Cognection

Uses behavioral economics to increase conversions by ending choice overload in e-commerce
Cognection has commercialized three decades of academic research in behavioral economics, similar to Dan Ariely’s work in Predictably Irrational, to make online retail more profitable for retailers and more meaningful for consumers by ending the frustration of ...

localfave

localfave provide venue reviews from information most relevant to the user your friends.
What are your local faves? Use localfave to review the venues around you, and we challenge you to pick your favorites. Users can share experiences – from your local neighborhood to global destinations and also follow the helpful path of others in your friend circles. ...

Influenster

Influenster connnects brands with their targeted influential audience
Influenster creates links between brands and members to reward participation in the platform and influence future products. We partner with brands to build marketing, research and social media programs that target very specific subsets of influencers from within ...

Zagat

The best restaurant reviews for your city. Get ratings for restaurants & nightlife in NYC, Boston, Los Angeles, and around the world from Zagat.

The Muse

Visual job search & career development for professionals (YC W12)
Each month, well over 1M unique people use our visual job search platform to help answer the question, "What do you want to do with your life (and how do you get there)?" We feature exciting job opportunities, expert advice, and a peek behind the scenes into ...

VendorDB

Yelp for Creative Service Providers
VendorDB is the comprehensive database of companies and service providers for the creative industries. Access detailed company information, ratings and peer reviews. All for free. Need someone who builds robots? Does editorial? Executes contests? Projects images ...

Wanderfly

Visual travel discovery
Wanderfly is the best place to discover and share personalized travel recommendations. Our premise is simple: everyone travels differently, so we all need different recommendations. We’re here to make travel planning more personal, simple, fun, human and inspiring. Here's ...

Fleisure

Wishlist–powered marketing
For users: our app helps you bookmark the things you want to do with your free time & organize them into wish lists: restaurants to try, books to read, places to visit, etc. For vendors: our app is an "intent radar" allowing vendors to connect with people based ...

VayaFeliz

Restaurant Reviews for South America
VayaFeliz lets consumers in Latin American countries view reviews of restaurants.

GoToGuy

peer to peer recommendation engine
Gotoguy is a service provider directory focusing on making the review system better by giving our users geolocated context, and connections. We also want to empower the professional, over the company, and make it as seamless as possible to get the right person ...

RentCheck

Find out everything about an apartment rental, before you sign a lease.
We combine public data on buildings and landlords with reviews from tenants to create one easy to understand score about your Apartment Rental.

SiteSimon

Turn your browser into an intelligent assistant
SiteSimon turns your browser (currently Chrome) into an intelligent assistant, finding the content you want to see within whatever site you’re currently on. Until now, your browsing data has been constantly collected and used…for someone else’s benefit. At SiteSimon, ...

Kabinet

The Beauty Industry's New PR Tool
Kabinet is the beauty industry's new PR tool, combining the best of digital with deep real world engagement. Kabinet helps brand partners discover and collaborate with influential tastemakers around the world, and tastemakers discover the best in beauty. In addition ...

VideoInk

Media Trade for Online Video Industry
VideoInk is the go-to publication for breaking news, deals and analysis for the online video industry. Since launching in mid-April 2013, VideoInk saw 60% audience growth each month and now reaches over 100K of the industry's most prominent influencers. VideoInk's ...

Hoppit

Restaurant recommendation engine, acquired by XO Group, Inc.
100,000 people have already found the perfect location... Hoppit is the ambience search engine that returns beautiful photos results of the places perfect for your scenario. It's 100% contextual. It's time for a relevant and visual local search experience. Featured ...

Villij

Changing the way consumers discover, share, and engage with businesses and products
Villij (pronounced “Village”), is a social Q&A platform that connects consumers with each other and with the businesses they love. Businesses create “Groups” which allow them to moderate a Q&A forum for their customers and reach a much broader audience by leveraging ...

KarmaFile

a universal employability grade
KarmaFile gives people an honest look at their employability. Co-workers submit anonymous reviews of the user which are weighted by our algorithm for trust and impact (think PageRank for the workforce.) The result is a universal employability score for the entire ...

Playd

foursquare for video games
Playd is a mobile app that allows gamers to share their experiences across multiple platforms.

Now

Real-time experiences in your city
Now is a free iPhone app that shows you the best experiences happening now in your city. The app detects in real-time trending events based on public photo streams.

Trippin in

Nielsen for places.
Trippin' in, the "Nielsen for places", licenses data to enterprises in a variety of industries such as Business Intelligence and Media/advertising, starting with the Local Recommendation market, currently led by Tripadvisor and Yelp. We focus our marketing efforts ...

Senior Reports

Expert Senior Living Reviews
Senior Reports helps families find the right senior care community. We use our own mystery shoppers, photographers, and researchers to create an unbiased, expert review that families trust. Families spend over $115k for an assisted living community, which is not ...

Bookish

Book Discovery and Recommendation
Bookish is a new digital experience that will offer readers unique tools for book discovery. The site will use proprietary technology and publisher insights to provide each user with a customized online experience.

