Top Marketplaces Startups in 2024

Patexia was founded on a simple idea: use the power of collaboration and technology to open the way for innovation and improve the patent system. Patexia’s model brings together an active expert community to create innovative, cutting edge solutions to technical challenges through competition. Patexia supports corporate, legal, government, and university clients across four verticals: - Protect IP: Patexia defends against IP litigation. Patexia’s technically skilled and diverse community analyzes patents by searching in multiple languages at the cutting edge of each field. Protection services include prior art searches, patent mining, etc. - Monetize IP: Patexia finds new and lucrative applications for patented technologies. - Analyze IP: Patexia conducts crowdsourced market research and generates key industry insights by building expert consensus. - Generate IP: Patexia generates innovative ideas and novel, practical solutions.

Lair East Labs is a startup accelerator based in New York that empowers founders to expand internationally. At the heart of Lair East Labs lies the startup accelerator. Each year 15 - 20 startups take on our program and receive investments of $75K~150K. Our 3-month program combines the best of two worlds - learn from alumni founders of top Silicon Valley-style accelerators and gain access to a network of mentors and investors with extensive experience navigating the U.S. and Asian markets. In the first four years of operation, our portfolio companies have raised $60+ million in funding after completing the accelerator. We support founders in their quest to build successful and sustainable ventures that solve global problems. We are founders accelerating founders. For more information: please visit: laireastlabs.com

Influenxio is the leading social marketing platform powered by hundreds of thousands of creators across social media. We empower brands to build large-scale influencer programs to drive massive impact, as well as local business owners to increase sales by the power of word of mouth across social media. From discovery down to payment, Influenxio’s platform allows for seamless collaboration between brands and influencers at scale. Finding the fit influencers for an advertiser or finding paid sponsorships for an influencer has never been easier!

Introducing LetzStepIn, your gateway to an immersive virtual reality experience. Explore our India's one-stop Super app offering a 360° virtual portal for Daily Lifestyle, Property, and Travel needs. Assured benefits, quality, and safety await as you navigate through our trusted and verified vendor listings. LetzStepIn is not just a super app; it's your unique ticket to a futuristic living. Step into the virtual realm, redefine your reality and let the journey begin.

GoodList is a marketplace to source sustainable raw materials and finished goods from vetted suppliers. The fashion industry has a universal imperative to dramatically reduce its negative impact on people and planet by positively evolving their supply chain. We believe the journey begins with choosing the right sourcing partners who balance high-quality manufacturing with responsible operations. Our network brings together companies working towards this goal, including established suppliers of top sustainable brands, producers with credible environmental or social certifications, and innovators with ground-breaking ESG solutions. To better facilitate global efforts, GoodList suppliers are benchmarked against the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all.

Making fitness more social one booking at a time.

Micoworks Inc., a Japanese developer and provider of the MicoCloud and Micomii marketing platforms, has on Wednesday announced the successful raising of JPY 3.5 billion ($24.5 million) in a Series B funding round. Micoworks said in a statement that the latest funding round was led by Vertex Growth, a growth-stage venture capital fund anchored by Vertex Holdings, a subsidiary of the global investment company Temasek. Participating investors in this round included JAFCO Group Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, SMBC Venture Capital, and Mizuho Capital. Existing investors, such as ALL STAR SAAS FUND and Eight Roads Ventures Japan, also contributed. To date, the company has raised approximately JPY 6.3 billion ($43.94 million), with this round bringing in approximately JPY 2.8 billion ($19.53 million). According to the statement, Micoworks will utilize the newly acquired funds to enhance their product features and strengthen their organizational capabilities, with plans to expand into the Asian region. The company is currently setting up development teams in Philippines and Taiwan, recognizing Asia as a key market due to the rapid rise of Conversational Commerce in the region. Micoworks also aims to broaden its reach to Taiwan, Thailand, and other Asian countries where the LINE business platform has a significant presence. Beyond the LINE ecosystem, the company intends to integrate MicoCloud with various popular communication channels in Asia.

WHEREFIT is one of Australia’s fastest-growing, HR SaaS platforms that is revolutionising fitness and wellbeing employee benefits. Our mission is to help working Australians get fit, active, and healthy, and we prioritise employee wellbeing above all else. We're a home-grown, self-funded Australian startup that is proud to have reached our current level without external investment. With plans to quadruple revenue and triple headcount this year, we're excited to enter the next growth phase on our own terms. Since launching in 2017, WHEREFIT has quickly grown to become a trusted wellbeing partner at over 200 of Australia’s leading employers, including Woolworths, NAB, Australia Post, Westpac, Reserve Bank of Australia, Allianz, PwC, nbn, AMEX, EY, Lendlease, and more. Our platform helps businesses provide their employees with exclusive corporate benefits at over 1,000 leading fitness and wellbeing brands, including HelloFresh, Anytime Fitness, Adidas, F45, ICONIC Sport, Speedo, UFC Gyms, Adore Beauty, Under Armour, and more. We believe that a healthy and active lifestyle should be accessible to all, and we are committed to making this a reality for all working Australians.