What they do:
Community-driven marketplace for sneakers.
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
YC W15Early stage
Top Marketplace Startups in the United States
This list has 196 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 35 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (105), New York (51), and Los Angeles (16). Largest teams: DoorDash, Airbnb, and GOAT Group.
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What they do:
Marketplace & Software Revolutionizing Yard Care
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC W16Early stage
Fivestars
Acquired
What they do:
Customer loyalty and payments platform for small businesses.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
CareRev
Acquired
What they do:
Seamlessly connecting healthcare facilities and professionals through…
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HQ: Remote, OR, United States
Homejoy
Acquired
What they do:
platform for home service professionals
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Teespring
Acquired
What they do:
IMPORTANT: The original YC founders are no longer involved with this…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Lawn Love
Acquired
What they do:
Modern, on-demand lawn care service. Get a quote in two minutes.
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HQ: San Diego, CA, United States
Feather
Acquired
What they do:
Furniture rental for consumers and businesses.
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
VaycayHero
Acquired
What they do:
VaycayHero is a marketplace of professionally managed vacation…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
OrderAhead
Acquired
What they do:
Order ahead for pickup
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
WayUp
Acquired
What they do:
Marketplace for employers to recruit college students and recent grads
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Open Listings
Acquired
What they do:
A better way to buy a home
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
YouTeam
Acquired
What they do:
We make it easy for startups to hire engineers.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Kinside
Acquired
What they do:
Powering the $648b Care Economy
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Hingeto
Acquired
What they do:
A B2B marketplace that connects inventory to online stores
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Bulletin
Acquired
What they do:
Helping retailers discover and shop the best brands on the planet
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
CarDash
Acquired
What they do:
Managed marketplace for automotive services.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Promoted.ai
Acquired
What they do:
Dramatically better search and ads for marketplaces
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HQ: Seattle, WA, United States
Exec
Acquired
What they do:
Exec is a house cleaning service that users can book from their…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Boostable
Acquired
What they do:
Advertising platform tools for marketplace sellers.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Carlypso
Acquired
What they do:
Used car marketplace
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
VIDA & Co.
Acquired
What they do:
Platform for unique products produced on-demand at mass-scale
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Pulse
Acquired
What they do:
We're crowdsourced Gartner so IT executives can learn directly from…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
LendEDU
Acquired
What they do:
LendEDU is a marketplace for consumer financial products.
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
RealCrowd
Acquired
What they do:
Direct real estate investing marketplace
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HQ: Portland, OR, United States
Railbird
Acquired
What they do:
A futures market for events.
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Flok
Acquired
What they do:
End to end company retreat planning
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Nasdisc
Acquired
What they do:
A marketplace for vinyl, cassettes and cds
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
PadMapper
Acquired
What they do:
Map-based apartment search.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Vayable
Acquired
What they do:
We're building a marketplace for unique travel experiences (it's…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Layer By Layer
Acquired
What they do:
Acquired by MakerBot in February 2014. A marketplace for 3D…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Ladder
Acquired
What they do:
Labor Marketplace for Construction
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HQ: Atlanta, GA, United States
Creative Market
Acquired
What they do:
Marketplace for graphic design assets
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC W10Early stage
Torch
Shut down
What they do:
Torch is a learning and development company that helps employers manage and measure employee growth at scale. Customers can draw from a pool of over 6000…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
The Muse
Shut down
What they do:
The Muse is values-based job search & hiring for 7M+ monthly
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Tutorspree
Shut down
What they do:
Online tutoring marketplace.
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HQ: Chicago, IL, United States