Outbrain

Related Link Widgets
Amplify your content on Outbrain’s network of top publisher sites! For as little as $10 a day, you can drive highly engaged readers directly from these publishers to your content. Plus you pay only for the clicks you get.

hitME Gifts

Personalized social digital gifting
hitME is a fast and easy mobile/web application for managing all your on-line gifting activity. Gift music, ebooks, tickets, games, gift cards and restaurant gift certificates by text, email or Facebook on web, mobile or tablets. Daily deals and promotions served ...

Listgeeks

Innovative, list-based social recommendation web app
Listgeeks (http://listgeeks.com) is a place to create, share and compare lists of things in a unique and profoundly community-oriented environment. Our unique interface allows people to quickly compile lists of items by dragging and dropping them from lists created ...

GrapeTrip

Online guide for wine travelers
GrapeTrip is an online guide that helps wine travelers -aka “GrapeTrippers”- plan their trips to worldwide wine regions based upon the opinions of an active community of GrapeTrippers who share and review their wine travel experiences. Not only do merchants gain ...

Bitcoin Reviewer

Authoritative Bitcoin Website Reviews
Bitcoin Reviewer lets you find the information you need, when you need it. It's our goal to provide our readers with honest reviews of Bitcoin gambling sites, that are not biased in any form. We have an open discussion area, where readers can leave comments, and ...

Domino Street

Hyperlocal Timeout w/ powerful social content engine
Hyper-Local businesses (particularly start-ups) all face the same challenge. It's hard to get compelling content into their systems that differentiates themselves from everyone else. Domino Street solves that problem by incentivizing merchants, residents of neighborhoods, ...

Hatch'd

Lightweight crowdsourcing for businesses
An excess of noise prevents brands from using consumer input to generate better products and campaigns. Hatch'd is a collaborative creation platform that enables brands to co-create with consumers by posting projects to generate and test concepts. Projects guide ...

Buellr

Real-time review site powered by social media (Klout for products)
Buellr is a real-time product and brand ratings tool powered by social media. Think Klout for everything. We accomplish this through analyzing social media sentiment to calculate an items recommendation rating. *User benefits: quickly determine the best products ...

SinglePlatform

Manage your local business listings online and create a digital menu of your products and services with SinglePlatform.

Yodle

Find and keep more customers in just a few minutes a week. See why 45,000 small business owners trust Yodle's all-in-one local online marketing solution.

Tipsi

Personal & Local Mobile Sommelier
Tipsi is a mobile application developed specifically to address the information problem at the point of sale for wine. Tipsi provides educated wine selections based on meal pairing and wine styles, vintage history, professional ratings and taste history. Using ...

Fondu

Bite-size reviews
Fondu is a fun, new way to share bite-size restaurant reviews with your friends! We make it super easy to discover places that your friends love. You can write a short review of a place you’ve been, give it a rating of 1-4 “petals”, and even add a picture. Take ...

The Wash Owl

Wash and Clean Service Directory
The Wash Owl is an online and mobile platform providing full directories, ratings and reviews of all local wash and clean services around the world for free. It's an easy way to find the best wash and clean services for all your needs in just a few clicks.

MeCritic

Restaurant suggestions based on the experiences of a user and their social network.
MeCritic suggests restaurants to you. MeCritic doesn’t want you to spend your time searching for the perfect place. We want to find it for you. MeCritic helps you to be social in the real world by recommending restaurants for a group of friends looking at each ...

Fitboard

Workout and diet tailored on You.
Fitboard connects fitness enthusiasts and professionals giving them tools, motivation and opportunities to achieve their goals. Private beta launching soon, mobile app in development.

Filmuin

Travel & Dining Video Reviews
Filmuin is a video review website pioneering the way people view and confidently choose restaurants, hotels, nightlife, and other locations before actually going there. The video reviews are uploaded and shared by users and businesses. It is free to sign up and ...

DishEnvy

Dish Review and Discovery

Resonance Labs, Inc

The consumer-driven healthcare provider recommendation network.
My Dr. Right is a network-based health practitioners recommendation service, which helps to identify a right practitioner for you through other similar users.

TopFitnessApps.com

Review Website for Fitness Apps
Dedicated to reviewing the top fitness applications for your iOS and Android devices.

Tunism

Social music discovery for iTunes+Facebook
Tunism allows you to discover what music your friends listen to most. It does that by connecting the biggest social network (Facebook) to the dominant music playing platform (iTunes). Existing solutions ignore or attempt to replace one of these pieces, and in our ...

TwoStepp

Keeping you busy when you're not.
TwoStepp is a recommendation application based on your social network. It allows you to receive targeted suggestions based on the likes of your friends, family, colleagues and anyone else you want to connect with! No longer will you browse suggestions for that ...

Dished

A networks of publications dedicated to reviews of New York's restaurants.
The Dished blog network included LunchNYC and DinnerNYC.

