Best Startup - California
At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 82 Collaborative Consumption companies in California, United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Collaborative Consumption Companies & Startups (California, United States)
Getaround
Getaround is a peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace that enables car owners to rent out their cars.
Founder(s): Elliot Kroo, Jessica Scorpio, Sam Zaid
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Car Sharing, Collaborative Consumption, Marketplace, Mobile, Peer to Peer, Transportation
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Gensler
Gensler is a collaborative design firm that has capabilities in design and architecture across 31 practices.
Founder(s): Arthur Gensler, Drue Gensler, James Follett
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Architecture, Collaborative Consumption, Consulting, Product Design, Real Estate, Sports
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Gigit
Gigit is an online platform for locating musical bands and artists for parties and other events.
Founder(s): Tegan Gaan
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Event Management, Events, Music, Travel
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Lugg
Lugg provides anything moved with the push of a button. Download Lugg on the App store and instantly get connected to a truck and 2 movers.
Founder(s): Eric Kreutzer, Jordan Brown
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment, Mobile Apps, Transportation
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Pley
Pley offers a toy subscription service.
Founder(s): Elina Furman, Ranan Lachman
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Marketplace, Subscription Service, Toys
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Peerspace
Peerspace is a peer-to-peer marketplace for booking space for events, meetings, and productions.
Founder(s): Matt Bendett, Rony Chammas
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Coworking, E-Commerce, Event Management, Marketplace, Small and Medium Businesses
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Brybe Marketplace
Comprehensive Digital Services Marketplace for Freelancers, Influencers, and more.
Founder(s): Igor Fedenkoff
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Collaborative Consumption, Content Creators, Digital Marketing, Freelance, Marketing, Marketplace, Outsourcing, Social Media Advertising, Social Media Marketing
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Gone
Gone offers you the most value for electronics and gadgets you no longer use without the hassles of pricing, listing, or shipping.
Founder(s): Iñaki Abete, Mahmoud Ibraheem, Mark Peter Davis, Nicolas Bayerque, Pablo Orlando
Location: Walnut, California, United States
Industries: Automotive, Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Mobile, Product Design, Retail
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Weedbates
Weedbates is a commerce-driven marketplace that provides access to cannabis through a safe and convenient platform. Weedbates aims to be the most trusted destination to discover cannabis products nationwide.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Cannabis, Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Information Technology, Internet, Media and Entertainment
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Yard Club (acquired by Caterpillar)
Yard Club builds integrated web and mobile apps for construction professionals to better manage their owned and rented equipment fleets.
Founder(s): Colin Evran
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Enterprise Software, Web Development
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Spinlister
Spinlister is a global online hub for renting bikes from individuals or bike rental shops.
Founder(s): Jeffrey Noh, Marcelo Loureiro, Will Dennis
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Peer to Peer, Sharing Economy
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Boatbound
Boatbound is a fully insured “pier-to-pier” marketplace for boat rentals in the U.S.
Founder(s): Aaron Hall, Matt Johnston
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Boating, Collaborative Consumption, Marketplace
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Alpine Data Labs
Alpine Data Labs develops big data predictive solutions that simplify the process of building predictive models for data sets.
Founder(s): Anderson Wong, Steven Hillion, Yi-Ling Chen
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Big Data, Collaborative Consumption
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Shelf
Discover is a place for users to catalog their favorite things and discover great products.
Founder(s): Adriana Diakite, Chris Kline, Dayo Esho
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Software
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LiquidSpace
LiquidSpace supports Work From Anywhere with a platform that makes it easy to discover, transact, and manage your office needs on-demand.
Founder(s): Doug Marinaro, Mark Gilbreath
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Peer to Peer, Real Estate, Real Time
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Vayable
Vayable is an online marketplace enabling people to discover, buy and sell unique travel experiences, activities and extended trips.
Founder(s): Jamie Wong
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Marketplace, Peer to Peer, Travel
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RedCap
RedCap is a platform that operates as a membership-based, premium driver-on-demand service.
Founder(s): David Zwick
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Crowdsourcing, Information Technology, Location Based Services, Mobile, Software, Transportation
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Hitch
Hitch is a fun and affordable way to get around SF by sharing your ride.
