Top 8 USA Startups In 2015

Top 8 USA Startups In 2015

Shopspring.com

Shopspring launched in August 2014. Shopspring raised a $7.5 million Series A round in July.

Shopspring is sort of like the Instagram for shopping. you swipe through lifestyle pictures, not just flat pictures of products, and you can purchase anything you see in the app with a few taps.

Shopspring has new products from major fashion brands daily, exclusive Shopspring offers, and you can even use Apple Pay to purchase clothes and goods with your fingerprint. Apple just named Shopspring one of the best apps of 2014.

Glamsquad.com
 
Glamsquad launched in United State in January. Glamsquad raised $2 million in seed funding in January, and in October, the startup raised another $7 million from Softbank Capital, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, BBG Ventures, and Montage Ventures.

Glamsquad brings hair salon-quality blowouts to your home. With $50 and press a button on Glamsquad apps then a stylist will show up at your home to blow dry your hair or do your makeup at the price of $75. 


Casper.com
 
Casper launched in April. In August 2014, Casper raised $13.1 million of funding from Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Kevin Colleran, Slow Ventures, Vaizra Investments, Cendana Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Silas Capital, Crosslink Capital, New Enterprise Associates, A-Grade Investments and SV Angel.

Casper was founded to simplify the process of getting a mattress. Instead of a traditional mattress you’d buy at Sleepy’s, Casper stuffs a big, fluffy mattress into a box and delivers it right to your door. In New York City, Casper says it’ll deliver your mattress in two hours. Casper’s mattresses come in six sizes and cost between $500 and $950 with a 10-year warranty.

Ello.co
 
Ello version beta launched in August. Ello raised $5.5 million in venture funding led by Foundry Group in October.

Ello is a minimalist social network that promises no advertisements, particularly anti-Facebook social network. In fact, Ello even has a manifesto that states the social network will never run ads or sell your personal information to advertisers. Ello is free to use, but you can pay for new features. “Say you’re a musician or a band, and you want to control multiple accounts from a single login,” designer and Ello founder Paul Budnitz told Business Insider. “We can charge $2 for that. It’s not for everyone.”

Ello has become something of a community for finance reporters and analysts recently, too. Budnitz told Business Insider in October that at the time, Ello already had more than 1 million users, and 40,000 to 50,000 new signups per hour during its initial frenzy.

Shopcurbside.com

Shopcurbside launched in October with apps for Apple and Android. In October 2014, Shopcurbside has raised $9.5 million from O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Chicago Ventures, Innovation Endeavors and AME Cloud Ventures.

Shopcurbside lets you buy stuff from brick-and-mortar stores on your phone without leaving your car. When it launched, Shopcurbside had partnered with retailers including Target, and was only operational in the San Francisco Bay area.  

Shyp.com

Shyp launched in San Francisco in March. Shyp raised $10 million in seed funding in July 2014 from SherpaVentures and Shervin Pishevar.

Shyp sends your packages for you, so you never have to step foot in the post office. Shyp takes all the hassle out of shipping packages to UPS, FedEx, or the post office. A driver picks up the package in minutes, and you’re done. The cost to you is the USPS rate, which is usually the least expensive option. 
 
Slack.com

Slack officially launched in February. This year Slack raised $180 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, The Social+Capital Partnership, Kleiner Perkins Caufield, Accel Partners and Slow Ventures.

Talk to and share ideas with your coworkers easily with Slack. Slack is a workplace communication app that’s taken the business world by storm. It provides a group chat room and lets users share files and work collaboratively too. Slack was originally a feature built by CEO Stewart Butterfield’s Project Speck while making the multiplayer game Glitch, but he decided to spin it out into its own product and company.

Slack’s growth as an enterprise communication tool has been completely organic — Slack hasn’t spent any money on marketing. It’s one of the fastest growing enterprise apps of all time.  

Justyo.co

Justyo launched quietly in April. In July, Yo raised $1.5 million at a $5-10 million valuation. Investors participating in Yo’s seed funding round included the founders of China’s Tencent, Mashable founder Pete Cashmore, Betaworks, and angel investors.

Yo is the stupidly simple notification app that went viral this summer. Or Arbel’s zero-character messaging app Yo is bafflingly simple: you open the app, tap a friend’s name, and they receive a notification that says “Yo!” in a robotic voice (the voice behind the Yo is actually Arbel himself). In response, you can send a Yo back. The app took only 8 hours to create. Two months later, Yo went viral and became the #1 social networking app in the US App Store and the #4 app overall.

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