photographers. Snappr Workflows is a SaaS product for enterprises to automate their visual content pipelines. Snappr also provides free tools such as the Snappr Photo Analyzer, an AI portrait photo-analysis tool. Snappr was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.