Find API-first and platform startups building developer infrastructure. These founders are creating usage-based products that other businesses build on, creating powerful lock-in and network effects.
by Brandon Boyd
Traditional insurance claim payouts are slow, leaving policyholders without immediate funds for urgent repairs, housing, contractor payments, and essentials.
by Darian Barnett
Las Vegas, NV
Manual, untracked referral payments creating wasted spend and lack of ROI for foot-traffic businesses.
by Brandon Boyd
Slow and uncontrolled insurance claims payouts (days to weeks) exacerbate financial instability for policyholders, while insurers lack real-time control and visibility into emergency disbursements.
by Todd Waldemar
VA
The deck clearly identifies the problem of broken commerce and security in restricted environments, highlighting issues like manual credentialing, low courier success rates, and lack of compatible...
by Delanyo Atakli
by inv_inquiries@rps.game
High barriers and costs to set up and operate online casinos: marketing, licensing (up to $30k per jurisdiction), and expensive software. Players must beat the house; many games are perceived as...
by Umer Asif
Fragmented, inflexible lighting market forcing compromises on price, design, installation, and functionality.
by Tyler Ray
Seattle, WA
Web3 builders struggle to launch apps, websites, and tokens quickly; developer scarcity and high fraud/scam risk.
by Alex Hochberger
Florida
Legacy corporate systems and financial rails do not natively connect to blockchain infrastructure.
by Jamie Thain
Toronto, Ontario
Traditional software development is slow, expensive, and error-prone; legacy methodologies from the 1970s impede shareholder value.
by info@botco.ai
Drug development faces high failure rates, complex FDA/EMA regulatory requirements, patient recruitment and retention challenges in clinical trials, safety monitoring and compliance burdens, and...
by Sundeep Kumar
Singapore
Current AI suffers from context loss and stateless interactions; intellumia aims to solve by building a personal AI twin with persistent graph memory.
by Fahad Hossain
New York
Fundraising and investor relations workflows for alternative asset managers are manual, fragmented, and inefficient.
by Andrew Stuntz
Washington
Scheduling and booking software is often clunky and desktop-focused; not optimized for guides and field-based operators.
by Heerr Shah
Launching consumer products is slow and fragmented: teams spend weeks to months validating, finding suppliers, vetting packaging and managing manual processes across spreadsheets and chat.
by Brian Behm
Austin, TX
Productions bleed budget and time on crowds and set continuity: casting bottlenecks, wardrobe shortages, weather, reshoots, and manual continuity fixes drive significant delays and cost overruns.
by David Omungala
Knowledge workers are drowning in data but starving for insight; existing AI tools increase speed but not insight.
by Williams Bawo Itsoko
by James Pogreba
by Lili Brockinton
by Sina Mostafazadeh
by Christopher Moloney
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