Founder(s): Noam Szpiro, Snir Kodesh
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaboration, Collaborative Consumption, Location Based Services, Mobile, Transportation
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SmartShoot
SmartShoot is a technology platform connecting brands with professional photographers and videographers to produce custom photos and videos.
Founder(s): Bradley Inman, John McWeeny, Justin McCarthy
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: B2B, Collaborative Consumption, Digital Media, Film, Human Resources, Internet, Photography, Product Design, Software, Video
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Cleanify
Cleanify connects you to the best cleaning services in your neighborhood.
Founder(s): Amanda Potter, Justin Potter, Luis Sanchez
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Home Services, Logistics, Mobile
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TrustCloud
Provides identity verification and background checks as a service for marketplaces.
Founder(s): Miles Spencer, Treven Cornwall, Xin Chung
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Enterprise Software, Identity Management, Software
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Artify It
Artify It is an e-commerce website offering limited edition fine art prints by independent artists.
Founder(s): Lorenzo Thione
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Art, Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce
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Bunny Studio
Bunny Studio is a project fulfillment platform that provides end-to-end creative services, delivered by the world’s top 4% of professionals.
Founder(s): Alexander Torrenegra, Lucho Molina, Tania Zapata
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Content Creators, Digital Media, Internet, Service Industry
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CARMAnation
CARMAnation is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book privately owned parking spaces.
Founder(s): Ashley Cummings, Ilya Movshovich
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Marketplace, Parking, Sharing Economy, Social Media
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Piqniq
The original idea and team has shutdown and has been dissolved. Some members of the team have moved on to create YouAte.
Founder(s): Janos Torok, Misi Szilagyi, Tamas P. Kiss
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Communities, Mobile
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GetAt
Instantly access, collect, and share the content that matters.
Founder(s): Palak Chokshi, Rajeev Viswanathan, Rama Viswanathan
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Communities, Internet, Mobile, Search Engine, Software
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Cruzin
Cruzin is an internet company that specializes in the fields of boat rentals, yacht charter, boating holidays, travel, and Peer-to-Peer.
Founder(s): Jaclyn Baumgarten
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Internet, Leisure, Marketplace
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Flytenow
Flytenow connects you with pilots so you can get off the ground on the cheap
Founder(s): Aakash Patel, Alan Guichard, Andrew Mass, Matt Voska
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Adventure Travel, Collaborative Consumption, Transportation, Travel
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Switch
Unlimited access to luxury, designer jewelry.
Founder(s): Adriel Darvish, Damani Norman, Elliott Darvish
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Fashion, Jewelry, Rental, Retail
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Wheelz
Wheelz provides a car sharing platform facilitating economic opportunities for car owners by leasing their vehicles to non-owners.
Founder(s): Akhtar Jameel, Jeff Miller
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Automotive, Collaborative Consumption, Insurance, Logistics, Sharing Economy
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Red Clay
Red Clay is a platform built to design exceptional products.
Founder(s): Abigail Kiefer, Ashley Etling, Kurt Kober
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Product Design, Software
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Karma
Karma Automotive is a place making vehicles one at a time withconspicuous in their beauty.
Founder(s): Justin Reynard, Mike Stein, Zach Schiff-Abrams
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Reputation
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Floobits
Floobits enables its users to use native text editors to collaborate on code in real-time.
Founder(s): Geoff Greer, Matt Kaniaris
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Information Technology, Software
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BoxGiver
BoxGiver is a marketplace that allows users to buy, sell, or donate packaging materials locally.
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Location: Sacramento, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Communities, E-Commerce, GreenTech, Marketplace, Peer to Peer, Recycling, Sharing Economy, Sustainability, Waste Management
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PhoRent
PhoRent.com is a rental market place that allows people to rent out items in their household and search for rental items of others.
Founder(s): Ashley Gibson, Benjamin Salles, Josh Jermaine
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Marketplace, Sharing Economy
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Penana
Penana is an online interactive social publication platform that connects people together for collaborative writing.
Founder(s): Derrick Wong
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Education, Publishing, Social Media, Software
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Weedmaps
Weedmaps is the world’s first marijuana technology and media brand.
