Companies
At GoCardless we believe that bank payments are the best way to pay and get paid. We help businesses collect both recurring and one-off payments, without the chasing, stress or expensive fees. We’re building a global bank payment network that lets people make and collect payments straight from their bank account, across multiple countries and currencies. 75,000+ businesses around the world trust us to power their payments. We enable them to collect payments from 30+ countries, processing over $30 billion each year. Our suite of add-on products are helping businesses face their payment challenges head on. From automatically recovering failed payments, to challenging charge backs and fighting fraud - all without compromising their customer’s payment experience. Our open banking leadership unlocks the ability to make and accept direct bank payments confidently and securely. And our acquisition of Nordigen means we’re also helping businesses make faster and more informed decisions by accessing and generating insights from their customers’ bank account data. We’re also backed by some of the world’s leading investors including Accel Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Balderton Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Notion Capital, Passion Capital, Permira and Salesforce Ventures. We're a global team, with offices in London, Paris, Riga, Melbourne and New York.
GoGoGrandparent is a virtual retirement community that offers rides, meals, medication, groceries, home maintenance & community for older adults living at home. All services are accessible via regular phone call (no special technology required) and all service providers are vetted & screened. All requests are monitored for greater than 99% reliability, many of our clients rely on us to live years longer in their home.
Gobble prepares farm fresh 10-minute gourmet dinner kits with 3-step instructions delivered to your door. Our weekly delivery includes three thoughtfully hand-crafted dinner kits filled with fresh pre-chopped and par-cooked ingredients (along with a gorgeous recipe card!) for you to create Michelin-worthy dinners in your very own kitchen. Gobble offers the convenience associated with takeout along with the health, satisfaction, and freshness of a home-cooked meal. With Michael Mina protege, Thomas Ricci, as our Executive Chef, we're engineering our best recipes into one pan dinner kits so anyone can cook and make a gourmet meal with 1 pan in under 10 minutes.
Gordian is pioneering seamless, personalized travel powered by world-class software. We don’t remodel legacy platforms — we invent what's next. Built on the values of freedom, impact, and ownership, we emphasize in-person collaboration, deep thinking, and bold execution. We believe in a high-talent, low-ego team with the energy to build something extraordinary.
At its core GraffitiGeo allows users to leave brief reviews of restaurants, or for those too lazy to do that, to simply leave a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" — it's like a highly condensed version of Yelp, or a "Digg for the world". These reviews and votes can be cast from the site's iPhone app or from the service's homepage. The homepage also features a stream of the latest comments to come in from other users, as well as a profile for each restaurant in the system that includes all of its votes and comments. There's also a nifty feature that lets you view a heatmap of your current region, so you can quickly figure out the hot spots in town. The gameplay in GraffitiGeo gives you points for checking into certain locations, similar to FourSquare, but doesn't really let you do anything with them. With GraffitiGeo, you earn points for every action you take, be it voting on a restaurant or leaving a brief comment. Once you've reached a certain point threshold, you can use those points to start a "mob", which you can invite your friends to join. Mobs allow friends to pool their points, which can then be used to acquire territory, which corresponds to actual city blocks. Whenever someone votes on one of the restaurants on the block, the mob gets some street cred too. It's definitely going to be confusing at first, but it also brings a team element to gameplay.
Graft Concepts' approach is simple: create unique and iconic products through creative problem solving. They aim to create accessories with traits that pair elegantly with the device it's intended to enhance. Instead of creating iPhone cases that require brute force to install, their Leverage case was crafted with an elegant clasp that secures the case in place without distracting from the iPhone's original aesthetics. As a small and new company, they strive to innovate just beyond the familiar and create improvements that define new perspectives. They are a small team that prides itself in providing a great customer experience to go along with a great product. Their products are designed in Southern California, engineered by the Swiss, and manufactured by hand picked factories to ensure high-quality standards.
Greentoe is a next generation e-commerce marketplace that enables consumers to set the price for the products they want to buy. Created to change the way people shop, Greentoe shakes up the traditional retail model by putting consumers in the driver's seat. They make an offer on a product and the site connects them to the retailers who are willing to accept the offer. The site benefits both consumers and retailers – shoppers can buy products at the lowest price available while retailers reduce inventory and acquire new customers.
GroupAhead
Improve communications with your group's own mobile app.
GroupAhead is a YC-backed company that allows groups to create their own dedicated smartphone apps. The easy-to-use, single-purpose app focuses solely on connecting an organization's members. With a dedicated, specialized app, member involvement and event attendance goes up, and push notifications cut through the noise of email and Facebook.
Grouper is a social club that sets up drinks between 2 groups of friends: 3 guys and 3 girls (or 3 guys and 3 guys, etc.). Grouper started in New York in the summer of 2011 and now organizes Groupers in major cities across the US. Members have shared tens of thousands of drinks. The company was founded by Michael Waxman, a Yale grad and developer who formerly started language-learning company Batiq, and Tom Brown, an MIT engineer who was an early employee at MoPub (acquired by Twitter for 350MM). The founding team also includes Challen Hodson and Kristen Badal. Grouper was funded by Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 batch.
HER is here to connect womxn and queer people. Our dating app helps LGBTQ+ folks express their identity fully and unequivocally to meet someone for love, lust or anything in between. Our communities connect people to each other socially around interests and identity. Group chats around what's important to you as well as listings of LGBTQ+ evens taking place in your area. HER also hosts events in 12 cities across the world, helping queer womxn meet in person. Our parties are typically 300-600 people per event and we host 4 per month.
HYBRD is the performance hub for modern athletes. It brings all your training data together by integrating with top wearables and uses AI to make tracking weightlifting easy. This allows athletes to fully understand their training load, track holistic progress over time, and compete with friends in fresh, exciting ways. Existing products tend to focus on only one type of exercise (either cardio or strength), leaving hybrid athletes juggling disconnected tools. As hybrid athletes themselves the founders found this frustrating and set out to build the unified approach they needed for their training. Three of HYBRD’s founders previously worked at WHOOP, each leading teams across product, growth and analytics. Ruiters, the CTO, was a senior tech lead at AWS. In parallel, Mats was a member of the US national rowing team and Ben, Shoe and Ruiters have all completed Ironman 70.3s.
Habit Labs is a social health software startup formed in 2011 via a merger of Contagion Health (founded by Jen McCabe) and Health Month (founded by Buster Benson). Headquartered in Seattle, WA, Habit Labs is building a behavior change platform called Budge.
Founded in May 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, Halolife is an online platform that provides step-by-step guidance to plan and find a burial or cremation service that meets your needs, budget, and location. Halolife is the only trusted online end-of-life marketplace that offers complete transparency of business reviews and prices of funeral and cremation providers. Whether you are a family that needs immediate assistance or planning for the future, our team of caring experts will help you every step of the way. We eliminate the need to shop around by matching you with the right funeral provider. Currently, Halolife is operating in the state California with plans to expand to throughout the United States in the near future.