10 Cool New Startups That Will Change Your Life


Discover the household names of tomorrow, today.


1. Brewbot





What they do: "The world's smartest personal brewery," Brewbot lets you brew beer that is cheap, delicious, and easy to make in the comfort of your own home... all with the help of your phone.Background: Brewbot was created by Cargo, a group of designers and developers from Northern Ireland. They raised the original £114,368 to fund the project through a Kickstarter campaign.
brewbot.io
What they do: "The world's smartest personal brewery," Brewbot lets you brew beer that is cheap, delicious, and easy to make in the comfort of your own home... all with the help of your phone.
Background: Brewbot was created by Cargo, a group of designers and developers from Northern Ireland. They raised the original £114,368 to fund the project through a Kickstarter campaign.

2. Leap Motion





What they do: Remember the cool way Tom Cruise operated computers with his hands in Minority Report? Leap Motion brings you that technology thanks to a controller that lets you manipulate your home computer with a wave of the hand.Background: Leap Motion is a San Francisco based company founded in 2010 by Michael Buckwald and David Holz.
leapmotion.com
What they do: Remember the cool way Tom Cruise operated computers with his hands in Minority Report? Leap Motion brings you that technology thanks to a controller that lets you manipulate your home computer with a wave of the hand.
Background: Leap Motion is a San Francisco based company founded in 2010 by Michael Buckwald and David Holz.

3. Brode





What it does: Brode makes a remarkable, all-natural electrolyte vitamin that seriously reduces hangovers, jetlag, and athletic fatigue.Background: Brode was founded in 2010 by former New York University student Marc Brodeur.
brode.co
What it does: Brode makes a remarkable, all-natural electrolyte vitamin that seriously reduces hangovers, jetlag, and athletic fatigue.
Background: Brode was founded in 2010 by former New York University student Marc Brodeur.

4. Shyp





What they do: Have something you want to ship? Simply snap a photo of it with your smart phone and Shyp will pick it up, pack it, and send it off at the lowest cost possible.Background: Shyp was founded in San Francisco in 2013. They recently raised 10 million dollars to launch in New York this fall.
shyp.com
What they do: Have something you want to ship? Simply snap a photo of it with your smart phone and Shyp will pick it up, pack it, and send it off at the lowest cost possible.
Background: Shyp was founded in San Francisco in 2013. They recently raised 10 million dollars to launch in New York this fall.

5. Common Form





What they do: Common Form allows you to file a 1040EZ (the "easy form" for people with the simplest tax returns) in as little as five minutes by taking a photo of your W2 and texting it to them.Background: The San Diego based Common Form was one of just eleven companies selected out of 1,500 applicants to participate in Techstars' startup accelerator program.
common-form.com
What they do: Common Form allows you to file a 1040EZ (the "easy form" for people with the simplest tax returns) in as little as five minutes by taking a photo of your W2 and texting it to them.
Background: The San Diego based Common Form was one of just eleven companies selected out of 1,500 applicants to participate in Techstars' startup accelerator program.

6. Wanderable





What they do: Wanderable lets you create a registry to fund your honeymoon, so your guests and friends can send you somewhere you want to go instead of buying you napkin holders and other stuff you don't really need. Background: Founded in 2012 by former Stanford University classmates, Jenny Chen and Marcela Miyazawa, Wanderable was selected to participate in Dave McClure’s prestigious 500 Startups Accelerator program.
wanderable.com
What they do: Wanderable lets you create a registry to fund your honeymoon, so your guests and friends can send you somewhere you want to go instead of buying you napkin holders and other stuff you don't really need.

Background: Founded in 2012 by former Stanford University classmates, Jenny Chen and Marcela Miyazawa, Wanderable was selected to participate in Dave McClure’s prestigious 500 Startups Accelerator program.

7. Humin





What they do: Humin makes an app that organizes your contacts "in the way that you naturally think." A cool example of this is when you've forgotten someone's name. Instead of scrolling though your contacts and hoping a name rings a bell, Hunin lets you search for the person using terms like "Met last week."Background: Humin was founded in 2012. They first released the app as a private beta in January to 20,000 people from around the world including celebrities Will.i.am and Richard Branson.
humin.com
What they do: Humin makes an app that organizes your contacts "in the way that you naturally think." A cool example of this is when you've forgotten someone's name. Instead of scrolling though your contacts and hoping a name rings a bell, Hunin lets you search for the person using terms like "Met last week."
Background: Humin was founded in 2012. They first released the app as a private beta in January to 20,000 people from around the world including celebrities Will.i.am and Richard Branson.

8. Organovo





What they do: Organovo is like something out of a science fiction movie. It specializes in 3D bioprinting, which means they make functional human tissue which can be used for scientific testing, and, in the future, surgery and transplantation.Background: Organova formally incorporated in Delaware in 2007. It went public in 2012.
organovo.com
What they do: Organovo is like something out of a science fiction movie. It specializes in 3D bioprinting, which means they make functional human tissue which can be used for scientific testing, and, in the future, surgery and transplantation.
Background: Organova formally incorporated in Delaware in 2007. It went public in 2012.

9. Glow





What they do: Glow makes an app that aims to help women get pregnant without fertility treatments. The coolest thing about Glow, though, is that if a couple fails to get pregnant after ten months of using the app, they will be eligible to receive crowdsourced funding toward fertility treatments.Background: Glow started in 2013 as part of HVF, an umbrella project for the data-driven concepts of PayPal founder Max Levchin.
glowing.com
What they do: Glow makes an app that aims to help women get pregnant without fertility treatments. The coolest thing about Glow, though, is that if a couple fails to get pregnant after ten months of using the app, they will be eligible to receive crowdsourced funding toward fertility treatments.
Background: Glow started in 2013 as part of HVF, an umbrella project for the data-driven concepts of PayPal founder Max Levchin.

10. ThinkUp





What they do: ThinkUp bills itself as "analytics for humans," and provides its users fun and surprising information about their social media life.Background: ThinkUp was founded in New York by Gina Trapani and Anil Dash. The company's launch was crowdfunded in August, 2013.
thinkup.com
What they do: ThinkUp bills itself as "analytics for humans," and provides its users fun and surprising information about their social media life.
Background: ThinkUp was founded in New York by Gina Trapani and Anil Dash. The company's launch was crowdfunded in August, 2013.

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