Founder(s): Doug Francis, Justin Hartfield
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Apps, Cannabis, Collaborative Consumption, Information Technology, Internet, Media and Entertainment
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Zip2Airport
A disruptive innovative company to provide airport transportation.
Founder(s): Asif Lalani
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Ride Sharing, Transportation, Travel
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Letsmake
Letsmake helps makers and crafters find spaces for their activities, like workshops, kitchens, gardens, rehearsal rooms and many more.
Founder(s): Jochen Wolfgramm, Nick Sellen, Shayna Modarresi, Tobias Dickmeis
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Peer to Peer, Sharing Economy
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Vrentin
Vrentin, an online portal, offers rental classifieds for industrial machines, earthmovers, construction equipment, advertising, and others.
Founder(s): Vyom Bhardwaj
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, B2B, Collaborative Consumption, Construction, E-Commerce, Internet, Real Estate
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UpChoose
UpChoose PBC is a startup on a mission to activate consumers’ role in transitioning to a sustainable future.
Founder(s): Ali El Idrissi
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Innovation Management
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Ridejoy
Ridejoy is a market platform enabling users to share, offer, request and book rides with others.
Founder(s): Jason Shen, Kalvin Wang, Randy Pang
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Social Media, Transportation, Travel
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TOYCYCLE
A resale marketplace for families
Founder(s): Rhonda Collins, Sarfraz Arshad
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Marketplace
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Answer.To
AnswerTo is a micro-consulting marketplace for software development questions.
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Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Marketplace, Social Media
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JustShareIt
JustShareIt is a peer-to-peer vehicle sharing marketplace that allows users to rent their underutilized vehicles and vessels.
Founder(s): Gaurav Kohli
Location: Brisbane, California, United States
Industries: Automotive, Collaborative Consumption, File Sharing, Transportation, Travel
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DigitalXC
B2B startup focused on simplifying digital consumption in an enterprise
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Location: Anaheim, California, United States
Industries: B2B, Cloud Management, Collaborative Consumption, Data Center Automation, SaaS
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Coderwall
Coderwall is a collaborative learning platform for software developers to improve their programming knowledge.
Founder(s): Matthew Deiters
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, E-Learning, Education
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SpokeSwap
SpokeSwap offers individuals and businesses with solutions to rent underutilized high-value assets and earn money.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption
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Vyew
Vyew builds web-based applications and collaborative tools to merge virtual space with human interaction.
Founder(s):
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Delivery Service, Software, Web Apps
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HomeDine
HomeDine is a social dining platform that connects home-chefs with people who want to enjoy home-cooked meals prepared by others.
Founder(s): Sagiv Ofek
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Internet, Social Media
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Shareable
Collaborative Consumption Social Network
Founder(s): Neal Gorenflo
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Communities, File Sharing, Internet, Social Media
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Eventors
Eventors is a platform for booking event services for any type of gathering. Catering, rentals, decor, entertainment, staff & much more.
Founder(s): Isaac Barel, Oshri Elmorich
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Event Management, Events, Marketplace, Media and Entertainment, Small and Medium Businesses, Wedding
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Vew.
Vew is a digital content creation and publishing mobile application focused on Mixed Reality content.
Founder(s): Shapour Sanaie
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Art, Collaborative Consumption, Content Creators, Digital Entertainment, Mobile Apps, Outsourcing, Software, Task Management
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NeuroRecovery Technologies
An Implantable and external spinal cord neuromodulator system to treat individuals with paralysis.
Founder(s): Joel B urdick, Reggie Edgerton
Location: San Juan Capistrano, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Medical, Mobile Apps
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Maestro Market
Maestro Market, Inc. operates as an online platform and marketplace connecting professionals with specialized talent for customers. It
Founder(s): Ian Shearer
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Marketplace, Transaction Processing
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Gaglers
Messaging for Marketplaces
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Health Care, Messaging, Software
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Desks Near Me
Desks Near Me brings together mobile workers searching for space to work with businesses of all sizes that have unused spare space to rent.
Founder(s): Adam Broadway, M R
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Real Estate, Small and Medium Businesses, Software
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Ubokia
Ubokia is an online marketing platform that connects buyers that require specific products and sellers who offer them.
