Top Marketplaces Startups in 2024

Bounce operates a platform that enables luggage storage and package pickup worldwide. We are building the future Operating System for brick-and-mortar businesses, helping them earn more money with their space while simultaneously building consumer products that users love. Over 1,000,000 people have used Bounce to store their luggage while traveling. We launched on Product Hunt in 2019 as the #1 product of the day and have grown to more than 2000 cities worldwide since. We're backed by top-tier investors in Silicon Valley and pride ourselves on being a scrappy team that moves really fast. *Inspiration* The founder, Cody, has lived in 15 cities and traveled to 60+ countries. We know how annoying it is when your things drag you down. *Lightbulb Moment* A few years ago, I was getting drinks with co-workers after work on a Friday. A friend said he’d join but had to go all the way out of the way to drop his work bag at home. I thought―"what a waste of time; there's got to be a better way.” *Problem* People spend so much time planning their days (and their lives) around the things that they own. The status quo when you land in a new city is to go straight to the airport just to drop your stuff off, even if it doesn’t make sense otherwise. *Solution* Tapping into local hotels and shops, we can open up storage space nearly everywhere in a city. Open the Bounce app and find a safe and secure place to leave your things (delivery back to where you’ll be later coming soon!). *Key Features*: 24/7 storage locations Secured and insured Easy pricing: $6 / day 24/7 customer support Get to know your local shops!

Curated was founded in 2017 with a mission to humanize online shopping. We’ve built a collaborative shopping experience brought to life with a community of passionate experts. Every shopper on Curated gets one-on-one personalized advice to find the right products for their needs so they can enjoy more of what they love. Through our expert community, Curated has created a new type of knowledge-based work that enables people to earn meaningful income related to the activities and products they are passionate about, from anywhere. Backed by Forerunner Ventures, Greylock, and Capital G, the company is growing fast. We currently specialize in outdoor sporting goods including skiing, snowboarding, golf, camping, cycling, fishing equipment with many new verticals coming soon!

LawnGuru provides on-demand Lawn Care and Snow Removal services, ordered through mobile and web based applications. With the click of a button, LawnGuru instantly connects consumers with the best local outdoor service providers to take care of their lawn and snow removal needs within hours of each request. Consumers are delighted by the platforms simplicity, convenience and price. Service providers are amazed with the increased revenue, speed of payment and ease of acquiring new nearby business.

The global food system connects 570M farms to 8B consumers and is the most important, complex structure on earth. But with growing populations and no system alignment or technology, it's under extreme stress. To cope, intermediary players (brokers, importers, etc.) manage only their part of the supply chain. These silos lead to a wasteful food system - a driver of climate change. Choco's here to provide the technology required for a connected, wasteless, data-driven, and innovative food system. We’re here to lead a change in one of the oldest industries on the planet, not just take part in it. We’re here to shape, not to observe. The problem we’re solving is complex with many moving parts, the work we’re doing is difficult and ambitious. But we’re here to win. That’s why we need the absolute best people to help us get there. Choco was founded by serial entrepreneurs Daniel Khachab, Julian Hammer, and Grégoire Ambroselli. Since its founding in 2018, the company has grown rapidly and is now active in markets such as the U.S., Germany, France, Spain, Austria, and Belgium. In February 2022, the total value of goods traded through Choco exceeded $1.2 billion. In April of 2022, we gained another $111 million in Series B2 funding with a valuation of $1.2 billion - earning us unicorn status just a few years in.

At SonderMind, we know that therapy works. SonderMind provides accessible, personalized mental health care that produces high-quality outcomes for individuals. SonderMind's individualized approach to care starts with using innovative technology to help people not just find a therapist, but find the right, in-network therapist for them.

IEX is the fair, simple, and transparent stock exchange that believes every investor is entitled to the same right to trade on equal terms, on every single trade. The SEC recently approved IEX (the Investors Exchange) as a registered national securities exchange. As the first new U.S. exchange in more than six years, IEX is on a mission to level the playing field by eliminating unfair advantages from the markets. We are an exchange that believes markets should reward smarter, not faster.

Topsort is the leading AI and Auction-based retail media global company, transforming retailers and marketplaces into top ad networks on par with industry giants. Through seamless integration, Topsort provides a comprehensive Bidless™ retail media tech stack featuring highly flexible API tools, an industry-leading privacy-safe clean room with robust online and in-store attribution, and a transparent ad network for streamlined media buying across multiple ad networks. In just three years since launch, Topsort has raised $38 million in funding from investors like Pear Ventures, Quiet Capital, FJ Labs, and Upload Ventures.

Given today’s hyper-efficient online shopping experiences, it’s natural to ask if brick-and-mortar businesses are now obsolete. We created Upside to level the playing field. Consumers use our app for everyday purchases, merchants use our platform to earn more profit without changing their business models, and as a result the offline world is made more efficient. And, it makes a difference for our communities. Our advisor, Hal Varian, developed an economic theory that is the bedrock of our model. His theory says if we know what a customer has done historically, and we know what that customer needs right now, we can design a personalized offering that maximizes the customer’s purchasing power, the merchant’s profitability, & societal value overall. At Upside, we do just that. We use real data to understand user behavior and generate personalized cash-back offers to motivate customers to buy more, more often--for millions of users and thousands of businesses across the country.

OpenSesame is the world’s marketplace for buying and selling elearning courses. We make buying and selling corporate eLearning as easy as downloading a song from iTunes. The OpenSesame marketplace and technology disrupts the leaders in the highly fragmented $4.5B elearning content market. With more than 21,000 courses from 260 sellers, buyers purchase courses with no expensive subscriptions or long-term commitments and use them instantly online, by email or in any learning management system.

We simplify the process of recruiting real-world testers through our community of 320,000+ testers, or invite your own users. We provide an easy-to-use test management platform to design and manage testing on an ongoing basis.