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Alloy Automation
Founders
Overview
Founded in 2019, Alloy is a no-code tool for creating automated workflows. Reached #1 on Product Hunt and was funded in YC’s W20 cohort.
Category
Software Marketing Automation
Location
San Francisco
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Flyp
Founders
Overview
Flyp is one of the largest circular economy enablers in the world. With suite of SaaS products and a B2B marketplaces, Flyp empowers hundreds of thousands of power seller business who resell secondhand goods professionally. These small business are responsible for saving millions of pounds of used goods that would have ended in the landfill otherwise. The resale gig economy is a critical component of the circular economy, yet it seem to go unnoticed. Resellers lead immensely impactful and sustainability driven business, turning consumerist waste into liquid capital and economic opportunity. Flyp was founded by James Kawas and Dani Arnaout, two resale industry pioneers, who built, sold and IPO'ed multi-billion dollar resale marketplaces. Forbes Magazine says “Flyp Is Giving The Resale Industry A New Meaning".
Category
Mobile E-Commerce Software Apps Design Sustainability Internet Services Commerce and Shopping Other Clothing and Apparel
Location
San Francisco
Website
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Promoted
Founders
Overview
Native Promotions For Online Marketplace Platforms
Category
Marketplace E-Commerce
Location
San Francisco
Website
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Queenly
Founders
Overview
Queenly is a peer-to-peer marketplace and ML-driven search engine for the formal wear and competition wear industry. Through their unique long-term search feature called ISO (in search of), they're able to satisfy the exact demand of their users that are looking for these specific high priced items with very low usage. Their technology is a comprehensive search experience through the thoroughly labeled database of styles, fabrics, colors, and sizes. Queenly offers both a text based NLP search engine for users to type in a dress description, and computer-vision based visual search, for users to upload a picture of a dress and which allows their ML pipeline matches it to the tens of thousands (and growing) of dresses in their database. Queenly is currently available on iOS and web. Android app is in beta.Queenly also offers a premium service that involves authentication assurance, dry cleaning, packaging and shipping, to truly offer a white glove experience to their users. Queenly is helping innovate the industry to be more sustainable and inclusive solely dedicated to the dress resale market. The company also aims to foster a community of women that uplifts and strives to help one another look and feel like a queen on their special occasion.
Category
Marketplace E-Commerce Fashion iOS Internet
Location
San Francisco
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