Weflect

Yelp for anything and everything.
Weflect is a social networked review site that covers all topics and categories. It solves the problem of having users spread across multiple niche sites addressing books or movies and provides a single repository for users to manage and maintain all their thoughts ...

Feedtrace

Jeito

Apartment Reviews for Renters by Renters.
Yelp for Real Estate

Sickday

Play what's playing
Sickday is a concert listings aggregator and recommendation engine for all shows in venues ranging from dive bars to arenas. Fans can link their music services (iTunes, Spotify, etc) and continuously tailor the site to display the most relevant shows first, discovering ...

Quilist

We put the browse back into browsing

MyLandlordScore

RateMyProfessor of Landlords
Mylandlordscore.com is a peer-to-peer rating/recommendation platform. Catering mostly to college students and young professionals, we bring you a scoring system that allows fellow renters to help each other. Your Landlord rating should be the first thing on your ...

TTPM

Toys Baby Pets Reviews ecommerce
TTPM, the #1 source for all things play where consumers can research and find the best playthings. TTPM is the only site that combines expert reviews (video and written) with live price comparison, sales notifications, one-click purchasing, and product availability ...

BLINKED.com

Trusted, Aggregated Recommendations in One Tap
We'll search for recommendations on anything from all of your preferred sources, so you don't have to. 58 percent of consumers say they need to read between four and 10 reviews to trust a business.  Blinked offers you one solution by aggregating recommendations ...

Picks

The smarter to-do list
Picks or it didn't happen. Picks is a smarter to-do list, to keep track of the things you want to do, or have done, whether they're movies, restaurants, TV shows, books, and more. To-do's that aren't just words. Why should your lists be just pencil on paper, ...

I Want More Toys!

I Want More Toys! - Cool gifts, unique gadgets, and awesome toys. Gift guide 2013.
I Want More Toys! has the coolest gifts around. We personally hand-select the best new gadgets, unique gifts, and awesome toys and add them to our huge gift list everyday. Find great gifts for your dad, mom, kids, friends, boyfriend, girlfriend, coworkers, boss, ...

Web Espy

Yelp for Startups
Web Espy is the Yelp for startups. We connect people with the best startups in the world through user reviews.

On The Prowl

Discover your city and meet your match
On The Prowl is a mobile application that helps you discover new places of interest when you are out and about. Utilizing a search algorithm that is catered to your personal taste, it directs you to environments with people and activities you like. The app provides ...

Simkl

Automatically track what you're watching
Simkl TV Tracker solves the problem of not being able to remember if that movie or show you wanted to watch is on Netflix or Amazon. The service has a website, computer application (Scrobbler), mobile app and open API to mash up your watched data that combine ...

WhatRocksAndWhatSucks.com

Discover The Best Gadgets and Gears
WhatRocksAndWhatSucks.com analyzes and reviews gadgets and gears and tells you which one stands out the most. It does the hard work of analyzing reports, researching publications and figuring out the pros and cons; and, it finally lets you know which one is the ...

RivalView

Review platform with intelligence
It is a third party review platform for shoppers that can dramatically improve their experience of pre-purchase information search, which has not been well solved under the existing review systems with fragmented, unprocessed and obscure information. Instead of ...

triPlanner.

TRIP PLANNING | MADE SIMPLE | PEOPLE LIKE YOU PLAN YOUR TRIP
Some trips are scrimped and saved for, and others can be spontaneous and exciting. All trips are meant for adventure, relaxation and enjoyment. By planning well, you can ensure you that you and your family or friends can enjoy a hassle-free trip with only the good ...

GiverHub

Amazon for donations
GiverHub is a social network and marketplace that enables its users to find, learn about, and donate instantly to any nonprofit in the US while automatically keeping track of all your donations in one convenient location. It's like Amazon for donations, and like ...

Joios

Joios is a food & drink community, created to taste, filter collaboratively & recommend.
Joios is a community & process for anyone who loves eating & drinking. We filter collaboratively to find gems. We sort through abundant choices, challenging sales pitches & critics' choices. We link TastePeers because the best recommendations come from people ...

litm.us

Anonymous Reviews for Professionals
Currently retooling.

TorchBug

TorchBug provides audience taste analytics for books, film and tv
TorchBug's goal is to bring to long-form entertainment (books, movies, tv) the kind of fun discovery and recommendations tools that companies like Pandora and Spotify have brought to music. TorchBug provides easy-to-use widgets, as well as customer analysis tools ...

enTour

experience your city
enTour is your trusted, intelligent, intuitive assistant for exploring and experiencing the city you are in. The recommendations and reviews are all personalized and curated for you. So, there is no more fear of missing out!

plusminus

Discover the best
Forget stars, thumbs and lengthy reviews. When you simply want to know if something is worth it, it's either plus or minus.

MyFoodNow

Social Online Food Ordering Platform
MyFoodNow is a function-rich, super affordable online food ordering platform that targets restaurant website developers & designers. By pairing an existing, strong online food ordering platform with a developer-driven marketplace of menu templates and apps to enhance ...

Snooth Media - Gramercy Labs /Start Up Incubator