Founder(s): Scott Pine
Location: San Ramon, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Internet, Marketing
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Partage
Partage brings together neighborhoods, making it simple to share items in categories like tools, kitchen, outdoors, electronics and more.
Founder(s): Jon O’Bryan, Ryan Booth
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Consumer Electronics, E-Commerce, Mobile
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Grubly
Local, home-cooked food!
Founder(s):
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption
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Exchango
give and get free stuff
Founder(s):
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Collaborative Consumption, Freemium, Recycling, Social Media
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PantryPerks
Marketplace for natural, organic & specialty consumables with a disruptive feature of multi-level loyalty cashbacks enabling deep discounts.
Founder(s): Rishi Padhi
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Marketplace
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OpenPOWER Foundation
OpenPOWER Foundation is an not-for-profit technical membership group.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Association, Collaborative Consumption, Communities, Non Profit, Service Industry
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Credo360, Inc.
Credo360 is an independent reputation platform for person-to-person commerce.
Founder(s): Irakliy Khaburzaniya
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Reputation, Sharing Economy
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Open House
Open House is the first micro-rental platform opening up residential spaces for various day-time activities.
Founder(s): Christelle Rohaut
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Coworking, Marketplace, Real Estate, Sharing Economy
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Tool Locker, Inc.
Tool and Equipment Rentals, Simplified
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace, Real Estate
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Groswift
Groswift is a same-day grocery delivery company reconnecting people and communities through better transportation.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Collaborative Consumption, Crowdsourcing, E-Commerce
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Wusic
Wusic is an online B2B platform that connects consumers directly to manufacturers.
Founder(s): Bruce Wong
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce
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Mr. Go
Mr. Go is your on-demand designated driver.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Mobile, Mobile Devices, Transportation
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College Labor
College Labor is a job locator for students to find jobs while in school.
Founder(s): Joey Toboni, Justin Ohanessian
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Online Portals
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ZOFASH
A consumer fashion experience that evolv
Founder(s): Edwin Yu, Fabien Soudiere, George Stagas
Location: Beverly Hills, California, United States
Industries: AgTech, Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Fashion, Lead Generation, Lifestyle, Mobile, Retail
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Beepyo
A peer to peer community-driven rental marketplace that allows instant accessibility to things people need for their individual adventures.
Founder(s): Arjun Patel, Bryan Trang
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Marketplace, Peer to Peer
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Belmont After School Enrichment Collaborative
Belmont After School Enrichment Collaborative provides high-quality out-of-school-time programming for students in kindergarten.
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Location: Belmont, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Education, Non Profit
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Retailrun
Have you ever wished your friends would have brought you a Starbucks too? This mobile app. makes that possible with Friends that Deliver.
Founder(s): .- –, Daniel Peeden, Darrell Peeden
Location: Riverside, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Mobile, Transportation
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Draba
Draba provides local discovery services for individual cities, towns, and communities to promote local independent culture and talent .
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption
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Estimaids
Your Cleaner, independent… totally. Her own Instant Estimate. Call or Book direct to her. Payment direct to her.
Founder(s): Julius M. Huaroc, Noel A. Ramos
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Home Services
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Serenader
Music streaming platform transforming songs from recording into instant updatable and personalized internet content.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Consumer Applications, Internet, Media and Entertainment, Music, Software
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Whttl
Fatberry (formerly Whttl) allows users to discover and connect with startups in their cities.
Founder(s): Greg Muender, Tim Trampedach
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Sharing Economy
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EasyFridge
Groceries for people who hate shopping.
Founder(s): Matt Mireles
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, E-Commerce, Subscription Service
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Qraft
Qraft is a P2P marketplace that enables individuals to rent boats, RV’s, cars, motorcycles, planes, gear, and other adventure toys.
Founder(s): James Greene
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Marketplace, Peer to Peer
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Collectively
Conducta Politica is a magazine that covers a wide range of real-time political issues.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaboration, Collaborative Consumption
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SpaceHitch
SpaceHitch is a community with the goal of connecting people with the small pieces of the globe that make things seem like home.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaborative Consumption, Crowdsourcing, Travel
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